Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Takami

Hiroshi Takami 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: 20240152876
    Abstract: A road deterioration diagnosis device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions, deterioration information including a detection status of a pothole, and a maintenance status of the detected pothole in each section, the each section obtained by dividing a predetermined region by a predetermined size; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to cause a display to display a map indicating the deterioration information in the each section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke KIMURA, Nana JUMONJI, Chisato SUGAWARA, Toru TAKAMI, Hiroshi NAKASATO
  • Patent number: 11978349
    Abstract: A setting unit sets the operating mode of an aerial vehicle to a first operating mode that transmits, data generated by a host aerial vehicle and data received from another aerial vehicle to a processing device, or a second operating mode that transmits data generated by a host aerial vehicle to another aerial vehicle. At this time, setting unit sets the operating modes of each of a plurality of aerial vehicles using a setting method corresponding to the attributes of an airspace in which aerial vehicle flies, from among a plurality of setting methods that set the operating mode of aerial vehicle. The attributes of an airspace include attributes determined in accordance with a degree of importance pertaining to the process of transmitting data from aerial vehicle to a server device and/or attributes determined in accordance with the extent to which processes are distributed among a plurality of aerial vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20240117575
    Abstract: An infrastructure diagnostic device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: generate a road section by dividing, by meshes, a movement path of a moving body collected from the moving body moving on a road, the meshes being obtained by dividing a ground surface into a predetermined size; and determine and output a state of the road section based on sensor information of the road section collected from the moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Nana Jumonji, Yosuke Kimura, Chisato Sugawara, Toru Takami, Hiroshi Nakasato
  • Publication number: 20240078725
    Abstract: An infrastructure diagnostic device comprises a time-series display control unit, a reception unit, and a location display control unit. The time-series display control unit displays the infrastructure states of a plurality of locations in a predetermined area in time series on a display. The reception unit receives selection of data from among the time series for the infrastructure states of the plurality of locations. The location display control unit displays, on a map, a location corresponding to the selected data on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Kimura, Nana Jumonji, Chisato Sugawara, Toru Takami, Hiroshi Nakasato
  • Patent number: 11264145
    Abstract: An extensible electroconductive wiring material includes a flexible electroconductive material and insulating elastic bodies and, wherein the flexible electroconductive material having an electroconductive layer has vent peripheral edge portions in which vent holes and/or vent slits are penetrated and aligned in series and/or in parallel along an energization direction of the electroconductive layer while the vent peripheral edge portions are energizably linked, and the vent peripheral edge portions is sealed and covered by the insulating elastic bodies, so as not to be exposed; and the insulating elastic bodies, have penetration slits, and/or penetration holes which penetrate therethrough while matching the vent peripheral edge portions and are smaller than the vent holes and the vent slits. The extensible electroconductive wiring module has a plurality of these extensible electroconductive wiring materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ASAHI FR R&D CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Takeoka, Toshinori Fujie, Kento Yamagishi, Hiroshi Takami, Masaru Azuma, Syo Mihara
  • Publication number: 20200411215
    Abstract: An extensible electroconductive wiring material includes a flexible electroconductive material and insulating elastic bodies and, wherein the flexible electroconductive material having an electroconductive layer has vent peripheral edge portions in which vent holes and/or vent slits are penetrated and aligned in series and/or in parallel along an energization direction of the electroconductive layer while the vent peripheral edge portions are energizably linked, and the vent peripheral edge portions is sealed and covered by the insulating elastic bodies, so as not to be exposed; and the insulating elastic bodies, have penetration slits, and/or penetration holes which penetrate therethrough while matching the vent peripheral edge portions and are smaller than the vent holes and the vent slits. The extensible electroconductive wiring module has a plurality of these extensible electroconductive wiring materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: ASAHI FR R&D CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji TAKEOKA, Toshinori FUJIE, Kento YAMAGISHI, Hiroshi TAKAMI, Masaru AZUMA, Syo MIHARA
  • Patent number: 9244397
    Abstract: The image heating apparatus heats a toner image beard on a recording material while conveying the recording material at a nip portion, and includes: a heater; a fixing member; a pressure member; a first temperature detecting member; a second temperature detecting member configured to detect a temperature on non-sheet-passing area; a control device; and an air supplying member supplying an air to the non-sheet-passing area. The air supplying member is started to be drive when a temperature detected by the second temperature detecting member reaches a predetermined temperature which is higher than the target temperature. The control device controls the quantity of the air in response to information related to the power supplied to the heater when a temperature detected by the second temperature detecting member reaches the predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami
