Patents by Inventor Masayuki Sakai

Masayuki Sakai 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: 20230049224
    Abstract: An outer diameter side magnet field pole piece assembly for a magnetic gear which is disposed on an outer circumferential side of a plurality of magnetic pole pieces disposed on an outer circumferential side of the outer diameter side magnet field pole piece assembly along a circumferential direction, includes: a plurality of magnetic pole pairs disposed on the outer circumferential side of the plurality of magnetic pole pieces along the circumferential direction; and a support member for supporting the plurality of magnetic pole pairs from the outer circumferential side. A space along an axial direction is formed in at least a part between an outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of magnetic pole pairs and an opposite surface of an inner circumferential surface of the support member opposite to the outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of magnetic pole pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakai, Yasutaka Aoki, Takayuki Shimizu, Ryoji Okabe, Akihiko Umeda, Takatoshi Matsushita, Mikito Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20230045743
    Abstract: A magnetic pole piece device disposed between an inner diameter side magnet field and an outer diameter side magnet field of a magnetic gear, includes: an outer circumferential cover member disposed opposite to the outer diameter side magnet field and having a cylindrical shape; an inner circumferential cover member disposed opposite to the inner diameter side magnet field and having a cylindrical shape; and a plurality of magnetic pole pieces disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction between the outer circumferential cover member and the inner circumferential cover member. The outer circumferential cover member includes a plurality of outer circumferential side facing portions facing outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of magnetic pole pieces, and a plurality of outer circumferential side connecting portions for connecting two adjacent outer circumferential side facing portions of the plurality of outer circumferential side facing portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakai, Yasutaka Aoki, Takayuki Shimizu, Ryoji Okabe, Akihiko Umeda, Takatoshi Matsushita, Mikito Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220404756
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus generates an output voltage. A boost circuit boosts a voltage supplied from a reference voltage source and generates a first power supply voltage. A processor controls switching the boost circuit on and off. A first transistor is connected to the first power supply voltage. A second transistor is connected to a collector of the first transistor. A resistance element is connected to a collector of the second transistor. A voltage source is connected to the resistance element and generates a second power supply voltage. A collector voltage, which is an output voltage, of the second transistor is controlled by controlling an amount of base current of the first transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakai, Shuichiro Sugimoto, Toshiaki Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20220229383
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus to and from which a replenishment container accommodating toner is attachable and detachable and which is configured to form a toner image on a recording material, the image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a developer container, a developing bearing member, a replenishment port through which the developer container can be replenished with toner, a restriction member capable of transitioning to an allowance state in which a rotation of the replenishment container is allowed and to a restriction state in which the rotation of the replenishment container is restricted, a notification portion configured to notify a replenishment procedure for replenishing the developer container with toner from the replenishment container, and a controller configured to cause the notification portion to notify at least one step of the replenishment procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichiro Matsumoto, Masayuki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20200290368
    Abstract: A printer having a printing unit that prints an image; a light emitting unit capable of switching colors of light emission; and a processor configured to: acquire an image to be printed from an external device; detect representative colors of regions by dividing the image to be printed by the printing unit into a plurality of regions; and control light emission of the light emitting unit, wherein the processor further configured to cause the light emitting unit to switch colors of the light emission based on the representative colors of the regions in order according to a printing progress of the image to be printed by the printing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya USUKI, Masayuki SAKAI, Keita KAMEI, Toshiaki NAGAI
  • Patent number: 10773426
    Abstract: A resin molding mold in accordance with the present application is a resin molding mold for molding a resin molded product. The resin molding mold includes a molding mold and a mirror-surface coat layer formed on a mold surface of the molding mold. The mirror-surface coat layer is formed by a thermosetting resin having a thermal conductivity in a range from 0.10 W/(mK) or more to 0.99 W/(mK) or less. The thickness of the mirror-surface coat layer is set in a range from 1.0 ?m or more to 30 ?m or less, and is preferably set to 20 ?m or less. The surface of the mirror-surface coat layer is provided with a flat-surface maintaining part formed into a substantially flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: TANAZAWA HAKKOSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakai, Hisao Aota
  • Patent number: 10749425
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a circuit board on which mounted are a transformer, a switching element connected in series with a primary winding of the transformer, a rectification element connected with a secondary winding of the transformer, a detection unit detecting a temperature of the rectification element when the transformer is supplied with power by a switching operation of the switching element, and a resistance element connected in parallel with the rectification element. The resistance element is mounted at a predetermined mounting section among a plurality of mounting sections on the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai
