Patents by Inventor Akira Abe

Akira Abe 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: 11926152
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a carriage mounted with a printing unit; a first motor configured to move the carriage in a predetermined direction; a second motor configured to move the carriage in the predetermined direction; and a control unit. The control unit executes a first mode in which, when causing the printing unit to perform printing under a first printing condition, the first motor is driven in a first direction and the second motor is driven in the first direction, and a second mode in which, when causing the printing unit to perform printing under a second printing condition different from the first printing condition, the first motor is driven in the first direction and the second motor is driven in the first direction while changing an output ratio between the first motor and the second motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohei Maruyama, Daigo Kuronuma, Masakazu Nagashima, Tomohito Abe, Kenta Iimura, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Naoaki Wada, Kichinosuke Hirokawa, Akira Fujikake, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Nozawa
  • Patent number: 11404239
    Abstract: A first spring array and a second spring array are provided in a holder body. Three sample plates can be mounted in the holder body. On each sample plate, pressing-up forces from the first spring array and the second spring array are applied, but upward movement of each sample plate is restricted by an inner surface of a cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Abe, Yuta Murakami, Shuhei Abe
  • Patent number: 11217422
    Abstract: First shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a sample unit including a sample is generated based on a result of three-dimensional shape measurement of the sample. Second shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a structure which exists in a sample chamber is generated. Movement of the sample unit is controlled based on the first shape data and the second shape data such that collision of the sample unit with the structure does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Nemoto, Yuta Murakami, Takakuni Maeda, Akira Abe, Masatsugu Kawamoto, Hiroki Mezaki
  • Patent number: 10964510
    Abstract: A scanning electron microscope includes a first detector for detecting electrons, a second detector for detecting X-rays, and an image processor section for causing first markers indicative of imaging positions and second markers indicative of analysis positions to be displayed on a display device such that the first and second markers are placed on a whole image of a sample. The image processor section alters the magnification of the whole image based on instructions for altering the magnification of the whole image displayed on the display device. The image processor section displays new first markers of the same size as the first markers placed on the unaltered magnification whole image such that the new first markers are placed on the altered magnification whole image. The image processor section causes new second markers of the same size as the second markers placed on the unaltered magnification whole image to be placed on the altered magnification whole image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Publication number: 20210074507
    Abstract: A first spring array and a second spring array are provided in a holder body. Three sample plates can be mounted in the holder body. On each sample plate, pressing-up forces from the first spring array and the second spring array are applied, but upward movement of each sample plate is restricted by an inner surface of a cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Akira Abe, Yuta Murakami, Shuhei Abe
  • Patent number: 10875294
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes a comparator that compares a voltage of an original driving signal with a voltage of a feedback signal of a driving signal, transistors, and a control signal generating circuit that generates a gate signal to the transistor and a gate signal to the transistor. The control signal generating circuit controls to alternately switch on the transistors. Driving abilities of the transistors are switched to be lowered by insertion of capacitors by an adjustment circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Patent number: 10821727
    Abstract: Provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a head that includes a piezoelectric element which is displaced by application of a drive signal; a transistor pair that includes a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor and outputs the drive signal; and a control signal generation circuit which generates a first control signal that controls switching operation of the high-side transistor and a second control signal that controls switching operation of the low-side transistor, in which the high-side transistor is set to be on and thus a voltage of the drive signal rises, and the low-side transistor is set to be on and thus the voltage of the drive signal drops, and in which the control signal generation circuit generates the first control signal and the second control signal in such a manner that the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor are alternately set to be on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Patent number: 10741359
    Abstract: An electron microscope includes: a display control unit which sequentially acquires electron microscope images of a sample and causes a display unit to display the electron microscope images as a live image; an analysis area setting unit which sets an analysis area on the sample based on a designated position on the live image designated by pointing means; and an analysis control unit which performs control for executing elemental analysis of the set analysis area. The analysis area setting unit sets, as the analysis area, an area on the sample which corresponds to a continuous area including the designated position and having brightness comparable to brightness of the designated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Publication number: 20200251302
    Abstract: First shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a sample unit including a sample is generated based on a result of three-dimensional shape measurement of the sample. Second shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a structure which exists in a sample chamber is generated. Movement of the sample unit is controlled based on the first shape data and the second shape data such that collision of the sample unit with the structure does not occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Nemoto, Yuta Murakami, Takakuni Maeda, Akira Abe, Masatsugu Kawamoto, Hiroki Mezaki
  • Publication number: 20200161087
    Abstract: A scanning electron microscope includes a first detector for detecting electrons, a second detector for detecting X-rays, and an image processor section for causing first markers indicative of imaging positions and second markers indicative of analysis positions to be displayed on a display device such that the first and second markers are placed on a whole image of a sample. The image processor section alters the magnification of the whole image based on instructions for altering the magnification of the whole image displayed on the display device. The image processor section displays new first markers of the same size as the first markers placed on the unaltered magnification whole image such that the new first markers are placed on the altered magnification whole image. The image processor section causes new second markers of the same size as the second markers placed on the unaltered magnification whole image to be placed on the altered magnification whole image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Publication number: 20190263114
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes a comparator that compares a voltage of an original driving signal with a voltage of a feedback signal of a driving signal, transistors, and a control signal generating circuit that generates a gate signal to the transistor and a gate signal to the transistor. The control signal generating circuit controls to alternately switch on the transistors. Driving abilities of the transistors are switched to be lowered by insertion of capacitors by an adjustment circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Akira ABE
