Patents by Inventor Masanori Ishihara
Masanori Ishihara 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: 20240140378Abstract: There is provided a dump truck that, when drive wheels (6) slip, is capable of reducing braking torques for the drive wheels (6) to avoid locking of the drive wheels (6), and of generating braking torques for driven wheels (7) to ensure an overall braking torque for the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Masanori ICHINOSE, Atsushi KITAGUCHI, Kazunori ISHIHARA
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Patent number: 11926147Abstract: In a light radiation device including an upstream radiation portion, a middle radiation portion and a downstream radiation portion, the upstream radiation portion overlaps a nozzle array in a transportation direction. A controller includes a path controller to control a path operation of ejecting ink from the nozzle array onto a medium while moving a recording head and the light radiation device in a scanning direction, a transportation controller to control a transportation operation of, after the path operation, transporting the medium downstream in the transportation direction by a distance shorter than a length in the transportation direction of the nozzle array, and a first light radiation controller to control the light radiation device, during the path operation by the path controller, to turn on the upstream radiation portion and the downstream radiation portion and to turn off the middle radiation portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Ishihara, Yuta Fujisawa, Takeshi Yagi, Yuta Tatebayashi
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Publication number: 20230327471Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a connector to be connected to an external apparatus, a second measurer which measures current flowing through a secondary battery, the secondary battery being supplied with power by being electrically connected to the external apparatus, or voltage at the connector, and a controller which acquires a charging state of the secondary battery and determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred to a connection state between the external apparatus and the electronic apparatus, based on the acquired charging state and a measurement result measured by the second measurer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo SUZUKI, Masanori ISHIHARA
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Patent number: 11720139Abstract: Disclosed is a data processing device including: at least one processor that executes a program stored in at least one memory; and a timer that repeatedly and continuously counts a setting time. The processor acquires data indicating a battery state, judges occurrence of an event, executes processing based on data acquired in the setting time when judging that the event has not occurred between start and end of counting for one setting time, and executes at least one of a first operation of performing the processing based on data from the counting start to a stop timing based on the event occurrence and a second operation of performing the processing based on data from a start timing based on an event occurrence timing to end of counting for one setting time when judging that the event has occurred between the start and the end of the counting.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Suzuki, Toshiya Sakurai, Takeshi Matsue, Masanori Ishihara, Youhei Saitoh
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Patent number: 11662789Abstract: A power supply circuit includes a power supply which supplies DC power to a load, a switch which is selectively operable to (i) cause a short-circuit to occur between a DC power supply and an input terminal of the power supply and (ii) open a connection between the DC power supply and the input terminal of the power supply, a sensor which measures a temperature and a processor configured to control the switch to open the connection in response to a decision that the DC power is not being supplied to the load even when the switch is being controlled to cause the short-circuit to occur, and control the switch to cause the short-circuit to occur after a predetermined time elapses after controlling the switch to open the connection in response to the decision. The predetermined time is set based on the temperature measured by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Suzuki, Masanori Ishihara
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Publication number: 20230158810Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an ink head, a carriage, and a first discharge controller. The ink head discharges photo-curable ink onto a recording medium. The ink head includes a colored ink nozzle group to discharge colored photo-curable ink, and a transparent ink nozzle group to discharge transparent photo-curable ink. The carriage is equipped with the ink head. The first discharge controller is configured or programmed to, when either one of the carriage and the recording medium makes a single movement, cause the colored ink nozzle group and the transparent ink nozzle group to discharge the colored photo-curable ink and the transparent photo-curable ink, respectively, onto a predetermined region so as to form a colored image and a texture image. The texture image includes the colored photo-curable ink and the transparent photo-curable ink that overlap with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventors: Masanori ISHIHARA, Takeshi YAGI
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Publication number: 20230066252Abstract: A printer includes a controller to exercise control so as to print a print layer on or over a medium. The print layer includes a first print region including first protrusions, and a second print region including second protrusions. Any one or more of a size, a height, a planar shape, an arrangement interval, and an arrangement direction of the first protrusions is/are different from a corresponding one or more of a size, a height, a planar shape, an arrangement interval, and an arrangement direction of the second protrusions. An extracted area of about 3 cm by about 3 cm is extracted from any location in the print layer. The first and second print regions are in the extracted area. At least either a number of first print regions or a number of second print regions in the extracted area is more than one.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Hikaru HASEGAWA, Masanori ISHIHARA
