Patents by Inventor Akitoshi Suzuki

Akitoshi Suzuki 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: 10551206
    Abstract: A navigation server includes a network interface controller through which identification information and movement line information of a mobile terminal are received from the mobile terminal, the movement line information including location information and a timestamp, a storage device in which movement line data of the mobile terminal and location data of different places are stored, and a processor configured to extract the movement line data from the movement line information and record the extracted movement line data in the storage device. The processor, in response to a search criteria received from the mobile terminal through the network interface controller, generates using the movement line data and the location data of the different places, a navigation map that shows a place that is located along a route defined by the movement line data and meets the search criteria, and transmits the navigation map to the mobile terminal for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akitoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10534300
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first toner image forming unit for forming first toner image on a transfer belt with a first toner and a second toner image forming unit for forming a second toner image on the transfer belt with a second toner. A secondary transfer unit transfers the first and second toner images from the transfer belt to a sheet traveling in a sheet transport direction. A fixing unit fixes the first and second toner images to the sheet. A control unit controls the first toner image forming unit to form a first pattern, the second toner image forming unit to form a second pattern, and to leaving a margin on a upstream side of the sheet in the sheet transport direction that is greater than or equal to a circumferential distance of a fixing element in the fixing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akitoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10524390
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a top plate having a first surface and a second surface that is positioned at an elevation that is lower than an elevation of the first surface, the second surface extending from a first end part of the top plate to a second end part of the top plate, a bottom plate provided under the top plate, and a circuit board placed between the top plate and the bottom plate and mounted with an electronic component. The top plate has opposing first and second edges and opposing third and fourth edges that are perpendicular to the first and the second edges, the first end part being formed at the first edge and the second end part being formed at the second edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Akitoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10512182
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a printed circuit board including a plurality of devices that include a nonvolatile memory package and a controller package configured to control the nonvolatile memory package, and a housing accommodating the printed circuit board. The housing includes an opening on a surface constituting the housing. An encryption device among the plurality of devices is present in a first region. The first region is a region on the printed circuit board that is not irradiated with light emitted from a light source placed at the opening. The encryption device is a device used for an encryption process of data to be stored into the nonvolatile memory package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Akitoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190246489
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a top plate, a bottom plate provided under the top plate, a circuit board provided between the top plate and the bottom plate, an electronic component disposed on the circuit board, and an intermediate plate provided between the top plate and the circuit board. The intermediate plate is configured to provide a clearance between the top plate and intermediate plate, or between the circuit board and the intermediate plate. The intermediate plate is further configured to allow an air flow from a first end portion to a second end portion of the top plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi SUZUKI, Yoshiharu MATSUDA, Kazuhiro YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20190227465
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a first image forming section configured to form an image using a first toner, a second image forming section configured to form an image using a second toner, a controller configured to transfer a first toner image formed with the first toner by the first image forming section and a second toner image formed with the second toner by the second image forming section onto a medium, and a fixing device configured to perform a fixing process on the medium onto which the first toner image and the second toner image are transferred. The first toner image and the second toner image have a same pattern and are transferred onto the medium so as to be shifted with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Akitoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190187449
    Abstract: The total internal reflection microscope has an illumination optical system that relays light from a light source with a relay optical system, forms an image of the light source on the incident pupil plane of the objective lens and irradiates a sample with the illumination light via an objective lens, has an angle adjustment mirror for changing the position of the image of the light source in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis, an optical detector for detecting the intensity of the returning illumination light reflected by the sample and collected by the objective lens, and a controller for determining the operation amount of the angle adjustment mirror, wherein the controller determines the operation amount of the angle adjustment mirror so that the illumination light is totally reflected at the sample based on the change in intensity of the returning light when the angle adjustment mirror is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki MORITA, Akitoshi SUZUKI, Tomoko KOBAYASHI, Keita MASUDA
  • Patent number: 10314160
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a top plate, a bottom plate provided under the top plate, a circuit board provided between the top plate and the bottom plate, an electronic component disposed on the circuit board, and an intermediate plate provided between the top plate and the circuit board. The intermediate plate is configured to provide a clearance between the top plate and intermediate plate, or between the circuit board and the intermediate plate. The intermediate plate is further configured to allow an air flow from a first end portion to a second end portion of the top plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi Suzuki, Yoshiharu Matsuda, Kazuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10241312
    Abstract: The total internal reflection microscope has an illumination optical system that relays light from a light source with a relay optical system, forms an image of the light source on the incident pupil plane of the objective lens and irradiates a sample with the illumination light via an objective lens, has an angle adjustment mirror for changing the position of the image of the light source in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis, an optical detector for detecting the intensity of the returning illumination light reflected by the sample and collected by the objective lens, and a controller for determining the operation amount of the angle adjustment mirror, wherein the controller determines the operation amount of the angle adjustment mirror so that the illumination light is totally reflected at the sample based on the change in intensity of the returning light when the angle adjustment mirror is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Morita, Akitoshi Suzuki, Tomoko Kobayashi, Keita Masuda
  • Publication number: 20180329349
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first toner image forming unit for forming first toner image on a transfer belt with a first toner and a second toner image forming unit for forming a second toner image on the transfer belt with a second toner. A secondary transfer unit transfers the first and second toner images from the transfer belt to a sheet traveling in a sheet transport direction. A fixing unit fixes the first and second toner images to the sheet. A control unit controls the first toner image forming unit to form a first pattern, the second toner image forming unit to form a second pattern, and to leaving a margin on a downstream side of the sheet in the sheet transport direction that is greater than or equal to a circumferential distance of a fixing element in the fixing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akitoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180302527
