Patents by Inventor Rina Takahashi

Rina Takahashi 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).

  • Patent number: 11964607
    Abstract: A vehicle loads at least one of a plurality of upper units having space to store a person or an object on an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels in the vehicle. The vehicle includes an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels and the at least one of the plurality of upper units loaded on the under unit. The under unit includes a loading unit, on which the at least one of the plurality of upper units as described above can be loaded. Each of the plurality of upper units includes a joint that joins to a different upper unit that is adjacently loaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai
  • Patent number: 11614905
    Abstract: A server includes circuitry to: receive selection of particular file information from a list of file information; acquire a particular electronic file from a storage location indicated by the particular file information, the particular electronic file being one or more electronic files; extract data of one or more pages to be output from the particular electronic file according to the particular file information; and transmit the data of one or more pages of the particular electronic file to an output device to cause the output device to output the data of one or more pages of the particular electronic file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Rina Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20220303354
    Abstract: A service providing system configured to manage information relating to an application that is available for use to a user in a management unit in which the user is registered, the service providing system including circuitry; and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that cause the circuitry to execute creating a setting of an application that is available for use in a second management unit, based on a setting of the application that is also available for use in a first management unit in which the user is already registered, in response to a registration request to register the user in the second management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Rina TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11383208
    Abstract: Provided is a gas separation membrane that can be used continuously. The gas separation membrane comprises: a porous support membrane that contains an aromatic polyamide in which an aromatic ring has been replaced with a chloro group; and a separation functional layer that is disposed on the surface of the porous support membrane and contains a cross-linked polyamide obtained by polycondensation of a polyfunctional amine and a polyfunctional acid halide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Rina Takahashi, Kazuki Sato, Masakazu Koiwa, Shuji Furuno, Takao Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220075579
    Abstract: A server includes circuitry to: receive selection of particular file information from a list of file information; acquire a particular electronic file from a storage location indicated by the particular file information, the particular electronic file being one or more electronic files; extract data of one or more pages to be output from the particular electronic file according to the particular file information; and transmit the data of one or more pages of the particular electronic file to an output device to cause the output device to output the data of one or more pages of the particular electronic file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Rina TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10992830
    Abstract: An information processing terminal includes one or more processors configured to: display a plurality of input fields to which setting values for a process are to be input, the plurality of input fields being arranged side by side in a vertical direction of an operation screen; display a first object that receives an execution request operation for the process, the first object being provided at a lower right of the operation screen; cause the process to be performed based on the setting values in the plurality of input fields in response to the execution request operation for the process; display a second object that accepts a log display operation for the process, the second object being provided between the plurality of input fields and the first object; and display a log of the process in response to the log display operation for the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Rina Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200338506
    Abstract: Provided is a gas separation membrane that can be used continuously. The gas separation membrane comprises: a porous support membrane that contains an aromatic polyamide in which an aromatic ring has been replaced with a chloro group; and a separation functional layer that is disposed on the surface of the porous support membrane and contains a cross-linked polyamide obtained by polycondensation of a polyfunctional amine and a polyfunctional acid halide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Rina TAKAHASHI, Kazuki SATO, Masakazu KOIWA, Shuji FURUNO, Takao SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10785200
    Abstract: An information processing system is provided that includes a cloud server and an information processing terminal. The cloud server includes a storage device storing a program for using a cloud service and account information of a cloud account registered with the cloud service, and a first processor that manages execution of an authentication process for controlling access to the cloud service. The information processing terminal includes a second processor that executes processes of acquiring the program from the cloud server, sending a sign-up request to the cloud server to sign up for the cloud service using an external account of an external service, sending a setup request to the cloud server to set up a passcode or a character string to be used for signing in to the cloud service, and sending a sign-in request to the cloud server to sign in to the cloud service using the cloud account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Rina Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200220988
    Abstract: An information processing terminal includes one or more processors configured to: display a plurality of input fields to which setting values for a process are to be input, the plurality of input fields being arranged side by side in a vertical direction of an operation screen; display a first object that receives an execution request operation for the process, the first object being provided at a lower right of the operation screen; cause the process to be performed based on the setting values in the plurality of input fields in response to the execution request operation for the process; display a second object that accepts a log display operation for the process, the second object being provided between the plurality of input fields and the first object; and display a log of the process in response to the log display operation for the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: RINA TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200147561
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a gas separation membrane comprising: a porous supporting layer; and a separation function layer disposed on the porous supporting layer and including a crosslinked aromatic polyamide obtained by polycondensation of a multifunctional aromatic amine and a multifunctional aromatic acid halide, wherein the crosslinked aromatic polyamide includes at least one of a fluorine atom bonded to an aromatic ring and a fluorine atom bonded to a nitrogen atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Rina TAKAHASHI, Kazuki SATO, Masakazu KOIWA, Takao SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10545708
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a terminal device, one or more image forming apparatuses communicably connected to the terminal device using short-distance wireless communication, and an information processing apparatus to provide a service that is in cooperation with a print service provided by an external printing system. The terminal device receives an operation of selecting one image forming apparatus from among the one or more image forming apparatuses and transmits, to the external printing system, a print request including an apparatus identifier identifying the selected image forming apparatus. The information processing apparatus acquires a print job generated by the external printing system based on the print request transmitted from the terminal device, stores the acquired print job in a memory, and transmits the print job stored in the memory to the selected image forming apparatus in response to a request transmitted from the selected image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rina Takahashi, Shigeo Araki
  • Publication number: 20190129669
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a terminal device, one or more image forming apparatuses communicably connected to the terminal device using short-distance wireless communication, and an information processing apparatus to provide a service that is in cooperation with a print service provided by an external printing system. The terminal device receives an operation of selecting one image forming apparatus from among the one or more image forming apparatuses and transmits, to the external printing system, a print request including an apparatus identifier identifying the selected image forming apparatus. The information processing apparatus acquires a print job generated by the external printing system based on the print request transmitted from the terminal device, stores the acquired print job in a memory, and transmits the print job stored in the memory to the selected image forming apparatus in response to a request transmitted from the selected image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Rina TAKAHASHI, Shigeo Araki
  • Patent number: 10171685
    Abstract: A service providing system is for providing a service that is in cooperation with a printing service that is provided by an external printing system. The service providing system includes a job obtaining unit configured, when receiving from the printing system a notification representing that a print job is created by the printing service, to obtain the print job from the printing system; a job managing unit configured to store, in a job storage unit, the print job obtained by the job obtaining unit; and a job transmitting unit configured to transmit the print job stored in the job storage unit in response to a print job request from an image forming apparatus that is coupled to the service providing system via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Yamada, Ato Araki, Rina Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10146491
    Abstract: A printing system includes one or more of information processing apparatuses, an image forming apparatus, a storage storing pieces of job information on print jobs, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to execute: receiving the print target data from the information processing apparatus; receiving a history of pieces of job information corresponding to user identification information corresponding to the target data from the storage; estimating, based on the history, a type of a PDL to which the target data is converted; generating PDL data by converting the target data to the PDL of which the type is estimated; transmitting the PDL data to the image forming apparatus when the estimated PDL is available for the image forming apparatus; and selecting, when the estimated PDL is not available for the image forming apparatus, a PDL available for the image forming apparatus and re-converting the print target data to the selected PDL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Fukasawa, Rina Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180152430
    Abstract: An information processing system is provided that includes a cloud server and an information processing terminal. The cloud server includes a storage device storing a program for using a cloud service and account information of a cloud account registered with the cloud service, and a first processor that manages execution of an authentication process for controlling access to the cloud service. The information processing terminal includes a second processor that executes processes of acquiring the program from the cloud server, sending a sign-up request to the cloud server to sign up for the cloud service using an external account of an external service, sending a setup request to the cloud server to set up a passcode or a character string to be used for signing in to the cloud service, and sending a sign-in request to the cloud server to sign in to the cloud service using the cloud account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Rina TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180074763
    Abstract: A printing system includes one or more of information processing apparatuses, an image forming apparatus, a storage storing pieces of job information on print jobs, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to execute: receiving the print target data from the information processing apparatus; receiving a history of pieces of job information corresponding to user identification information corresponding to the target data from the storage; estimating, based on the history, a type of a PDL to which the target data is converted; generating PDL data by converting the target data to the PDL of which the type is estimated; transmitting the PDL data to the image forming apparatus when the estimated PDL is available for the image forming apparatus; and selecting, when the estimated PDL is not available for the image forming apparatus, a PDL available for the image forming apparatus and re-converting the print target data to the selected PDL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki FUKASAWA, Rina TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170171399
    Abstract: A service providing system is for providing a service that is in cooperation with a printing service that is provided by an external printing system. The service providing system includes a job obtaining unit configured, when receiving from the printing system a notification representing that a print job is created by the printing service, to obtain the print job from the printing system; a job managing unit configured to store, in a job storage unit, the print job obtained by the job obtaining unit; and a job transmitting unit configured to transmit the print job stored in the job storage unit in response to a print job request from an image forming apparatus that is coupled to the service providing system via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru YAMADA, Ato ARAKI, Rina TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9645701
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, a display control system, a display control method, and a display control program stored on a recording medium, each of which determines one or more display components to be displayed together with an application user interface, using display size information, priority order information, and display condition information that are previously stored for each one of the display components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Genki Watanabe, Rina Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9235793
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which has a first and second mode in which power consumption is lower than that of the first mode is disclosed that includes an accepting unit configured to accept an operation; a display configured to transmit a notification when the apparatus switches from the second mode to the first mode; and a control unit configured to store function data representing function providing units registered; generate, in response to the notification received from the display, a first screen indicating the units and cause the display to display the first screen; store identification data identifying one of the units selected; transmit, in response to the notification received from the display, the notification to the units represented in the function data; and when a response is received from the unit identified in the identification data, cause the display to display a second screen generated by the identified unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mina Tsukahara, Rina Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140294421
    Abstract: An image forming system, an instruction output control method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing an instruction output control method, each of which obtains information indicating detection of a jam at an image forming system including an image forming apparatus and one or more peripheral devices, detects a current location of a user who is present near the image forming apparatus or the peripheral devices, determines a method of outputting a jam removal instruction to the user through a first display of the image forming apparatus based on the current user location, and causes the first display to display the jam removal instruction according to the determined jam removal instruction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Rina TAKAHASHI, Mina TSUKAHARA