Patents by Inventor Atsushi Ikeda

Atsushi Ikeda 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).

  • Publication number: 20240153180
    Abstract: An image generation system capable of communicating with a communication apparatus, the system includes a reception unit that receives an operation instruction for a Web page from the communication apparatus, an acquisition unit that, if the operation instruction is a copy instruction, acquires Web page configuration information which exists at coordinates on the Web page and for which the copy instruction has been accepted, and a transmission unit that transmits, to the communication apparatus, one of the Web page configuration information and information based on the Web page configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240148287
    Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes: a light-emitting unit including a first light-emitting element that emits red light and a second light-emitting element that emits infrared light; a light-receiving unit configured to receive the red light emitted from the first light-emitting element and the infrared light emitted from the second light-emitting element and generate a first light-receiving signal based on the red light and a second light-receiving signal based on the infrared light; and a controller configured to calculate an oxygen saturation concentration. The controller is configured to calculate the oxygen saturation concentration using the first light-receiving signal and the second light-receiving signal, calculate correlation data using the first light-receiving signal and the second light-receiving signal, and determine the oxygen saturation concentration based on the correlation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Akira IKEDA, Atsushi MATSUO
  • Patent number: 11976748
    Abstract: A diaphragm valve includes a body (3) having a flow path (2), a seat (4) formed in the flow path (2), a metal diaphragm (5) for opening and closing the flow path (2), a pair of clamping parts (6) and (7) for claiming peripheral edge portions of the metal diaphragm (5) to fix the metal diaphragm (5) to the body (3), and an actuator (8) for abutting the metal diaphragm (5) to the seat (4) or separating the metal diaphragm from the seat (4), wherein a fluorine resin coating is formed on a seat side surface (5a) of the metal diaphragm (5) at least in a contact region (B-A) with the seat (4) in a region (C) surrounded by a clamping region (D-C) between the seat side surface (5a) and one of the pair of clamping portions (6, 7), excluding the clamping region (D-C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kaoru Hirata, Masaaki Nagase, Atsushi Hidaka, Kazuyuki Morisaki, Keisuke Ideguchi, Kosuke Sugimoto, Masafumi Kitano, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240142890
    Abstract: A developing roll for use in an image-forming apparatus using electrophotography includes a cylindrical core made of metal; an annular elastic layer made of rubber and arranged around the core; and an annular surface layer arranged around the elastic layer. The surface layer includes a central portion and end portions. The central portion is located at the center of the developing roll in the longitudinal direction, the end portions are located at opposite end portions of the developing roll in the longitudinal direction. A coefficient of kinetic friction of the outer peripheral surface of each end portion of the surface layer is less than or equal to 0.1, and a ten-point average roughness Rz of the outer peripheral surface of each end portion of the surface layer is less than or equal to 1.8 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke OURA, Norimasa HOSONUMA, Atsushi IKEDA, Yu AKAI, Satoshi FUKUOKA, Kenji SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11959197
    Abstract: A first aspect of the present invention is carbon fiber wherein the surface of a monofilament has a center line average roughness Ra of 6.0 nm or more and 13 nm or less, and the monofilament has a long diameter/short diameter ratio of 1.11 or more and 1.245 or less. A second aspect of the present invention is carbon fiber precursor acrylic fiber wherein the surface of a monofilament has a center line average roughness Ra of 18 nm or more and 27 nm or less, and the monofilament has a long diameter/short diameter ratio of 1.11 or more and 1.245 or less. The carbon fiber according to the first aspect is obtained by stabilizing and carbonizing under specific conditions the carbon fiber precursor acrylic fiber according to the second aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Naomasa Matsuyama, Yuutarou Nakamura, Norifumi Hirota, Hiroko Matsumura, Katsuhiko Ikeda, Kouki Wakabayashi, Tadashi Ootani, Akihiro Itou, Kenji Hirano, Akito Hatayama, Kenji Kaneta, Atsushi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11960056
    Abstract: Provided is an optical lens formed by integrally molding a lens part that is an optically effective portion and has a light incidence/emission surface, and a lens edge part that is an optically ineffective portion and has a surface thereof except the light incidence/emission surface. The lens edge part includes a non-transparent region in part or all thereof, the lens part and the lens edge part include a thermoplastic resin, and the non-transparent region in the lens edge part contains a total of 0.1-5 mass % of one or more of a black dye and a black pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi Motegi, Kentaro Ishihara, Katsushi Nishimori, Shinya Ikeda, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Kensuke Oshima, Masahiro Kanda, Shoko Suzuki, Tatsunobu Ogata, Mitsutake Suematsu
  • Publication number: 20240114817
