Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Maeda

Hirotaka Maeda 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: 20210191295
    Abstract: In an image forming device, a first fixing member has a roller. A second fixing member has a belt to form a nip together with the first fixing member. A first motor drives the roller. A pressure modifying mechanism modifies a nip pressure at the nip to selected one of a first nip pressure and a second nip pressure smaller than the first nip pressure. A controller starts driving the first motor to drive the roller in a case where a print command is received in a state that the nip pressure is the second nip pressure. The controller modifies the nip pressure from the second nip pressure to the first nip pressure after the driving is performed and fixes the developer image on the sheet in a state that the nip pressure is the first nip pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumitake TAJIRI, Yusuke MIZUNO, Tokifumi TANAKA, Tomonori WATANABE, Sadaharu KATO, Hirotaka !MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190044906
    Abstract: A server device includes a receiving unit, a browse page creation unit, a mail creation unit, and a mail transmission unit. The receiving unit receives an image transmitted from an electronic camera via a wireless network. The browse page creation unit creates a browse page for browsing the transmitted image from the electronic camera, the image having been received by the receiving unit. The mail creation unit creates a notification mail for introducing the browse page that has been created by the browse page creation unit to a person other than a user of the electronic camera. Furthermore, the mail transmission unit transmits the notification mail that has been created by the mail creation unit to a specified mail address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MAEDA, Mio NAGISA, Motoyuki KUBOI, Gaku ITO, Takeshi SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20170295123
    Abstract: A server device that includes a receiving unit, a browse page creation unit, a mail creation unit, and a mail transmission unit. The receiving unit receives an image transmitted from an electronic camera via a wireless network. The browse page creation unit creates a browse page for browsing the transmitted image from the electronic camera, the image having been received by the receiving unit. The mail creation unit creates a notification mail for introducing the browse page that has been created by the browse page creation unit to a person other than a user of the electronic camera. Furthermore, the mail transmission unit transmits the notification mail that has been created by the mail creation unit to a specified mail address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MAEDA, Mio NAGISA, Motoyuki KUBOI, Gaku ITO, Takeshi SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 9458328
    Abstract: Emulsion paint type damping coatings show an excellent film forming property even if it leaves at low temperature from 5 to 20° C. It does not generate a defective coated film like swellings after baking drying and brings out an excellent damping performance within a range of 20 to 60° C. That is, it contains one or more than two kinds of organic chemicals within a range of 0.5% to 5% by weight in total and the MFT, the minimum film forming temperature of the entire resin emulsion is within a range of 5 to 15° C. and the boiling point for a film forming assistant is within a range of 150 to 240° C., thus, it enables to obtain an excellent film forming property at 5° C. and even in baking drying and does not generate a defective coated film like swellings as well. As a result, emulsion paint type damping coatings bring out an excellent damping performance within a range of 20 to 60° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: AISIN KAKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masazumi Teramoto, Hirotaka Maeda, Junichi Kawai, Yutaka Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20160269575
    Abstract: A server device that includes a receiving unit, a browse page creation unit, a mail creation unit, and a mail transmission unit. The receiving unit receives an image transmitted from an electronic camera via a wireless network. The browse page creation unit creates a browse page for browsing the transmitted image from the electronic camera, the image having been received by the receiving unit. The mail creation unit creates a notification mail for introducing the browse page that has been created by the browse page creation unit to a person other than a user of the electronic camera. Furthermore, the mail transmission unit transmits the notification mail that has been created by the mail creation unit to a specified mail address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MAEDA, Mio NAGISA, Motoyuki KUBOI, Gaku ITO, Takeshi SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 9380014
    Abstract: A server device that includes a receiving unit, a browse page creation unit, a mail creation unit, and a mail transmission unit. The receiving unit receives an image transmitted from an electronic camera via a wireless network. The browse page creation unit creates a browse page for browsing the transmitted image from the electronic camera, the image having been received by the receiving unit. The mail creation unit creates a notification mail for introducing the browse page that has been created by the browse page creation unit to a person other than a user of the electronic camera. Furthermore, the mail transmission unit transmits the notification mail that has been created by the mail creation unit to a specified mail address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Maeda, Mio Nagisa, Motoyuki Kuboi, Gaku Ito, Takeshi Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20140325004
