Patents by Inventor Masaru Kihara

Masaru Kihara 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: 9387705
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing part that performs printing on recording paper, a cutter that cuts the recording paper, a first roller provided on the side to which the recording paper is discharged from the cutter, a second roller that is in contact with the first roller and is rotated by the rotation of the first roller, a third roller that is in contact with the first roller and is rotated by the rotation of the first roller, and a connecting arm that connects the center of the first roller and the center of the second roller, wherein the recording paper is discharged between the first roller and the second roller or between the first roller and the third roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Sumio Watanabe, Yukihiro Mori, Masaru Kihara, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Yoshinari Takabatake, Toshio Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9343742
    Abstract: A nickel hydride secondary battery houses an electrode group including a positive electrode and a negative electrode which are overlapped with each other via a separator with an alkaline electrolyte solution, the negative electrode includes a hydrogen absorbing alloy, a negative-electrode additive agent, a thickening agent, and a conductive material, and the negative-electrode additive agent includes at least one selected from calcium fluoride, calcium sulfide, and calcium chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Kihara, Akira Saguchi, Masaaki Takei, Takeshi Ito, Yuzo Imoto
  • Patent number: 9216600
    Abstract: A printer apparatus includes a presenter unit including a first roller and a second roller connected to the first roller by a connection arm to move along an outer periphery of the first roller in accordance with the rotation of the first roller between a first rotating position and a second rotating position, rotate at the first rotating position in accordance with the rotation of the first roller to transfer a cut printed recording paper in an ejecting direction while interposing with the first roller, and rotate at the second rotating position in accordance with the rotation of the first roller to transfer the cut printed recording paper in a recovering direction while interposing with the first roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Sumio Watanabe, Yukihiro Mori, Masaru Kihara, Masahiro Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 9199491
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing part that performs printing on a label adhering to a liner, a cutter that cuts the liner to which the label adheres, a first roller provided on the side to which the liner to which the label adheres is discharged from the cutter, a second roller that is in contact with the first roller and is rotated by the rotation of the first roller, a third roller that is in contact with the first roller and is rotated by the rotation of the first roller, and a connecting arm that connects the center of the first roller and the center of the second roller, wherein the liner is separated from the label by the first roller and the second roller, and the label separated from the liner is discharged by the third roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshinari Takabatake, Sumio Watanabe, Yukihiro Mori, Masaru Kihara, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Toshio Yamaguchi, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9186904
    Abstract: A printer includes a frame that includes a frame back part, an arm that includes a rotation shaft and is supported by the frame to rotate around the rotation shaft relative to the frame, a platen roller that is rotatably supported by the frame or the arm, a print head that is disposed between the frame back part and the platen roller and performs printing on a recording sheet placed between the platen roller and the print head, and a first bias spring that is disposed between the frame back part and the print head and biases the print head toward the platen roller relative to the frame back part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Tsuchiya, Yukihiro Mori, Sumio Watanabe, Masaru Kihara, Yoshinari Takabatake, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9112220
    Abstract: A nickel hydrogen rechargeable battery has a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode includes positive-electrode active material made of nickel hydroxide particles in which magnesium is dissolved, and the negative electrode includes rare earth-Mg—Ni-based hydrogen storage alloy powder. At least either one of the negative and positive electrodes includes as additive at least one selected from a group including zinc and zinc compounds. The content of the additive ranges from 0.2 to 1.5 part by weight per 100 parts by weight of hydrogen storage alloy in the negative electrode, and ranges from 0.3 to 1.5 part by weight per 100 parts by weight of positive-electrode active material in the positive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Kihara, Masaaki Takei, Tetsuya Yamane
  • Patent number: 9079430
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing part that performs printing on recording paper, a cutter that cuts the recording paper, a first roller provided on the side to which the recording paper is discharged from the cutter, a second roller, a third roller, a fourth roller, and a fifth roller that are in contact with the first roller and are rotated by the rotation of the first roller, and a connecting arm that connects the center of the first roller and the center of the second roller, wherein the recording paper is discharged between the first roller and the fourth roller or between the first roller and the fifth roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshio Yamaguchi, Sumio Watanabe, Yukihiro Mori, Masaru Kihara, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Yoshinari Takabatake, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20140374981
