Patents by Inventor Ryota Morinaga
Ryota Morinaga 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).
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Publication number: 20240400331Abstract: A media conveying apparatus includes: a pair of first defining members defining an upstream part of a conveyance path in a conveyance direction; a pair of second defining members defining a downstream part of the conveyance path in the conveyance direction; a first conveyor to convey a medium in the upstream part in the conveyance direction; a second conveyor to convey the medium in the downstream part in the conveyance direction; and a tray disposed downstream from the pair of second defining members in the conveyance direction. The tray stacks the medium ejected from the conveyance path. The pair of first defining members and the pair of second defining members are movable relative to each other in the conveyance direction to lengthen and shorten the conveyance path including the upstream part and the downstream part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shingo Yoshizawa, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Yusuke Hirono, Atsushi Shinoda, Shuuto Tohkaishi, Satoshi Hirata, Suzuka Fujita, Naofumi Yoshida, Ryota Takayama, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga, Yuji Suzuki, Wataru Nozaki, Kanako Fujisaki, Jun Yamada
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Publication number: 20240400335Abstract: A media processing apparatus includes: an internal tray; an ejection tray; a first conveyor to convey a sheet medium in a first conveyance direction leading to the ejection tray via the internal tray; a second conveyor to convey the medium in a second conveyance direction; a binder including a pair of clampers to clamp sheet media stacked on the internal tray and being switchable among an out-of-contact state in which the clampers are out of contact, a clamping state in which the media are clamped by the clampers, and a binding state in which the media are pressed and bound by the clampers. The circuitry switches the binder into the clamping state when an (N+1)-th sheet medium is conveyed in the first direction while contacting an N-th sheet medium in a state in which N sheets of sheet media are stacked on the internal tray, N being a natural number.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Yuji SUZUKI, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Yusuke HIRONO, Atsushi SHINODA, Shuuto TOHKAISHI, Satoshi HIRATA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Suzuka FUJITA, Naofumi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKAYAMA, Takahiro WATANABE, Jun YAMADA, Takuya MORINAGA, Wataru NOZAKI, Kanako FUJISAKI
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Publication number: 20240400337Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: an ejection tray; an internal tray; a first conveyor to convey a sheet medium in a first direction in which the sheet medium is ejected to the ejection tray; a second conveyor to come into contact with and separate from sheet media stacked on the internal tray to convey the sheet media in a second direction different from the first direction; a crimp binder downstream from the internal tray in the second direction to execute crimp binding on the sheet media stacked on the internal tray; and control circuitry. When a subsequent sheet medium, which is subsequent to a preceding sheet medium of the sheet media stacked on the internal tray, is conveyed in the first direction while contacting the preceding sheet medium, the control circuitry causes the crimp binder to press a downstream end of the preceding sheet medium in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Jun YAMADA, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Atsushi SHINODA, Shuuto TOHKAISHI, Satoshi HIRATA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Suzuka FUJITA, Naofumi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKAYAMA, Takahiro WATANABE, Takuya MORINAGA, Yuji SUZUKI, Wataru NOZAKI, Kanako FUJISAKI, Yusuke HIRONO
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Publication number: 20240300771Abstract: A medium processing apparatus for processing a medium ejected from an image forming apparatus includes a conveyor, a slit, a medium processing device, a stopper, and detectors. The conveyor conveys the medium ejected from the image forming apparatus. The slit communicates with an opening of a housing into which a medium is manually inserted from outside and includes a placement face on which the inserted medium is placed. The placement face has a first side and a second side orthogonal to the first side. The first and second sides are not parallel to a direction in which a side face of the housing extends. The medium processing device processes the medium conveyed by the conveyor or the medium placed on the slit. The stopper regulates edges of the medium along the first and second sides of the placement face. The detectors are disposed on the stopper to detect the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shuuto Tohkaishi, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Yusuke Hirono, Atsushi Shinoda, Satoshi Hirata, Shingo Yoshizawa, Suzuka Fujita, Naofumi Yoshida, Ryota Takayama, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga, Yuji Suzuki, Wataru Nozaki, Kanako Fujisaki, Jun Yamada
