Patents by Inventor Tomoya Tanaka
Tomoya Tanaka 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: 10717904Abstract: An adhesive preparation containing bisoprolol includes a backing and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one side of the backing. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains a polymer prepared through copolymerization of monomer components including a hydroxyl group-containing monomer and an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer (component (A)), a polymer prepared through copolymerization of monomer components including a methyl methacrylate monomer and a butyl methacrylate monomer (component (B)), and bisoprolol (component (C)).Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: TOA EIYO LTD.Inventors: Eriko Abe, Yu Tachikawa, Satoshi Ameyama, Naoko Urushihara, Jun Ishikura, Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Yokouchi, Yoshitaka Inoue, Kazuhiro Aoyagi, Tomoya Tanaka, Naohiro Nishida, Kunihiro Minami
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Publication number: 20200133195Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a body side connector and a removable unit removably inserted in the apparatus body. The removable unit includes a unit side connector configured to engage with the body side connector in conjunction with insertion of the removable unit into and from the apparatus body in an insertion direction and disengage from the body side connector in conjunction with removal of the removable unit from the apparatus body in a removal direction. The apparatus further includes a first holder and a second holder. The first holder holds the body side connector and restrict the body side connector from moving in the insertion direction and the removal direction relative to the first holder. The second holder holds the first holder and restrict the first holder from moving in a direction different from the insertion direction and the removal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihide OHTA, Makoto KIKURA, Shoji ASANUMA, Akimitsu OBANA, Tomoya TANAKA, Taiga SHOEN
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Publication number: 20200103823Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device; a fixing device; a first conveyance passage downstream from the fixing device in a sheet conveyance direction; a second conveyance passage downstream from the fixing device and communicating with the first conveyance passage; a sheet reversing member to reverse a conveyance direction of the sheet to the second conveyance passage; a divider to switch a route of the sheet between the first conveyance passage and the second conveyance passage; and a sheet detection sensor disposed downstream from the fixing device and upstream from the divider. The first conveyance passage includes a sheet outlet from which the sheet is ejected outside the apparatus. The apparatus further includes a ventilation passage communicating with an outside, to guide air from the outside to pass the sheet detection sensor and enter at least one of the first conveyance passage and the second conveyance passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tomoya TANAKA, Shoji ASANUMA, Taiga SHOEN, Yoshihide OHTA, Akimitsu OBANA, Makoto KIKURA
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Patent number: 10599091Abstract: A cabinet includes a first body side engagement and a second body side engagement mounted on a body and a first cover side engagement and a second cover side engagement mounted on a cover. Slide restriction faces of the first cover side engagement and the second cover side engagement come into contact with slide restriction faces of the first body side engagement and the second body side engagement, respectively, to restrict sliding of a slider when the first cover side engagement does not engage the first body side engagement. The slide restriction face of at least one of the first body side engagement and the first cover side engagement has a length that is greater than a length of the slide restriction face of other one of the first body side engagement, the first cover side engagement, the second body side engagement, and the second cover side engagement.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Kikura, Yoshihide Ohta, Shoji Asanuma, Gakushi Tanaka, Tomoya Tanaka, Akimitsu Obana, Taiga Shoen
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Publication number: 20190322795Abstract: The present invention provides a foam having a surface which solates or gelates after absorption of water and appropriately absorbs the water. The foam is prepared by a foam reaction of a mixture comprising at least one polyol, a compound having at least one isocyanate group, and a hydrophilic polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2017Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: ALCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Takabumi KUBO, Tomoya TANAKA, Ryota WATANABE
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Publication number: 20190231712Abstract: Provided is a transdermal absorption preparation having superior drug skin permeability, which can uniformly disperse the drug in the preparation and maintain the uniform dispersion state of the drug. A transdermal absorption preparation having a plaster layer containing a drug, a polymer and a pH adjuster, in which the aforementioned polymer contains a polymer having a particular glass transition temperature of 30° C.-200° C., and the surface of the plaster layer has a pH of 6.7-10.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Chie MATSUMOTO, Tomohito TAKITA, Kaiji FUJIWARA, Akinori SUGIYAMA, Tomoya TANAKA
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Publication number: 20190227478Abstract: A cabinet includes a first body side engagement and a second body side engagement mounted on a body and a first cover side engagement and a second cover side engagement mounted on a cover. Slide restriction faces of the first cover side engagement and the second cover side engagement come into contact with slide restriction faces of the first body side engagement and the second body side engagement, respectively, to restrict sliding of a slider when the first cover side engagement does not engage the first body side engagement. The slide restriction face of at least one of the first body side engagement and the first cover side engagement has a length that is greater than a length of the slide restriction face of other one of the first body side engagement, the first cover side engagement, the second body side engagement, and the second cover side engagement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Kikura, Yoshihide Ohta, Shoji Asanuma, Gakushi Tanaka, Tomoya Tanaka, Akimitsu Obana, Taiga Shoen
