Patents by Inventor Akio Sasaki

Akio Sasaki 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: 11958287
    Abstract: A cartridge that makes it possible to simultaneously set a printing tape and a cartridge in a tape printing device. A cartridge to be installed in a tape printing device includes: a cartridge case; a cartridge-side tape introduction port that introduces a printing tape introduced from a device-side tape introduction port into the cartridge case and a cartridge-side tape ejection port that ejects the printing tape to an outside of the cartridge case toward a device-side tape ejection port in a state in which the cartridge is installed in a cartridge installation part; and a tape retention part that retains the printing tape that is introduced in advance into a tape path between the cartridge-side tape introduction port and the cartridge-side tape ejection port before the cartridge is installed in the cartridge installation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Ishimoto, Taishi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11945244
    Abstract: A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge includes a ribbon roll around which an ink ribbon is wound, and a cartridge case configured to accommodate a tape roll around which a tape is wound and that accommodates the ribbon roll, in which the cartridge case includes a third case portion, a first case portion that constitutes a tape roll accommodating portion accommodating the tape roll between the first case portion and the third case portion, and a second case portion that is separated from the first case portion and accommodates the ribbon roll between the second case portion and the third case portion, and the first case portion is configured to open and close the tape roll accommodating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Taruya, Taishi Sasaki, Akio Ishimoto, Hirosuke Yasuki
  • Patent number: 11931099
    Abstract: A catheter flexible printed wiring board which includes: a long flexible insulating base member having a tip end portion and a base end portion; and a conductive pattern formed on the flexible insulating base member and extending from the base end portion to the tip end portion, wherein the conductive pattern at the base end portion is wider than the conductive pattern at the tip end portion and thicker than the conductive pattern at the tip end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Yoshida, Ryoichi Toyoshima, Mitsunori Sasaki, Hiroyasu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11912049
    Abstract: A cartridge is installed in a tape printing device including a cartridge installation part, a printing head that is provided in the cartridge installation part and performs printing on a printing tape, and a device case, the device case having a device-side tape introduction port that introduces the printing tape from an outside to an inside of the device case and a device-side tape ejection port that ejects the printing tape to the outside of the device case. The cartridge includes a tape path through which the printing tape introduced from the device-side tape introduction port is fed toward the device-side tape ejection port in a state in which the cartridge is installed in the cartridge installation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Ishimoto, Taishi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20170188246
    Abstract: A wireless apparatus includes a plurality of amplifiers coupled in series with each other and a processor coupled to the plurality of amplifiers and configured to: execute an outputting process to cause at least one of the plurality of amplifiers to operate in a way that length of duration in which the at least one of the plurality of amplifiers is set in on state or off state is different from at least one amplifier among rest of the plurality of amplifiers; execute a measurement process to measure power of a signal outputted from an amplifier at the last stage from among the plurality of amplifiers; and execute a decision process to decide a failure of each of the plurality of amplifiers based on a change amount of the power measured by the measurement process at each of the plurality of output timings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Kunifumi TAMACHI, Akio SASAKI, Shin WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140286458
    Abstract: An RF-LSI receives a first signal transmitted with a first system frequency and a second signal transmitted with a second system frequency. In the RF-LSI 50, a frequency converter 55 performs frequency conversion on the received first signal (i.e., a master-received signal) and the received second signal (i.e., a slave-received signal) such that the first signal and the second signal do not overlap each other on the frequency axis and the frequency of each of the first signal and the second signal falls within a range containing a reference frequency and having a predetermined bandwidth. A mixer mixes the first signal subjected to the frequency conversion and the second signal subjected to the frequency conversion. An ADC performs analog-to-digital conversion on the mixed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: AKIO SASAKI, Mitsuhiko Manpo, Yukihiko OSHIKIRI
  • Publication number: 20140010317
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to sample a transmission signal at an edge timing of a pulse of a clock signal for synchronizing with a counterpart electronic circuit, transmit a sampled transmission signal to the counterpart electronic circuit, receive a response signal sent from the counterpart electronic circuit in response to the sampled transmission signal, and set any one of a rising edge and a falling edge of the clock signal as an edge trigger for a sampling timing of the sampling according to a reception result of the response signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Yukihiko OSHIKIRI, Akio Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8548401
    Abstract: An amplifier circuit includes an amplifier, a detecting unit which detects a power output from the amplifier, a control unit which controls a saturation point of the amplifier with respect to a Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) obtained by a detection output of the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akio Sasaki, Setsuya Nagaya, Narito Matsuno, Kenji Iwai
  • Publication number: 20120157020
    Abstract: An amplifier circuit includes an amplifier, a detecting unit which detects a power output from the amplifier, a control unit which controls a saturation point of the amplifier with respect to a Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) obtained by a detection output of the detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akio SASAKI, Setsuya NAGAYA, Narito MATSUNO, Kenji IWAI
  • Publication number: 20120099624
    Abstract: A communication device includes a transmitting circuit that includes a quadrature modulator; a receiving circuit that operates as a quadrature demodulator that, when being in a data non-transferring period, starts when power is switched on and ends when receiving operation starts, switches a local oscillator signal to a harmonic receiving signal, and detects the signal level of a harmonic included in a signal output from the transmitting circuit; a harmonic extracting circuit and a voltage control circuit that extract a harmonic from a modulated signal and adjust the harmonic so as to set the signal level less than or equal to a predetermined threshold. When being in the data non-transferring period, the transmitting circuit outputs a signal to the receiving circuit, the signal being generated by combining an amplified modulated signal with an under-adjustment signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Setsuya NAGAYA, Akio Sasaki, Narito Matsuno, Kenji Iwai, Shinichi Kawai
  • Publication number: 20110053518
    Abstract: A wireless communication performance test method for testing a performance of a wireless processor which is arranged in a wireless transmission device for performing a transmission and reception operation of a wireless signal, includes operations of transmitting, performing, and measuring. The operation of transmitting is for transmitting, to the wireless processor, a wireless signal including control information for controlling the transmission and reception operation performed by the wireless processor from a wireless transmission test use measurement device for measuring a wireless transmission performance of the wireless processor. The operation of performing is for performing the transmission and reception operation in the wireless processor based on the control information extracted from the wireless signal transmitted from the wireless transmission test use measurement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Noriaki SHINDO, Shigeki TAKAHASHI, Akio SASAKI, Mitsuhiko MANPO, Kunifumi TAMACHI
  • Patent number: 6810582
    Abstract: A component incorporation and liquid filling device of a liquid filled vibration isolating mount uses a relatively small liquid bath disposed above a fixedly held, upwardly facing body component, and when moved downwardly, an opening portion provided on a bottom portion thereof is assembled in a sealed state. Liquid supplied onto the bottom portion flows into the body component and is stored on the top of the bottom portion. Components are assembled to the body component in the liquid, and the liquid contained. The seal member is fitted to the opening portion by screwing means from the lower surface side. A notch for a screwing operation is provided on the upper surface of an outer circumferential body of the seal member whereby the screwing operation can be implemented from the upper surface side, thereby facilitating replacement of the seal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tsujimoto, Tsuyoshi Inada, Akio Sasaki
  • Patent number: 6662833
    Abstract: An improved apparatus for conducting the operation of incorporating components and filling liquid for the assembly of a liquid-sealed vibration-proof mount by sequential steps of: depressing a liquid tank disposed above a main components body held to be faced upwardly toward it, installing an aperture at a bottom of the tank to the main body hermetically, supplying liquid onto the bottom to flow the liquid inside the main body and to store it on the bottom, incorporating a partition and other components into the main body in the liquid stored when detecting a definite liquid level with a liquid level detector tube and simultaneously sealing liquid, followed by discharging of the liquid from the bottom and removal of the liquid tank from the main body, whereby the operation can be conducted efficiently without causing error operation and suspending by use of a liquid tank having a small volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tsujimoto, Tsuyoshi Inada, Akio Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20030183996
    Abstract: A component incorporation and liquid-in of a liquid-in vibration isolating mount uses a relatively small liquid bath, allowing a seal member fitted to an opening portion on a bottom portion of the liquid bath to be screwed from the upper surface side and thus the seal member to be replaced easily when changing a setup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tsujimoto, Tsuyoshi Inada, Akio Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20030183302
