Patents by Inventor Yoshimune Yokoi
Yoshimune Yokoi 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: 20240092075Abstract: A printing device includes a printing section configured to execute a printing process of a viscous fluid on a printing target using a screen mask, and a receiving section configured to receive an accommodation rack having multiple shelf sections for accommodating frames configured to support exchangeable members for a printing process that is executed at the printing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimune YOKOI, Takeshi KONDO
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Patent number: 11806984Abstract: The supply unit is used in a printing device including a printing head configured to perform printing process of a viscous fluid on a printing target using a screen mask, a collection section having a collection member configured to contact the screen mask to collect and move the viscous fluid and a collecting and moving section configured to move the collection member in a predetermined printing direction. The supply unit includes a supply section having a mounting section capable of mounting and dismounting a cartridge accommodating the viscous fluid, a driving section configured to move the supply section in the supply operation direction, a detection member, and a supply section detecting section configured to detect whether the supply section is positioned in a passage space where the collection section and the supply section do not contact each other by the position of the detection member.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimune Yokoi, Naoki Matsuzaki
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Publication number: 20230347640Abstract: A cleaning device cleans a screen mask. The cleaning device includes a cleaning sheet configured to clean the screen mask; a roll-shaped supply section configured to supply the cleaning sheet; a cleaning head configured to press the cleaning sheet supplied from the supply section against a rear surface of the screen mask; a roll-shaped winding section configured to wind a used cleaning sheet; a driving section configured to drive the winding section; a moving mechanism configured to move the supply section, the cleaning head, and the winding section in the same direction as and in an opposite direction to a supply direction of the cleaning sheet; a lifting and lowering mechanism configured to lift and lower the cleaning head; and a brake mechanism configured to allow rotation of the supply section when the cleaning head is lowered by the lifting and lowering mechanism, and to restrict rotation of the supply section when the cleaning head is lifted by the lifting and lowering mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshimune YOKOI
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Patent number: 11607877Abstract: A printing device includes a cleaning head configured to contact a cleaning member with the screen mask to perform a cleaning process on the screen mask, a moving section connectable and disconnectable to the cleaning head to move the cleaning head between a cleaning area and a standby area, a door member configured to open and close an opening portion through which the cleaning member passes when the cleaning member is moved from the standby area to an outside of the printing device and be lockable in a closed state, and a control section configured to unlock the door member in a state where the moving section is disconnected to the cleaning head and the cleaning head is located in the standby area.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshimune Yokoi
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Patent number: 11490525Abstract: The supply unit is used in a printing device to perform a print process of a viscous fluid on a printing target to supply the viscous fluid. The supply unit includes an attachment section to and from which a cartridge accommodating the viscous fluid is attachable or detachable, a restricting wall section configured to cover the cartridge and restrict access to an inside of the printing device, and a driving section configured to move the cartridge attached to the attachment section and the restricting wall section in a supply operation direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshimune Yokoi
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Publication number: 20220203668Abstract: The supply unit is used in a printing device including a printing head configured to perform printing process of a viscous fluid on a printing target using a screen mask, a collection section having a collection member configured to contact the screen mask to collect and move the viscous fluid and a collecting and moving section configured to move the collection member in a predetermined printing direction. The supply unit includes a supply section having a mounting section capable of mounting and dismounting a cartridge accommodating the viscous fluid, a driving section configured to move the supply section in the supply operation direction, a detection member, and a supply section detecting section configured to detect whether the supply section is positioned in a passage space where the collection section and the supply section do not contact each other by the position of the detection member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimune YOKOI, Naoki MATSUZAKI
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Publication number: 20220176692Abstract: A printing device includes a cleaning head configured to contact a cleaning member with the screen mask to perform a cleaning process on the screen mask, a moving section connectable and disconnectable to the cleaning head to move the cleaning head between a cleaning area and a standby area, a door member configured to open and close an opening portion through which the cleaning member passes when the cleaning member is moved from the standby area to an outside of the printing device and be lockable in a closed state, and a control section configured to unlock the door member in a state where the moving section is disconnected to the cleaning head and the cleaning head is located in the standby area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshimune YOKOI
