Patents by Inventor Akira Hashimoto
Akira Hashimoto 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: 12149661Abstract: A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Ono, Takayuki Fukushima, Kazuki Matsuo, Yuya Yasuda, Takuma Tachibana, Akiyuki Mitamura, Akira Matsumoto, Akira Urita, Norikazu Hishinuma, Takatsugu Nakamura, Yu Hashimoto
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Patent number: 12140949Abstract: When a subject vehicle reaches a first position of an interflow zone within an interflow lane, it is judged whether a condition for automatic interflow is satisfied. When it is judged that the condition for automatic interflow is not satisfied at the first position, a notification for urging manual interflow by a driver is stated to execute. When it is judged that the condition for automatic interflow is satisfied at the first position, the automatic interflow is stared to execute.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuta Hashimoto, Hiroki Fukuda, Akira Ito
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Publication number: 20240360623Abstract: Rollers that transport a sheet while heating the sheet, and a separating unit that includes a separating plate and a supporting portion are included. The separating plate has a leading end portion that comes into contact with a second roller of the rollers. The supporting portion supports the separating plate. The separating plate is provided with a slit that absorbs bending due to a thermal expansion difference between the separating plate and the supporting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Inventors: Yoshikazu NAGAI, Tetsuya TAMURA, Akira HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 12126776Abstract: An operation unit is provided on a front side of the image forming apparatus. A document feeding portion feeds a document supported by a document supporting portion in a document feeding direction from a front side of the image forming apparatus toward the rear side of the image forming apparatus. A document discharge portion discharges the document in a document discharge direction from the rear side toward the front side. The operation unit is disposed on one side with respect to an apparatus center of the image forming apparatus in a left-right direction orthogonal to a direction from the front side to the rear side. A conveyance center of the document feeding portion in the left-right direction is disposed on the other side with respect to the apparatus center in the left-right direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takahiro Ono, Takayuki Fukushima, Kazuki Matsuo, Takuma Tachibana, Yuya Yasuda, Akiyuki Mitamura, Akira Matsumoto, Akira Urita, Norikazu Hishinuma, Takatsugu Nakamura, Yu Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20240329345Abstract: A core portion of each of optical fibers of an optical fiber cable is made of pure silica glass, an effective cross-sectional area of the core portion at a wavelength of 1550 nm is 110 ?m2 or more and 150 ?m2 or less. The optical fibers include an intermittent connection portion in which a connection portion to which an adhesive resin is applied and a non-connection portion to which the adhesive resin is not applied are alternately provided between adjacent optical fibers. The optical fiber ribbon has a ratio of a total adhesion length to which the adhesive resin is applied to a total length between all the optical fibers of 40% or more per a unit length of the optical fiber ribbon, and an occupancy ratio of the optical fiber ribbon to a cross-sectional area of the internal space is 30% or more and 40% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventors: Yutaka HASHIMOTO, Fumiaki SATO, Masashi KIKUCHI, Soichi ISHIKAWA, Akira SAKURAI, Yusuke YAMADA, Sadaharu HOMAN
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Publication number: 20240305882Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program that enable different imaging elements to align timings at which settings are reflected. The imaging device includes a control unit that controls a second imaging element that captures an image at a lower frame rate than the frame rate of a first imaging element. In a case where a synchronization signal supplied from the first imaging element is received, the control unit determines whether or not the current frame is a frame to be decimated. In a case where the control unit determines that the current frame is not a frame to be decimated, imaging is performed, and in a case where the control unit determines that the current frame is a frame to be decimated, drive for imaging is stopped. The present technology can be applied to an imaging device including a plurality of imaging elements, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: TAKUYA MITSUHASHI, AKIRA HOSOTANI, TETSURO HASHIMOTO, SYUNJI NAGAO, SHINICHI SATO, TAKAHIRO SAKAGUCHI, KAZUHITO KOBAYASHI, HIROKI ABASAKI, HIROAKI ANAI, OSAMU KOBAYAKAWA, HIDEO NOMURA
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Patent number: 12084670Abstract: MPO1 and MPO2 can be regulated for either decreasing or increasing alkaloid levels in plants, in particular in Nicotiana plants. In particular, suppressing or overexpressing one or more of MPO1 and MPO2 may be used to decrease or increase nicotine and nicotinic alkaloid levels in tobacco plants. Suppression or overexpression of one or more of MPO1 and MPO2 may be used in combination with modification of expression of other genes encoding enzymes on the nicotinic alkaloid biosynthetic pathway such as A622, NBB1, PMT, and QPT.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: 22nd Century Limited, LLCInventors: Takashi Hashimoto, Akira Kato
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Patent number: 12043401Abstract: A transmission cooling assembly of a helicopter includes: a transmission including a speed change structure that changes the speed of rotation produced by rotational power input from a prime mover and outputs the resulting rotational power and a housing accommodating the speed change structure; a cowl covering at least a part of an outer surface of the housing, with a gap defined between the cowl and the outer surface; and a flow structure that allows external air to flow through the gap.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenta Ogasawara, Akira Hayasaka, Hiroki Yamamoto, Hidenori Arisawa, Yuji Shinoda, Mitsuaki Tanaka, Hironori Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20240238848Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a support unit, a supply unit, an annular member, a rotation unit, a cover member, and an annular flow regulation member disposed above the cover member. The annular member includes an inclined surface inclined downward toward a center of the annular member in a radial direction. The flow regulation member includes a base portion and a protrusion which faces a circumferential portion of the substrate supported on the support unit and protrudes from the base portion toward the circumferential portion of the substrate. The protrusion overlaps the support unit when viewed in a vertical direction. A lower surface of the protrusion is positioned above an upper surface of the substrate supported on the support unit and positioned below an upper surface of the annular member. An inner circumferential surface of the protrusion is inclined radially outward from an upper side to a lower side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Takafumi KINOSHITA, Yuki ITO, Daisuke SAIKI, Tomoyuki HASHIMOTO, Yoshifumi AMANO, Kazuhiro AIURA, Akira FUJITA, Shuhei TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240171110Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motor control device that realizes a drive signal for each phase in a three-phase modulation control system with an analog circuit. The motor control device includes a generator, a modulation unit and inverting unit. The generator is configured to receive an input voltage and generate an analog voltage having a crest value corresponding to the input voltage and having a reference potential or higher. The modulation unit is configured to generate a PWM voltage based on the analog voltage output from the generation unit. The inverting unit is configured to invert a duty in a predetermined period of the PWM voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Yusuke KURAMITSU, Motoya KUMAGAI, Yasunobu INOUE, Akira HASHIMOTO, Shigeru HIRATA
