Patents by Inventor Noriaki Sato

Noriaki Sato 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: 12147177
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an attachment portion to which any one of a first fixing apparatus and a second fixing apparatus is selectively attached, and a power supply circuit including a plurality of power supply paths. The first fixing apparatus includes a plurality of first heating elements grouped into a plurality of groups, and a number of the plurality of groups is equal to a number of the plurality of power supply paths. The second fixing apparatus includes at least one second heating element grouped into at least one group whose number is smaller than the number of the power supply paths. In a state where the second fixing apparatus is attached to the image forming apparatus, a power supply path of the plurality of power supply paths in which a power line has a largest allowable current value is electrically connected with the at least one second heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriaki Sato, Rikuo Kawakami
  • Patent number: 12049569
    Abstract: A colored resin particle dispersion containing colored resin particles and water, in which the colored resin particles contain an oil-soluble dye and a polymer P containing a structural unit represented by Formula (1), a structural unit represented by Formula (2), and a hydrophilic group, an ink, an ink set, and an inkjet printing method. L1 represents a chain hydrocarbon group having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, two *1's each represent a bonding position, L2 represents a chain hydrocarbon group having 2 to 25 carbon atoms which may contain an oxygen atom or the like, or a polymer chain having a number-average molecular weight of 500 or greater, Y1 and Y2 each independently represent —O—, —S—, or, —NRz-, Rz represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and two *2's each represent a bonding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Sato, Shota Suzuki, Naoka Hamada, Ryoichi Nakano, Masao Ikoshi
  • Patent number: 11939479
    Abstract: Provided are an ink jet ink composition including water and particles including a polymer having an anionic group, a photo-acid generator, and a sensitizer, wherein a value obtained by subtracting a photo-acid generator amount G being a number of millimoles of the photo-acid generator per 1 g of the particles from an anionic group value A being a number of millimoles of the anionic group per 1 g of the particles is ?0.20 or more and 0.20 or less, and the sensitizer is at least one of compounds represented by Formula (S1) to Formula (S3); a method for producing the ink jet ink composition; and an image-forming method. R11, R12, R21, R31, R32, R33, and R34 each independently represent a substituent; n11, n12, n21, n33, and n34 each independently represent an integer of 0 to 4; and R22 and R23 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Sato, Shota Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11926125
    Abstract: Provided are a colored resin particle dispersion containing colored resin particles and water, in which the colored resin particles contain a water-insoluble chain polymer and at least one dye selected from the group consisting of an oil-soluble dye, a disperse dye and a vat dye, and the water-insoluble chain polymer has a structure represented by the following General Formula (G), a cyclic structure, and a hydrophilic group, an ink manufactured using the colored resin particle dispersion, an ink set having the ink, an inkjet printing method using the ink, and a method of manufacturing the colored resin particle dispersion. In the General Formula (G), Rg represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, Lg represents —O—, —S—, or —NRz-, Rz represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and * represents a bonding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Suzuki, Noriaki Sato, Naoka Hamada, Ryoichi Nakano, Masao Ikoshi
  • Publication number: 20240077818
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, and a control portion. The fixing portion forms a nip portion to nip a recording material and includes heat-generating elements along a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material. The fixing portion fixes the image on the recording material using heat. The image forming apparatus changes a control target temperature for each heating area heated by each of the heat-generating elements in accordance with the image to be formed on the recording material. When forming the image after a jam clearing process in which the recording material nipped in the nip portion is removed, the control portion changes a distribution of a control target temperature of the whole heater in the direction in which the heat-generating elements are aligned to a second distribution different from a first distribution corresponding to the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Noriaki Sato
  • Patent number: 11874618
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, and a control portion. The fixing portion forms a nip portion to nip a recording material and includes heat-generating elements along a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material. The fixing portion fixes the image on the recording material using heat. The image forming apparatus changes a control target temperature for each heating area heated by each of the heat-generating elements in accordance with the image to be formed on the recording material. When forming the image after a jam clearing process in which the recording material nipped in the nip portion is removed, the control portion changes a distribution of a control target temperature of the whole heater in the direction in which the heat-generating elements are aligned to a second distribution different from a first distribution corresponding to the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noriaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20230393504
