Patents by Inventor Seiji Shimizu

Seiji Shimizu 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: 20080049063
    Abstract: An inkjet printer head including: (a) a front head unit having (a-i) an outside surface which is to be opposed to a print media, (a-ii) an inside surface opposite to the outside surface, (a-iii) a plurality of nozzles opening in the outside surface and arranged in row, and (a-iv) an ink inlet opening in the inside surface; (b) an ink-channel defining unit supplying an ink into the front head unit through the ink inlet; (c) a head holder holding the front head unit; and (d) a reinforcement member fixed to the inside surface of the front head unit. The front head unit and the head holder are fixed to each other, with the reinforcement member being interposed therebetween. The ink-channel defining unit is fixed to one of opposite side surfaces of the reinforcement member that is remote from the front head unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Hirotake Nakamura, Seiji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7267484
    Abstract: The preset invention aims to improve the assembly accuracy and rotation accuracy of a fluid bearing device, and to further reduce the cost thereof. A bearing sleeve is fixed on the inner periphery of a housing. An axial member is supported in a non-contact manner in a radial direction by an oil film formed in a radial bearing gap. The housing made of resin is injection molded with the use of a substrate as an insert part. On the substrate, a control circuit for controlling a polygon scanner motor is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Fuminori Satoji, Seiji Shimizu, Kenji Ito, Isao Komori, Ryouichi Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20070182787
    Abstract: An ink jet head, includes: an actuator including a plurality of terminals; a wiring material including a base made of a flexible resin film on which a plurality of lands are arranged in arrays corresponding to the plurality of terminals, the wiring material of which one end is superimposed on a surface of the actuator, and which is extended in a direction parallel to the surface of the actuator; and a drive circuit for driving the actuator, wherein: the wiring material includes a small width portion, of which a width in a direction, perpendicular to an extended direction is smaller than that of the one end superimposed on the actuator, arranged on an extended portion; and the drive circuit is mounted on the extended portion; and wiring patterns are formed on the wiring material, for connecting the drive circuit and the plurality of lands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kubo, Seiji Shimizu, Hiroo Ogawa, Hiromitsu Mizutani, Atsushi Ito
  • Patent number: 7252369
    Abstract: An inkjet printer head including: (a) a front head unit having (a-i) an outside surface which is to be opposed to a print media, (a-ii) an inside surface opposite to the outside surface, (a-iii) a plurality of nozzles opening in the outside surface and arranged in row, and (a-iv) an ink inlet opening in the inside surface; (b) an ink-channel defining unit supplying an ink into the front head unit through the ink inlet; (c) a head holder holding the front head unit; and (d) a reinforcement member fixed to the inside surface of the front head unit. The front head unit and the head holder are fixed to each other, with the reinforcement member being interposed therebetween. The ink-channel defining unit is fixed to one of opposite side surfaces of the reinforcement member that is remote from the front head unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirotake Nakamura, Seiji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20070177833
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-accuracy sliding bearing which eliminates the need for treating a gate mark, has a high accuracy, is excellent in its mechanical strength, and is in its productivity. A sintered metal (2) is used as a bearing peripheral part. A resin material is molded at a sliding portion of the bearing peripheral part to form a resin layer (3). In the resin layer (3), a product of a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the resin material and a thickness of the resin layer is not more than 0.15. The resin layer (3) is molded through tunnel gates. The resin layer comprises a plurality of axial grooves (4A) and (4B) on a bearing sliding surface thereof, and the tunnel gate marks (5) are alternately formed on a bottom of each of the grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Masaki Egami, Seiji Shimizu, Takeshi Tanimaru
  • Publication number: 20070177830
    Abstract: The preset invention aims to improve the assembly accuracy and rotation accuracy of a fluid bearing device, and to further reduce the cost thereof. A bearing sleeve is fixed on the inner periphery of a housing. An axial member is supported in a non-contact manner in a radial direction by an oil film formed in a radial bearing gap. The housing made of resin is injection molded with the use of a substrate as an insert part. On the substrate, a control circuit for controlling a polygon scanner motor is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Fuminori Satoji, Seiji Shimizu, Kenji Ito, Isao Komori, Ryouichi Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20070172159
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fluid dynamic bearing device in which it is possible to prevent detachment of the shaft member reliably and at low cost without involving any increase in the device size. In a thrust bearing portion T, the lower end surface of the shaft member is held in contact with a thrust plate, and the shaft member is rotatably supported in the thrust direction. Protrusions extending radially inwards are provided on a sealing portion attached to an opening of the housing, and these protrusions are engaged with a small diameter portion formed on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft member, thereby preventing the shaft member from coming off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Komori, Seiji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20070172160
