Patents by Inventor Akira Matsumoto

Akira 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: 20250040518
    Abstract: There is provided a health condition determination apparatus including: a behavior data acquisition part that acquires behavior data indicating a behavior of an animal acquired by executing at least one of monitoring and sensing on the animal; a behavior data accumulation part that accumulates the behavior data; and a health condition estimation part that estimates a health condition of the animal by using the behavior data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu KANEDA, Kenichi ABE, Momo SUTO, Chikashi ITO, Tetsuya ITO, Akira MATSUMOTO, Norihiko KAMATA, Satoki UENO
  • Publication number: 20250042691
    Abstract: A sheet conveyance device includes a center shaft; a driving portion and a rotatable member. The rotatable member includes an engaging hole to engage with the center shaft, a drive coupling portion disposed on an outer diameter side of the engaging hole and coupled to the driving portion, and a restricting portion disposed on the outer diameter side of the engaging hole and for restricting movement of a moving member. The rotatable member changes a position of the restricting member by being rotated between a first position and a second position rotated from the first position about the center shaft by driving of the driving portion. As viewed in an axial direction of the center shaft, a position of a center of gravity of the rotatable member is positioned in an inner diameter side of an inner diameter surface of the engaging hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventor: AKIRA MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250033393
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an apparatus body, and an operation panel attached to a front face of the apparatus body. The operation panel includes a light source provided inside the operation panel, and a light guide for causing light emitted from the light source to exit from a light exit surface provided at an edge of the operation panel, and the apparatus body has a reflecting surface that reflects the light exited from the light exit surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: SHOGO NISHIE, YASUSHI MATSUMOTO, GAKUSHI TANAKA, TAKEHIRO NAKATA, AKIRA NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20250039316
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO ONO, TAKAYUKI FUKUSHIMA, KAZUKI MATSUO, YUYA YASUDA, TAKUMA TACHIBANA, AKIYUKI MITAMURA, AKIRA MATSUMOTO, AKIRA URITA, NORIKAZU HISHINUMA, TAKATSUGU NAKAMURA, YU HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250021917
    Abstract: An evaluation apparatus includes: an evaluation method acquisition part configured to acquire evaluation method data from an evaluation method provision apparatus; an evaluation criteria creation part configured to create evaluation criteria information for evaluating collected information that integrates data collected from a field management system that manages field information based on the evaluation method data; an evaluation processing part configured to evaluate the collected information based on the evaluation criteria information and create an evaluation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira MATSUMOTO, Momo Suto, Kenichi Abe, Chikashi Ito, Tetsuya Ito, Norihiko Kamata, Masakazu Kaneda, Satoki Ueno
  • Publication number: 20250016278
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO ONO, TAKAYUKI FUKUSHIMA, KAZUKI MATSUO, TAKUMA TACHIBANA, YUYA YASUDA, AKIYUKI MITAMURA, AKIRA MATSUMOTO, AKIRA URITA, NORIKAZU HISHINUMA, TAKATSUGU NAKAMURA, YU HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 12184436
    Abstract: There is provided a network control apparatus that realizes an in-vehicle network with low power consumption. The network control apparatus comprises a vehicle state acquisition part that acquires the state of a vehicle; a control profile acquisition part that acquires a control profile, according to the acquired vehicle state, from one or more control profiles including settings for controlling equipment connected to an in-vehicle network; and a control part that controls equipment within the in-vehicle network on the basis of the acquired control profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Communication Systems, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Matsumoto, Yuki Baba, Katsuyuki Akizuki, Yuji Harada, Tetsuji Kawatsu
  • Patent number: 12177403
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a transparent member including a document placing surface on which a document is placed, a document pressing portion that presses the document placed on the transparent member against the transparent member, a pivot supporting portion that pivotably supports the document pressing portion so as to be pivotable about a pivot shaft with respect to a casing of the image reading apparatus, an image reading unit, an abutment portion against which an edge portion of the document placed on the document placing surface is abutted in order to position the document at a reference position, and an inclined surface. The abutment portion is provided at one portion of a front end on a side far from the pivot supporting portion. The inclined surface is provided at another portion of the front end and inclined upward toward the side far from the pivot supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Ono, Takayuki Fukushima, Kazuki Matsuo, Yuya Yasuda, Takuma Tachibana, Akiyuki Mitamura, Akira Matsumoto, Akira Urita, Norikazu Hishinuma, Takatsugu Nakamura, Yu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12149661
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Ono, Takayuki Fukushima, Kazuki Matsuo, Yuya Yasuda, Takuma Tachibana, Akiyuki Mitamura, Akira Matsumoto, Akira Urita, Norikazu Hishinuma, Takatsugu Nakamura, Yu Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240379691
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of imaging elements that are arrayed in a matrix in a first direction and a second direction on the semiconductor substrate and perform photoelectric conversion on incident light. Each of the plurality of imaging elements includes a plurality of pixels that are provided in a predetermined unit region of the semiconductor substrate to be adjacent to each other and contains impurities of a first conductivity type, a separation section that separates the plurality of pixels, two first element separation walls that are provided along two first side surfaces extending in the second direction of the predetermined unit region to pierce through at least a part of the semiconductor substrate, and a first diffusion region provided in the semiconductor substrate around the first element separation wall and the separation section and containing impurities of a second conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke SATAKE, Tomoyuki ARAI, Naohiro TAKAHASHI, Koichiro ZAITSU, Akira MATSUMOTO, Keiji NISHIDA, Mizuki NISHIDA
  • Patent number: 12126776
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Ono, Takayuki Fukushima, Kazuki Matsuo, Takuma Tachibana, Yuya Yasuda, Akiyuki Mitamura, Akira Matsumoto, Akira Urita, Norikazu Hishinuma, Takatsugu Nakamura, Yu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12096643
