Patents by Inventor Masaki Kakutani

Masaki Kakutani has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6320950
    Abstract: In a communication control unit, CPU judges whether a telephone number of a caller is included in caller ID signals and communicating section starts communicating with the caller when the CPU judges that the telephone number of the caller is not included in the caller ID signals; or calls back the telephone number of the caller when the CPU judges that the telephone number of the caller is included in the caller ID signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Kakutani
  • Patent number: 6091929
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus provided with an image reader to read an image on an image surface of a document and to output image data corresponding to the image; an image processor to process the image data; an image forming device to successively form images on sheets on the basis of the processed image data; there are further provided a post processing device having a stapling stand on which the sheets are placed and a stapler to staple at a predetermined position on the stapling stand, wherein the predetermined position locates at only a single side of the sheet placed on the stapling stand; and a stapling position selector to select a stapling position on the image formed on the sheets, wherein the image processor processes the image data so that when the sheets are placed on the stapling stand, the stapling position on the image formed on the sheets selected by the stapling position selector coincides with the predetermined position on the stapling stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohiko Yamazaki, Akihiko Oda, Koichi Kitamoto, Kazuhiro Hirota, Masaki Kakutani
  • Patent number: 4872033
    Abstract: Present invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of forming an image on various kinds of photosensitive material by subjecting the photosensitive material to an image forming process having at least imagewise exposing, developing, and fixing process on a process condition determined in accordance with a kind of the photosensitive material. While processing certain kind of photosensitive material, a kind discriminator detects a new kind of photosensitive material being subjected a current image forming process, CPU inhibits a new image forming process until judging a predetermined process of the current image forming process as being completed from a signal of a process monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Watanabe, Toshiharu Nishimura, Masaki Kakutani
  • Patent number: 4774547
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is disclosed, in which silver halide color photographic light-sensitive materials are used. The apparatus has a scanning exposure system and a processing system for the photographic materials. Two types of photographic materials, reflective type and transparent type, can be used interchangeably. Conditions of the exposure and the processing are automatically changed according to the types of the photographic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunji Uchida, Masaki Kakutani, Toshiharu Nishimura