Patents by Inventor Masataka Maeda
Masataka Maeda 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).
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Patent number: 11939744Abstract: A display system includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires each of a first image of a work site imaged by a first camera and a second image of the work site imaged by a second camera; a viewpoint position calculation unit that calculates a viewpoint position of worker; a luminance adjustment unit that adjusts luminance of at least one of the first image and the second image based on the viewpoint position; and a display control unit that combines the first image and the second image having the luminance adjusted and causes a display device to display the combined image.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: Komatsu Ltd., Osaka UniversityInventors: Youjirou Ohbatake, Taro Maeda, Masahiro Furukawa, Daisuke Kondo, Masataka Kurokawa
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Patent number: 9008561Abstract: A fixing device may include an endless fixing belt, a facing member facing an outer surface of the fixing belt, a nip member configured to contact an inner surface of the fixing belt to form a nip portion where the fixing belt and the facing member are in contact with each other, and a heat source device configured to heat the nip portion inside the fixing belt. The nip member includes a heat transfer member which is provided at a position corresponding to a portion of the nip portion when seen from a side view, and a heat insulating member which is a portion of the nip member except for the heat transfer member, and is made of a material having thermal conductivity lower than that of the heat transfer member.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masataka Maeda
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Publication number: 20130279955Abstract: A fixing device may include an endless fixing belt, a facing member facing an outer surface of the fixing belt, a nip member configured to contact an inner surface of the fixing belt to form a nip portion where the fixing belt and the facing member are in contact with each other, and a heat source device configured to heat the nip portion inside the fixing belt. The nip member includes a heat transfer member which is provided at a position corresponding to a portion of the nip portion when seen from a side view, and a heat insulating member which is a portion of the nip member except for the heat transfer member, and is made of a material having thermal conductivity lower than that of the heat transfer member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masataka Maeda
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Patent number: 8532546Abstract: A developer supply device is provided, which includes a transfer board including an activating section and an always-transferring section. The activating section is disposed in a position close to a developer holding member and lower than a position where development agent is transferred onto the developer holding member. The activating section is supplied with an activating voltage for making the development agent leave a developer transfer path and drop into the developer storage section during an activating process performed at an initial stage of a developer transferring operation while supplied with the transfer bias voltage after the activating process. The always-transferring section is disposed across a position facing the developer storage section to a position lower than and adjacent to the activating section, and always supplied with a transfer bias voltage during the developer transferring operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuji Nishigaki, Masataka Maeda, Tomoaki Hazeyama, Yasuhiro Maruyama
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Patent number: 8406662Abstract: A developer supply device, comprising: a casing; first electrodes located at a first most downstream position defining a certain distance with respect to the supply target and positions between the casing and the first most downstream position to form a first traveling electric field; a second electrodes that are located at a second most downstream position defining the certain distance with respect to the supply target and positions between the casing and the second most downstream position to form a second traveling electric field; a power circuit that supplies a first voltage and a second voltage having a same frequency respectively to the first electrodes and the second electrodes such that a phase of voltage change of a first most downstream electrode and a phase of voltage change of a second most downstream electrode shift with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masataka Maeda
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Patent number: 8401445Abstract: A developer supply apparatus is provided which supplies a toner to a supply object, the developer supply apparatus including a developer storage body which stores a powdery developer, and a transfer body which transfers the developer along the developer transfer path with traveling wave electric fields. The developer includes a toner having a predetermined charging characteristic and an electric neutralizer having an opposite charging characteristic, which is opposite to the predetermined charging characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takanori Uno, Mitsukiyo Okamura, Kenjiro Nishiwaki, Yasuhiro Maruyama, Tomoaki Hazeyama, Masataka Maeda, Tomoaki Hattori
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Patent number: 8346136Abstract: There is provided a developer carrying device, including a first carrying body having a first electrode group configured to form a traveling electric field while being applied a voltage sequentially and to circulate charged developer through a facing portion with respect to a developer supply target; and a second carrying body having a second electrode group configured to form a traveling electric field while being applied a voltage sequentially and to circulate the developer through a facing part with respect to the first electrode group so that the developer being carried is supplied to the first carrying body.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masataka Maeda, Kenjiro Nishiwaki
