Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Yokota

Toshiyuki Yokota 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).

  • Publication number: 20240176264
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction, an image bearing member, a transfer unit, a fixing unit, a sheet discharge unit, a detection unit, and a control unit configured to control conveyance of the sheet by controlling the conveyance unit and the image bearing member. In a case where the control unit has judged that a jam occurred by a jammed sheet based on a detection result of the detection unit, the control unit is configured to perform a conveyance processing of conveying the jammed sheet such that a trailing edge of the jammed sheet reaches a downstream side of the transfer nip in the conveyance direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Osamu Sasaoka, Akinori Yokota, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Yasuhiro Fukase
  • Patent number: 11971672
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet conveying device including: a conveying portion; and a first conveying guide, the first conveying guide forming a conveying path above a heating portion and having a curved portion for forming a curved path in the conveying path and a plurality of ribs provided on a surface of the curved portion, the plurality of ribs extending along a conveying direction and including a first rib and a second rib adjacent to the first rib, wherein the second rib is arranged to be deviated from the first rib in a width direction and the conveying direction, and wherein in the conveying direction, a second upstream end of the second rib being positioned between a first upstream end and a first downstream end of the first rib, the first downstream end being positioned between the second upstream end and a second downstream end of the second rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinori Yokota, Osamu Sasaoka, Toshiyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240127471
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure processes information about a position of an object moved by a mobile object, and includes an output unit configured to output the information about the position of the object. The information about the position of the object is obtained based on holding information indicating whether the object is held or not held by the mobile object and information about a position of the mobile object. The information about the position of the mobile object is obtained based on a captured image captured by an imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Toshihiro OKAMOTO, Shin AOKI, Sukehiro KIMURA, Kenji NAGASHIMA, Toshiyuki IKEOH, Soichiro YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 11953853
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a drive source, an object configured to be driven by the drive source, and a drive transmission mechanism including a driving member, a driven member, an intermediate member, an urging member, and an actuating portion. The intermediate member is configured to move in an axial direction. The intermediate member includes a shaft portion extending in the axial direction, and a positioning portion configured to determine a position of the driven member in a direction orthogonal to the axis. The shaft portion includes a receiving portion configured to receive a force. The receiving portion is positioned inward of the positioning portion in a radial direction of rotation of the intermediate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Watanabe, Osamu Sasaoka, Akinori Yokota, Masafumi Maeda
  • Patent number: 8899602
    Abstract: A vehicle suspension support structure including a lower arm (17) formed by, for example, a lower arm 17 rotatably supporting a knuckle for a front wheel, and a shock absorber attenuating vibration of the lower arm (17), wherein a lower end of the shock absorber is rotatably supported by a support bracket 32 that is welded to an upper face of the lower arm (17) formed by, for example, the lower arm 17, and wherein in the upper face of the lower arm (17), a bulged portion 40 is formed where a weld target portion to which an end of the support bracket 32 is welded is formed to bulge upwards as compared to the periphery thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiruta Kogyo Co., Ltd., Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yoko Takanashi, Masashi Ando, Toshiyuki Yokota
  • Publication number: 20130168938
    Abstract: A vehicle suspension support structure including a lower arm (17) formed by, for example, a lower arm 17 rotatably supporting a knuckle for a front wheel, and a shock absorber attenuating vibration of the lower arm (17), wherein a lower end of the shock absorber is rotatably supported by a support bracket 32 that is welded to an upper face of the lower arm (17) formed by, for example, the lower arm 17, and wherein in the upper face of the lower arm (17), a bulged portion 40 is formed where a weld target portion to which an end of the support bracket 32 is welded is formed to bulge upwards as compared to the periphery thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicants: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, HIRUTA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoko Takanashi, Masashi Ando, Toshiyuki Yokota
  • Patent number: 7697232
    Abstract: A storage device has a head that floats over a rotating storage medium. The storage device includes a measuring unit that measures the operating time and a head slider having a head element. The head element includes a reading element, a writing element and a heater, and a control unit that controls a protruding amount of the head element, by issuing an instruction causing an amount of power of a first predetermined value to be supplied to the heater until the amount of time measured by the measuring unit becomes a predetermined value. When the amount of time exceeds the predetermined value, the control unit cause an amount of power of a second predetermined value that is lower than the first predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Toshiba Storage Device Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Yokota, Yoshiyuki Nagasaka
  • Publication number: 20080239551
    Abstract: A storage device has a head that floats over a rotating storage medium. The storage device includes a measuring unit that measures the operating time and a head slider having a head element. The head element includes a reading element, a writing element and a heater, and a control unit that controls a protruding amount of the head element, by issuing an instruction causing an amount of power of a first predetermined value to be supplied to the heater until the amount of time measured by the measuring unit becomes a predetermined value. When the amount of time exceeds the predetermined value, the control unit cause an amount of power of a second predetermined value that is lower than the first predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Yokota, Yoshiyuki Nagasaka
  • Publication number: 20060209445
    Abstract: A magnetic disk drive and a write current control method are provided in which stable writing can always be carried out at the time of information writing without being subject to a thermal effect due to a write current. In the magnetic disk drive using a write head for writing a signal to a magnetic disk, it is determined when the signal writing is started, and upon determination of the start of the signal writing, a write current supplied to the write head is set in such a manner that the write current is large at the start of the signal writing and thereafter becomes smaller than that at the start of the signal writing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Yamasaki, Toshiyuki Yokota, Masao Kondou