Patents by Inventor Masato Ono

Masato Ono 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).

  • Publication number: 20230280680
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt includes, on an outer peripheral surface, a coating body of a solid lubricant selected from an organic layered compound or an organic-inorganic composite layered compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroaki TANAKA, Masato FURUKAWA, Shigeru FUKUDA, Daisuke TANEMURA, Masato ONO, Masayuki SEKO, Yosuke KUBO, Iori NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230281759
    Abstract: An accuracy improvement device 1 of the present embodiment includes: a painting processing unit 13 that generates a segmentation image obtained by painting each of a plurality of regions in an RGB image to be processed, with a designated color, on the basis of a segmentation result obtained by dividing the RGB image to be processed into the plurality of regions, and a smoothing processing unit 15 that uses the segmentation image as a guide image to execute edge retention smoothing processing on a depth map estimated from the RGB image to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Shinji Fukatsu, Takashi SANO, Yumi KIKUCHI, Masato Ono
  • Publication number: 20230259056
    Abstract: An endless belt contains a resin and a surface modifier. The endless belt has, at an outer circumferential surface thereof, a sea-island structure including a sea portion containing the resin and island portions containing the surface modifier. The area of the island portions is equal to or less than 5% of the total area of the outer circumferential surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yosuke KUBO, Toshiyasu Yukawa, Hiroaki Tanaka, Shigeru Fukuda, Daisuke Tanemura, Masato Ono, Masato Furukawa, Masayuki Seko
  • Publication number: 20230236528
    Abstract: An endless belt includes a layer containing a resin and electrically conductive particles. In the endless belt, a discharge starting voltage at which discharge starts when a voltage is applied to the layer and increased is 0.9 kV or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Daisuke TANEMURA, Shigeru FUKUDA, Masato ONO, Masato FURUKAWA, Hiroaki TANAKA, Yosuke KUBO, Masayuki SEKO, Koichi MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11710830
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode laminate for all-solid-state batteries, which is configured to suppress the occurrence of short circuits in all-solid-state batteries and/or to suppress a decrease in the durability of all-solid-state batteries, and which is configured to suppress an increase in the resistance value of all-solid-state batteries. Disclosed is an electrode laminate for all-solid-state batteries, comprising: a current collector complex comprising adhesive portions and a current collector portion that comprises at least a current collector, and an active material layer disposed on the current collector complex, wherein an active material layer-side main surface of the current collector portion and active material layer-side main surfaces of the adhesive portions are formed to be one flat surface, and the current collector portion and the active material layer are attached by the adhesive portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiko Kubota, Masato Ono, Kazuhito Kato, Norihiro Ose
  • Publication number: 20230231175
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery manufacturing apparatus disclosed herein includes a transport apparatus, a press roller, and an adhesive provision apparatus. The transport apparatus transports an active material layer. The press roller has a foil attachment surface, which is a cylindrical surface to which the current collection foil is to be attached. The press roller rotates and moves the current collection foil attached to the foil attachment surface to the surface of the active material layer being transported by the transport apparatus and presses the current collection foil and the active material layer between the press roller and the transport apparatus. The adhesive provision apparatus is provided on a movement path of the current collection foil rotated and moved by the foil attachment surface of the press roller, and provides an adhesive to the current collection foil attached to the press roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Takuya SAKAMOTO, Yuki NISHIBU, Tomoya HIOKI, Masato ONO, Yosuke KOIDE, Kazumasa INATA
  • Patent number: 11693339
    Abstract: A unit includes: a developing device configured to develop an electrostatic charge image that is formed on a surface of an image carrier, as a toner image with a developer including a flat toner containing a flat pigment, the developer being accommodated in the developing device; and a transfer device including an intermediate transfer belt onto which the toner image formed on the surface of the image carrier is primarily transferred, a primary transfer device configured to primarily transfer the toner image formed on the surface of the image carrier to a surface of the intermediate transfer belt, and a secondary transfer device configured to secondarily transfer the toner image on the surface of the intermediate transfer belt to a surface of a recording medium, wherein the intermediate transfer belt contains a resin and conductive carbon particles, and after the flat toner adheres to an outer circumferential surface of the intermediate transfer belt in a loading amount of 3 g/cm2, in a case where air is blow
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masato Ono, Masayuki Seko, Tomoaki Tanaka, Yukiaki Nakamura, Ryutaro Kembo
  • Patent number: 11641025
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an all-solid-state battery includes a battery unit producing step, a flattening step, and a stacking step. In the battery unit producing step, a battery unit having a plate shape is produced through a pressing step in which a laminate including at least one each of a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode active material layer is pressed in a thickness direction of the laminate with a first pressure. In the flattening step, the battery unit is flattened by pressing the produced battery unit in the thickness direction with a second pressure equal to or lower than the first pressure while heating the battery unit to a temperature equal to or higher than a temperature at which the battery unit softens and is deformed. In the stacking step, a plurality of the flattened battery units are stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Ikeda, Masato Ono