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Patent number: 10287619Abstract: A method for measuring concentration of dehydrogenase and substrate thereof in the presence of living cells, wherein an electron mediator that is hard to be reduced by living cells, for example, a compound represented by Formula (I), an electron mediator represented by the Formula (I) and a measurement reagent for dehydrogenase and substrate thereof including the electron mediator are disclosed. A-L-M??(I), wherein A represents a structural part containing at least one anionic group, M represents a structural part for mediating electron transfer and L represents a linker part for linking the A to the M.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Dojindo LaboratoriesInventors: Masafumi Iwamoto, Tomoya Tanaka, Eiji Watanabe, Masanobu Shiga
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Patent number: 10160613Abstract: A sheet feeder, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a sheet loader on which a sheet is loaded, a sheet feeding body to feed the sheet from the sheet loader, and a sheet separator disposed to contact the sheet feeding body. The sheet is fed at a first average sheet feeding speed at which the sheet feeding body is in contact with the sheet separator without holding the sheet with the sheet separator. The sheet is fed at a second average sheet feeding speed at which the sheet feeding body is holding the sheet with the sheet separator. The first average sheet feeding speed is set smaller than the second average sheet feeding speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tomoya Tanaka, Mizuna Tanaka, Toshikane Nishii, Ikuo Fujii, Hirofumi Horita
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Publication number: 20180194977Abstract: An adhesive preparation containing bisoprolol includes a backing and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one side of the backing. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains a polymer prepared through copolymerization of monomer components including a hydroxyl group-containing monomer and an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer (component (A)), a polymer prepared through copolymerization of monomer components including a methyl methacrylate monomer and a butyl methacrylate monomer (component (B)), and bisoprolol (component (C)).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: TOA EIYO LTD.Inventors: Eriko ABE, Yu TACHIKAWA, Satoshi AMEYAMA, Naoko URUSHIHARA, Jun ISHIKURA, Tetsuya NAKAMURA, Akira YOKOUCHI, Yoshitaka INOUE, Kazuhiro AOYAGI, Tomoya TANAKA, Naohiro NISHIDA, Kunihiro MINAMI
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Patent number: 9972913Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a noise absorbing fabric in which electromagnetic waves are not susceptible to being reflected and which has superior noise absorbing ability, a noise absorbing fabric having noise absorbing ability across a wide band, a noise absorbing fabric that is soft, highly flexible, thin, and can be incorporated in intricate portions of electronic components or housings and the like by being bent or folded and the like, and a noise absorbing fabric that can be easily and stably produced without using an expensive soft magnetic material, is inexpensive and demonstrates high performance. In the noise absorbing fabric, a metal is subjected to metal processing on at least one side of a fabric, and the common logarithmic value of the surface resistivity of the surface subjected to metal processing is within the range of 0 to 4.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: ASAHI KASEI FIBERS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazufumi Kato, Tomoya Tanaka, Rumina Obi
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Patent number: 9868601Abstract: A sheet feeder, which can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes a rotary body to contact and feed a recording medium to a downstream side along a sheet conveying path, a friction body disposed facing and contacting the rotary body with the sheet conveying path interposed therebetween, the friction body forming a separation nip region with the rotary body, a receiver to support the friction body at a position opposite to the separation nip region, and multiple projections to guide the recording medium toward the separation nip region. Each of the multiple projections extends toward the rotary body at respective axial ends of the rotary body and has a top face disposed upstream from the separation nip region in a sheet conveying direction between an outer circumferential surface of the rotary body and a surface of the friction body.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Ikuo Fujii, Ippei Kimura, Mizuna Tanaka, Hirofumi Horita, Tomoya Tanaka
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Publication number: 20170121753Abstract: A method for measuring concentration of dehydrogenase and substrate thereof in the presence of living cells, wherein an electron mediator that is hard to be reduced by living cells, for example, a compound represented by Formula (I) shown below, an electron mediator represented by the Formula (I) shown below and a measurement reagent for dehydrogenase and substrate thereof comprising the electron mediator are disclosed. A?L?M ??(I) [In the Formula (I), A represents a structural part containing at least one anionic group, M represents a structural part for mediating electron transfer and L represents a linker part for linking the A of the M.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Masafumi Iwamoto, Tomoya Tanaka, Eiji Watanabe, Masanobu Shiga
