Patents by Inventor Yoshiki Matsumoto

Yoshiki Matsumoto 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: 20240112226
    Abstract: An information transmission apparatus can use a salesclerk information storage unit. The salesclerk information storage unit stores, by a plurality of salesclerks, salesclerk identification information about the salesclerk and detailed information about the salesclerk in association with each other. Then, the information transmission apparatus includes a salesclerk position transmission unit and a detailed information transmission unit. The salesclerk position transmission unit transmits, for each of a plurality of salesclerks present in a store, salesclerk position information about the salesclerk and salesclerk identification information about the salesclerk in association with each other to a customer terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunya MARUYAMA, Yoshiki MATSUMOTO, Hiroaki SATO, Erina TANAKA, Mami KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11947294
    Abstract: A fixing device includes: a first roller on which an elastic layer is formed; and a second roller that forms a clamping portion at which a recording medium is clamped between the first roller and the second roller, a groove extending in an axial direction being formed in an outer peripheral surface of the second roller, and the second roller not including an elastic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Norio Ogawahara, Yoshiki Shimodaira, Masato Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11940085
    Abstract: A cover structure of an upper unit in which a power source of an outboard motor is provided, the cover structure includes a main body cover including a pair of divided covers connected to each otter, the pair of the divided covers being configured to be divided into each other in a left-right direction with respect to a traveling direction of a boat, an attachable and detachable cover that is attachable to and detachable from a part of an outer surface of at least one of the pair of divided covers and that includes a light transmitting portion in at least a part of the attachable and detachable cover, the light transmitting portion configured to transmit light, and a light emitter that is provided at a mounting position of the attachable and detachable cover and that includes a light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kimpara, Shingo Matsumoto, Yoshiki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11934119
    Abstract: A transportation device includes a first transporter, a second transporter movable between a contact position and a separate position toward and away from the first transporter to hold a to-be-transported object between the second transporter and the first transporter in the contact position, and a transportation unit that transports the to-be-transported object to a nip area where the first transporter and the second transporter hold the to-be-transported object therebetween while the second transporter is located in the separate position. The second transporter moves from the separate position to the contact position to hold the to-be-transported object transported to the nip area by the transportation unit between the second transporter and the first transporter to transport the to-be-transported object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masato Yamashita, Yoshiki Shimodaira, Kosuke Yamada, Tetsuro Kodera, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Takayuki Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20240079863
    Abstract: A drain wire correcting device 10 includes: a retention device 20 configured to retain a sheathed portion 1a of a multi-core cable 1; gripping members 41, 42 configured to grip a drain wire 2 on an axis Ax; a moving device 60 configured to move at least one of the multi-core cable 1 and the gripping members 41, 42 along the axis Ax; and a rotating device 70 configured to rotate at least one of the multi-core cable 1 and the gripping members 41, 42 around the axis Ax. The drain wire correcting device 10 executes a squeeze control of moving the gripping members 41, 42 along the axis Ax while the gripping members 41, 42 are in contact with the drain wire 2, thereby squeezing the drain wire 2 toward a distal end side, and executes, after the squeeze control, a rotation control causing the gripping members 41, 42 to grip the drain wire 2 with a gripping force increased from that in the squeeze control and rotating the gripping members 41, 42 around the axis Ax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiki TAKAHASHI, Naoki FUJISAWA, Ayako SHIMMURA, Miyuki MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11921445
    Abstract: A transport device includes: a first transport body; a second transport body that is movable between a contact position and a separate position with respect to the first transport body and that nips a transported material with the first transport body at the contact position; and a transport section that includes a holder to hold a leading end portion of the transported material and that transports the transported material toward a nip region where the first transport body and the second transport body nip the transported material in a state in which the second transport body is located at the separate position. After holding of the leading end portion by the holder for the transported material transported by the transport section has been released, the second transport body nips the transported material with the first transport body and transports the transported material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masato Yamashita, Yoshiki Shimodaira, Kosuke Yamada, Tetsuro Kodera, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Takayuki Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20230033127