    Abstract: A printer apparatus includes a presenter unit including a first roller and a second roller connected to the first roller by a connection arm to move along an outer periphery of the first roller in accordance with the rotation of the first roller between a first rotating position and a second rotating position, rotate at the first rotating position in accordance with the rotation of the first roller to transfer a cut printed recording paper in an ejecting direction while interposing with the first roller, and rotate at the second rotating position in accordance with the rotation of the first roller to transfer the cut printed recording paper in a recovering direction while interposing with the first roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro ISHIKAWA, Sumio WATANABE, Yukihiro MORI, Masaru KIHARA, Masahiro TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20140327203
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing part that performs printing on recording paper, a cutter that cuts the recording paper, a first roller provided on the side to which the recording paper is discharged from the cutter, a second roller, a third roller, a fourth roller, and a fifth roller that are in contact with the first roller and are rotated by the rotation of the first roller, and a connecting arm that connects the center of the first roller and the center of the second roller, wherein the recording paper is discharged between the first roller and the fourth roller or between the first roller and the fifth roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Toshio YAMAGUCHI, Sumio WATANABE, Yukihiro MORI, Masaru KIHARA, Masahiro TSUCHIYA, Yoshinari TAKABATAKE, Tetsuhiro ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20140327205
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing part that performs printing on recording paper, a cutter that cuts the recording paper, a first roller provided on the side to which the recording paper is discharged from the cutter, a second roller that is in contact with the first roller and is rotated by the rotation of the first roller, a third roller that is in contact with the first roller and is rotated by the rotation of the first roller, and a connecting arm that connects the center of the first roller and the center of the second roller, wherein the recording paper is discharged between the first roller and the second roller or between the first roller and the third roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro ISHIKAWA, Sumio Watanabe, Yukihiro Mori, Masaru Kihara, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Yoshinari Takabatake, Toshio Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20140327204
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing part that performs printing on a label adhering to a liner, a cutter that cuts the liner to which the label adheres, a first roller provided on the side to which the liner to which the label adheres is discharged from the cutter, a second roller that is in contact with the first roller and is rotated by the rotation of the first roller, a third roller that is in contact with the first roller and is rotated by the rotation of the first roller, and a connecting arm that connects the center of the first roller and the center of the second roller, wherein the liner is separated from the label by the first roller and the second roller, and the label separated from the liner is discharged by the third roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshinari Takabatake, Sumio Watanabe, Yukihiro Mori, Masaru Kihara, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Toshio Yamaguchi, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8827581
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing part configured to perform printing on rolled recording paper, a presenter unit configured to convey the recording paper for up to a predetermined length, and a cutter part configured to cut the recording paper subjected to the printing and conveyed for up to the predetermined length, wherein the presenter unit is removably attached to a printer body part including the printing part and the presenter unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Component Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Tsuchiya, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Sumio Watanabe, Masaru Kihara, Yukihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 8815451
    Abstract: A negative-electrode plate 22 for use in a cylindrical cell, intended to be laid over a positive-electrode plate 21 with a separator 23 interposed between and rolled to form a cylindrical electrode body 20, with the positive-electrode plate 21 inside, the electrode body being arranged in a bottomed cylindrical outer can 10 to form the cylindrical cell, comprises a first negative-electrode part 22a which is to face the positive-electrode plate 21 on either side, with the separator 23 between, when formed into the electrode body 20, and a second negative-electrode part 22b which is to form the innermost circumference of the electrode body 20 and face the positive-electrode plate 21 only on one side, with the separator 23 between, when formed into the electrode body 20, the second negative-electrode part 22b being lower in negative-electrode active material density than the first negative-electrode part 22a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: FDK Twicell Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Wada, Isao Mugima, Tomomi Nakamura, Masaru Kihara, Toshiki Sato
