Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Ota
Hiroshi Ota 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).
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Publication number: 20240130081Abstract: A vapor chamber includes a main body sheet having a first main body surface and a second main body surface provided on an opposite side to the first main body surface, a space provided on the first main body surface of the main body sheet, a first sheet laminated on the first main body surface of the main body sheet and covering the space, and a retracted portion retracted toward the space beyond an outer periphery of the main body sheet or an outer periphery of the first sheet in a plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunori ODA, Takayuki OTA, Shinichiro TAKAHASHI, Toshihiko TAKEDA, Kohei OZAWA, Hiroshi KOI
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Patent number: 11949550Abstract: A relay device that performs reset processing in relation to wired communication with a first device in response to a change in a communication rate of the wired communication with the first device; and in response to performing the reset processing, start control to transmit a predetermined message to a second device even though there is no transmission from the first device, the predetermined message being expected to be transmitted from the first device to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya Matsumoto, Yoshiroh Hirata, Hiroshi Ota
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Publication number: 20240103415Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit to form a toner image on a first sheet and a fixing unit configured to heat the first sheet to fix the image to the first sheet. A control unit begins a cooling process for cooling the fixing unit when an overheating condition is met, then permits the image forming unit to form a toner image on a second sheet after the cooling process ends according to a first cooling condition if a person is detected near the image forming apparatus or after the cooling process ends according to a second cooling condition if a person not detected near the image forming apparatus. The cooling process under the first cooling condition ends in less time than under the second cooling condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Masaya TANAKA, Hiroshi OTA
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Patent number: 11935338Abstract: Generally, the current threshold value is set as a fixed value. Therefore, even in a case where an abnormality occurs in the load and the resistance value is small, when the power supply voltage applied to the load is low, the current value is also low, and falls below the threshold value, and there is a possibility that the overcurrent is not detected. In the present invention, by providing a second detection means that detects a load abnormality by calculating the resistance value of the load from information of the power supply voltage applied to the load, in addition to a first detection means that detects an overcurrent state that indicates the load abnormality using only current value information, it is possible to detect an overcurrent indicating an abnormality of the load even when the power supply voltage applied to the load is low.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kanno, Hiroshi Usami, Masataka Ota
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Patent number: 11902147Abstract: A communication system includes: a management server that receives, from an information terminal connectable to a first network, a connection request for connecting to a web service provided by a web server connectable to a second network; first communication control circuitry that controls communication of a communication apparatus connectable to the second network, and second communication control circuitry that controls communication of the information terminal. The first communication control circuitry connects to a relay server that relays communication between the second network and the first network. The second communication control circuitry connects the information terminal to the relay server. A request for the web service provided by the web server and a response to the request are transmitted and received between a web browser of the information terminal and the web server via the relay server and the first communication control circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Ota, Motohiro Nagao
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Patent number: 11880151Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit to form a toner image on a first sheet and a fixing unit configured to heat the first sheet to fix the image to the first sheet. A control unit begins a cooling process for cooling the fixing unit when an overheating condition is met, then permits the image forming unit to form a toner image on a second sheet after the cooling process ends according to a first cooling condition if a person is detected near the image forming apparatus or after the cooling process ends according to a second cooling condition if a person not detected near the image forming apparatus. The cooling process under the first cooling condition ends in less time than under the second cooling condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaya Tanaka, Hiroshi Ota
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Publication number: 20230392448Abstract: This drilling bit includes a bit body centered on a tool central axis, a plurality of buttons protruding from a tip surface of the bit body, a discharge flow path disposed from the tip surface of the bit body over an outer peripheral surface, and a blow hole that extends inside the bit body and is open at the tip surface. The discharge flow path has a first flow path which has a groove shape located on the tip surface and extending in a tool radial direction, and at which the blow hole is open, and a second flow path located outward in the tool radial direction from the blow hole on the tip surface to communicate with the first flow path, and extending in a tool circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: MMC RYOTEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ota, Taiyo Matsuse, Satoshi Ioka, Thanakrit DEATJIRAKARJORNSAKUN
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Publication number: 20230341799Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus measures a temperature of a pressing member and controls heat generation of a heater such that the measured temperature approaches a control temperature. Further, the image forming apparatus sets, before starting image formation of one job including image formation, one candidate temperature of a plurality of predetermined candidate temperatures different from each other as the control temperature on the basis of the number of sheets to be used and a sheet size to be used in the image formation of the one job.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventor: Hiroshi OTA
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Patent number: 11782367Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a fixer including a rotating body and a heating member to heat the rotating body. A temperature sensor is positioned to detect a temperature of the rotating body and output a temperature detection result. A heating control circuit is configured to estimate the temperature of the rotating body based on the temperature detection result, a power supply voltage value, an energization pulse setting for controlling the heating member, a heat capacity of the fixer, and a heat resistance of the fixer. The control circuit generates an energization pulse for controlling power supplied to the heating member based on the estimated temperature and the temperature detection result. A controller detects a variation in the heat capacity of the fixer device and supplies a correction amount for the heat capacity corresponding to the detected variation to the heating control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Ota
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Patent number: 11759998Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a gelatin formed body having a minimized content of a component harmful to a living body and high biocompatibility with high shaping accuracy, and a gelatin formed body produced by the method. According to the present invention, provided is a method for producing a gelatin formed body, the method including: a step a of forming, on a substrate, a layer containing a powder which is obtained by air-drying an aqueous gelatin solution and has an average particle diameter of 25 to 200 ?m; and a step b of jetting liquid droplets of an aqueous solution containing alcohols having a boiling point of 120° C. or lower toward the layer formed in the step a from a nozzle and flying the jetted liquid droplets so that the liquid droplets are landed on the layer formed in the step a, thereby forming a gelatin formed body.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Manabu Katsumura, Takahiro Hiratsuka, Hideo Fushimi, Yoshio Ishii, Ai Okamura, Hiroshi Ota, Jun Arakawa