    Abstract: A monitoring system of a work machine includes a monitor to monitor whether or not a work machine is within an area when a first signal is received and stop monitoring when a second signal is received. The work machine includes at least a communication terminal to transmit the first signal and the second signal to the monitor, a first instruction generator operable to instruct the communication terminal to transmit the first signal, and a second instruction generator operable to instruct the communication terminal to transmit the second signal when the monitor is monitoring the work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Yoshihito IIDA, Atsushi MATSUMOTO, Ryo IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240117984
    Abstract: Provided is an air conditioner including an indoor unit provided with a microphone element for receiving voice instructions, such that a voice instruction spoken by an operator is acquired with high quality and control based on the voice instruction spoken by the operator is likely to be ensured. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit. The indoor unit has a main body and a microphone element. The main body has formed therein a blow-out port through which air-conditioned air is blown out toward a space to be air-conditioned. The microphone element accepts a voice instruction captured from a voice capturing portion arranged at a position that deviates from a ventilation space through which the air blown out from the blow-out port flows, in such a manner as to face the space to be air-conditioned. The transmission unit transmits the voice instruction accepted by the microphone element to an outside as a signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kousuke TSUBOI, Takao SONODA, Makoto IKEDA, Tetsushi TSUDA, Yu OTA, Yuuichi KITA, Kenji AMANO, Atsushi MATSUBARA, Tomomi KUKITA, Naoko KURIYAMA, Tomoyoshi ASHIKAGA, Gen KUMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11954812
    Abstract: A preprocessing device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire coordinate information of respective vertexes of a polygon for inside/outside determination and the coordinate information of the respective vertexes of the polygon for inside/outside determination and rotate a coordinate to be determined and the polygon for inside/outside determination as preprocessing of determination processing of determining whether the coordinate to be determined exists inside or outside the polygon for inside/outside determination, and output coordinate information of respective vertexes of the rotated polygon for inside/outside determination and the rotated coordinate to be determined as rotated coordinate information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Miyahara, Tatsuro Kimura, Ichibe Naito, Atsushi Isomura, Tomoya Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11947273
    Abstract: A conductive roller includes: a core member including an outer surface along and about an axial line thereof; and a surface layer arranged along the outer surface of the core member. The surface layer includes a conductive portion, and a surface roughness imparting material in a form of particles dispersed in the conductive portion. An average particle size of the surface roughness imparting material is in a range of 6 micrometers or greater and less than 10 micrometers. The number of particles of the surface roughness imparting material per unit area of the surface layer is in a range of 3.5×105 particles per mm2 or greater and 7.5×105 particles per mm2 or less. An average thickness of the surface layer is in a range of 0.2 micrometers or greater and 5.5 micrometers or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Suzuki, Atsushi Ikeda, Satoshi Fukuoka, Kenji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11947272
    Abstract: A conductive roller includes: a core member including an outer surface along and about an axial line thereof; and a surface layer arranged along the outer surface of the core member. The surface layer includes a conductive portion formed of a conductive resin composition, and a surface roughness imparting material in a form of particles dispersed in the conductive portion. An average particle size of the surface roughness imparting material is in a range of 6 micrometers or greater and 10 micrometers or less. The number of particles of the surface roughness imparting material per unit area of the surface layer is in a range of 1.0×104 particles per mm2 or greater and 2.0×106 particles per mm2 or less. An average thickness of the surface layer is in a range of 3.0 micrometers or greater and 15.0 micrometers or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Suzuki, Atsushi Ikeda, Satoshi Fukuoka, Kenji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11947895
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to execute an application containing a first component for displaying a web page and a second component different from the first component. The information processing apparatus selects, in a case where a plurality of external fonts that is externally acquired is determined to be used in a web page displayed in the first component, a font for used in the second component from the plurality of external fonts based on a usage pattern of each of the plurality of external fonts in the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240101235
    Abstract: Provided with a weight release device capable of being operated in deep sea same as the conventional weight release device without accompanying a mechanical operation at all to avoid troubles of mechanical operation occurred in the conventional weight release device. The weight release device includes a housing fixed to the underwater observation device; a thread made of thermoplastic resin; electric heater portions; a weight support plate; a locking member of the thread made of the thermoplastic resin; and a ring for hanging the weight. The thread made of the thermoplastic resin is arranged from a start point housed in the housing, arranged to pass through the first electric heater portion, locked to the locking member of the thread made of the thermoplastic resin, arranged to pass through the second electric heater portion housed in the housing, and returned to an end point housed in the housing. The ring for hanging the weight is fixed to a lower surface of the weight support plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuya MIWA, Kazumasa IKEDA, Takahiro KUBOTA, Atsushi ARAI, Yasuyuki MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11940170
