Patents by Inventor Masami Ikeda
Masami Ikeda 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).
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Publication number: 20140360701Abstract: A sheet-like heat pipe for a heat-generating element, which is intended to make an electronic device more compact, more lightweight, and thinner, while also reducing costs, is provided. A sheet-like heat pipe (10) of the present invention includes a container (17) in which the peripheries of the sheet-like members (11, 12) disposed facing each other are bonded to form a cavity inside, and a working liquid which is enclosed in a cavity (15) of the container (17). At least one of the sheet-like members (11, 12) disposed facing each other is formed with protruding pieces (12A, 12B) which project outwards from the bonded part with the other sheet-like member and have a spring structure which causes the container (17) to elastically abut a heat-generating element (5) of an electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi AOKI, Masami IKEDA
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Publication number: 20140292967Abstract: A cleaning roller is in press contact with a conveyance belt on the downstream side of a drive roller in a first direction. A controller controls a motor so that the conveyance belt is driven in a second direction opposite to the first direction when the cleaning roller cleans the conveyance belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Jumpei HOBO, Hidenori TAKENAKA, Masami IKEDA
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Patent number: 8761444Abstract: An apparatus for determining a kind of a steel material includes an image pickup device 11 for imaging a spark, which is produced when the steel material 18 is ground, continuously a plurality of times; a detection device 12 for detecting an alloy spark zone, which corresponds to an alloy spark produced by the grinding of an alloying component contained in the steel material, from each of picked-up images 2 imaged by the image pickup device; a calculation device 13 for calculating the total number of alloy spark zones detected by the detection device; and a judgment device 14 for determining that the steel material consists of a low-alloy steel if the total number is not smaller than a first threshold value, and determining that the steel material consists of a carbon steel if the total number is smaller than the first threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Takeo Nakata, Masami Ikeda, Kazuhiro Uchida, Makoto Sakamoto, Kenji Fujiwara
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Patent number: 8687850Abstract: An apparatus 1 for determining a kind of a steel material detects a spark pixel from a color picked-up image 2 of a spark 19 produced when a steel material 18 is ground, and detects a pixel, in which the density of any one color component for judgment selected from among RGB color components is low, as a low-density pixel from the spark pixels. The apparatus 1 determines that the steel material is a steel material consisting of the high-strength steel if the ratio of the total number of low-density pixels to the total number of spark pixels is not lower than a threshold value for judgment, and determines that the steel material is a steel material consisting of the ordinary steel if the ratio is lower than the threshold value for judgment.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Takeo Nakata, Masami Ikeda, Makoto Sakamoto, Kenji Fujiwara, Kazuhiro Uchida
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Patent number: 8562102Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of recording heads, a cap unit, waste ink container and communicating member. Each recording head includes a nozzle face with inkjet nozzles. The cap unit includes a plurality of first ink receiving members and a second ink receiving member. Each first ink receiving member is disposed below and corresponding to each recording head and has a first receiving portion receiving ink discharged from the inkjet nozzles and a first discharging hole discharging the received ink. The second ink receiving member is disposed below and corresponding to the first ink receiving members and has a second receiving portion that collectively receives the ink discharged through a plurality of first discharging holes and a second discharging hole. The communicating member connects the second discharging hole with an ink storage chamber of the waste ink container.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Masami Ikeda
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Patent number: 8523311Abstract: The present invention teaches and claims an image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming portion including one or more inkjet heads for forming an image on a recording medium by discharging ink from an ink discharge surface of the inkjet head; a recording medium transporting portion having a transport surface which is positioned below the ink discharge surface and on which the recording medium is placed for transporting a sheet to a position facing the ink discharge surface; a moving mechanism for moving the transport surface toward and away from the ink discharge surface; an ink discharge surface protecting mechanism including but not limited to a cap member and a driving device for moving the cap member; and a control unit for moving the transport surface away from the ink discharge surface to operate the ink discharge surface protecting mechanism when the recording medium is jammed during transportation of the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2012Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Kenichi Satake, Masami Ikeda, Kikunosuke Tsuji
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Publication number: 20130216888Abstract: Provided are a battery temperature regulation system capable of efficiently heating and/or cooling a battery, and a battery temperature regulation unit suitable for use in the battery temperature regulation system. The battery temperature regulation system 10 is provided with a thermally conductive member (e.g., a heat pipe 11) thermally connected to a battery 1, a heating device (e.g., a heater 12) that heats the battery 1 via the thermally conductive member and/or a cooling device (e.g., an air conditioning apparatus) that cools the battery 1 via the thermally conductive member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Inventors: Takahiro Shimura, Chikako Satake, Masami Ikeda
