Patents by Inventor Nobutoshi Sugai

Nobutoshi Sugai 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).

  • Patent number: 12110205
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a discharge unit, a loading unit, an abutting unit, a support unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges, from a discharge port, a sheet bundle transported along a transport path. The loading unit is loaded by the sheet bundle being discharged onto the loading unit. The abutting unit is disposed forward from the discharge port in a discharge direction of the sheet bundle so that the abutting unit abuts with a top surface of the discharged sheet bundle. The support unit is protrusible from and retractable into the discharge port and protrudes to an underside of the sheet bundle temporarily to support the sheet bundle when the sheet bundle is discharged. The control unit controls movement of the support unit such that the support unit reaches a position of the abutting unit after the sheet bundle abuts with the abutting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobutoshi Sugai
  • Publication number: 20230312297
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a discharge unit, a loading unit, an abutting unit, a support unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges, from a discharge port, a sheet bundle transported along a transport path. The loading unit is loaded by the sheet bundle being discharged onto the loading unit. The abutting unit is disposed forward from the discharge port in a discharge direction of the sheet bundle so that the abutting unit abuts with a top surface of the discharged sheet bundle. The support unit is protrusible from and retractable into the discharge port and protrudes to an underside of the sheet bundle temporarily to support the sheet bundle when the sheet bundle is discharged. The control unit controls movement of the support unit such that the support unit reaches a position of the abutting unit after the sheet bundle abuts with the abutting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: NOBUTOSHI SUGAI
  • Publication number: 20220162029
    Abstract: A sheet discharging apparatus includes a stacking portion, a first conveyance portion, a detection portion, a second conveyance portion, a third conveyance portion, and a control portion. The control portion is configured to execute a discharge operation by causing the sheet discharging apparatus to reverse a conveyance direction of a first sheet conveyed from the first conveyance portion to the second conveyance portion and deliver the first sheet to the third conveyance portion by using the second conveyance portion, convey the first sheet toward the second conveyance portion by the third conveyance portion, and discharge the first sheet and the second sheet to the stacking portion by using the second conveyance portion in a state where the first sheet and the second sheet are superimposed on each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Nobutoshi Sugai, Takuro Mita
  • Patent number: 11150587
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a first sheet conveyance path, a second sheet conveyance path that branches from the first sheet conveyance path at a branch portion on the first sheet conveyance path and merges with the first sheet conveyance path at a merging portion, and a control unit. The control unit controls a guide unit so as to guide a first sheet conveyed first in the sheet bundle to be processed by a sheet processing unit to the second sheet conveyance path, and guide a second sheet following the first sheet to the first sheet conveyance path to merge the first and second sheets in an overlapping manner at the merging portion, and guide at least one of sheets following the second sheet among a plurality of sheets constituting the sheet bundle to the second sheet conveyance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuro Mita, Nobutoshi Sugai
  • Publication number: 20200183316
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a first sheet conveyance path, a second sheet conveyance path that branches from the first sheet conveyance path at a branch portion on the first sheet conveyance path and merges with the first sheet conveyance path at a merging portion, and a control unit. The control unit controls a guide unit so as to guide a first sheet conveyed first in the sheet bundle to be processed by a sheet processing unit to the second sheet conveyance path, and guide a second sheet following the first sheet to the first sheet conveyance path to merge the first and second sheets in an overlapping manner at the merging portion, and guide at least one of sheets following the second sheet among a plurality of sheets constituting the sheet bundle to the second sheet conveyance path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Takuro Mita, Nobutoshi Sugai
  • Publication number: 20190298192
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes: a spectral sensor including a plurality of pixels; a unit configured to generate a biological signal from a light reception result of a predetermined pixel; a unit configured to detect a feature amount of the biological signal; a unit configured to set a measurement condition to the spectral sensor; a unit configured to determine whether or not the measurement condition needs to be changed based on the biological signal; and a unit configured to determine, if the measurement condition needs to be changed, in a first cycle of the biological signal, whether or not the measurement condition can be changed in a period from a timing at which the detection unit has detected the feature amount in the first cycle until an ending time of the first cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Hitoshi Furukawa, Nobutoshi Sugai