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Patent number: 8275298Abstract: A developer supply device, comprising: a developer holding body having a circumferential surface and a rotation axis extending in a main scanning direction and being placed to face a supply target at a developer supply position; a carrying substrate that has a plurality of electrodes arranged along a direction intersecting with the main scanning direction and that carries a developer in a developer transport direction through a traveling electric field generated by application of a multiphase alternating voltage to the plurality of electrodes, the carrying substrate being located such that an end of the carrying substrate in the developer transport direction is positioned to face the developer holding body; and a voltage application unit configured to apply, to the plurality of electrodes and the developer holding body, the multiphase alternating voltage having alternating components synchronizing with each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masataka Maeda, Mitsukiyo Okamura
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Patent number: 8265530Abstract: A developer carrying device is provided with a group of carrying electrodes configured to form a traveling wave field as voltages are sequentially applied thereto, charged developer being carried by an effect of the traveling wave field, a developer carrying member having a surface on which the group of carrying electrodes are arranged, and a plurality of leveling electrodes provided above the surface and configured to form electric fields in a direction substantially along the surface, the plurality of leveling electrodes being needle like electrodes extending in a direction intersecting with the surface, the plurality of leveling electrodes being spaced from each other in a direction along the surface and intersecting with a direction in which the developer is carried.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masataka Maeda
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Patent number: 8165503Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a liquid developer holding member and a bias voltage applying unit. The liquid developer holding member includes a conductive core member and a dielectric layer provided on an outer circumference of the core member, and the dielectric layer includes a dielectric material and has at least one concave portion formed on a surface thereof. The at least one concave portion of the dielectric layer holds therein a liquid developer containing a solid developer dispersed in a carrier liquid.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masataka Maeda
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Patent number: 8145103Abstract: There is provided an image formation device including a developer holding body having a developer holding surface; and a developer supply unit to supply the developer to a position facing the developer holding surface by carrying the developer in a developer transport direction intersecting with the main scanning direction through use of effect of an electric field. The developer supply unit includes a plurality of carrying electrodes each of which is formed to have a longer side extending along the main scanning direction. The carrying electrodes are arranged along the developer transport direction to carry the developer when a drive voltage is applied to the carrying electrodes. The developer supply unit has a developer carrying area formed such that, in the main scanning direction, the developer carrying area becomes narrower from an upstream side in the developer transport direction toward the position along the developer transport direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoaki Hazeyama, Masataka Maeda
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Publication number: 20120027471Abstract: A developer supply device is provided, which includes a transfer board including an activating section and an always-transferring section. The activating section is disposed in a position close to a developer holding member and lower than a position where development agent is transferred onto the developer holding member. The activating section is supplied with an activating voltage for making the development agent leave a developer transfer path and drop into the developer storage section during an activating process performed at an initial stage of a developer transferring operation while supplied with the transfer bias voltage after the activating process. The always-transferring section is disposed across a position facing the developer storage section to a position lower than and adjacent to the activating section, and always supplied with a transfer bias voltage during the developer transferring operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuji NISHIGAKI, Masataka MAEDA, Tomoaki HAZEYAMA, Yasuhiro MARUYAMA
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Patent number: 8064806Abstract: There is provided an image forming device, including an image holding unit configured to hold an image formed by developing material, a developing material case configured to accommodate the developing material and to have a supplying opening facing the image holding unit, a carrying unit having a plurality of carrying electrodes, the carrying unit being configured to carry the developing material accommodated in the developing material case toward the image holding unit by generating a traveling electric field through the plurality of carrying electrodes, at least one vibrator that vibrates the carrying unit, and a vibrating region moving unit configured to move a vibrating region vibrated by the at least one vibrator along the carrying unit in accordance with an amount of the developing material in the developing material case.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2008Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenjiro Nishiwaki, Masataka Maeda
