Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Sugimoto
Toshiyuki Sugimoto 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: 11935669Abstract: A method for dispersing conductive particles includes: forming an electric field between a first electrode and a second electrode of an electrostatic adsorption device including the first electrode including a disposition part having electrostatic diffusivity or conductivity on which particles are disposed and the second electrode including an adsorption part having electrostatic diffusivity or conductivity and facing the disposition part, to cause a blend particle in which the conductive particles each having a particle size smaller than a particle size of an intermediate particle are attached to the intermediate particle and which is disposed on the disposition part, to reciprocate between the disposition part and the adsorption part, and to cause the conductive particles to be adsorbed onto the adsorption part.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventors: Shohei Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Izawa, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20220392670Abstract: A method for dispersing conductive particles includes: forming an electric field between a first electrode and a second electrode of an electrostatic adsorption device including the first electrode including a disposition part having electrostatic diffusivity or conductivity on which particles are disposed and the second electrode including an adsorption part having electrostatic diffusivity or conductivity and facing the disposition part, to cause a blend particle in which the conductive particles each having a particle size smaller than a particle size of an intermediate particle are attached to the intermediate particle and which is disposed on the disposition part, to reciprocate between the disposition part and the adsorption part, and to cause the conductive particles to be adsorbed onto the adsorption part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Shohei YAMAZAKI, Hiroyuki IZAWA, Toshiyuki SUGIMOTO
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Patent number: 11162162Abstract: A steel with high hardness and excellent toughness contains, in mass %, 0.40-1.00% C, 0.10-2.00% Si, 0.10-1.00% Mn, 0.030% or less P, 0.030% or less S, 1.10-3.20% Cr, 0.010-0.10% Al, and 0.15-0.50% V, and further contains at least one or two of 2.50% or less Ni and 1.00% or less Mo, with an amount of (C+V) being 0.60% or more in mass %, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The steel has a microstructure which is a martensitic structure with finely dispersed Fe-based ? carbides, with its prior austenite grain size being 20 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Yoritoshi Minamino, Koji Hagihara, Koji Yamamoto, Shohei Ikurumi, Yusuke Hiratsuka, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20200080180Abstract: A steel with high hardness and excellent toughness contains, in mass %, 0.40-1.00% C, 0.10-2.00% Si, 0.10-1.00% Mn, 0.030% or less P, 0.030% or less S, 1.10-3.20% Cr, 0.010-0.10% Al, and 0.15-0.50% V, and further contains at least one or two of 2.50% or less Ni and 1.00% or less Mo, with an amount of (C+V) being 0.60% or more in mass %, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The steel has a microstructure which is a martensitic structure with finely dispersed Fe-based ? carbides, with its prior austenite grain size being 20 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2018Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Yoritoshi MINAMINO, Koji HAGIHARA, Koji YAMAMOTO, Shohei IKURUMI, Yusuke HIRATSUKA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU, Toshiyuki SUGIMOTO
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Patent number: 8915438Abstract: Differences in the output of the printed barcode caused by differences interpreting the barcode generating code of an application program are absorbed so that the barcode desired by the user can be printed. The printer driver 32 of the host computer 11 extracts the character data contained in plural blocks of input barcode generation data, combines the extracted character data to generate a character data array, and based on the generated character data array generates and outputs a single barcode generation command CMB to the printer 12.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2009Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Sugimoto, Tadashi Adachi
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Patent number: 8821934Abstract: The object of the present invention is to overcome conventional demerits of pullulan powders prepared by conventional techniques, i.e., they could not be homogeneously mixed with non-reducing saccharides composed of glucose units when mixed together, and the resulting mixtures do not easily dissolve in water; and to provide a pullulan-containing powder with an improved rate of water dissolution, as well as to provide preparations and uses thereof. The present invention solves the above object by providing a pullulan-containing powder which uniformly comprises pullulan as a main ingredient and a non-reducing saccharide, and their process and uses; wherein the pullulan-containing powder is prepared by the steps of preparing a solution dissolving pullulan and a non-reducing saccharide homogeneously, pulverizing the solution, and collecting the resulting pullulan-containing powder.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Hayashibara Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Sugimoto, Toshio Miyake
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Patent number: 8733882Abstract: A method of controlling a printer 1 that cuts recording paper according to a paper cut command after printing print data received from a host computer 80 on the recording paper 10. If the paper cut command is received while performing an automatic clogged nozzle detection process on the inkjet head 17 after printing ends (S1: Yes), the automatic clogged nozzle detection process is interrupted (S2), and the cutting process is performed (S3).Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shingo Yudasaka, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 8432566Abstract: A printer driver conserves recording paper by removing blank space formed at the top and bottom of each page when printing. The printer driver acquires the coordinates of the top and bottom of the part of the print image, and calculates the page length required to print the middle area between the top and bottom blank space areas based on these coordinates. The print data for printing this middle area is then extracted and printed. When printing is completed, the recording paper is conveyed only the difference between the page length and the transportation distance of the recording paper to set the print head to a position separated only the page length from the printing start position of the area print data, that is, to a position touching the middle area. As a result, blank space between the middle areas of consecutively printed pages is eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tadashi Adachi, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 8342149Abstract: An air intake device for an engine is provided that includes a throttle body (1), a throttle valve (5) that has a valve shaft (5a) rotatably supported on the throttle body (1), a throttle drum (8) connected to one end of the throttle valve (5), a throttle sensor (51) connected to the other end of the valve shaft (5a), a bypass (20) bypassing the throttle valve (5), and a bypass valve (25) that opens and closes the bypass (20), a bearing boss (3) supporting one end part, on the throttle drum (8) side, of the valve shaft (5a) being integrally and projecting provided on one side face of the throttle body (1), wherein the bypass (20) is formed so as to surround the bearing boss (3). This enables the air intake device for an engine to be made compact in spite of the bypass being present.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Keihin CorporationInventors: Hiroshige Akiyama, Minoru Suzuki, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 8307850Abstract: An air intake device for an engine is provided that includes a bypass (20) connected to an air intake path (2) while bypassing a throttle valve (5), and a bypass valve (V) for controlling the degree of opening of the bypass (20), the bypass valve (V) being formed from a tubular valve chamber (15) having its interior opening on the upstream side of the bypass (20) and having an inner face with a metering hole (16) opening toward the downstream side of the bypass (20), and a valve body (25) slidably but non-rotatably fitted into the valve chamber (15) and opening and closing the metering hole (16), wherein an inner face (A) of the valve chamber (15) on which the metering hole (16) opens and an outer face (B1) of the valve body (25) opposing the inner face (A) and covering the metering hole (16) are formed in the same shape so as to enable them to be in intimate contact with each other, and other inner (A) and outer faces (B2) of the valve chamber (15) and the valve body (25) are formed so that there is a gap (gType: GrantFiled: August 16, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Keihin CorporationInventors: Hiroshige Akiyama, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20120236061Abstract: A method of controlling a printer 1 that cuts recording paper according to a paper cut command after printing print data received from a host computer 80 on the recording paper 10. If the paper cut command is received while performing an automatic clogged nozzle detection process on the inkjet head 17 after printing ends (S1: Yes), the automatic clogged nozzle detection process is interrupted (S2), and the cutting process is performed (S3).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Yudasaka, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20120229584Abstract: A printer control method and printer driver enable printing efficiently and improving work efficiency while also enabling high precision printing. A method of controlling a printer 1 that, when printing print data received from a host computer 80 to recording paper, pulls the back side of the printed surface of the recording paper that is printed to the vacuum platen side by a vacuum fan 35, including a step of : setting a delay time until stopping operation of the vacuum fan 35 after printing ends based on input from a control unit 81, which is a printer driver installed on the host computer 80.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Yudasaka, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 8237971Abstract: A printer, image registration method, and printer system improve image data processing efficiency by tracking and storing the identical image data that is registered and stored in a printer. The image registration device has a graphics register for registering images in a printer. The graphics register sends the image data to be registered to the printer, receives an identification number from the printer, and records and stores a registered image data information file linking the image data sent to the printer with the printer identification number.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Junichi Otsuka, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20110122443Abstract: A printer, image registration method, and printer system improve image data processing efficiency by tracking and storing the identical image data that is registered and stored in a printer. The image registration device has a graphics register for registering images in a printer. The graphics register sends the image data to be registered to the printer, receives an identification number from the printer, and records and stores a registered image data information file linking the image data sent to the printer with the printer identification number.