Patents by Inventor Shingo Ito
Shingo Ito 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: 20140232058Abstract: A transporting apparatus includes a base unit made of resin, a tray configured to support a sheet, a transporting section supported by an upper portion of the base unit and configured to transport the sheet, and a feeding section supported by a lower portion of the base unit and including a feeding roller configured to contact an upper surface of the sheet supported by the tray and to feed the sheet toward the transporting section. The base unit is integrally formed with an inner-side guide which defines an inner side of a curved path which is configured to guide the sheet fed by the feeding section to the transport section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keisuke Wakakusa, Noriyuki Kawamata, Iwane Sano, Masao Mimoto, Yasuhira Ota, Jie Xiu, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20140232800Abstract: A conveyor device may include first and second conveyor units, and a movable member. The first conveyor unit includes a first roller that contacts an upper surface of a sheet and a second roller that contacts a lower surface of the sheet. The second conveyor unit includes a third roller that contacts the lower surface of the sheet and a fourth roller that contacts the upper surface of the sheet. The first and second rollers and the third and fourth rollers nip and convey the sheet along a conveyance path. When the movable member is located in a first position, the first roller contacts the second roller and the third roller contacts the fourth roller. When the movable member moves to the second position, the first roller is moved away from the second roller and the third roller is moved away from the fourth roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Iwane Sano, Masao Mimoto, Noriyuki Kawamata, Keisuke Wakakusa, Jie Xiu, Yasuhira Ota, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20140232784Abstract: An inkjet recording device is described in which maintenance is performed by a maintenance unit upon a recording head. The maintenance unit is located on a base unit. The base unit includes a wall portion supporting a plurality of gear shafts protruding in a width direction from the wall portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jie Xiu, Keisuke Wakakusa, Iwane Sano, Masao Mimoto, Yasuhira Ota, Shingo Ito, Noriyuki Kawamata
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Publication number: 20140224044Abstract: A gas sensor (1) has a platelike detection element (5) extending in an axial direction and a ceramic member (67) having an element insertion hole (81) into which the detection element (5) is inserted. When the ceramic member (67) is viewed from the axial direction, the element insertion hole (81) has a main insertion hole (83) having a substantially quadrate shape surrounded by four sides, and relief holes (85), (86), (87) and (88), each of which is surrounded by an outline connecting ends of two adjacent sides of the four sides of the main insertion hole (83) and located radially outward of the main insertion hole (83) so as to communicate with the main insertion hole 83.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventors: Takehiro OBA, Shingo ITO, Makoto KUME, Daisuke TAHIRA
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Publication number: 20140104359Abstract: An image recording apparatus including: a first convey path; a support member which supports a first recording medium, a second recording medium, and a tray; a second convey path connected to the first convey path; a first guide member partly defining the second convey path; and a posture change mechanism which changes the support member and the first guide member between (a) a first posture in which the first convey path has a height allowing the first recording medium to pass therethrough, and the second convey path has a height allowing the first recording medium to pass therethrough and (b) a second posture in which the first convey path has a height larger than the first height and allowing the second recording medium or the tray to pass therethrough, and the second convey path has a height smaller than the second height.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Iwane SANO, Yasuhira OTA, Shota IIJIMA, Naokazu TANAHASHI, Shingo ITO
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Patent number: 8696083Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a conveyance roller which conveys the recording medium, a drive source for rotating the conveyance roller, a print head and a carriage mounted with the print head. The carriage includes an abutment portion. The image recording apparatus further includes a carriage position detector which detects a position of the carriage in a movement direction of the carriage and still further includes a rotating body which rotates in synchronization with the conveyance roller. The rotating body includes a reference portion which protrudes or depresses in the movement direction at a predetermined rotation phase of the rotating body and abut with the reference portion. Moreover, the image recording apparatus includes an origin determination section which, based on a result of the detection by the carriage position detector, determines an origin position of a rotation phase of the conveyance roller.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuji Koga, Naohisa Kinoshita, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20140092188Abstract: A sheet feeder, including: a sheet supply roller configured to supply a sheet to a sheet feeding path; a sheet feed roller configured to feed the sheet supplied to the sheet feeding path by the sheet supply roller to a downstream side in a sheet feeding direction in which the sheet is fed; a discharge roller configured to discharge the sheet fed by the feed roller to a downstream side in the sheet feeding direction; a drive motor configured to drive a first shaft for rotating the feed roller; a first transmitting mechanism configured to transmit a rotary motion of the first shaft to a second shaft for rotating the discharge roller; and a second transmitting mechanism configured to transmit a rotary motion of the second shaft to a third shaft for rotating the sheet supply roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhira Ota, Iwane Sano, Masao Mimoto, Shingo Ito
