Patents by Inventor Shinya Kitago

Shinya Kitago 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: 20230259053
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediary transfer belt, stretching rollers a pressing member, a supporting member, a moving mechanism, and a controller. In a case that in an operation in a toner image transfer mode is executed for recording materials of a predetermined kind in a predetermined environmental condition, when a sum of times each in which the operation was executed from a new state of the pressing member is a first time, a position of the supporting member during execution of the operation in the mode is a first position, and when the sum is a second time longer than the first time, the position of the supporting member during the execution of the operation is a second position where the pressing member is moved in a direction in which the pressing member presses the belt more than in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: SHINYA KITAGO
  • Patent number: 11537071
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a belt, tension rollers, an outer member, a pressing member, a moving mechanism, and an attachable unit. The belt bears a toner image and the tension rollers stretch the belt around rollers. The toner image is transferred at the outer member from the belt onto a recording material. The moving mechanism moves the pressing member to press an inner surface of the belt toward an outer surface side. The attachable unit includes the pressing member or the belt and attaches to and detaches from the image forming apparatus. A mode is executed in which the pressing member presses the belt to transfer the toner image onto the recording material. Information is stored based on an individual difference of the attachable unit related to a setting of a moving mechanism position in executing the mode, where the setting is based on the stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinya Kitago
  • Publication number: 20220197201
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a belt, tension rollers, an outer member, a pressing member, a moving mechanism, and an attachable unit. The belt bears a toner image and the tension rollers stretches the belt around rollers. The toner image is transferred at the outer member from the belt onto a recording material. The moving mechanism moves the pressing member to press an inner surface of the belt toward an outer surface side. The attachable unit includes the pressing member or the belt and attaches to and detaches from the image forming apparatus. A mode is executed in which the pressing member presses the belt to transfer the toner image onto the recording material. Information is stored based on an individual difference of the attachable unit related to a setting of a moving mechanism position in executing the mode, where the setting is based on the stored information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Shinya Kitago
  • Patent number: 9971283
    Abstract: A belt conveyance apparatus includes an endless belt conveyed while being supported by a plurality of support rollers in a tensioned state. The plurality of support rollers include a tension roller and a steering roller. The tension roller, which is disposed adjacent to and downstream of the steering roller in a conveyance direction of the endless belt, has a reverse crown shape in which end portions in a rotational axis direction each have an outer diameter larger than a middle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Kitago, Hisashi Tsukijima, Yuichi Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20170060043
    Abstract: A belt conveyance apparatus includes an endless belt conveyed while being supported by a plurality of support rollers in a tensioned state. The plurality of support rollers include a tension roller and a steering roller. The tension roller, which is disposed adjacent to and downstream of the steering roller in a conveyance direction of the endless belt, has a reverse crown shape in which end portions in a rotational axis direction each have an outer diameter larger than a middle portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Shinya Kitago, Hisashi Tsukijima, Yuichi Tanabe