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Patent number: 11465421Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a first light applicator disposed in a second scanning direction relative to a recording head. The first light applicator includes a first upstream light source group at a location corresponding to a location of the recording head in a movement direction of a recording medium, and a first downstream light source group on a downstream side in the movement direction of the recording medium relative to the recording head. The inkjet printer turns off the first upstream light source group and turns on the first downstream light source group during movement of a carriage in a first scanning direction and discharge of first ink from the recording head, and turns on the first upstream light source group and the first downstream light source group during movement of the carriage in the second scanning direction after discharge of the first ink.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Ishihara, Yuta Fujisawa
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Publication number: 20220194103Abstract: In a light radiation device including an upstream radiation portion, a middle radiation portion and a downstream radiation portion, the upstream radiation portion overlaps a nozzle array in a transportation direction. A controller includes a path controller to control a path operation of ejecting ink from the nozzle array onto a medium while moving a recording head and the light radiation device in a scanning direction, a transportation controller to control a transportation operation of, after the path operation, transporting the medium downstream in the transportation direction by a distance shorter than a length in the transportation direction of the nozzle array, and a first light radiation controller to control the light radiation device, during the path operation by the path controller, to turn on the upstream radiation portion and the downstream radiation portion and to turn off the middle radiation portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Masanori ISHIHARA, Yuta FUJISAWA, Takeshi YAGI, Yuta TATEBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220197331Abstract: Disclosed is a data processing device including: at least one processor that executes a program stored in at least one memory; and a timer that repeatedly and continuously counts a setting time. The processor acquires data indicating a battery state, judges occurrence of an event, executes processing based on data acquired in the setting time when judging that the event has not occurred between start and end of counting for one setting time, and executes at least one of a first operation of performing the processing based on data from the counting start to a stop timing based on the event occurrence and a second operation of performing the processing based on data from a start timing based on an event occurrence timing to end of counting for one setting time when judging that the event has occurred between the start and the end of the counting.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo SUZUKI, Toshiya SAKURAI, Takeshi MATSUE, Masanori ISHIHARA, Youhei SAITOH
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Publication number: 20220179467Abstract: A power supply circuit includes a power supply which supplies DC power to a load, a switch which is selectively operable to (i) cause a short-circuit to occur between a DC power supply and an input terminal of the power supply and (ii) open a connection between the DC power supply and the input terminal of the power supply, a sensor which measures a temperature and a processor configured to control the switch to open the connection in response to a decision that the DC power is not being supplied to the load even when the switch is being controlled to cause the short-circuit to occur, and control the switch to cause the short-circuit to occur after a predetermined time elapses after controlling the switch to open the connection in response to the decision. The predetermined time is set based on the temperature measured by the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo SUZUKI, Masanori ISHIHARA
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Patent number: 11287864Abstract: It becomes possible to succeed in restarting a power supply unit. A power supply circuit includes the power supply unit which supplies DC power to a CPU, a switch which operates to cause a short-circuit to occur between a DC power supply and an input terminal of the power supply unit or to open a connection between the DC power supply and the input terminal of the power supply unit, a temperature measurement unit which measures a temperature and a processor which controls the switch to open the connection in a case of deciding that the DC power is not supplied to the CPU even when controlling the switch to cause the short-circuit to occur and controls the switch to cause the short-circuit to occur after a predetermined time elapses after controlling the switch to open the connection. The predetermined time is set on the basis of the temperature that the temperature measurement unit measures.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Suzuki, Masanori Ishihara
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Publication number: 20220094180Abstract: Disclosed is a charge protection circuit including: a switch that switches between allowing and not allowing power supply from an external power source to a charging circuit that supplies power for charging a rechargeable battery; a detector that detects at least one of a current flowing from the charging circuit to the rechargeable battery and a voltage between two electrodes of the rechargeable battery; a determiner that determines whether a detection result of the detector is abnormal; and a controller that, in response to the determiner determining that the detection result of the detector is abnormal, causes the switch to switch to an interrupting state so as to interrupt power supply to the charging circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo SUZUKI, Masanori ISHIHARA
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Patent number: 11218015Abstract: Disclosed is a charge protection circuit including: a switch that switches between allowing and not allowing power supply from an external power source to a charging circuit that supplies power for charging a rechargeable battery; a detector that detects at least one of a current flowing from the charging circuit to the rechargeable battery and a voltage between two electrodes of the rechargeable battery; a determiner that determines whether a detection result of the detector is abnormal; and a controller that, in response to the determiner determining that the detection result of the detector is abnormal, causes the switch to switch to an interrupting state so as to interrupt power supply to the charging circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Suzuki, Masanori Ishihara
