Patents by Inventor Akira Arai

Akira Arai 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: 10848923
    Abstract: A user location information detection and tracking system includes an IC tag that a user can carry, a user terminal configured to receive identification information outputted from the IC tag, a magnetic field device configured to form a magnetic field in a predetermined area, and a managing device communicably connected to the user terminal. The IC tag outputs at a predetermined timing, as the identification information, tag ID for identifying the IC tag, in response to detection of the magnetic field formed by the magnetic field device, the IC tag outputs, as the identification information, magnetic field identification information for identifying the magnetic field, and in response to the identification information received from the IC tag, the user terminal sends the identification information to the managing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoki Suzuki, Taro Morioka, Akira Arai, Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200314596
    Abstract: A user location information detection and tracking system includes an IC tag that a user can carry, a user terminal configured to receive identification information outputted from the IC tag, a magnetic field device configured to form a magnetic field in a predetermined area, and a managing device communicably connected to the user terminal. The IC tag outputs at a predetermined timing, as the identification information, tag ID for identifying the IC tag, in response to detection of the magnetic field formed by the magnetic field device, the IC tag outputs, as the identification information, magnetic field identification information for identifying the magnetic field, and in response to the identification information received from the IC tag, the user terminal sends the identification information to the managing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Motoki SUZUKI, Taro MORIOKA, Akira ARAI, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200102703
    Abstract: A recording medium manufacturing apparatus includes at least one material supplying section which includes a storage unit which stores a fiber-containing material containing cellulose fibers and a resin, at least one carrying body which carries the fiber-containing material which is supplied from the material supplying section, a transfer-target body onto which the fiber-containing material which is carried by the carrying body is electrostatically transferred, and an after-treatment unit which performs an after-treatment on the fiber-containing material which is electrostatically transferred onto the transfer-target body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kaneo YODA, Yasumasa NAKAJIMA, Seiichi TANIGUCHI, Shunichi SEKI, Akira ARAI, Kazuhiro ICHIKAWA, Hiroshi TANAKA, Hiroki KURATA
  • Publication number: 20200101637
    Abstract: A sheet manufacturing apparatus is an apparatus that heats a material containing fibers to form a sheet, and includes a heating portion that heats the material, and a control portion that controls a temperature at which the heating portion heats the material. The control portion sets a temperature of the heating portion to a first temperature in a first state where the sheet manufacturing apparatus manufactures the sheet, and sets the temperature of the heating portion to a second temperature lower than the first temperature at a predetermined timing in a second state where the sheet is not manufactured, or at a predetermined timing when a state of the sheet manufacturing apparatus is shifted to the state where the sheet is not manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kaneo YODA, Yoshiyuki NAGAI, Yuki OGUCHI, Shigeo FUJITA, Akira ARAI, Kazuhiro ICHIKAWA, Teruaki OGUCHI, Seiichi TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200043037
    Abstract: A point management system manages points on the basis of an index related to a financial product, the points being held by a user in a loyalty points program with which accumulated points can be exchanged for a product or the like. The point management system includes a point management unit that, on the basis of a target value and/or a withdrawal value of a point balance in management set on the basis of a tiered unit of exchange in exchanging points for a product or the like, calculates information related to prediction of whether or not the point balance reaches each of the target value and/or the withdrawal value by a term, or selects a financial product with which the point balance is highly likely to reach the target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroyuki NAKAMURA, Akira ARAI, Taro MORIOKA, Ryoji KASHIWAGI, Hideaki YASUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200011009
    Abstract: A sheet is configured to have a first complex having a fiber and a fiber aggregation inhibitor integrally, a second complex having a fiber and a fiber aggregation inhibitor integrally, and a binding material which combines the first complex and the second complex and contains a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Akira ARAI, Kaneo YODA, Shunichi SEKI, Yoshihiro UENO, Kazuhiro ICHIKAWA, Shinichi KATO, Hidehiro TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20190062996
    Abstract: Provided is technology improving the efficiency (productivity) of a sheet manufacturing apparatus. A sheet manufacturing apparatus 100 manufactures sheets S by heating with heaters 81 and 82 a mixture (second web W2) of resin and fiber produced by defibrating feedstock MA. The heaters 81 and 82 each have a first roller 171, a second roller 172 that holds the second web W2 with the first roller 171, and a moving mechanism 190. The moving mechanism 190 can switch the first roller 171 and second roller 172 to a position holding the second web W2, and a first roller 171 and second roller 172 are separated and do not hold the second web W2. The heaters 81 and 82 are configured as units that can removably installed to the sheet manufacturing apparatus 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaneo YODA, Yoshiyuki NAGAI, Yuki OGUCHI, Shigeo FUJITA, Akira ARAI, Kazuhiro ICHIKAWA, Teruaki OGUCHI, Seiichi TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180114150
    Abstract: An airline ticket sales system having a stock recording unit retaining a stock of flights, and a destination candidate extraction unit including: receiving an input of at least one condition from a user via an information processing terminal, information about a destination airport being excluded from the condition; acquiring, from the stock recording unit, information about outbound candidate flights and inbound candidate flights satisfying the condition; extracting, as candidate airports, a predetermined number from airports common to arrival airports of the outbound candidate flights and departure airports of the inbound candidate flights; selecting, based on a predetermined criterion, one from round-trip candidate flights composed of combinations of the outbound candidate flights and the inbound candidate flights among the departure airports of the outbound candidate flights specified by the condition and the respective candidate airports; and regarding the selected one as a to-be-sold round-trip flight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Morioka, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Akira Arai, Takashi Sagimori, Hitoshi Matsuo, Takeo Shimada
  • Patent number: 9933748
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes one or plural forming devices that form respective images on a recording medium that is being transported, a fixing device provided on a downstream side with respect to at least one of the forming devices in a direction of transport of the recording medium and that fixes the images formed on the recording medium, a delivering device that receives the recording medium transported in a first direction and discharges the recording medium in a second direction that is different from the first direction, and a supplying device that supplies the recording medium to any of the forming devices or to the delivering device. The forming devices, the fixing device, the delivering device, and the supplying device have respective housings and are each joinable to any of the other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Yamaguchi, Yukihiro Ichiki, Akira Arai, Sho Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20170343939
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes one or plural forming devices that form respective images on a recording medium that is being transported, a fixing device provided on a downstream side with respect to at least one of the forming devices in a direction of transport of the recording medium and that fixes the images formed on the recording medium, a delivering device that receives the recording medium transported in a first direction and discharges the recording medium in a second direction that is different from the first direction, and a supplying device that supplies the recording medium to any of the forming devices or to the delivering device. The forming devices, the fixing device, the delivering device, and the supplying device have respective housings and are each joinable to any of the other devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio YAMAGUCHI, Yukihiro ICHIKI, Akira ARAI, Sho WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9398376
    Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer includes a diaphragm including a pair of convex surfaces respectively including convex surfaces of a pair of longitudinal split tubular members. A valley is formed between one side portions of the pair of longitudinal split tubular members. The electroacoustic transducer further includes: a converter configured to convert between a vibration of the diaphragm in a depth direction of the valley and an electric signal corresponding to the vibration; and a supporter supporting other side portions of the pair of longitudinal split tubular members of the diaphragm so as to allow the other side portions to vibrate in a vibration direction of the vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Noro, Akira Arai
  • Publication number: 20150110305
    Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer includes a diaphragm including a pair of convex surfaces respectively including convex surfaces of a pair of longitudinal split tubular members. A valley is formed between one side portions of the pair of longitudinal split tubular members. The electroacoustic transducer further includes: a converter configured to convert between a vibration of the diaphragm in a depth direction of the valley and an electric signal corresponding to the vibration; and a supporter supporting other side portions of the pair of longitudinal split tubular members of the diaphragm so as to allow the other side portions to vibrate in a vibration direction of the vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Masao NORO, Akira ARAI
