Patents by Inventor Tomohide Kondo

Tomohide Kondo 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).

  • Power supply device and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 8880912
    Abstract: A power supply device provided with a main power supply unit that supplies generated predetermined power to an electric load, a current detecting unit, a current indicating unit, an electric storage unit, an auxiliary power supply unit, and a control unit that determines an upper limit current value to be output to the current indicating unit on the basis of at least a condition of the electric load, and controls the upper limit current value such that power supplied from the auxiliary power supply unit to the electric load is converged in a predetermined convergence time when the power supply from the auxiliary power supply unit to the electric load is stopped or reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Mikio Nakajima, Tetsuya Yano, Tomohide Kondo
  • POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120066522
    Abstract: A power supply device provided with a main power supply unit that supplies generated predetermined power to an electric load, a current detecting unit, a current indicating unit, an electric storage unit, an auxiliary power supply unit, and a control unit that determines an upper limit current value to be output to the current indicating unit on the basis of at least a condition of the electric load, and controls the upper limit current value such that power supplied from the auxiliary power supply unit to the electric load is converged in a predetermined convergence time when the power supply from the auxiliary power supply unit to the electric load is stopped or reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Mikio Nakajima, Tetsuya Yano, Tomohide Kondo