  • Publication number: 20140232806
    Abstract: A printer includes a frame that includes a frame back part, an arm that includes a rotation shaft and is supported by the frame to rotate around the rotation shaft relative to the frame, a platen roller that is rotatably supported by the frame or the arm, a print head that is disposed between the frame back part and the platen roller and performs printing on a recording sheet placed between the platen roller and the print head, and a first bias spring that is disposed between the frame back part and the print head and biases the print head toward the platen roller relative to the frame back part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Tsuchiya, Yukihiro Mori, Sumio Watanabe, Masaru Kihara, Yoshinari Takabatake, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8785019
    Abstract: A negative electrode for a nickel-hydrogen rechargeable battery is a strip-shaped negative electrode, the negative electrode being formed of a core body and a negative mixture layer covering the core body and containing hydrogen-storage alloy particles, including a main section, both sides of which face the positive electrode with the separator intervening therebetween as viewed in a rolled state where the negative electrode forms the electrode group with the positive electrode and the separator, and an outermost circumferential portion and an innermost circumferential portion that are protruding from ends of the main section in a rolling direction and facing the positive electrode with the separator intervening therebetween only with one side, wherein the hydrogen-storage alloy particles contained in the outermost circumferential portion and the innermost circumferential portion have an average diameter larger than an average diameter of the hydrogen-storage alloy particles contained in the main section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: FDK Twicell Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Kihara, Takahiro Endo, Toshiki Sato, Akira Saguchi, Satoshi Wada, Isao Mugima, Tomomi Nakamura, Hideyuki Asanuma, Masanori Tamura
  • Publication number: 20140120411
    Abstract: A nickel hydride secondary battery houses an electrode group including a positive electrode and a negative electrode which are overlapped with each other via a separator with an alkaline electrolyte solution, the negative electrode includes a hydrogen absorbing alloy, a negative-electrode additive agent, a thickening agent, and a conductive material, and the negative-electrode additive agent includes at least one selected from calcium fluoride, calcium sulfide, and calcium chloride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: FDK TWICELL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Kihara, Akira Saguchi, Masaaki Takei, Takeshi Ito, Yuzo Imoto
  • Patent number: 8592084
    Abstract: An alkaline secondary cell has an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator, and alkaline electrolyte. The negative electrode includes hydrogen-storage alloy and an oxidation inhibitor that inhibits the hydrogen-storage alloy from being oxidized. The oxidation inhibitor contains a chemical compound, and the chemical compound includes a chemical-bond-formation end that is chemically bonded to the surface of the hydrogen-storage alloy and a water-repellent end having water repellency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: FDK Twicell Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Saguchi, Masaru Kihara, Takahiro Endo
  • Patent number: 8563170
    Abstract: A negative electrode for alkaline storage battery using a hydrogen-absorbing alloy includes fluorinated oil and a surface active agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Magari, Tadayoshi Tanaka, Shigekazu Yasuoka, Masaru Kihara, Akira Saguchi, Toshiki Sato
  • Publication number: 20130029209
    Abstract: A nickel hydrogen rechargeable battery has a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode includes positive-electrode active material made of nickel hydroxide particles in which magnesium is dissolved, and the negative electrode includes rare earth-Mg—Ni-based hydrogen storage alloy powder. At least either one of the negative and positive electrodes includes as additive at least one selected from a group including zinc and zinc compounds. The content of the additive ranges from 0.2 to 1.5 part by weight per 100 parts by weight of hydrogen storage alloy in the negative electrode, and ranges from 0.3 to 1.5 part by weight per 100 parts by weight of positive-electrode active material in the positive electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: FDK TWICELL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Kihara, Masaaki Takei, Tetsuya Yamane
  • Publication number: 20130001351
    Abstract: A printer includes a mainframe including a front face part that has an opening through which a recording medium passes; a guide unit connected to the mainframe on a first side of the front face part; a printer mechanism unit configured to perform printing on the recording medium, and connected to the mainframe on a second side of the front face part opposite to the first side thereof; an arm unit having a first end connected to the mainframe; and a shaft unit configured to hold a roll of the recording medium, and connected to a second end of the arm unit, wherein the guide unit is configured to guide the recording medium so as to feed the recording medium to the printer mechanism unit through the opening of the front face part of the mainframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Masahiro Tsuchiya, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Sumio Watanabe, Yukihiro Mori, Masaru Kihara