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Publication number: 20220183160Abstract: The supply unit is used in a printing device to perform a print process of a viscous fluid on a printing target to supply the viscous fluid. The supply unit includes an attachment section to and from which a cartridge accommodating the viscous fluid is attachable or detachable, a restricting wall section configured to cover the cartridge and restrict access to an inside of the printing device, and a driving section configured to move the cartridge attached to the attachment section and the restricting wall section in a supply operation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshimune YOKOI
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Patent number: 11338568Abstract: A storage device is used in a printing device includes a storage section having a transfer stage for loading and unloading the exchange target object to and from the printing section, the storage section being configured to accommodate multiple placement sections, each for placing the exchange target object, and to store the exchange target object, a placement section moving section configured to move any one of the placement sections to the transfer stage, and a target object moving section disposed on the transfer stage, the target object moving section being configured to move between a retracted position allowing the placement section to pass and an abutting position abutting against the exchange target object on the placement section and to move the exchange target object in a loading/unloading direction while abutting against the exchange target object at the abutting position.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshimune Yokoi
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Patent number: 11331901Abstract: A printing apparatus including: a squeegee fixing section configured to switch to and from a fixed state in which a squeegee used to print a viscous fluid onto a print target is fixed and a released state in which the squeegee is not fixed; and a squeegee moving section configured to move the squeegee fixed by the squeegee fixing section above a screen mask during printing by moving the squeegee fixing section.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji Fukakusa, Ritsuo Hirukawa, Yoshimune Yokoi, Naoki Matsuzaki
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Patent number: 11207879Abstract: There is provided a screen printer including: a squeegee device for spreading a cream solder over a mask having formed thereon a printing pattern configured of a plurality of through holes to force the cream solder through the printing pattern; a clamping device for holding a board that is conveyed to be placed under the mask; and a lift device for disposing the board with respect to the mask in relation to a vertical direction, wherein the clamping device includes a pair of clamping portions for holding the board therebetween from a width direction, wherein the pair of clamping portions includes individually detachable clamping members that are brought into abutment with lateral end faces of the board, and wherein the clamping members individually have two or more clamping surfaces that are brought into abutment with the board in such a way that the clamping surfaces can be converted.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Ritsuo Hirukawa, Yoji Fujita, Takeshi Kondo, Shoji Fukakusa, Yoshimune Yokoi, Naoki Matsuzaki
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Patent number: 11135831Abstract: A cleaning unit includes a cleaning head that moves a cleaning member, which cleans the screen mask at the cleaning position, a cleaning member holder that supports a first shaft and a second shaft, over which the cleaning member is bridged, and has an opening section allowing the cleaning head to pass therethrough, a base section that detachably fixes the cleaning member holder at a fixing position, a holder moving section that moves the cleaning member holder between the fixing position of the base section and a replacing position where the cleaning member holder is detached from the base section and is unloaded to an outside, and a cleaning driving section that has a connecting section, which is connected and disconnected to and from the first shaft in the cleaning member holder, and drives the first shaft to wind.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshimune Yokoi
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Publication number: 20210206159Abstract: A cleaning unit includes a cleaning head that moves a cleaning member, which cleans the screen mask at the cleaning position, a cleaning member holder that supports a first shaft and a second shaft, over which the cleaning member is bridged, and has an opening section allowing the cleaning head to pass therethrough, a base section that detachably fixes the cleaning member holder at a fixing position, a holder moving section that moves the cleaning member holder between the fixing position of the base section and a replacing position where the cleaning member holder is detached from the base section and is unloaded to an outside, and a cleaning driving section that has a connecting section, which is connected and disconnected to and from the first shaft in the cleaning member holder, and drives the first shaft to wind.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshimune YOKOI