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Publication number: 20240294351Abstract: A liquid application device for applying liquid to a plurality of media to be crimped by a crimping device includes a liquid applier and a liquid-applier moving mechanism. The liquid applier applies liquid to the plurality of media. The liquid-applier moving mechanism moves the liquid applier to a first position at which the liquid applier applies liquid to a medium on a conveyance path in the liquid application device and a second position at which the liquid applier applies liquid to the plurality of media inserted through a liquid application slit of the liquid application device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: Kanako FUJISAKI, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Yusuke HIRONO, Atsushi SHINODA, Shuuto TOHKAISHI, Satoshi HIRATA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Suzuka FUJITA, Naofumi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKAYAMA, Takahiro WATANABE, Takuya MORINAGA, Yuji SUZUKI, Jun YAMADA, Wataru NOZAKI
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Publication number: 20240253923Abstract: A sheet processing device includes an upstream device, a downstream device, and a controller as circuitry. The upstream device includes multiple rollers to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction and perform a sheet processing. The downstream device is downstream from the upstream device in the conveyance direction. The downstream device includes a sheet sensor to detect the sheet. The controller controls a timing to rotate the multiple rollers of the upstream device to perform the sheet processing in response to a detection of the sheet by the sheet sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Yusuke HIRONO, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Atsushi SHINODA, Shuuto TOHKAISHI, Satoshi HIRATA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Suzuka FUJITA, Naofumi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKAYAMA, Takahiro WATANABE, Takuya MORINAGA, Yuji SUZUKI, Wataru NOZAKI, Kanako FUJISAKI, Jun YAMADA
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Publication number: 20240246787Abstract: A sheet folder includes a conveyor conveying a sheet, a first folding roller and a second folding roller that form a first nip, a third folding roller forming a second nip with the second folding roller, a first guide movable between a first guide posture and a first retracted posture, a second guide movable between a second guide posture and a second retracted posture, and a motor. The motor rotates the second folding roller forward to convey the sheet toward the first nip, reverse to convey the sheet toward the second nip, moves the first guide to arrange in the first guide in the first guide posture or the first retracted posture, and moves the second guide to arrange the second guide in the second guide posture or the second retracted posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Takuya MORINAGA, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Yusuke HIRONO, Atsushi SHINODA, Shuuto TOHKAISHI, Satoshi HIRATA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Suzuka FUJITA, Naofumi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKAYAMA, Takahiro WATANABE, Yuji SUZUKI, Wataru NOZAKI, Kanako FUJISAKI, Jun YAMADA
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Patent number: 11846214Abstract: An oil circulator apparatus (5) includes: a crankcase (7) in which a movable portion is stored; an oil flow path (15) that is provided on the crankcase (7) and guides oil to the movable portion; an oil pump that delivers the oil to the movable portion via the oil flow path (15); a main gallery (19) that is provided in a middle of the oil flow path (15) and is formed along an upward-downward direction; an oil filter (22) that is provided in a middle of the main gallery (19) and filters the oil which flows through the main gallery (19); and an oil discharge port (33) that is provided in the main gallery (19) at a further downstream side in a flow direction of the oil than the oil filter (22) and causes the main gallery (19) to be in communication with an inside of the crankcase (7).Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota Morinaga, Hideki Ikeda
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Patent number: 11772485Abstract: In an engine, an air cleaner and a muffler are located laterally opposite to each other with an engine body therebetween, the air cleaner and the muffler are located forward of the engine body in the longitudinal direction, a fuel tank is longer laterally than longitudinally when viewed from above and is located rearward of the engine body in the longitudinal direction, and an oil filler port which is sealed by a cap is provided to the fuel tank at a position laterally deviated leftward. A level gauge, which can be visually recognized when the cap is removed and the oil filler port is viewed from above and from the front side longitudinally, is provided inside the fuel tank.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasunori Matsubara, Ryota Morinaga
