Patents by Inventor Yasunobu Terao

Yasunobu Terao 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: 20180207926
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet tray on which one or more sheets to be processed are placed, an adhesive applying unit, and a pressing member. The adhesive applying unit has an end portion that faces the sheet tray and holds an adhesive material and is configured to move towards the sheet tray up to a position at which the end portion is in contact with or proximate to a sheet on the sheet tray and apart from the sheet tray. The pressing member is configured to move into and out of a moving path of the adhesive applying unit. The pressing member is pressed against a sheet on the sheet tray by the adhesive applying unit, when the pressing member is in the moving path of the adhesive applying unit and the adhesive applying unit moves towards the sheet tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKI, Yasunobu TERAO
  • Patent number: 9994408
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus includes a first tray, a second tray, and a pressing member. The pressing member includes a turning shaft, the turning shaft being located on the downstream side of a transport direction of the sheet to the first tray, relative to an end of the upstream side of the sheet supported in the first tray, and when the sheet is moved from the first tray toward the second tray, rotates about the turning shaft. The pressing member rotates about the turning shaft, to press the sheet toward the second tray at a position on the upstream side relative to the turning shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunobu Terao
  • Patent number: 9983536
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus, containing a controller that acquires a predetermined data associated with a physical quantity of one of a driving motor or a driven member driven by the motor based on a predetermined signal, compare the predetermined data with a threshold value, and determine whether to transmit a request for increasing a discharge interval of a sheet based on the comparative result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunobu Terao
  • Patent number: 9962986
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a sheet post processing apparatus comprises a processing tray, a gluing section and a control section. Sheets are placed one by one in the processing tray. The gluing section enables glue to be adhered to the glue binding margin part of the sheets already placed in the processing tray. The control section includes a glue supply mode for supplying glue parts in such a manner that a glue part, which is different from a waiting glue part waiting for a next gluing when the previous glue binding is ended, is supplied to a glue adhering section of a first sheet for gluing with a second sheet through the gluing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunobu Terao
  • Patent number: 9925758
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet tray on which one or more sheets to be processed are placed, an adhesive applying unit, and a pressing member. The adhesive applying unit has an end portion that faces the sheet tray and holds an adhesive material and is configured to move towards the sheet tray up to a position at which the end portion is in contact with or proximate to a sheet on the sheet tray and apart from the sheet tray. The pressing member is configured to move into and out of a moving path of the adhesive applying unit. The pressing member is pressed against a sheet on the sheet tray by the adhesive applying unit, when the pressing member is in the moving path of the adhesive applying unit and the adhesive applying unit moves towards the sheet tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Taki, Yasunobu Terao
  • Publication number: 20180067441
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus, containing a controller that acquires a predetermined data associated with a physical quantity of one of a driving motor or a driven member driven by the motor based on a predetermined signal, compare the predetermined data with a threshold value, and determine whether to transmit a request for increasing a discharge interval of a sheet based on the comparative result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventor: Yasunobu Terao
  • Publication number: 20180009624
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus includes a transport unit and a holding unit. The transport unit transports a first sheet to a first position. The transport unit transports a second sheet, which is transported after the first sheet, to a second position displaced to the upstream side of a sheet transport direction relative to the first position. The transport unit transports a third sheet, which is transported after the second sheet, to a third position displaced to the downstream side of the sheet transport direction relative to the second position. In the case where the second sheet is transported to the second position, the holding unit holds the first sheet at the first position. In the case where the third sheet is transported to the third position, the holding unit holds the second sheet at the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKI, Yasunobu TERAO
  • Patent number: 9827801
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, a sheet binding apparatus comprises a pasting section and a control section. The pasting section is capable of selectively carrying out pasting processing on at least one of a plurality of different given pasting target areas on sheets to be pasted. The control section controls the execution of the pasting processing based on the pasting section so that pasting target areas of a first sheet and a second sheet other than the first sheet within a plurality of sheets to be subjected to binding processing are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Taguchi, Shoichi Dobashi, Yasunobu Terao, Mikio Yamamoto, Jun Ishii
  • Patent number: 9802782
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus includes a transport unit and a holding unit. The transport unit transports a first sheet to a first position. The transport unit transports a second sheet, which is transported after the first sheet, to a second position displaced to the upstream side of a sheet transport direction relative to the first position. The transport unit transports a third sheet, which is transported after the second sheet, to a third position displaced to the downstream side of the sheet transport direction relative to the second position. In the case where the second sheet is transported to the second position, the holding unit holds the first sheet at the first position. In the case where the third sheet is transported to the third position, the holding unit holds the second sheet at the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Taki, Yasunobu Terao
  • Patent number: 9669644
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, a sheet binding apparatus comprises a pasting section and a control section. The pasting section is capable of selectively carrying out pasting processing on at least one of a plurality of different given pasting target areas on sheets to be pasted. The control section controls the execution of the pasting processing based on the pasting section so that pasting target areas of a first sheet and a second sheet other than the first sheet within a plurality of sheets to be subjected to binding processing are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Taguchi, Shoichi Dobashi, Yasunobu Terao, Mikio Yamamoto, Jun Ishii
  • Publication number: 20160355363
