Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Minagawa
Yoshihiko Minagawa 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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Publication number: 20240208761Abstract: A staple-less binding unit 27 is disposed between a front cover 121 and a sheet stacking table 16, and an insertion port 110 is formed on a first surface 121a of the front cover 121 so that manual binding by the staple-less binding unit 27 can be executed from the front side of the apparatus. The staple-less binding unit 27 is provided at a position overlapping a stapling unit 17 positioned at a replacement position in a front-rear direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: AKIRA SUGIYAMA, YUTA GEMMA, YOSHIHIKO MINAGAWA, AYA KUMAGAI, KOTA HIHARA, TAKASHI SAITO, FUMIHIDE SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 10603996Abstract: A glass run includes: a main body portion including a base portion, an inner side wall portion and an outer side wall portion; an inner side seal lip; and an outer side seal lip, wherein; the inner side seal lip includes a protruding portion on a rear surface so as to have a protruding surface; and in a case where the door glass inserted into the main body portion is displaced from a reference position to the inside of the vehicle, a state is changeable between a first support state where a tip end portion of a sub-lip and the protruding surface abut against each other and slide, and a second support state where the tip end portion is separated from the protruding surface and a part on a root side than the tip end portion abuts against the protruding portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Mizutani, Yoshihiko Minagawa, Taizo Shibata
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Publication number: 20180266173Abstract: A glass run includes: a main body portion including a base portion, an inner side wall portion and an outer side wall portion; an inner side seal lip; and an outer side seal lip, wherein; the inner side seal lip includes a protruding portion on a rear surface so as to have a protruding surface; and in a case where the door glass inserted into the main body portion is displaced from a reference position to the inside of the vehicle, a state is changeable between a first support state where a tip end portion of a sub-lip and the protruding surface abut against each other and slide, and a second support state where the tip end portion is separated from the protruding surface and a part on a root side than the tip end portion abuts against the protruding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Hirofumi Mizutani, Yoshihiko Minagawa, Taizo Shibata
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Patent number: 9567174Abstract: A sheet feeder includes a delivery roller that contacts a sheet on a sheet supply tray to deliver the sheet; a first detection sensor disposed upstream of the delivery roller so as to detect the sheet on the sheet supply tray; and a second detection sensor disposed downstream of the delivery roller so as to detect a leading end portion of the sheet on the sheet supply tray. The delivery roller is activated in a state where the first detection sensor detects the sheet on the sheet supply tray while the second detection sensor does not detect the leading end portion of the sheet on the sheet supply tray. Thus, all the actually feedable sheets placed on the sheet supply tray can be fed, thereby reducing a sheet setting failure on the sheet supply tray, which reduces trouble of performing a re-set operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Tsuyuki, Yoshihiko Minagawa, Koji Ueda
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Publication number: 20150336759Abstract: A sheet feeder includes a delivery roller that contacts a sheet on a sheet supply tray to deliver the sheet; a first detection sensor disposed upstream of the delivery roller so as to detect the sheet on the sheet supply tray; and a second detection sensor disposed downstream of the delivery roller so as to detect a leading end portion of the sheet on the sheet supply tray. The delivery roller is activated in a state where the first detection sensor detects the sheet on the sheet supply tray while the second detection sensor does not detect the leading end portion of the sheet on the sheet supply tray. Thus, all the actually feedable sheets placed on the sheet supply tray can be fed, thereby reducing a sheet setting failure on the sheet supply tray, which reduces trouble of performing a re-set operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi TSUYUKI, Yoshihiko MINAGAWA, Koji UEDA
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Patent number: 8991102Abstract: A door weather strip for a motor vehicle, which can be readily produced, and readily and securely attached to a corner of a door frame without coming off the same. In an upper side section and an upper side part of a corner section of the door weather strip, the door weather strip includes an exterior weather strip, an interior weather strip and a connecting section. The exterior weather strip includes an exterior base portion for attachment to the door frame or a door molding, and an exterior seal portion for contacting a door opening portion of a vehicle body when a door is closed, and the interior weather strip includes an interior base portion and an interior seal portion. A reinforcing rib is formed in a rear surface of the exterior base portion in the upper side part of the corner section.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiko Minagawa, Teruyuki Okajima, Harumi Kogiso, Tsuyoshi Miyake
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Patent number: 8804208Abstract: An image reading apparatus that reads images of document images having different gloss levels with a reproducibility suitable for uses includes a data processor to irradiate a document image with light from a regular reflection light source and a diffuse reflection light source, and to generate image data based on a regular reflection output value and a diffuse reflection output value obtained from a photoelectric converter.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Nisca CorporationInventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Yoshihiko Minagawa, Hideaki Inoue, Junya Ozawa, Yoshihiro Hanagata, Hotaka Ishimaru
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Publication number: 20140000174Abstract: A door weather strip for a motor vehicle, which can be readily produced, and readily and securely attached to a corner of a door frame without coming off the same. In an upper side section and an upper side part of a corner section of the door weather strip, the door weather strip includes an exterior weather strip, an interior weather strip and a connecting section. The exterior weather strip includes an exterior base portion for attachment to the door frame or a door molding, and an exterior seal portion for contacting a door opening portion of a vehicle body when a door is closed, and the interior weather strip includes an interior base portion and an interior seal portion. A reinforcing rib is formed in a rear surface of the exterior base portion in the upper side part of the corner section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko MINAGAWA, Teruyuki OKAJIMA, Harumi KOGISO, Tsuyoshi MIYAKE
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Patent number: 8447965Abstract: To provide a method for enabling a microprocessor to be restarted after rewriting a program without providing a dedicated circuit and an apparatus using the method, a timer for counting a predetermined clock is controlled in the following first and second modes, where in the first mode, the timer is reset (count-cleared) at predetermined intervals by a program so as to monitor an operating status of the program, and in the second mode, the microprocessor is restarted without resetting the timer at predetermined intervals by the program.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2010Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Nisca CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Minagawa, Ichiro Yoda
