Patents by Inventor Masayoshi Nakao
Masayoshi Nakao 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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Patent number: 11930798Abstract: A fishing rod includes a hollow rod extending along a central axis; and a shaft member with an outer peripheral surface inclined relative to the central axis inserted into the rod from the one end, and that is supported by an inner peripheral surface of the rod at a support position on another end side of the one end in an axial direction along the central axis, wherein the inner peripheral surface of the rod has at least one convex portion protruding toward the central axis from a virtual curve between the support position and the one end position axially when drawing a virtual curve that is convex toward the central axis through the support position and the one end position at the end of the end side of the inner peripheral surface in an area radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the shaft member.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Globeride, Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, Atsushi Saito, Masayoshi Nakao, Kenji Kato, Isao Oota
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Patent number: 11717219Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus includes a first electrode provided in contact with a user's external auditory canal and a second electrode provided in contact with the user's concha cavum.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Agama-X Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Motofumi Baba, Monta Ido, Masayoshi Nakao, Kengo Tokuchi
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Publication number: 20220030841Abstract: A fishing rod includes a hollow rod extending along a central axis; and a shaft member with an outer peripheral surface inclined relative to the central axis inserted into the rod from the one end, and that is supported by an inner peripheral surface of the rod at a support position on another end side of the one end in an axial direction along the central axis, wherein the inner peripheral surface of the rod has at least one convex portion protruding toward the central axis from a virtual curve between the support position and the one end position axially when drawing a virtual curve that is convex toward the central axis through the support position and the one end position at the end of the end side of the inner peripheral surface in an area radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the shaft member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, Atsushi Saito, Masayoshi Nakao, Kenji Kato, Isao Oota
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Patent number: 11224347Abstract: A biometric information measurement system includes a first measurement apparatus, a second measurement apparatus, and a control apparatus. The first measurement apparatus measures first biometric information of a subject. The second measurement apparatus measures second biometric information which is biometric information of the subject and which is different from the first biometric information. The control apparatus changes a condition of measurement performed by the second measurement apparatus on the basis of the first biometric information.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Agama-X Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Motofumi Baba, Monta Ido, Masayoshi Nakao, Kengo Tokuchi
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Publication number: 20200288986Abstract: A biometric information measurement system includes a first measurement apparatus, a second measurement apparatus, and a control apparatus. The first measurement apparatus measures first biometric information of a subject. The second measurement apparatus measures second biometric information which is biometric information of the subject and which is different from the first biometric information. The control apparatus changes a condition of measurement performed by the second measurement apparatus on the basis of the first biometric information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro SATO, Motofumi BABA, Monta IDO, Masayoshi NAKAO, Kengo TOKUCHI
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Publication number: 20200237307Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus includes a first electrode provided in contact with a user's external auditory canal and a second electrode provided in contact with the user's concha cavum.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro SATO, Motofumi BABA, Monta IDO, Masayoshi NAKAO, Kengo TOKUCHI
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Patent number: 10474098Abstract: A powder processing apparatus includes: a fixing unit that is provided in an apparatus housing and heats powder containing ultrafine particles to fix the powder on a processed medium; an exhaust unit including an exhaust path through which air near the fixing unit can be exhausted, a capturing part capable of capturing the ultrafine particles, and an airflow generating part that generates exhaust airflow, the exhaust unit exhausting the air near the fixing unit to the outside of the apparatus housing through the exhaust path; and an intake unit including an intake path through which air outside the apparatus housing can be taken in, a capturing part capable of capturing the ultrafine particles, and an airflow generating part that generates intake airflow, the intake unit taking the air outside the apparatus housing into the apparatus housing through the intake path. An intake port is provided below an exhaust port.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Masayoshi Nakao
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Publication number: 20190310572Abstract: A powder processing apparatus includes: a fixing unit that is provided in an apparatus housing and heats powder containing ultrafine particles to fix the powder on a processed medium; an exhaust unit including an exhaust path through which air near the fixing unit can be exhausted, a capturing part capable of capturing the ultrafine particles, and an airflow generating part that generates exhaust airflow, the exhaust unit exhausting the air near the fixing unit to the outside of the apparatus housing through the exhaust path; and an intake unit including an intake path through which air outside the apparatus housing can be taken in, a capturing part capable of capturing the ultrafine particles, and an airflow generating part that generates intake airflow, the intake unit taking the air outside the apparatus housing into the apparatus housing through the intake path. An intake port is provided below an exhaust port.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2018Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.Inventor: Masayoshi NAKAO
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Patent number: 9801068Abstract: An image processing module can compare a face image of a user with a registered image which is a face image of a normal user, and detect a line of sight from the face image of the user. When the comparison between the face image of the user and the registered image matches at a part other than a line of sight, a control module can determine that an authentication of a user is successful, and start an application corresponding to a direction of the line of sight of the user or display a pre-set screen on a display.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Masayoshi Nakao
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Patent number: 9584683Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a continuous medium; an image forming unit that forms an image on a surface of the medium; a pasting unit that pastes a protection member to the surface of the medium on which the image has been formed; an inspection unit disposed downstream of the image forming unit in a direction in which the medium is transported, the inspection unit inspecting whether the image is defective; a cutting unit disposed downstream of the inspection unit in the direction, the cutting unit being capable of performing an operation of forming a cut in the protection member and the medium so as to surround the image; and a controller that controls the cutting unit so that the cutting unit does not perform the operation of forming a cut in the protection member and the medium if the image is defective.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunori Numao, Shigeyoshi Kuroyanagi, Jisun Choi, Yasuhiro Kusumoto, Masayoshi Nakao