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Publication number: 20170002488Abstract: Provided is a noise-absorbing sheet that is highly effective at absorbing noise from magnetic and/or electric fields, the noise-absorbing effect being effective in wider bandwidths. A noise-absorbing sheet upon which at least two layers are stacked, wherein the noise absorbing sheet is characterized in that a magnetic layer containing a magnetic material and a layer of a noise-absorbing fabric in which a metal is deposited on constituent fibers are layered on said sheet, and the common logarithmic value of the surface resistivity of at least one side of the noise-absorbing fabric is 0 to 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoya TANAKA, Chie OKAMURA, Shinichi OKAJIMA, Tomoyuki KAWAMURA, Kazufumi KATO
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Publication number: 20160378042Abstract: A sheet feeder, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a sheet loader on which a sheet is loaded, a sheet feeding body to feed the sheet from the sheet loader, and a sheet separator disposed to contact the sheet feeding body. The sheet is fed at a first average sheet feeding speed at which the sheet feeding body is in contact with the sheet separator without holding the sheet with the sheet separator. The sheet is fed at a second average sheet feeding speed at which the sheet feeding body is holding the sheet with the sheet separator. The first average sheet feeding speed is set smaller than the second average sheet feeding speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tomoya TANAKA, Mizuna TANAKA, Toshikane NISHll, lkuo FUJII, Hirofumi HORITA
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Publication number: 20160367494Abstract: A patch preparation includes a support and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one surface of the support. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer includes: (A) a polymer prepared by copolymerizing monomer components including a hydroxyl group-containing monomer and an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer; (B) a polymer prepared by copolymerizing monomer components including a methyl methacrylate monomer and a butyl methacrylate monomer; and (C) a basic drug, provided that bisoprolol and a salt thereof are excluded.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu TACHIKAWA, Satoshi AMEYAMA, Eriko ABE, Tetsuya NAKAMURA, Naoko URUSHIHARA, Jun ISHIKURA, Kazuhiro AOYAGI, Yoshitaka INOUE, Akira YOKOUCHI, Tomoya TANAKA
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Patent number: 9523955Abstract: A sheet feeder of a friction pad separation type, which can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes a feeder body, a rotary feed body, a separation body, a holder, and a leaf spring. The rotary feed body is disposed in the feeder body and feeds a recording medium along a sheet conveying direction. The separation body is fixed to the feeder body while facing the rotary feed body. The separation body separates the recording medium with the rotary feed body. The holder has a rotary shaft and holds the separation body while being rotatably supported by the rotary shaft. The leaf spring has a flexible deforming part that contacts an area adjacent to the rotary shaft and a line of action of a pressing force of the flexible deforming part passing close by the rotary shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Horita, Mizuna Tanaka, Toshikane Nishii, Ikuo Fujii, Tomoya Tanaka
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Patent number: 9511962Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a rotary feeder to contact a first side of a sheet to feed the sheet downstream along a feed passage; a friction pad disposed opposing the rotary feeder with the feed passage interposed between the rotary feeder and the friction pad to form a separation nip, the friction pad having a first side facing the separation nip and a second side opposite the first side of the friction pad; a holder disposed on the second side of the friction pad and having a first side holding the friction pad and a second side opposite the first side of the holder; a guide support disposed on the second side of the holder; and a pair of guides disposed on the guide support to contact a second side of the sheet facing the friction pad to raise the sheet from a surface of the friction pad.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Mizuna Tanaka, Ippei Kimura, Ikuo Fujii, Hirofumi Horita, Tomoya Tanaka
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Patent number: 9346640Abstract: A sheet feeder includes a feeding member to contact a sheet and feed the sheet downstream in a sheet conveyance direction, a friction pad disposed facing the feeding member to contact the feeding member, and a receiving table including a pad mount to hold a side of the friction pad opposite a nip between the friction pad and the feeding member. The friction pad includes a fixed range secured to the pad mount upstream from the nip and a movable range extending downstream the nip in the sheet conveyance direction. A first friction force of the pad mount to act on the movable range of the friction pad is smaller than a second friction force of the sheet to act on the movable range of the friction pad.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Horita, Ikuo Fujii, Mizuna Tanaka, Tomoya Tanaka, Toshikane Nishii, Masaki Narita, Yoshitake Shimizu, Yutaka Aso, Takashi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20160109841Abstract: A sheet feeder of a friction pad separation type, which can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes a feeder body, a rotary feed body, a separation body, a holder, and a leaf spring. The rotary feed body is disposed in the feeder body and feeds a recording medium along a sheet conveying direction. The separation body is fixed to the feeder body while facing the rotary feed body. The separation body separates the recording medium with the rotary feed body. The holder has a rotary shaft and holds the separation body while being rotatably supported by the rotary shaft. The leaf spring has a flexible deforming part that contacts an area adjacent to the rotary shaft and a line of action of a pressing force of the flexible deforming part passing close by the rotary shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hirofumi Horita, Mizuna Tanaka, Toshikane Nishii, Ikuo Fujii, Tomoya Tanaka