Patents by Inventor Taiichi Oominami

Taiichi Oominami 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: 7664420
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a first identification section for identifying whether a print target page in a print target document is color or monochrome and its page attribute, a second identification section for identifying a system speed during printing of an immediately preceding page of the print target page, a third identification section for identifying a presence of a subsequent page of the print target page and its page attribute, and a system speed determination section for selecting a print mode in conformity to a monochrome/color discrimination result based on an identification result in the first identification section and determining a system speed of the print target page based on the page attribute identified by the first identification section and identification results in the second and third identification sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Taiichi Oominami, Seiji Shibata, Tomiko Imoto, Hiroyuki Maeda, Hideki Mekada, Yuichi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20070110459
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a first identification section for identifying whether a print target page in a print target document is color or monochrome and its page attribute, a second identification section for identifying a system speed during printing of an immediately preceding page of the print target page, a third identification section for identifying a presence of a subsequent page of the print target page and its page attribute, and a system speed determination section for selecting a print mode in conformity to a monochrome/color discrimination result based on an identification result in the first identification section and determining a system speed of the print target page based on the page attribute identified by the first identification section and identification results in the second and third identification sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Taiichi OOMINAMI, Seiji SHIBATA, Tomiko IMOTO, Hiroyuki MAEDA, Hideki MEKADA, Yuichi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 5857137
    Abstract: A copying machine which has a function to contain sheets, each of which has an image on a first side, in a refeeding unit and refeed the sheets for forming an image on a second side. The refeeding unit has an intermediate tray, a pick-up roller for refeeding the sheets one by one and a containing section for feeding the sheets to the intermediate tray. Each of the sheets is fed into the intermediate tray by a first or a second roller of the containing section. The containing section is movable along a transporting way and set at such a position that the first and the second roller are positioned corresponding to the size of sheets to be contained in the intermediate tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Sakata, Masayoshi Kuroda, Taiichi Oominami, Tomonobu Tamura
  • Patent number: 5590872
    Abstract: A sheet reversing apparatus which has a take-in path, a reversing path which extends from the take-in path in a substantially same direction, a take-out path which extends from a junction of the take-in path and the reversing path in a substantially perpendicular direction to the extending direction of the reversing path. A sheet is fed from the take-in path to the reversing path, and when the trailing edge of the sheet comes out of the take-in path, the sheet is fed back from the reversing path to the take-out path. In an entrance portion of the reversing path, a first reversing roller which is driven to rotate in a feed-back direction toward the take-in path and a second reversing roller which is capable of coming into contact with and moving away from the first reversing roller are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taiichi Oominami, Toshio Sakata, Masayoshi Kuroda, Tomonobu Tamura, Masami Nakane, Kazuhiko Nakatsuka