  • Publication number: 20190160812
    Abstract: Provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a head that includes a piezoelectric element which is displaced by application of a drive signal; a transistor pair that includes a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor and outputs the drive signal; and a control signal generation circuit which generates a first control signal that controls switching operation of the high-side transistor and a second control signal that controls switching operation of the low-side transistor, in which the high-side transistor is set to be on and thus a voltage of the drive signal rises, and the low-side transistor is set to be on and thus the voltage of the drive signal drops, and in which the control signal generation circuit generates the first control signal and the second control signal in such a manner that the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor are alternately set to be on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventor: Akira ABE
  • Patent number: 10297924
    Abstract: A radar antenna assembly includes a transmitting antenna including transmitting horns and receiving antennas including receiving horns. The receiving antennas are at regular intervals in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction, and the transmitting antenna is adjacent to the receiving antennas in the second direction. The transmitting horns are at regular intervals in the first direction, and the transmitting antenna includes an oblique arrangement portion and a reverse oblique arrangement portion. The reverse oblique arrangement portion is adjacent to the oblique arrangement portion in the first direction, and the oblique arrangement portion and the reverse oblique arrangement portion are symmetrical to each other about a plane perpendicular to the first direction. The transmitting horns included in the oblique arrangement portion or the reverse oblique arrangement portion are adjacent to each other in the first direction with at least two sorts of magnitude of displacement therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Patent number: 10286655
    Abstract: A drive circuit includes a first transistor pair, a second transistor pair, a feeder line 290g for a ground Gnd, a feeder line 290a to which a voltage VA is applied, a feeder line 290b a voltage VB is applied, and capacitors Cag and Cba, and the first transistor pair amplifies a signal ain within a range from the ground Gnd to the voltage VA, and the second transistor pair amplifies the signal ain within a range from the voltage VA to the voltage VB, and one end of the capacitor Cag is connected to the feeder line 290g, the other end of the capacitor Cag is connected to the feeder line 290a, one end of the capacitor Cba is connected to the feeder line 290a, and the other end of the capacitor Cba is connected to the feeder line 290b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Patent number: 10265948
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting unit that includes a piezoelectric element which is displaced by a drive signal; a differential amplifier that outputs a control signal based on a source drive signal which is a source signal of the drive signal and a signal based on the drive signal; a pair of transistors that include a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor which are controlled based on the control signal and outputs the drive signal from an output terminal; a selector that selects one of the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor and supplies the control signal to the selected transistor; a first resistance element for pulling up the output terminal; and a second resistance element for pulling down the output terminal. The first resistance element or the second resistance element has a variable resistance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Patent number: 10245827
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes: an ejection section having a piezoelectric element that ejects liquid by being displaced upon application of a drive signal; a comparator having a first comparator section and a second comparator section, receiving an input signal and the drive signal, and outputting first and second control signals; and a transistor pair having a first transistor controlled with the first control signal and a second transistor controlled with the second control signal, and outputting the drive signal, the first comparator section comparing first and second comparison signals and outputting the first control signal, the first comparison signal being obtained by offsetting one of the input signal and the drive signal, the second comparator section comparing third and fourth comparison signals and outputting the second control signal, and the third comparison signal being obtained by offsetting one of the input signal and the drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Patent number: 10202340
    Abstract: Glucosylceramide synthase inhibitors and compositions containing the same are disclosed. Methods of using the glucosylceramide synthase inhibitors in the treatment of diseases and conditions wherein inhibition of glucosylceramide synthase provides a benefit, like Gaucher disease and Fabry disease, also are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Scott D. Larsen, Akira Abe, Liming Shu, Michael William Wilson, Richard F. Keep, Duxin Sun, James A. Shayman
  • Publication number: 20180330917
    Abstract: An electron microscope includes: a display control unit which sequentially acquires electron microscope images of a sample and causes a display unit to display the electron microscope images as a live image; an analysis area setting unit which sets an analysis area on the sample based on a designated position on the live image designated by pointing means; and an analysis control unit which performs control for executing elemental analysis of the set analysis area. The analysis area setting unit sets, as the analysis area, an area on the sample which corresponds to a continuous area including the designated position and having brightness comparable to brightness of the designated position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Patent number: 10121630
    Abstract: A control device that controls a spectrometer includes: a specimen image display control section that performs a control process that displays a specimen image acquired by the spectrometer on a display section; and an spectrometer control section that performs a control process that causes the spectrometer to start analysis based on designation of an analysis position within the specimen image that has been performed by a pointing device, and performs a control process that causes the spectrometer to stop the analysis based on cancellation of the designation of the analysis position that has been performed by the pointing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tachibana, Hisashi Zaimoku, Akira Abe
  • Patent number: 10118384
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a drive circuit board on which a drive circuit which outputs a driving signal obtained by amplifying the original driving signal is mounted; an actuator substrate which includes an ejecting unit including a piezoelectric element which is driven by the driving signal, and ejects liquid when the piezoelectric element is driven; and a head unit a head unit on which a relay board which relays the driving signal to the piezoelectric element from the drive circuit board, the actuator substrate, the relay board, and the drive circuit board are mounted, and which is mounted on a carriage which reciprocates in an X direction as a main scanning direction. A mounting face of the drive circuit board is attached to the relay board so as to be placed in a direction which goes along the X direction in the main scanning direction of the carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Abe