  • Patent number: 11641026
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery manufacturing apparatus disclosed herein includes a transport apparatus, a press roller, and an adhesive provision apparatus. The transport apparatus transports an active material layer. The press roller has a foil attachment surface, which is a cylindrical surface to which the current collection foil is to be attached. The press roller rotates and moves the current collection foil attached to the foil attachment surface to the surface of the active material layer being transported by the transport apparatus and presses the current collection foil and the active material layer between the press roller and the transport apparatus. The adhesive provision apparatus is provided on a movement path of the current collection foil rotated and moved by the foil attachment surface of the press roller, and provides an adhesive to the current collection foil attached to the press roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Sakamoto, Yuki Nishibu, Tomoya Hioki, Masato Ono, Yosuke Koide, Kazumasa Inata
  • Patent number: 11637326
    Abstract: Provided is a laminate that is configured to suppress a deterioration in the all-solid-state battery even if the end part of the anode layer is cracked. The laminate may be a laminate comprising an anode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and a cathode layer in this order, wherein an area in a planar direction of the cathode layer is smaller than an area in a planar direction of the anode layer; wherein an end part of the cathode layer comprises, on the solid electrolyte layer, a thin film part having a smaller thickness than a thickness of a central part of the cathode layer; and wherein the end part of the cathode layer comprises, on the thin film part, a space part formed by a level difference between the thin film part and the central part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Ono, Norihiro Ose, Kazuhito Kato
  • Publication number: 20230095732
    Abstract: A synchronous control system is provided. A transmission device 1 includes a reception unit 11 that receives a control signal for a lighting device in a live event site and a transmission unit 13 that transmits, to a reception device in a live viewing site, the control signal to which an output time is appended. The output time is obtained by adding a predetermined period of time to a receipt time at which the control signal is received. A reception device 2 includes a reception unit 21 that receives the control signal to which the output time is appended, and an output control unit 13 that outputs the control signal to a lighting device 6 in the live viewing site at the output time, and allows the control of the lighting device 6 to synchronize with at least one of video and audio to be played in the live viewing site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Masato Ono, Takahide Hoshide, Shinji Fukatsu, Yoshihide TONOMURA
  • Publication number: 20230051236
    Abstract: A battery including power generation units each including a positive electrode layer, a separator layer, and a negative electrode layer. The area of either one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer is larger than the area of the other one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer. The power generation units each has a non-facing region. In the non-facing region, a first penetration portion is placed. The power generation units provided as the pair are stacked along the thickness direction via a first current collector including a second penetration portion corresponding to the first penetration portions. In the power generation units provided as the pair, two separator layers facing each other are fixed by a first fixing portion positioned in the first penetration portion and the second penetration portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun IZUMI, Masato ONO
  • Patent number: 11515563
    Abstract: A stacking apparatus provided with a flexible conveyor plate (20), a clamp mechanism (25) for holding a sheet-shaped member carried on the conveyor plate (20) against the conveyor plate (20), and an adjustment mechanism able to adjust the degree of curvature of the conveyor plate (20). When stacking a new sheet-shaped member (1) carried on the conveyor plate (20) onto already stacked sheet-shaped members (1), the adjustment mechanism makes the conveyor plate (20) deform from a flat state to a curved state to make the new sheet-shaped member (1) carried on the conveyor plate (20) deform from a flat state to a curved state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Ono, Yuichi Itoh, Yusuke Ikeda, Kazuhito Kato
  • Publication number: 20220373936
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging unit that charges a surface of the photosensitive member, an electrostatic image formation unit that forms an electrostatic image on the charged surface of the photosensitive member, a developing unit that includes a developer including a toner and develops the electrostatic image formed on the surface of the photosensitive member with the developer to form a toner image, an intermediate transfer body including a surface layer, the surface layer including an acrylic resin and a fluorine-containing polyether, a first transfer unit that transfers the toner image onto a surface of the intermediate transfer body as first transfer, a second transfer unit that transfers the toner image transferred on the surface of the intermediate transfer body to a recording medium as second transfer, and an intermediate transfer body cleaning unit that includes a cleaning blade including a tetrahedral amorphous carbon layer disposed on a surface of a contact
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Satoya Sugiura, Masato Ono, Shogo Hayashi, Daisuke Tanemura, Masayuki Seko
