Patents by Inventor Yuki TAGAWA

Yuki TAGAWA 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: 12228864
    Abstract: A charging device includes: a charging member that rotates in contact with a charged body and charges the charged body; and a cleaning member that comes into contact with the charging member and rotates in conjunction with the charging member, in which the cleaning member includes a foam elastic layer in which a band-shaped foam elastic member is spirally disposed with a pitch, and a diameter of a tip end portion of a cell skeleton protruding to a surface of the foam elastic layer is 50 ?m or less, and a peripheral speed ratio of the cleaning member to the charging member is 0.3 or more and 0.7 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki Tagawa, Fuyuki Kano, Takuya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20250053110
    Abstract: A charging system includes a charging member that rotates while following a rotating image holding body and that charges the image holding body, a removing member that rotates while following the rotating charging member in a state of being arranged at a contact position in contact with the charging member and that removes an adhered deposit adhered to the charging member, a moving member that moves the removing member to a separation position separated from the charging member and the contact position, and at least one processor, in which the processor is configured to cause the removing member to remove the adhered deposit adhered to the charging member only for a removal time by controlling the moving member to move the removing member arranged at the separation position to the contact position at a time determined in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki TAGAWA, Yoshiyuki HAYASHI, Yukimi KAWABATA, Kenta YAMAKOSHI
  • Patent number: 12216695
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of performing analysis of a text with high accuracy. An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories that store a command executed by the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to acquire a text, classify attributes of information described in the text into a fixed unit of the text, analyze the text for each of the same classifications based on a result of the classification, and output a result of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Ozaki, Yuki Tagawa, Norihisa Nakano
  • Publication number: 20240264548
    Abstract: A charging device includes: a charging member that rotates in contact with a charged body and charges the charged body; and a cleaning member that comes into contact with the charging member and rotates in conjunction with the charging member, in which the cleaning member includes a foam elastic layer in which a band-shaped foam elastic member is spirally disposed with a pitch, and a diameter of a tip end portion of a cell skeleton protruding to a surface of the foam elastic layer is 50 ?m or less, and a peripheral speed ratio of the cleaning member to the charging member is 0.3 or more and 0.7 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki TAGAWA, Fuyuki KANO, Takuya YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11947274
    Abstract: A roll member includes: a conductive elastic layer that contains a fatty acid metal salt; and a surface layer that is provided on the conductive elastic layer and contains a filler, in which the surface layer includes a first layer provided on the conductive elastic layer side and a second layer provided immediately above the first layer, and a content of the filler in the first layer is less than a content of the filler in the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki Tagawa, Takuya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240061357
    Abstract: A roll member includes: a conductive elastic layer that contains a fatty acid metal salt; and a surface layer that is provided on the conductive elastic layer and contains a filler, in which the surface layer includes a first layer provided on the conductive elastic layer side and a second layer provided immediately above the first layer, and a content of the filler in the first layer is less than a content of the filler in the second layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki TAGAWA, Takuya YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11809126
    Abstract: A charging member includes a conductive base material; an elastic layer that is provided on the conductive base material and has a storage elastic modulus G of 5.0 MPa or less at 100 Hz; and a surface layer that is provided on the elastic layer, in which in a Cole-Cole plot obtained by measuring the charging member in a range of 1 MHz to 0.1 Hz by an alternating current impedance method, a resistance component Ra of a capacitive semicircle including 2.5 kHz is 6.3×104? or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Kinuta, Yuki Tagawa, Ken Ozaki, Noboru Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 11754937
    Abstract: A roll member includes a conductive elastic layer, and a surface layer provided on the conductive elastic layer. The surface layer contains a crosslinked product of crosslinkable nylon, the crosslinking degree of the surface layer specified by formula (1) below is 0.3 or more and 0.7 or less, and the thermal degradation index of the surface layer specified by formula (2) below is 2.1 or more and 2.3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki Tagawa, Ryo Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20230266691
    Abstract: A roll member includes a conductive elastic layer, and a surface layer provided on the conductive elastic layer. The surface layer contains a crosslinked product of crosslinkable nylon, the crosslinking degree of the surface layer specified by formula (1) below is 0.3 or more and 0.7 or less, and the thermal degradation index of the surface layer specified by formula (2) below is 2.1 or more and 2.3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki TAGAWA, Ryo Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20230252064
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of performing analysis of a text with high accuracy. An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories that store a command executed by the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to acquire a text, classify attributes of information described in the text into a fixed unit of the text, analyze the text for each of the same classifications based on a result of the classification, and output a result of the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota OZAKI, Yuki Tagawa, Norihisa Nakano
  • Publication number: 20230205997
    Abstract: A CPU of a training data creation apparatus includes an extraction unit, a derivation unit, and a creation unit. The extraction unit extracts a plurality of unique expressions that are specific term phrases from a medical document. The derivation unit derives a degree of association indicating a degree of association among the plurality of unique expressions. The creation unit selects a target term phrase that is a term phrase as a target to be masked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihisa NAKANO, Ryota OZAKI, Tomoko OHKUMA, Tomoki TANIGUCHI, Yuki TAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230196074
