Patents by Inventor Masayuki Inoue

Masayuki Inoue 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: 20170196512
    Abstract: A mask configured to be attached to the face of a subject includes a wall section that defines an internal space and covers at least a portion of a nose and a mouth of the subject, an expired gas introduction section that is disposed in the internal space and introduce the subject's expired gas, and a communication section defining a communication channel through which the subject's expired gas introduced from the expired gas introduction section is introduced into an expired gas concentration detection sensor. The position of the expired gas introduction section in the internal space is variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Masayuki INOUE
  • Patent number: 9639514
    Abstract: Provided is an information browsing apparatus provided with a display section on which display surface a touch panel to detect contact of an object is disposed. The information browsing apparatus is capable of displaying a document in a first display form where the entire display section is configured with a single region, and in a second display form where the display section is divided into a plurality of regions and provided with a data processing section. In case handwriting information is inputted straddling two or more than two regions in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs, thereafter when the display from is changed to the first display form, the data display section displays all of the handwritten information in the region which is judged that the hand written information belongs to the region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki Inoue, Tetsuhiro Shibata, Keiichiro Hyodo
  • Patent number: 9615774
    Abstract: A CO2 sensor includes: a sensing portion operable to change in color in accordance with a CO2 partial pressure in expiration from at least one of nares and a mouth of a living body; and a mounting member adapted to hold the sensing portion at a position where the expiration from the at least one of the nares and the mouth impinges on the sensing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kobayashi, Masayuki Inoue, Hidetoshi Dainobu, Toshiki Aoki, Kumi Sugiyama, Iwao Takahashi, Kazumasa Ito, Takashi Usuda
  • Patent number: 9594442
    Abstract: A handwriting input device includes: a touch panel which can detect a touch given through a sheet of paper; and a control section. The control section obtains position information of a touch point on the touch panel at first time intervals, and determines a location of a sheet on the touch panel to obtain sheet location information, at second time intervals. The control section outputs the position information of the touch points and the corresponding sheet location information. The control section optionally calculates displacement amounts of the sheet on the basis of a change of the sheet location information, and outputs the position information of the touch points and the corresponding displacement amounts of the sheet. The control section optionally corrects the position information of the touch points on the basis of the displacement amounts of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Shibata, Keiichiro Hyodo, Masayuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20170035325
    Abstract: A physiological information measuring apparatus includes: a display controller that, based on information indicating a respiration interval of a patient, is configured to produce a respiration interval graph in which a first axis indicates time information, and a second axis indicates a length of the respiration interval, and that is configured to control a displaying section to display the respiration interval graph, the display controller that is configured to reset a value of the second axis of the respiration interval graph, at each time when the respiration interval starts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Toshiki Aoki, Masayuki Inoue, Hiroko Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 9563290
    Abstract: An input device includes: an input detector that detects a portion of a detection surface pressed by a position specifying object via a sheet placed on the detection surface; a correction information acquisitor that acquires correction information to correct a difference between a shape of a contact portion of the position specifying object in contact with the sheet and a shape of a portion pressed by the contact portion detected by the input detector; and a corrector that corrects a value detected by the input detector on the basis of the correction information acquired by the correction information acquisitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takamasa Niwa, Keiichiro Hyodo, Tetsuhiro Shibata, Yasuhiko Yamaguchi, Masayuki Inoue, Kenta Hosaka
  • Patent number: 9563291
    Abstract: A film of a pen input device is provided, and a point determined by a combination of a static friction coefficient value x and a kinetic friction coefficient value y falls within a region including a line segment and the neighborhood of the line segment in a coordinate system showing the static friction coefficient on the X-axis and the kinetic friction coefficient on the Y-axis, the line segment being expressed as y=0.3071x+0.0496 0.26?x?0.13, the following conditions being satisfied: 0.16?the static friction coefficient value x?0.10 0.100?the kinetic friction coefficient value y?0.080, the size a, the height b, and the pitch c of concavities and convexities in the surface satisfying the following conditions: 20 ?m?a?16 ?m 0.9 ?m?b?0.4 ?m 30 ?m?c?26 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenta Hosaka, Yasuhiko Yamaguchi, Takamasa Niwa, Masayuki Inoue, Keiichiro Hyodo, Tetsuhiro Shibata
