Patents by Inventor Shigeru Hirano

Shigeru Hirano 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: 10577705
    Abstract: A steel sheet for a container includes: a steel sheet; a coated layer containing Ni provided as an upper layer of the steel sheet; and a chemical treatment layer as an upper layer of the coated layer, and containing a Zr compound in an amount of 3.0 to 30.0 mg/m2 in terms of Zr metal, and a Mg compound in an amount of 0.50 to 5.00 mg/m2 in terms of Mg metal, in which the coated layer is one of: a Ni coated layer which contains Ni in amount of 10 to 1000 mg/m2 in terms of Ni metal, and a composite coated layer which contains Ni in an amount of 5 to 150 mg/m2 in terms of Ni metal and Sn in an amount of 300 to 3000 mg/m2 in terms of Sn metal, and has an island-shaped Sn coated layer formed on an Fe—Ni—Sn alloy layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tachiki, Shigeru Hirano, Yoshiaki Tani, Hirokazu Yokoya, Morio Yanagihara, Makoto Kawabata
  • Patent number: 10578999
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image formation unit, an image heating unit, a placement unit, and a control unit. The image heating unit heats an image formed by image formation unit on the recording material that was placed on the placement unit. If an envelope is placed on the placement unit with a flap of the envelope in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of a recording material, the control unit executed control to automatically execute two-sided printing on the envelope such that images formed on a first and a surface of the envelope are heated by the image heating unit. If an envelope is placed on the placement unit with a flap of the envelope in the conveyance direction of the recording material, the control unit executes control to inhibit execution of two-sided printing on the envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Hirano, Shigeru Tanaka, Yasuharu Chiyoda, Daigo Matsuura, Mitsuru Hasegawa, Yusuke Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10563311
    Abstract: A steel sheet for a container includes a steel sheet, a Sn coated layer which is provided as an upper layer of the steel sheet and contains Sn in an amount of 560 to 5600 mg/m2 in terms of Sn metal, and a chemical treatment layer which is provided as an upper layer of the Sn coated layer and contains a Zr compound in an amount of 3.0 to 30.0 mg/m2 in terms of Zr metal and a Mg compound in an amount of 0.50 to 5.00 mg/m2 in terms of Mg metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tachiki, Shigeru Hirano, Yoshiaki Tani, Hirokazu Yokoya, Morio Yanagihara, Makoto Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20200050134
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a receiving portion, an image forming portion, an image heating portion and a controller for controlling an image forming operation so that the image forming operation is started after a lapse of a time from reception of the signal of the image forming job received by the image forming apparatus in a stand-by state in which the image forming apparatus waits for the reception of the signal of the image forming job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventor: Shigeru Hirano
  • Publication number: 20200040479
    Abstract: A Sn-plated steel sheet according to the present invention includes a steel sheet, a Sn-plated layer that is provided on at least one surface of the steel sheet, and a film that is provided on a surface of the Sn-plated layer and includes zirconium oxide and tin oxide, in which an amount of the zirconium oxide in the film is 0.2 mg/m2 to 50 mg/m2 in terms of metal Zr amount, in a depth direction analysis by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, a depth position A at which an element concentration of Zr present as the zirconium oxide is maximum is positioned closer to a surface of the film than a depth position B at which an element concentration of Sn present as the tin oxide is maximum, and a distance between the depth position A and the depth position B in a depth direction is 0.5 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro YAMANAKA, Shigeru HIRANO, Masakazu NODA, Yasuhiko SATO
  • Publication number: 20200033778
    Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt, a rotary member configured to form a nip portion with the endless belt, regulating members for regulating the endless belt from moving in a longitudinal direction by being in contact with longitudinal ends of the endless belt, and a sheet-like heating member. The heating member includes a heat transfer member in contact with the inner surface of the endless belt, and a heating portion located on an opposite side from a side, of the heating member, in contact with the inner surface of the endless belt across the heat transfer member. Both end portions of the heat transfer member are disposed at the same location or outside of both end portions of the heating portion in the longitudinal direction and are disposed inside of both end portions of the rotary member in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Shigeru Hirano, Ikuo Nakamoto, Shigeru Tanaka, Akihiro Maeda, Yusuke Yamaguchi, Shohei Tsuzaki, Kenji Endo, Shinsuke Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200033772
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image formation unit, an image heating unit, a placement unit, and a control unit. The image heating unit heats an image formed by image formation unit on the recording material that was placed on the placement unit. If an envelope is placed on the placement unit with a flap of the envelope in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of a recording material, the control unit executed control to automatically execute two-sided printing on the envelope such that images formed on a first and a surface of the envelope are heated by the image heating unit. If an envelope is placed on the placement unit with a flap of the envelope in the conveyance direction of the recording material, the control unit executes control to inhibit execution of two-sided printing on the envelope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Shigeru Hirano, Shigeru Tanaka, Yasuharu Chiyoda, Daigo Matsuura, Mitsuru Hasegawa, Yusuke Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10545442
    Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt, a rotary member configured to form a nip portion with the endless belt, regulating members for regulating the endless belt from moving in a longitudinal direction by being in contact with longitudinal ends of the endless belt, and a sheet-like heating member. The heating member includes a heat transfer member in contact with the inner surface of the endless belt, and a heating portion located on an opposite side from a side, of the heating member, in contact with the inner surface of the endless belt across the heat transfer member. Both end portions of the heat transfer member are disposed at the same location or outside of both end portions of the heating portion in the longitudinal direction and are disposed inside of both end portions of the rotary member in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Hirano, Ikuo Nakamoto, Shigeru Tanaka, Akihiro Maeda, Yusuke Yamaguchi, Shohei Tsuzaki, Kenji Endo, Shinsuke Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190336938
    Abstract: A xenon adsorbent capable of efficiently adsorbing xenon, even at a low concentration, from a mixture gas is Provided. A xenon adsorbent comprising a zeolite having a pore size in the range of 3.5 to 5 ? and a silica alumina molar ratio in the range of 10 to 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: TOSOH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru HIRANO, Keisuke TOKUNAGA, Hiroshi OKANIWA, Megu FUKUI
  • Patent number: 10465309
    Abstract: This steel sheet for containers includes a steel sheet, a Ni coated layer that is formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet, and a chemical treatment layer that is formed on the Ni coated layer. The Ni coated layer contains 10 mg/m2 to 1,000 mg/m2 of Ni in terms of an amount of metal Ni, and the chemical treatment layer contains 5 mg/m2 to 30 mg/m2 of a Zr compound in terms of an amount of metal Zr. An average roughness Ra of an outermost surface of the chemical treatment layer obtained with a scanning probe microscope is 10 nm to 100 nm, and when a variation amount in a yellowness index measured at one measurement point on the outermost surface of the chemical treatment layer is defined as ?YI represented by Equation (2), an average of absolute values of the ?YI obtained at a plurality of the measurement points included in a unit area of the outermost surface is 5.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tachiki, Shigeru Hirano, Hirokazu Yokoya, Morio Yanagihara, Yoshiaki Tani
  • Patent number: 10443141
    Abstract: A steel sheet for containers includes a steel sheet, an underlying Ni layer formed by performing a Ni coating or a Fe—Ni alloy coating containing Ni in an amount of 5 mg/m2 to 150 mg/m2 in terms of an amount of metal Ni on at least one surface of the steel sheet, a Sn coated layer formed by performing a Sn coating containing Sn in an amount of 300 mg/m2 to 3,000 mg/m2 in terms of an amount of metal Sn on the underlying Ni layer and including an island-shaped Sn formed by alloying the Sn coating and at least a part of the underlying Ni layer by a reflow treatment, an oxide layer formed on the Sn coated layer and containing tin oxide, and a chemical treatment layer formed on the oxide layer and at least contains Zr in an amount of 1 mg/m2 to 500 mg/m2 in terms of an amount of metal Zr and phosphate acid in an amount of 0.1 mg/m2 to 100 mg/m2 in terms of an amount of P, in which the oxide layer contains tin oxide in such an amount that an amount of electricity required for reduction of the oxide layer is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tani, Shigeru Hirano, Akira Tachiki, Morio Yanagihara, Makoto Kawabata, Hirokazu Yokoya
  • Publication number: 20190301043
    Abstract: The Sn-plated steel sheet of the disclosure is an Sn-plated steel sheet including: a steel sheet; an Sn plating layer formed on at least one side of the steel sheet and containing, based on % by mass, from 0.1 g/m2 to 15 g/m2 of metal Sn; and a coating layer formed on the surface of the Sn plating layer and containing zirconium oxide and tin oxide; in which the content of the zirconium oxide in the coating layer is from 0.2 mg/m2 to 50 mg/m2 in terms of metal Zr amount, and the peak position of binding energy of Sn3d5/2 according to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of the tin oxide in the coating layer is 1.6 eV or higher than the peak position of binding energy of the metal Sn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro YAMANAKA, Shigeru HIRANO, Morio YANAGIHARA, Hirokazu YOKOYA
  • Publication number: 20190292673
    Abstract: The Sn-based alloy plated steel sheet of this disclosure includes: a steel sheet; a composite plating layer formed on at least one side of the steel sheet and including an Fe—Ni—Sn alloy layer and an island-shaped Sn layer located on the Fe—Ni—Sn alloy layer; and a coating layer formed on the surface of the composite plating layer and containing zirconium oxide and tin oxide, and the composite plating layer contains a predetermined amount of Ni and a predetermined amount of Sn, a content of the zirconium oxide in the coating layer is from 0.2 mg/m2 to 50 mg/m2 in terms of metal Zr amount, and a peak position of binding energy of Sn3d5/2 according to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of the tin oxide in the coating layer is 1.6 eV or higher than a peak position of binding energy of the metal Sn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro YAMANAKA, Shigeru HIRANO, Morio YANAGIHARA, Hirokazu YOKOYA
  • Publication number: 20190226112
