Patents by Inventor Yasuhito Kan

Yasuhito Kan 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).

  • Patent number: 4492371
    Abstract: A device for feeding, sheet by sheet, a plurality of stacked sheets of paper cut in a predetermined size into an image forming apparatus such as, for example, a reproduction apparatus, a printing machine, and so forth, which is constructed with a stacking table to receive thereon a plurality of sheets of paper cut in size, pawls for separating the stacked sheets cut in size and mounted on the stacking table, feeding device to feed the cut sheet stacked on the stacking table, and a warp regulating member provided on a fixed member to regulate warping of the cut sheet by contacting thereto when such warping is formed in the sheet between the feeding device and the separation pawls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhito Kan, Koichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 4326797
    Abstract: In a copying apparatus, a mode change-over mirror is selectively displaced between its retracted position and its operative position, whereby the copying mode is selectively changed over to a first mode and a second mode. The operative position is set at at least two places. When the mode change-over mirror lies at a first operative position, second mode copying at a first magnification is effected and when the mode change-over mirror lies at a second operative position, second mode copying at a second magnification is effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1982
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Miyamoto, Yasuhito Kan, Hiroshi Nitanda, Masao Ariga
  • Patent number: 4302098
    Abstract: Apparatus for printing reproduction copies of an original image or recording such original image on an image recording member, is provided with a device for determining whether the image to be recorded conforms in size to the image recording member. The apparatus provides an indication to the operator of the apparatus when non-conformance is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1981
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhito Kan, Yoshimasa Kimura, Masato Ishida, Koichi Miyamoto, Yoshikuni Tohyama