  • Publication number: 20170028154
    Abstract: An oxygen mask can include an oxygen supply unit and an attachment unit which is to be attached to a periphery of a nose or a nose and a mouth of a patient. The attachment unit can include an opening which communicates with external air and which is formed at a position to which, when the oxygen mask is attached to the patient, at least one of the nose and the mouth of the patient is opposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Fumihiko Takatori, Shinji Yamamori, Masayuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20170012490
    Abstract: An armature manufacturing method includes preparing a core member that includes a rotation shaft at a central portion and that is formed with plural teeth in a radiating shape centered on the rotation shaft; and winding winding wires onto slots between the plural teeth so as to form plural types of winding coil sections, each with a different winding wire diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Kazumasa IWATSUKI, Eiji HOSHIKAWA, Takeshi MAMIYA, Tomoki KUBO, Kiyomi TAKAHASHI, Masayuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20160377532
    Abstract: To provide a gas sensor kit and a gas measurement system in which a problem in arrangement of a signal processor and an atmospheric pressure sensor at the time of measuring a gas is solved. A gas sensor kit includes a sensor and a connector. The connector includes an atmospheric pressure sensor measuring an atmospheric pressure and a signal processor. The signal processor receives a measurement signal indicating a transmitted light quantity of a target gas from the sensor and obtains a measurement value of a concentration or a partial pressure of the target gas based on the measurement signal. The signal processor corrects the measurement value of the concentration or the partial pressure of the target gas by using an atmospheric pressure value measured by the atmospheric pressure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: HIDETOSHI DAINOBU, MASAYUKI INOUE, KATSUHIDE TONE, TAKANORI SATO, KAZUNORI YOSHIFUKU
  • Patent number: 9486598
    Abstract: An oxygen mask can include an oxygen supply unit and an attachment unit which is to be attached to a periphery of a nose or a nose and a mouth of a patient. The attachment unit includes an opening which communicates with external air and which is formed at a position to which, when the oxygen mask is attached to the patient, at least one of the nose and the mouth of the patient is opposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumihiko Takatori, Shinji Yamamori, Masayuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 9468734
    Abstract: An airway adaptor that measures the concentration of at least one of a specific component and the flow rate of a supply gas and a return gas. The airway adapter may include a tube having a flow path in which the supply gas and the return gas passes. The tube may include a first end having a first aperture for guiding the supply gas into the flow path, and second end having a second aperture for guiding the return gas. Further, the airway adapter may include a measurement device operable to measure at least one of the supply gas and the return gas in the air flow path and a partial shielding disposed at the first aperture and structured to shield a portion of the air flow path. The supply gas may be a respiratory gas and the return gas may be inhaled or exhaled breath of a person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Dainobu, Masayuki Inoue, Fumihiko Takatori
  • Patent number: 9393376
    Abstract: An airway adaptor includes: an airway case including a gas passage, the airway case adapted to be attachable to a part of a carbon dioxide sensor configured to detect a concentration of carbon dioxide contained in exhalation, flowing into the gas passage, of the subject, the exhalation; a nasal cannula having a pair of insertion portions inserted into nostrils of the subject to guide exhalation from the nostrils to the gas passage; a mouth guide placed in front of a mouth of the subject to guide exhalation from the mouth to the gas passage; a light-emitting element supported by one of the insertion portions; and a light-receiving element supported by the other of the insertion portions. When the insertion portions are inserted into the nostrils, the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element are opposed to each other across a nasal septum of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Inoue, Yoshinobu Ono
  • Patent number: 9316798
    Abstract: An optical assembly includes a circuit board including an electrically conductive path formed by printed wiring technology, a photoelectric conversion element connected to the circuit board via the electrically conductive path, a resin member made of light transmissive synthetic resin and attached to the circuit board, and a shielding member made of metal. The resin member includes a sleeve into which a ferrule attached to an end of an optical fiber is inserted and integrally includes a lens through which an optical path passes. The optical path extends between the sleeve and the photoelectric conversion element. The shielding member is connected to the circuit board and arranged to cover the photoelectric conversion element. The shielding member includes a window through which the optical path extends to the photoelectric conversion element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Katou, Tomomi Sano, Yuji Nakura, Masayuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20160062491