  • Patent number: 10719038
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a photosensitive member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image as an image by using toner, an image bearing member to which the image is transferred, a detecting unit including a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit light toward the image bearing member and a light-receiving element that receives light reflected from a detection target, and a control unit that adjusts an image forming condition. The control unit adjusts a light-emission ratio between the light-emitting elements based on a difference between a reflected light amount at a first position on the image bearing member and a reflected light amount at a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai
  • Patent number: 10642129
    Abstract: The shape of a camera body of a digital camera including a printer viewed from the front surface is a square shape, and an imaging optical system is positioned at the center of a camera body. An axis crossing an optical axis of the imaging optical system in a vertical direction is referred to as a vertical axis, and an axis crossing the optical axis in a horizontal direction is referred to as a horizontal axis. A grip portion is formed on the camera body at positions that are symmetric with respect to the vertical axis and symmetric with respect to the horizontal axis. The grip portion has an annular shape and a concave shape that is concave from the surface around the grip portion. The imaging optical system is positioned at the center of the annular grip portion in a case where the digital camera including a printer is viewed from the front surface of the camera body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20200033761
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a photosensitive member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image as an image by using toner, an image bearing member to which the image is transferred, a detecting unit including a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit light toward the image bearing member and a light-receiving element that receives light reflected from a detection target, and a control unit that adjusts an image forming condition. The control unit adjusts a light-emission ratio between the light-emitting elements based on a difference between a reflected light amount at a first position on the image bearing member and a reflected light amount at a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20190386551
    Abstract: An inner coil end portion of a coil includes inner notch portions and that are positioned to respectively overlap inner coil end portions of other coils which are adjacent to the coil in an axial direction as seen in the axial direction, and that are capable of accommodating the inner coil end portions of the other coils in the axial direction. An outer coil end portion of the coil includes outer notch portions and that are positioned to respectively overlap outer coil end portions of the other coils which are adjacent to the coil in the axial direction as seen in the axial direction, and that are capable of accommodating the outer coil end portions of the other coils in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Mikito SASAKI, Shinichi ISOBE, Masayuki SAKAI, Hisanobu SHINODA, Keisuke Ota, Ryoji OKABE
  • Patent number: 10492304
    Abstract: The circuit substrate includes at least two lands formed on a substrate, wherein one electrode is to be mounted on the at least two lands, an electronic part having electrodes, one of the electrodes is soldered on the at least two lands with solders whose amounts are adjusted by a metal mask having at least two opening parts, positions of the at least two opening parts corresponding to the at least two lands when the solders are applied and melted, areas of the at least two opening parts being different with each other, wherein a height of one of the solders is different from a height of the other of the solders according to the difference of the areas of the at least two opening parts of the metal mask, whereby the electronic part is mounted on the circuit substrate in an inclined state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakai, Takahiro Yoneyama, Fumiyuki Yamatsuka
  • Publication number: 20190222112
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a circuit board on which mounted are a transformer, a switching element connected in series with a primary winding of the transformer, a rectification element connected with a secondary winding of the transformer, a detection unit detecting a temperature of the rectification element when the transformer is supplied with power by a switching operation of the switching element, and a resistance element connected in parallel with the rectification element. The resistance element is mounted at a predetermined mounting section among a plurality of mounting sections on the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20190212635
    Abstract: The shape of a camera body of a digital camera including a printer viewed from the front surface is a square shape, and an imaging optical system is positioned at the center of a camera body. An axis crossing an optical axis of the imaging optical system in a vertical direction is referred to as a vertical axis, and an axis crossing the optical axis in a horizontal direction is referred to as a horizontal axis. A grip portion is formed on the camera body at positions that are symmetric with respect to the vertical axis and symmetric with respect to the horizontal axis. The grip portion has an annular shape and a concave shape that is concave from the surface around the grip portion. The imaging optical system is positioned at the center of the annular grip portion in a case where the digital camera including a printer is viewed from the front surface of the camera body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki SAKAI
  • Patent number: D841718
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai
  • Patent number: D852257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai
  • Patent number: D855683
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai
  • Patent number: D865845
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai
  • Patent number: D865848
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai
  • Patent number: D880563
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakai