Patents by Inventor Takuyoshi Kimura
Takuyoshi 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: 11518636Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a sheet storage unit that stores a sheet and that is disposed in a housing having a bottom plate such that a gap is provided between the sheet storage unit and the bottom plate, the gap extending horizontally; a sheet transport unit that feeds the sheet from the sheet storage unit and transports the fed sheet along a transport passage including a reversing transport path along which the sheet is transported downward and then upward to reverse the sheet front to back, the reversing transport path extending vertically and being connected to the gap; and a first gate unit that prevents passage of the sheet that has entered the reversing transport path when the sheet free falls and allows passage of the sheet when the sheet receives a sheet transport driving force from the sheet transport unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Ryuga Oishi, Takuyoshi Kimura, Yasunobu Goto, Takehiko Koizumi, Natsumi Nakata
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Patent number: 11433694Abstract: A sheet tray includes a sheet storage unit that stores a sheet, the sheet storage unit being capable of being pulled out of a housing in a forward direction and pushed into the housing in a rearward direction to a position such that a gap is provided below the sheet storage unit; and a sheet moving portion fixed to the sheet storage unit, the sheet moving portion moving together with the sheet storage unit when the sheet storage unit is pulled out, thereby moving a sheet that has entered the gap in the forward direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takuyoshi Kimura, Yasunobu Goto, Takehiko Koizumi, Ryuga Oishi, Natsumi Nakata
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Patent number: 11292687Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a drawer unit, a sheet inverting unit, a sheet guide plate, and a projection. The drawer unit is drawable from an apparatus body. The sheet inverting unit is disposed in the apparatus body, and pulls a sheet into a lower portion of the drawer unit to invert the sheet. The sheet guide plate is disposed on the sheet inverting unit to face the drawer unit, and includes a recess extending in a pull-out direction of the drawer unit that crosses a direction in which the sheet is transported. The projection protrudes toward the recess from a portion of a lower surface of the drawer unit facing the sheet guide plate near a pull-out start point in the pull-out direction and on a rear of a transport area of the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yasunobu Goto, Ryuga Oishi, Takuyoshi Kimura, Takehiko Koizumi, Natsumi Nakata
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Publication number: 20210107306Abstract: A sheet tray includes a sheet storage unit that stores a sheet, the sheet storage unit being capable of being pulled out of a housing in a forward direction and pushed into the housing in a rearward direction to a position such that a gap is provided below the sheet storage unit; and a sheet moving portion fixed to the sheet storage unit, the sheet moving portion moving together with the sheet storage unit when the sheet storage unit is pulled out, thereby moving a sheet that has entered the gap in the forward direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuyoshi KIMURA, Yasunobu GOTO, Takehiko KOIZUMI, Ryuga OISHI, Natsumi NAKATA
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Publication number: 20210107755Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a sheet storage unit that stores a sheet and that is disposed in a housing having a bottom plate such that a gap is provided between the sheet storage unit and the bottom plate, the gap extending horizontally; a sheet transport unit that feeds the sheet from the sheet storage unit and transports the fed sheet along a transport passage including a reversing transport path along which the sheet is transported downward and then upward to reverse the sheet front to back, the reversing transport path extending vertically and being connected to the gap; and a first gate unit that prevents passage of the sheet that has entered the reversing transport path when the sheet free falls and allows passage of the sheet when the sheet receives a sheet transport driving force from the sheet transport unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryuga OISHI, Takuyoshi KIMURA, Yasunobu GOTO, Takehiko KOIZUMI, Natsumi NAKATA
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Publication number: 20210094783Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a drawer unit, a sheet inverting unit, a sheet guide plate, and a projection. The drawer unit is drawable from an apparatus body. The sheet inverting unit is disposed in the apparatus body, and pulls a sheet into a lower portion of the drawer unit to invert the sheet. The sheet guide plate is disposed on the sheet inverting unit to face the drawer unit, and includes a recess extending in a pull-out direction of the drawer unit that crosses a direction in which the sheet is transported. The projection protrudes toward the recess from a portion of a lower surface of the drawer unit facing the sheet guide plate near a pull-out start point in the pull-out direction and on a rear of a transport area of the sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasunobu GOTO, Ryuga OISHI, Takuyoshi KIMURA, Takehiko KOIZUMI, Natsumi NAKATA
