Patents by Inventor Susumu Yamashina

Susumu Yamashina 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: 10277065
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a moving object detecting unit and a power supply unit. The moving object detecting unit is attached to a processing apparatus body including power supply targets and a controller, and is capable of detecting a moving object moving in the vicinity of the processing apparatus body. The moving object detecting unit has a lower detection range for detecting a part of a moving object that is substantially in contact with the floor, and an upper detection range for detecting a top part of a moving object. The power supply unit is included in the controller and is always supplied with power to monitor approach of a moving object with the moving object detecting unit. The power supply unit supplies, upon the moving object detecting unit detecting a moving object, power to a power supply target that includes a part of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Yamashina, Kazuhiko Narushima, Masafumi Ono, Motofumi Baba, Kenta Ogata, Kouichi Azuma, Kenji Kuroishi, Keiko Shiraishi, Hidenori Horie
  • Publication number: 20160372968
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a moving object detecting unit and a power supply unit. The moving object detecting unit is attached to a processing apparatus body including power supply targets and a controller, and is capable of detecting a moving object moving in the vicinity of the processing apparatus body. The moving object detecting unit has a lower detection range for detecting a part of a moving object that is substantially in contact with the floor, and an upper detection range for detecting a top part of a moving object. The power supply unit is included in the controller and is always supplied with power to monitor approach of a moving object with the moving object detecting unit. The power supply unit supplies, upon the moving object detecting unit detecting a moving object, power to a power supply target that includes a part of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu YAMASHINA, Kazuhiko NARUSHIMA, Masafumi ONO, Motofumi BABA, Kenta OGATA, Kouichi AZUMA, Kenji KUROISHI, Keiko SHIRAISHI, Hidenori HORIE
  • Patent number: 9461503
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a moving object detecting unit and a power supply unit. The moving object detecting unit is attached to a processing apparatus body including power supply targets and a controller, and is capable of detecting a moving object moving in the vicinity of the processing apparatus body. The moving object detecting unit has a lower detection range for detecting a part of a moving object that is substantially in contact with the floor, and an upper detection range for detecting a top part of a moving object. The power supply unit is included in the controller and is always supplied with power to monitor approach of a moving object with the moving object detecting unit. The power supply unit supplies, upon the moving object detecting unit detecting a moving object, power to a power supply target that includes a part of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Yamashina, Kazuhiko Narushima, Masafumi Ono, Motofumi Baba, Kenta Ogata, Kouichi Azuma, Kenji Kuroishi, Keiko Shiraishi, Hidenori Horie
  • Patent number: 9100526
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a monitoring controller, a moving body detector, and a power supply controller. The monitoring controller controls a processor, an interface part, and an identification information acquisition part. The moving body detector detects whether or not a moving body including a user who intends to use the processor exists within a specific region. The power supply controller individually allows objects to be controlled including the processor, the interface part, the identification information acquisition part, and the monitoring controller to enter a power supply state or a power interruption state in an independent manner, in accordance with detection information by the moving body detector, and first controls the identification information acquisition part to be shifted from the power interruption state to the power supply state in a case where all the objects to be controlled are in the power interruption state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kuroishi, Masafumi Ono, Motofumi Baba, Keiko Shiraishi, Susumu Yamashina, Kenta Ogata, Kazuhiko Narushima, Koichi Azuma, Hidenori Horie
  • Patent number: 9069313
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material; an image reading device that is disposed above the image forming section, and reads an image on an original; a connecting section that is disposed at either one of end sides of an apparatus housing in a lateral direction thereof, and that connects the image forming section and the image reading device to each other; an operating section that is disposed in front of the image reading device, and that is operated by a person; a human detecting device that detects the person operating the operating section; a discharging section that discharges the recording material on which the image has been formed by the image forming section to a placing section; and the placing section on which the recording material discharged from the discharging section is placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Ogata, Susumu Yamashina, Motofumi Baba
  • Patent number: 9057997
    Abstract: A moving object detecting device includes a detecting device body that includes a detection unit formed in a chassis covering the inside of an apparatus and disposed to correspond to a monitoring window of which at least an aperture area or an aperture size is restricted and which monitors a moving object approaching the apparatus and a circuit board unit controlling a signal output from the detection unit and is disposed so that some optical axes among optical axes having detection surfaces of plural infrared detecting elements included in the detection unit, as focal points passes through the monitoring window and the other optical axes are blocked by the chassis, and an optical member that is formed in an inner wall of the chassis and that deflects the other optical axes of the infrared detection elements to pass through the monitoring window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Ogata, Motofumi Baba, Kazuhiko Narushima, Masafumi Ono, Kouichi Azuma, Susumu Yamashina, Kenji Kuroishi, Keiko Shiraishi, Hidenori Horie
  • Patent number: 8768196