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an attachment portion to which any one of a first fixing apparatus and a second fixing apparatus is selectively attached, and a power supply circuit including a plurality of power supply paths. The first fixing apparatus includes a plurality of first heating elements grouped into a plurality of groups, and a number of the plurality of groups is equal to a number of the plurality of power supply paths. The second fixing apparatus includes at least one second heating element grouped into at least one group whose number is smaller than the number of the power supply paths. In a state where the second fixing apparatus is attached to the image forming apparatus, a power supply path of the plurality of power supply paths in which a power line has a largest allowable current value is electrically connected with the second heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: NORIAKI SATO, RIKUO KAWAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11795334
    Abstract: A photo-curable ink composition is provided, the composition including: a polymer including a structural unit represented by General Formula 1 below; and a radical-polymerizable monomer, in which a total content of a monofunctional radical-polymerizable monomer and a bifunctional radical-polymerizable monomer is 50% by mass or more with respect to a total amount of the composition: in which, in General Formula 1: R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; X represents an oxygen atom or —NR2—, R2 representing a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms; Y represents a group including at least one selected from the group consisting of a thioether structure, a phosphorus atom, and a hindered phenol structure; and * represents a bonding site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Suzuki, Noriaki Sato, Ichiro Koyama
  • Publication number: 20230300272
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus receives an operation by a user and communicates with an external apparatus. The apparatus performs control to transmit a plurality of captured images in a predetermined order to a communication apparatus via the communication unit. During transmission of the plurality of the images in the predetermined order, in accordance with an instruction to change a transmission order of a first image having been received, the image capturing apparatus performs control to prioritize transmission of the first image and further performs control such that transmission of an image linked with the first image to the communication apparatus is prioritized by another image capturing apparatus capable of communicating via the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventor: NORIAKI SATO
  • Publication number: 20230095585
    Abstract: Provided are a photosensitive composition including a colorant A, a photopolymerization initiator B, a polymerizable compound C, and a compound D which is a salt of an anion and a di- or higher valent cation having a formula weight or molecular weight of 1000 or less and has a specific absorbance of 5 or less, the specific absorbance being at a maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 400 to 700 nm; a film formed of the photosensitive composition; and a color filter, a solid-state imaging element, and an image display device, which includes the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki SATO, Yasuhiro SAWAMURA, Hiroaki IDEI, Satomu ISHII
  • Patent number: 11595533
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first developing unit configured to develop an image, a second developing unit by which a developed image better than a developed image developed by the first developing unit is obtained, an estimation unit configured to estimate an improvement effect of a quality of the developed image obtained using the second developing unit instead of the first developing unit, and a notification unit configured to notify content based on the improvement effect estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20220326638
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, and a control portion. The fixing portion forms a nip portion to nip a recording material and includes heat-generating elements along a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material. The fixing portion fixes the image on the recording material using heat. The image forming apparatus changes a control target temperature for each heating area heated by each of the heat-generating elements in accordance with the image to be formed on the recording material. When forming the image after a jam clearing process in which the recording material nipped in the nip portion is removed, the control portion changes a distribution of a control target temperature of the whole heater in the direction in which the heat-generating elements are aligned to a second distribution different from a first distribution corresponding to the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventor: Noriaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20220294914
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first developing unit configured to develop an image, a second developing unit by which a developed image better than a developed image developed by the first developing unit is obtained, an estimation unit configured to estimate an improvement effect of a quality of the developed image obtained using the second developing unit instead of the first developing unit, and a notification unit configured to notify content based on the improvement effect estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Noriaki Sato