    Abstract: A server device that includes a receiving unit, a browse page creation unit, a mail creation unit, and a mail transmission unit. The receiving unit receives an image transmitted from an electronic camera via a wireless network. The browse page creation unit creates a browse page for browsing the transmitted image from the electronic camera, the image having been received by the receiving unit. The mail creation unit creates a notification mail for introducing the browse page that has been created by the browse page creation unit to a person other than a user of the electronic camera. Furthermore, the mail transmission unit transmits the notification mail that has been created by the mail creation unit to a specified mail address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Hirotaka MAEDA, Mio NAGISA, Motoyuki KUBOI, Gaku ITO, Takeshi SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 8599274
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a recording means for recording a captured image transferred from an electronic camera; and a user registration means for registering the electronic camera and a user in correlation based on user registration information that has been input by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Maeda, Seiichi Azuma
  • Patent number: 8045106
    Abstract: A substrate for a liquid crystal device includes: an electrode film provided on a display area on the substrate; an alignment film which covers at least the display area and is subjected to an alignment process by rubbing; and a band-shaped projection provided in a peripheral area outside the display area so as at least to intersect the rubbing direction and extend along the display area, in which the height of the band-shaped projection on the substrate is higher than the height of the surface of the electrode film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Maeda, Akinori Hashizume, Yoshio Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20110128389
    Abstract: An electronic camera, which captures an image and transmits the image via wireless network to a server, comprises a transmitting person information registration means that registers transmitting person information entered by a user, and a transmission inhibit means that inhibits image transmission to the server if transmitting person information is not registered by the transmitting person information registration means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Maeda, Mio Nagisa, Motoyuki Kuboi, Gaku Ito, Takeshi Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20100160495
    Abstract: Emulsion paint type damping coatings show an excellent film forming property even if it leaves at low temperature from 5 to 20° C. It does not generate a defective coated film like swellings after baking drying and brings out an excellent damping performance within a range of 20 to 60° C. That is, it contains one or more than two kinds of organic chemicals within a range of 0.5% to 5% by weight in total and the MFT, the minimum film forming temperature of the entire resin emulsion is within a range of 5 to 15° C. and the boiling point for a film forming assistant is within a range of 150 to 240° C., thus, it enables to obtain an excellent film forming property at 5° C. and even in baking drying and does not generate a defective coated film like swellings as well. As a result, emulsion paint type damping coatings bring out an excellent damping performance within a range of 20 to 60° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicants: AISIN KAKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masazumi Teramoto, Hirotaka Maeda, Junichi Kawai, Yutaka Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20100085443
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a recording means for recording a captured image transferred from an electronic camera; and a user registration means for registering the electronic camera and a user in correlation based on user registration information that has been input by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Maeda, Seiichi Azuma
  • Publication number: 20100049810
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a recording means in which first and second recording areas for recording a captured image transferred from an electronic camera have been set; a registration means for performing user registration for the electronic camera in response to a registration instruction by a user; and a record control means for recording the captured image in the first recording area before the user registration is performed by the registration means, and for moving the captured image that has been recorded in the first recording area into the second recording area and recording the captured image in the second recording area after the user registration is performed by the registration means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirotaka Maeda
  • Publication number: 20090059149
    Abstract: A substrate for a liquid crystal device includes: an electrode film provided on a display area on the substrate; an alignment film which covers at least the display area and is subjected to an alignment process by rubbing; and a band-shaped projection provided in a peripheral area outside the display area so as at least to intersect the rubbing direction and extend along the display area, in which the height of the band-shaped projection on the substrate is higher than the height of the surface of the electrode film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MAEDA, Akinori HASHIZUME, Yoshio TANIGUCHI