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Patent number: 8668200Abstract: A carrying apparatus includes: a carry path which is defined to guide a first carried object and a second carried object; a first pulley; a first roller; a second pulley; a first belt which is wound on the first pulley and the second pulley; a first tensioner; and a first moving mechanism which moves the first roller between a first position and a second position. The first moving mechanism moves the first roller between a first position at which the first roller carries the first carried object and a second position which is farther from the carry path than the first position and at which the first roller carries the second carried object.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shota Iijima, Iwane Sano, Yasuhira Ota, Naokazu Tanahashi, Shingo Ito
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Patent number: 8641038Abstract: An image recording device includes a tray configured to hold a first recording medium, an insertion guide configured to move between a guide position for guiding a second recording medium into a common path and a non-guide position, a conveyor configured to convey the tray along the common path in a first direction and to convey the second recording medium along the common path in a second direction opposite to the first direction, a recording unit configured to record an image selectively on the first recording medium and the second recording medium, a stopper disposed along the common path, and a moving unit configured to move the stopper between a retracted position and a protruding position in response to movement of the insertion guide between the non-guide position and the guide position. The stopper in the protruding position protrudes into the common path to stop the tray.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Asada, Iwane Sano, Shingo Ito
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Patent number: 8641303Abstract: An image recording apparatus including: a first convey path; a support member which supports a first recording medium, a second recording medium, and a tray; a second convey path connected to the first convey path; a first guide member partly defining the second convey path; and a posture change mechanism which changes the support member and the first guide member between (a) a first posture in which the first convey path has a height allowing the first recording medium to pass therethrough, and the second convey path has a height allowing the first recording medium to pass therethrough and (b) a second posture in which the first convey path has a height larger than the first height and allowing the second recording medium or the tray to pass therethrough, and the second convey path has a height smaller than the second height.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Iwane Sano, Yasuhira Ota, Shota Iijima, Naokazu Tanahashi, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20130344365Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to examine a novel core material for a lithium secondary battery and to provide a battery in which there is minimal variation from initial battery characteristics over time during long-term storage of the battery. In order to enhance the high-temperature storage characteristics of a lithium battery, a resin composed primarily of a cellulose-containing polypropylene is used as a winding core material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Haruna, Shingo Ito
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Patent number: 8567941Abstract: There is provided a transporting device transporting a medium, including: a first member pair which changes a posture of the first member pair between a first posture and a second posture; a second member pair which changes a posture of the second member pair between a third posture and a fourth posture; and a movable member which is movable between a fifth posture and a sixth posture, and which has a first abutting portion and a second abutting portion, wherein, in a process that the movable member moves from the fifth posture to the sixth posture, the first abutting portion makes the first member pair change the posture from the first posture to the second posture, and while the first abutting portion makes the first member pair change the posture, the second abutting portion abuts on one of the second member pair.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Iwane Sano, Yasuhira Ota, Naokazu Tanahashi, Shota Iijima, Shingo Ito
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Patent number: 8556410Abstract: An image recording apparatus including: a recording portion; a tray on which a first recording medium is placed; a convey path for conveying a second recording medium and the tray; a tray guide changeable among (a) a first posture in which the tray guide supports the tray, (b) a second posture whose position is different from that of the first posture in a direction intersecting the convey path, and (c) a third posture in which an upstream portion of the tray guide in the tray-enter direction is nearer to the convey path than that in the second posture; a first posture-change portion which changes the tray guide from the second to the third posture; and a second posture-change portion which changes the tray guide from the third to the first posture.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2011Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhira Ota, Shota Iijima, Naokazu Tanahashi, Iwane Sano, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20130256863Abstract: A highly reliable semiconductor device with the improved humidity resistance reliability is disclosed. A disclosed epoxy resin composition for semiconductor encapsulation encapsulates, in the manufacture of the semiconductor device, a semiconductor element that is mounted on a lead frame having a die pad unit or a circuit substrate and a wire that connects an electrical junction disposed on the lead frame or circuit substrate and an electrode pad disposed on the semiconductor element. The epoxy resin composition includes an epoxy resin (A), a curing agent (B), and an inorganic filler (C). The epoxy resin (A) has a main peak area of 90% or more with respect to the total area of all peaks as measured by the gel permeation chromatography area method.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2011Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.Inventor: Shingo Ito
