Patents by Inventor Akira Okamoto

Akira Okamoto 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: 20230070478
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor configured to: generate, for each request, different device identification information according to the request; and register a virtual image processing device virtually indicating the virtual image processing device for each of the generated device identification information with respect to a server for an image processing service running on a network, the server being connected over the network to the image processing device to be used in the image processing service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Akira OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230064432
    Abstract: An automated welding system includes a camera for capturing a camera image of a molten pool and an arc generated in a groove by arc welding; an estimation unit for outputting a probability distribution image based on a camera image by using a learned model; an extraction unit for extracting a region having at least a predetermined probability from the probability distribution image; a selection unit for selecting a representative point corresponding to a feature point of an arc and a representative point corresponding to a feature point of a molten pool, in the region having at least the predetermined probability; and a correction unit for correcting a control parameter of a welding robot based on a positional relationship of the representative point corresponding to the feature point of the arc and the representative point corresponding to the feature point of the molten pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Keita OZAKI, Akira OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230043697
    Abstract: A weld-line generating apparatus includes a point-cloud-data acquiring unit that acquires 3D point cloud data of workpieces to be welded that are arranged in a predetermined space, an edge extracting unit that extracts 3D point cloud data of edges from the 3D point cloud data acquired by the point-cloud-data acquiring unit, a workpiece point-cloud-data generating unit that generates a 3D point cloud data component of each of the workpiece based on 3D point cloud data that is obtained by removing the 3D point cloud data of edges extracted by the edge extracting unit from the 3D point cloud data acquired by the point-cloud-data acquiring unit, and a weld-line generating unit 24 that generates weld lines for the workpieces based on the 3D point cloud data components of the workpieces generated by the workpiece point-cloud-data generating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Tatsuya YOSHIMOTO, Akira OKAMOTO, Tsuyoshi ASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220331912
    Abstract: An automatic welding system, an automatic welding method, a welding assistance device, and a program wherein the amount of correction of the welding speed is determined on the basis of the distance between an arc and the tip of a molten pool when the distance between the arc and the tip of the molten pool is within a predetermined range in arc welding performed while alternately weaving a welding torch in the front downward direction and the rear upward direction when the welding progress direction is the frontward direction with respect to a horizontally extending groove formed between two members to be welded aligned in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Keita OZAKI, Akira OKAMOTO, Naohide FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220124208
    Abstract: In the case where a voice control device can communicate with a printing apparatus and a display apparatus, a user is provided with visual presentations of notifications on the display apparatus where print processing instructions are provided to the printing apparatus based on user instructions issued to the voice control device by voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Akira Okamoto, Takuho Taguchi, Ryohei Saito
  • Patent number: 11274009
    Abstract: A stacker device includes: a discharger that discharges sheets in response to a print job; a first tray on which the discharged sheets are stacked; a second tray that serves as a delivery destination of the sheets stacked on the first tray; a shutter that covers an opening on a front side of a housing; a driver that moves the first tray in an up-down direction; and a hardware processor that shuts off power to the driver based on a height position of the shutter and a position of the second tray in a front-rear direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Ishizuka, Akira Okamoto, Teruhiko Toyoizumi
  • Patent number: 11261024
    Abstract: An article storage device is provided for holding a plurality of standardized containers. The standardized containers extend between a bottom surface extending generally horizontally and a top surface spaced from and generally parallel to the bottom surface. The standardized containers further include an opening side perpendicular to the top and bottom surfaces and a door flange extending along the opening side and beyond the top surface. The standardized containers further include a lifting flange attached to the top surface for receiving a lifting tool. The standardized containers are disposed in the storage rack with their respective opening sides facing away from an access space for allowing a retrieval transport apparatus to move in a substantially horizontal plane between the access space to engage the lifting flange without being obstructed by the door flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: DAIFUKU AMERICA CORPORATION, DAIFUKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Okamoto, Kazuya Omori
  • Patent number: 11252286
    Abstract: In the case where a voice control device can communicate with a printing apparatus and a display apparatus, a user is provided with visual presentations of notifications on the display apparatus where print processing instructions are provided to the printing apparatus based on user instructions issued to the voice control device by voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Okamoto, Takuho Taguchi, Ryohei Saito
  • Patent number: 11235926
    Abstract: A load storage system is provided for holding standardized containers including a first stocker for being positioned on a first story and a second stocker for being positioned on a second story. The first and second stockers each include at least one load support for supporting the standardized containers. A floor is positioned between the first and second stockers. The floor defines a portal between and directly connecting the first and second stockers. The portal is positioned in alignment with the load supports in the first and second stockers. A vertical transfer device is positioned in alignment with the load supports in the first and second stockers and is configured to move the standardized containers through the portal between the first and second stockers. A method of operating the load storage system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: DAIFUKU AMERICA CORPORATION, DAIFUKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Il, Akira Okamoto, Kazuya Omori
  • Patent number: 11185924
    Abstract: A metal powder for additive manufacturing includes: not less than 0.2 mass % and not more than 1.3 mass % of aluminum; and a balance including copper and an incidental impurity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: DAIHEN CORPORATION, FUKUDA METAL FOIL & POWDER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Tsubota, Junichi Tanaka, Yohei Oka, Akira Okamoto, Masato Kikukawa, Hiroaki Okubo, Yoshito Nishizawa, Takeshi Maruyama, Motonori Nishida
  • Patent number: 11182116
