Patents by Inventor Mamoru Idaka

Mamoru Idaka 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: 11970007
    Abstract: A ROM unit mounted to a bottle has a plurality of terminal plates on the front end surface of the ROM unit. The ROM unit is movable in a direction orthogonal to a bottle axis Ax, and can be positioned at a retreat position where an interference with a contamination preventing eaves is avoided, and a contact position projected more front than the retreat position. The terminal plates can be electrically contacted with reservoir terminals when positioning at the contact position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miyauchi, Mamoru Idaka
  • Publication number: 20230191789
    Abstract: A ROM unit mounted to a bottle has a plurality of terminal plates on the front end surface of the ROM unit. The ROM unit is movable in a direction orthogonal to a bottle axis Ax, and can be positioned at a retreat position where an interference with a contamination preventing eaves is avoided, and a contact position projected more front than the retreat position. The terminal plates can be electrically contacted with reservoir terminals when positioning at the contact position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIYAUCHI, Mamoru IDAKA
  • Patent number: 11618261
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus I includes a printing head 1 configured to house, on the inside, a nozzle 12, a charging electrode 13, a deflection electrode 15, and a gutter 16, a maintenance-pattern storing unit 102b configured to store, respectively in association with types of abnormalities, a plurality of kinds of maintenance operations executable in the ink jet recording apparatus I, a flag storing unit 102a configured to store occurrence of an abnormality in the ink jet recording apparatus I as an error flag corresponding to a type of the abnormality, and a control unit 101 configured to select, based on the type of the abnormality corresponding to the error flag stored in the flag storing unit 102a, one maintenance operation out of the plurality of kinds of maintenance operations stored in the maintenance-pattern storing unit 102b and execute the maintenance operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru Idaka, Atsushi Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11607887
    Abstract: A ROM unit mounted to a bottle has a plurality of terminal plates on the front end surface of the ROM unit. The ROM unit is movable in a direction orthogonal to a bottle axis Ax, and can be positioned at a retreat position where an interference with a contamination preventing eaves is avoided, and a contact position projected more front than the retreat position. The terminal plates can be electrically contacted with reservoir terminals when positioning at the contact position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miyauchi, Mamoru Idaka
  • Patent number: 11298943
    Abstract: To prevent a printing head not placed on a cleaning placing unit from being cleaned and prevent contamination of an ambient environment by cleaning liquid. An ink jet recording system includes a placement detecting unit configured to detect that a printing head 1 is placed on a cleaning placing unit 200. The placement detecting unit is configured to, when detecting that the printing head 1 is placed, transmit a signal based on placement confirmation for the printing head 1 to a controller connected to the printing head 1 placed on the cleaning placing unit 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kitamura, Takanori Ando, Minoru Taneda, Mamoru Idaka
  • Publication number: 20220032628
    Abstract: A ROM unit mounted to a bottle has a plurality of terminal plates on the front end surface of the ROM unit. The ROM unit is movable in a direction orthogonal to a bottle axis Ax, and can be positioned at a retreat position where an interference with a contamination preventing eaves is avoided, and a contact position projected more front than the retreat position. The terminal plates can be electrically contacted with reservoir terminals when positioning at the contact position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIYAUCHI, Mamoru IDAKA
  • Publication number: 20210178767
    Abstract: To prevent a printing head not placed on a cleaning placing unit from being cleaned and prevent contamination of an ambient environment by cleaning liquid. An ink jet recording system includes a placement detecting unit configured to detect that a printing head 1 is placed on a cleaning placing unit 200. The placement detecting unit is configured to, when detecting that the printing head 1 is placed, transmit a signal based on placement confirmation for the printing head 1 to a controller connected to the printing head 1 placed on the cleaning placing unit 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi KITAMURA, Takanori ANDO, Minoru TANEDA, Mamoru IDAKA
  • Patent number: 11000918
    Abstract: To prevent an output decrease of laser light due to impurities that could be formed in a guide-light emitting device or an imaging device. A laser-light guiding section includes a transmission window section, an optical component disposed to cause an optical path of the UV laser light emitted from the laser-light output section and an optical path of transmitted light transmitted through the transmission window section to cross, and a sealing member in which the transmission window section is provided, the sealing member configuring a sealed space for airtightly housing the optical component. At least one of a guide-light emitting device configured to emit guide light for visualizing a scanning position of the UV laser light toward the transmission window section and an imaging device configured to receive light for imaging a workpiece via the transmission window section is disposed on the outer side of the sealed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru Idaka, Masaki Saito, Hideki Yamakawa, Kazuyoshi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20210070054
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus I includes a printing head 1 configured to house, on the inside, a nozzle 12, a charging electrode 13, a deflection electrode 15, and a gutter 16, a maintenance-pattern storing unit 102b configured to store, respectively in association with types of abnormalities, a plurality of kinds of maintenance operations executable in the ink jet recording apparatus I, a flag storing unit 102a configured to store occurrence of an abnormality in the ink jet recording apparatus I as an error flag corresponding to a type of the abnormality, and a control unit 101 configured to select, based on the type of the abnormality corresponding to the error flag stored in the flag storing unit 102a, one maintenance operation out of the plurality of kinds of maintenance operations stored in the maintenance-pattern storing unit 102b and execute the maintenance operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru IDAKA, Atsushi KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190184491
    Abstract: To prevent an output decrease of laser light due to impurities that could be formed in a guide-light emitting device or an imaging device. A laser-light guiding section includes a transmission window section, an optical component disposed to cause an optical path of the UV laser light emitted from the laser-light output section and an optical path of transmitted light transmitted through the transmission window section to cross, and a sealing member in which the transmission window section is provided, the sealing member configuring a sealed space for airtightly housing the optical component. At least one of a guide-light emitting device configured to emit guide light for visualizing a scanning position of the UV laser light toward the transmission window section and an imaging device configured to receive light for imaging a workpiece via the transmission window section is disposed on the outer side of the sealed space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Idaka, Masaki Saito, Hideki Yamakawa, Kazuyoshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 9387684