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Publication number: 20110013947Abstract: A developer supply apparatus is provided which supplies a toner to a supply object, the developer supply apparatus including a developer storage body which stores a powdery developer, and a transfer body which transfers the developer along the developer transfer path with traveling wave electric fields. The developer includes a toner having a predetermined charging characteristic and an electric neutralizer having an opposite charging characteristic, which is opposite to the predetermined charging characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori Uno, Mitsukiyo Okamura, Kenjiro Nishiwaki, Yasuhiro Maruyama, Tomoaki Hazeyama, Masataka Maeda, Tomoaki Hattori
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Publication number: 20100303511Abstract: A developer supply device, comprising: a developer holding body having a circumferential surface and a rotation axis extending in a main scanning direction and being placed to face a supply target at a developer supply position; a carrying substrate that has a plurality of electrodes arranged along a direction intersecting with the main scanning direction and that carries a developer in a developer transport direction through a traveling electric field generated by application of a multiphase alternating voltage to the plurality of electrodes, the carrying substrate being located such that an end of the carrying substrate in the developer transport direction is positioned to face the developer holding body; and a voltage application unit configured to apply, to the plurality of electrodes and the developer holding body, the multiphase alternating voltage having alternating components synchronizing with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masataka Maeda, Mitsukiyo Okamura
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Patent number: 7822373Abstract: A developer conveying device includes a first guide member, a second guide member, and a plurality of electrodes arranged on the first guide member and the second guide member. The first guide member forms a first section of a conveying path of a charged developer. The second guide member forms a second section of the conveying path which continues from the first section of the conveying path. The plurality of electrodes generate a traveling wave electric field that conveys the charged developer along the conveying path. A following rate at which the developer follows travel of the traveling wave electric field in the second section is different from the following rate in the first section.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masataka Maeda
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Publication number: 20100247134Abstract: A developer supply device, comprising: a casing; first electrodes located at a first most downstream position defining a certain distance with respect to the supply target and positions between the casing and the first most downstream position to form a first traveling electric field; a second electrodes that are located at a second most downstream position defining the certain distance with respect to the supply target and positions between the casing and the second most downstream position to form a second traveling electric field; a power circuit that supplies a first voltage and a second voltage having a same frequency respectively to the first electrodes and the second electrodes such that a phase of voltage change of a first most downstream electrode and a phase of voltage change of a second most downstream electrode shift with respect to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masataka MAEDA
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Publication number: 20100074657Abstract: A developer carrying device is provided with a group of carrying electrodes configured to form a traveling wave field as voltages are sequentially applied thereto, charged developer being carried by an effect of the traveling wave field, a developer carrying member having a surface on which the group of carrying electrodes are arranged, and a plurality of leveling electrodes provided above the surface and configured to form electric fields in a direction substantially along the surface, the plurality of leveling electrodes being needle like electrodes extending in a direction intersecting with the surface, the plurality of leveling electrodes being spaced from each other in a direction along the surface and intersecting with a direction in which the developer is carried.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masataka MAEDA
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Publication number: 20090297228Abstract: There is provided a developer carrying device, including a first carrying body having a first electrode group configured to from a traveling electric field while being applied a voltage sequentially and to circulate charged developer through a facing portion with respect to a developer supply target; and a second carrying body having a second electrode group configured to from a traveling electric field while being applied a voltage sequentially and to circulate the developer through a facing part with respect to the first electrode group so that the developer being carried is supplied to the first carrying body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masataka MAEDA, Kenjiro NISHIWAKI
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Publication number: 20090297227Abstract: There is provided an image formation device, comprising a developer holding body having a developer holding surface; and a developer supply unit to supply the developer to a first position facing the developer holding surface by carrying the developer in a developer transport direction intersecting with the main scanning direction through use of effect of an electric field. The developer supply unit comprises a plurality of carrying electrodes each of which is formed to have a longer side extending along the main scanning direction. The carrying electrodes are arranged along the developer transport direction to carry the developer when a drive voltage is applied to the carrying electrodes. The developer supply unit has a developer carrying area formed such that, in the main scanning direction, the developer carrying area becomes narrower from an upstream side in the developer transport direction toward the first position along the developer transport direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoaki HAZEYAMA, Masataka MAEDA