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Patent number: 8498445Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a material determining apparatus for a steel product and a material determining method for a steel product which can stably and precisely determine a carbon content of the steel product.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Takeo Nakata, Masami Ikeda, Kenji Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20130112373Abstract: It is an object to provide a cooling device with an increased leeward cooling capacity without increasing the number of heat radiation fins to be installed and the amount of cooling air. The cooling device comprises a heat-receiving block thermally connected to a heat-generating element and heat radiation fin groups having a plurality of fins thermally connected to the heat-receiving block. A flow of cooling air is set in the direction parallel to the heat-receiving block. The plurality of heat radiation fin groups are arranged in tandem along the flow direction of the cooling air. Of the plurality of the heat radiation fin groups, the fin pitch of the heat radiation fin group arranged on the windward side of the cooling air is larger than the fin pitch of the heat radiation fin group arranged on the leeward side of the cooling air.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukai, Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Hiroshi Yamada, Masami Ikeda, Mamoru Shimada
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Patent number: 8413513Abstract: An ultrasonic testing equipment includes a linear array ultrasonic probe in which a plurality of transducers are arranged in a direction orthogonal to the rolling direction of a test object and a signal processing unit. The signal processing unit executes following (1) to (6). (1) Generating an aperture synthetic image of testing signals of each section of the test object. (2) Generating a maximum value distribution of testing signals in the arrangement direction of transducers. (3) Calculating the width of a defect in each section based on the maximum value distribution. (4) Generating a maximum value distribution of the testing signals in the rolling direction based on the maximum value distribution of a plurality of sections of the test object. (5) Calculating the length of the defect based on the maximum value distribution of the testing signals in the rolling direction. (6) Calculating the area of the defect based on the calculated defect length and the calculated defect width of each section.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Yoshio Ueda, Masaki Yamano, Masami Ikeda
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Patent number: 8393218Abstract: An ultrasonic testing apparatus 100 comprises an ultrasonic probe 1 including n (n?2) number of transducers arranged along a predetermined direction, disposed so as to face a test object P, and a transmission/reception control device 2 for selecting m (n>m?1) number of transducers from among the n number of transducers, transmitting ultrasonic waves from the selected m number of transducers toward the test object, receiving the ultrasonic waves therefrom, and switched m number of transducers to b selected successively. If an angle that the arrangement direction of the transducers makes with the surface of the test object which ultrasonic waves enter is ?, and the effective beam width of each selected m number of transducers with respect to a target flaw is W1, the transmission/reception control device switches m number of transducers to be selected successively by a switching pitch length P satisfying the formula: P?W1·cos ?.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Masaki Yamano, Masami Ikeda, Kenji Fujiwara, Hiroshi Kubota
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Patent number: 8382276Abstract: A conveying platen is provided with a plurality of air circulation parts, each of which includes a long groove opened toward the conveying belt and formed in a longitudinal direction following a conveying direction, and a hole that penetrates in a thickness direction from a part of a bottom surface of the long groove. These air circulation parts are arrayed in the conveying direction and a width direction perpendicular to the conveying direction. The conveying platen has an opposed region which faces a nozzle surface. The long groove is provided in the opposed region. The hole is provided in a region other than the opposed region.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Kyocera Mita CorporationInventor: Masami Ikeda
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Publication number: 20120327217Abstract: A defect inspecting apparatus includes a first light source, a first image capture device that receives the reflection light emitted from the first light source and reflected by the outer peripheral surface of a lip part to grab the image of the outer peripheral surface of the lip part, a second light source, a second image capture device 8 that receives the reflection light emitted from the second light source and reflected by a load face to grab the image of the load face, a third light source, a third image capture device that receives the reflection light emitted from the third light source and reflected by a thread bottom face inspection zone 106 to grab the image of the thread bottom face inspection zone, and an inspection device for inspecting defects by processing the captured images grabbed by the first to third image capture devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazunori ANAYAMA, Toshiyuki SUZUMA, Yoshiyuki NAKAO, Masami IKEDA, Kenta SAKAI