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a sensor and a controller. The sensor detects a Light for scanning a scanning area to synchronize a main scanning direction in the scanning area. The controller corrects a deviation amount of the main scanning direction by setting a print termination position of the light in the main scanning direction as a reference position based on a detection result of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akitoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180270943
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a top plate, a bottom plate provided under the top plate, a circuit board provided between the top plate and the bottom plate, an electronic component disposed on the circuit board, and an intermediate plate provided between the top plate and the circuit board. The intermediate plate is configured to provide a clearance between the top plate and intermediate plate, or between the circuit board and the intermediate plate. The intermediate plate is further configured to allow an air flow from a first end portion to a second end portion of the top plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi SUZUKI, Yoshiharu MATSUDA, Kazuhiro YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180270991
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a top plate having a first surface and a second surface that is positioned at an elevation that is lower than an elevation of the first surface, the second surface extending from a first end part of the top plate to a second end part of the top plate, a bottom plate provided under the top plate, and a circuit board placed between the top plate and the bottom plate and mounted with an electronic component. The top plate has opposing first and second edges and opposing third and fourth edges that are perpendicular to the first and the second edges, the first end part being formed at the first edge and the second end part being formed at the second edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Akitoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180242469
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a printed circuit board including a plurality of devices that include a nonvolatile memory package and a controller package configured to control the nonvolatile memory package, and a housing accommodating the printed circuit board. The housing includes an opening on a surface constituting the housing. An encryption device among the plurality of devices is present in a first region. The first region is a region on the printed circuit board that is not irradiated with light emitted from a light source placed at the opening. The encryption device is a device used for an encryption process of data to be stored into the nonvolatile memory package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Akitoshi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9966608
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrodeposited copper foil having a tensile strength of at least 300 MPa and elongation rate of at least 3.0% after heat treatment at 350° C. for 1 hour and provides a copper foil which prevents the breakage of a current collector (copper foil) while maintaining adhesiveness between the current collector (copper foil) and the active material in response to substantial expansion and contraction of a Si or Sn alloy-based active material. The foil is an electrodeposited copper foil having a roughened surface, the tensile strength of the copper foil being at least 300 MPa after heating at 350° C. for 1 hour, the elongation rate being at least 3.0% after heating at 350° C. for 1 hour, and respective surface area ratios (actual surface area/geometric surface area) of both sides of the copper foil (the side that is roughened and the side that is not roughened) being from 1.6 to 2.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensaku Shinozaki, Akitoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180087921
    Abstract: A navigation server includes a network interface controller through which identification information and movement line information of a mobile terminal are received from the mobile terminal, the movement line information including location information and a timestamp, a storage device in which movement line data of the mobile terminal and location data of different places are stored, and a processor configured to extract the movement line data from the movement line information and record the extracted movement line data in the storage device. The processor, in response to a search criteria received from the mobile terminal through the network interface controller, generates using the movement line data and the location data of the different places, a navigation map that shows a place that is located along a route defined by the movement line data and meets the search criteria, and transmits the navigation map to the mobile terminal for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: Akitoshi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9890463
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrolytic copper alloy foil having large mechanical strength in an ordinary state and showing resistant to heat deterioration even when it is heated to 300° C. or more. That electrolytic copper alloy foil, which contains tungsten copper, preferably incorporates tungsten into copper foil as a copper alloy, has a tensile strength at ordinary temperature of 650 MPa, has a tensile strength after heat treatment at 300° C. for 1 hour of 450 MPa or more, and has a conductivity of 80% or more. Further preferably, the electrolytic copper foil has an elongation at ordinary temperature of 2.5% or more and an elongation after treatment at 300° C. for 1 hour of 3.5% or more. The electrolytic copper foil is produced by adding a thiourea compound, tungsten salt, and chloride ions to a sulfuric acid-copper sulfate electrolyte and performing electrolytic deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Akitoshi Suzuki, Kensaku Shinozaki, Kimiko Fujisawa, Takahiro Tsuruta, Takeshi Ezura, Jun Shinozaki, Masato Ebisugi, Hirokazu Sasaki, Satoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9867297
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes an enclosure, and a circuit board assembly in the enclosure. The circuit board assembly includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board opposed to the first circuit board, a third circuit board opposed to the second circuit board, a first connector connecting the first and second circuit boards to each other, a second connector connecting the second and third circuit boards to each other, and is offset to the first connector in a plane direction, a first spacer between the first and second circuit boards, and a second spacer between the second and third circuit boards. The first spacer includes a support body at a position opposed to the second connector and in contact with the first and second circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi Suzuki, Yoshiharu Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9807899
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes an enclosure, and a circuit board assembly in the enclosure. The circuit board assembly includes a first circuit board on which a heat-producing component is mounted, a second circuit board, a third circuit board, a first connector connecting the first and second circuit boards, a second connector connecting the second and third circuit boards, a first spacer sandwiched between the first and second circuit boards, and a second spacer sandwiched between the second and third circuit boards. The first spacer includes a spacer frame, a partition member opposed to the heat-producing component with a gap between, and a thermal transfer member attached to the partition member and in contact with the first circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Matsuda, Akitoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20170188473
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes an enclosure, and a circuit board assembly in the enclosure. The circuit board assembly includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board opposed to the first circuit board, a third circuit board opposed to the second circuit board, a first connector connecting the first and second circuit boards to each other, a second connector connecting the second and third circuit boards to each other, and is offset to the first connector in a plane direction, a first spacer between the first and second circuit boards, and a second spacer between the second and third circuit boards. The first spacer includes a support body at a position opposed to the second connector and in contact with the first and second circuit boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akitoshi SUZUKI, Yoshiharu MATSUDA