Patents by Inventor So ENDO

So ENDO 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).

  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 11693340
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a paper feeding part that houses a medium to be fed; a belt-shaped image holding part that holds an image on a surface of the image holding part and rotates; a transfer part disposed to face the image holding part and transfers an image onto a medium from the image holding part in a final transfer region; and a cleaning part that removes a deposit on the surface of the image holding part passed through the final transfer region, in which a downstream side of the paper feeding part in a transport direction of a medium is inclined to be closer than an upstream side of the paper feeding part to the final transfer region, and the image holding part is inclined upward on a downstream side of the final transfer region toward the downstream side in a rotation of the image holding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Naoya Mitamura, Kanji Watanabe, So Endo
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20230055653
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a paper feeding part that houses a medium to be fed; a belt-shaped image holding part that holds an image on a surface of the image holding part and rotates; a transfer part disposed to face the image holding part and transfers an image onto a medium from the image holding part in a final transfer region; and a cleaning part that removes a deposit on the surface of the image holding part passed through the final transfer region, in which a downstream side of the paper feeding part in a transport direction of a medium is inclined to be closer than an upstream side of the paper feeding part to the final transfer region, and the image holding part is inclined upward on a downstream side of the final transfer region toward the downstream side in a rotation of the image holding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Naoya MITAMURA, Kanji WATANABE, So ENDO