    Abstract: A handwriting input device includes: a touch panel which can detect a touch given through a sheet of paper; and a control section. The control section obtains position information of a touch point on the touch panel at first time intervals, and determines a location of a sheet on the touch panel to obtain sheet location information, at second time intervals. The control section outputs the position information of the touch points and the corresponding sheet location information. The control section optionally calculates displacement amounts of the sheet on the basis of a change of the sheet location information, and outputs the position information of the touch points and the corresponding displacement amounts of the sheet. The control section optionally corrects the position information of the touch points on the basis of the displacement amounts of the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro SHIBATA, Keiichiro HYODO, Masayuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20160048321
    Abstract: A document viewing device, including: a display unit; a display control unit that displays a document on the display unit by using a layout selected from a plurality of layouts; an additional writing input unit that receives an additional writing on the displayed document; and an additional writing information storing unit that stores additional writing information indicating contents of the received additional writing so as to relate the additional writing information to the layout which was used for displaying the document when the additional writing was received, wherein the display control unit further displays the contents of the additional writing, which are indicated by the additional writing information indicating the contents of the additional writing received on a part of the document, which is displayed on the display unit, and related to a layout which is same as the layout which is currently used for displaying the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki INOUE, Keiichiro HYODO, Tetsuhiro SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 9262647
    Abstract: An information input display device, having an input section for inputting information and a display section for displaying the information, which enables an access to protected information after being authenticated by an authentication processing executed after starting up of the information input display device, the information input display device including: an authentication processor which executes the authentication processing based on authentication information inputted by the input section; and an input display controller which, after the starting up of the information input display device and before being authenticated by the authentication processing, accepts inputting of prescribed information different from the authentication information through a screen displayed on the display section, and allows the display section to display the prescribed information on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Shibata, Tatsuya Eguchi, Tsutomu Suka, Keiichiro Hyodo, Masayuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 9254704
    Abstract: Provided are a handwriting input apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and a control method. The handwriting input apparatus includes a touch panel configured to detect pressure acting thereon through a sheet of paper; a holding section for pressing the sheet to hold the sheet onto the touch panel; and a page feed determining section configured to determine whether a page feed action has been performed or not by detecting a state change of the holding section. The handwriting input apparatus further includes a control section configured to, in response to the page feed determining section determining that the page feed action has been performed, conduct at least one of storing information of handwriting input which has been received through the touch panel until the page feed action as handwriting data and transferring the information of the handwriting input as handwriting data to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takamasa Niwa, Yasuhiko Yamaguchi, Masayuki Inoue, Kenta Hosaka, Keiichiro Hyodo
  • Patent number: 9224424
    Abstract: A data recording/reproducing device for recording data on a recordable area of a recording medium in an arbitrary recording unit, includes a control unit that controls the operation of the data recording/reproducing device. The control unit designates a recording unit where data on the recordable area is not recorded as a non-use area, determines whether data has been recorded, or unrecorded in the recording unit on the recordable area, determines the recording unit designated as the non-use area to have been recorded, and records data in the recording unit determined to be unrecorded when data is recorded on the recording medium, under the control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignees: HITACHI-LG DATA STORAGE, INC., HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Inoue, Chiyo Ohno, Masayuki Kobayashi, Akinobu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150342502
    Abstract: A method of producing a temperature sensor which is configured to detect a temperature change of a respiratory gas of a subject, includes: preparing a rod-like heat sensitive element which includes a heat sensitive portion in a tip end portion; placing the heat sensitive portion in a cavity of a mold; injecting a resin material into the cavity to mold a protective portion which covers the heat sensitive element; and releasing the tip end portion in which the protective portion is formed, from the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Kota Saeki, Masayuki Inoue, Katsumi Nakaichi