Patents by Inventor Tayoaki Nanba

Tayoaki Nanba 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).

  • FUSER UNIT WITH CLEANING MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20070280753
    Abstract: A fuser unit with a cleaning mechanism, including: a set of a heat roller and a pressure roller for sandwiching a recording sheet while heating the recording sheet by the heat roller; a feed roller for feeding a band-shaped cleaning member which is windable; a press roller for pressing the fed cleaning member against a surface of the heat roller or the pressure roller; a wind roller for winding the cleaning member which is pressed by the press roller; and a first reverse rotation preventing mechanism for preventing rotation of the press roller from rotating in the opposite direction to the winding direction of the cleaning member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Tateishi, Yasunori Minakuchi, Toshiya Mikita, Tayoaki Nanba, Yoshiyuki Nagai, Hiroshi Nakatani