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: 11152840
    Abstract: Provided is an electric actuator (1), including: a motor (10); a motor case (11) configured to accommodates the motor (10); and a motion conversion mechanism (22) configured to convert a rotary motion generated through drive by the motor (10) into a linear motion in a direction parallel to an output shaft (10a) of the motor (10). The motion conversion mechanism (22) includes a movable part (22, which is arranged in parallel with the output shaft (10a) and is configured to perform the linear motion. The movable part (22) and the motor (10) overlap one another in a radial direction of the motor (10). A sensor target (73) is arranged in the moveable part 22, and a non-contact sensor (70) configured to detect a position of the sensor target (73) in a linear motion direction in a non-contact manner is arranged in the motor case (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takushi Matsuto, Shinsuke Hirano, Atsushi Ikeda, Tomomi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11149829
    Abstract: Provided is an electric actuator including: a drive part (2); a motion conversion mechanism part (3) configured to convert a rotary motion from the drive part (2) into a linear motion a transmission gear mechanism (28) configured to transmit a driving force from the drive part (2) to the motion conversion mechanism part (3); and a lock mechanism part (7) configured to prevent the drive by the motion conversion mechanism part (3), wherein the transmission gear mechanism (28) includes a first gear (30) arranged on the drive part (2) side and a second gear (31) arranged on the motion conversion mechanism part (3) side, and wherein the lock mechanism part (7) is arranged on an opposite side of the drive part (2) with respect to the first gear (30), and on the motion conversion mechanism part (3) side with respect to a rotation center line of the first gear (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takushi Matsuto, Shinsuke Hirano, Atsushi Ikeda, Tomomi Ishikawa, Yoshinori Ikeda, Tatsuji Inoue
  • Patent number: 11140291
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus stores, for an application, a meta file including a setting data version and a setting data compatible version in a storage as information about the application. In a case where setting data of the application is to be imported, an application management unit of the image forming apparatus determines whether to allow import of the setting data as an import target by using a version of the setting data, a setting data version that is stored as the information about the application corresponding to the setting data as the import target, and a setting data compatible version, and determines whether to allow import of the setting data as the import target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Kogure, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroaki Koike, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11132158
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control method for an image forming apparatus including firmware and an application operating on the firmware, the control method including registering a size of a defined sheet in a storage unit in accordance with a user operation under control of the firmware, accepting a selection instruction of the registered size of the defined sheet in accordance with the user operation under control of the application, and control printing using the defined sheet having the size according to the selection instruction under the control of the firmware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11134173
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the image processing apparatus are provided. The image processing apparatus sets whether or not a function provided in the image processing apparatus requires user authentication, and upon issuance of an instruction to activate an application, determines whether or not a function used by the application is set to require the user authentication. If it is determined that the function used by the application is set to require the user authentication, the image processing apparatus permits the application to use the function in a case that the user authentication has succeeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Sasagawa, Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike
  • Publication number: 20210296023
    Abstract: A cable including a plurality of internal insulated cores, each of which is formed by covering a conductor including a twisted wire with an insulator. The insulators have a tensile elastic modulus higher than that of a vinyl chloride resin for an electric wire and has a friction coefficient lower than that of the vinyl chloride resin for an electric wire. The cable may be a cab tire cable or a cab tire cord of a home appliance, a standard charger, or an on-board charger, for example, and is able to withstand long use without buckling breakage of the conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshirou NAKAO, Kenta FURUJOU, Atsushi IKEDA, Junichirou TSUJI, Nobuyuki ISAMOTO, Yuuta INOUE, Osamu OKAMOTO, Kenta KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210258438
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to indicate one or more rearrangement-target icons to a user without producing an animation display in a case where icon rearrangement is performed by the drag and drop operation. One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus including: a derivation unit configured to derive one or more icons different from a first icon, which are rearrangement targets in a case where the drop operation is performed for the first icon during the drag operation of the first icon among icons displayed on a display unit; and a display control unit configured to perform control so that the display unit additionally displays a first mark for the one or more icons derived by the derivation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroaki Koike, Takeshi Kogure
  • Publication number: 20210227089
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of appropriately producing displays using installed expansion application modules without using a window manager module. The image forming apparatus produces a display in accordance with a display instruction for at least one of the installed expansion application modules. When display instructions for the expansion application modules overlap each other, priorities for display are assigned based on starting conditions related to the expansion application modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 11054016
    Abstract: Provided is an electric actuator, including: a drive part (2); a motion conversion mechanism part (3) configured to convert a rotary motion from the drive part (2) into a linear motion in an axial direction parallel with an output shaft of the drive part (2); a driving force transmission part (4) configured to transmit a driving force from the drive part (2) to the motion conversion mechanism part (3); and a motion-conversion-mechanism support part (5) configured to support the motion conversion mechanism part (3), and wherein the drive part (2) and the motion-conversion-mechanism support part (5) are capable of being coupled to and decoupled from the driving force transmission part (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takushi Matsuto, Shinsuke Hirano, Atsushi Ikeda, Tomomi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20210152709
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising detecting alteration of any application held in the image processing apparatus; determining, in a case where alteration has been detected, whether or not the use of the image processing apparatus needs to be restricted based on the application in which alteration has been detected; and displaying, in a display unit and as a result of the determination, in a case where the use of the image processing apparatus needs to be restricted, a message indicating that alteration of the application has been detected, and restricting the use of the image processing apparatus, and in a case where the use of the image processing apparatus need not be restricted, display, in the display unit, a message indicating that alteration of the application has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 10999464