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Patent number: 11384714Abstract: An automatic choke device of a carburetor includes a wax attached to an engine main body, a rod configured to perform a linear motion in conjunction with expansion of the wax, a choke lever configured to rotate in conjunction with the linear motion of the rod, and a choke shaft arranged so as to be able to abut against the choke lever and connected to a choke valve of the carburetor. The choke lever includes a flat portion that engages with an engaging portion of the choke shaft, and a circular arc portion that is formed in a circular arc shape so as to be continuous from the flat portion and is brought into sliding contact with the engaging portion of the choke shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Soji Kashima, Ryota Morinaga, Keigo Yoshida
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Publication number: 20210023940Abstract: In an engine, an air cleaner and a muffler are located laterally opposite to each other with an engine body therebetween, the air cleaner and the muffler are located forward of the engine body in the longitudinal direction, a fuel tank is longer laterally than longitudinally when viewed from above and is located rearward of the engine body in the longitudinal direction, and an oil filler port which is sealed by a cap is provided to the fuel tank at a position laterally deviated leftward. A level gauge, which can be visually recognized when the cap is removed and the oil filler port is viewed from above and from the front side longitudinally, is provided inside the fuel tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasunori MATSUBARA, Ryota MORINAGA
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Publication number: 20210017937Abstract: An automatic choke device of a carburetor includes a wax attached to an engine main body, a rod configured to perform a linear motion in conjunction with expansion of the wax, a choke lever configured to rotate in conjunction with the linear motion of the rod, and a choke shaft arranged so as to be able to abut against the choke lever and connected to a choke valve of the carburetor. The choke lever includes a flat portion that engages with an engaging portion of the choke shaft, and a circular arc portion that is formed in a circular arc shape so as to be continuous from the flat portion and is brought into sliding contact with the engaging portion of the choke shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Soji KASHIMA, Ryota MORINAGA, Keigo YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20210016657Abstract: A fuel filler cap canister for a fuel filler cap includes: a base part having an attachment section attached to the cap and a communicating hole communicating with a fuel tank and formed in the base part; and a case member assembled to the base part and having an inner volumetric space provided with a spiral rib. The spiral rib extends from an opposing face of the case member facing the base part or an opposing face of the base part facing the case member toward the base part or the case member, respectively, and forms an adsorption path connecting the communicating hole and an atmosphere communicating hole formed in either one of a vicinity of a peripheral edge or substantially a central portion of the opposing face of the case member facing the base part. The adsorption path is filled with an adsorbing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicants: ROKI CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya MATSUURA, Takahiro TASHIRO, Takanari TOMIMOTO, Ryota MORINAGA, Katsuki HONMA, Shohei URANO
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Patent number: 9109562Abstract: A fuel supply device supplies fuel from a fuel tank to an injector by driving a diaphragm pump by use of pressure variation within a crankcase. The diaphragm pump includes: a pump casing; a diaphragm partitioning the interior of the pump casing into a negative pressure chamber and a pump chamber; and a plunger connected to the diaphragm and reciprocatively movable to and from the pump chamber. A pressure receiving area over which the plunger receives, at its end surface in a plunger advancing/retracting direction, pressure from the pump chamber is set smaller than a pressure receiving area over which the diaphragm receives pressure from the negative pressure chamber in the advancing/retracting direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTDInventors: Toshihiro Tsutsui, Ryota Morinaga
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Publication number: 20140026857Abstract: A fuel supply device supplies fuel from a fuel tank to an injector by driving a diaphragm pump by use of pressure variation within a crankcase. The diaphragm pump includes: a pump casing; a diaphragm partitioning the interior of the pump casing into a negative pressure chamber and a pump chamber; and a plunger connected to the diaphragm and reciprocatively movable to and from the pump chamber. A pressure receiving area over which the plunger receives, at its end surface in a plunger advancing/retracting direction, pressure from the pump chamber is set smaller than a pressure receiving area over which the diaphragm receives pressure from the negative pressure chamber in the advancing/retracting direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Inventors: Toshihiro Tsutsui, Ryota Morinaga