    Abstract: An operation device includes a first condition in which the operation device consumes a first amount of electric power; a second condition in which the operation device consumes a second amount of electric power; a first detecting unit, to which electric power is supplied in the second condition, having a first detection range and detecting a person in the first detection range; a second detecting unit having a second detection range and detecting the person in the second detection range; a transmitting section that transmits, when the person is detected by the first detecting unit in the second condition, the electric power required for the second detecting unit to detect the person to the second detecting unit; and an instructing section that instructs, when the person is detected by the second detecting unit, the operation device to change a condition from the second condition to the first condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motofumi Baba, Kenta Ogata, Susumu Yamashina
  • Patent number: 8755708
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material; an image reading device that is disposed above the image forming section, and reads an image on an original; a connecting section that is disposed at either one of end sides of an apparatus housing in a lateral direction thereof, and that connects the image forming section and the image reading device to each other; an operating section that is disposed in front of the image reading device, and that is operated by a person; a human detecting device that detects the person operating the operating section; a discharging section that discharges the recording material on which the image has been formed by the image forming section to a placing section; and the placing section on which the recording material discharged from the discharging section is placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Ogata, Susumu Yamashina, Motofumi Baba
  • Publication number: 20140140716
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material; an image reading device that is disposed above the image forming section, and reads an image on an original; a connecting section that is disposed at either one of end sides of an apparatus housing in a lateral direction thereof, and that connects the image forming section and the image reading device to each other; an operating section that is disposed in front of the image reading device, and that is operated by a person; a human detecting device that detects the person operating the operating section; a discharging section that discharges the recording material on which the image has been formed by the image forming section to a placing section; and the placing section on which the recording material discharged from the discharging section is placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta OGATA, Susumu YAMASHINA, Motofumi BABA
  • Publication number: 20140092417
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a monitoring controller, a moving body detector, and a power supply controller. The monitoring controller controls a processor, an interface part, and an identification information acquisition part. The moving body detector detects whether or not a moving body including a user who intends to use the processor exists within a specific region. The power supply controller individually allows objects to be controlled including the processor, the interface part, the identification information acquisition part, and the monitoring controller to enter a power supply state or a power interruption state in an independent manner, in accordance with detection information by the moving body detector, and first controls the identification information acquisition part to be shifted from the power interruption state to the power supply state in a case where all the objects to be controlled are in the power interruption state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji KUROISHI, Masafumi ONO, Motofumi BABA, Keiko SHIRAISHI, Susumu YAMASHINA, Kenta OGATA, Kazuhiko NARUSHIMA, Koichi AZUMA, Hidenori HORIE
  • Patent number: 8664603
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material, a human detecting device that detects a person including an optical sensing unit that converts only an upward light of incident light to the optical sensing unit to an electric signal, and a controller unit that controls the image forming section based on the electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Yamashina, Motofumi Baba, Kenta Ogata
  • Publication number: 20130300198
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a moving object detecting unit and a power supply unit. The moving object detecting unit is attached to a processing apparatus body including power supply targets and a controller, and is capable of detecting a moving object moving in the vicinity of the processing apparatus body. The moving object detecting unit has a lower detection range for detecting a part of a moving object that is substantially in contact with the floor, and an upper detection range for detecting a top part of a moving object. The power supply unit is included in the controller and is always supplied with power to monitor approach of a moving object with the moving object detecting unit. The power supply unit supplies, upon the moving object detecting unit detecting a moving object, power to a power supply target that includes a part of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu YAMASHINA, Kazuhiko NARUSHIMA, Masafumi ONO, Motofumi BABA, Kenta OGATA, Kouichi AZUMA, Kenji KUROISHI, Keiko SHIRAISHI, Hidenori HORIE
  • Publication number: 20130258424
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a user interface unit including a touch panel unit that has a display function and an input function and a backlight unit, a control unit that controls the process of a processing apparatus body, at least two types of moving body detecting units that are capable of detecting a moving body and have at least relatively short and long detectable distances, a stepwise power supply unit that supplies power to the control unit when one moving body detecting unit with a short detection distance starts detection at the time when the other movement detecting unit with a long detection distance detects the moving body and detects the moving body, and an adjustment unit that, when the one moving body detecting unit does not detect the moving body, first adjusts the brightness of the backlight unit to predetermined brightness less than normal brightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi ONO, Kazuhiko NARUSHIMA, Motofumi BABA, Kenta OGATA, Kouichi AZUMA, Susumu YAMASHINA, Kenji KUROISHI, Keiko SHIRAISHI, Hidenori HORIE
  • Publication number: 20130250372
