Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Miyamoto

Hirofumi Miyamoto 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: 11316986
    Abstract: A second server apparatus that communicates with a printer that performs a print job and a smartphone that executes an application program of an SNS includes an acquisition unit that acquires print instruction information from the SNS, a job generation unit that generates the print job based on the print instruction information acquired by the acquisition unit, a notification unit that notifies the SNS of response information indicating that the print instruction information was accepted and job identification information for identifying the print job, a job transmission unit that transmits the print job to the printer, and a status acquisition unit that acquires status information indicating an execution status of the print job, and the notification unit notifies the SNS of the status information indicating the execution status of the print job acquired by the status acquisition unit and the job identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sera, Hirofumi Miyamoto, Ryosuke Kakio
  • Publication number: 20200344364
    Abstract: A second server apparatus that communicates with a printer that performs a print job and a smartphone that executes an application program of an SNS includes an acquisition unit that acquires print instruction information from the SNS, a job generation unit that generates the print job based on the print instruction information acquired by the acquisition unit, a notification unit that notifies the SNS of response information indicating that the print instruction information was accepted and job identification information for identifying the print job, a job transmission unit that transmits the print job to the printer, and a status acquisition unit that acquires status information indicating an execution status of the print job, and the notification unit notifies the SNS of the status information indicating the execution status of the print job acquired by the status acquisition unit and the job identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi SERA, Hirofumi MIYAMOTO, Ryosuke KAKIO
  • Patent number: 10649703
    Abstract: A printing control apparatus suppresses information leaking due to a print job being printed when the user is not at the printer. A printing control apparatus that connects to a terminal and a printer has: a communicator configured to receive from the terminal a specified-printer job, which is a print job for which the printer is designated as a print destination; and a controller. If the specified-printer job is not confidential, the controller sends print data based on the specified-printer job to a specified printer, which is the printer designated as the print destination in the specified-printer job. If the specified-printer job is confidential, the controller receives authentication information input to the printer from the printer and executes an authentication process based on the authentication information, and sends the print data to an authenticated printer according to a result of the authentication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Tadachi, Takeshi Okamoto, Hiromu Okada, Hirofumi Miyamoto, Kaoru Takemae
  • Patent number: 10584465
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body that includes a heat exchange room in which an opening portion facing a rear side is formed, and a rear passage extending in a width direction along a lower edge portion of the opening portion behind the opening portion, a cooling unit that is provided in the heat exchange room and includes a rear surface facing the rear side, and a blower unit that includes a fan rotationally driven and a movable shroud covering the fan from an outer peripheral side, and that is movable with respect to the vehicle body so that a movement region of the blower unit overlaps the rear passage between a closed position at which the blower unit faces the rear surface of the cooling unit from the rear side and an open position at which the blower unit exposes the rear surface of the cooling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Sakon, Yohei Seto, Hirofumi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10583866
    Abstract: A work vehicle comprising: a cab, an inside of which is a cockpit, having a window portion; a vehicle body having a passage on a periphery of the cab; a front lateral wiper provided so as to be rotatable around a first axis and along the window portion, and rotating around a second axis that extends in a different direction with the first axis in a movement range between a normal position that is in contact with the window portion and a rising position separated from the window portion; and a passage fence extending along an outer edge of the passage. The passage fence is configured to open upward with penetrating the passage fence inwardly and outwardly, and a part of the passage fence has an opening that includes the movement range of the front lateral wiper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Kobayashi, Hirofumi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10577775
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body which has a passage including a rear passage, and a movable fence rotatably supported to the vehicle body around a rotation axis which extends in a vertical direction between a normal position which extends in a width direction of the vehicle body along a rear edge of the rear passage and a retreat position which extends backward from the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Miyamoto, Yohei Seto
  • Patent number: 10480390