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Patent number: 8480071Abstract: A recording device that includes a feed roller for feeding a first and a second sheets sequentially, a first and a second conveying devices that convey the sheets in synchronization, a recording device that records image on the sheets, and a controller, that, after image recording on the first sheet is complete, stops the first and second conveying devices when a trailing end of the first sheet reaches a particular position between the first and the second conveying devices. The controller further controls the feed roller to feed the second sheet, such that a leading end of the second sheet contacts a nip of the first conveying device. After the leading end of the second sheet contacts the nip, the controller rotates the first conveying device in a reverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Asada, Hirotaka Aoki, Yasuhira Ota, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20130158223Abstract: The present invention provides a metal complex of group 10 elements of the periodic table having a carboxylate structure represented by formula (C2); a catalyst for polymerization of olefin mainly comprising the metal complex; and a method for producing polymers by homopolymerizing olefin represented by formula (1), polymerizing two or more kinds of the above olefin, or copolymerizing olefin represented by formula (1) with polar group-containing olefin represented by formula (2) (the meaning of the symbols are as set forth in the description) using the catalyst. A metal complex of group 10 elements of the periodic table, in which all of the coordinating atoms to the metal are a hetero atom is stable and useful as a catalyst component for olefin polymerization, and can be used for a long time in homopolymerization of olefin or copolymerization of two or more kinds of olefin.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Shingo Ito, Kyoko Nozaki, Yoshikuni Okumura, Junichi Kuroda
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Patent number: 8454123Abstract: An assembly includes a frame having a first wall and a second wall, a support shaft, an elastic member, and an engaging member. The engaging member has a first engaging portion, the first wall has a recessed portion, the second wall has a second engaging portion, and the support shaft has an insertion portion. The first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are engaged with each other in a state in which the insertion portion is fitted into the recessed portion and the elastic member is compressed by the engaging member.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mikio Ogawa, Shingo Ito, Hiroyasu Yano, Yoichi Shikai
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Publication number: 20130082437Abstract: An image recording device includes a tray configured to hold a first recording medium, an insertion guide configured to move between a guide position for guiding a second recording medium into a common path and a non-guide position, a conveyor configured to convey the tray along the common path in a first direction and to convey the second recording medium along the common path in a second direction opposite to the first direction, a recording unit configured to record an image selectively on the first recording medium and the second recording medium, a stopper disposed along the common path, and a moving unit configured to move the stopper between a retracted position and a protruding position in response to movement of the insertion guide between the non-guide position and the guide position. The stopper in the protruding position protrudes into the common path to stop the tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuo ASADA, Iwane SANO, Shingo ITO
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Patent number: 8339797Abstract: A package substrate includes a main package body including a first principal surface on which an IC is mounted, and a second principal surface, opposed to the first principal surface, on which first bonding materials for mounting are provided. An internal circuit is provided within the main package body and connected to the first bonding materials. A sub-package is arranged on the second principal surface and includes electronic components embedded therein. A thickness direction dimension being the distance from the second principal surface to a portion of the sub-package most distant from the second principal surface, is not more than a thickness direction dimension being the distance from the second principal surface to an edge of the first bonding material at the second principal surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsuyoshi Maeda, Shingo Ito, Satoru Noda
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Publication number: 20120319345Abstract: A recording device including a feed roller that feeds a first and a second sheets sequentially, a first and a second conveying devices that convey the sheets in synchronization, a recording device that records image on the sheets, and a controller, that, after image recording on the first sheet is complete, stops the first and second conveying devices when a trailing end of the first sheet reaches a particular position between the first and the second conveying devices; controls the feed roller to feed the second sheet, such that a leading end of the second sheet contacts a nip of the first conveying device; stops the feed roller after the leading end of the second sheet contacts the nip; and rotates the first conveying device in a reverse direction by an amount of rotation, such that the trailing end of the first sheet does not reach the first conveying device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuo ASADA, Hirotaka AOKI, Yasuhira OTA, Shingo ITO