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Publication number: 20190310579Abstract: A transport device including: a first transporting part that transports a medium; and a second transporting part that includes a pair of transport members each having a shaft and multiple rotary members arranged at intervals in an axial direction. The second transporting part transports the medium while nipping the medium between the pair of transport members after a leading end of the medium transported by the first transporting part comes into contact with the transport members. At least one of the multiple rotary members of one transport member is a circular-truncated-cone-shaped rotary member in which a diameter of one base is larger than a diameter of the other base.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takehiko KOIZUMI, Yoshinori KOIKE, Takuyoshi KIMURA, Natsumi NAKATA
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Patent number: 9738474Abstract: An orientation correcting device includes a first transporting unit that nips and transports a sheet; a detecting unit that detects a tilt of the sheet that is transported by the first transporting unit; a second transporting unit that nips and transports the sheet that has been transported by the first transporting unit; a flexure forming unit that, with the second transporting unit stopped, forms a flexure in the sheet as a result of causing the sheet that is transported by the first transporting unit to strike against the second transporting unit; and a moving unit that, with the second transporting unit stopped and the flexure formed in the sheet by the flexure forming unit, moves the second transporting unit in a crossing direction that crosses a transport direction of the sheet in accordance with an amount and a direction of the sheet tilt detected by the detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takehiko Koizumi, Takuyoshi Kimura, Hiroyuki Momiyama, Ryuga Oishi
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Publication number: 20160280487Abstract: An orientation correcting device includes a first transporting unit that nips and transports a sheet; a detecting unit that detects a tilt of the sheet that is transported by the first transporting unit; a second transporting unit that nips and transports the sheet that has been transported by the first transporting unit; a flexure forming unit that, with the second transporting unit stopped, forms a flexure in the sheet as a result of causing the sheet that is transported by the first transporting unit to strike against the second transporting unit; and a moving unit that, with the second transporting unit stopped and the flexure formed in the sheet by the flexure forming unit, moves the second transporting unit in a crossing direction that crosses a transport direction of the sheet in accordance with an amount and a direction of the sheet tilt detected by the detecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2015Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takehiko KOIZUMI, Takuyoshi KIMURA, Hiroyuki MOMIYAMA, Ryuga OISHI
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Patent number: 9126778Abstract: An image forming system includes a feed section, a transport section, a transport position adjuster, and a load-position moving unit. The feed section feeds a sheet. The transport section transports the sheet fed from the feed section. The transport position adjuster adjusts a position of the sheet in an intersecting direction that intersects with a transport direction of the sheet transported by the transport section. The load-position moving unit moves the position, in the intersecting direction, of the sheet loaded in the feed section so as to reduce an adjustment amount by which the position is adjusted in the intersecting direction by the transport position adjuster if the adjustment amount is larger than a predetermined amount.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuyoshi Kimura, Yoshinori Koike, Takehiko Koizumi
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Publication number: 20150097333Abstract: An image forming system includes a feed section, a transport section, a transport position adjuster, and a load-position moving unit. The feed section feeds a sheet. The transport section transports the sheet fed from the feed section. The transport position adjuster adjusts a position of the sheet in an intersecting direction that intersects with a transport direction of the sheet transported by the transport section. The load-position moving unit moves the position, in the intersecting direction, of the sheet loaded in the feed section so as to reduce an adjustment amount by which the position is adjusted in the intersecting direction by the transport position adjuster if the adjustment amount is larger than a predetermined amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuyoshi KIMURA, Yoshinori KOIKE, Takehiko KOIZUMI