    Abstract: A measurement system determining a correspondence between detection signals regarding distance and relative speed of multiple targets includes: a first result acquisition unit performing FFT processing on a signal generated based on both of an in-phase component and an orthogonal component of the reception light, and acquiring, as a first result, a peak frequency regarding the distance and a peak frequency regarding the relative speed; a second result acquisition unit acquiring, as a second result, a peak frequency detected by performing FFT processing on at least one of the in-phase component signal and the orthogonal component signal; and a combination determination unit determining, as a third result, a combination of correspondence between the distance and the relative speed based on both of the first result and the second result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Masashige SATO, Taku SUZUKI, Yoshiki MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220317299
    Abstract: A distance measuring device includes: a modulated light output unit configured to output a modulated light; a transmitting scanner configured to emit an input light, which is one branched light of the modulated light, as an emitted light; a receiving scanner into which the emitted light reflected by a target object is incident as an incident light, the receiving scanner outputting the incident light as a reflected light; and a measuring unit configured to measure a distance to the target object by combining the reflected light and a reference light which is the other branched light of the modulated light. The modulated light output unit outputs at least two modulated lights having modulation frequencies different from each other by chirping the modulation frequencies to approach each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Taku SUZUKI, Masashige SATO, Koichi OYAMA, Yoshiki MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220203471
    Abstract: A product removing method of introducing an atmospheric gas into a product remover including a corona discharge space to remove a product from the atmospheric gas, the product being generated inside a processing chamber under a low oxygen atmosphere, the method including: mixing the atmospheric gas with a high electric resistance gas to generate a mixed gas in a pipe or the corona discharge space, the pipe being connected between the processing chamber and the corona discharge space, the atmospheric gas being discharged from the processing chamber via the pipe, the high electric resistance gas having an electric resistance higher than an electric resistance of the atmospheric gas; and removing the product from the mixed gas by a corona discharge method in the corona discharge space into which the mixed gas is introduced via the pipe or in which the mixed gas is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: YOSHIKI MATSUMOTO, NAOSHI YAMAGUCHI, TOSHIRO KANDA, YASUYUKI TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220009571
    Abstract: A spherical body drive type movement device 10 includes rotary bodies 14, 15, and 16 rotating n number of driving spherical bodies 11, 12, and 13 by being rotationally driven in a state of being in contact from two different directions with each of the driving spherical bodies 11, 12, and 13, and moves on a traveling surface G. The rotary bodies 14, 15, and 16 come into contact with the driving spherical bodies 11, 12, and 13 at positions higher than centers P1, P2, and P3 of the driving spherical bodies 11, 12, and 13 in contact and inside a virtual inverted n-gonal pyramid H or, at positions higher than the centers P1, P2, and P3 of the driving spherical bodies 11, 12, and 13 in contact and on lateral faces ?, ?, and ? of the virtual inverted n-gonal pyramid H.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Kyushu Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Yoshiki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10298455
    Abstract: A data processing system includes a data processing device to perform various types of processing using a reconfigurable hardware processor; and a server connected to the data processing device via a network. The server includes as memory to store user information of one or more users who have operated the data processing device to perform various types of processing. The user information indicates usage trends for processing performed by each user with the data processing device. The server also includes a receiver to receive a request for hardware information from the data processing device. The request includes user information obtained at the data processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180267811
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first controller to control a device other than a mechanical device that operates mechanically, a second controller to control the mechanical device that operates mechanically, and a third controller. The third controller detects that power supply to the electronic apparatus is secured, and causes, in response to detection of the power supply being secured, the first controller to perform a cold boot and transition to a standby state and causes the second controller not to perform the cold boot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiki MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170078148
    Abstract: A data processing system includes a data processing device to perform various types of processing using a reconfigurable hardware processor; and a server connected to the data processing device via a network. The server includes as memory to store user information of one or more users who have operated the data processing device to perform various types of processing. The user information indicates usage trends for processing performed by each user with the data processing device. The server also includes a receiver to receive a request for hardware information from the data processing device. The request includes user information obtained at the data processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshiki MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 9510583
