Patents by Inventor Tomonori Sugiura

Tomonori Sugiura 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: 20110113233
    Abstract: A system, a server, a method, and a computer program are described for relaying an electronic mail without a leak of secret information included in a quoted electronic mail to an unintended recipient without impairing the usability of the electronic mail system. The server receives an electronic mail that is newly created by one of the clients with quotation from one or a plurality of electronic mails received in the past. The server determines, for each quoted electronic mail quoted in the received electronic mail, whether a destination designated in the received electronic mail is included in an originator and a destination set in each quoted electronic mail. The server edits the content of each quoted electronic mail that is determined not to include the destination designated in the received electronic mail. The server transfers the electronic mail including the edited quoted electronic mail to the designated destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES
    Inventors: Kenji Hirota, Tomonori Sugiura, Hidekuni Ueda
  • Publication number: 20100274860
    Abstract: An email is created that includes one or more destination email addresses, plus historical information regarding previously exchanged emails. Before sending this email, each of the destination email addresses is checked against the email addresses in the historical information and, if a destination email address (or the domain name of that destination address) is not found in the historical information, then a warning is displayed to alert the user to the fact that this historical information may be sent to an unintended recipient. In response to this warning, which may include a list of unapproved destination email address, the user may approve a previously unapproved destination email address, change the unapproved destination email address to one that has been previously approved, or enter a new distribution email to be substituted for the unapproved one. When creating the email, the user may also specify other approved email addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: KENJI HIROTA, TOMONORI SUGIURA, MASAMI TADA, HIDEKUNI UEDA
  • Publication number: 20100258424
    Abstract: A power seat switch includes a structure main body; switches provided in the structure main body; sliders slidably provided in the structure main body and changing over contacts of the switches; and moderation units each including a moderation adjuster fitted into the structure main body and an elastic portion provided on the slider. Each slider includes a shaft and a pair of legs provided on one end of the shaft. The elastic portion is provided to elastically protrude from the one end of the shaft in an axial direction of the shaft. The moderation adjuster includes a moderation groove arranged to be sandwiched between the legs, in contact with the elastic portion, and applying a moderation according to sliding of the slider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuichi UI, Toshihide AZUMA, Tomonori SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20090265441
    Abstract: [Object] To inspect emails without having to restrict the use of an email encryption function or the attachment of a file for which a password has been set. [Solving Means] An email client includes an operation reception unit 110 for receiving an operation performed by a user and a processing unit 130 for performing a process according to this operation on an email. The email client also includes a detection unit 121 for detecting that the operation reception unit 110 has received a specific operation and an inspection unit 123 for, if a specific operation is detected, inspecting the email and a file to be attached to the email before the processing unit 130 performs a process according to the specific operation. If a password has been set for the file to be attached to the email, a password acquisition unit 122 acquires the password.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Hirota, Tomonori Sugiura, Hidekuni Ueda
  • Patent number: 7523805
    Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus includes a worm interlockedly connected to an output shaft of an electric motor, a first and a second bearing each supporting the respective side of the worm in a housing, and a gear wheel meshed with the worm. The housing includes a fitting bore in which the first bearing supporting a side of the worm closer to the electric motor is to be fitted, and an annular retaining portion located at a position corresponding to the second bearing and eccentrically oriented with respect to the center (axial center) of the fitting bore in a direction that shortens a distance L between the center of rotation of the worm and that of the gear wheel, and the annular retaining portion retains a coil spring around an outer circumference of the second bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Imagaki, Shingo Ougita, Tomonori Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20070205039
    Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus includes a worm interlockedly connected to an output shaft of an electric motor, a first and a second bearing each supporting the respective side of the worm in a housing, and a gear wheel meshed with the worm. The housing includes a fitting bore in which the first bearing supporting a side of the worm closer to the electric motor is to be fitted, and an annular retaining portion located at a position corresponding to the second bearing and eccentrically oriented with respect to the center (axial center) of the fitting bore in a direction that shortens a distance L between the center of rotation of the worm and that of the gear wheel, and the annular retaining portion retains a coil spring around an outer circumference of the second bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Imagaki, Shingo Ougita, Tomonori Sugiura
  • Patent number: 7213677
    Abstract: A motor-driven type power steering apparatus includes: a drive gear connected to an output shaft of a motor; a driven gear in mesh with the drive gear, which is connected to a steering unit; a bearing for supporting one end of the drive gear; a support portion in which the bearing is disposed; and a curved leaf spring which has a length larger than a peripheral length of the bearing and fitted between the bearing and the support portion in a resiliently deformed state. The curved leaf spring urges the bearing so that a distance between an axis of the driven gear and an axis of the drive gear decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nakamura, Tomonori Sugiura, Souichi Iwasa, Tomomasa Machida
  • Publication number: 20040182188
    Abstract: A motor-driven type power steering apparatus includes: a drive gear connected to an output shaft of a motor; a driven gear in mesh with the drive gear, which is connected to a steering unit; a bearing for supporting one end of the drive gear; a support portion in which the bearing is disposed; and a curved leaf spring which has a length larger than a peripheral length of the bearing and fitted between the bearing and the support portion in a resiliently deformed state. The curved leaf spring urges the bearing so that a distance between an axis of the driven gear and an axis of the drive gear decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nakamura, Tomonori Sugiura, Souichi Iwasa, Tomomasa Machida
  • Patent number: 6561306
    Abstract: An electric steering apparatus designed to eliminate backlash by enabling a hypoid pinion 7, which operates with rotation of a steering assisting motor, to swing with a bearing as a fulcrum and deflecting the hypoid pinion 7 in a radial direction by an elastic member 16. With this electric steering apparatus, it is possible to satisfactorily eliminate backlash without being affected by dimensional errors of parts such as gears used for assisting steering and to automatically eliminate backlash if it is caused by an increase of abrasion of teeth of the gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Watanabe, Yoshiaki Takagi, Shingo Ougita, Tomonori Sugiura, Kaname Joshita
  • Publication number: 20010002630
    Abstract: An electric steering apparatus designed to eliminate backlash by enabling a hypoid pinion 7, which operates with rotation of a steering assisting motor, to swing with a bearing as a fulcrum and deflecting the hypoid pinion 7 in a radial direction by an elastic member 16. With this electric steering apparatus, it is possible to satisfactorily eliminate backlash without being affected by dimensional errors of parts such as gears used for assisting steering and to automatically eliminate backlash if it is caused by an increase of abrasion of teeth of the gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2000
    Publication date: June 7, 2001
    Inventors: Masayuki Watanabe, Yoshiaki Takagi, Shingo Ougita, Tomonori Sugiura, Kaname Joshita