    Abstract: An object is to prevent the occurrence of contact failure between a cartridge equipped with a recording medium and an ink jet recording apparatus. A bottle body is crushed to reduce the volume thereof when an ink or solvent is sucked out of the bottle body. A bottle has a neck and a mouth. The neck is rigid. The ROM unit records therein an ink or solvent type, a serial number, the capacity of the bottle, and the amount of remaining ink or solvent. The ROM unit has first and second arms, and freely movably attached to the neck by the first and second arms. A positioning hole is formed on a ROM holder body which houses therein a recording medium. The positioning hole positions the ROM holder body in cooperation with a positioning pin of a reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Junji Ogawa, Hiroki Wada, Mamoru Idaka
  • Publication number: 20150197094
    Abstract: An object is to prevent the occurrence of contact failure between a cartridge equipped with a recording medium and an ink jet recording apparatus. A bottle body is crushed to reduce the volume thereof when an ink or solvent is sucked out of the bottle body. A bottle has a neck and a mouth. The neck is rigid. The ROM unit records therein an ink or solvent type, a serial number, the capacity of the bottle, and the amount of remaining ink or solvent. The ROM unit has first and second arms, and freely movably attached to the neck by the first and second arms. A positioning hole is formed on a ROM holder body which houses therein a recording medium. The positioning hole positions the ROM holder body in cooperation with a positioning pin of a reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Ogawa, Hiroki Wada, Mamoru Idaka
  • Patent number: 8772669
    Abstract: The present invention aims to rapidly and easily create processed data for scan controlling a laser light beam, and to create the processed data for the laser processing apparatus at high precision. A setting plane corresponding to a scanning region of a laser marker is displayed on a processed data generating device. A user operates the processed data generating device to arrange the processing pattern on the setting plane. Here, a marker head coincides an optical axis of the laser light beam L on a position corresponding to the reference point of the processing pattern, and photographs a work W with a camera which light receiving axis is coaxial with the optical axis of the laser light beam L. A photographed image monitor displays the photographed image along with a symbol indicating the position of the light receiving axis of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Idaka, Akio Takeuchi, Hideki Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 8399802
    Abstract: A method of setting processing data for a computer-assisted laser processing apparatus is disclosed, along with a system for setting a laser processing data. The method comprises a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, a function of generating processing data representing the processing conditions for the object, and a function of visually displaying a two dimensional representation of the processing data on a display screen and a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, wherein it is enabled to set the three-dimensional profile and the processing pattern while displaying the object in two dimensions on the display screen disposed within a processing zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Idaka, Hideki Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 8399803
    Abstract: A method of setting processing data for a computer-assisted laser processing apparatus is disclosed, along with a system for setting a laser processing data. The method comprises a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, a function of generating processing data representing the processing conditions for the object, and a function of visually displaying a two dimensional representation of the processing data on a display screen and a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, wherein it is enabled to set the three-dimensional profile and the processing pattern while displaying the object in two dimensions on the display screen disposed within a processing zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Idaka, Hideki Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 8235296
    Abstract: A laser method of printing a pattern on works which is read at a high read rate by optical readers and a system for implementing the laser processing method are described. Print pattern data is generated based on printing conditions including at least an original print pattern such as a character string that are specified by users and then converted into data representing an actual print pattern to be actually printed on works according to a three dimensional profile of the works so that an orthogonal projection of that actual print pattern is identical with the original print pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Idaka
  • Publication number: 20120182376
    Abstract: Provided is a laser processing device for preventing damage of the camera by return light of the laser light. A laser processing device includes a laser oscillator; a camera; a polarized beam splitter for transmitting the laser light while making a light receiving axis of the camera substantially coincide with an emission axis of the laser light; an illumination light source for generating illumination light having a wavelength substantially the same as the laser light as illumination light for illuminating the workpiece; a half mirror for making the emission axis of the illumination light substantially coincide with the emission axis of the laser light; a control unit; and a shutter for blocking the return light from the workpiece based on an output control signal of the laser light, the shutter arranged on the camera side than the polarized beam splitter in a light receiving path of the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Saito, Mamoru Idaka
  • Publication number: 20120061360
    Abstract: A method of setting processing data for a computer-assisted laser processing apparatus is disclosed, along with a system for setting a laser processing data. The method comprises a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, a function of generating processing data representing the processing conditions for the object, and a function of visually displaying a two dimensional representation of the processing data on a display screen and a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, wherein it is enabled to set the three-dimensional profile and the processing pattern while displaying the object in two dimensions on the display screen disposed within a processing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru Idaka, Hideki Yamakawa
  • Publication number: 20120062972
    Abstract: A method of setting processing data for a computer-assisted laser processing apparatus is disclosed, along with a system for setting a laser processing data. The method comprises a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, a function of generating processing data representing the processing conditions for the object, and a function of visually displaying a two dimensional representation of the processing data on a display screen and a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, wherein it is enabled to set the three-dimensional profile and the processing pattern while displaying the object in two dimensions on the display screen disposed within a processing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru Idaka, Hideki Yamakawa
  • Patent number: D995625
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru Idaka, Hiroshi Miyauchi