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).

  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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: 20240077214
    Abstract: An indoor unit includes: a casing that has an air outlet and an air inlet, and inside which an air passage is formed; a cross flow fan disposed in the air passage and configured to blow out, through the air outlet, air sucked in from the air inlet; a stabilizer configured to stabilize vortex of air caused by circulation of air and generated inside the cross flow fan upon rotation thereof; and a guide wall having a surface defining an outlet side air passage being a part of the air passage, the part being in downstream of the cross flow fan, wherein the stabilizer has a first surface that defines a surface opposite to the guide wall in the outlet side air passage, and a part of the outlet side air passage is formed such that a distance in a vertical direction from the first surface to the guide wall gradually decreases toward the downstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi KONO, Takuya TERAMOTO, Yuki UGAJIN, Koji YAMAGUCHI, Tetsuo YAMASHITA, Takashi IKEDA
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20240078371
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a first drawing function and a second drawing function different from the first drawing function, draws a screen using the first drawing function and the second drawing function, acquires a setting of a character decoration used to draw a predetermined font by the second drawing function, and uses the acquired setting of the character decoration when drawing a character of the predetermined font using the first drawing function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11921439
    Abstract: A developing roll used in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus has a metal core member, an elastic layer made of a rubber disposed around the core member, and a surface layer disposed around the elastic layer. The texture aspect ratio of the surface Str of the surface layer is equal to or greater than 0.55.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Oura, Atsushi Ikeda, Kenji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11920841
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a main circuit in which a compressor, a flow switching device, an indoor heat exchanger, a pressure reducing device, and a plurality of parallel heat exchangers connected in parallel with each other are connected by pipes, a bypass pipe, a flow control device provided to the bypass pipe and configured to adjust a flow rate of refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe, an evaporating pressure sensor configured to measure an evaporating pressure of the refrigerant, and a controller. The air-conditioning apparatus is configured to operate in a normal heating operation mode and a heating-defrosting operation mode. When an operation associated with the normal heating operation mode is switched to an operation associated with the heating-defrosting operation mode, the controller adjusts an opening degree of the flow control device using the evaporating pressure in the parallel heat exchanger and a driving frequency of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Ishimura, Soshi Ikeda, Kazuya Watanabe, Hideto Nakao, Masakazu Kondo, Yasuhide Hayamaru, Yusuke Tashiro, Masakazu Sato, Atsushi Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20240069641
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: a threshold value control unit. The threshold value control unit controls, on the basis of three-dimensional position information of each of a first finger and a second finger acquired from a detection result of a sensor, a threshold value relating to determination of a gesture using at least one of the first finger and the second finger. As a result, it is possible to perform gesture determination with high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: ATSUSHI IRIE, KENJI GOTOH, TETSUO IKEDA, YOHSUKE KAJI, EISUKE FUJINAWA, SEISHI TOMONAGA, TADAYOSHI MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240038391
    Abstract: An endoscopic diagnosis support method whereby an examined area and an unexamined area can be clearly discriminated. After a preparatory step of an observation canvas is performed in advance, a frame marking step, a key point calculation step, a preceding and following frame displacement amount calculation step, a preceding and following frame marking step are executed to thereby perform observation recording. In an image diagnosis support step IDS, support is performed such that the existence of a lesion is diagnosed in an organ on the basis of a plurality of position data marked with respect to a plurality of frames in the observation canvas data and an endoscopic image in the plural frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu Nosato, Yuta Kochi, Hidenori Sakanashi, Masahiro Murakawa, Atsushi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240012867
    Abstract: A web browsing system includes a server that performs rendering of a web page, and a communication terminal that displays the web page based on a rendering result. The communication terminal transmits identification information and address information about the web page to the server, and receives a rendering image corresponding to the web page from the server. The server receives the address information and the identification information from the communication terminal, accesses the web page based on the address information, generates the rendering image by interpreting the web page, transmits the rendering image to the communication terminal, acquires user data based on the interpretation of the web page, and manages the user data based on the identification information in a distinguishable manner from other user data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230409659
    Abstract: An information processing system in which an image generation system on a network is configured to transmit image data to a communication terminal. The image generation system stores a rendering result for a browser as an image in a case where a back process, a forward process, or a scroll process of the browser is performed, stores an index number corresponding to an image, and transmits the index number to the communication terminal. The communication terminal receives the index number, stores the received index number, stores the image corresponding to the index number, and displays the image corresponding to the index number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230409660
    Abstract: An image generation system capable of communicating with a communication apparatus, the image generation system includes one or more memories, and one or more processors in communication with the one more memories, wherein the one or more processors and the one more memories are configured to receive an operation instruction with respect to a web page from the communication apparatus, transmit, to the communication apparatus, predetermined information when the operation instruction is a press for file selection, receive a file transmitted from the communication apparatus based on the predetermined information, reflect information of the file in the web page and generate a rendering result, and transmit the rendering result to the communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11827773
    Abstract: Provided is a curable composition which forms a cured product that has excellent fireproof performance, while having excellent shape retainability even in cases where the expansion ratio of the cured product after firing is set to a high value. This curable composition includes a shape retention agent, while having fluidity when applied; and if a cured product that is obtained by curing this curable composition is fired in 600° C. air atmosphere for 30 minutes, the cured product after firing has shape retainability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CEMEDINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoko Ishihara, Atsushi Ikeda, Tomonori Saito, Hideharu Hashimukai
  • Publication number: 20230376295
    Abstract: There is provided a technique to avoid occurrence of useless download in an image generation system. In an information processing system enabling transmission of image data corresponding to a web page between an image generation system and a communication terminal, the image generation system inquires a free space of the communication terminal, inquires a size of a file to be downloaded, and in a case where the free space of the communication terminal is less than the size of the file, performs control not to download the file to be downloaded from an external web server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11811994
    Abstract: An information processing system that manages an application executed by an image processing apparatus with an application identifier includes one or more controllers configured to provide combined information of a reproduction application that reproduces a description file for defining operation procedures and a first description file as a first combined application, provide combined information of the reproduction application and a second description file as a second combined application, manage a first description identifier corresponding to the first description file and a second description identifier corresponding to the second description file, and manage the first combined application and the second combined application in a distinguishable manner based on the first description identifier and the second description identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sora Kumagai, Takeshi Kogure, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroaki Koike
  • Publication number: 20230314979
    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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo SUZUKI, Atsushi IKEDA, Satoshi FUKUOKA, Kenji SASAKI