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Publication number: 20120281876Abstract: An apparatus for determining a kind of a steel material includes an image pickup device 11 for imaging a spark, which is produced when the steel material 18 is ground, continuously a plurality of times; a detection device 12 for detecting an alloy spark zone, which corresponds to an alloy spark produced by the grinding of an alloying component contained in the steel material, from each of picked-up images 2 imaged by the image pickup device; a calculation device 13 for calculating the total number of alloy spark zones detected by the detection device; and a judgment device 14 for determining that the steel material consists of a low-alloy steel if the total number is not smaller than a first threshold value, and determining that the steel material consists of a carbon steel if the total number is smaller than the first threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takeo NAKATA, Masami Ikeda, Kazuhiro Uchida, Makoto Sakamoto, Kenji Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20120281877Abstract: An apparatus 1 for determining a kind of a steel material detects a spark pixel from a color picked-up image 2 of a spark 19 produced when a steel material 18 is ground, and detects a pixel, in which the density of any one color component for judgment selected from among RGB color components is low, as a low-density pixel from the spark pixels. The apparatus 1 determines that the steel material is a steel material consisting of the high-strength steel if the ratio of the total number of low-density pixels to the total number of spark pixels is not lower than a threshold value for judgment, and determines that the steel material is a steel material consisting of the ordinary steel if the ratio is lower than the threshold value for judgment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takeo NAKATA, Masami IKEDA, Makoto SAKAMOTO, Kenji FUJIWARA, Kazuhiro UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20120274687Abstract: The present invention teaches and claims an image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming portion including one or more inkjet heads for forming an image on a recording medium by discharging ink from an ink discharge surface of the inkjet head; a recording medium transporting portion having a transport surface which is positioned below the ink discharge surface and on which the recording medium is placed for transporting a sheet to a position facing the ink discharge surface; a moving mechanism for moving the transport surface toward and away from the ink discharge surface; an ink discharge surface protecting mechanism including but not limited to a cap member and a driving device for moving the cap member; and a control unit for moving the transport surface away from the ink discharge surface to operate the ink discharge surface protecting mechanism when the recording medium is jammed during transportation of the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Kenichi Satake, Masami Ikeda, Kikunosuke Tsuji
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Publication number: 20120242742Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of recording heads, a cap unit, waste ink container and communicating member. Each recording head includes a nozzle face with inkjet nozzles. The cap unit includes a plurality of first ink receiving members and a second ink receiving member. Each first ink receiving member is disposed below and corresponding to each recording head and has a first receiving portion receiving ink discharged from the inkjet nozzles and a first discharging hole discharging the received ink. The second ink receiving member is disposed below and corresponding to the first ink receiving members and has a second receiving portion that collectively receives the ink discharged through a plurality of first discharging holes and a second discharging hole. The communicating member connects the second discharging hole with an ink storage chamber of the waste ink container.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Masami Ikeda
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Patent number: 8215745Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of recording heads, a cap unit, waste ink container and communicating member. Each recording head includes a nozzle face with inkjet nozzles. The cap unit includes a plurality of first ink receiving members and a second ink receiving member. Each first ink receiving member is disposed below and corresponding to each recording head and has a first receiving portion receiving ink discharged from the inkjet nozzles and a first discharging hole discharging the received ink. The second ink receiving member is disposed below and corresponding to the first ink receiving members and has a second receiving portion that collectively receives the ink discharged through a plurality of first discharging holes and a second discharging hole. The communicating member connects the second discharging hole with an ink storage chamber of the waste ink container.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Masami Ikeda
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Patent number: 8104349Abstract: A tracking device is provided with a non-contact type displacement gauge, a positioner which moves a flaw detecting sensor within a plane perpendicular to an axial direction of a pipe or tube, and a positioning controller which controls the positioner.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kubota, Yoshiyuki Nakao, Masami Ikeda, Nobuyuki Mori, Hiroshi Sato
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Publication number: 20110283798Abstract: An ultrasonic testing apparatus 100 comprises an ultrasonic probe 1 including n (n?2) number of transducers arranged along a predetermined direction, disposed so as to face a test object P, and a transmission/reception control device 2 for selecting m (n>m?1) number of transducers from among the n number of transducers, transmitting ultrasonic waves from the selected m number of transducers toward the test object, receiving the ultrasonic waves therefrom, and switched m number of transducers to b selected successively. If an angle that the arrangement direction of the transducers makes with the surface of the test object which ultrasonic waves enter is ?, and the effective beam width of each selected m number of transducers with respect to a target flaw is W1, the transmission/reception control device switches m number of transducers to be selected successively by a switching pitch length P satisfying the formula: P?W1·cos?.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2009Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masaki Yamano, Masami Ikeda, Kenji Fujiwara, Hiroshi Kubota