Patents by Inventor Chiharu Sato

Chiharu Sato 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: 20240164414
    Abstract: The eating timing of food/drink in a storage is adjusted according to the request of a receiver who receives the food/drink in the storage. A storage according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a control unit; and an actuator configured to adjust an environment based on an instruction from the control unit, wherein the control unit acquires information relating to food/drink in the storage and a specified date, and gives the instruction to the actuator regarding a control target value of a storage environment of the food/drink, based on the information relating to the food/drink and the specified date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Hidenori MATSUI, Kiichiro SATO, Toshiaki MUKAIDANI, Junko YAMAUCHI, Hiroko INOUE, Chiharu KATADA
  • Publication number: 20240158173
    Abstract: A pickup and delivery or selling apparatus is transportable, and includes: a reserving section in which an article can be reserved; a receiving part in which the article to be reserved in the reserving section is received; a delivering part in which the article is delivered; a plurality of support members each used for supporting the article in the reserving section; a transfer unit configured to transfer the support members each supporting the article between the reserving section and either the receiving part or the delivering part; and an abnormality-managing unit configured to perform a predetermined response to an abnormality occurring in the support members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Kiichiro SATO, Hidenori MATSUI, Toshiaki MUKAIDANI, Junko YAMAUCHI, Hiroko INOUE, Chiharu KATADA
  • Publication number: 20240073351
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus acquires a print job, selects printing paper according to an operation on an operation device, acquires a color conversion dictionary from among color conversion dictionaries corresponding to respective representative paper sorted into a plurality of groups based on physical property of the selected printing paper, presents information on the color conversion dictionary through a display, receives an operation input indicating whether to accept or to reject a presented color conversion dictionary through the operation device, and converts color information of the print job using the color conversion dictionary accepted by the operation input received through the operation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chiharu SATO, Yukiko MAEO
  • Patent number: 4896921
    Abstract: The wheel of the present invention reduces road noise without using a special tire. The wheel includes a wheel body and a silencing chamber formed around the wheel body. The silencing chamber communicates with an air chamber in the tire via communication port. The phase difference between a compressional wave in the air chamber and a compressional wave returned to the air chamber from the communication port cause attenuation of the road noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Chiharu Sato, Yoichi Kamiyama, Hiroyuki Ikegami