  • Patent number: 11435648
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus detects an eye approaching to a finder, switches between a locked state in which execution of a function corresponding to an operation on a touch panel having a display surface of a display unit capable of displaying a captured image as an operation surface is restricted and an unlocked state in which the execution of the function is not restricted, and performs control such that in the locked state, even if a specific operation is performed on the touch panel without detecting the eye approaching, predetermined processing corresponding to the specific operation is not executed, and the predetermined processing is executed in response to the specific operation on the touch panel being performed in a state where a predetermined condition including detection of the eye approaching is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriaki Sato
  • Patent number: 11421120
    Abstract: An ink composition contains: water; and a particle including a photopolymerizable monomer and a polymer having a blocked isocyanate group having an unblocking temperature of 150° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Koyama, Shota Suzuki, Noriaki Sato
  • Patent number: 11402779
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, and a control portion. The fixing portion forms a nip portion to nip a recording material and includes heat-generating elements along a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material. The fixing portion fixes the image on the recording material using heat. The image forming apparatus changes a control target temperature for each heating area heated by each of the heat-generating elements in accordance with the image to be formed on the recording material. When forming the image after a jam clearing process in which the recording material nipped in the nip portion is removed, the control portion changes a distribution of a control target temperature of the whole heater in the direction in which the heat-generating elements are aligned to a second distribution different from a first distribution corresponding to the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noriaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20220213336
    Abstract: Provided are a particle including a polymer P including a bond U that is at least one selected from the group consisting of a urethane bond and a urea bond, and a hydrophilic group, a polymerizable monomer, and a moiety A that is at least one selected from the group consisting of a polysiloxane bond and a fluorinated hydrocarbon group; an aqueous dispersion; an ink jet ink; a film-forming method; and an image-forming method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Noriaki SATO, Ryo FUJIWARA, Shota SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220213341
    Abstract: Provided are a colored resin particle dispersion containing water and colored resin particles containing a polymer P containing a hydrophilic group and an oil-soluble dye, in which the oil-soluble dye includes an oil-soluble dye (D) obtained by modifying a water-soluble reactive dye with an alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, or exchanging a counter cation in an acid dye with an organic cation containing an alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, an ink, an ink set, an ink jet textile printing method, and a printed textile product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Shota SUZUKI, Fumiko TAMAKUNI, Naoka HAMADA, Noriaki SATO
  • Patent number: 11370931
    Abstract: Provided are a photocurable ink composition including a resin which contains an amino group having one or more hydrogen atoms on a carbon atom at an ?-position and having an amine value of 3.5 mmol/g to 12 mmol/g, and a radically polymerizable monomer, in which the radically polymerizable monomer contains at least one of a monofunctional radically polymerizable monomer or a bifunctional radically polymerizable monomer, a total content of the monofunctional radically polymerizable monomer and the bifunctional radically polymerizable monomer is 50% by mass or greater with respect to a total mass of the photocurable ink composition, and a content of a radically polymerizable monomer containing an acid group in the radically polymerizable monomers is 1.5 mmol or less per 100 g of the photocurable ink composition; and an image forming method performed by using the photocurable ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Sato, Ichiro Koyama, Shota Suzuki, Yasuhiro Sawamura
  • Publication number: 20210340399
    Abstract: A colored resin particle dispersion containing colored resin particles and water, in which the colored resin particles contain an oil-soluble dye and a polymer P containing a structural unit represented by Formula (1), a structural unit represented by Formula (2), and a hydrophilic group, an ink, an ink set, and an inkjet printing method. L1 represents a chain hydrocarbon group having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, two *1's each represent a bonding position, L2 represents a chain hydrocarbon group having 2 to 25 carbon atoms which may contain an oxygen atom or the like, or a polymer chain having a number-average molecular weight of 500 or greater, Y1 and Y2 each independently represent —O—, —S—, or, —NRz-, Rz represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and two *2's each represent a bonding position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki SATO, Shota SUZUKI, Naoka HAMADA, Ryoichi NAKANO, Masao IKOSHI