Patents by Inventor Daisuke Baba
Daisuke Baba 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: 9176414Abstract: A charging device for electrically charging a photosensitive member includes a charging member for electrically charging the photosensitive member by being supplied with a voltage, and a supporting member for supporting the charging member so as to press-contact to the photosensitive member. The charging member includes an electroconductive support, an elastic base layer supported by the electroconductive support, and an elastic surface layer, provided on a surface of the elastic base layer, being harder than the elastic base layer. The elastic surface layer is provided with projected portions and recessed portions. The projected portions are elastically deformable in contact with the photosensitive member, leaving electrically dischargeable gaps between the recessed portions of the elastic surface layer and the photosensitive member.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shun Sato, Daisuke Baba, Shuhei Kawasaki, Makoto Tokudome
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Publication number: 20150016843Abstract: A process cartridge detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member for forming a latent image; a charging member, press-contacted to the image bearing member at a predetermined urging force, for electrically charging the image bearing member by being supplied with a charging bias; a developing device for developing the latent image by supplying a polymerized toner to the image bearing member; and a cleaning blade for removing the polymerized toner deposited on the image bearing member in contact with the image bearing member. The charging member includes: an electroconductive support; one or more elastic layer formed around the electroconductive support; and projected portions and recessed portions provided on a surface of the charging member. The projected portions are elastically deformable in contact with the image bearing member, leaving electrically dischargeable gaps between the recessed portions of the charging member and the image bearing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Shuhei Kawasaki, Makoto Tokudome, Daisuke Baba, Shun Sato
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Publication number: 20150003873Abstract: A charging device for electrically charging a photosensitive member includes: a charging member for electrically charging the photosensitive member by being supplied with a voltage; and a supporting member for supporting the charging member so as to press-contact to the photosensitive member. The charging member includes: an electroconductive support; an elastic base layer supported by the electroconductive support; and an elastic surface layer, provided on a surface of the elastic base layer, being harder than the elastic base layer. The elastic surface layer is provided with projected portions and recessed portions. The projected portions are elastically deformable in contact with the photosensitive member, leaving electrically dischargeable gaps between the recessed portions of the elastic surface layer and the photosensitive member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Shun Sato, Daisuke Baba, Shuhei Kawasaki, Makoto Tokudome
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Publication number: 20140348556Abstract: A developing device configured to develop a latent image formed on an image bearing member includes a rotatable developing-agent bearing member configured to bear developing agent, a developing container configured to form a developing-agent storage chamber that stores the developing agent, a developing-agent regulating portion provided in the developing container to regulate an amount of the developing agent born on the developing-agent bearing member, a support portion configured to support the developing-agent bearing member movably relative to the developing-agent regulating portion, and a pressurizing member configured to pressurize the developing-agent bearing member toward the developing-agent regulating portion. A contact portion of the developing-agent regulating portion with the developing-agent bearing member is fixed to the developing container without forming a gap from the developing container on a downstream side in a pressurizing direction of the pressurizing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke Baba, Makoto Tokudome, Masao Uyama, Yuichiro Hirata, Kodai Hayashi, Keisuke Mochizuki, Norihito Naito
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Patent number: 8881124Abstract: According to the conventional loop parallelization method, when a loop in which a value of a loop-carried dependency variable can be calculated in all of the iterations without sequentially executing the loop from the start, it is determined that DOALL parallelization is not applicable due to the loop-carried dependency variable. Accordingly, the loop is sequentially executed or parallelized by using DOACROSS parallelization that executes a loop including a loop-carried dependency variable. That is, there is a problem that an expression including a loop-carried dependency cannot be parallelized and efficiently processed with use of a multi-processor. By generating initial value calculating codes, the loop-carried dependency in a source code prior to parallelization can be solved, and by dividing a loop included in the source code into subloops that can be executed in parallel, the multi-processor can efficiently process the source code.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Daisuke Baba