    Abstract: A moving object detecting device includes a detecting device body that includes a detection unit formed in a chassis covering the inside of an apparatus and disposed to correspond to a monitoring window of which at least an aperture area or an aperture size is restricted and which monitors a moving object approaching the apparatus and a circuit board unit controlling a signal output from the detection unit and is disposed so that some optical axes among optical axes having detection surfaces of plural infrared detecting elements included in the detection unit, as focal points passes through the monitoring window and the other optical axes are blocked by the chassis, and an optical member that is formed in an inner wall of the chassis and that deflects the other optical axes of the infrared detection elements to pass through the monitoring window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta OGATA, Motofumi BABA, Kazuhiko NARUSHIMA, Masafumi ONO, Kouichi AZUMA, Susumu YAMASHINA, Kenji KUROISHI, Keiko SHIRAISHI, Hidenori HORIE
  • Patent number: 8391746
    Abstract: An apparatus housing includes: a housing frame that contains an image forming element therein; and an exterior cover fixed to an exterior of the housing frame, wherein the exterior cover has a specified-color exterior cover different in lightness from the housing frame, the specified-color exterior cover has a plurality of cover members that are adjacent to each other and disposed on at least one surface of the housing frame, and a blind portion for blinding the surface of the housing frame with a color whose lightness is more similar to that of the specified-color exterior cover than the housing frame is provided at an adjacent area between the plurality of cover members so that the surface of the housing frame is not exposed through a gap between the plurality of cover members, and wherein the blind portion is provided to at least one of the plurality of cover members, and the blind portion extends to cover the entire adjacent area of the other cover members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Nishida, Susumu Yamashina
  • Publication number: 20120326038
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material, a human detecting device that detects a person including an optical sensing unit that converts only an upward light of incident light to the optical sensing unit to an electric signal, and a controller unit that controls the image forming section based on the electric signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Yamashina, Motofumi Baba, Kenta Ogata
  • Publication number: 20120327458
    Abstract: An operation device includes a first condition in which the operation device consumes a first amount of electric power; a second condition in which the operation device consumes a second amount of electric power; a first detecting unit, to which electric power is supplied in the second condition, having a first detection range and detecting a person in the first detection range; a second detecting unit having a second detection range and detecting the person in the second detection range; a transmitting section that transmits, when the person is detected by the first detecting unit in the second condition, the electric power required for the second detecting unit to detect the person to the second detecting unit; and an instructing section that instructs, when the person is detected by the second detecting unit, the operation device to change a condition from the second condition to the first condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motofumi BABA, Kenta OGATA, Susumu YAMASHINA
  • Publication number: 20120328319
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material; an image reading device that is disposed above the image forming section, and reads an image on an original; a connecting section that is disposed at either one of end sides of an apparatus housing in a lateral direction thereof, and that connects the image forming section and the image reading device to each other; an operating section that is disposed in front of the image reading device, and that is operated by a person; a human detecting device that detects the person operating the operating section; a discharging section that discharges the recording material on which the image has been formed by the image forming section to a placing section; and the placing section on which the recording material discharged from the discharging section is placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta OGATA, Susumu YAMASHINA, Motofumi BABA
  • Publication number: 20110013930
    Abstract: An apparatus housing includes: a housing frame that contains an image forming element therein; and an exterior cover fixed to an exterior of the housing frame, wherein the exterior cover has a specified-color exterior cover different in lightness from the housing frame, the specified-color exterior cover has a plurality of cover members that are adjacent to each other and disposed on at least one surface of the housing frame, and a blind portion for blinding the surface of the housing frame with a color whose lightness is more similar to that of the specified-color exterior cover than the housing frame is provided at an adjacent area between the plurality of cover members so that the surface of the housing frame is not exposed through a gap between the plurality of cover members, and wherein the blind portion is provided to at least one of the plurality of cover members, and the blind portion extends to cover the entire adjacent area of the other cover members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi NISHIDA, Susumu Yamashina
  • Patent number: 6321052
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus adjusts the running state of a belt by displacing one of the rolls supporting an endless belt, wherein the roll is displaced to prevent the belt from being twisted by a change in the tension of the endless belt that stems from the operation for displacing the roll. When the image-forming apparatus is provided with a belt running adjusting mechanism 20 which adjusts the running state of the endless belt 21 by displacing one (drive roll 22) of plural rolls supporting the belt 21 in the adjusting directions J, K, there is provided a tension correction mechanism 60 which corrects a change in the tension of the endless belt 21 that is caused by the operation of the belt running adjusting mechanism 20 for displacing the roll 22, by displacing, in the correction directions L, M, a contact member (tension roll 25) which is in contact with the belt 21 along the direction of width thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Yamashina, Itaru Sato, Mitsuaki Kuroda, Kohyu Shigemori, Kazuo Takano, Seiichi Takayama, Naoto Nishi, Norio Hokari, Takashi Hoshino, Kozo Tagawa, Satoru Nishikawa, Yoshihiko Mitamura