Patents by Inventor Yuichi Niwa

Yuichi Niwa 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).

  • Patent number: 11964835
    Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a storage unit that stores media in a form of a sheet, a delivery unit that is disposed downstream in a medium delivery direction relative to the media stored in the storage unit and that delivers the media individually, a transfer unit that is disposed above the storage unit and that adheres by suction to each of the media stored in the storage unit and transfers the media to the delivery unit, and a fluffing unit that is disposed beside the media stored in the storage unit in a direction intersecting the medium delivery direction. The fluffing unit fluffs an upper-side region of the media in a state of being separated, by blowing air toward a side of the media during a feeding job of the media and during a post-feeding period that is a predetermined period after completion of the feeding job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuichi Araki, Masahito Niwa
  • Patent number: 9712690
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains configuration information about a screen to be displayed in a device connected to the information processing apparatus via a network; a display control unit that displays the screen in the information processing apparatus based on the configuration information; a changing unit that changes the configuration information in response to an operation on the screen displayed by the display control unit; and a transmission unit that transmits the changed configuration information to one or more devices connected to the information processing apparatus via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Niwa
  • Publication number: 20160248921
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains configuration information about a screen to be displayed in a device connected to the information processing apparatus via a network; a display control unit that displays the screen in the information processing apparatus based on the configuration information; a changing unit that changes the configuration information in response to an operation on the screen displayed by the display control unit; and a transmission unit that transmits the changed configuration information to one or more devices connected to the information processing apparatus via the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventor: Yuichi NIWA
  • Patent number: 8169645
    Abstract: A printer includes a data obtaining unit, a storage unit, an engine, and a printing unit. The data obtaining unit obtains, from print data stored in the storage unit, print data for sheets less than the maximum number of sheets dischargeable to a discharge tray as target print data and sends the target print data to the engine via the printing unit. The target print data includes first print data of odd pages and second print data of even pages. After printing the first print data on one side of sheets fed from a feed tray and discharges the sheets onto the discharge tray, the engine prints the second print data on the other side of the sheets manually returned from the discharge tray to the feed tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuura, Yuichi Niwa, Katsumi Shimokawa, Masahiro Ogawa, Kenji Togashi
  • Patent number: 7885551
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus, a consumables residual quantity display program, and a recording medium are disclosed. The terminal apparatus, which is connected to a printing apparatus through a network, includes an acquisition unit for acquiring information about consumables of the printing apparatus from the printing apparatus; and a display controller for displaying the information about the consumables, which information is acquired by the acquisition unit, if the information of at least one item of the consumables fulfills a predetermined condition. The display controller may display a no-display specifying screen that prompts a user to specify whether a “no-display” mode should be activated, in which “no-display” mode, displaying the information about the consumables is stopped even if the predetermined condition is fulfilled when the information is to be acquired by the acquisition unit at a next time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuura, Yuichi Niwa, Katsumi Shimokawa, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20080225330
    Abstract: A printer includes a data obtaining unit, a storage unit, an engine, and a printing unit. The data obtaining unit obtains, from print data stored in the storage unit, print data for sheets less than the maximum number of sheets dischargeable to a discharge tray as target print data and sends the target print data to the engine via the printing unit. The target print data includes first print data of odd pages and second print data of even pages. After printing the first print data on one side of sheets fed from a feed tray and discharges the sheets onto the discharge tray, the engine prints the second print data on the other side of the sheets manually returned from the discharge tray to the feed tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUURA, Yuichi NIWA, Katsumi SHIMOKAWA, Masahiro OGAWA, Kenji TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20080205908
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus, a consumables residual quantity display program, and a recording medium are disclosed. The terminal apparatus, which is connected to a printing apparatus through a network, includes an acquisition unit for acquiring information about consumables of the printing apparatus from the printing apparatus; and a display controller for displaying the information about the consumables, which information is acquired by the acquisition unit, if the information of at least one item of the consumables fulfills a predetermined condition. The display controller may display a no-display specifying screen that prompts a user to specify whether a “no-display” mode should be activated, in which “no-display” mode, displaying the information about the consumables is stopped even if the predetermined condition is fulfilled when the information is to be acquired by the acquisition unit at a next time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUURA, Yuichi Niwa, Katsumi Shimokawa, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20050146755
    Abstract: In an information-processing apparatus which functions as a client terminal for an image-forming apparatus which functions as a scanner, a display unit displays a setting option screen for setting scanning conditions when requesting an image-forming apparatus to perform a scan processing. A selection unit performs automatic selection of an image-forming apparatus which is capable of performing the scan processing under the scanning conditions specified in the setting option screen. A control unit causes the image-forming apparatus chosen by the automatic selection of the selection unit, to perform the scan processing under the scanning conditions specified in the setting option screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Katsumi Shimokawa, Keiji Nagai, Yuichi Niwa
  • Patent number: 5371873
    Abstract: An image data processing terminal equipment coupled to an external device includes a data processing part for carrying out a predetermined data process for data, and a communication part for transferring data between the data processing terminal equipment and the external device. The terminal equipment also includes a memory for storing data, and a data write part for writing data supplied, through the communication part, from the external device into the memory part in accordance with a write command produced and output by the external device. Further, the terminal equipment includes a data read out part for reading out the data from the memory part and for supplying the data to the external device through the communication part in accordance with a read command produced and output by the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Niwa