Patents by Inventor Yasuyuki Shinkai

Yasuyuki Shinkai 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: 20020037177
    Abstract: An integration density acquiring unit for a consumption information management apparatus acquires integration density from an image signal sent from an image processing section, and an information converting unit calculates a quantity of consumed toner (consumption information) by multiplying the integration density by a specified coefficient to send the quantity to a cumulative consumption information calculating unit. The cumulative consumption information calculating unit temporarily stores the information for the quantity of toner consumption in a memory, and reads out the information from the memory at predetermined timing. Accordingly, it is possible to determine only the cost for developer used by a user or calculate the quantity of developer remaining within an image formation apparatus based on the cumulative consumption information for the unadjusted developer stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: Yuichiro Kanoshima, Kohji Ichimiya, Satoshi Igari, Mamoru Kiyota, Nekka Matsuura, Yasuyuki Shinkai, Makoto Obu