  • Patent number: 9002229
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit, wherein the fixing unit includes a first temperature detection member detecting the temperature of a first non-passing area of the fixing unit; a second temperature detection member detecting the temperature of a second non-passing area; and a cooling unit supplying air so as to simultaneously cool the first non-passing area and the second non-passing area, wherein the image forming apparatus is configured, when the absolute value of the difference between the detection temperature of the temperature detection members becomes not less than a threshold value, while air is being supplied to the non-passing area and the second non-passing area, to stop the supplying of air by the cooling unit and continue recording material fixing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami
  • Publication number: 20140294539
    Abstract: A conveyance portion is configured to hold a bundle of paper sheets, the bundle of paper sheets being a plurality of paper sheets stacked in a first direction, and also configured to convey the bundle of paper sheets in a second direction. An adhesive portion forming portion is configured to form an adhesive portion on an end face, in the second direction, of the bundle of paper sheets. A cover sheet holding portion is configured to hold a cover sheet in a state in which the cover sheet and the adhesive portion face each other in the second direction. The bundle of paper sheets is conveyed by the conveyance portion toward a contact position where the adhesive portion comes into contact with the cover sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Kato, Kazuma Hojo, Hiroshi Takami, Minoru Yamamoto, Koshiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8513834
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a plurality of voltage rising circuits each of which can be driven at a different duty ratio so as to convert and output a voltage output from a direct current power source according to a plurality of loads; and a control circuit which controls an input voltage from the direct current power source to each voltage rising circuit according to drive condition of the voltage rising circuit having the highest duty ratio of the plurality of voltage rising circuits. This configuration can provide a highly productive power supply apparatus capable of reducing a ripple voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami
  • Patent number: 8494389
    Abstract: A fixing apparatus that conveys a printing medium to a fixing nip portion formed by rotating members, and fixes an image onto the printing medium by heat from heating elements. The fixing apparatus also includes a safety element, a rotation detection circuit, and a limiting circuit. The safety element is in a power supply path to supply electrical power to the heating elements and to shut off the path in response with an abnormal temperature. The rotation detection circuit detects a rotation state of the rotating members. The limiting circuit limits a drive of a second driving circuit per a rotation detection circuit output. A first driving circuit detects that the circuit drives a first heating element per a control signal, regardless of the rotating members rotation state, and the second driving circuit drives a second heating element per a control signal and the output from the rotation detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami
  • Patent number: 8419305
    Abstract: A cutting mechanism for a printing apparatus that cuts a printing medium and includes a fixed blade having first through holes and a movable blade having second through holes and slidingly movable with respect to the fixed blade, wherein each of first openings of the first through holes on a first sliding face is at least partly included in a first overlapping portion, each of second openings of the second through holes on a second sliding face is at least partly included in a second overlapping portion, and the first openings and the second openings are located at positions such that the first openings and the second openings do not overlap completely with each other in a direction orthogonal to a movement direction of the movable blade with respect to the fixed blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami
  • Publication number: 20130039674
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit, wherein the fixing unit includes a first temperature detection member detecting the temperature of a first non-passing area of the fixing unit; a second temperature detection member detecting the temperature of a second non-passing area; and a cooling unit supplying air so as to simultaneously cool the first non-passing area and the second non-passing area, wherein the image forming apparatus is configured, when the absolute value of the difference between the detection temperature of the temperature detection members becomes not less than a threshold value, while air is being supplied to the non-passing area and the second non-passing area, to stop the supplying of air by the cooling unit and continue recording material fixing processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami
  • Publication number: 20120224874