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Publication number: 20130010338Abstract: In the present invention, to provide an image reading apparatus capable to read images of document images having different gloss levels with a reproducibility suitable for uses, a data processing means is provided to irradiate a document image with light from a regular reflection light source and a diffuse reflection light source, and to generate image data based on a regular reflection output value and a diffuse reflection output value obtained from a photoelectric converting means, this data processing means obtaining gloss pixel data by comparing, based on the regular reflection correction value for shading correction of a regular reflection output value, a diffuse correction output value for shading correction of the diffuse reflection output value, and a determining threshold for determining whether or not the regular reflection output value is a gloss pixel, the corrected output value corrected by the regular reflection correction value with the determining threshold, and obtaining a non-gloss pixel datType: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2011Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Yoshihiko Minagawa, Hideaki Inoue, Junya Ozawa, Yoshihiro Hanagata, Hotaka Ishimaru
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Patent number: 8104765Abstract: In a document feeder, a length of a discharge path from a reading position to a discharge position is longer than a length of a supply path from a feeding position to the reading position. An idling discharge position is disposed, where the distance with the discharge position through the discharge path is shorter than a distance between the feeding position and the reading speed switching position. A control device controls driving of registration rollers, conveyor rollers and discharge rollers simultaneously when a trailing edge of an original reaches the discharge idling position of the discharge path by the discharge rollers while the discharge rollers is stopped. The document feeder efficiently supplies originals sequentially to the reading position, stably reads the image of the original without discharging a previous original during a reading, and aligns and stores the originals in a discharge stacker.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2005Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: NISCA CorporationInventors: Atsushi Tsuchiya, Yoshihiko Minagawa
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Publication number: 20100205426Abstract: To provide a method for enabling a microprocessor to be restarted after rewriting a program without providing a dedicated circuit and an apparatus using the method, a timer means for counting a predetermined clock is controlled in the following first and second mode, where in the first mode, the timer means is rest (count-cleared) at predetermined intervals by a program so as to monitor an operating status of the program, and in the second mode, the microprocessor is restarted without resetting the timer means at predetermined intervals by the program.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko MINAGAWA, Ichiro YODA
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Patent number: 7370861Abstract: A detection sensor detects a position of a level detection lever that touches an uppermost sheet of sheets stacked on a holding tray, and a computing device counts the number of sheets that have been discharged to the holding tray. A judging device judges the amount of sheets stacked based on a sheet surface level detection signal from the detection sensor and a count value of the computing device. The apparatus accurately judges that the maximum amount of sheets have been stacked in the holding tray according to the position of the level detection lever and a count value for a number of sheets. Also, the apparatus selects one of a plurality of values for an offset sheet count, which corresponds to the operating conditions, namely the transporting speed of sheets, the intervals between sheets, and the length of the transport direction of the sheets.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2005Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Nisca CorporationInventors: Tatsuzo Aoyagi, Tatsuya Niwa, Yoshihiko Minagawa
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Publication number: 20060023269Abstract: In a document feeder, a length of a discharge path from a reading position to a discharge position is longer than a length of a supply path from a feeding position to the reading position. An idling discharge position is disposed, where the distance with the discharge position through the discharge path is shorter than a distance between the feeding position and the reading speed switching position. A control device controls driving of registration rollers, conveyor rollers and discharge rollers simultaneously when a trailing edge of an original reaches the discharge idling position of the discharge path by the discharge rollers while the discharge rollers is stopped. The document feeder efficiently supplies originals sequentially to the reading position, stably reads the image of the original without discharging a previous original during a reading, and aligns and stores the originals in a discharge stacker.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2005Publication date: February 2, 2006Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Tsuchiya, Yoshihiko Minagawa
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Publication number: 20050184448Abstract: A detection sensor detects a position of a level detection lever that touches an uppermost sheet of sheets stacked on a holding tray, and a computing device counts the number of sheets that have been discharged to the holding tray. A judging device judges the amount of sheets stacked based on a sheet surface level detection signal from the detection sensor and a count value of the computing device. The apparatus accurately judges that the maximum amount of sheets have been stacked in the holding tray according to the position of the level detection lever and a count value for a number of sheets. Also, the apparatus selects one of a plurality of values for an offset sheet count, which corresponds to the operating conditions, namely the transporting speed of sheets, the intervals between sheets, and the length of the transport direction of the sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuzo Aoyagi, Tatsuya Niwa, Yoshihiko Minagawa
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Patent number: 5915158Abstract: In a device and method for feeding one by one documents including a preceding document to be fed earlier and a following document to be fed later to an image scanning station having a scanning reference point, the document being transported toward the image scanning station is first measured to find the length of the document, so that the following document is introduced into the image scanning station with timing varying with the length of the preceding document after the preceding document is treated and discharged. In a case that the following document passes past the scanning reference point just when the preceding document is discharged, the following document is moved backward to the scanning reference point, but if the following document does not reach the scanning reference point at that time, it is further forwarded to the appropriate image scanning station, consequently to shorten the interval of transporting the preceding and following documents, thus speeding up the image processing operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1996Date of Patent: June 22, 1999Assignee: Nisca CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Minagawa, Masashi Yamashita, Hiroshi Mukouyama