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a blower unit rotatably supported to a vehicle body between a closed position and an open position, and a position adjustment portion configured to adjust a vertical position of the blower unit when the blower unit is at the closed position. The position adjustment portion includes a first plate that is provided on the vehicle body and includes a first through portion vertically penetrating, a second plate that is provided on the blower unit, vertically penetrates, and includes a second through portion communicating with the first through portion from below when the blower unit is at the closed position, and an adjustment bolt that includes a shaft portion inserted into the first through portion and the second through portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20190163421
    Abstract: A printing control apparatus suppresses information leaking due to a print job being printed when the user is not at the printer. A printing control apparatus that connects to a terminal and a printer has: a communicator configured to receive from the terminal a specified-printer job, which is a print job for which the printer is designated as a print destination; and a controller. If the specified-printer job is not confidential, the controller sends print data based on the specified-printer job to a specified printer, which is the printer designated as the print destination in the specified-printer job. If the specified-printer job is confidential, the controller receives authentication information input to the printer from the printer and executes an authentication process based on the authentication information, and sends the print data to an authenticated printer according to a result of the authentication process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuki TADACHI, Takeshi OKAMOTO, Hiromu OKADA, Hirofumi MIYAMOTO, Kaoru TAKEMAE
  • Publication number: 20190023326
    Abstract: A work vehicle comprising: a cab, an inside of which is a cockpit, having a window portion; a vehicle body having a passage on a periphery of the cab; a front lateral wiper provided so as to be rotatable around a first axis and along the window portion, and rotating around a second axis that extends in a different direction with the first axis in a movement range between a normal position that is in contact with the window portion and a rising position separated from the window portion; and a passage fence extending along an outer edge of the passage. The passage fence is configured to open upward with penetrating the passage fence inwardly and outwardly, and a part of the passage fence has an opening that includes the movement range of the front lateral wiper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Takaya Kobayashi, Hirofumi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20180334119
    Abstract: A work vehicle is provided with a vehicle main body, an exterior plate which covers a part of the vehicle main body, an accommodating unit arranged around the exterior plate of the vehicle main body, a lid portion configured to close an inner space of the accommodating unit, and an opening/closing mechanism which couples the accommodating unit to the lid portion and is located on a side of an exterior plate to open/close the lid portion, wherein a first space is formed above an end on the side of the exterior plate of the lid portion and below the exterior plate in a state in which the lid portion opens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventor: Hirofumi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20180266303
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a blower unit rotatably supported to a vehicle body between a closed position and an open position, and a position adjustment portion configured to adjust a vertical position of the blower unit when the blower unit is at the closed position. The position adjustment portion includes a first plate that is provided on the vehicle body and includes a first through portion vertically penetrating, a second plate that is provided on the blower unit, vertically penetrates, and includes a second through portion communicating with the first through portion from below when the blower unit is at the closed position, and an adjustment bolt that includes a shaft portion inserted into the first through portion and the second through portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20180266075
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body which has a passage including a rear passage, and a movable fence rotatably supported to the vehicle body around a rotation axis which extends in a vertical direction between a normal position which extends in a width direction of the vehicle body along a rear edge of the rear passage and a retreat position which extends backward from the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi MIYAMOTO, Yohei SETO
  • Publication number: 20180266076
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body that includes a heat exchange room in which an opening portion facing a rear side is formed, and a rear passage extending in a width direction along a lower edge portion of the opening portion behind the opening portion, a cooling unit that is provided in the heat exchange room and includes a rear surface facing the rear side, and a blower unit that includes a fan rotationally driven and a movable shroud covering the fan from an outer peripheral side, and that is movable with respect to the vehicle body so that a movement region of the blower unit overlaps the rear passage between a closed position at which the blower unit faces the rear surface of the cooling unit from the rear side and an open position at which the blower unit exposes the rear surface of the cooling unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu SAKRON, Yohei SETO, Hirofumi MIYAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9794853
