Patents by Inventor Takashi Kimura
Takashi Kimura 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).
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Patent number: 11714374Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dType: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura
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Patent number: 11709453Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dType: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura
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Patent number: 11703793Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dType: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura
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Publication number: 20230221677Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dType: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura
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Patent number: 11669044Abstract: An apparatus body of an image forming apparatus has a first guide portion having an inlet shape corresponding to an outer shape of an engagement portion provided in a cartridge when seen in an attachment direction of the cartridge to the apparatus body and guiding the engagement portion, a second guide portion for guiding a positioning target portion which is provided on the cartridge for positioning an attachment completion position of the cartridge with respect to the apparatus body, and a movable member being at a regulation position at which a guiding path of the positioning target portion by the second guide portion is blocked is immovable from the regulation position unless being pressed by the engagement portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Kimura, Isao Koishi, Daisuke Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11650536Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dType: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura
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Publication number: 20230142776Abstract: An analysis device in a parent-child health management system receives a sensor output from a sensor terminal and an answer to a questionnaire from a user terminal. At least one of parent's life information and child's life information is analyzed based on the answer to the questionnaire to generate a life information analysis result. A sensor output analysis unit generates, based on the sensor output, a sensing result including at least one of a parent-child relationship, a parent's health condition, and a child's health condition. A health estimation unit is configured to compare the life information analysis result and the sensing result with a predetermined criterion to estimate at least one of a parent-child state, a parent's state, and a child's state. An output unit is configured to select a questionnaire and advice corresponding to the estimated state and output the selected questionnaire and advice to the user terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Takahiro NAKAMURA, Takashi TAKEMOTO, Masanori YOSHINO, Tokiyoshi AYABE, Takashi KIMURA, Hirohisa IZUMI, Fuka TABATA
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Publication number: 20230118421Abstract: A mother and child health management system is connected to a plurality of terminals and includes: a reception unit configured to receive, as analysis information, information from each of the plurality of terminals and biological information from a medical care institution; a classification unit configured to identify, based on an analysis result of the analysis information, state values indicating a state of a mother, a state of a child, and a state between the mother and the child; an access authority management section configured to identify, based on each of the state values, a community to which a family including a user of the each of the plurality of terminals belongs, and configured to provide the terminal with an access authority to receive a display of a solution related to the community; and a display unit configured to display the solution related to the community on the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Takahiro NAKAMURA, Takashi TAKEMOTO, Masanori YOSHINO, Tokiyoshi AYABE, Takashi KIMURA, Hirohisa IZUMI, Fuka TABATA
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Patent number: 11619903Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dType: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura
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Publication number: 20230096298Abstract: A container for accommodating a content of powder or a liquid includes an accommodating portion for accommodating the content; a top end portion including a discharging portion and a shielding member, wherein the discharging portion includes a discharge opening for discharging the content to an outside of the container and a passage for permitting passing of the content toward the discharge opening, and the shielding member shields the discharge opening; and a cap detachably mounted to the top end portion, wherein the cap includes a main body portion covering at least a part of the top end portion and a fixing portion fixed to the top end portion and connected to the main body portion, and wherein the main body portion of the cap is separated from the fixing portion by being rotated about a rotational axis thereof relative to the top end portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Mitsuhiro Sato, Yukio Kubo, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Takashi Kimura, Yuko Harada
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Patent number: 11609530Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dType: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura
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Publication number: 20230083479Abstract: Provided is a scatter diagram display device that creates a plurality of scatter diagrams based on mapping data acquired by an analyzer and displays a scatter diagram matrix in which the created plurality of scatter diagrams are arranged in a matrix on a display section, the scatter diagram display device including: a display condition acceptance section that accepts a designation of a display range of an item in each of the plurality of scatter diagrams, and a display control section that extracts all scatter diagrams having the item whose display range has been designated from the plurality of scatter diagrams and changes the display range of the item in the extracted scatter diagrams based on the designation of the display range.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Naoki Kato, Takashi Kimura, Kazunori Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 11604232Abstract: A control device controls a magnetic field generated by a magnetic field generator, and includes a magnetic field controller that controls the magnetic field generator based on a detected value by a magnetic field sensor. The magnetic field controller receives a command value generated by the magnetic field generator, and the detected value. The magnetic field controller generates an error signal based on an error between the command value and the detected value and outputs to the magnetic field generator a control signal amplified by a control gain against the error. The control gain includes: a first gain that becomes smaller as a frequency of the error signal gets higher; and a second gain that gets larger as an amplitude of the error signal gets larger.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: ADVANTEST CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Omuro, Takashi Kimura
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Publication number: 20230005975Abstract: An imaging element package according to the present disclosure includes a circuit board, an imaging element substrate, and a light-transmissive substrate. The imaging element substrate is stacked on the circuit board. The light-transmissive substrate is stacked on the imaging element substrate via a void by an adhesive member provided on the peripheral edge of the light receiving surface of the imaging element substrate, and has higher heat resistance than the imaging element substrate. The imaging element package further includes a frame-shaped frame body stacked on the circuit board. The imaging element substrate and the light-transmissive substrate are housed in a region surrounded by the frame body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kei FUSENO, Takashi KIMURA, Shohei TAKEKUMA, Youji MATSUBARA
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Patent number: 11542480Abstract: A mutant glycine oxidase is obtained by substituting at least one wild-type amino acid sequence derived from thermophilic bacteria belonging to the family Bacillus with another amino acid, and has the following enzyme properties. Molecular weight: 40,000±2,000 daltons by SDS-PAGE. Optimum temperature: 45° C. under the condition of pH 8.5 in presence of pyrophosphate. Optimum pH: pH 8.0 under the condition of 37° C. in presence of pyrophosphate. Thermal stability: Stable up to 70° C. under the condition of pH 8.5 while retaining for 1 hour in presence of pyrophosphate. pH Stability: Stable in the range of pH 5.5 to 10.0 under the condition of 4° C. while retaining for 24 hours in presence of pyrophosphate. Specific activity: 1.2 units/mg or more. Kinetic constant Km: 0.2 mM or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Kimura, Yasushi Tani
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Publication number: 20220385044Abstract: A photonic-device-mounting package has a base having plural mounting portions. Each of the plural mounting portions has a first mounting portion on which a light-emitting device is mounted and a second mounting portion on which an optical component is mounted, the second mounting portion being at a position in a light emission direction of the light-emitting device. The base has a first wall disposed between two mounting portions arranged next to one another in the light emission direction, the first wall having a height larger than the height of the first mounting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Akihiko KITAGAWA, Takashi KIMURA
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Patent number: 11513095Abstract: A sensor board includes an insulating substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface, first detection electrodes located on the upper surface of the insulating substrate, second detection electrodes located on the lower surface of the insulating substrate, and a heat generator located between the first detection electrodes and the second detection electrodes inside the insulating substrate and including at least one conductor layer. A portion of the insulating substrate between the heat generator and the first detection electrodes has the same thickness as a portion of the insulating substrate between the heat generator and the second detection electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Hidekazu Otomaru, Takashi Kimura
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Patent number: 11512777Abstract: To provide a piston ring excellent in thermal setting resistance, and also excellent in side surface wear resistance even under such a high-temperature high-pressure environment as to be more than 300° C. and up to 400° C., the base metal of the piston ring is a steel containing, by mass %, C: 0.30 to 0.65%, Si: 0.80 to 1.20%, Mn: 0.20 to 0.60%, Cr: 4.50 to 5.70%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.5%, and at least one of Mo, V, W, and Co: 0.2 to 5.4%.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA RIKENInventors: Takashi Kimura, Yuji Shima
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Publication number: 20220376469Abstract: An optical-device-mounting package includes a base member having an upper surface and a slope, the slope being continuous with the upper surface and sloping downward in a direction away from the upper surface; and an optical component having a first face and a second face, the second face being positioned opposite the first face. At least a part of the optical component is at a position higher than the upper surface, with at least a part of the second face being bonded to the slope with a bonding material. The bonding material spreads from an area between the second face and the slope up to an area between the second face and the base member and higher than the upper surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Akihiko KITAGAWA, Takashi KIMURA
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Patent number: 11506993Abstract: To develop a conventional structure of a toner cartridge. Toner cartridge includes a container and an open/close member. The container includes an accommodating portion, a discharge opening and a cartridge side guide. the open/close member includes a closing portion and an engaging portion and is movable between a closing position and an opening position. When the toner cartridge is dismounted from a receiving apparatus, the engaging portion receives a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position toward the closing position, the engaging with a receiving apparatus side guide of the receiving apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Kimura, Hisayoshi Kojima, Yosuke Kashiide