Patents by Inventor Tomoya Motoyoshi
Tomoya Motoyoshi 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: 8844919Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a folding section configured to nip a sheet using a plurality of rollers to form a fold line for saddle stitching and a control section to control the nipping amount in the folding section. When carrying out square back processing to flatten the spine folded portion of a sheet bundle where a fold line for saddle stitching is formed, the post-processing apparatus allows the nipping amount in the folding section to be smaller than that in the case where the square back processing is not carried out.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Tomoya Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 8515333Abstract: A notch forming device, comprises a notch forming section to form a notch on an edge of a sheet constituting a sheet bundle to be outputted in accordance with an execution of a job; a shifting section to shift a position of a notch to be formed on a sheet by the notch forming section; and a control section to control the shifting section. When plural sheet bundles are outputted in accordance with the execution of the job, the control section controls the shifting section to make a position of a notch on a leading sheet of each sheet bundle at the same position.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Tomoya Motoyoshi
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Publication number: 20130127106Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a folding section configured to nip a sheet using a plurality of rollers to form a fold line for saddle stitching and a control section to control the nipping amount in the folding section. When carrying out square back processing to flatten the spine folded portion of a sheet bundle where a fold line for saddle stitching is formed, the post-processing apparatus allows the nipping amount in the folding section to be smaller than that in the case where the square back processing is not carried out.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventor: Tomoya MOTOYOSHI
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Patent number: 8141862Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus including: an open-close door; a stapler which executes a staple processing to a bundle of sheets; a staple jam detection section which detects a staple jam; a stapler moving section which moves the stapler to an access position disposed close to the open-close door; a stacker which holds the bundle of sheets to be stapled; a sheet sensor which detects whether a sheet exist on the stacker; and a controller which controls the stapler moving section, wherein when the staple jam detection section detects a staple jam, the controller controls to operate the stapler moving section to move the stapler from a home position to the access position, and wherein, when the sheet sensor detects the sheet on the stacker, the controller prohibits to move the stapler to the access position.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Tomoya Motoyoshi
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Publication number: 20100123279Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus including: an open-close door; a stapler which executes a staple processing to a bundle of sheets; a staple jam detection section which detects a staple jam; a stapler moving section which moves the stapler to an access position disposed close to the open-close door; a stacker which holds the bundle of sheets to be stapled; a sheet sensor which detects whether a sheet exist on the stacker; and a controller which controls the stapler moving section, wherein when the staple jam detection section detects a staple jam, the controller controls to operate the stapler moving section to move the stapler from a home position to the access position, and wherein, when the sheet sensor detects the sheet on the stacker, the controller prohibits to move the stapler to the access position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: May 20, 2010Inventor: Tomoya MOTOYOSHI
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Publication number: 20100003108Abstract: A notch forming device, comprises a notch forming section to form a notch on an edge of a sheet constituting a sheet bundle to be outputted in accordance with an execution of a job; a shifting section to shift a position of a notch to be formed on a sheet by the notch forming section; and a control section to control the shifting section. When plural sheet bundles are outputted in accordance with the execution of the job, the control section controls the shifting section to make a position of a notch on a leading sheet of each sheet bundle at the same position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Tomoya MOTOYOSHI
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Publication number: 20090097946Abstract: Disclosed is a binding apparatus including: a booklet producing section to produce a booklet by performing pasting onto a side face of a bundle of papers; a roughening section to perform roughening processing to one end part to which the pasting to the papers is performed; and a controlling section to judge whether the roughening processing by the roughening section is necessary or not based on a type of the paper before causing the booklet producing section to produce the booklet, and to cause the roughening section to execute the roughening processing to the paper when the controlling section judges that the roughening processing is necessary.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventor: Tomoya MOTOYOSHI
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Patent number: 7341249Abstract: A sheet holding apparatus having: a feeding mechanism to feed a sheet on which an image is formed by an image forming apparatus, from a predetermined feeding position; a tray section having a tray to contain the sheet fed through the feeding mechanism; an initialization mechanism to initialize the tray section; and a control section to make a determination about necessity or unnecessity of an initialization of the tray section and/or a content of the initialization on the basis of information about a position of the tray, which is notified from the image forming apparatus, and to control the initialization of the tray section through the initialization mechanism according to the determination.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2004Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Masaru Ohtsuka, Tomoya Motoyoshi, Tomohiro Kiriyama