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2011Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Junichi Otsuka, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 7884958Abstract: A printer, image registration method, and printer system improve image data processing efficiency by tracking and storing the identical image data that is registered and stored in a printer. The image registration device has a graphics register for registering images in a printer. The graphics register sends the image data to be registered to the printer, receives an identification number from the printer, and records and stores a registered image data information file linking the image data sent to the printer with the printer identification number.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Junichi Otsuka, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 7749538Abstract: Since conventional high pullulan content shaped products have a low stability to the change of humidity, the object of the present invention is to provide a high pullulan content shaped product having a satisfactory stability to the change of humidity, a process for producing the same, and uses. The present invention solves the above object by establishing high pullulan content shaped product with an improved stability to the change of humidity by incorporating a prescribed amount of ?,?-trehalose into pullulan in preparing the high pullulan content shaped product, and a process for producing the same, and by providing uses of the high pullulan content shaped product obtainable by the process.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku KenkyujoInventors: Toshiyuki Sugimoto, Toshio Miyake
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Publication number: 20100139617Abstract: An air intake device for an engine is provided that includes a throttle body (1), a throttle valve (5) that has a valve shaft (5a) rotatably supported on the throttle body (1), a throttle drum (8) connected to one end of the throttle valve (5), a throttle sensor (51) connected to the other end of the valve shaft (5a), a bypass (20) bypassing the throttle valve (5), and a bypass valve (25) that opens and closes the bypass (20), a bearing boss (3) supporting one end part, on the throttle drum (8) side, of the valve shaft (5a) being integrally and projecting provided on one side face of the throttle body (1), wherein the bypass (20) is formed so as to surround the bearing boss (3). This enables the air intake device for an engine to be made compact in spite of the bypass being present.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2006Publication date: June 10, 2010Inventors: Hiroshige Akiyama, Minoru Suzuki, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20100001082Abstract: Differences in the output of the printed barcode caused by differences interpreting the barcode generating code of an application program are absorbed so that the barcode desired by the user can be printed. The printer driver 32 of the host computer 11 extracts the character data contained in plural blocks of input barcode generation data, combines the extracted character data to generate a character data array, and based on the generated character data array generates and outputs a single barcode generation command CMB to the printer 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Sugimoto, Tadashi Adachi
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Publication number: 20090301570Abstract: An air intake device for an engine is provided that includes a bypass (20) connected to an air intake path (2) while bypassing a throttle valve (5), and a bypass valve (V) for controlling the degree of opening of the bypass (20), the bypass valve (V) being formed from a tubular valve chamber (15) having its interior opening on the upstream side of the bypass (20) and having an inner face with a metering hole (16) opening toward the downstream side of the bypass (20), and a valve body (25) slidably but non-rotatably fitted into the valve chamber (15) and opening and closing the metering hole (16), wherein an inner face (A) of the valve chamber (15) on which the metering hole (16) opens and an outer face (B1) of the valve body (25) opposing the inner face (A) and covering the metering hole (16) are formed in the same shape so as to enable them to be in intimate contact with each other, and other inner (A) and outer faces (B2) of the valve chamber (15) and the valve body (25) are formed so that there is a gap (gType: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2006Publication date: December 10, 2009Inventors: Hiroshige Akiyama, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20090262394Abstract: A printer driver conserves recording paper by removing blank space formed at the top and bottom of each page when printing. The printer driver 9 acquires the coordinates of the top and bottom of the part of the print image that is not blank space from the print image B of the print data for one page, and calculates the page length L required to print the middle area H between the top and bottom blank space areas based on these coordinates. The area print data for printing this middle area H is then extracted and printed. When printing is completed, the recording paper 11 is conveyed only the difference N between the page length L and the transportation distance M of the recording paper 11 to set the print head 10 to a position separated only the page length L from the printing start position of the area print data, that is, to a position touching the middle area H. As a result, only the middle area H for each page is printed to the recording paper 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tadashi Adachi, Toshiyuki Sugimoto