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Publication number: 20140009740Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: a main unit including a unit for observing or photographing an examinee's eye; a movable part in which the main unit is mounted; a vertical movement mechanism provided with a drive part to move the movable part up and down; an operating member to be operated by an examiner to move the movable part up and down; a sensing part to detect an operation signal of the operating member; and a driving control part to convert the operation signal detected by the sensing part to a drive signal to move the movable part up and down, and drive the drive part based on the drive signal, wherein the drive part includes a motor having a hollow portion about a rotation axis thereof, the motor being controlled by the driving control part to rotate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Kenichiro MAKINO, Hirokazu NAKAMURA, Daisuke BABA, Toshiya KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20140003845Abstract: A developing apparatus includes a developing container for accommodating the developer; a sleeve for carrying the developer to developing zone for developing a latent image; a developer regulator contacted to the sleeve to regulate a developer layer thickness on the sleeve; a developer feeding member contacted to the sleeve supply the developer to the sleeve; an urging member for urging the sleeve toward the developer regulator; and a moving mechanism for moving the sleeve in a first direction which is a direction in which the urging member urges the sleeve and in a second direction crossing with the first direction. The moving mechanism moves the sleeve in the second direction to reduce or remove press-contact forces applied by the developer regulator and the developer feeding member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Makoto Tokudome, Daisuke Baba, Yuichiro Hirata, Norihito Naito, Kodai Hayashi, Masao Uyama
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Patent number: 8620642Abstract: In embodiments of the invention, a system receives selections from a user based on a list of pre-defined monitoring categories and/or optionally receives custom category definitions from the user. The option for custom category definitions may be advantageous due to the flexibility provided to a system administrator or other user. In embodiments of the invention, the pre-defined and/or custom monitoring categories may be or include complex hierarchical behavior. Such an approach provides monitoring algorithms that can achieve improved accuracy compared to known methods. In embodiments of the invention, the order of computations used in resolving a monitoring category may be re-ordered, statically and/or dynamically, to improve the efficiency of monitoring operations.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Trustwave Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Baba, Charles Douglas Phillips
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Patent number: 8604946Abstract: A decoder reads an instruction for information specifying a bit sequence storage area, information indicating a first bit range, and information indicating a second bit range that is contiguous with the first bit range, then outputs a decoded signal in response to the information so read, and a bit manipulation circuit generates and outputs an output sequence based on a bit sequence stored in the bit sequence storage area by inserting uniform predetermined values between a first bit range and a second bit range in accordance with the decoded signal output from the decoder.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Daisuke Baba
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Publication number: 20130275718Abstract: Based on an input index sequence (702) composed of four indices (each having a bit width of 8 bits), a shift-copier generates an index sequence (902) by shifting each index leftward by 1 bit and making two copies of each index, and outputs the generated index sequence (902). An adder generates a shuffle pattern (703) by adding 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 and 0 to the indices in the index sequence (902) from left to right, and outputs the generated shuffle pattern (703).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Kyoko Ueda, Daisuke Baba
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Publication number: 20130038474Abstract: A decoder reads an instruction for information specifying a bit sequence storage area, information indicating a first bit range, and information indicating a second bit range that is contiguous with the first bit range, then outputs a decoded signal in response to the information so read, and a bit manipulation circuit generates and outputs an output sequence based on a bit sequence stored in the bit sequence storage area by inserting uniform predetermined values between a first bit range and a second bit range in accordance with the decoded signal output from the decoder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Inventor: Daisuke Baba
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Publication number: 20130024849Abstract: According to the conventional loop parallelization method, when a loop in which a value of a loop-carried dependency variable can be calculated in all of the iterations without sequentially executing the loop from the start, it is determined that DOALL parallelization is not applicable due to the loop-carried dependency variable. Accordingly, the loop is sequentially executed or parallelized by using DOACROSS parallelization that executes a loop including a loop-carried dependency variable. That is, there is a problem that an expression including a loop-carried dependency cannot be parallelized and efficiently processed with use of a multi-processor. By generating initial value calculating codes 411 and 421, the loop-carried dependency in a source code 400 prior to parallelization can be solved, and by dividing a loop included in the source code 400 into subloops 410 and 420 that can be executed in parallel, the multi-processor can efficiently process the source code 400.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: January 24, 2013Inventor: Daisuke Baba
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Patent number: 8320803Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container for accommodating a developer; a developer carrying member, provided rotatably in the developing container, for carrying and feeding the developer to develop an electrostatic image; a developer feeding member, including an elastic feeding portion and being rotatably provided in the developing container, for feeding the developer in the developing container toward the developer carrying member; and a circulation changing member for changing circulation of the developer in the neighborhood of the developer carrying member. In a plane perpendicular to a rotational axis of the developer carrying member, the circulation changing member is provided in a maximum rotation area of the developer feeding member so as to create a gap between itself and an entire inner surface of the developing container and a gap between itself and the developer carrying member.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Shinozaki, Daisuke Baba
