Patents by Inventor Masanori Kudo

Masanori Kudo 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: 20240170183
    Abstract: A composite cable having an outer diameter of 1.0 mm or less is provided with a cable core including multiple signal lines, a power line with an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the signal line, and a drain wire with an outer diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the power line, and a sheath covering around the cable core. An outermost layer of the signal line is a shield layer, and either one of the power line or the drain wire is arranged in each valley-like space between the multiple signal lines arranged in contact with one another inside the cable core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Masashi MORIYAMA, Detian HUANG, Masanori KOBAYASHI, Atsuro YAGUCHI, Kimika KUDO
  • Publication number: 20190243305
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a rotatable image bearing drum; a cartridge mountable to a main assembly and including a rotatable developer carrying sleeve; first and second bearings provided in the cartridge, supporting the sleeve at one axial and the other ends end of the sleeve, and having first and second regulated portions, respectively; third and fourth bearings, supporting the drum at one and the other axial ends of the drum, and having first and second regulating portions, respectively; first and second swingable members provided in the main assembly and fixed with one and the other ends and swingable integrally with the cartridge between a first position in which the sleeve contacts the drum and a second position in which the sleeve is spaced from the drum. When the cartridge is in the first position, the first and second regulated portions contact the first and second regulating portions respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Masanori Kudo, Takashi Kimura, Hiroyuki Munetsugu
  • Patent number: 10303117
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly, a rotatable image bearing member, and a cartridge detachably mountable to the main assembly, the cartridge including a rotatable developer carrying member. A first swingable member is provided in the main assembly, engages with one end of the cartridge in an axial direction of the developer carrying member when the cartridge is mounted in the main assembly, and swings integrally with the cartridge, and a second swingable member is provided in the main assembly, engages with the other end of the cartridge in the axial direction of the developer carrying member when the cartridge is mounted in the main assembly, and swings integrally with the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Kudo, Takashi Kimura, Hiroyuki Munetsugu
  • Publication number: 20180239301
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a rotatable image bearing drum; a cartridge mountable to a main assembly and including a rotatable developer carrying sleeve; first and second bearings provided in the cartridge, supporting the sleeve at one axial and the other ends end of the sleeve, and having first and second regulated portions, respectively; third and fourth bearings, supporting the drum at one and the other axial ends of the drum, and having first and second regulating portions, respectively; first and second swingable members provided in the main assembly and fixed with one and the other ends and swingable integrally with the cartridge between a first position in which the sleeve contacts the drum and a second position in which the sleeve is spaced from the drum. When the cartridge is in the first position, the first and second regulated portions contact the first and second regulating portions respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Masanori Kudo, Takashi Kimura, Hiroyuki Munetsugu
  • Patent number: 8471301
    Abstract: A device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions, an interlayer insulating film arranged on the plurality of photoelectric conversion regions, a protective insulating film that is arranged in contact with the interlayer insulating film and has a refractive index different from that of the interlayer insulating film, recesses arranged in a light-receiving surface of each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion regions, and embedded regions embedded in the recesses. When a wavelength of incident light to each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion regions is denoted by ? and a refractive index of the embedded regions is denoted by n, a depth d of the recesses is represented by an expression d??/4n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanori Kudo, Yoshiyuki Hayashi, Kazuhiro Saito, Taro Kato, Yoshihiko Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 8082146
    Abstract: A noise canceller is constituted by a forward linear prediction processor that performs forward linear prediction for a reception signal in a noisy section where the reception signal includes noise, and a backward linear prediction processor that performs backward linear prediction for the reception signal in the noisy section. A signal generator generates a replacement signal, to replace the reception signal in the noisy section, based on the forward linear prediction values obtained by the forward linear prediction and the backward linear prediction values obtained by the backward linear prediction. The signal generator obtains replacement values for a plurality of points within the noisy section by weighting the corresponding forward prediction value and the corresponding backward prediction value with an internal division ratio, the internal division ratio having a linear or nonlinear functional relationship to the time axis of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Masaaki Taira, Masanori Kudo
  • Publication number: 20110140219
    Abstract: A device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions, an interlayer insulating film arranged on the plurality of photoelectric conversion regions, a protective insulating film that is arranged in contact with the interlayer insulating film and has a refractive index different from that of the interlayer insulating film, recesses arranged in a light-receiving surface of each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion regions, and embedded regions embedded in the recesses. When a wavelength of incident light to each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion regions is denoted by ? and a refractive index of the embedded regions is denoted by n, a depth d of the recesses is represented by an expression d??/4n.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Kudo, Yoshiyuki Hayashi, Kazuhiro Saito, Taro Kato, Yoshihiko Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 7929997