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Patent number: 7896339Abstract: A sheet transporting apparatus, includes: a sheet transportation path; a predetermined number of transport members disposed in a sheet transportation path; a side position regulating mechanism which regulates a position of a side edge of a sheet in the sheet transportation path, the side position regulating mechanism having a reference member configured to change a sheet regulation position; a base member on which at least the reference member is mounted; a first adjusting mechanism which adjusts a position of the reference member; and a second adjusting mechanism which adjusts a position of a base member.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2008Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michio Tada, Yoshimasa Sasaoka, Takashi Abe, Akira Iwasaka, Takuyoshi Kimura, Satoshi Shino
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Publication number: 20080230986Abstract: A sheet transporting apparatus, includes: a sheet transportation path; a predetermined number of transport members disposed in a sheet transportation path; a side position regulating mechanism which regulates a position of a side edge of a sheet in the sheet transportation path, the side position regulating mechanism having a reference member configured to change a sheet regulation position; a base member on which at least the reference member is mounted; a first adjusting mechanism which adjusts a position of the reference member; and a second adjusting mechanism which adjusts a position of a base member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: Michio Tada, Yoshimasa Sasaoka, Takashi Abe, Akira Iwasaka, Takuyoshi Kimura, Satoshi Shino
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Patent number: 7404557Abstract: A sheet transporting apparatus, includes: a sheet transportation path; a predetermined number of transport members disposed in a sheet transportation path; a side position regulating mechanism which regulates a position of a side edge of a sheet in the sheet transportation path, the side position regulating mechanism having a reference member configured to change a sheet regulation position; a base member on which at least the reference member is mounted; a first adjusting mechanism which adjusts a position of the reference member; and a second adjusting mechanism which adjusts a position of a base member.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michio Tada, Yoshimasa Sasaoka, Takashi Abe, Akira Iwasaka, Takuyoshi Kimura, Satoshi Shino
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Patent number: 7054022Abstract: An image forming apparatus management system for setting various parameters of the image forming apparatus according to a job instruction from the client machine 2 comprises a host server 4 equipped with an external database 5 for storing various parameters of the image forming apparatus 1 corresponding to the predetermined job conditions, said host server retrieving various parameters satisfying the job conditions from the external database 5 according to the external parameter request and delivering the parameters, and a client server 3 connected to said host server 4 in a bidirectionally communicable way, said client server associated with communications between said client machine 2 and the image forming apparatus 1 and making an external parameter request to the host server 4 as well as supplying various parameters delivered from the host server 4 to the image forming apparatus 1.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroatsu Kazama, Takashi Abe, Shinji Hozumi, Takuyoshi Kimura
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Publication number: 20040188929Abstract: A sheet transporting apparatus, includes: a sheet transportation path; a predetermined number of transport members disposed in a sheet transportation path; a side position regulating mechanism which regulates a position of a side edge of a sheet in the sheet transportation path, the side position regulating mechanism having a reference member configured to change a sheet regulation position; a base member on which at least the reference member is mounted; a first adjusting mechanism which adjusts a position of the reference member; and a second adjusting mechanism which adjusts a position of a base member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Micho Tada, Yoshimasa Sasaoka, Takashi Abe, Akira Iwasaka, Takuyoshi Kimura, Satoshi Shino
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Publication number: 20020097427Abstract: An image forming apparatus management system for setting various parameters of the image forming apparatus according to a job instruction from the client machine 2 comprises a host server 4 equipped with an external database 5 for storing various parameters of the image forming apparatus 1 corresponding to the predetermined job conditions, said host server retrieving various parameters satisfying the job conditions from the external database 5 according to the external parameter request and delivering the parameters, and a client server 3 connected to said host server 4 in a bidirectionally communicable way, said client server associated with communications between said client machine 2 and the image forming apparatus 1 and making an external parameter request to the host server 4 as well as supplying various parameters delivered from the host server 4 to the image forming apparatus 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2001Publication date: July 25, 2002Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroatsu Kazama, Takashi Abe, Shinji Hozumi, Takuyoshi Kimura