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus includes a first tray, a second tray, and a pressing member. The pressing member includes a turning shaft, the turning shaft being located on the downstream side of a transport direction of the sheet to the first tray, relative to an end of the upstream side of the sheet supported in the first tray, and when the sheet is moved from the first tray toward the second tray, rotates about the turning shaft. The pressing member rotates about the turning shaft, to press the sheet toward the second tray at a position on the upstream side relative to the turning shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Yasunobu TERAO
  • Publication number: 20160347569
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus includes a transport unit and a holding unit. The transport unit transports a first sheet to a first position. The transport unit transports a second sheet, which is transported after the first sheet, to a second position displaced to the upstream side of a sheet transport direction relative to the first position. The transport unit transports a third sheet, which is transported after the second sheet, to a third position displaced to the downstream side of the sheet transport direction relative to the second position. In the case where the second sheet is transported to the second position, the holding unit holds the first sheet at the first position. In the case where the third sheet is transported to the third position, the holding unit holds the second sheet at the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKI, Yasunobu TERAO
  • Publication number: 20160339731
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, a sheet binding apparatus comprises a pasting section and a control section. The pasting section is capable of selectively carrying out pasting processing on at least one of a plurality of different given pasting target areas on sheets to be pasted. The control section controls the execution of the pasting processing based on the pasting section so that pasting target areas of a first sheet and a second sheet other than the first sheet within a plurality of sheets to be subjected to binding processing are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Taguchi, Shoichi Dobashi, Yasunobu Terao, Mikio Yamamoto, Jun Ishii
  • Publication number: 20160207296
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a sheet post processing apparatus comprises a processing tray, a gluing section and a control section. Sheets are placed one by one in the processing tray. The gluing section enables glue to be adhered to the glue binding margin part of the sheets already placed in the processing tray. The control section includes a glue supply mode for supplying glue parts in such a manner that a glue part, which is different from a waiting glue part waiting for a next gluing when the previous glue binding is ended, is supplied to a glue adhering section of a first sheet for gluing with a second sheet through the gluing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventor: Yasunobu Terao
  • Publication number: 20160031200
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet tray on which one or more sheets to be processed are placed, an adhesive applying unit, and a pressing member. The adhesive applying unit has an end portion that faces the sheet tray and holds an adhesive material and is configured to move towards the sheet tray up to a position at which the end portion is in contact with or proximate to a sheet on the sheet tray and apart from the sheet tray. The pressing member is configured to move into and out of a moving path of the adhesive applying unit. The pressing member is pressed against a sheet on the sheet tray by the adhesive applying unit, when the pressing member is in the moving path of the adhesive applying unit and the adhesive applying unit moves towards the sheet tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKI, Yasunobu TERAO
  • Patent number: 9081350
    Abstract: An image decolorizing device according to an embodiment comprises a heating unit configured to generate heat and apply the heat to a recording medium, and a pressure roller that forms a nip with the heating unit. The image decolorizing device further comprises a first contact part positioned in contact with the heating unit at a first position upstream of the nip in a rotation direction of the heating unit and fixed in the rotating direction, and a second contact part positioned in contact with the heating unit at a second position upstream of the nip in the rotation direction and fixed in the rotating direction. In the image decolorizing device, the first and second contact parts are configured to apply a voltage to the heating unit causing the heating unit to generate heat over a heating area between the first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasunobu Terao
  • Patent number: 8991817
    Abstract: A paper conveyance apparatus includes a roller pair including a drive roller and a driven roller configured to discharge a paper from a main body of an image forming apparatus. The paper conveyance apparatus further includes a corrugation component configured to abut against the paper discharged by the roller pair to corrugate the paper as the paper is discharged, and an elastic component configured to push the corrugation component against the discharged paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasunobu Terao, Shoichi Dobashi
  • Publication number: 20150063953
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, a sheet binding apparatus comprises a pasting section and a control section. The pasting section is capable of selectively carrying out pasting processing on at least one of a plurality of different given pasting target areas on sheets to be pasted. The control section controls the execution of the pasting processing based on the pasting section so that pasting target areas of a first sheet and a second sheet other than the first sheet within a plurality of sheets to be subjected to binding processing are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Taguchi, Shoichi Dobashi, Yasunobu Terao, Mikio Yamamoto, Jun Ishii
  • Patent number: 8544836
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a punch motor, an actuator which rotates by driving of the punch motor, a punching blade which punches a sheet by driving of the actuator, and a controller which controls the driving of the punch motor so that approach run is gained, if a thickness of the sheet exceeds a threshold, in a rotating direction of the actuator in which the punching blade does not move at the beginning of the driving of the punch motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunobu Terao
  • Publication number: 20130243504
    Abstract: An image decolorizing device according to an embodiment comprises a heating unit configured to generate heat and apply the heat to a recording medium, and a pressure roller that forms a nip with the heating unit. The image decolorizing device further comprises a first contact part positioned in contact with the heating unit at a first position upstream of the nip in a rotation direction of the heating unit and fixed in the rotating direction, and a second contact part positioned in contact with the heating unit at a second position upstream of the nip in the rotation direction and fixed in the rotating direction. In the image decolorizing device, the first and second contact parts are configured to apply a voltage to the heating unit causing the heating unit to generate heat over a heating area between the first and second positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasunobu TERAO