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Publication number: 20050218588Abstract: A sheet holding apparatus having: a feeding mechanism to feed a sheet on which an image is formed by an image forming apparatus, from a predetermined feeding position; a tray section having a tray to contain the sheet fed through the feeding mechanism; an initialization mechanism to initialize the tray section; and a control section to make a determination about necessity or unnecessity of an initialization of the tray section and/or a content of the initialization on the basis of information about a position of the tray, which is notified from the image forming apparatus, and to control the initialization of the tray section through the initialization mechanism according to the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2004Publication date: October 6, 2005Inventors: Masaru Ohtsuka, Tomoya Motoyoshi, Tomohiro Kiriyama
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Patent number: 6539185Abstract: The present invention concerns a fixing apparatus and an image-forming apparatus. The fixing apparatus and the image-forming apparatus include a heating roller; a heating element disposed in the heating roller; a pressing roller pressure-contacting the heating roller to fix an image onto a transfer sheet passing through a pressure-contacting section between the heating roller and the pressing roller; and a cooling device to cool the heating roller. In the fixing apparatus, the cooling device is activated during a predetermined time period after consecutive fixing operations are completed. While, the image-forming apparatus further includes a control section to activate the cooling device during a predetermined time period after consecutive fixing operations are completed.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2001Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Naohiko Hanyu, Shinsuke Fujita, Yuji Tamura, Tomoya Motoyoshi, Eiji Anzai
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Patent number: 6356721Abstract: There is described an image forming apparatus favorably applied to a copying machine equipped with a control function for jobs including image forming processing. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming section to form an image, a sheet-feeding/conveyance section to convey a recording sheet, a controlling section to control the image forming section and the sheet-feeding/conveyance section and a memorizing section to memorize jobs reserved for an image forming processing. The image forming processing for one of the jobs includes a startup operation, an image forming operation and a terminating operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Tomoya Motoyoshi, Kazuhisa Maruyama, Motoki Nakamichi
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Publication number: 20010048822Abstract: The present invention concerns a fixing apparatus and an image-forming apparatus. The fixing apparatus and the image-forming apparatus include a heating roller; a heating element disposed in the heating roller; a pressing roller pressure-contacting the heating roller to fix an image onto a transfer sheet passing through a pressure-contacting section between the heating roller and the pressing roller; and a cooling device to cool the heating roller. In the fixing apparatus, the cooling device is activated during a predetermined time period after consecutive fixing operations are completed. While, the image-forming apparatus further includes a control section to activate the cooling device during a predetermined time period after consecutive fixing operations are completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2001Publication date: December 6, 2001Applicant: Konica CorporationInventors: Naohiko Hanyu, Shinsuke Fujita, Yuji Tamura, Tomoya Motoyoshi, Eiji Anzai
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Patent number: 5528353Abstract: An automatic two-sided recording apparatus having an image forming station to form an image on a recording sheet and a sheet feeder to feed the recording sheets onto the station, includes an intermediate stacker having an inlet through which a recording sheet whose one side has been subjected to recording is stacked thereon by a switchback member provided adjacent to the inlet. The inlet is used also an outlet through which the recording sheet is fed out for recording on the other side thereof by the switchback member through a conveyor. The apparatus further includes a controller that switches between a stackless mode in which the switchback member feeds in the recording sheets the stacker and feeds out onto the station without stacking in the stacker, and a stack mode in which the switchback member feeds in and feeds out from the stacker onto the station after stacking in the stacker.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1994Date of Patent: June 18, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Masaru Ushio, Kazuhisa Maruyama, Junji Sato, Tomoya Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 5257082Abstract: An electrophotographic copying machine capable of inserting an inter-sheet in a copy of a document. A width-detector is provided to detect the width of an inter-sheet contained in an inter-sheet tray. A judging circuit determines if the detected width of the inter-sheet is within an allowable width range. If the detected width is not within the allowable width range, the inter-sheet is inhibited from being fed and reminder information is displayed. If the inter-sheet is required to be blank with no image of the original recorded thereon, an automatic document feeder is controlled so as to stop feeding the original sheet while the inter-sheet is conveyed to be placed at the insert-page. The adjustment of copy image density, including scanning of the original sheet, is also stopped.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1990Date of Patent: October 26, 1993Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Chiharu Kobayashi, Masaru Ushio, Tomoya Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 5212517Abstract: The invention provides a copying apparatus for producing a required number of copy sets of two-sided copy from document sheets of an original by selecting one of ADF mode in which the required number of copy sets are produced simultaneously and RDH mode in which the required number of copy sets are produced one set by one set.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 1991Date of Patent: May 18, 1993Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yasushi Yamada, Tsuyoshi Mizubata, Masaru Ushio, Osamu Murata, Tomoya Motoyoshi, Yoshikazu Maekawa, Masanobu Kawano