Patents by Inventor Takafumi Yotsutsuji

Takafumi Yotsutsuji 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: 20140140734
    Abstract: A developing device of this disclosure has: a housing, a developing roller, a developer conveying path, a partition board, a second communication path, a developer receiving port, a first conveying member, a second conveying member, and a conveyance capability inhibition part. A toner is cyclically conveyed in a first conveying path and a second conveying path. A first stirring screw is disposed in the first conveying path and driven into ration around a first rotation axis for toner conveyance. Formed downstream of the first stirring screw by the conveyance capability inhibition part is a toner accumulation part, and the amount of toner refilled from a toner refill port is adjusted. Where an aperture area of the first communication path is A1 and a circular area formed by an outer circumferential edge of the first stirring screw in section orthogonal to the first rotation axis is A2, relationship 0.5×A2<A1<1.2×A2 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takahisa Nakaue, Minoru Wada, Shizuka Okada, Takafumi Yotsutsuji, Akifumi Yamaguchi, Tamotsu Shimizu