    Abstract: This technology relates to a solid-state image sensor configured to make smaller the chip size of a CIS that uses an organic photoelectric conversion film, and to an electronic apparatus. A solid-state image sensor according to a first aspect of this technology is characterized in that it includes a first substrate and a second substrate stacked one on top of the other and a first organic photoelectric conversion film formed on the first substrate and that a latch circuit is formed on the second substrate. This technology may be applied to back-illuminated CISs, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Matsumoto, Hiroshi Tayanaka
  • Publication number: 20240294142
    Abstract: The vehicle control system of the present disclosure includes a meter-side control device that is installed in a vehicle and can measure the total distance traveled by the vehicle, and a backup device that can obtain a copy of the total distance measured by the meter-side control device. Data communication between the meter-side control device and the backup device uses an authentication signal using a common key, and a new communication between the meter-side control device and the backup device When registering a common key, the larger value of the total mileage value stored in the meter side control device and the total mileage value stored in the backup device is sent to the meter side control device. Total mileage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka HAMASAKI, Akihiko Tanio, Hiroshi Shikata, Akira Matsumoto, Yuki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 12046618
    Abstract: A sensor includes a first substrate including at least a first pixel. The first pixel includes an avalanche photodiode to convert incident light into electric charge and includes an anode and a cathode. The cathode is in a well region of the first substrate. The first pixel includes an isolation region that isolates the well region from at least a second pixel that is adjacent to the first pixel. The first pixel includes a hole accumulation region between the isolation region and the well region. The hole accumulation region is electrically connected to the anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Otake, Akira Matsumoto, Junpei Yamamoto, Ryusei Naito, Masahiko Nakamizo, Toshifumi Wakano
  • Publication number: 20240240981
    Abstract: A normal refueling mode, in which refueling is detected when the vehicle is at or below a predetermined vehicle speed and when the vehicle is at a slight stop, and a small amount refueling mode for detecting refueling in a strong stopped state in which the vehicle is determined to be stationary based on the detection result of the shift position sensor and a vehicle speed at or below a predetermined speed, are provided, and the meter ECU performs mode switching control. Then, the remaining amount of fuel is detected by the fuel gauge with different resolutions in the normal refueling mode and the small amount refueling mode, and the remaining amount of fuel is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko TANIO, Akira Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12028495
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a main body, a cover, a reading unit, a cable, and a shield member. The cover pivots with respect to the main body and move between a first closed position and a first open position. The reading unit pivots with respect to the main body and reads an image of a sheet conveyed in the conveyance path. The cable bridges between the main body and the reading unit and configured to transmit an image signal from the reading unit. The cable includes an exposed portion located between the main body and the reading unit and exposed to an outside of the main body and the reading unit when the cover is located in the first open position. The shield member has conductivity, grounded, and disposed to cover the exposed portion of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20240195926
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion to form an image on a sheet, a tray on which sheets to be fed are stacked, and a swing member supported by the tray and configured to swing in a case where the swing member is pushed by a discharged sheet. A stacking portion includes a first surface on an upper portion of a first portion, and a moving member in contact with the discharged sheet. The moving member can be positioned at a position downstream of the first surface in the discharge direction, wherein the swing member overlaps with the first surface as viewed in the sheet width direction in a case where the swing member is not in contact with a discharged sheet, and the swing member is arranged such that a lower end of the swing member is not in contact with the stacking portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventor: Akira Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20240186351
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor chip and an electronic apparatus each of which enables carriers generated through photoelectric conversion to be efficiently used. At least one or more avalanche multiplication regions multiplying carriers generated through photoelectric conversion are provided in each of a plurality of pixel regions in a semiconductor substrate, and light incident on the semiconductor substrate is condensed by an on-chip lens. Then, a plurality of on-chip lenses is arranged in one pixel region. The present technology, for example, can be applied to a back-illuminated type CMOS image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventor: AKIRA MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240140707
    Abstract: To acquire information to accurately determine whether predetermined events related to moving of product have been completed. An automatic vending machine 1 includes: a box-shaped cabinet 4 internally including a plurality of shelves 4f; a product outlet 4d provided at a lower portion of a front panel 4b of the cabinet 4; a product discharging device 5 provided on each of the plurality of shelves 4f in the cabinet and configured to discharge a product P loaded thereon forward; a bucket 6 supported between the front panel 4b and the plurality of shelves 4f so as to be movable in the up-down direction and configured to receive the product P discharged from the product discharging device 5; and an imaging unit 10 that captures an image containing an image of a placement surface 6a on which the product P received is loaded in the bucket 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Akira MATSUMOTO, Takaaki ARAI
  • Patent number: 11943412
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion to form an image on a sheet, a tray on which sheets to be fed are stacked, and a swing member supported by the tray and configured to swing in a case where the swing member is pushed by a discharged sheet. A stacking portion includes a first surface on an upper portion of a first portion, and a moving member in contact with the discharged sheet. The moving member can be positioned at a position downstream of the first surface in the discharge direction, wherein the swing member overlaps with the first surface as viewed in the sheet width direction in a case where the swing member is not in contact with a discharged sheet, and the swing member is arranged such that a lower end of the swing member is not in contact with the stacking portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Matsumoto