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Patent number: 11754958Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a heating member energization control circuit that estimates a temperature of a fixing rotating body, based on a temperature detection result of the fixing rotating body, which is heated by a heating member and heats a toner image formed on a medium to fix the toner image on the medium, by a temperature sensor, a power supply voltage of a power supply source, and an energization pulse for controlling energization to the heating member, and outputs an energization pulse for controlling power to be supplied to the heating member, based on the estimated temperature and the temperature detection result.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi Ota
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Patent number: 11733625Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus measures a temperature of a pressing member and controls heat generation of a heater such that the measured temperature approaches a control temperature. Further, the image forming apparatus sets, before starting image formation of one job including image formation, one candidate temperature of a plurality of predetermined candidate temperatures different from each other as the control temperature on the basis of the number of sheets to be used and a sheet size to be used in the image formation of the one job.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Ota
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Patent number: 11729334Abstract: A disclosed communication system designed for implementing remote access from an information terminal connected to a first network to an electronic device connected to a second network differing from the first network. The communication system includes a computer having a processor and a memory storing programmed instructions that, when executed by the processor, are operable for performing a process. The process includes relaying, by a relaying device, communication between the information terminal and the second network, in a state of being connectable from the first network and the second network; and converting, by a converter, a first protocol used by the information terminal for the remote access into a second protocol corresponding to the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Ota, Kazumasa Takemura, Susumu Chida
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Publication number: 20230221669Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a heating member energization control circuit that estimates a temperature of a fixing rotating body, based on a temperature detection result of the fixing rotating body, which is heated by a heating member and heats a toner image formed on a medium to fix the toner image on the medium, by a temperature sensor, a power supply voltage of a power supply source, and an energization pulse for controlling energization to the heating member, and outputs an energization pulse for controlling power to be supplied to the heating member, based on the estimated temperature and the temperature detection result.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventor: Hiroshi Ota
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Publication number: 20230174806Abstract: The present invention provides a model material clear composition to be used in a material-jet optical shaping process, comprising an ethylenically unsaturated compound (A) and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated compound (A) comprises: an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (A1) having a dicyclopentenyl group and/or a dicyclopentanyl group; an ethylenically unsaturated compound (A2) having an aliphatic cyclic structure in a molecule and having a urethane group; and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (A3) having an aliphatic cyclic structure in a molecule and having neither a urethane group nor an amide group (excluding the ethylenically unsaturated monomer (A1)), and wherein a total mass of the ethylenically unsaturated monomer (A1), the ethylenically unsaturated compound (A2), and the ethylenically unsaturated monomer (A3) is 60% by mass or more based on the total mass of the ethylenically unsaturated compound (A).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Katsuyuki KITO, Hiroshi OTA, Hiroki SAKATA
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Publication number: 20230171319Abstract: A communication system, a communication method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The communication system receives setting of access control rule corresponding to a combination of an external system connected to an external network and a service provided by an information processing apparatus residing on a local network, receives from the external system, a service use request for using the service, connects to a relay server on the external network from within the local network for relaying communication between the relay server and the service based on the service use request and the access control rule, and instructs the external system to connect to the relay server.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Ota
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Publication number: 20230145493Abstract: A relay device that is configured to: perform reset processing in relation to wired communication with a first device in response to a change in a communication rate of the wired communication with the first device; and in response to performing the reset processing, make a request to a second device to suppress processing relating to fault detection that detects cases in which communication between the second device and the first device is not possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya MATSUMOTO, Yoshiroh HIRATA, Hiroshi OTA
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Publication number: 20230142524Abstract: A relay device that performs reset processing in relation to wired communication with a first device in response to a change in a communication rate of the wired communication with the first device; and in response to performing the reset processing, start control to transmit a predetermined message to a second device even though there is no transmission from the first device, the predetermined message being expected to be transmitted from the first device to the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya MATSUMOTO, Yoshiroh HIRATA, Hiroshi OTA
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Publication number: 20230100703Abstract: A model material clear composition comprises an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (A1) having at least one group selected from a group consisting of a dicyclopentenyl group and a dicyclopentanyl group, at least one photopolymerization initiator selected from a group consisting of an acylphosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator and an ?-hydroxyacetophenone-based photopolymerization initiator, a hindered amine-based polymerization inhibitor, and a phenolic antioxidant, and contents (% by mass) of the initiator, the polymerization inhibitor, and the antioxidant satisfy Formula (1): content of photopolymerization initiator?content of polymerization inhibitor?content of oxidation inhibitor, and Formula (2): 1??content of photopolymerization initiator/?[(content of polymerization inhibitor×10)2+(content of antioxidant×100)2]?800.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi OTA, Hiroki SAKATA
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Patent number: 11616461Abstract: A motor control device according to an embodiment comprises a first signal generator, a second signal generator, a main controller, and a driver. The first signal generator is configured to generate, based on a clock signal indicating a stepping drive cycle of a motor, a first control signal. The second signal generator is configured to generate, based on a command phase indicating a target phase of a rotor of the motor, a second control signal. The main controller is configured to control the first signal generator and the second signal generator to output at least one of the first control signal and the second control signal. The driver is configured to drive the motor based on at least one of the first control signal and the second control signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ota, Hirofumi Omote