Patents by Inventor Yasutaka Hashimoto
Yasutaka Hashimoto 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: 11314194Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source, a light guide, a light guide cover, and a unit frame. The light guide is in a bar form and, while guiding light that has entered from the light source along the axial direction, sends forth the light. The light guide cover holds the light guide. The light guide cover is attached to a unit frame. The light guide cover includes a main body portion and a plurality of light guide holding portions provided along the longitudinal direction of the main body portion and holding the light guide at a plurality of places, and a plurality of guide engaging portions provided along the longitudinal direction of the main body portion. The unit frame has a cover fitting face to which the light guide cover is fitted and a plurality of cover guides with which a plurality of guide engaging portions engage respectively.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Masahiro Ueno, Hiroaki Ohashi, Hirofumi Tsuji, Hiroaki Takai, Yasutaka Hashimoto, Tomoyasu Yamada
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Publication number: 20210041825Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source, a light guide, a light guide cover, and a unit frame. The light guide is in a bar form and, while guiding light that has entered from the light source along the axial direction, sends forth the light. The light guide cover holds the light guide. The light guide cover is attached to a unit frame. The light guide cover includes a main body portion and a plurality of light guide holding portions provided along the longitudinal direction of the main body portion and holding the light guide at a plurality of places, and a plurality of guide engaging portions provided along the longitudinal direction of the main body portion. The unit frame has a cover fitting face to which the light guide cover is fitted and a plurality of cover guides with which a plurality of guide engaging portions engage respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Masahiro UENO, Hiroaki OHASHI, Hirofumi TSUJI, Hiroaki TAKAI, Yasutaka HASHIMOTO, Tomoyasu YAMADA
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Patent number: 10824093Abstract: A development device includes a rotational member and a housing. The housing includes a lower housing and an upper housing. The lower housing has an opened upper face. The upper housing has an opened lower face. A first edge portion around the opened upper face has a recess, a first contact face and a first opposite face. The first contact face is formed inside the recess. The first opposite face is formed outside the recess. A second edge portion around the opened lower face has a protrusion, a second contact face and a second opposite face. The protrusion is fitted into the recess. The second contact face comes into contact with the first contact face. The second opposite face opposes the first opposite face. The first and second contact faces are higher than the first and second opposite faces. The recess and the protrusion are adhered with an adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Yasutaka Hashimoto, Hirofumi Tsuji, Hiroaki Ohashi, Hiroaki Takai, Masahiro Ueno, Tomoyasu Yamada
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Patent number: 10824091Abstract: A development device includes a rotational member and a housing. The rotational member rotates around an axis. In the housing, the rotational member and a toner are stored. The housing includes a lower housing and an upper housing. The lower housing has a concave first storage part having an opened upper face. The upper housing has a concave second storage part having an opened lower face. The first storage part has a first edge portion around the opened upper face. The first edge portion has a first contact face. The second storage part has a second edge portion around the opened lower face. The second edge portion has a second contact face coming into contact with the first contact face. The first contact face and the second contact face are contained in a single plane along respective entire circumferences.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Hiroaki Takai, Hiroaki Ohashi, Hirofumi Tsuji, Masahiro Ueno, Yasutaka Hashimoto, Tomoyasu Yamada
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Publication number: 20200264535Abstract: A development device includes a rotational member and a housing. The housing includes a lower housing and an upper housing. The lower housing has an opened upper face. The upper housing has an opened lower face. A first edge portion around the opened upper face has a recess, a first contact face and a first opposite face. The first contact face is formed inside the recess. The first opposite face is formed outside the recess. A second edge portion around the opened lower face has a protrusion, a second contact face and a second opposite face. The protrusion is fitted into the recess. The second contact face comes into contact with the first contact face. The second opposite face opposes the first opposite face. The first and second contact faces are higher than the first and second opposite faces. The recess and the protrusion are adhered with an adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Yasutaka HASHIMOTO, Hirofumi TSUJI, Hiroaki OHASHI, Hiroaki TAKAI, Masahiro UENO, Tomoyasu YAMADA
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Publication number: 20200264534Abstract: A development device includes a developer carrier, a housing, a layer thickness regulating member and an attachment member. The developer carrier carries a developer developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier, the developer carrier rotating around an axis. The housing stores the developer carrier and the developer, and has an opening through which the developer carrier is exposed. The layer thickness regulating member is disposed so as to form a gap between the layer thickness regulating member and the developer carrier and regulates a layer thickness of the developer carried on the developer carrier. The attachment member is made of a material has the same thermal expansion property as the layer thickness regulating member. The layer thickness regulating member is fixed to the attachment member using only an adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Hiroaki OHASHI, Hirofumi TSUJI, Hiroaki TAKAI, Masahiro UENO, Yasutaka HASHIMOTO, Tomoyasu YAMADA
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Publication number: 20200264533Abstract: A development device includes a rotational member and a housing. The rotational member rotates around an axis. In the housing, the rotational member and a toner are stored. The housing includes a lower housing and an upper housing. The lower housing has a concave first storage part having an opened upper face. The upper housing has a concave second storage part having an opened lower face. The first storage part has a first edge portion around the opened upper face. The first edge portion has a first contact face. The second storage part has a second edge portion around the opened lower face. The second edge portion has a second contact face coming into contact with the first contact face. The first contact face and the second contact face are contained in a single plane along respective entire circumferences.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Hiroaki TAKAI, Hiroaki OHASHI, Hirofumi TSUJI, Masahiro UENO, Yasutaka HASHIMOTO, Tomoyasu YAMADA
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Patent number: 10253828Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an output shaft including a columnar part and a D cut part connected to the columnar part and having a D section, and an electromagnetic clutch including a cylindrical member fitted to the output shaft. The image forming apparatus further includes a key member. The key member includes a conductive member. When the D cut part of the output shaft is employed as an insertion tip side and the output shaft has been inserted to the cylindrical member from one side in an axial direction, the key member is configured to fill a space between the sectional circular part of the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical member and the D cut part of the output shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Akihiro Yamaguchi, Yasutaka Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20170031282Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an output shaft including a columnar part and a D cut part connected to the columnar part and having a D section, and an electromagnetic clutch including a cylindrical member fitted to the output shaft. The image forming apparatus further includes a key member. The key member includes a conductive member. When the D cut part of the output shaft is employed as an insertion tip side and the output shaft has been inserted to the cylindrical member from one side in an axial direction, the key member is configured to fill a space between the sectional circular part of the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical member and the D cut part of the output shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Yasutaka HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 4958501Abstract: In a refrigerant charging apparatus for charging a refrigerant by using a refrigerant can (1), an upper can-opening part (21), a conduit (6) having two ways of inner passages for indication and charging and a lower can-opening part (6A), and a level indicator (4) communicated with the refrigerant can via both can-opening parts are provided in order to correctly indicate remaining quantity of the refrigerant in the can.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1989Date of Patent: September 25, 1990Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Fukuhou Teisan Co., Ltd., Dengen Co., Ltd.Inventors: Genichi Nakano, Sadao Higami, Yasutaka Hashimoto