Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Okuda

Naoyuki Okuda 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: 20240118655
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member with suppressed positive ghosts, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The present disclosure provides an electrophotographic photosensitive member having a support and a photosensitive layer on the support; the photosensitive layer comprises (?) a compound represented by the formula (1), and (?) at least one selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the formula (2) and a compound represented by the formula (3), wherein a content of the (?) with respect to a content of the (?) is 50 to 850 mass ppm in the photosensitive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: KUNIHIKO SEKIDO, SHUHEI IWASAKI, TATSUYA OHSAWA, NAOYUKI MATSUMOTO, ATSUSHI OKUDA, TSUTOMU NISHIDA
  • Patent number: 10334953
    Abstract: Furniture and a chair include a shielding piece (7b5) which is provided in an operation plate (7b2) or a flange (7a5) and closes a gap generated by the operation plate (7b2) and the flange (7a5) when the operation plate (7b2) has an operation posture. In addition, a chair includes a load support member for a chair, the load support member for a chair includes a frame member which includes a pair of rod members (19) and an extension material (22) which is formed in a bag shape and covers the frame member, a support portion (26) is provided on each of inner surfaces facing each other in the pair of rod members (19), and an interior material (21) having a repulsive force with respect to a load in a surface perpendicular direction is bridged between the pair of rod members (19) by being supported by the support portion (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: OKAMURA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Masunaga, Yoshinori Isogai, Kouichirou Wakizono, Naoyuki Okuda, Syouichi Izawa
  • Publication number: 20170311724
    Abstract: Furniture and a chair include a shielding piece (7b5) which is provided in an operation plate (7b2) or a flange (7a5) and closes a gap generated by the operation plate (7b2) and the flange (7a5) when the operation plate (7b2) has an operation posture. In addition, a chair includes a load support member for a chair, the load support member for a chair includes a frame member which includes a pair of rod members (19) and an extension material (22) which is formed in a bag shape and covers the frame member, a support portion (26) is provided on each of inner surfaces facing each other in the pair of rod members (19), and an interior material (21) having a repulsive force with respect to a load in a surface perpendicular direction is bridged between the pair of rod members (19) by being supported by the support portion (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: OKAMURA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi MASUNAGA, Yoshinori ISOGAI, Kouichirou WAKIZONO, Naoyuki OKUDA, Syouichi IZAWA
  • Patent number: 9642451
    Abstract: Provided is a folding table for which a work of installing leg units on a tabletop is simplified, and squeaking and rattling are prevented even when the tabletop is used for a long period of time, so that the tabletop can be rotated smoothly. A protruding portion that protrudes in a horizontal direction is integrally formed on a bracket. By providing, on an upper portion of the leg units, a fitting hole into which the protruding portion fits and fitting the protruding portion into the fitting hole while crimping a distal end of the protruding portion in the horizontal direction, the bracket is connected to the leg units, and the tabletop is rotated using the protruding portion as a rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: OKAMURA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Okuda, Kenji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8991932
    Abstract: A backrest mechanism for a chair includes a pair of left and right side rods, each having a folded portion in a laid-V shape in a side view at a portion for supporting a sitting person around his or her lumbar, and a back plate that connects opposing surfaces of the side rods. An upper portion of the back plate above the folded portions serves as a flexible portion that is elastically deformable in a backward direction and that has smaller rigidity than the left and right side rods, and a lower portion of the back plate below the flexible portion serves as an inflexible portion that has greater rigidity than the flexible portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Okamura Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Okuda, Syouichi Izawa
  • Publication number: 20140077574
    Abstract: A backrest mechanism for a chair includes a pair of left and right side rods, each having a folded portion in a laid-V shape in a side view at a portion for supporting a sitting person around his or her lumbar, and a back plate that connects opposing surfaces of the side rods. An upper portion of the back plate above the folded portions serves as a flexible portion that is elastically deformable in a backward direction and that has smaller rigidity than the left and right side rods, and a lower portion of the back plate below the flexible portion serves as an inflexible portion that has greater rigidity than the flexible portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: OKAMURA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Okuda, Syouichi Izawa
  • Publication number: 20130284076
    Abstract: Provided is a folding table for which a work of installing leg units on a tabletop is simplified, and squeaking and rattling are prevented even when the tabletop is used for a long period of time, so that the tabletop can be rotated smoothly. A protruding portion that protrudes in a horizontal direction is integrally formed on a bracket. By providing, on an upper portion of the leg units, a fitting hole into which the protruding portion fits and fitting the protruding portion into the fitting hole while crimping a distal end of the protruding portion in the horizontal direction, the bracket is connected to the leg units , and the tabletop is rotated using the protruding portion as a rotating shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: OKAMURA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Okuda, Kenji Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120205948
    Abstract: A chair is such that concave grooves recessed rearward and forward and oriented in an upward/downward direction are formed in front and rear surfaces of left and right side portions of a backrest, and portions of mounting members installed at both sides an optional member are engaged with the concave grooves to mount the optional member on the backrest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: OKAMURA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Okuda, Syouichi Izawa
  • Patent number: 8034596
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel cellulase-producing fungus, i.e. Acremonium cellulolyticus CF-2612 strain or a mutant thereof, which has an ability to produce cellulase so highly, a method for producing cellulase and/or hemicellulase by culturing said fungus, and a method for degrading or saccharifying biomass using the cellulase and/or hemicellulase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Xu Fang, Shinichi Yano, Hiroyuki Inoue, Shigeki Sawayama, Naoyuki Okuda, Masanori Sato, Masashi Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20100136618
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel cellulase-producing fungus, i.e. Acremonium cellulolyticus CF-2612 strain or a mutant thereof, which has an ability to produce cellulase so highly, a method for producing cellulase and/or hemicellulase by culturing said fungus, and a method for degrading or saccharifying biomass using the cellulase and/or hemicellulase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Xu Fang, Shinichi Yano, Hiroyuki Inoue, Shigeki Sawayama, Naoyuki Okuda, Masanori Sato, Masashi Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20050098926
    Abstract: Raw materials are portioned in a plurality of molds, which are continuously moved and transferred to a heating area by a conveyer. The heating area is divided into a plurality of sub-areas, each of which has power source means and power feeding means. The raw materials are heated and molded by applying high frequency to the molds from the power feeding means. Even if the heating apparatus is large, it is possible to restrain or prevent concentration of high-frequency energy since the heating area is divided into sub-areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Tomoya Tamura, Naoyuki Okuda, Yoshiyuki Otani, Tsutomu Kosaka, Yasuo Shinomiya, Toshitaka Haruta, Taizo Karasawa, Yoshio Akesaka, Masato Yanagitani, Tsuneo Nagata, Yasuji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D912260
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: KOBAYASHI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Okuda, Hiroki Horimoto, Tatsuki Koeda, Akira Nagamatsu
  • Patent number: D916304
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: KOBAYASHI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Okuda, Hiroki Horimoto, Tatsuki Koeda, Akira Nagamatsu