Patents by Inventor Hidetoshi Masuda

Hidetoshi Masuda 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: 20210306519
    Abstract: A control portion performs a predetermined detection process on a first image from a first reading portion and a second image from a second reading portion. When the detection process on the each image is successful, the control portion performs, based on a value of an image processing variable specified from a detection result, predetermined image processing on the each image, When the detection process on the image of one side fails, a value of an image processing variable for the image of one side is specified based on a value of an image processing variable specified from the detection result for the image of the other side for which detection is successful. Based on the specified value of the image processing variable, image processing is performed on the image of one side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Hidetoshi MASUDA
  • Patent number: 10940706
    Abstract: A medium transport apparatus includes a feeding section configured to nip a medium and feed the medium in a transport direction, a sensor disposed to face a side of the medium being transported in the transport direction, the sensor being configured to detect motion of the medium, and a control unit configured to stop the transport of the medium based on a detection value received from the sensor, in which during a period including a time at which a leading edge of the medium is nipped by the feeding section, the control unit continues transporting the medium irrespective of the detection value from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiota, Seiji Eguchi, Hidetoshi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20210067644
    Abstract: A medium transporting apparatus includes a feeding roller that rotates to transport a medium along a transportation path, an electrode installed downstream of the feeding roller on the transportation path and having conductivity, and an electric charge detecting circuit that outputs a signal having a magnitude corresponding to an amount of an electric charge, which moves from the medium to the electrode after the medium being transported along the transportation path comes into contact with the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yusuke FUKASAWA, Hidetoshi MASUDA, Yasunori FUKUMITSU
  • Publication number: 20200172370
    Abstract: There is provided a medium transporting device including: a medium placement section on which a medium is placed, a feeding roller feeding a medium from the medium placement section, a motion detection sensor detects a motion of a medium, and a controller that stops feeding of a medium based on a detection value received from the motion detection sensor, in which the motion detection sensor is a two-dimensional sensor including a light emitting section and a light receiving section and detecting a motion of a medium, the medium placement section is provided with a placement detector that acquires information relating to a presence/absence of a medium on the medium placement section, and the controller sets a state of the light emitting section to a non-light emitting state when detection information of the placement detector indicates that a medium is absent on the medium placement section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Seiji EGUCHI, Takayuki SHIOTA, Hidetoshi MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20200171856
    Abstract: A medium transport apparatus includes a feeding section configured to nip a medium and feed the medium in a transport direction, a sensor disposed to face a side of the medium being transported in the transport direction, the sensor being configured to detect motion of the medium, and a control unit configured to stop the transport of the medium based on a detection value received from the sensor, in which during a period including a time at which a leading edge of the medium is nipped by the feeding section, the control unit continues transporting the medium irrespective of the detection value from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Takayuki SHIOTA, Seiji EGUCHI, Hidetoshi MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20200005999
    Abstract: A trench capacitor according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a base member with an upper surface having a plurality of trenches provided therein and an MIM structure provided on the base member so as to be embedded in the plurality of trenches. In the embodiment, the plurality of trenches include a first trench and a second trench adjacent to the first trench in a first direction orthogonal to a depth direction of the plurality of trenches. The base member includes a first wall separating the first trench from the second trench. The first wall includes a first portion having an acute angle at a distal end thereof in a section including the first direction and the depth direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hidetoshi MASUDA, Yoshinari TAKE
  • Patent number: 10389900
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus is provided with a reader which reads a document, a transport roller which is provided on an upstream side of the reader in a document transport path in which the document is transported and transports the document to a reading position of the reader, and a controller which receives reading data of the reader and controls the transport roller, in which the controller receives the reading data from the reader to acquire a form of the document, and selects whether or not to stop driving of the transport roller based on the form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Arimori, Hidetoshi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20180220021
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus is provided with a reader which reads a document, a transport roller which is provided on an upstream side of the reader in a document transport path in which the document is transported and transports the document to a reading position of the reader, and a controller which receives reading data of the reader and controls the transport roller, in which the controller receives the reading data from the reader to acquire a form of the document, and selects whether or not to stop driving of the transport roller based on the form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiko ARIMORI, Hidetoshi MASUDA
  • Patent number: 9818537
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, first inner electrodes, second inner electrodes, a first external power electrode layer, a second external power electrode layer, a first outer electrode, and a second outer electrode. The first and second inner electrodes and first and second second outer electrodes are a conductive material. The dielectric layer has through-holes connecting with a first main surface and a second main surface. The first inner electrodes are in a first set of the through-holes and connected to the first conductive layer. The second inner electrodes are in a second set of the through-holes and connected to the second conductive layer. The first outer electrode is on the first external power electrode layer and some side-faces of the dielectric layer. The second outer electrode is on the second external power electrode layer and some side-faces of the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20160233025
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, first inner electrodes, second inner electrodes, a first external power electrode layer, a second external power electrode layer, a first outer electrode, and a second outer electrode. The first and second inner electrodes and first and second second outer electrodes are a conductive material. The dielectric layer has through-holes connecting with a first main surface and a second main surface. The first inner electrodes are in a first set of the through-holes and connected to the first conductive layer. The second inner electrodes are in a second set of the through-holes and connected to the second conductive layer. The first outer electrode is on the first external power electrode layer and some side-faces of the dielectric layer. The second outer electrode is on the second external power electrode layer and some side-faces of the dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20160233026
