Patents by Inventor Mototeru Goto

Mototeru Goto 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: 20240157011
    Abstract: A treatment device using active oxygen, the treatment device comprising: an ultraviolet transmission member; and a first chamber and a second chamber adjacent to each other separated by the ultraviolet transmission member, wherein the first chamber is capable of accommodating a treatment target and comprises an ozone generator, the second chamber comprises an ultraviolet light source, the ultraviolet light source is capable of irradiating a surface of the treatment target, which is accommodated in the first chamber, with ultraviolet light, and a distance between the ultraviolet transmission member and the surface of the treatment target can be adjusted to 10 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: TAKUMI FURUKAWA, MASAKI OZAWA, KAZUHIRO YAMAUCHI, KENJI TAKASHIMA, MOTOTERU GOTO, SHOTA KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20240157006
    Abstract: An active oxygen supply device comprising: a housing having at least one opening; an ozone generator located inside the housing; a means for generating an airflow comprising ozone generated inside the housing by the ozone generator, flowing toward the opening and flowing out of the housing through the opening; and an ultraviolet light source arranged so that the airflow comprising the ozone and flowing out of the housing through the opening can be irradiated with ultraviolet rays, wherein the ultraviolet light source decomposes the ozone in the airflow to generate active oxygen, and the airflow comprising the active oxygen generated by irradiating the airflow comprising the ozone with the ultraviolet rays is supplied to an object to be treated outside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: TAKUMI FURUKAWA, KAZUHIRO YAMAUCHI, MASAKI OZAWA, KENJI TAKASHIMA, MOTOTERU GOTO, SHOTA KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230280667
    Abstract: An electroconductive member for electrophotography including a support having electro-conductivity and an electroconductive layer on the outer surface of the support, the electroconductive layer including a matrix containing a crosslinked product of a first rubber and first electroconductive particles and domains each containing a crosslinked product of a second rubber and second electroconductive particles, wherein at least part of the first electroconductive particles are present as a primary particle in the crosslinked product of the first rubber, wherein, the first electroconductive particles of the matrix observed in a specific observation region have dl of 200 nm or more, the second electroconductive particles in the domains observed therein have d2 of 50 nm or less, and 80 number % or more of the domains satisfy specific conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: ATSUSHI UEMATSU, YUICHI KIKUCHI, MASATSUGU HONGO, MOTOTERU GOTO, MASAKI TSUNODA, NAO HIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11487214
    Abstract: A charging roller comprising an electroconductive mandrel and an electroconductive layer as a surface layer, the electroconductive layer including a matrix containing a cross-linked product of a first rubber and domains dispersed in the matrix, each of the domains containing a cross-linked product of a second rubber and an electroconductive particle, the domains each having a volume resistivity lower than a volume resistivity of the matrix, and when sampling a cubic sample of the electroconductive layer having a side of 20.0 ?m from a region from an outer surface of the electroconductive layer to a depth of 20.0 ?m, 50 number % or more of all the domains in the cubic sample satisfy a specific condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nao Higuchi, Mototeru Goto, Masaki Tsunoda
  • Publication number: 20220146958
    Abstract: A charging roller comprising an electroconductive mandrel and an electroconductive layer as a surface layer, the electroconductive layer including a matrix containing a cross-linked product of a first rubber and domains dispersed in the matrix, each of the domains containing a cross-linked product of a second rubber and an electroconductive particle, the domains each having a volume resistivity lower than a volume resistivity of the matrix, and when sampling a cubic sample of the electroconductive layer having a side of 20.0 ?m from a region from an outer surface of the electroconductive layer to a depth of 20.0 ?m, 50 number % or more of all the domains in the cubic sample satisfy a specific condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Nao Higuchi, Mototeru Goto, Masaki Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 10248042
    Abstract: The electrophotographic roller has a surface layer comprising an electro-conductive elastic layer on an electro-conductive substrate. The opening of a bowl-shaped resin particle is exposed on the surface of the electrophotographic roller. The number of contact portions of the convex portion with the glass plate in a square region where a length of a nip in a direction along the circumferential direction of the electrophotographic roller of a nip formed by pressing the roller on the glass plate with a specific load applied as the length of one side and is located at any position in the nip is 8 or more. The average value of the areas of the contact portions is 10 ?m2 to 111 ?m2. The variation coefficient of the areas of the contact portions and the variation coefficient D of the areas of a plurality of Voronoi regions each including a contact portion satisfy specific relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Uematsu, Mototeru Goto, Masataka Kodama
  • Publication number: 20180348661
    Abstract: The electrophotographic roller has a surface layer comprising an electro-conductive elastic layer on an electro-conductive substrate. The opening of a bowl-shaped resin particle is exposed on the surface of the electrophotographic roller. The number of contact portions of the convex portion with the glass plate in a square region where a length of a nip in a direction along the circumferential direction of the electrophotographic roller of a nip formed by pressing the roller on the glass plate with a specific load applied as the length of one side and is located at any position in the nip is 8 or more. The average value of the areas of the contact portions is 10 ?m2 to 111 ?m2. The variation coefficient of the areas of the contact portions and the variation coefficient D of the areas of a plurality of Voronoi regions each including a contact portion satisfy specific relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Atsushi Uematsu, Mototeru Goto, Masataka Kodama