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Patent number: 9477183Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transport module that is capable of being pulled out from an apparatus body of the image forming apparatus and in which a transport path along which a recording material, to which a toner image has been transferred, is to be transported is formed and a fixing unit that is provided in the transport module and that includes a fixing member, which fixes the toner image onto the recording material, and a pressure member, which forms a pressing part to which the recording material is to be transported between the fixing member and the pressure member. When the recording material whose length in a transport direction is longer than that of the transport module is present in the transport path, the transport module is pulled out from the apparatus body while the recording material is being nipped by the fixing member and the pressure member.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsumi Kurita, Masayoshi Nakao
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Publication number: 20160286064Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a continuous medium; an image forming unit that forms an image on a surface of the medium; a pasting unit that pastes a protection member to the surface of the medium on which the image has been formed; an inspection unit disposed downstream of the image forming unit in a direction in which the medium is transported, the inspection unit inspecting whether the image is defective; a cutting unit disposed downstream of the inspection unit in the direction, the cutting unit being capable of performing an operation of forming a cut in the protection member and the medium so as to surround the image; and a controller that controls the cutting unit so that the cutting unit does not perform the operation of forming a cut in the protection member and the medium if the image is defective.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2015Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunori NUMAO, Shigeyoshi KUROYANAGI, Jisun CHOI, Yasuhiro KUSUMOTO, Masayoshi NAKAO
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Patent number: 9411310Abstract: A cooling device cools a continuous resin film, which is transported and onto which a toner image is transferred, after the toner image is heated so that the toner image is fixed to the resin film. The resin film to which the toner image is fixed is cooled in such a manner that an image surface side of the resin film is convexly curved.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Kiuchi, Kazuhiko Arai, Kazunori Numao, Masayo Higashimura, Masayoshi Nakao, Kunihiko Sato
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Publication number: 20160216689Abstract: A cooling device cools a continuous resin film, which is transported and onto which a toner image is transferred, after the toner image is heated so that the toner image is fixed to the resin film. The resin film to which the toner image is fixed is cooled in such a manner that an image surface side of the resin film is convexly curved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka KIUCHI, Kazuhiko ARAI, Kazunori NUMAO, Masayo HIGASHIMURA, Masayoshi NAKAO, Kunihiko SATO
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Patent number: 9316965Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cleaning member and a collecting member. The cleaning member rotates while being in contact with a member to be cleaned that rotates or circulates, so that an object attached to the member to be cleaned is transferred to the cleaning member. The collecting member is made of a porous material having plural pores that are connected to each other, the collecting member rotating while being in contact with a surface of the cleaning member so that the object that has been transferred to the cleaning member is collected in the pores.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Masayoshi Nakao
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Publication number: 20160085186Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transport module that is capable of being pulled out from an apparatus body of the image forming apparatus and in which a transport path along which a recording material, to which a toner image has been transferred, is to be transported is formed and a fixing unit that is provided in the transport module and that includes a fixing member, which fixes the toner image onto the recording material, and a pressure member, which forms a pressing part to which the recording material is to be transported between the fixing member and the pressure member. When the recording material whose length in a transport direction is longer than that of the transport module is present in the transport path, the transport module is pulled out from the apparatus body while the recording material is being nipped by the fixing member and the pressure member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsumi KURITA, Masayoshi NAKAO
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Publication number: 20150208244Abstract: An image processing module can compare a face image of a user with a registered image which is a face image of a normal user, and detect a line of sight from the face image of the user. When the comparison between the face image of the user and the registered image matches at a part other than a line of sight, a control module can determine that an authentication of a user is successful, and start an application corresponding to a direction of the line of sight of the user or display a pre-set screen on a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventor: Masayoshi NAKAO
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Patent number: 8913990Abstract: A mobile phone apparatus is provided with an accelerometer for detecting an attitude and a display for displaying a moving object. Furthermore, a key locked state is set to the mobile phone apparatus for the purpose of preventing an operating error in the key. When an arbitrary key is operated in the key locked state, the moving object and a pocket object representing a predetermined area, etc. are displayed on the display. Then, when the moving object changes in position in correspondence with the change of the attitude of the mobile phone apparatus and is put into the pocket object, the key locked state is cancelled.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Masayoshi Nakao
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Publication number: 20140356009Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a fixing device that has a fast heating mode and a heat storage mode; and a selection section that selects any one of a case where execution of a job indicating an image forming process of a predetermined batch throughput is instructed, and when the fixing device returns to a normal power state from a power saving state, the fixing mode in which an image forming process is early completed is selected on the basis of a total throughput of the job to perform the image forming process, and a case where during the total throughput of the job is not determined or in a case where the job corresponds to a plurality of sets, the fast heating mode is selected as an initial operation for at least the first set to perform the image forming process.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motofumi BABA, Hidenori HORIE, Kazuhiko NARUSHIMA, Masafumi ONO, Masayoshi NAKAO, Kenji KUROISHI, Keiko SHIRAISHI, Koichi AZUMA
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Patent number: 8836963Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a fixing device that has a fast heating mode and a heat storage mode; and a selection section that selects any one of a case where execution of a job indicating an image forming process of a predetermined batch throughput is instructed, and when the fixing device returns to a normal power state from a power saving state, the fixing mode in which an image forming process is early completed is selected on the basis of a total throughput of the job to perform the image forming process, and a case where during the total throughput of the job is not determined or in a case where the job corresponds to a plurality of sets, the fast heating mode is selected as an initial operation for at least the first set to perform the image forming process.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motofumi Baba, Hidenori Horie, Kazuhiko Narushima, Masafumi Ono, Masayoshi Nakao, Kenji Kuroishi, Keiko Shiraishi, Koichi Azuma