Patents by Inventor Wataru Sugiyama
Wataru Sugiyama 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: 11926133Abstract: A sheet laminator includes a sheet lamination device, a heater, and circuitry. The sheet lamination device performs a sheet laminating operation on an object by application of heat and pressure. The heater heats the sheet lamination device. The circuitry changes between a first mode in which the heater constantly heats the sheet lamination device while the sheet lamination device is turned on and a second mode in which the heater starts heating the sheet lamination device in response to a request of the sheet laminating operation and stops heating the sheet lamination device after a given time has elapsed from completion of the sheet laminating operation. The circuitry adjusts the given time in the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Shinya Monma, Keisuke Sugiyama, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Wataru Takahashi, Ruki Midorikawa, Sho Asano
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Publication number: 20230356528Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus which includes a recording portion, and a contact portion configured to come into contact with an upper surface of the sheet. The contact portion has a storage portion provided on a side of the recording portion and configured to store an ink, and a protruding portion is provided between both ends in a width direction intersecting the transporting direction of the storage portion, and which is protruded toward the recording section, and an upper end of the protruding portion is the highest in the contact portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Patent number: 11795296Abstract: A particulate nucleating agent of the present invention is a particulate nucleating agent that contains a compound represented by a predetermined general formula, in which a content of phosphate ions in the particulate nucleating agent, which is obtained by a predetermined measurement procedure, is equal to or more than 5 ppm and equal to or less than 8,000 ppm based on a mass of the compound represented by the predetermined general formula.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Wataru Sugiyama, Yuri Yokota
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Patent number: 11759755Abstract: A fine bubble generator which is an ultrafine bubble generator includes a side wall whose inner face is cylindrical, and closing walls closing both ends of the side wall, respectively, with a gas-liquid discharge port in one of the closing walls, wherein a fluid inlet port is provided closer to the gas-liquid discharge port than is a midpoint between both closing walls, and the fluid inlet port penetrates the side wall in a tangential direction of the inner face of the side wall, wherein a spiral groove is formed in the inner face of side wall, and wherein the spiral groove has an angle of inclination of 1° to 10°.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignees: AKIMOKU IRON WORKS CO., LTD., AKITA UNIVERSITYInventors: Akira Nakagawa, Wataru Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11657242Abstract: There is provided an information code in which first cells have lightness that is intermediate between lightness of second cells and lightness of a predetermined marginal area. The first cells and the second cells are configured to have a difference in lightness therebetween sufficiently smaller than a difference in lightness between the first cells and the predetermined marginal area, in a predetermined area occupying at least a part of the code area. There is also provided an information code reader in which colors of an image of the information code captured by an imaging unit are corrected such that the difference in lightness between the first and second cells increases. Using the corrected image, decoding processing is performed to decode the information code.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventor: Wataru Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11648776Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus which includes a recording portion, and a contact portion configured to come into contact with an upper surface of the sheet. The contact portion has a storage portion provided on a side of the recording portion and configured to store an ink, and a protruding portion provided between both ends in a width direction intersecting the transporting direction of the storage portion, and which is protruded toward the recording section, and an upper end of the protruding portion is the highest in the contact portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Publication number: 20230055123Abstract: A fine bubble generator which is an ultrafine bubble generator includes a side wall whose inner face is cylindrical, and closing walls closing both ends of the side wall, respectively, with a gas-liquid discharge port in one of the closing walls, wherein a fluid inlet port is provided closer to the gas-liquid discharge port than is a midpoint between both closing walls, and the fluid inlet port penetrates the side wall in a tangential direction of the inner face of the side wall, wherein a spiral groove is formed in the inner face of side wall, and wherein the spiral groove has an angle of inclination of 1° to 10°.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Akira NAKAGAWA, Wataru SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20220289941Abstract: A particulate nucleating agent of the present invention is a particulate nucleating agent that contains a compound represented by a predetermined general formula, in which a content of phosphate ions in the particulate nucleating agent, which is obtained by a predetermined measurement procedure, is equal to or more than 5 ppm and equal to or less than 8,000 ppm based on a mass of the compound represented by the predetermined general formula.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Wataru SUGIYAMA, Yuri YOKOTA
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Patent number: 11345170Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include a mechanism for forming a corrugated shape in a sheet to be conveyed. The mechanism may include various components include one or more pressing portions, one or more ribs, one or more discharge rollers, a switching mechanism and the like. In one arrangement, ribs and pressing portions configured to create the corrugated shape may be disposed at various locations upstream or downstream of the platen, recording portion and/or nozzles thereof. In one example, pressing portions may be disposed both upstream and downstream of the nozzles of the recording portion to maintain a corrugated shape in the conveyed sheet. Various other configurations may be used.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Publication number: 20210303810Abstract: There is provided an information code in which first cells have lightness that is intermediate between lightness of second cells and lightness of a predetermined marginal area. The first cells and the second cells are configured to have a difference in lightness therebetween sufficiently smaller than a difference in lightness between the first cells and the predetermined marginal area, in a predetermined area occupying at least a part of the code area. There is also provided an information code reader in which colors of an image of the information code captured by an imaging unit are corrected such that the difference in lightness between the first and second cells increases. Using the corrected image, decoding processing is performed to decode the information code.