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).

  • Patent number: 11965096
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a resin composition that can lead to a biological model, which has a softness and provides a sensation of needle insertion close to those of human blood vessels and/or skin, and a biological model using the same. [Solution] A resin composition containing, with respect to 100 parts by mass of a component (A) hydrogenated block copolymer having a MFR (temperature 230° C., load 2.16 kg) of 1 g/10 min or less: 350 parts by mass or more and 1000 parts by mass or less of a component (B) oil; and 0.01 parts by mass or more and less than 150 parts by mass of a component (C) lubricant. The component (B) oil preferably has a kinematic viscosity of 0.1-100 mm2/s at 37.8° C. or 40° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Miyama, Mutsumi Matsumoto
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20240096198
    Abstract: An area determination apparatus (2000) acquires three-dimensional facility data (20). The three-dimensional facility data (20) is three-dimensional data of a target facility including a plurality of segments. The area determination apparatus (2000) determines a designated segment, which is a segment designated in an input screen (10) including an image of the target facility. The area determination apparatus (2000) determines, as a monitoring area or a non-monitoring area, a three-dimensional area that is determined based on three-dimensional segment data (22) of the designated segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Tsuji, Shigeo Suzuki, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Takanori Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20240098195
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a support portion, a reading portion, a first cover, a second cover, and a holding mechanism. The first cover moves between a second closed position where the first cover covers the reading portion in a first closed position and a second open position where the first cover opens the reading portion. The second cover moves between a third closed position where the second cover forms a second area of a conveyance path together with the first cover in the second closed position and a third open position where the second cover opens the second area. The holding mechanism prevents the first cover from moving from the second open position to the second closed position and holds the first cover in the second open position when the second cover is in the third open position and the first cover is in the second open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: AKIRA MATSUMOTO, TAKAYUKI FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240098196
    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: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: AKIRA MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240098199
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus including a conveyance portion configured to convey a document in a conveyance path, and a reading portion configured to read an image of a document conveyed in the conveyance path. The reading portion includes an image sensor configured to read an image of a document, a casing accommodating the reading element and including an opening portion having an opening through which an optical path of the reading element extends toward the conveyance path, a transparent member fixed to the casing and covering the opening, and a shield member disposed between the transparent member and the casing, and electrically grounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: AKIRA MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11932281
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for configuring and controlling an automated vehicle to perform user specified operations. User vehicle control programs are loaded in an unmanned vehicle to control the unmanned vehicle to perform a user specified operation. The loading the user vehicle control programs replaces base vehicle control programs in the unmanned vehicle. There is communication with the unmanned vehicle to execute the user vehicle control programs to control the unmanned vehicle to perform the user specified operation. The base vehicle control programs are loaded into the unmanned vehicle to replace the user vehicle control programs to return control of the unmanned vehicle to a vehicle provider after performing the user specified operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sanehiro Furuichi, Akira Saito, Yohkichi Sasatani, Kenichi Takasaki, Taku Sasaki, Hirotaka Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11936824
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image reading device, a holding member that is rod-like, and an image forming device having an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet, and having a wall part having a hole. The image reading device reads an image on a document, is provided on the image forming device, and rotates around a rotation shaft openable and closable with respect to the image forming device. The holding member has one end attached on the image reading device, and holds the image reading device opened with respect to the image forming device when another end of the holding member is inserted into the hole formed in the wall part. The holding member includes a first regulation part that comes into contact with a lower surface of the wall part to regulate detachment of the other end of the holding member from the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20240084118
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic elastomeric compositions comprising polyolefins, styrene-b-ethylene-ethylene-propylene-b-styrene block copolymers and optionally, a plasticizers, laminates comprising the same as well as their use in disposable hygiene and medical products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: KURARAY EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Marcel GRÜNDKEN, Akira MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240080240
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a communication device configured to communicate with a server device that provides data; a storage device; and a control device that cyclically accesses the server device using the communication device to check whether or not new data has been provided from the server device, determines, based on a predetermined probability, whether to download the new data from the server device or to postpone download when the new data has been provided, and stores, in the storage device, the new data downloaded from the server device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Akira AMANO, Miyu MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240064247
    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: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    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: 20240064248
    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: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO ONO, TAKAYUKI FUKUSHIMA, KAZUKI MATSUO, TAKUMA TACHIBANA, YUYA YASUDA, AKIYUKI MITAMURA, AKIRA MATSUMOTO, AKIRA URITA, NORIKAZU HISHINUMA, TAKATSUGU NAKAMURA, YU HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240038810
    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: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke OTAKE, Akira MATSUMOTO, Junpei YAMAMOTO, Ryusei NAITO, Masahiko NAKAMIZO, Toshifumi WAKANO
  • Patent number: 11855112
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11843741
    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: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    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: 11843742
    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: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    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: 11819570
    Abstract: A sugar-responsive gel that is highly resistant to temperature changes, and a sugar-responsive drug delivery device including such a gel. The sugar-responsive gel, which comprises a gel composition including a monomer having a hydroxyl group in addition to a phenylboronic-acid-based monomer, can exhibit suitable temperature resistance. A sugar-responsive drug delivery device including such a sugar-responsive gel is less susceptible to the effects of temperature changes, and therefore can prevent undesirable excessive delivery of a drug such as insulin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System, National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Takayoshi Suganami, Miyako Tanaka, Akira Matsumoto, Hiroko Matsumoto, Yuki Morooka, Yuji Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20230370554
    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: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    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: 20230370558
    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: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    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: 20230370555
    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: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO ONO, TAKAYUKI FUKUSHIMA, KAZUKI MATSUO, TAKUMA TACHIBANA, YUYA YASUDA, AKIYUKI MITAMURA, AKIRA MATSUMOTO, AKIRA URITA, NORIKAZU HISHINUMA, TAKATSUGU NAKAMURA, YU HASHIMOTO