    Abstract: A fixing apparatus that conveys a printing medium to a fixing nip portion formed by rotating members, and fixes an image onto the printing medium by heat from heating elements. The fixing apparatus also includes a safety element, a rotation detection circuit, and a limiting circuit. The safety element is in a power supply path to supply electrical power to the heating elements and to shut off the path in response with an abnormal temperature. The rotation detection circuit detects a rotation state of the rotating members. The limiting circuit limits a drive of a second driving circuit per a rotation detection circuit output. A first driving circuit detects that the circuit drives a first heating element per a control signal, regardless of the rotating members rotation state, and the second driving circuit drives a second heating element per a control signal and the output from the rotation detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami
  • Patent number: 8200113
    Abstract: A fixing apparatus including a rotation detection circuit which detects the rotation state of the rotating member or pressing member, and one to (N?1) limiting circuits which limit driving of one to (N?1) driving circuits in accordance with an output from the rotation detection circuit, wherein when the rotation detection circuit detects that the rotating member or pressing member is not rotating, the one to (N?1) limiting circuits limit driving of the one to (N?1) driving circuits in accordance with the output from the rotation detection circuit to suppress energization of the heating elements regardless of the driving signals from the control unit to the driving circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami
  • Patent number: 8139963
    Abstract: An image fixing apparatus has an integration circuit which is provided in a signal path from a comparison circuit to a relay drive circuit and integrates a signal input to the integration circuit, wherein an integral value of the signal input to said integration circuit reaches a reference value; and a latch circuit having an input port connected to a signal path from said integration circuit to the relay drive circuit and an output port connected to a signal path from the comparison circuit to the integration circuit. The latch circuit continuously transmits a signal from said output port to the integration circuit, upon a change in a signal level of the input port so that the relay is switched to the open position, and latches the relay in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami
  • Patent number: 7793696
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a roll sheet holder for producing labels which can be easily put on a slim stick-type member used in foods without being wound on and adhered to the stick-type member, and be completely removed from the stick-type member. The roll sheet is made of a continuous thermal sheet having self-coloring property having no adhesive layer on its back side, and the like, and wound on a roll sheet holder with a back face facing outward. A plurality of encoder marks are provided on an edge of the back face of the roll sheet in a width direction, with predetermined pitch size in a feeding direction. The predetermined pitch size of the encoder marks is arranged to be equal to a length between cutting lines along which the printed roll sheet is cut. Behind the encoder marks in the feeding direction, a dog-leg shaped slits, projecting backward in the feeding direction are made in each substantially center between the cutting lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Haruki Matsumoto, Yasunori Nakamura, Terumasa Hoshino, Hiroshi Takami
  • Publication number: 20100209132
    Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a plurality of voltage rising circuits each of which can be driven at a different duty ratio so as to convert and output a voltage output from a direct current power source according to a plurality of loads; and a control circuit which controls an input voltage from the direct current power source to each voltage rising circuit according to drive condition of the voltage rising circuit having the highest duty ratio of the plurality of voltage rising circuits. This configuration can provide a highly productive power supply apparatus capable of reducing a ripple voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami
  • Publication number: 20100086340
    Abstract: A cutting mechanism for a printing apparatus that cuts a printing medium and includes a fixed blade having first through holes and a movable blade having second through holes and slidingly movable with respect to the fixed blade, wherein each of first openings of the first through holes on a first sliding face is at least partly included in a first overlapping portion, each of second openings of the second through holes on a second sliding face is at least partly included in a second overlapping portion, and the first openings and the second openings are located at positions such that the first openings and the second openings do not overlap completely with each other in a direction orthogonal to a movement direction of the movable blade with respect to the fixed blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventor: Hiroshi TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20090252521
    Abstract: An image fixing apparatus according to the present invention comprises: an integration circuit which is provided in a signal path from said comparison circuit to said relay drive circuit and integrates a signal input to said integration circuit, wherein an integral value of the signal input to said integration circuit reaches a reference value; and a latch circuit having an input port connected to a signal path from said integration circuit to said relay drive circuit and an output port connected to a signal path from said comparison circuit to said integration circuit, wherein said latch circuit continuously transmits a signal from said output port to said integration circuit, upon a change in a signal level of said input port so that said relay is switched to the open position, and latches said relay in the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takami