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes multiple network interfaces, a storage area that saves data, and a change controller. An attribute defining a network interface permitted as an output path of the saved data is associated with the storage area. The change controller controls a change of the attribute corresponding to a change instruction to change the attribute, in accordance with a state regarding presence/absence of data in the storage area at a time point of receiving the change instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Akira Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20210291288
    Abstract: This welding control device which controls a welding condition when arc welding is performed on a groove having a root gap, comprises: a first detection means for detecting, from a captured image of a fused section formed in the groove, the position of the tip of the fused section with respect to a direction in which the welding progresses; a second detection means for detecting the position of an end of a to-be-welded object for defining the root gap; a determination means for determining the relationship between the position of the end and the position of the tip of the fused section; and a control means for controlling the welding condition according to the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Nobuaki TANAKA, Akira OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210203793
    Abstract: In the case where a voice control device can communicate with a printing apparatus and a display apparatus, a user is provided with visual presentations of notifications on the display apparatus where print processing instructions are provided to the printing apparatus based on user instructions issued to the voice control device by voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Akira Okamoto, Takuho Taguchi, Ryohei Saito
  • Publication number: 20210187614
    Abstract: A copper alloy powder is a copper alloy powder for additive manufacturing. The copper alloy powder contains more than 1.00 mass % and not more than 2.80 mass % of chromium, and a balance of copper. A method for producing an additively-manufactured article includes a first step of preparing a copper alloy powder containing more than 1.00 mass % and not more than 2.80 mass % of chromium and a balance of copper and a second step of producing the additively-manufactured article from the copper alloy powder, and the additively-manufactured article is produced such that forming a powder layer including the copper alloy powder, and solidifying the copper alloy powder at a predetermined position in the powder layer to form a shaped layer are sequentially repeated to stack such shaped layers to thus produce the additively-manufactured article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicants: DAIHEN CORPORATION, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ryusuke TSUBOTA, Yohei OKA, Akira OKAMOTO, Takayuki NAKAMOTO, Takahiro SUGAHARA, Naruaki SHINOMIYA, Mamoru TAKEMURA, Sohei UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210139238
    Abstract: An article storage device is provided for holding a plurality of standardized containers. The standardized containers extend between a bottom surface extending generally horizontally and a top surface spaced from and generally parallel to the bottom surface. The standardized containers further include an opening side perpendicular to the top and bottom surfaces and a door flange extending along the opening side and beyond the top surface. The standardized containers further include a lifting flange attached to the top surface for receiving a lifting tool. The standardized containers are disposed in the storage rack with their respective opening sides facing away from an access space for allowing a retrieval transport apparatus to move in a substantially horizontal plane between the access space to engage the lifting flange without being obstructed by the door flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Akira OKAMOTO, Kazuya OMORI
  • Patent number: 10981226
    Abstract: A copper alloy powder is a copper alloy powder for additive manufacturing. The copper alloy powder contains more than 1.00 mass % and not more than 2.80 mass % of chromium, and a balance of copper. A method for producing an additively-manufactured article includes a first step of preparing a copper alloy powder containing more than 1.00 mass % and not more than 2.80 mass % of chromium and a balance of copper and a second step of producing the additively-manufactured article from the copper alloy powder, and the additively-manufactured article is produced such that forming a powder layer including the copper alloy powder, and solidifying the copper alloy powder at a predetermined position in the powder layer to form a shaped layer are sequentially repeated to stack such shaped layers to thus produce the additively-manufactured article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: DAIHEN CORPORATION, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ryusuke Tsubota, Yohei Oka, Akira Okamoto, Takayuki Nakamoto, Takahiro Sugahara, Naruaki Shinomiya, Mamoru Takemura, Sohei Uchida
  • Patent number: 10979581
    Abstract: In the case where a voice control device can communicate with a printing apparatus and a display apparatus, a user is provided with visual presentations of notifications on the display apparatus where print processing instructions are provided to the printing apparatus based on user instructions issued to the voice control device by voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Okamoto, Takuho Taguchi, Ryohei Saito
  • Patent number: 10967431
    Abstract: A metal powder for additive manufacturing includes: not less than 0.2 mass % and not more than 1.3 mass % of aluminum; and a balance including copper and an incidental impurity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: DAIHEN CORPORATION, FUKUDA METAL FOIL & POWDER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Tsubota, Junichi Tanaka, Yohei Oka, Akira Okamoto, Masato Kikukawa, Hiroaki Okubo, Yoshito Nishizawa, Takeshi Maruyama, Motonori Nishida
  • Patent number: 10966057
    Abstract: A position identifying device calculates a plurality of estimated lines with base points at the monitoring devices and with radii equal to estimated distances from the monitoring devices to the wireless communication device, based on a transmission signal of a wireless communication device in a target area acquired from each of monitoring devices disposed around the target area, and, when first intersections of a standard estimated line with a base point at a standard monitoring device, and reference estimated lines with base points at reference monitoring devices, are located farther from the standard monitoring device than a virtual standard line connecting two of the reference monitoring devices, identifies, as a position of the wireless communication device, an inside of a first area inside the first intersections and second intersections of the virtual standard line and the reference estimated lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU CLIENT COMPUTING LIMITED
    Inventors: Keita Satou, Akira Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10959321
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes an indoor equipment, a wiring connected to the indoor equipment at one end, and a communication interface connected to another end of the wiring and electrically connected to the indoor equipment via the wiring. The communication interface includes a housing made of resin, an insertion hole formed in the housing and into which a communication module of a cartridge type is inserted, and a control board provided inside the housing. The communication interface includes a first connector provided on a board surface of the control board and electrically connected to the communication module. The communication interface includes a pattern wiring provided on the board surface and discharging static electricity from the communication module before the communication module is electrically connected to the first connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Hamamoto, Akira Okamoto, Akihisa Sato