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Publication number: 20120271626Abstract: In embodiments of the invention, a system receives selections from a user based on a list of pre-defined monitoring categories and/or optionally receives custom category definitions from the user. The option for custom category definitions may be advantageous due to the flexibility provided to a system administrator or other user. In embodiments of the invention, the pre-defined and/or custom monitoring categories may be or include complex hierarchical behavior. Such an approach provides monitoring algorithms that can achieve improved accuracy compared to known methods. In embodiments of the invention, the order of computations used in resolving a monitoring category may be re-ordered, statically and/or dynamically, to improve the efficiency of monitoring operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2012Publication date: October 25, 2012Inventors: Daisuke Baba, Charles Douglas Phillips
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Patent number: 8294598Abstract: The present invention is an electronic apparatus 100, from which a portable apparatus 10 is detachable, and which includes an information providing portion 200 for providing information to the portable apparatus 10, the electronic apparatus 100 including: a controller 140 which transmits to and receives from the portable apparatus 10 control information through a first communication line L1, and which controls restarting of the information providing portion 200 when the controller 140 receives from the portable apparatus 10 a signal indicating that a function of the information providing portion 200 stops.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu Ten LimitedInventors: Yukisuke Ozaki, Daisuke Baba
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Patent number: 8234328Abstract: In embodiments of the invention, a system receives selections from a user based on a list of pre-defined monitoring categories and/or optionally receives custom category definitions from the user. The option for custom category definitions may be advantageous due to the flexibility provided to a system administrator or other user. In embodiments of the invention, the pre-defined and/or custom monitoring categories may be or include complex hierarchical behavior. Such an approach provides monitoring algorithms that can achieve improved accuracy compared to known methods. In embodiments of the invention, the order of computations used in resolving a monitoring category may be re-ordered, statically and/or dynamically, to improve the efficiency of monitoring operations.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Trustwave Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Baba, Charles Douglas Phillips
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Publication number: 20110033210Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container for accommodating a developer; a developer carrying member, provided rotatably in the developing container, for carrying and feeding the developer to develop an electrostatic image; a developer feeding member, including an elastic feeding portion and being rotatably provided in the developing container, for feeding the developer in the developing container toward the developer carrying member; and a circulation changing member for changing circulation of the developer in the neighborhood of the developer carrying member. In a plane perpendicular to a rotational axis of the developer carrying member, the circulation changing member is provided in a maximum rotation area of the developer feeding member so as to create a gap between itself and an entire inner surface of the developing container and a gap between itself and the developer carrying member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Shinozaki, Daisuke Baba
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Publication number: 20100164755Abstract: The present invention is an electronic system and an electronic apparatus 100 from which a portable apparatus 10 is detachable, and which includes a controller 140 being capable of controlling controlled portions 134 and 135. The controller 140 recognizes a current mode of the controlled portions 134 and 135 when an operation signal is input to the controller from the portable apparatus 10, selects a control content on the basis of the current mode and the operation signal, and controls the controlled portion currently being controlled on the basis of the selected control content.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITEDInventors: Yukisuke Ozaki, Daisuke Baba
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Publication number: 20100134326Abstract: The present invention is an electronic apparatus 100, from which a portable apparatus 10 is detachable, and which includes an information providing portion 200 for providing information to the portable apparatus 10, the electronic apparatus 100 including: a controller 140 which transmits to and receives from the portable apparatus 10 control information through a first communication line L1, and which controls restarting of the information providing portion 200 when the controller 140 receives from the portable apparatus 10 a signal indicating that a function of the information providing portion 200 stops.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2008Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITEDInventors: Yukisuki Ozaki, Daisuke Baba
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Patent number: 7650104Abstract: A developing apparatus includes: a developing sleeve that carries a mono-component developer; and a developing blade that abuts on the sleeve to regulate a layer thickness of the developer on the sleeve, wherein surface roughness parameters of the sleeve satisfy: 3.0?Rpk?9.0; and 2?Pc2?10. At an abutment portion between the sleeve and the blade, surface roughness parameters of the blade satisfy: 0.030?Sm?0.170; and 0.10?Rvk×(100?Mr2)/100?1.30, where Sm is a mean spacing of profile irregularities [mm]; Rpk is an initial wear height [?m]; Rvk is an oil retaining depth [?m]; Mr2 is a profile bearing length ratio 2 [%]; and Pc2 denotes the number of profile peaks having a height larger than a count level from a center line per the evaluation length of 1 mm.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2007Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Daisuke Baba, Masahiro Yoshida