Patents by Inventor Masayuki Yoshii
Masayuki Yoshii 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: 11212445Abstract: Provided is a camera shake correction device including a first yoke plate, a second yoke plate that is opposed to the first yoke plate, a slider located between the first yoke plate and the second yoke plate, and slidable while supporting an image sensor, a magnet supported by the first yoke plate and configured to form a magnet circuit between the magnet and the second yoke plate, a driving coil fixed to the slider and configured to generate a driving force that slides the slider, a non-magnetic sheet provided between the magnet and the slider, and a magnetic fluid provided between the magnet and the non-magnetic sheet.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuichi Ishida, Masayuki Yoshii, Toshihiko Hirota
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Publication number: 20200244887Abstract: Provided is a camera shake correction device including a first yoke plate, a second yoke plate that is opposed to the first yoke plate, a slider located between the first yoke plate and the second yoke plate, and slidable while supporting an image sensor, a magnet supported by the first yoke plate and configured to form a magnet circuit between the magnet and the second yoke plate, a driving coil fixed to the slider and configured to generate a driving force that slides the slider, a non-magnetic sheet provided between the magnet and the slider, and a magnetic fluid provided between the magnet and the non-magnetic sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Yuichi ISHIDA, Masayuki YOSHII, Toshihiko HIROTA
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Patent number: 9828318Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a method for the highly selective production of dipropylene glycol containing 1,1?-oxybis-2-propanol in a proportion of 0.10 to 0.70 and/or tripropylene glycol containing 1,1?-[(1-methyl-1,2-ethanediyl)bis(oxy)]bis-2-propanol in a proportion of 0.10 to 0.70. The present invention is a method for producing dipropylene glycol containing 1,1?-oxybis-2-propanol in a proportion of 0.10 to 0.70 and/or tripropylene glycol containing 1,1?-[(1-methyl-1,2-ethanediyl)bis(oxy)]bis-2-propanol in a proportion of 0.10 to 0.70, the method comprising a reaction step of making a reactant comprising propylene oxide and water react in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises at least one element selected from the group consisting of vanadium, niobium, and tantalum, and the Hammett acidity function (H) of the catalyst satisfies H?9.3.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Shinjiro Ishihara, Shoko Ikeda, Masayuki Yoshii, Makoto Murata
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Patent number: 9233900Abstract: There is provided a method for producing dipropylene glycol (DPG) and/or tripropylene glycol (TPG) including: (A) reacting a raw material liquid including propylene oxide and water to obtain a reaction liquid including unreacted water, propylene glycol (PG), DPG and/or TPG, and an alcohol compound excluding PG, DPG, and TPG; (B) separating, from the reaction liquid, a first liquid containing water and the alcohol compound and a second liquid containing the PG, DPG and/or TPG and optionally the alcohol compound; (C) removing a part of the alcohol compound from the first liquid to obtain a third liquid containing water and optionally a part of the alcohol compound; (D) separating, from the second liquid, a fourth liquid containing the PG and optionally the alcohol compound, and a fifth liquid containing the DPG and/or TPG and optionally the alcohol compound; and (E) recycling a part of the third liquid to step (A).Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Shigeru Goto, Kenji Itoh, Koji Shinohara, Masayuki Yoshii, Shinjiro Ishihara
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Publication number: 20150133697Abstract: There is provided a method for producing dipropylene glycol (DPG) and/or tripropylene glycol (TPG) including: (A) reacting a raw material liquid including propylene oxide and water to obtain a reaction liquid including unreacted water, propylene glycol (PG), DPG and/or TPG, and an alcohol compound excluding PG, DPG, and TPG; (B) separating, from the reaction liquid, a first liquid containing water and the alcohol compound and a second liquid containing the PG, DPG and/or TPG and optionally the alcohol compound; (C) removing a part of the alcohol compound from the first liquid to obtain a third liquid containing water and optionally a part of the alcohol compound; (D) separating, from the second liquid, a fourth liquid containing the PG and optionally the alcohol compound, and a fifth liquid containing the DPG and/or TPG and optionally the alcohol compound; and (E) recycling a part of the third liquid to step (A).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: Sumitomo Chemical Company ,LimitedInventors: Shigeru Goto, Kenji Itoh, Koji Shinohara, Masayuki Yoshii, Shinjiro Ishihara
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Publication number: 20140378714Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a method for the highly selective production of dipropylene glycol containing 1,1?-oxybis-2-propanol in a proportion of 0.10 to 0.70 and/or tripropylene glycol containing 1,1?[(1-methyl-1,2-ethanediyl) bis (oxy)]bis-2-propanol in a proportion of 0.10 to 0.70. The present invention is a method for producing dipropylene glycol containing 1,1?-oxybis-2-propanol in a proportion of 0.10 to 0.70 and/or tripropylene glycol containing 1,1?[(1-methyl-1,2-ethanediyl) bis (oxy)]bis-2-propanol in a proportion of 0.10 to 0.70, the method comprising a reaction step of making a reactant comprising propylene oxide and water react in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises at least one element selected from the group consisting of vanadium, niobium, and tantalum, and the Hammett acidity function (H) of the catalyst satisfies H?9.3.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Shinjiro Ishihara, Shoko Ikeda, Masayuki Yoshii, Makoto Murata
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Patent number: 8860876Abstract: An apparatus includes a display control section configured to control display of image data for an image, the image data including flash reach information identifying at least one portion of the image corresponding to at least one region reached by light from a flash. Also described are a method and computer-readable storage medium for controlling display of image data for the image.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Masuda, Takeshi Harano, Naho Suzuki, Masayuki Yoshii
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Patent number: 8599422Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a first storage area that stores in itself original data to be copied; a copier that copies the original data to a second storage area that is shared and allowed to be accessed by a plurality of users belonging to one same group, by storing reference information pointing to the original data stored in the first storage area, in the second storage area; a judger that judges whether or not all of access judgment target users who are the group users sharing the second storage area or preliminarily specified users, make access to the reference information stored by the copier in the second storage area; and a controller that suspends execution of an instruction given to change the original data for the access judgment target users so that the original data could be provided to all of them, if the judger judges that only some of the access judgment target users has made access to the reference information when the instruction to change the original data is given, and then, cType: GrantFiled: March 4, 2008Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kei Shigehisa, Takeshi Morikawa, Nobuo Kamei, Takeshi Minami, Masayuki Yoshii
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Patent number: 8477381Abstract: A document administration apparatus, comprising: a transmitter to transmit a document to a plurality of destinations; a memory to record status information of said transmitted document therein; and a changer to change status information of said document recorded in said memory, according to an operation by a destination user to whom said document is transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Konica Monolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nobuo Kamei, Takeshi Morikawa, Kei Shigehisa, Minako Kobayashi, Masayuki Yoshii
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Patent number: 8326138Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an apparatus body having an outer casing, at least a shutter mechanism and an imaging device placed inside the outer casing, an opening formed in the outer casing, and a storage space and a placement space defined inside the outer casing and communicating with the opening and the storage space, respectively, a strobe unit having a lid part and a light-emitting part and connected to the apparatus body so as to be movable between close and open positions, a sensor unit placed in the placement space and having an autofocus sensor and a sensor adjusting part having plural adjusting screws, and a mirror placed inside the outer casing to reflect part of incident light toward the autofocus sensor. When the strobe unit is moved to the open position, the storage space is defined as an adjustment space into which an adjustment jig can be inserted.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masayuki Yoshii, Takuya Hara, Nobuhisa Koike
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Patent number: 8326863Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a personal storage area provided for a user; a group storage area shared with a plurality of users who are members of a group; an identifier that identifies from one consolidated data that is made from user's data created for one or more than one user of the group and inputted in the group storage area, a personal storage area(s) to which the user's data are to be delivered; and a transmitter that transmits the user's data to the personal storage area(s) identified by the identifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Masayuki Yoshii, Takeshi Morikawa, Nobuo Kamei, Kei Shigehisa, Takeshi Minami
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Publication number: 20120194732Abstract: An apparatus includes a display control section configured to control display of image data for an image, the image data including flash reach information identifying at least one portion of the image corresponding to at least one region reached by light from a flash. Also described are a method and computer-readable storage medium for controlling display of image data for the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Masuda, Takeshi Harano, Naho Suzuki, Masayuki Yoshii
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Publication number: 20120165587Abstract: A method is provided for highly selectively producing a compound with a double bond represented by formula (III), including the following steps: (A): reacting a compound represented by a ketone of formula (I) and/or a compound represented by an aralkyl alcohol of formula (II) with hydrogen in the presence of 0.1 parts by weight or more of a hydrogenation catalyst, thereby obtaining a reaction liquid, (B): removing the hydrogenation catalyst until the amount of the hydrogenation catalyst contained in the reaction liquid obtained in step (A) becomes 0.0010 parts by weight or less, thereby obtaining a hydrogenation catalyst-removed liquid, (C): obtaining a compound with a double bond represented by formula (III) in the presence of a dehydration catalyst from the hydrogenation catalyst-removed liquid obtained in step (B).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masayuki Yoshii, Toshio Nakayama, Tadashi Fukunaka
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Publication number: 20120045194Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an apparatus body having an outer casing, at least a shutter mechanism and an imaging device placed inside the outer casing, an opening formed in the outer casing, and a storage space and a placement space defined inside the outer casing and communicating with the opening and the storage space, respectively, a strobe unit having a lid part and a light-emitting part and connected to the apparatus body so as to be movable between close and open positions, a sensor unit placed in the placement space and having an autofocus sensor and a sensor adjusting part having plural adjusting screws, and a mirror placed inside the outer casing to reflect part of incident light toward the autofocus sensor. When the strobe unit is moved to the open position, the storage space is defined as an adjustment space into which an adjustment jig can be inserted.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masayuki Yoshii, Takuya Hara, Nobuhisa Koike
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Patent number: 8093433Abstract: A process for producing an alkylbenzene hydroperoxide from an alkylbenzene solution containing 0.01 to 10 mmol/kg of phenols by subjecting the solution to oxidation with an oxygen-containing gas, including allowing a compound represented by formula (I) to be present in the alkylbenzene solution: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group and may combine with each other to form a non-aromatic ring, the molar ratio of the compound represented by formula (I) to the phenols in the alkylbenzene solution being 0.4 mol/mol or higher; is advantageous in providing economical and high-yield production of an alkylbenzene hydroperoxide.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventor: Masayuki Yoshii
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Patent number: 8068241Abstract: In order to process data by a plurality of processing methods defined for each of a plurality of users with a simple operation, MFP includes a HDD having a group BOX for storing data, related with at least two users, and creates a group table which associates at least two data processing methods respectively corresponding to at least two users with the group BOX. When data is stored into the group BOX, the stored data is processed according to each of at least two data processing methods associated with the group BOX.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Masayuki Yoshii, Takeshi Morikawa, Kei Shigehisa, Nobuo Kamei, Takeshi Minami
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Patent number: 7884972Abstract: According to an image processing apparatus, if image data designated to be stored in a storage unit within the image processing apparatus is stored in a storage device outside the image processing apparatus, a memory remaining amount or the like of the image processing apparatus is calculated as if the image data is stored in a storage area within the image processing apparatus, although the image data is not moved to the storage area within the image processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Takeshi Morikawa, Nobuo Kamei, Masayuki Yoshii, Takeshi Minami, Kei Shigehisa
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Publication number: 20100317899Abstract: A process for producing an alkylbenzene hydroperoxide from an alkylbenzene solution containing 0.01 to 10 mmol/kg of phenols by subjecting the solution to oxidation with an oxygen-containing gas, including allowing a compound represented by formula (I) to be present in the alkylbenzene solution: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group and may combine with each other to form a non-aromatic ring, the molar ratio of the compound represented by formula (I) to the phenols in the alkylbenzene solution being 0.4 mol/mol or higher; is advantageous in providing economical and high-yield production of an alkylbenzene hydroperoxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: Sumitomo Chemical Company ,LimitedInventor: Masayuki Yoshii
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Publication number: 20080222169Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a personal storage area provided for a user; a group storage area shared with a plurality of users who are members of a group; an identifier that identifies from one consolidated data that is made from user's data created for one or more than one user of the group and inputted in the group storage area, a personal storage area(s) to which the user's data are to be delivered; and a transmitter that transmits the user's data to the personal storage area(s) identified by the identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Masayuki YOSHII, Takeshi MORIKAWA, Nobuo KAMEI, Kei SHIGEHISA, Takeshi MINAMI
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Publication number: 20080218798Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a first storage area that stores in itself original data to be copied; a copier that copies the original data to a second storage area that is shared and allowed to be accessed by a plurality of users belonging to one same group, by storing reference information pointing to the original data stored in the first storage area, in the second storage area; a judger that judges whether or not all of access judgment target users who are the group users sharing the second storage area or preliminarily specified users, make access to the reference information stored by the copier in the second storage area; and a controller that suspends execution of an instruction given to change the original data for the access judgment target users so that the original data could be provided to all of them, if the judger judges that only some of the access judgment target users has made access to the reference information when the instruction to change the original data is given, and then, cType: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kei Shigehisa, Takeshi Morikawa, Nobuo Kamei, Takeshi Minami, Masayuki Yoshii