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer, through-holes, a first external electrode layer, a second external electrode layer, first internal electrodes, and second internal electrodes. The dielectric layer is formed by anodic oxidation of metal. The through-holes are a plurality of through-holes that communicate with a first surface of the dielectric layer and a second surface that is the opposite side of the first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi MASUDA
  • Patent number: 9299495
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer having a first plane, a second plane opposite to the first plane, and a plurality of through-holes communicated with the first and second planes; a first external electrode layer disposed on the first plane; a second external electrode layer disposed on the second plane; a first internal electrode having first and second electrode portions, the first and second electrode portions being formed of a first conductive material, and a second conductive material, respectively, the second electrode material connecting the first electrode portion with the first external electrode layer, the second conductive material having a smaller Young's modulus than the first conductive material, the first internal electrode being formed in a part of the plurality of through-holes; and a second internal electrode formed in another part of the plurality of through-holes, the second internal electrode being connected to the second external electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 9230742
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer having a first plane, a second plane opposite to the first plane, and first and second through-holes communicated with the first plane and the second plane; a first external conductor layer disposed on the first plane; a second external conductor layer disposed on the second plane; a first internal electrode formed in the first through-hole, connected to the first external electrode layer, disposed in the second hole diameter part at a tip and separated from the second external electrode layer; and a second internal electrode formed in the second through-hole, connected to the second external electrode layer, and separated from the first external electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 9214277
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer, a first external electrode layer, a second external electrode layer, a first internal electrode portion, a second internal electrode portion, and a close contact portion. The dielectric layer includes a first surface, a second surface facing the first surface, and a plurality of through-holes communicating between the first surface and the second surface. The first internal electrode portion is provided on a first through-hole portion. The second internal electrode portion is provided on a second through-hole portion. The close contact portion brings at least one of the first external electrode layer and the second external electrode layer into close contact with the dielectric layer, the close contact portion being provided on a third through-hole portion, the third through-hole portion being the remaining portion of the plurality of through-holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Masuda, Yoshinari Take
  • Patent number: 9161438
    Abstract: A stress buffer sheet 10 is constituted by arranging external conductive layers 16A and 16B on the front and rear main surfaces of a through electrode layer 13. Columnar internal electrodes 14 are formed using a porous oxide base material 30 formed by anodic oxidation of valve metal; the oxide base material 30 is selectively removed after the internal electrodes 14 have been formed, and a resin 12 is filled in a resultant void space. The resin 12 has a small Young's modulus and can be deformed together with the internal electrode 14. In a structure having a wiring board 20 and an electronic component 24 connected through the stress buffer sheet 10, when stress acts on the joint portion during mounting of the electronic component 24, the whole of the through electrode layer 13 is deformed so that the stress is absorbed or released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20150287534
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer having a first plane, a second plane opposite to the first plane, and first and second through-holes communicated with the first plane and the second plane; a first external conductor layer disposed on the first plane; a second external conductor layer disposed on the second plane; a first internal electrode formed in the first through-hole, connected to the first external electrode layer, disposed in the second hole diameter part at a tip and separated from the second external electrode layer; and a second internal electrode formed in the second through-hole, connected to the second external electrode layer, and separated from the first external electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 9082548
    Abstract: One object is to provide a porous capacitor having an improved mechanical strength and a method of manufacturing the porous capacitor. In accordance with one aspect, the porous capacitor has a first conductor layer a second conductor layer opposed to each other at a certain distance, a dielectric layer made of an oxidized valve metal and disposed between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer, a large number of holes in the dielectric layer substantially orthogonal to the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer, first and second electrodes made of a conductive material filled in the holes, insulators for electrically insulating the first electrodes from the second conductor layer and the second electrodes from the first conductor layer, wherein the levels of the ends of the first and/or second electrodes electrically insulated from the second and/or first conductor layers are uneven with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 9076595
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer having a first plane, a second plane opposite to the first plane, and first and second through-holes communicated with the first plane and the second plane; a first external conductor layer disposed on the first plane; a second external conductor layer disposed on the second plane; a first internal electrode formed in the first through-hole, connected to the first external electrode layer, disposed in the second hole diameter part at a tip and separated from the second external electrode layer; and a second internal electrode formed in the second through-hole, connected to the second external electrode layer, and separated from the first external electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 9007741
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer, a first external electrode layer, a second external electrode layer, a first internal electrode portion, a second internal electrode portion, and an adsorbing portion. The first internal electrode portion is provided on a first through-hole portion, one end of the first internal electrode portion being connected to the first external electrode layer. The second internal electrode portion is provided on a second through-hole portion, one end of the second internal electrode portion being connected to the second external electrode layer. The adsorbing portion adsorbs the first external electrode layer and the second external electrode layer, the adsorbing portion being provided on a third through-hole portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Masuda, Yoshinari Take
  • Patent number: 8964090
    Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling an image capture apparatus includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit transmits a first command to the image capture apparatus if a predetermined area in a captured image received from the image capture apparatus and a pointer operated by an operation unit are overlapped. The communication unit transmits a second command to the image capture apparatus if a button of the operation unit is clicked in a state that the predetermined area and the pointer are overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Masuda, Toshiaki Ueguri