    Abstract: The preset invention aims to improve the assembly accuracy and rotation accuracy of a fluid bearing device, and to further reduce the cost thereof. A bearing sleeve is fixed on the inner periphery of a housing. An axial member is supported in a non-contact manner in a radial direction by an oil film formed in a radial bearing gap. The housing made of resin is injection molded with the use of a substrate as an insert part. On the substrate, a control circuit for controlling a polygon scanner motor is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Fuminori Satoji, Seiji Shimizu, Kenji Ito, Isao Komori, Ryouichi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 7229163
    Abstract: A printer, including a printer body, a plurality of ink cartridges that store ink disposed in the printer body, a plurality of ink supply tubes, one end of each of the plurality of ink supply tubes attached to a corresponding one of the plurality of ink cartridges, the plurality of ink supply tubes extending below the plurality of ink cartridges in the printer body, a plurality of print heads disposed in the printer body, another end of each of the plurality of ink supply tubes attached to a corresponding one of the plurality of print heads so that the plurality of ink supply tubes supply ink from the plurality of ink cartridges to the plurality of print heads, the plurality of print heads disposed below the plurality of ink cartridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Shimizu, Takamitsu Kawai
  • Patent number: 7147376
    Abstract: The dynamic bearing device of the invention comprises a housing, a bearing sleeve provided inside the housing, a rotating member rotating relative to the bearing sleeve, and a dynamic bearing portion supporting the rotating member in a non-contact manner by dynamic pressure action of a lubricating fluid generated in a bearing gap between the bearing sleeve and the rotating member. The bearing sleeve has a parent body formed of a sintered metal and a bearing surface facing the bearing gap and formed by a resin layer. The dynamic pressure generating grooves are formed in the resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Shimizu, Isao Komori
  • Publication number: 20060251348
    Abstract: A cam follower includes a shaft member which is cantilevered at one end and a slide bearing fitted onto the outer periphery of the other end of the shaft member. The slide bearing is composed of a cylindrical matrix made of an Fe-based sintered metal material having an Fe content of 90 wt % or more and a slide layer formed from the inner peripheral surface to the both end faces of the matrix. The slide layer is made of a slide material composition having a base material such as polyethylene resin blended with a lubricant such as silicone oil and a globular porous silica impregnated with this lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Egami, Seiji Shimizu, Toshihiko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7108907
    Abstract: A cellulose dope comprising an aqueous sodium hydroxide solution and cellulose dissolved in the solution, wherein the cellulose dope has a sodium hydroxide concentration (CNa) of from 6.5 to 11% by weight, a cellulose content (Cc) of from 5 to 10% by weight, a viscosity average degree of polymerization (DPc) of the cellulose of from 350 to 1,200 and a cellulose dissolution ratio (Sc) of 99.0% by weight or more, and wherein the zero-shear viscosity (?0) and the cellulose content (Cc) of the cellulose dope and the viscosity average degree of polymerization (DPc) of the cellulose in the cellulose dope satisfy the following formula (1): ?0=kCcm×DPcp ??(1) wherein: ?0 represents the zero-shear viscosity (mPa·s) of the cellulose dope, Cc represents the cellulose content (% by weight) of the cellulose dope, DPc represents the viscosity average degree of polymerization of the cellulose in the cellulose dope, k=3.9×10?11, m is a number of from 5 to 7, and p is a number of from 3 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Chihiro Yamane, Kunihiko Okajima, Seiji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20060093247
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oil-impregnated sintered bearing in which local relative sliding between the oil-impregnated sintered bearing and the shaft is avoided, thereby mitigating stress concentration on the bearing surface of the oil-impregnated sintered bearing. An oil-impregnated sintered bearing 1 which has in its inner periphery a bearing surface 1a making relative sliding with the outer peripheral surface 22a of a shaft 22 and which has at both axial ends of the bearing surface 1a crowning portions 1c which are of a configuration satisfying the following conditions: 1.75×10?3??/b1?5.2×10?2, and 1.75×10?3??/b2?5.2×10?2, and 0.2?(b1+b2)/a?0.8, where ? is the maximum radial drop amount of the crowning portions 1c, b1 is the axial length of the crowning portion 1c at one axial end; b2 is the axial length of the crowning portion 1c at the other axial end; and a is the total axial length of the oil-impregnated sintered bearing 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Seiji Shimizu, Tomokazu Sonozaki
  • Patent number: 7025505
    Abstract: The housing made of a resin composition is formed by injection molding with a sintered metal bearing sleeve as an insert piece. The housing includes a cylindrical body part, a sealing portion extending from the top of the body part radially inwards, and a bottom part closing the lower end of the body part. Of these, the body part and bottom part are integrally formed, to which the sealing portion is welded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Komori, Seiji Shimizu, Masaharu Hori, Fuminori Satoji, Kenji Ito