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pest-accumulating device and pest-accumulating method that can attract pests, such as chicken mites and the like, and keep the said pests therein, and that can be easily handled by anyone, and to provide a pest-inspecting device that allows the captured pests to be evaluated. A pest-accumulating device for accumulating mites such as chicken mites and northern fowl mites, includes an accumulating part 10 made of a material that allows a charged layer to be formed on a surface thereof. When a charged layer is formed in the accumulating part 10, mites, such as chicken mites and northern fowl mites, can be gathered in the accumulating part. When the pest-accumulating device 1 of the present invention is set up in a fixed place in a poultry house CH, mites such as chicken mites that parasitize chickens CK, and even mites such as chicken mites that enter into narrow spaces in the poultry house and chicken cages KG, can be accumulated in the accumulating part 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Koh-en Yamauchi, Yoshiki Matsumoto, Tetsuya Kondo, Kohsyo Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20150223442
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pest-accumulating device and pest-accumulating method that can attract pests, such as chicken mites and the like, and keep the said pests therein, and that can be easily handled by anyone, and to provide a pest-inspecting device that allows the captured pests to be evaluated. A pest-accumulating device for accumulating mites such as chicken mites and northern fowl mites, includes an accumulating part 10 made of a material that allows a charged layer to be formed on a surface thereof. When a charged layer is formed in the accumulating part 10, mites, such as chicken mites and northern fowl mites, can be gathered in the accumulating part. When the pest-accumulating device 1 of the present invention is set up in a fixed place in a poultry house CH, mites such as chicken mites that parasitize chickens CK, and even mites such as chicken mites that enter into narrow spaces in the poultry house and chicken cages KG, can be accumulated in the accumulating part 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Koh-en Yamauchi, Yoshiki Matsumoto, Tetsuya Kondo, Kohsyo Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8454542
    Abstract: The present invention provides a positive pressure chamber for treating extremities, which is used for treating extremity swelling or edema, rehabilitation, prophylaxis for deep venous thrombosis, relieving extremity pain, improvement of extremity skin, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: National University Corporation Nagoya University
    Inventors: Hitoshi Hirata, Yoshiki Matsumoto, Kenichi Iida, Takuya Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20100042027
    Abstract: The present invention provides a positive pressure chamber for treating extremities, which is used for treating extremity swelling or edema, rehabilitation, prophylaxis for deep venous thrombosis, relieving extremity pain, improvement of extremity skin, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hitoshi Hirata, Yoshiki Matsumoto, Kenichi Iida, Takuya Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20090090346
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat generating sheet which includes a plurality of flat heat generating elements disposed in a plane, and two packaging sheet materials between which the flat heat generating elements are interposed, wherein the two packaging sheet materials each have a boomerang shape and a perforation line from which each packaging sheet material is divided into halves, and the two packaging sheet materials and the flat heat generating elements interposed therebetween are thermocompression-bonded together; and a heat generating sheet bag which includes the heat generating sheet, and an air-impermeable flat bag in which the heat generating sheet is enclosed in a hermetically sealed condition, and more specifically, relates to a heat generating sheet accommodating heat generating elements capable of generating heat by contact with oxygen in air; and a heat generating sheet bag enclosing the heat generating sheet in a hermetically sealed condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Asao Ajiri, Yoshiki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20080159550
    Abstract: A signal processing device having an automatic sound field correction function includes: a digital formatting section for converting a signal pair of a test signal and a picked-up sound signal for an automatic sound field correction operation into a bit stream format; and a selecting section for selectively supplying either a bit stream generated by the digital formatting section or an audio bit stream to an existing interface. The selecting section selects the bit stream of the signal pair of the test signal and the picked-up sound signal during trial manufacturing, repairing, maintenance, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshiki MATSUMOTO, Seigo Suguta, Takeshi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20080162862
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus includes a processing selection section (102), a processing execution section (103), a buffer (107) and a buffer size setting section (108A). The processing selection section (102) selects, from a plurality of signal processings, processing to be performed to input data. The processing execution section (103) executes signal processing selected by the processing selection section (102). The buffer (107) has a variable buffer size and buffers data processed by the processing execution section (103). The buffer size setting section (108A) sets the buffer size of the buffer (107) based on a selection result of the processing selection section (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshiki Matsumoto, Takeshi Fujita, Yoshiaki Sawada, Yukari Sugino