Patents by Inventor Shuko Arai

Shuko Arai 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).

  • Parts design change supporting system, program, and recording medium
    Patent number: 7024433
    Abstract: In order to support a system of changing a design of a parts constituting a product, both a parts composition information database for storing and supervising parts compositions of various products, and a related section information database for storing various sections and/or persons in charge of assessing design change capability in connection with the product are provided. Information of design change objective is input so as to retrieve and specify one or more products employing the design change parts from the parts composition information database in accordance with the input parts information. In accordance with the specified product, the related section information database is retrieved so as to select sections and/or persons. A request for assessing the parts design change capability is electronically transmitted to the selected one or more sections and/or persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuko Arai, Makoto Moriguchi, Hiroshi Ohno, Yumiko Hayashi
  • Parts design change supporting system, program, and recording medium
    Publication number: 20030097642
    Abstract: In order to support a system of changing a design of a parts constituting a product, both a parts composition information database for storing and supervising parts compositions of various products, and a related section information database for storing various sections and/or persons in charge of assessing design change capability in connection with the product are provided. Information of design change objective is input so as to retrieve and specify one or more products employing the design change parts from the parts composition information database in accordance with the input parts information. In accordance with the specified product, the related section information database is retrieved so as to select sections and/or persons. A request for assessing the parts design change capability is electronically transmitted to the selected one or more sections and/or persons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Shuko Arai, Makoto Moriguchi, Hiroshi Ohno, Yumiko Hayashi