  • Publication number: 20060010141
    Abstract: A data structure for a graph, which is composed by points and line segments connecting adjacent pairs of the points, respectively, of a two- or three-dimensional object comprises a set of point data of the individual points, each of the point data of the points consists of a clockwise or counter clockwise circular ordered adjacency list written in storage areas of a storage medium individually allocated to the point. The adjacency list describes a plurality of adjacent points associated with the point sequentially according to a circular adjacency order as viewed from outside of the graph with address pointers to the storage areas allocated to the adjacent points, respectively, and location pointers associated with the address pointers, respectively, to storage locations of adjacency lists of the adjacent points, respectively, where an address pointer of the point is written.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Susumu Furukawa, Seiji Shimizu, Shinji Mukai, Yutaka Hara, Hiroko Monma, Mamoru Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20060001715
    Abstract: An ink jet printer including a carriage which is movable relative to a sheet of paper, a recording head which is mounted on the carriage and records an image on the sheet by ejecting a droplet of ink toward the sheet, one or more ink tanks which store the ink or inks to be supplied to the recording head, a buffer tank which is mounted on the carriage, and one or more ink flow passages in which the inks are supplied from the ink tanks to the recording head via the buffer tank. The buffer tank has, at a height position higher than a height position where the recording head is provided, one or more air buffer chambers which accommodate respective amounts of the inks, and collect air bubbles produced in the ink flow passages. The printer further includes one or more air bubble discharging passages which communicate, at one ends thereof, with upper portions of the air buffer chambers, and discharge, via the other ends thereof, the air bubbles collected by the air buffer chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaichiro Umeda, Hikaru Kaga, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Seiji Shimizu, Takamasa Usui, Yoichiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6955426
    Abstract: An ink jet printer uses a print head that has at least one ink nozzle and performs printing on a recording medium by ejecting ink from the ink nozzle. An air chamber is connected to the print head to trap air generated in an ink passage. A purge device discharges the air trapped in the air chamber from the ink nozzle. A filter member divides the lower portion of the air chamber into a first chamber and a second chamber. The air chamber traps and stores air in the top portion of the air chamber and the filter member passes ink there through when the print head performs printing. The air trapped in the air chamber is discharged when the purge device generates an ink flow that goes over the filter member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hikaru Kaga, Seiji Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Katsunori Nishida, Takamasa Usui
  • Publication number: 20050122380
    Abstract: An inkjet printer head including: (a) a front head unit having (a-i) an outside surface which is to be opposed to a print media, (a-ii) an inside surface opposite to the outside surface, (a-iii) a plurality of nozzles opening in the outside surface and arranged in row, and (a-iv) an ink inlet opening in the inside surface; (b) an ink-channel defining unit supplying an ink into the front head unit through the ink inlet; (c) a head holder holding the front head unit; and (d) a reinforcement member fixed to the inside surface of the front head unit. The front head unit and the head holder are fixed to each other, with the reinforcement member being interposed therebetween. The ink-channel defining unit is fixed to one of opposite side surfaces of the reinforcement member that is remote from the front head unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Hirotake Nakamura, Seiji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6894982
    Abstract: A timing of a receiving slot at the wireless receiving section 11 is detected at the interrupt generation section 12, which generates a receiving slot start interrupt signal (b) and a receiving slot end interrupt signal (c), during a period between a relevant receiving slot start interrupt signal (a) and a receiving slot end interrupt signal (c), an operation clock frequency of the CPU 21 in the data processing section 2 is variably controlled according to a receiving electric field strength, whereby the deterioration of receiving performance due to noises running from the data processing section 2 to the wireless section 1 at the receiving time can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20040264817
    Abstract: The preset invention aims to improve the assembly accuracy and rotation accuracy of a fluid bearing device, and to further reduce the cost thereof. A bearing sleeve is fixed on the inner periphery of a housing. An axial member is supported in a non-contact manner in a radial direction by an oil film formed in a radial bearing gap. The housing made of resin is injection molded with the use of a substrate as an insert part. On the substrate, a control circuit for controlling a polygon scanner motor is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Fuminori Satoji, Seiji Shimizu, Kenji Ito, Isao Komori, Ryouichi Nakajima