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Publication number: 20210197545Abstract: A storage device is used in a printing device includes a storage section having a transfer stage for loading and unloading the exchange target object to and from the printing section, the storage section being configured to accommodate multiple placement sections, each for placing the exchange target object, and to store the exchange target object, a placement section moving section configured to move any one of the placement sections to the transfer stage, and a target object moving section disposed on the transfer stage, the target object moving section being configured to move between a retracted position allowing the placement section to pass and an abutting position abutting against the exchange target object on the placement section and to move the exchange target object in a loading/unloading direction while abutting against the exchange target object at the abutting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshimune YOKOI
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Patent number: 10906295Abstract: A printing apparatus including: a cleaning section including a cleaning member and configured to perform cleaning processing of a screen mask used in printing of a viscous fluid onto a print target; a cleaning member moving section configured to perform at least one of moving the cleaning member to and from a cleaning position and an exchange position, and unloading and loading of the cleaning member; and an exchange control section configured to control the cleaning member moving section to perform cleaning member exchange processing of exchanging the cleaning member.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimune Yokoi, Ritsuo Hirukawa, Shoji Fukakusa, Naoki Matsuzaki
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Publication number: 20210016558Abstract: There is provided a screen printer including: a squeegee device for spreading a cream solder over a mask having formed thereon a printing pattern configured of a plurality of through holes to force the cream solder through the printing pattern; a clamping device for holding a board that is conveyed to be placed under the mask; and a lift device for disposing the board with respect to the mask in relation to a vertical direction, wherein the clamping device includes a pair of clamping portions for holding the board therebetween from a width direction, wherein the pair of clamping portions includes individually detachable clamping members that are brought into abutment with lateral end faces of the board, and wherein the clamping members individually have two or more clamping surfaces that are brought into abutment with the board in such a way that the clamping surfaces can be converted.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Ritsuo HIRUKAWA, Yoji FUJITA, Takeshi KONDO, Shoji FUKAKUSA, Yoshimune YOKOI, Naoki MATSUZAKI
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Patent number: 10889101Abstract: A screen printer including a squeegee device to spread from above solder paste on a stencil; a clamp device to grip a board conveyed to a position below the stencil by a board conveyance member that is flat and provided with a board holding portion in a central opening portion, the clamp device gripping the board via the board conveyance member; a board supporting device to support the board from below and move the board in a vertical direction inside the clamp device; and a raising and lowering device to move the board supported inside the clamp device in the vertical direction and position the board at a printing position, and the clamp device is provided with a board printing guide member to be removably attached to an upper end of a pair of clamp members to sandwich the board conveyance member in a widthwise direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuaki Kato, Yoshimune Yokoi
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Publication number: 20200001593Abstract: A printing apparatus including: a squeegee fixing section configured to switch to and from a fixed state in which a squeegee used to print a viscous fluid onto a print target is fixed and a released state in which the squeegee is not fixed; and a squeegee moving section configured to move the squeegee fixed by the squeegee fixing section above a screen mask during printing by moving the squeegee fixing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2016Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji FUKAKUSA, Ritsuo HIRUKAWA, Yoshimune YOKOI, Naoki MATSUZAKI
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Publication number: 20190291410Abstract: A printing apparatus including: a cleaning section including a cleaning member and configured to perform cleaning processing of a screen mask used in printing of a viscous fluid onto a print target; a cleaning member moving section configured to perform at least one of moving the cleaning member to and from a cleaning position and an exchange position, and unloading and loading of the cleaning member; and an exchange control section configured to control the cleaning member moving section to perform cleaning member exchange processing of exchanging the cleaning member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2016Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimune YOKOI, Ritsuo HIRUKAWA, Shoji FUKAKUSA, Naoki MATSUZAKI
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Publication number: 20190224960Abstract: A screen printer including a squeegee device to spread from above solder paste on a stencil; a clamp device to grip a board conveyed to a position below the stencil by a board conveyance member that is flat and provided with a board holding portion in a central opening portion, the clamp device gripping the board via the board conveyance member; a board supporting device to support the board from below and move the board in a vertical direction inside the clamp device; and a raising and lowering device to move the board supported inside the clamp device in the vertical direction and position the board at a printing position, and the clamp device is provided with a board printing guide member to be removably attached to an upper end of a pair of clamp members to sandwich the board conveyance member in a widthwise direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2016Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuaki KATO, Yoshimune YOKOI