  • Patent number: 8938084
    Abstract: A speaker device includes an enclosure provided with a speaker unit and a bass reflex port, wherein the bass reflex port has an outer opening opened to outside of the enclosure and an inner opening opened to inside of the enclosure, and has a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area is gradually reduced along an axial direction of the bass reflex port from its ends to its center, and the tubular body is formed so that a length of the hollow cross-section in one direction does not change along the axial direction, and wherein the inner opening of the bass reflex port is located opposite to the speaker unit, with the bass reflex port sandwiched therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Arai
  • Patent number: 8430200
    Abstract: A speaker apparatus according to the present invention includes a phase inversion-type enclosure in which a speaker unit and a bass reflex port are installed, the bass reflex port having a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area gradually becomes smaller from one opening side toward an inside of the bass reflex port in an axial direction of the bass reflex port, and a length in one direction of the hollow cross section of the tubular body not changing and constant along the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Arai
  • Publication number: 20130083937
    Abstract: A speaker device includes an enclosure provided with a speaker unit and a bass reflex port, wherein the bass reflex port has an outer opening opened to outside of the enclosure and an inner opening opened to inside of the enclosure, and has a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area is gradually reduced along an axial direction of the bass reflex port from its ends to its center, and the tubular body is formed so that a length of the hollow cross-section in one direction does not change along the axial direction, and wherein the inner opening of the bass reflex port is located opposite to the speaker unit, with the bass reflex port sandwiched therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Arai
  • Patent number: 8094842
    Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a loudspeaker enclosure having an inside space, a loudspeaker provided on the loudspeaker enclosure, a first diaphragm which has one of ends fixed to a surface of the loudspeaker enclosure and the other end, a second diaphragm which has one of ends fixed to the surface of the loudspeaker enclosure and the other end, a coupling portion having an elasticity, and coupling the other end of the first diaphragm to the other end of the second diaphragm, an opening structure provided in the surface of the loudspeaker enclosure, and a sealing member provided to a portion among the first and second diaphragms, the coupling portion and an edge part of the opening structure, and closing the inside space to hold an airtightness of the loudspeaker enclosure in a state that the first and second diaphragms can be vibrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Noro, Akira Arai
  • Publication number: 20110303481
    Abstract: A speaker apparatus according to the present invention includes a phase inversion-type enclosure in which a speaker unit and a bass reflex port are installed, the bass reflex port having a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area gradually becomes smaller from one opening side toward an inside of the bass reflex port in an axial direction of the bass reflex port, and a length in one direction of the hollow cross section of the tubular body not changing and constant along the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Akira ARAI
  • Patent number: 8028792
    Abstract: A speaker apparatus according to the present invention includes a phase inversion-type enclosure in which a speaker unit and a bass reflex port are installed, the bass reflex port having a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area gradually becomes smaller from one opening side toward an inside of the bass reflex port in an axial direction of the bass reflex port, and a length in one direction of the hollow cross section of the tubular body not changing and constant along the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Arai
  • Patent number: 7940943
    Abstract: A speaker driving apparatus includes a speaker enclosure whose inside is tightly closed, at least two speakers that are provided to the speaker enclosure so as to have a common rear space, and a signal supplying unit that supplies a stereo left channel signal to the speaker in a first group and supplies a stereo right channel signal to the speaker in a second group. The at least two speakers being divided into two groups as the first group and the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Noro, Akira Arai
  • Publication number: 20090260915
    Abstract: A speaker apparatus according to the present invention includes a phase inversion-type enclosure in which a speaker unit and a bass reflex port are installed, the bass reflex port having a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area gradually becomes smaller from one opening side toward an inside of the bass reflex port in an axial direction of the bass reflex port, and a length in one direction of the hollow cross section of the tubular body not changing and constant along the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Akira ARAI