Patents by Inventor Kenichi Ozawa

Kenichi Ozawa 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: 20190024782
    Abstract: A sensor mounting may include an accommodation unit; a sensor case; and a screw member. A flow passage body may include the accommodation unit, and a flow passage opening. The fluid pressure sensor may include a sensor main body, and the sensor case. The sensor case may include a sensing hole. The sensor case may include a columnar portion disposed along a center axis, and a flange portion which protrudes from the columnar portion. The accommodation unit may include a female screw provided in a radially inside surface of the accommodation unit. The screw member may include the screw member may include a hole portion, and a male screw. The screw member may be disposed to be opposed to an upper side of the flange portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIRAI, Tomoka OSAWA, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Kenichi OZAWA
  • Patent number: 10119878
    Abstract: In an oil-pressure-sensor attachment structure according to an aspect of the invention, an oil channel body includes a lower body and an upper body arranged at an upper side of the lower body in a superposed manner. The attachment structure includes the upper body, a sensor case, and a connection member including an electrical connection portion that electrically connects an external power supply with a sensor main body. The connection member contacts the upper body from the upper side. The upper body has a through hole in an up-down direction. The sensor case includes a columnar portion that extends in the up-down direction and is inserted into the through hole, a flange portion that protrudes outward in the radial direction from the columnar portion and is arranged to face the lower side of the upper body, and a first hook portion that is hooked to the connection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoka Osawa, Hironobu Wakabayashi, Toshiaki Nakamura, Hiroshi Tatsuta, Kenichi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 10051164
    Abstract: There is provided a camera that includes a body-side mount. The body-side mount includes a first reference plane, has a first flange back distance from the first reference plane to an imaging plane, and allows an adapter to be mounted on the first reference plane. The adapter includes a second reference plane, and has a second flange back distance from the second reference plane to the imaging plane. The second flange back distance is shorter than the first flange back distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Ozawa, Satoshi Moriyama, Junpei Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20180212214
    Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of flat or square type batteries that each have a positive terminal and a negative terminal; a holder that has an opening, and retains the batteries in such a manner that the positive terminal and the negative terminal are positioned toward the opening, and that the principal surfaces of the batteries face each other; a cover that is disposed over the opening; a circuit board that is disposed over the cover; and a plurality of connection members that are disposed between the cover and the circuit board to electrically connect the positive terminal and negative terminal. Some of the connection members retain a peripheral portion of the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka SAKAI, Fumihiko SUZUKI, Yasushi MORI, Kenichi OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180087991
    Abstract: In an oil-pressure-sensor attachment structure according to an aspect of the invention, an oil channel body includes a lower body and an upper body arranged at an upper side of the lower body in a superposed manner. The attachment structure includes the upper body, a sensor case, and a connection member including an electrical connection portion that electrically connects an external power supply with a sensor main body. The connection member contacts the upper body from the upper side. The upper body has a through hole in an up-down direction. The sensor case includes a columnar portion that extends in the up-down direction and is inserted into the through hole, a flange portion that protrudes outward in the radial direction from the columnar portion and is arranged to face the lower side of the upper body, and a first hook portion that is hooked to the connection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoka OSAWA, Hironobu WAKABAYASHI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Hiroshi TATSUTA, Kenichi OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180087992
    Abstract: A guide protrusion includes first walls protruding upwards from an upper face of a body, facing each other across an opening in a first direction, and first protrusions protruding from each first wall toward the other. A receptive portion between the first walls has a first opening, opening to one side in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The sensor case is received from the first opening following the second direction. The guide protrusion has a first movement restricting face facing another side in the second direction. The sensor case includes a columnar portion extending vertically through a gap between the first protrusions, a flange at least partially between the upper face and the first protrusions in the vertical direction, within the receptive portion, and a facing portion on the other side of the first movement restricting face in the second direction, facing the first movement restricting face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoka OSAWA, Hironobu WAKABAYASHI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Hiroshi TATSUTA, Kenichi OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170353763
    Abstract: A behavior management system includes one detection apparatus including at least one piezoelectric element diposed at a place where the piezoelectric element receives an effect of an action of a person, and circuitry. The circuitry detects a voltage output from the piezoelectric element when the piezoelectric element is applied with force caused by the action of the person, determines a level of the action of the person at the place based on a change of amplitude and polarity of the detected voltage, and outputs information associated to the determined level of the action of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventor: Kenichi OZAWA
  • Patent number: 9521986
    Abstract: A portable radiographic imaging system includes an FPD cassette and a portable console, each of which is configured to wirelessly communicate with a portable relay unit. The relay unit prohibits a radiation generator from emitting radiation when judging that a wireless communication connection has not been established between the relay unit and the radiation generator, and allows the radiation generator to emit radiation when judging that the wireless communication connection has not been established between the relay unit and the radiation generator after an interlock release signal is transferred from the console or the like to the radiation generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ozawa, Masahiro Kojima
  • Publication number: 20160330353
    Abstract: There is provided a camera that includes a body-side mount. The body-side mount includes a first reference plane, has a first flange back distance from the first reference plane to an imaging plane, and allows an adapter to be mounted on the first reference plane. The adapter includes a second reference plane, and has a second flange back distance from the second reference plane to the imaging plane. The second flange back distance is shorter than the first flange back distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: KENICHI OZAWA, SATOSHI MORIYAMA, JUNPEI YAMAUCHI
  • Patent number: 9429819
    Abstract: A camera that has an optical unit includes: a base plate; a plurality of openings which is provided on the base plate and each of which has a substantially rectangular opening shape having long sides and short sides; and a plurality of optical components each of which covers any of the plurality of openings. The plurality of openings is disposed to be cyclically placed in one optical path through rotation of the base plate, and is disposed such that a part of a long side of each opening thereof faces a part of a short side of another opening thereof adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Ozawa, Sunao Kushiro, Satoshi Moriyama, Junpei Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20160217333
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus provides information to a user of a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a detector configured to detect a first obstacle around the vehicle, by using a monitoring unit configured to monitor an area around the vehicle; an acquirer configured to acquire information relating to a position of the detected first obstacle; an information transmitter configured to transmit first obstacle information including the acquired information relating to the position of the first obstacle, to a first external apparatus; an information receiver configured to receive second obstacle information including information relating to a position of a second obstacle, from a second external apparatus; and a display controller configured to display, on a displayer, information relating to the second obstacle, based on the received second obstacle information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi OZAWA
  • Patent number: 9378558
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a self-position/self-orientation calculation unit calculating self-position and/or self-orientation in the predetermined coordinate system based on a marker in acquired imaged image data when it is determined that the marker exists within a predetermined area and the marker is imaged in the imaged image data and based on received position information and physical amounts measured by sensors for measuring the physical amounts to be used for autonomous navigation when the marker does not exist within the predetermined area or the marker is not imaged in the imaged image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kajiwara, Tamon Sadasue, Kenichi Ozawa, Takayuki Saitoh
  • Patent number: 9292459
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, an arbitration unit that controls access to the storage unit, and a plurality of image processing units that are connected to the arbitration unit and access the storage unit via the arbitration unit. And, an operation analysis apparatus includes: an access monitoring unit monitoring which of the image processing units the arbitration unit permits access to the storage unit; a log generation unit generating, in response to the fact that the access monitoring unit detects that the image processing unit with access permitted has been switched, information on the image processing unit with access permitted as a log; a log storage unit storing therein the generated log; and a remaining capacity determination unit determining whether the storage capacity of the log storage unit after storing the log has become equal to or smaller than a particular capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Kenichi Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20150212394
    Abstract: A camera that has an optical unit includes: a base plate; a plurality of openings which is provided on the base plate and each of which has a substantially rectangular opening shape having long sides and short sides; and a plurality of optical components each of which covers any of the plurality of openings. The plurality of openings is disposed to be cyclically placed in one optical path through rotation of the base plate, and is disposed such that a part of a long side of each opening thereof faces a part of a short side of another opening thereof adjacent thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Kenichi OZAWA, Sunao KUSHIRO, Satoshi MORIYAMA, Junpei YAMAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150078521
    Abstract: A portable radiographic imaging system includes an FPD cassette and a portable console, each of which is configured to wirelessly communicate with a portable relay unit. The relay unit prohibits a radiation generator from emitting radiation when judging that a wireless communication connection has not been established between the relay unit and the radiation generator, and allows the radiation generator to emit radiation when judging that the wireless communication connection has not been established between the relay unit and the radiation generator after an interlock release signal is transferred from the console or the like to the radiation generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Kenichi OZAWA, Masahiro KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20150070714
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image including a marker used for an augmented reality process; an information acquisition unit that acquires first information which is embedded in the marker from the marker and is related to a size of the marker in a real world before the image is printed; a calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of the first information and a printing magnification of the image, the size of the marker in the real world after the image is printed; a replacement unit that replaces the first information embedded in the marker with second information related to the calculated size; and a printing unit that prints, at the printing magnification, the image including the marker in which the second information is embedded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Tamon SADASUE, Kenichi OZAWA, Yasuhiro KAJIWARA, Takayuki SAITOH
  • Publication number: 20150071493
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a self-position/self-orientation calculation unit calculating self-position and/or self-orientation in the predetermined coordinate system based on a marker in acquired imaged image data when it is determined that the marker exists within a predetermined area and the marker is imaged in the imaged image data and based on received position information and physical amounts measured by sensors for measuring the physical amounts to be used for autonomous navigation when the marker does not exist within the predetermined area or the marker is not imaged in the imaged image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KAJIWARA, Tamon SADASUE, Kenichi OZAWA, Takayuki SAITOH
  • Publication number: 20130246677
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, an arbitration unit that controls access to the storage unit, and a plurality of image processing units that are connected to the arbitration unit and access the storage unit via the arbitration unit. And, an operation analysis apparatus includes: an access monitoring unit monitoring which of the image processing units the arbitration unit permits access to the storage unit; a log generation unit generating, in response to the fact that the access monitoring unit detects that the image processing unit with access permitted has been switched, information on the image processing unit with access permitted as a log; a log storage unit storing therein the generated log; and a remaining capacity determination unit determining whether the storage capacity of the log storage unit after storing the log has become equal to or smaller than a particular capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Kenichi OZAWA
  • Patent number: 7876342
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus for forming a color image by superposing component color images, a control device obtains position data representing a forming position of each of plural registration mark images for the component color images with respect to a positional reference value arbitrarily determined, divides the position data into each of a unit reference range representing a range in which one mark image is formed, converts the position data divided for each unit reference range into those based on respective reference values representing the front edge of the unit reference ranges, extracts the position data representing ranges common to the mutually overlapping ranges each of which is represented by a couple of position data corresponding to the rising and falling edges of a passage timing pulse as read position data of the mark image of the component color, and calculates the amounts of positional deviations of the component color images from one another on the basis of the position data extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Maruyama, Hiroyuki Arai, Toshihiro Motoi, Kenji Izumiya, Ryuji Okutomi, Shinobu Kishi, Satoshi Ogata, Kenichi Ozawa, Tadayuki Ueda, Yumiko Higashi
  • Patent number: 7638812
    Abstract: A method for soldering a semiconductor optical device including a resin-made optical lens to an object by a reflow soldering process using a lead-free solder, and a semiconductor optical device for use in the method. A semiconductor optical device including a silicone resin-made optical lens as the resin-made optical lens is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Asahi Rubber Inc.
    Inventors: Masutsugu Tasaki, Kenichi Ozawa