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Publication number: 20210394527Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a first light applicator disposed in a second scanning direction relative to a recording head. The first light applicator includes a first upstream light source group at a location corresponding to a location of the recording head in a movement direction of a recording medium, and a first downstream light source group on a downstream side in the movement direction of the recording medium relative to the recording head. The inkjet printer turns off the first upstream light source group and turns on the first downstream light source group during movement of a carriage in a first scanning direction and discharge of first ink from the recording head, and turns on the first upstream light source group and the first downstream light source group during movement of the carriage in the second scanning direction after discharge of the first ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Masanori ISHIHARA, Yuta FUJISAWA
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Patent number: 11163171Abstract: A pointer includes a case housing an LED device and including a light emission hole through which light from the device is emitted to an external space, a first plate between the device and the light emission hole and including a first light passage hole that allows passage of the light from the device, and a second plate between the first plate and the light emission hole and including a second light passage hole that allows passage of the light having passed through the first light passage hole. The light passage holes and the light emission hole are located on a central axis of the device. The device and the first and second plates are disposed such that H/2<S<H, where H denotes a distance between the device and the first plate, and S denotes a distance between the first and second plates.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Hironobu Suzuki, Masanori Ishihara
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Patent number: 11142005Abstract: A printer can comprise a supporting wall that extends in a primary scanning direction, a table that is positioned lower than the supporting wall and that is structured so as to be able to move in a secondary scanning direction, a guide rail equipped on the supporting wall that extends in the primary scanning direction, a head carriage that is provided slidably on the guide rail and that can move in the primary scanning direction, an ink head mounted on the head carriage, and a partitioning wall that is positioned lower than the supporting wall and to a side of the table in the primary scanning direction and that extends in the secondary scanning direction and the vertical direction. When the table is positioned at the maximally downstream position along the secondary scanning direction, the upstream end portion of the table is positioned further downstream of the supporting wall and further upstream than the downstream end portion of the partitioning wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Kobayashi, Masanori Ishihara, Akihiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20200391526Abstract: A printer can comprise a supporting wall that extends in a primary scanning direction, a table that is positioned lower than the supporting wall and that is structured so as to be able to move in a secondary scanning direction, a guide rail equipped on the supporting wall that extends in the primary scanning direction, a head carriage that is provided slidably on the guide rail and that can move in the primary scanning direction, an ink head mounted on the head carriage, and a partitioning wall that is positioned lower than the supporting wall and to a side of the table in the primary scanning direction and that extends in the secondary scanning direction and the vertical direction. When the table is positioned at the maximally downstream position along the secondary scanning direction, the upstream end portion of the table is positioned further downstream of the supporting wall and further upstream than the downstream end portion of the partitioning wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Ryosuke Kobayashi, Masanori Ishihara, Akihiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20200310505Abstract: It becomes possible to succeed in restarting a power supply unit. A power supply circuit includes the power supply unit which supplies DC power to a CPU, a switch which operates to cause a short-circuit to occur between a DC power supply and an input terminal of the power supply unit or to open a connection between the DC power supply and the input terminal of the power supply unit, a temperature measurement unit which measures a temperature and a processor which controls the switch to open the connection in a case of deciding that the DC power is not supplied to the CPU even when controlling the switch to cause the short-circuit to occur and controls the switch to cause the short-circuit to occur after a predetermined time elapses after controlling the switch to open the connection. The predetermined time is set on the basis of the temperature that the temperature measurement unit measures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo SUZUKI, Masanori ISHIHARA
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Patent number: 10710382Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a feeder that feeds a medium in a feeding direction, a head including a row of nozzles arranged side by side in the feeding direction and movable in a scanning direction, an irradiator that radiates light onto a region longer in the feeding direction than the nozzle row and that is movable in the scanning direction together with the head, and a controller that alternatingly causes the head to move in the scanning direction and concurrently the nozzles to discharge ink while causing the irradiator to radiate the light, and the feeder to feed the medium in the feeding direction. The controller is capable of dividing the nozzle row into an upstream-side nozzle row and a downstream-side nozzle row located on a downstream side in the feeding direction from the upstream-side nozzle row, and individually controlling discharge of ink from the nozzles of each of the upstream-side nozzle row and the downstream-side nozzle row.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Ishihara, Yuta Fujisawa, Toyohisa Nakao