Patents by Inventor Osamu Uto

Osamu Uto 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: 20080075503
    Abstract: A pullout unit including a pullout component that is provided at a main body of a device so as to be able to be pulled out from the main body of the device, and that faces a conveying route surface of the main body of the device to form a conveying route on which an object to be conveyed is conveyed, and a scraping member that is provided at the pullout component at the inner side in a pullout direction in which the pullout component is pulled out, and that scrapes the object to be conveyed on the conveying route surface when the pullout component is pulled out, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tanaka, Makio Uehara, Osamu Uto
  • Publication number: 20080038030
    Abstract: A conveying apparatus has a conveying apparatus main body; and a feeding device including a placement portion that a conveyed material is placed on and a feeding portion that feeds the conveyed material into the conveying apparatus main body, the feeding device being movable between a feedable position and a stored position; and the placement portion and the feeding portion moving relatively to each other between the feedable position and the stored position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Shinichi Naito, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Osamu Uto
  • Publication number: 20070201889
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer element that a toner image on an image carrier is primarily transferred onto, and a multifunctional detecting unit that performs two or more functions of: detecting a first toner image on the intermediate transfer element to control a position of an image on the intermediate transfer element; detecting a second toner image on the intermediate transfer element to control a density of an image on the intermediate transfer element; and detecting an environment condition within the image forming apparatus, the multifunctional detecting unit being disposed in the vicinity of a position that the toner image is primarily transferred, and being detachable in an axial direction of the image carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ishizuka, Osamu Uto, Junichirou Sameshima, Masato Kobayashi