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventor: Wataru SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20210060983Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include a mechanism for forming a corrugated shape in a sheet to be conveyed. The mechanism may include various components include one or more pressing portions, one or more ribs, one or more discharge rollers, a switching mechanism and the like. In one arrangement, ribs and pressing portions configured to create the corrugated shape may be disposed at various locations upstream or downstream of the platen, recording portion and/or nozzles thereof. In one example, pressing portions may be disposed both upstream and downstream of the nozzles of the recording portion to maintain a corrugated shape in the conveyed sheet. Various other configurations may be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Patent number: 10710384Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include a mechanism for forming a corrugated shape in a sheet to be conveyed. The mechanism may include various components include one or more pressing portions, one or more ribs, one or more discharge rollers, a switching mechanism and the like. In one arrangement, ribs and pressing portions configured to create the corrugated shape may be disposed at various locations upstream or downstream of the platen, recording portion and/or nozzles thereof. In one example, pressing portions may be disposed both upstream and downstream of the nozzles of the recording portion to maintain a corrugated shape in the conveyed sheet. Various other configurations may be used.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Publication number: 20190344591Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include a mechanism for forming a corrugated shape in a sheet to be conveyed. The mechanism may include various components include one or more pressing portions, one or more ribs, one or more discharge rollers, a switching mechanism and the like. In one arrangement, ribs and pressing portions configured to create the corrugated shape may be disposed at various locations upstream or downstream of the platen, recording portion and/or nozzles thereof. In one example, pressing portions may be disposed both upstream and downstream of the nozzles of the recording portion to maintain a corrugated shape in the conveyed sheet. Various other configurations may be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Patent number: 10473347Abstract: On the screen of a display unit, period border lines are displayed. The period border lines divide hours (for example 24 hours) for a user's desired one day into a plurality of periods and present line segments movable on the screen in a predetermined direction. Each of the line segments acts as a border lien between mutually adjacent periods. On the screen, target temperatures which are set for the respective periods are also displayed. Dragging the period border liens (K1 to K4) so as to move on the screen makes it possible to move a start time and a stop time of mutually adjacent periods are changed simultaneously. In addition to this change, target temperatures which were set before the change are reset for changed periods.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventor: Wataru Sugiyama
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Patent number: 10268172Abstract: A remote controller controlling an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a main part, a three-axis acceleration sensor; a normality determination part that determines whether an installation state of the remote controller is in a normal installation state or in an abnormal installation state, based on a detection value of the acceleration sensor; a stationary state determination part that determines whether the installation state is in a stationary state; a vibration determination part that determines whether a vibration occurs; a thermo sensor; and a control part that controls the air-conditioning apparatus. The main part includes a back face, a front face, and a bottom. The remote controller is in the abnormal installation state due to a shape and a centroid when the remote controller is placed on a horizontal surface. The control part performs a limited control that includes limitation of a control of the air-conditioning apparatus based on the environment temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventors: Takahiro Miyajima, Wataru Sugiyama
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Patent number: 10259238Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include a mechanism for forming a corrugated shape in a sheet to be conveyed. The mechanism may include various components include one or more pressing portions, one or more ribs, one or more discharge rollers, a switching mechanism and the like. In one arrangement, ribs and pressing portions configured to create the corrugated shape may be disposed at various locations upstream or downstream of the platen, recording portion and/or nozzles thereof. In one example, pressing portions may be disposed both upstream and downstream of the nozzles of the recording portion to maintain a corrugated shape in the conveyed sheet. Various other configurations may be used.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Patent number: 10233043Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus including a transporting path, a recording section, a first and second rollers pinching the recording medium therebetween, a supporting member which rotatably supports the second roller, a holding member which is movable along a transporting direction of the recording medium, a bias applying member which applies a bias on the holding member, in an opposite direction opposite to the transporting direction and a load member which generates a load in the opposite direction, with respect to the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noriyuki Kawamata, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Publication number: 20190047300Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include a mechanism for forming a corrugated shape in a sheet to be conveyed. The mechanism may include various components include one or more pressing portions, one or more ribs, one or more discharge rollers, a switching mechanism and the like. In one arrangement, ribs and pressing portions configured to create the corrugated shape may be disposed at various locations upstream or downstream of the platen, recording portion and/or nozzles thereof. In one example, pressing portions may be disposed both upstream and downstream of the nozzles of the recording portion to maintain a corrugated shape in the conveyed sheet. Various other configurations may be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Patent number: 10161648Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch panel having a detection region and a transparent electrode sheet disposed in such a manner that at least a part of the transparent electrode sheet overlaps the detection region of the touch panel and including a transparent sheet, an operation electrode, and a detection electrode. The operation electrode and the detection electrode are made of a transparent conductive material and are disposed on the transparent sheet. The operation electrode is located outside the detection region in a state where the transparent electrode sheet overlaps the touch panel. The detection electrode is electrically connected to the operation electrode and is located inside the detection region in the state where the transparent electrode sheet overlaps the touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventor: Wataru Sugiyama
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Patent number: 10099487Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record an image on a sheet conveyed in a conveyance direction; a first wavy shape applying mechanism provided downstream in the conveyance direction from the recording unit and configured to allow the sheet to be in a wavy state in a width direction; and a guide member configured to guide the sheet to the first wavy shape applying mechanism. The first wavy shape applying mechanism includes first spur rollers configured to abut against a first surface of the sheet respectively; abutment members provided between the mutually adjoining first spur rollers respectively and configured to abut against a second surface of the sheet; and second spur rollers configured to abut against the first surface of the sheet downstream of the first spur rollers in the conveyance direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Gakuro Kanazawa, Kenji Samoto, Wataru Sugiyama, Yasuhira Ota