    Abstract: A noise detecting apparatus detecting presence or absence of noise in a received signal, comprising: a first band selecting unit configured to select a first signal of a first frequency band that does not include a frequency band of the received signal and is higher than a center frequency of the received signal; a second band selecting unit configured to select a second signal of a second frequency band that does not include the frequency band of the received signal and is lower than the center frequency of the received signal; a signal selecting unit configured to compare strength of the first signal selected by the first band selecting unit and strength of the second signal selected by the second band selecting unit to select the signal of lower strength; and a comparing unit configured to compare the strength of the signal selected by the signal selecting unit with a predetermined threshold to output a signal depending on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Saito, Masanori Kudo
  • Patent number: 7535290
    Abstract: An AM radio receiving circuit is disclosed that comprises a front end circuit that converts an input AM modulation signal to an intermediate frequency signal that in turn is output; a pulse noise detecting circuit that detects pulse noise included in the AM modulation signal; a pulse noise removing circuit that removes the pulse noise included in the intermediate frequency signal output from the front end circuit based on the detection result of the pulse noise detecting circuit to output the signal; and a detecting circuit that detects the intermediate frequency signal output from the pulse noise removing circuit after removing the pulse noise to output an audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Saito, Masanori Kudo
  • Publication number: 20080008334
    Abstract: A noise detecting apparatus detecting presence or absence of noise in a received signal, comprising: a first band selecting unit configured to select a first signal of a first frequency band that does not include a frequency band of the received signal and is higher than a center frequency of the received signal; a second band selecting unit configured to select a second signal of a second frequency band that does not include the frequency band of the received signal and is lower than the center frequency of the received signal; a signal selecting unit configured to compare strength of the first signal selected by the first band selecting unit and strength of the second signal selected by the second band selecting unit to select the signal of lower strength; and a comparing unit configured to compare the strength of the signal selected by the signal selecting unit with a predetermined threshold to output a signal depending on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Saito, Masanori Kudo
  • Publication number: 20070033015
    Abstract: A noise canceller is constituted by a forward linear prediction processor that performs forward linear prediction for a reception signal in a section where the reception signal includes noise, a backward linear prediction processor that performs backward linear prediction for the reception signal in the section, and a signal generator that generates a replacement signal, which is a signal replacing the reception signal in the section, based on the forward linear prediction values obtained by the forward linear prediction and the backward linear prediction values obtained by the backward linear prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Taira, Masanori Kudo
  • Publication number: 20070018868
    Abstract: An AM radio receiving circuit is disclosed that comprises a front end circuit that converts an input AM modulation signal to an intermediate frequency signal that in turn is output; a pulse noise detecting circuit that detects pulse noise included in the AM modulation signal; a pulse noise removing circuit that removes the pulse noise included in the intermediate frequency signal output from the front end circuit based on the detection result of the pulse noise detecting circuit to output the signal; and a detecting circuit that detects the intermediate frequency signal output from the pulse noise removing circuit after removing the pulse noise to output an audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Saito, Masanori Kudo
  • Patent number: 7133649
    Abstract: A negative feedback amplifier for a transmitter, in which a vector corrector outputs the corrected signals, an adder adds the feedback signals of the in-phase component and the quadrature component to the in-phase component and the quadrature component of the output of the vector corrector, respectively, a modulator performs a quadrature modulation with respect to the in-phase component and the quadrature component of the outputs from the adder, a power amplifier amplifies the output of the modulator, a demodulator performs a quadrature demodulation to a part of the output of the power amplifier and outputs the feedback signals of the in-phase component and the quadrature component, and the vector corrector performs a correcting operation of canceling an error of at least one of the phases and the amplitudes of the in-phase component and the quadrature component occurring in the demodulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kanazawa, Masanori Kudo
  • Publication number: 20040137856
    Abstract: A negative feedback amplifier for a transmitter, in which a vector corrector outputs the corrected signals, an adder adds the feedback signals of the in-phase component and the quadrature component to the in-phase component and the quadrature component of the output of the vector corrector, respectively, a modulator performs a quadrature modulation with respect to the in-phase component and the quadrature component of the outputs from the adder, a power amplifier amplifies the output of the modulator, a demodulator performs a quadrature demodulation to a part of the output of the power amplifier and outputs the feedback signals of the in-phase component and the quadrature component, and the vector corrector performs a correcting operation of canceling an error of at least one of the phases and the amplitudes of the in-phase component and the quadrature component occurring in the demodulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Masayuki Kanazawa, Masanori Kudo
  • Patent number: D843443
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tachio Kawai, Masaaki Sato, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Koji Wada, Yosuke Kashiide, Naoki Hayashi, Takashi Kimura, Goshi Ozaki, Yu Fukasawa, Masanori Kudo, Hideki Nagae, Kensuke Sato
  • Patent number: D873337
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Yosuke Kashiide, Koji Wada, Masanori Kudo, Goshi Ozaki, Kensuke Sato, Yukio Kubo
  • Patent number: D873338
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Yosuke Kashiide, Koji Wada, Masanori Kudo, Goshi Ozaki, Kensuke Sato, Yukio Kubo