    Abstract: An improved apparatus for conducting the operation of incorporating components and filing liquid for the assembly of a liquid-sealed vibration-proof mount by sequential steps of: depressing a liquid tank disposed above a main components body held to be faced upwardly toward it, installing an aperture at a bottom of the tank to the main body hermetically, supplying liquid onto the bottom to flow the liquid inside the main body and to store it on the bottom, incorporating a partition and other components into the main body in the liquid stored when detecting a definite liquid level with a liquid level detector tube and simultaneously sealing liquid, followed by discharging of the liquid from the bottom and removal of the liquid tank from the main body, whereby the operation can be conducted efficiently without causing error operation and suspending by use of a liquid tank having a small volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tsujimoto, Tsuyoshi Inada, Akio Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5615308
    Abstract: In a production system in which a plurality of production rules are partitioned into a plurality of clusters for processing to effect cluster control, control expression elements, each describing an instruction for specifying a cluster to be invoked next for execution or an instruction for other flow control, are arranged in the order of execution to provide a control expression part separate from the clusters for processing. An instruction for a return to the control expression part is described in an action part of an appropriate production rule in a cluster, in place of the cluster specifying instruction, so that sequential invocation of clusters can be performed following the instructions described in the control expression part, thereby making it unnecessary to give a description for specifying the name of a cluster to be invoked next for execution in the action part of each production rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Toyo Communication Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Ando, Akio Sasaki, Tomoyuki Minamiyama, Shoichi Maki, Siryo Yasui, Hiroshi Ichise
  • Patent number: 5452453
    Abstract: In a production system in which a plurality of production rules are partitioned into a plurality of clusters for processing to effect cluster control, control expression elements, each describing an instruction for specifying a cluster to be invoked next for execution or an instruction for other flow control, are arranged in the order of execution to provide a control expression part separate from the clusters for processing. An instruction for a return to the control expression part is described in an action part of an appropriate production rule in a cluster, in place of the cluster specifying instruction, so that sequential invocation of clusters can be performed following the instructions described in the control expression part, thereby making it unnecessary to give a description for specifying the name of a cluster to be invoked next for execution in the action part of each production rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignees: Toyo Communication Equipment Co., Ltd., Sasaki & Associates Inc.
    Inventors: Ichiro Ando, Akio Sasaki, Tomoyuki Minamiyama, Shoichi Maki, Siryo Yasui, Hiroshi Ichise
  • Patent number: 5372658
    Abstract: A semiconductor material having a disordered structure consists of a semiconductor material on which epitaxial growth is possible. The semiconductor material has an energy band structure constituted by one of the indirect band structure, the direct band structure, and a combination of the indirect and the direct band structures, and consists of a plurality of semiconductor layers. The semiconductor layer is orderly arranged along its surface and disorderly arranged along its thickness direction with respect to at least one of the followings the number of atomic or molecular layers constituting the semiconductor layer, a composition of a specific molecular layer of the molecular layers, and impurity doped to the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: President of Kyoto University
    Inventors: Akio Sasaki, Susumu Noda
  • Patent number: 5133071
    Abstract: In a channel control for an information processing system, a service processor (SVP) loads a microprogram of the channel controller at system initialization, and thereafter initiates the microprogram for storing microprograms and configuration information for a plurality of channel units held in the SVP into the specified area of a main storage. Subsequently, the configuration information and microprograms from the main storage are loaded into the channel units under control of the microprogram of the channel controller. Thereby, the microprograms and configuration information are loaded into the channel units by a channel controller equipped with a fast-processing microprocessor and, eventually, a fast loading control and error correction process are accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sato, Masahiro Yamashita, Shigeru Yamamoto, Akio Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5052291
    Abstract: A screen printing method includes the steps of moving a doctor plate across a printing screen to apply a paste thereon and then moving a squeegee across the screen to deposit a paste on an object below the screen while maintaining a predetermined pressure of the screen against the object to produce a substantially even deposition of the paste. The method also can include varying the squeegee pressure as the screen tension varies to maintain the predetermined printing pressure and using a screen aligning mark on an imaging plane to correct the positional relationship between the screen and the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Akio Sasaki, Kunio Mogi, Hajime Shimazaki, Masakazu Hasegawa