    Abstract: A wireless communication device performs a communication with a communication device wirelessly. The wireless communication device comprises a communication information acquisition unit, a selection unit, and a communication unit. The communication information acquisition unit acquires a communication information from the communication device using a short distance wireless communication, the communication information indicating a plurality of communication paths available to the communication device and other than the short distance wireless communication. The selection unit selects one of a plurality of communication paths other than the short distance wireless communication based on the communication information. The communication unit performs a communication with the communication device in the selected one of the plurality of communication paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hlroshi Matsumoto, Yutaka Akahori, Hirofumi Miyamoto, Norihiko Yamada
  • Patent number: 9642257
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a display area for displaying images and a non-display area other than the display area, a rigid board configured to connect with an external signal source, and a flexible board. The liquid crystal panel and the flexible board are arranged in a first direction. A direction perpendicular to the first direction and along a plate surface of the liquid crystal panel is a second direction. The flexible board is larger in a dimension in the second direction than the rigid board, and includes an end portion including at least an outer portion located outside of the rigid board in the second direction, and a middle portion located about a middle of the flexible board with respect to the end portion in the second direction. The end portion is larger in dimension in the first direction than the middle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Kuriyama, Hideki Morii, Hirofumi Miyamoto, Takayuki Mizunaga, Yuta Ueyama, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20170086122
    Abstract: A wireless communication device performs a communication with a communication device wirelessly. The wireless communication device comprises a communication information acquisition unit, a selection unit, and a communication unit. The communication information acquisition unit acquires a communication information from the communication device using a short distance wireless communication, the communication information indicating a plurality of communication paths available to the communication device and other than the short distance wireless communication. The selection unit selects one of a plurality of communication paths other than the short distance wireless communication based on the communication information. The communication unit performs a communication with the communication device in the selected one of the plurality of communication paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: HIroshi MATSUMOTO, Yutaka AKAHORI, Hirofumi MIYAMOTO, Norihiko YAMADA
  • Patent number: 9544712
    Abstract: To perform a communication by selecting an appropriate communication path when there are a plurality of communication paths between two wireless communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Yutaka Akahori, Hirofumi Miyamoto, Norihiko Yamada
  • Patent number: 9518491
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment device provided to an upper portion of an engine includes a right and left pair of first and second aftertreatment units, into which exhaust gas from the engine dividedly flows, each including a first exhaust gas emission control system on an upstream side, a second exhaust gas emission control system on a downstream side and a communication pipe through which the first and second systems are in communication with each other, the first and second systems, while being arranged side by side in a right-and-left direction, being oriented so that a flow direction of the exhaust gas flowing therein is parallel with a front-and-rear direction. When the device is seen in the front-and-rear direction, an outer linear envelope tangent to the first system and the communication pipe of each of the units extends upward while tilting toward a right-and-left center of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tsutsumi, Hirofumi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9476337
    Abstract: Two sets of assemblies are arranged such that a diesel particulate filter device of the assembly, a selective catalytic reduction device of the assembly, a selective catalytic reduction device of the assembly, and a diesel particulate filter device of the assembly are located next to each other in this order. Exhaust tubes are provided to extend upward from gas outlets of the selective catalytic reduction device of the assembly and the selective catalytic reduction device of the assembly. The two exhaust tubes are located on a virtual plane orthogonal to longitudinal directions of the selective catalytic reduction devices of the assemblies. Thereby, an air intake position for an engine can be easily set to a position from which exhaust gas from the engine is less likely to be taken in, in a configuration provided with two sets of assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Katsuhiro Tsutsumi, Hirofumi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9394817
    Abstract: In a working vehicle, an exhaust gas aftertreatment device is provided in an engine compartment that is adjacent to a cooling fan through which cooling air is supplied to a heat exchanger. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device includes a selective catalytic reduction device in which ammonia obtained from a urea aqueous solution is used as a reduction-causing agent. A urea aqueous solution pipe through which the urea aqueous solution is supplied is laid to the selective catalytic reduction device through the engine compartment. In the engine compartment, a pipeline-forming member having pipelines in which the urea aqueous solution pipe is installed. The cooling air sucked by a cooling fan flows into the pipelines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tsutsumi, Hirofumi Miyamoto