  • Publication number: 20220367905
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus of a power storage device includes a resin filling mold configured to form an internal space that houses a laminated electrode body and to supply photo-curing resin used for forming a resin layer on at least a side surface on a long side of the laminated electrode body. The mold includes an upper mold, a lower mold, and two side surface molds on the long sides. Further, the manufacturing apparatus includes a light radiation device that radiates light which photo-cures the photo-curing resin supplied to the internal space. The manufacturing apparatus is configured to, when a front part of the supplied photo-curing resin that flows along the side surface reaches a predetermined position of the side surface, cure the flowing front parts by radiating the light from the light radiation device and stop the flowing front part from flowing along the side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Masato ONO, Kazuhito KATO, Katsuaki ODAGI, Kazumasa INATA, Yousuke KOIDE, Tomohiro KITADE, Atsushi SUGANUMA
  • Patent number: 11487226
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, an intermediate transfer body including a surface layer that includes an acrylic resin and a fluorine-containing polyether, first and second transfer units, and an intermediate transfer body cleaning unit that includes a cleaning blade including a tetrahedral amorphous carbon layer disposed on a surface of a contact portion of the cleaning blade, the contact portion being arranged to contact the intermediate transfer body, and removes a residual toner by bringing the cleaning blade into contact with the intermediate transfer body. Linear velocities of the intermediate transfer body and the photosensitive member are adjusted to satisfy a requirement (1): Requirement (1): 0.3?|Linear velocity of Intermediate transfer body?Linear velocity of Photosensitive member|/Linear velocity of Intermediate transfer bodyƗ100?1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Satoya Sugiura, Masato Ono, Shogo Hayashi, Daisuke Tanemura, Masayuki Seko
  • Patent number: 11418684
    Abstract: Matching timings of transmitting pieces of information for reproducing video and audio with presence and handling loss are provided. An information synchronization device is configured to synchronize, to a reference timestamp, data in which one or more labels for identifying respective one or more subjects on a video and one or more pieces of location information for identifying respective locations of the one or more subjects are respectively associated. The information synchronization device includes a reception unit for receiving the data at each time, a buffer for storing the received data, and a location information interpolation unit for generating, when pieces of the location information at times before and after the reference timestamp is stored into the buffer for any of the labels, location information of the label at the reference timestamp by interpolation using the pieces of the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Hasegawa, Masato Ono, Koji Namba, Takahide Hoshide, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Akira Ono
  • Publication number: 20220255136
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein includes a non-aqueous electrolyte and a stacked electrode body including a cell unit, the cell unit including a first electrode, a first separator, a second electrode, and a second separator. The first electrode has a first active material layer. The second electrode has a second active material layer. The first active material layer has a facing region facing the second active material layer at the central part thereof, and has a non-facing region not facing the second active material layer at the outer periphery thereof. The non-facing regions at a pair of opposite ends of the first active material layer each have a through hole. The first separator and the second separator are folded toward the second electrode side outside the non-facing region having a through hole. The first separator and the second separator are joined in a through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventor: Masato ONO
  • Publication number: 20220247021
    Abstract: Provided is a stacked electrode body the whole of which can be checked for misregistration. A stacked electrode body for an all-solid-state battery includes a plurality of electrode bodies that are stacked and each includes a first electrode, a solid electrolyte layer, a second electrode, and a second current collector which are disposed on each of both surfaces of a first current collector in this order, wherein each of the electrode bodies has a protrusion protruding outward from a side face thereof, and the protrusions have phase differences in a stacking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventor: Masato ONO
  • Publication number: 20220244663
    Abstract: A unit includes: a developing device configured to develop an electrostatic charge image that is formed on a surface of an image carrier, as a toner image with a developer including a flat toner containing a flat pigment, the developer being accommodated in the developing device; and a transfer device including an intermediate transfer belt onto which the toner image formed on the surface of the image carrier is primarily transferred, a primary transfer device configured to primarily transfer the toner image formed on the surface of the image carrier to a surface of the intermediate transfer belt, and a secondary transfer device configured to secondarily transfer the toner image on the surface of the intermediate transfer belt to a surface of a recording medium, wherein the intermediate transfer belt contains a resin and conductive carbon particles, and after the flat toner adheres to an outer circumferential surface of the intermediate transfer belt in a loading amount of 3 g/cm2, in a case where air is blow
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masato ONO, Masayuki SEKO, Tomoaki TANAKA, Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Ryutaro KEMBO