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of appropriately producing displays using installed expansion application modules without using a window manager module. The image forming apparatus produces a display in accordance with a display instruction for at least one of the installed expansion application modules. When display instructions for the expansion application modules overlap each other, priorities for display are assigned based on starting conditions related to the expansion application modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Oya, Yasunori Shimakawa
  • Publication number: 20210127047
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an open-close detector configured to detect an open-close state indicating whether an optical path open-close device of a film camera is open or closed, a displacement detector configured to detect a displacement of a movable portion of the film camera interlocked with a movement of an operation portion of the film camera, and control circuitry. In response to a detection result of the displacement detector, the control circuitry selects a measurement mode for measuring an open time during which the optical path open-close device is open, from a plurality of operation modes of the electronic device. In the measurement mode, the control circuitry measures the open time based on the open-close state detected by the open-close detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi IKEDA, Kenji HAYASAKA, Takamasa MATSUMOTO, Youhei NIITSUMA, Toshihiro OKAMOTO, Kenta TAKAHASHI, Yuichi MIKUNI
  • Patent number: 10979586
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes one or more processors, one or more memories for storing programs including an application configured to receive a setting relating to display candidates of a plurality of languages, the programs, when executed by the one or more processors, causing the image forming apparatus to perform a process for changing a display language, and a control unit configured to control processing such that the application transmits to firmware a changing request for changing a language displayed on a screen to a different language from among the display candidates of the plurality of languages when an instruction for changing a language displayed on the screen to a different language is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20210081230
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is able to execute an extended application, and a method of controlling the information processing apparatus are provided. The information processing apparatus holds, in a launched state, a virtual machine (VM) for executing the extended application, determines, in a case that the extended application is launched, whether or not the extended application can reuse the VM. In a case that it is determined that the extended application can reuse the VM, the information processing apparatus determines whether or not a VM that can be reused by the extended application is held, and in a case that it is determined that the VM which can be reused by the extended application is held, execute the extended application using the held VM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Takeshi Kogure, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroaki Koike
  • Publication number: 20210084180
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment by the present disclosure includes a storage unit for storing a reading size, an identifying unit for identifying the reading size using a sensor, a reading unit for reading an image of a document, and a setting unit for setting the identifying unit to identify the reading size. In case of the identifying unit identifying the size of the document in a state where the setting unit sets the identifying unit to identify the reading size, the reading unit reads the image of the document based on the size identified by the identifying unit. In case of the identifying unit not identifying the size of the document in the state where the setting unit sets the identifying unit to identify the reading size, the reading unit reads the image of the document based on the size stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroaki Koike, Takeshi Kogure, Atsushi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10904405
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising detecting alteration of any application held in the image processing apparatus; determining, in a case where alteration has been detected, whether or not the use of the image processing apparatus needs to be restricted based on the application in which alteration has been detected; and displaying, in a display unit and as a result of the determination, in a case where the use of the image processing apparatus needs to be restricted, a message indicating that alteration of the application has been detected, and restricting the use of the image processing apparatus, and in a case where the use of the image processing apparatus need not be restricted, display, in the display unit, a message indicating that alteration of the application has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Publication number: 20210019095
    Abstract: An image sending apparatus includes a first authentication unit configured to perform processing for first authentication to authenticate a user, a storage unit configured to store authentication information used when the first authentication unit authenticates the user, a sending unit capable of sending image data by a plurality of kinds of sending methods, a destination setting unit configured to set a destination to which the sending unit sends the image data, a second authentication unit configured to perform processing for second authentication required for the sending unit to send the image data to the destination set by the destination setting unit, and a determination unit configured to determine whether to use the authentication information stored in the storage unit when the second authentication unit performs the processing for the second authentication, based on the sending method by which the sending unit sends the image data to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Amano
  • Publication number: 20200382662
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit, a displaying unit, a receiving unit, and a printing unit. The setting unit accepts designation of source information from a user and set the accepted source information in association with an object. The displaying unit displays the object. The receiving unit receives image data from an external apparatus. The printing unit prints an image on a sheet based on the image data received by the receiving unit. Upon selection of the object displayed on the displaying unit, the printing unit prints an image on a sheet based on the image data from among the image data received by the receiving unit, that is received from an external apparatus having source information corresponding to the source information associated with the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike
  • Patent number: 10855852
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising: a memory device that stores a set of instructions; and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to: detect alteration of an application held in the image processing apparatus; determine, upon detecting alteration, whether or not an application in which alteration has been detected is a pre-installed application; and enabling, as a result of the determination, in a case where the application in which alteration has been detected is a pre-installed application, the use of the application by installing the application using pre-held information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Koike, Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 10838667
    Abstract: An image sending apparatus includes a first authentication unit configured to perform processing for first authentication to authenticate a user, a storage unit configured to store authentication information used when the first authentication unit authenticates the user, a sending unit capable of sending image data by a plurality of kinds of sending methods, a destination setting unit configured to set a destination to which the sending unit sends the image data, a second authentication unit configured to perform processing for second authentication required for the sending unit to send the image data to the destination set by the destination setting unit, and a determination unit configured to determine whether to use the authentication information stored in the storage unit when the second authentication unit performs the processing for the second authentication, based on the sending method by which the sending unit sends the image data to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Amano