Patents by Inventor Takumi SAKURADA

Takumi SAKURADA 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: 11912276
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hikaru Gotoh, Shin Sakurada, Naoki Uenoyama, Takumi Fukunaga, Josuke Yamane, Rio Minagawa, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230382656
    Abstract: A component feeder includes: a component housing that stores a plurality of components; a plurality of orientation adjusters that adjusts an orientation of the components housed in the component housing; and a first hardware processor that controls driving of the plurality of orientation adjusters based on component information related to the components housed in the component housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: KIYOHITO TSUJIHARA, TAKUMI SAKURADA, YUKI HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230182284
    Abstract: A component supply device includes a hopper, a conveyance robot, a pick-up stand, and a discharge stand. A temporary placement position at which the component is temporarily placed on the tray is disposed on a straight line connecting a supply position at which the component is supplied to the conveyance robot in the hopper and a hand-over position at which the component is delivered from the conveyance robot on the discharge stand. The discharge stand includes a posture changer that changes a posture of the component conveyed by the conveyance robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki HIGUCHI, Shinichi KAWABATA, Tomoyoshi YUKIMOTO, Takumi SAKURADA
  • Publication number: 20190235417
    Abstract: A developing apparatus includes: a housing that accommodates developer and has a plurality of constituent parts; a vibrator that vibrates parts, which are two or more of the plurality of the constituent parts and to which scattered toner may adhere, as vibrated portions; an adjuster provided for at least one of the vibrated portions and the vibrator so as to adjust and match natural frequencies of the two or more of the vibrated portions; and a hardware processor that controls the vibrator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takumi Sakurada
  • Patent number: 10365585
    Abstract: A developing apparatus includes: a housing that accommodates developer and has a plurality of constituent parts; a vibrator that vibrates parts, which are two or more of the plurality of the constituent parts and to which scattered toner may adhere, as vibrated portions; an adjuster provided for at least one of the vibrated portions and the vibrator so as to adjust and match natural frequencies of the two or more of the vibrated portions; and a hardware processor that controls the vibrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takumi Sakurada
  • Patent number: 9201348
    Abstract: A developer discharge auxiliary tool, including a supporting section which supports a developing unit, that is provided with a discharge port to discharge developer contained therein, at a predetermined height with the discharge port down in a state in which the discharge port is located on a lateral or lower side of the developing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takumi Sakurada
  • Patent number: 9042756
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus that is provided with a developing unit to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier as a toner image, the developing unit is provided with a developer reservoir that is disposed between a supplying roller to feed developer agitated by an agitating member into the developer reservoir and a developing roller to cause the developer in the developer reservoir to adhere onto the latent image on the image carrier so as to be developed as the toner image. A control section controls driving of the supplying roller, independently from driving of the agitating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takumi Sakurada
  • Publication number: 20140356023
    Abstract: A developer discharge auxiliary tool, including a supporting section which supports a developing unit, that is provided with a discharge port to discharge developer contained therein, at a predetermined height with the discharge port down in a state in which the discharge port is located on a lateral or lower side of the developing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takumi SAKURADA
  • Publication number: 20140153944
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus that is provided with a developing unit to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier as a toner image, the developing unit is provided with a developer reservoir that is disposed between a supplying roller to feed developer agitated by an agitating member into the developer reservoir and a developing roller to cause the developer in the developer reservoir to adhere onto the latent image on the image carrier so as to be developed as the toner image. A control section controls driving of the supplying roller, independently from driving of the agitating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takumi SAKURADA