Patents by Inventor Akihiko Kuroki

Akihiko Kuroki 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).

  • Patent number: 9870084
    Abstract: A touch panel apparatus is provided with a strain gauge sensor (16), a piezoelectric element (17), and a control unit (1). The strain gauge sensor (16) detects the pressing force to be applied to a touch panel (12) when a select-execute function key (18) is operated. The piezoelectric element (17) makes the touch panel (12) vibrate. The control unit (1) changes the function to be selected with the operation of the select-execute function key (18), in accordance with the pressing force detected by a pressing force detection unit (20), and when an arbitrary function is continued to be selected for a prescribed period of time (T0), the function that is continued to be selected is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Akihiko Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20150084914
    Abstract: A touch panel apparatus is provided with a strain gauge sensor (16), a piezoelectric element (17), and a control unit (1). The strain gauge sensor (16) detects the pressing force to be applied to a touch panel (12) when a select-execute function key (18) is operated. The piezoelectric element (17) makes the touch panel (12) vibrate. The control unit (1) changes the function to be selected with the operation of the select-execute function key (18), in accordance with the pressing force detected by a pressing force detection unit (20), and when an arbitrary function is continued to be selected for a prescribed period of time (T0), the function that is continued to be selected is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Akihiko Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20150067242
    Abstract: In an information processing device, a NAND flash memory has a first area and a second area in each of which a boot code is stored. A processor expands the boot code from the NAND flash memory onto the random access memory, executes the expanded boot code, and rewrites the boot code in the first area and the boot code in the second area at different timings based on the number of times that boot is performed. A boot area setting portion sets access destination of the processor at boot to either the first area or the second area. A controller controls the boot area setting portion so that the access destination of the processor at boot is switched alternately between the first area and the second area at every predetermined number of times that boot is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: Akihiko Kuroki
  • Patent number: 8141161
    Abstract: A certificate server 10, in response to a request from a client 131, extracts certificate data from a certificate database 102 to create a certificate file including print-job log data, and transmit the file to the client 131. The client 131 extracts the print-job log data, creates certificate print data based on the file to transmit the data to a printer 141. The printer 141 prints contents of the received data on paper every page, confirms the completion of a discharge of a printed sheet for each page to transmit a certificate ID code, its page number, an IP address of the printer, the time and date of receiving completion of a discharge, a certificate ID, a paper tray number, and a paper type as a discharge log data to the client 131. The client 131 transmits the received print-job log data and discharge-log data to a log server 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Kuroki
  • Patent number: 7797586
    Abstract: The whole area of volatile memories is equally divided into 16 memory blocks which are separated into 4 groups each having 4 memory blocks located away from each other. Every one of the 4 groups is selected for error-checking on memory at a power-on and is shifted sequentially. An image for selecting a plurality of error-checking types on memory is displayed on a control panel, and error-checking on memory is performed according to a user's selection. In another embodiment, instead of at a power-on, a memory check is performed as a preprocessing of a power-off, and the result of the check is stored in a non-volatile memory to display it at the next power-on. The error-checking on memory may be performed if the number of power-on times is equal to a set time, if an abnormality has occurred, or if the present time is equal to a set time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corp.
    Inventor: Akihiko Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20070266237
    Abstract: A certificate server 10, in response to a request from a client 131, extracts certificate data from a certificate database 102 to create a certificate file including print-job log data, and transmit the file to the client 131. The client 131 extracts the print-job log data, creates certificate print data based on the file to transmit the data to a printer 141. The printer 141 prints contents of the received data on paper every page, confirms the completion of a discharge of a printed sheet for each page to transmit a certificate ID code, its page number, an IP address of the printer, the time and date of receiving completion of a discharge, a certificate ID, a paper tray number, and a paper type as a discharge log data to the client 131. The client 131 transmits the received print-job log data and discharge-log data to a log server 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko KUROKI
  • Publication number: 20070174743
    Abstract: The whole area of volatile memories is equally divided into 16 memory blocks which are separated into 4 groups each having 4 memory blocks located away from each other. Every one of the 4 groups is selected for error-checking on memory at a power-on and is shifted sequentially. An image for selecting a plurality of error-checking types on memory is displayed on a control panel, and error-checking on memory is performed according to a user's selection. In another embodiment, instead of at a power-on, a memory check is performed as a preprocessing of a power-off, and the result of the check is stored in a non-volatile memory to display it at the next power-on. The error-checking on memory may be performed if the number of power-on times is equal to a set time, if an abnormality has occurred, or if the present time is equal to a set time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Kyocera Mita Corp.
    Inventor: Akihiko Kuroki