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Publication number: 20240110335Abstract: There is provided a sheet manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation section that accumulates a material containing fibers by an air flow to form a web; a transport section that performs transport; a humidification section that performs humidification; and a pressurization section that performs pressurization and compression into a sheet shape, with respect to the formed web, in which the humidification section includes an intake port that takes in air, a tank that stores water, a mist generation section that generates mist from the water, an exhaust port that exhausts the mist and the air toward the web, an air duct which is provided between the intake port and the tank and through which the air passes, and a duct which is provided between the tank and the exhaust port and through which the mist and the air pass, the duct includes a first duct provided above the tank, a second duct coupled to the first duct, and a third duct provided between the second duct and the exhaust port, and a first top surfaType: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Keisuke MIYAUCHI, Akira HASHIMOTO, Naoto ARUGA
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Publication number: 20240110334Abstract: There is provided a sheet manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation section that accumulates a material containing fibers by an air flow to form a web; a transport section that transports the web in a first direction; a humidification section that humidifies the web; and a pressurization section that pressurizes the web humidified by the humidification section and compresses the web into a sheet shape, in which the humidification section includes an intake port that takes in air, a tank that stores water, a mist generation section that generates mist from the water, and an exhaust port that exhausts the mist and the air toward the web, and a position of the exhaust port is shifted in the first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction with respect to a position of the tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Keisuke MIYAUCHI, Akira HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 11920300Abstract: There is provided a fiber body manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulating section that forms a web by accumulating a material containing fibers on a first transport belt by a dry method; a transport section that transports the web by peeling off a first surface of the web from the first transport belt, and by bringing a second surface of the web, which is a surface opposite to the first surface peeled off from the first transport belt, into contact with a second transport belt; a water-applying section that applies water toward the first surface of the web in a state where the web is in contact with the second transport belt; and a pressurizing section that pressurizes the web to which the water is applied and which is peeled off from the second transport belt.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masahide Nakamura, Makoto Kawamoto, Akira Hashimoto, Naoto Aruga
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Publication number: 20240029109Abstract: To make it possible to appropriately provide content information to a user terminal by using position information of the user terminal. An information providing apparatus (10a, 10) includes a storage unit (102a) configured to store position information associated with a position on a map, content information associated with the position information, and an attribute corresponding to the content information, and a control unit (101a) configured to output first content information to a user terminal based on position information acquired from the user terminal, and then output second content information associated with an attribute of the first content information to the user terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Akira HASHIMOTO, Kenichi ICHIHARA, Toshikazu MARUYAMA, Shizuko KANEGAE
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Publication number: 20240013256Abstract: To make it possible to set an appropriate advertisement spot in accordance with a content service. An information providing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store position information associated with a position on a route, and content information associated with the position information, and a control unit configured to provide first content information associated with first position information acquired from a user terminal based on the first position information. The control unit sets an advertisement spot having an attribute associated with an attribute of the first content information provided at a first position at a second position on the route, the second position being a predetermined distance apart from the first position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Akira Hashimoto, Kenichi Ichihara, Toshikazu Maruyama, Shizuko Kanegae
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Patent number: 11869397Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Takateru Yamamoto, Sukenori Ito, Yasunobu Inoue
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Publication number: 20230121542Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Takateru Yamamoto, Sukenori ITO, Yasunobu Inoue
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Patent number: 11620926Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Takateru Yamamoto, Sukenori Ito, Yasunobu Inoue
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Patent number: 11616407Abstract: Provided is a segment-core coupled body, including a plurality of segment cores each including a core back and a tooth; and a plurality of coupling portions configured to couple the core backs to one another, wherein the plurality of segment cores and the plurality of coupling portions are each a laminated body of magnetic sheets, wherein the plurality of coupling portions each include: a posture holding portion adjacent to a gap defined between adjacent core backs; a first thin portion configured to couple one corner portion of the adjacent core backs and the posture holding portion; and a second thin portion configured to couple another corner portion of the adjacent core backs and the posture holding portion, and wherein, the posture holding portion projects toward a radially outer side with respect to the adjacent core backs.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akira Hashimoto, Yutaka Hirota, Masashi Nakamura, Takatoshi Masuda
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Publication number: 20220412004Abstract: There is provided a fiber body manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulating section that forms a web by accumulating a material containing fibers on a first transport belt by a dry method; a transport section that transports the web by peeling off a first surface of the web from the first transport belt, and by bringing a second surface of the web, which is a surface opposite to the first surface peeled off from the first transport belt, into contact with a second transport belt; a water-applying section that applies water toward the first surface of the web in a state where the web is in contact with the second transport belt; and a pressurizing section that pressurizes the web to which the water is applied and which is peeled off from the second transport belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Masahide NAKAMURA, Makoto KAWAMOTO, Akira HASHIMOTO, Naoto ARUGA