Patents by Inventor Koichi Ito

Koichi Ito 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).

  • Patent number: 9273372
    Abstract: Provided are a method for manufacturing a stabilizer and a heating device, the method being able to suppress the occurrence of unevenness in the hardness of a curved portion of a semimanufactured product of the stabilizer and reduce the process time in a tempering process. In electric heating in a first heating step (step A), the temperature of an inside portion of a shoulder can be steeply increased to a temperature (<UA) close to a target temperature (UA) by continuously passing an electric current. In electric heating in a second heating step (step C), the temperature difference between the maximum achieved temperature of the inside portion of the shoulder and the maximum achieved temperature of an outside portion thereof can be decreased by intermittently passing an electric current, thereby making it possible to set the maximum achieved temperatures to a desired target temperature (UA) or a temperature close thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Koshita, Yutaka Wakabayashi, Kosuke Takeo, Koichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20160037009
    Abstract: A method for controlling a job processing apparatus includes determining, when an instruction is issued to input a job by a voice that is input via a voice receiving unit, whether there is another job being executed. If the determining determines that the other job is being executed, an inquiry is made of a user about whether to interrupt the other job to execute the input job or to execute the input job without interrupting the other job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventor: Koichi Ito
  • Patent number: 9207218
    Abstract: There is provided a capillary column comprising a flat cross section and a desired theoretical plate number and having both high resolution and high sample load capacity. The capillary column 1 comprising a stationary phase on an inactivated inner surface, which is used in gas chromatography, comprises a narrow part 3 formed in a central part of a cross section of internal space and a bulge part 4 formed on each of both sides of the narrow part 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: FRONTIER LABORATORIES LTD.
    Inventors: Chuichi Watanabe, Koichi Ito, Atsushi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9188767
    Abstract: A relay lens system for a high dynamic range projector is provided. The relay lens system comprising: a light input; a light output; one or more lenses configured to relay light from the light input to the light output; and, an aperture stop configured to provide a given numerical aperture to the light being relayed through the one or more lenses, the combination of the given numerical aperture and the one or more lenses are configured to introduce a spherical aberration in the light between the light input and the light output, the spherical aberration changing a shape of a pixel in the light from an approximate square shape at the light input to a function having an upper boundary and a lower boundary based on a distance from a center of the pixel, and a pixel dimension of a dither pattern in the light entering the light input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Koichi Ito, Mang Li, John Domm, Jerome D. Shields
  • Publication number: 20150291206
    Abstract: A clutch apparatus is configured such that a first mode, a second mode and a third can be switched among these three modes. In the first mode, the rotating force is not transmitted between the steering-wheel-side housing and the tire-side housing. In the second mode, the steering-wheel-side housing and the tire-side housing are being mutually locked in place and, in this locked state, the rotating force can be transmitted to for the rotation in the both directions. In the third mode, the transmission of the rotating force can be canceled such that while the rotating force can be transmitted, between the steering-wheel-side housing and the tire-side housing, relative to the rotation in one direction, the rotation of either the steering-wheel-side housing or the tire-side housing in the other direction is allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20150272099
    Abstract: One object is to provide a reel leg fixing apparatus including a hood portion having an efficiently reduced thickness and weight while maintaining a sufficient strength. Another object of the present invention is to provide a reel leg fixing apparatus including a hood portion having a reduced thickness and weight while efficiently ensuring necessary strength at relevant portions, and a method of fabricating the reel leg fixing apparatus. Still another object of the present invention is to provide a reel leg fixing apparatus including a hood portion having an oblique end that allows weight reduction and maintains a sufficient strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Oikawa, Hideyuki Naito, Koichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20150276689
    Abstract: There is provided a gas phase component analyzer which obtains excellent separation performance, when a gas phase component mixture generated by catalysis is analyzed on-line. A gas phase component analyzer 1 includes heating apparatuses 2 and 3 which generate a first gas phase component mixture, a catalyst 14, a carrier gas introduction apparatus 9, first pressure control apparatuses 17 and 20 which bring the first gas phase component mixture into contact with the catalyst 14 under a predetermined pressure, to generate a second gas phase component mixture, a gas conduit 16, a column 26, a detector 29, second pressure control apparatuses 21 and 24 which control the second gas phase component mixture to pressure at which passing the column 26 is possible and an analysis is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Chuichi Watanabe, Atsushi Watanabe, Koichi Ito, Kaige Wang
  • Publication number: 20150272435
    Abstract: A fundus photography device includes: a fundus illumination optical system that illuminates a fundus of an eye by illumination light; a fundus photography optical system; an OCT optical system; an anterior chamber observation optical system for observing an anterior chamber observation image of the eye illuminated by the anterior chamber illumination light source; a first wavelength separation member that sets a first optical axis commonly shared by the fundus illumination optical system and the fundus photography optical system to be coaxial with a second optical axis commonly shared by the OCT optical system and an anterior chamber observation optical system; and a second wavelength separation member that forms the second optical axis by setting an optical axis of the OCT optical system to be coaxial with an optical axis of the anterior chamber observation optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Koichi ITO, Naoto HONDA
  • Publication number: 20150280838
    Abstract: This specification discloses an excellent communication device of a field coupling type that increases field coupling efficiency between electrodes and realizes a small-sized device. This specification also discloses a communication system and an electrode. A communication device 100 includes: a first resonant circuit 121 connected in series to an electrode unit 110 formed with two conductor plates; and a second resonant circuit 122 connected in parallel to the electrode unit 110 and the first resonant circuit 121, which are connected in series. The constant of a resonant circuit is determined so that the voltage V2 to be applied to the electrode unit 110 becomes higher than the voltage V1 to be applied to the electrode unit 110 and the first resonant circuit 121 connected in series. In this manner, a field coupling electrode that has a very high coupling strength at a target frequency is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kato, Koichi Ito, Noriyuki Mukai, Masaya Takano, Takeshi Maeda, Seigo Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20150263792
    Abstract: The communication system includes a first communication device, a second communication device, and a third communication device. The first communication device outputs a high frequency alternating current power, and a power receiving circuit of the second communication device receives the high frequency alternating current power via a second antenna. A power line is connected between the second antenna and the power receiving circuit. A first power line has a first semicircle portion and a second power line has a second semicircle portion. The first and second semicircle portions are combined together to provide a loop-shaped antenna. The third communication device receives the high frequency alternating current power output from the loop-shaped antenna. At least two of the first, second, or third communication devices transmit or receive communication signals using respective antennas. The first and second power lines are twisted with each other at a portion other than the loop-shaped antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Saitou, Akira Takaoka, Koji Ito, Koichi Ito
  • Patent number: 9128351
    Abstract: A shutter apparatus includes a blade member, a blade moving member, a locking member, a cam member, and a restriction member. The cam member moves the locking member from the locking position to the non-locking position so that the blade moving member moves from the closing position to the opening position. The restriction member moves from the non-restriction position to the restriction position after the blade moving member moves from the closing position to the opening position. The cam member moves the locking member in a direction opposite to a direction from the non-locking position to the locking position so that the locking member moves the restriction member from the restriction position to the non-restriction position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanori Sakai, Koichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20150230443
    Abstract: A lure has a lip properly slanted down forward which is attached in a neighborhood of a front end portion of a lure body that is formed to have an external appearance imitating a small fish. A head section of the lure body is formed to have a tapered thin edge shape in top view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: MEGABASS INC.
    Inventor: Koichi ITO
  • Publication number: 20150211942
    Abstract: Provided is a cryogenic temperature measuring resistor element including a metallic temperature measuring resistor wire, an electric insulator made of a polycrystalline ceramic material, and a filler filled between the electric insulator and the temperature measuring resistor wire. The filler includes polycrystalline inorganic electric insulating powder, particles of the insulating powder being connected by glass. The glass has a lower softening point than respective melting points of the inorganic electric insulating powder, the temperature measuring resistor wire, and the electric insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Shinichiro Saraie, Takashi Mihara, Koichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20150197275
    Abstract: A clutch device includes: a handle-side housing in which a plurality of lock grooves are formed to be spaced apart from each other in an inner circumference and in a circumferential direction; a tire-side housing; a plurality of lock bars that are provided on the tire-side housing so as to be capable of moving in a radial direction of the tire-side housing and arranged to be spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the tire-side housing; and an advancing/retracting mechanism that causes the lock bar to advance and retract in a direction toward the lock groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Ito
  • Patent number: 9078595
    Abstract: An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus includes a light interference optical unit, an irradiation unit, a luminance transition information detecting unit, a focused state detecting unit, and a guide unit. The light interference optical unit is configured to acquire a depth profile of a patient's eye tissue. The luminance transition information detecting unit is configured to control a first focus position adjusting unit to shift a focus position of a measurement light to acquire a depth profile in each focus position. The focused state detecting unit is configured to detect a focused state in the patient's eye tissue based on luminance transition information acquired by the luminance transition information detecting unit. The guide unit is configured to guide a focus position of a laser beam to be adjusted based on a result of detection of the focused state detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yokosuka, Tokio Ueno, Naho Murakami, Seiji Taki, Koichi Ito
  • Patent number: 9076825
    Abstract: When an oxide semiconductor film is microfabricated to have an island shape, with the use of a hard mask, unevenness of an end portion of the oxide semiconductor film can be suppressed. Specifically, a hard mask is formed over the oxide semiconductor film, a resist is formed over the hard mask, light exposure is performed to form a resist mask, the hard mask is processed using the resist mask as a mask, the oxide semiconductor film is processed using the processed hard mask as a mask, the resist mask and the processed hard mask are removed, a source electrode and a drain electrode are formed in contact with the processed oxide semiconductor film, a gate insulating film is formed over the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a gate electrode is formed over the gate insulating film, the gate electrode overlapping with the oxide semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Yamamoto, Koichi Ito, Motomu Kurata, Taiga Muraoka, Daigo Ito
  • Publication number: 20150184267
    Abstract: Provided are a method for manufacturing a stabilizer and a heating device, the method being able to suppress the occurrence of unevenness in the hardness of a curved portion of a semimanufactured product of the stabilizer and reduce the process time in a tempering process. In electric heating in a first heating step (step A), the temperature of an inside portion of a shoulder can be steeply increased to a temperature (<UA) close to a target temperature (UA) by continuously passing an electric current. In electric heating in a second heating step (step C), the temperature difference between the maximum achieved temperature of the inside portion of the shoulder and the maximum achieved temperature of an outside portion thereof can be decreased by intermittently passing an electric current, thereby making it possible to set the maximum achieved temperatures to a desired target temperature (UA) or a temperature close thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Koshita, Yutaka Wakabayashi, Kosuke Takeo, Koichi Ito
  • Patent number: 9045426
    Abstract: The present inventions provide a method for commercially producing a 1,2 -dihydropyridine-2-one compound represented by the following formula (III-a) wherein the ring A represents an optionally substituted 2-pyridyl group, the ring B represents an optionally substituted phenyl group, and the ring C represents an optionally substituted phenyl group. Further, the invention provides crystals of 3-(2-cyanophenyl)-5-(2-pyridyl)-1-phenyl-1,2 -dihydropyridin-2-one and production processes therefore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: EISAI R&D MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Itaru Arimoto, Satoshi Nagato, Yukiko Sugaya, Yoshio Urawa, Koichi Ito, Hiroyuki Naka, Takao Omae, Akio Kayano, Katsutoshi Nishiura
  • Patent number: 9041949
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus configured to enter in a first power state and a second power state, a reception unit configured to receive a power down command, an operation unit configured to receive an operation of a user, and a control unit configured, if the reception unit receives the power down command, in a case where an elapse time without operating the operation unit is less than a preset time, to execute shift processing for shifting the power state of the image forming apparatus from the second power state to the first power state after elapse of a predetermined time after receiving the data, and in a case where the elapse time without operating the operation unit is equal to or more than the preset time, to execute the shift processing before the elapse of the predetermined time after receiving the power down command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20150124337
    Abstract: A relay lens system for a high dynamic range projector is provided. The relay lens system comprising: a light input; a light output; one or more lenses configured to relay light from the light input to the light output; and, an aperture stop configured to provide a given numerical aperture to the light being relayed through the one or more lenses, the combination of the given numerical aperture and the one or more lenses are configured to introduce a spherical aberration in the light between the light input and the light output, the spherical aberration changing a shape of a pixel in the light from an approximate square shape at the light input to a function having an upper boundary and a lower boundary based on a distance from a centre of the pixel, and a pixel dimension of a dither pattern in the light entering the light input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Koichi ITO, Mang LI, John DOMM, Jerome D. SHIELDS