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: derive a reliability degree of a trained teacher model based on training data used for training the teacher model and predetermined sample data; derive an output target based on output data obtained by inputting the sample data to the teacher model and the reliability degree; and train a student model such that output data obtained by inputting the sample data to the student model approaches the output target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki TAGAWA, Ryota Ozaki, Tomoki Taniguchi, Tomoko Ohkuma
  • Patent number: 11644762
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a friction coefficient of a surface of 0.8 or less; a charging device including a charging member that is in contact with and charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and includes a conductive base material, an elastic layer provided on the conductive base material and having a storage elastic modulus G of 5.0 MPa or less at 100 Hz, and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer; an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor; a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to form a toner image by a developer containing a toner; and a transfer device that transfers the toner image to a surface of a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Kinuta, Yuki Tagawa, Takuya Yamamoto, Ken Ozaki, Noboru Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20230068161
    Abstract: A charging member includes a conductive base material; an elastic layer that is provided on the conductive base material and has a storage elastic modulus G of 5.0 MPa or less at 100 Hz; and a surface layer that is provided on the elastic layer, in which in a Cole-Cole plot obtained by measuring the charging member in a range of 1 MHz to 0.1 Hz by an alternating current impedance method, a resistance component Ra of a capacitive semicircle including 2.5 kHz is 6.3×104? or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko KINUTA, Yuki TAGAWA, Ken OZAKI, Noboru HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230064838
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a friction coefficient of a surface of 0.8 or less; a charging device including a charging member that is in contact with and charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and includes a conductive base material, an elastic layer provided on the conductive base material and having a storage elastic modulus G of 5.0 MPa or less at 100 Hz, and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer; an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor; a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to form a toner image by a developer containing a toner; and a transfer device that transfers the toner image to a surface of a recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko KINUTA, Yuki TAGAWA, Takuya YAMAMOTO, Ken OZAKI, Noboru HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210133390
    Abstract: A conceptual graph processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, based on a descriptive text group for a concept group including plural existing concepts included in an existing conceptual graph and a new concept not included in the existing conceptual graph, generate a conceptual word graph which represents a relation between the concept group and a word group included in the descriptive text group; and generate an extended conceptual graph including the new concept based on the conceptual word graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki TAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200301307
    Abstract: A charging device includes: a charging member that charges an image holding member according to a contact charging method, and includes a conductive substrate and a surface layer provided on the conductive substrate; and a clean member that cleans the charging member while contacting the charging member, and includes a shaft and a foamed elastic layer provided on the shaft, wherein a ratio of a distance between irregularities in an axial direction of the surface layer in the charging member (Sm) to a width of a nodal section of a foam cell wall surface protruding from a surface of the foamed elastic layer in the clean member (W) satisfies 2.4?Sm/W?5.9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke NARITA, Akihiro NONAKA, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiko KINUTA, Fuyuki KANO, Yuki TAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200279000
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an input of a query, a generation unit that generates a word combination from a plurality of words included in the query, an obtaining unit that obtains a node corresponding to each word combination of the query for each word combination of the query from data representing a first node representing a single concept, a second node representing a compound concept, and a relationship between concepts, and a specifying unit that specifies a content corresponding to the node obtained by the obtaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMAMOTO, Yuki TAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200278989
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a query, an acquisition unit acquiring, on each content unit serving as a search target, multiple nodes corresponding to the query from data representing a relationship between the nodes and includes information on each node representing a concept of the content unit serving as a search target, a search unit searching for a path including mutually related nodes from the nodes acquired by the acquisition unit, and a calculating unit calculating a score of the path of at least one of the content units, the path searched and found by the search unit, by using at least one of a hop count representing a number of nodes included between a node representing the concept included in the query and the content unit, degree of importance of the concept of the content unit, and type of the relationship of the concepts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMAMOTO, Yuki TAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10761449
    Abstract: A charging device includes: a charging member that charges an image holding member according to a contact charging method, and includes a conductive substrate and a surface layer provided on the conductive substrate; and a clean member that cleans the charging member while contacting the charging member, and includes a shaft and a foamed elastic layer provided on the shaft, wherein a ratio of a distance between irregularities in an axial direction of the surface layer in the charging member (Sm) to a width of a nodal section of a foam cell wall surface protruding from a surface of the foamed elastic layer in the clean member (W) satisfies 2.4?Sm/W?5.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Narita, Akihiro Nonaka, Hiroko Kobayashi, Yasuhiko Kinuta, Fuyuki Kano, Yuki Tagawa