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control system, a control method, and a storage medium through which a moving object can change a surrounding environment of a user depending on an emotion of the user. [Solution] Provided is a control system including: an estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a user; and a moving object controller that controls a moving object to change a surrounding environment of the user depending on the estimated emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Satoshi Ikeda, Tetsuo Tawara, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20240094078
    Abstract: The pressure sensor 10 comprises: a bottomed cylindrical sensor module 11 having inside a pressure receiving chamber C1 communicating with a flow path and including a diaphragm 11a in contact with the pressure receiving chamber; a pressure detecting element 12 for outputting a strain of the diaphragm 11a as a pressure; a base ring 14 fixed at an outer edge of an open-side end part 11c of the sensor module and disposed on an outer peripheral side of the sensor module 11; a hermetic member 13 fixed to the base ring 14 for forming a sealed vacuum chamber C2 opposite to the pressure receiving chamber C1 across the diaphragm 11a; a gasket 18 sandwiched between the base ring 14 and a body 5; and a pressing flange 19 for pressing the base ring 14 to the body 5 through the gasket 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED, NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi HIDAKA, Takatoshi NAKATANI, Kaoru HIRATA, Kouji NISHINO, Nobukazu IKEDA, Masaki FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20240095507
    Abstract: An arithmetic device and an electronic device having small power consumption is provided. An arithmetic device and an electronic device capable of high-speed operation is provided. An arithmetic device and an electronic device capable of suppressing heat generation is provided. The arithmetic device includes a first arithmetic portion and a second arithmetic portion. The first arithmetic portion includes a first CPU core and a second CPU core. The second arithmetic portion includes a first GPU core and a second GPU core. The CPU cores each have a power gating function and each include a first data retention circuit electrically connected to a flip-flop. The first GPU core includes a second data retention circuit capable of retaining an analog value and reading out the analog value as digital data of two or more bits. The second GPU core includes a third data retention circuit capable of retaining a digital value and reading out the digital value as digital data of one bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiko ISHIZU, Takayuki IKEDA, Atsuo ISOBE, Atsushi MIYAGUCHI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240094656
    Abstract: A charging roll includes a core, a rubber substrate arranged around the core, and a surface layer arranged around the rubber substrate. The surface layer includes a conductive matrix containing a base material formed of an insulator, and a conductive material dispersed in the base material, and particles of a surface roughness-imparting material dispersed in the conductive matrix. Each of the particles of the surface roughness-imparting material is formed of an insulator, is porous, and has a specific surface area of 8.7 m2/g or greater and 55 m2/g or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo SUZUKI, Atsushi IKEDA, Satoshi FUKUOKA, Kenji SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11934110
    Abstract: A developing roll has a metal core, an elastic layer, and a surface layer. A value X is 65.6 N/mm3 or more and a value Y is 229 ?m or more. The value X is P1/(D1×A)?P2/(D2×A). P1 is the load to displace the roll 100 ?m when a metal probe is pressed against the roll. D1 is the displacement of the roll caused by the probe under the load P1. A is the area of the probe. P2 is the load to displace a material roll by 100 ?m when the probe presses against the material roll with the core and the elastic layer and without the surface layer. D2 is the displacement of the material roll caused by the probe under the load P2. The value Y is the displacement of the roll when the probe pierces the surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Oura, Atsushi Ikeda, Satoshi Fukuoka, Kenji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240078664
    Abstract: An accuracy calculation unit receives an ultrasound image generated by transmitting and receiving an ultrasonic wave, and specifies an imaging scene by a plurality of types of specifying processing for specifying the imaging scene of the ultrasound image. Further, the accuracy calculation unit calculates accuracy of specifying the imaging scene for each specifying processing. The determination unit determines an examination action to be performed next on the basis of a result of calculation by the accuracy calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Teiichiro Ikeda, Takehiro Tsujita, Atsuko Otake, Atsushi Shiromaru, Rei Yokosawa
  • Publication number: 20240078280
    Abstract: In a cloud browser system, an image forming apparatus stores user data previously acquired from an image generation server and transmits a uniform resource locator (URL) of a Web page and the stored user data to the image generation server. The image generation server receives the URL and the user data, accesses the Web page based on the URL and the user data, and generates a rendering image by interpreting the Web page. The image forming apparatus receives the rendering image corresponding to a result acquired by accessing the Web page by using the user data from the image generation server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA