Patents by Inventor Naoaki Ide
Naoaki Ide 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: 10403077Abstract: A coin bar unpacking apparatus comprises a housing including an opening and a hole configured to accommodate a packed coin bar inserted through the opening, the hole extending in an insertion direction of packed coin bar and decreasing in diameter along the insertion direction such that a first diameter of the hole at a first location is greater than a second diameter of the hole at a second location that is farther from the opening than the first location. An inner surface of the housing at the second location restricts movement of the packed coin bar in a first direction when the packed coin bar is pressed against a rim of the opening in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Kawaguchi, Koichi Hiruta, Naoaki Ide
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Publication number: 20190122476Abstract: A coin bar unpacking apparatus comprises a housing including an opening and a hole configured to accommodate a packed coin bar inserted through the opening, the hole extending in an insertion direction of packed coin bar and decreasing in diameter along the insertion direction such that a first diameter of the hole at a first location is greater than a second diameter of the hole at a second location that is farther from the opening than the first location. An inner surface of the housing at the second location restricts movement of the packed coin bar in a first direction when the packed coin bar is pressed against a rim of the opening in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Yuki KAWAGUCHI, Koichi HIRUTA, Naoaki IDE
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Patent number: 8976425Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image scanning apparatus includes a document table on which an original document is stacked; a substrate; plural first light emitting elements located on one surface of the substrate, the first light emitting elements each emitting light for irradiating the original document on the document table with direct light not reflected by a reflection member; and plural second light emitting elements located on the other surface of the substrate, the second light emitting elements each emitting light for irradiating the original document on the document table with indirect light reflected by the reflection member. The reflection member includes a first reflection member and a second reflection member, and the first reflection member and the second reflection member are located in positions opposed to each other across a reflection optical path of light reflected by the original document on the document table.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Toshiba TEC Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Shiraishi, Naoaki Ide, Mitsuru Hatano, Sueo Ueno, Katsuya Nagamochi, Yusuke Hashizume, Naoya Koseki, Koji Shimokawa, Jun Sakakibara, Kenji Itagaki, Sasuke Endo
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Patent number: 8537435Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image scanning apparatus includes a document glass, a substrate, a first semiconductor light emitting element, a second semiconductor light emitting element, a light guiding section, and a light receiving section. The substrate is provided below and obliquely opposed to the document glass. The first semiconductor light emitting element is mounted on a first surface of the substrate opposed to the document glass and emits light to an original document via the document glass. The second semiconductor light emitting element is mounted on a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface and emits light. The light guiding section receives incidence of the light emitted from the second semiconductor light emitting element and emits the light to the original document from a position where a normal of the document glass is present between the light guide section and the first semiconductor light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuya Nagamochi, Naoaki Ide, Mitsuru Hatano, Sueo Ueno, Hiroyuki Shiraishi, Yusuke Hashizume, Naoya Koseki, Koji Shimokawa, Jun Sakakibara, Kenji Itagaki, Sasuke Endo
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Patent number: 8253992Abstract: An image copier according to the invention comprises a scanner for reading an image and a printer for forming an image on sheet, and the scanner includes a document table for positioning an original document from which an image is to be read; a document holding cover holding the original document on the original document table and having a light-emitting element for detecting the size of an original document which emits light when the size of the original document is detected, a light source for irradiating the original document with light when an image on the original document is read, a light-receiving element for image reading which receives reflected light from the original document, a controller for the light-emitting element for detecting the size of an original document which controls the light-emitting element for detecting the thickness of the original document, a specific region determination unit for identifying a specific region based on the numbers of pixels in a main scanning direction and a subType: GrantFiled: July 2, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokazu Shoda, Naoaki Ide, Yusuke Hashizume
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Publication number: 20110286054Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reading head includes: a carriage configured to move in a sub-scanning direction with respect to a document table glass; a first light source provided to be movable integrally with the carriage and configured to illuminate a reading target position on the document table glass from an angle tilting to one side in the sub-scanning direction with respect to a reading optical axis extending in a normal direction in the reading target position on the document table glass; and a second light source provided to be movable integrally with the carriage and configured to illuminate the reading target position from a tilting angle larger than the angle of the first light source to the other side in the sub-scanning direction with respect to the reading optical axis and from a position further apart from the reading target position than the first light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Sueo Ueno, Naoaki Ide, Jun Sakakibara, Katsuya Nagamochi, Hiroyuki Shiraishi, Yusuke Hashizume, Kenji Itagaki, Sasuke Endo, Koji Shimokawa, Naoya Koseki, Mitsuru Hatano
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Publication number: 20110286053Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image scanning apparatus includes: a document table on which an original document is stacked; a substrate; plural first light emitting elements located on one surface of the substrate, the first light emitting elements each emitting light for irradiating the original document on the document table; and plural second light emitting elements located on the other surface of the substrate, the second light emitting elements each emitting light for irradiating the original document on the document table.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hiroyuki Shiraishi, Naoaki Ide, Mitsuru Hatano, Sueo Ueno, Katsuya Nagamochi, Yusuke Hashizume, Naoya Koseki, Koji Shimokawa, Jun Sakakibara, Kenji Itagaki, Sasuke Endo
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Publication number: 20110286057Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image scanning apparatus includes a document glass, a substrate, a first semiconductor light emitting element, a second semiconductor light emitting element, a light guiding section, and a light receiving section. The substrate is provided below and obliquely opposed to the document glass. The first semiconductor light emitting element is mounted on a first surface of the substrate opposed to the document glass and emits light to an original document via the document glass. The second semiconductor light emitting element is mounted on a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface and emits light. The light guiding section receives incidence of the light emitted from the second semiconductor light emitting element and emits the light to the original document from a position where a normal of the document glass is present between the light guide section and the first semiconductor light emitting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Katsuya Nagamochi, Naoaki Ide, Mitsuru Hatano, Sueo Ueno, Hiroyuki Shiraishi, Yusuke Hashizume, Naoya Koseki, Koji Shimokawa, Jun Sakakibara, Kenji Itagaki, Sasuke Endo
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Patent number: 7990582Abstract: An image reading apparatus having a color line sensor and a monochromatic line sensor starts to read on the basis of the color reading start position when reading the image of a document in color and starts to read on the basis of the monochromatic reading start position when reading the image of a document in monochrome.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoaki Ide, Yusuke Hashizume
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Publication number: 20100271671Abstract: An image copier according to the invention comprises a scanner for reading an image and a printer for forming an image on sheet, and the scanner includes a document table for positioning an original document from which an image is to be read; a document holding cover holding the original document on the original document table and having a light-emitting element for detecting the size of an original document which emits light when the size of the original document is detected, a light source for irradiating the original document with light when an image on the original document is read, a light-receiving element for image reading which receives reflected light from the original document, a controller for the light-emitting element for detecting the size of an original document which controls the light-emitting element for detecting the thickness of the original document, a specific region determination unit for identifying a specific region based on the numbers of pixels in a main scanning direction and a subType: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirokazu SHODA, Naoaki IDE, Yusuke HASHIZUME
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Patent number: 7777920Abstract: An image copier according to the invention comprises a scanner for reading an image and a printer for forming an image on sheet, and the scanner includes a document table for positioning an original document from which an image is to be read; a document holding cover holding the original document on the original document table and having a light-emitting element for detecting the size of an original document which emits light when the size of the original document is detected, a light source for irradiating the original document with light when an image on the original document is read, a light-receiving element for image reading which receives reflected light from the original document, a controller for the light-emitting element for detecting the size of an original document which controls the light-emitting element for detecting the thickness of the original document, a specific region determination unit for identifying a specific region based on the numbers of pixels in a main scanning direction and a subType: GrantFiled: February 28, 2006Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignees: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hirokazu Shoda, Naoaki Ide, Yusuke Hashizume
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Publication number: 20090097078Abstract: An image reading apparatus having a color line sensor and a monochromatic line sensor starts to read on the basis of the color reading start position when reading the image of a document in color and starts to read on the basis of the monochromatic reading start position when reading the image of a document in monochrome.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Naoaki IDE, Yusuke Hashizume
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Patent number: 7471426Abstract: An image reading apparatus having a color line sensor and a monochromatic line sensor starts to read on the basis of the color reading start position when reading the image of a document in color and starts to read on the basis of the monochromatic reading start position when reading the image of a document in monochrome.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2004Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoaki Ide, Yusuke Hashizume
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Patent number: 7408682Abstract: In an image reading apparatus according to the invention, the switching frequency of a switching power supply is set to a value equal to integral multiples of a reading frequency corresponding to each line, thereby correcting, for example, uneven image density due to ripples in a power supply voltage. Further, the switching of the switching power supply is synchronized with a horizontal synchronizing signal output from a scanner, thereby causing the positions of the ripples to correspond between lines for correcting, for example, uneven image density.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2003Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Naoaki Ide
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Patent number: 7400429Abstract: An image reading apparatus according to the present invention can obtain an image light from all areas of a document with uniform brightness, when receiving an image light from an area elongate in a first direction, and obtaining image data corresponding to the image information of a document by moving the image light area in a direction orthogonal to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2003Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Naoaki Ide
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Patent number: 7349132Abstract: An image reading unit according to the present invention includes a lamp to incorporate a change in temperature conditions to the emitting light amount, the lamp capable of illuminating an reading object with a light of a predetermined intensity, an image signal generation unit which generates an image signal corresponding to the reflected light generated when a reading object is illuminated, and a cooling unit which cools a predetermined range of the lamp, so that the intensity change in the light radiated from the lamp of the illumination unit, in the length direction of the illumination unit can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2003Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Naoaki Ide
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Patent number: 7345778Abstract: If a determination result obtained using software in a scanner CPU is not identical to a determination result obtained using hardware in a determination section, error processing is performed to prevent image forming of a particular document.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2007Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Fuse, Naoaki Ide
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Publication number: 20080043298Abstract: An image reading unit according to the present invention includes a lamp to incorporate a change in temperature conditions to the emitting light amount, the lamp capable of illuminating an reading object with a light of a predetermined intensity, an image signal generation unit which generates an image signal corresponding to the reflected light generated when a reading object is illuminated, and a cooling unit which cools a predetermined range of the lamp, so that the intensity change in the light radiated from the lamp of the illumination unit, in the length direction of the illumination unit can be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventor: Naoaki Ide
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Publication number: 20070273935Abstract: An MFP includes a scanner to read an image, and a printer to form the image on a sheet, in which the scanner includes a document table on which a document as an image reading object is placed, a platen cover that holds the document to the document table, a carriage that moves along the document table, a document size detecting element that detects a size of the document at a position in front of an image reading start position of the document in an image reading direction, and a control device that detects the document size based on an output of the document size detecting element. According to the MFP, it is possible to realize shortening of an image reading time while reduction in thickness of the apparatus and reduction in cost are kept.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2006Publication date: November 29, 2007Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoaki Ide, Yusuke Hashizume, Hirokazu Shoda
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Publication number: 20070264064Abstract: Black tapes 61 and 62 having optical reflectances different from that of the texture of a document D are stuck to the lower side of a platen cover 3. The black tapes 61 and 62 have the optical reflectances different from that of the texture of the document D. When the document D set on a document table 2 and the black tapes 61 and 62 are exposed by a light exposure lamp 5, at least one edge of the document D set on the document table 2 and the length of the edge are detected according to the amount of reflected light from the document D and that from the black tapes 61 and 62. The size of the document D set on the document table 2 is judged according to the detected length of the edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2006Publication date: November 15, 2007Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yusuke Hashizume, Naoaki Ide, Hirokazu Shoda