    Abstract: Provided is a chemical treatment steel sheet including a steel sheet; a composite coated layer which is formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet, and contains 2 to 200 mg/m2 of Ni in terms of an amount of metal Ni and 0.1 to 10 g/m2 of Sn in terms of an amount of metal Sn, and in which an island-shaped Sn coated layer is formed on an Fe—Ni—Sn alloy layer; and a chemical treatment layer that is formed on the composite coated layer, and contains a 0.01 to 0.1 mg/m2 of Zr compounds in terms of an amount of metal Zr and 0.01 to 5 mg/m2 of phosphate compounds in terms of an amount of P.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki TANI, Shigeru HIRANO, Akira TACHIKI, Morio YANAGIHARA, Makoto KAWABATA, Hirokazu YOKOYA
  • Patent number: 10343136
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition that includes a silicotitanate that has a sitinakite structure, the composition having higher cesium adsorptivity than conventional compositions. The present invention also provides a production method for the composition that includes a silicotitanate that has a sitinakite structure. The production method does not require the use of hazardous or deleterious materials, can generate a product using a compound that is easily acquired, and can use a general-purpose autoclave. Also provided is a silicotitanate composition that has higher strontium adsorptivity than the present invention. Provided is a silicotitanate composition that contains niobium and a silicotitanate that has a sitinakite structure, the composition having at least two or more diffraction peaks selected from the group consisting of 2?=8.8°±0.5°, 2?=10.0°±0.5°, and 2?=29.6°±0.5°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: TOSOH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoju Shimizu, Hajime Funakoshi, Keisuke Tokunaga, Shigeru Hirano
  • Patent number: 10301721
    Abstract: A chemical treatment steel sheet includes a steel sheet; a Fe—Sn alloy layer which is formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet; an Sn layer which is formed on the Fe—Sn alloy layer; and a chemical treatment layer that is formed on the Sn layer, and contains a 0.01 to 0.1 mg/m2 of Zr compounds in terms of an amount of metal Zr and 0.01 to 5 mg/m2 of phosphate compounds in terms of an amount of P. The total Sn content of the Fe—Sn alloy layer and the Sn layer is 0.1 to 15 g/m2 of Sn in terms of the amount of metal Sn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tani, Shigeru Hirano, Akira Tachiki, Morio Yanagihara, Makoto Kawabata, Hirokazu Yokoya
  • Patent number: 10294577
    Abstract: Provided is a chemical treatment steel sheet including a steel sheet; a composite coated layer which is formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet, and contains 2 to 200 mg/m2 of Ni in terms of an amount of metal Ni and 0.1 to 10 g/m2 of Sn in terms of an amount of metal Sn, and in which an island-shaped Sn coated layer is formed on an Fe—Ni—Sn alloy layer; and a chemical treatment layer that is formed on the composite coated layer, and contains a 0.01 to 0.1 mg/m2 of Zr compounds in terms of an amount of metal Zr and 0.01 to 5 mg/m2 of phosphate compounds in terms of an amount of P.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tani, Shigeru Hirano, Akira Tachiki, Morio Yanagihara, Makoto Kawabata, Hirokazu Yokoya
  • Publication number: 20190134599
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition that includes a silicotitanate that has a sitinakite structure, the composition having higher cesium adsorptivity than conventional compositions. The present invention also provides a production method for the composition that includes a silicotitanate that has a sitinakite structure. The production method does not require the use of hazardous or deleterious materials, can generate a product using a compound that is easily acquired, and can use a general-purpose autoclave. Also provided is a silicotitanate composition that has higher strontium adsorptivity than the present invention. Provided is a silicotitanate composition that contains niobium and a silicotitanate that has a sitinakite structure, the composition having at least two or more diffraction peaks selected from the group consisting of 2?=8.8°±0.5°, 2?=10.0°±0.5°, and 2?=29.6°±0.5°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicants: TOSOH CORPORATION, EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoju SHIMIZU, Hajime FUNAKOSHI, Keisuke TOKUNAGA, Shigeru HIRANO, Takashi SAKUMA, Makoto KOMATSU, Takeshi IZUMI
  • Patent number: 10241433
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reading configured to read a shape of a sheet to be used for image formation, and an original sheet carrying an original image, and an image forming portion configured to form a toner image, corresponding to the original image read by the reading portion, on the sheet to be used for image formation. A fixing portion is configured to fix the toner image, formed by the image forming portion, to the sheet to be used for image formation. In addition, a controller is configured to control a fixing condition of the fixing portion in accordance with the shape of the sheet to be used for image formation read by the reading portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Tanaka, Yasuharu Chiyoda, Daigo Matsuura, Mitsuru Hasegawa, Yusuke Yamaguchi, Shigeru Hirano
  • Publication number: 20190060864
    Abstract: The present invention provides a treatment method of a radioactive iodine-containing fluid, comprising passing the radioactive iodine-containing fluid through an adsorbent for iodine consisting of a silver-containing binderless zeolite molded body having a silver content of 50 mass % or less, to adsorb the radioactive iodine on the adsorbent for iodine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicants: Ebara Corporation, Tosoh Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi SAKUMA, Makoto KOMATSU, Takeshi IZUMI, Keisuke TOKUNAGA, Shigeru HIRANO