Patents by Inventor Hiroki Koyama
Hiroki Koyama 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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Publication number: 20240083600Abstract: An extensible boom is extended in an extension direction from a state of being rolled in a cylindrical form, the extension direction being one of short directions of the cylindrical form. Protruding portions and recessed portions are alternately formed at each of one end and another end in a long direction of the cylindrical form. The protruding portions at the one end are located opposite the recessed portions at the other end. The recessed portions at the one end are located opposite the protruding portions at the other end. When the extensible boom is extended along the extension direction, the protruding portions at the one end engage with the recessed portions at the other end, and the recessed portions at the one end engage with the protruding portions at the other end, such that a cylindrical shape is formed along the extension direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tatsuya KOYAMA, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Kazunori TAKAGAKI
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Publication number: 20230122113Abstract: A medium placing device (feeding tray) includes a placement unit, a regulation unit (edge guide), a displacement unit, a detection unit, and an adjustment unit. The regulation unit (edge guide) includes a first regulation member (first edge guide) and a second regulation member (second edge guide). The displacement unit is capable of moving the first regulation member (first edge guide) and the second regulation member (second edge guide) in directions opposite to each other along a first direction. The detection unit is provided between the placement unit and the adjustment unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventor: Hiroki KOYAMA
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Patent number: 11134199Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device, a display device including, in a finder loupe visual field, an image display region and an image display outside region, and a display controller configured to control the display device. The display controller determines a difficulty degree of visibility of a boundary between the image display region and the image display outside region and controls the display device to draw a boundary display when the difficulty degree is equal to or larger than a predetermined value and not to draw the boundary display when the difficulty degree is smaller than the predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Hiroki Kudo, Kazuki Sakurai, Hiroki Koyama, Takeshi Suzuki, Keiji Kunishige
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Publication number: 20210195116Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device, a display device including, in a finder loupe visual field, an image display region and an image display outside region, and a display controller configured to control the display device. The display controller determines a difficulty degree of visibility of a boundary between the image display region and the image display outside region and controls the display device to draw a boundary display when the difficulty degree is equal to or larger than a predetermined value and not to draw the boundary display when the difficulty degree is smaller than the predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Hiroki KUDO, Kazuki SAKURAI, Hiroki KOYAMA, Takeshi SUZUKI, Keiji KUNISHIGE
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Patent number: 10858135Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a production or manufacturing apparatus that performs processing for sequentially producing an item to be produced through units arranged in a line, includes: a physical quantity acquirer that acquires a physical quantity representing a state of processing in a unit subjected to monitoring for each cycle, the cycle being defined as unit processing time of processing performed by each unit; an abnormality determiner that determines occurrence of an abnormality in the unit, based on the physical quantity or a feature value extracted from the physical quantity; and a control instructor that specifies, when it is determined that an abnormality occurs in the unit, a cycle during which a downstream unit performs processing on an item to be produced that is affected by the abnormality, and perform control so that abnormality handling processing is performed as processing in the specified cycle by the downstream unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Reiko Hattori, Akira Nakajima, Hiroki Koyama
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Publication number: 20200031144Abstract: A printing device includes a print section. A main unit, which has a supply port via which the medium is to be inserted on its upper surface. The medium inserted via the supply port is to be guided to the print section along an upper feeding route. This upper feeding route has a first curve at its midway point. Positioned below the main unit is a medium storage section that accommodates a medium. The medium accommodated in the medium storage section is to be guided to the print section along a lower feeding route. This lower feeding route has a second curve at its midway point, where the medium is to be turned around. The main unit includes: a first cover that allows the upper feeding route to be exposed; and a second cover that allows the lower feeding route to be exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Masakazu ISHIHARA, Hiroki KOYAMA
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Publication number: 20190181025Abstract: A monitoring system according to an aspect may construct a predictive model that predicts a value of a removal amount depending on values of an accumulated operating time and an accumulated number of processed wafers, based on learning data; acquires actual values of the accumulated operating time, the accumulated number of processed wafers, and the removal amount with respect to a wet etching apparatus when it is in operation; calculates a predicted value of the removal amount by inputting the acquired actual values of the accumulated operating time and the accumulated number of processed wafers to the predictive model; calculates the difference between the predicted value and the actual value of the removal amount, as an indicator value serving as a measure of how necessary it is to replace a chemical solution; and outputs information regarding replacement of the chemical solution based on the calculated indicator value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yuya OTA, Toru FUJII, Shin EGAMI, Kosuke TSURUTA, Hiroki KOYAMA
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Publication number: 20190143741Abstract: Writing equipment includes a cylinder-shaped body having a lead and a lead tank, and an arch-shaped scale on which scale marks are printed, wherein the scale is coupled with the body detachably, and wherein the scale is formed with the particular angle, which is same as that of a curve of the cylinder-shaped body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2019Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Masahiro Nakano, Kako Fukuda, Kenta Domeki, Hiroki Koyama, Ayano Fujii, Yosuke Saito, Shun Ohyama, Ayumi Watanabe, Shotaro Nishiyone
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Patent number: 10180724Abstract: An operating terminal operates an external device for projecting and retracting a part of the external device, and includes: a display unit that displays an image; a touch panel on the display unit, and configured to detect a touched area of an object and to receive a position signal in response to the touched area; a determining unit that determines a change of the touched area on the touch panel, based on the position signal; a detecting unit that detects a boundary of areas having different features in the touched area in the image; and a signal generating unit that generates a drive signal indicating a drive amount for causing the part of the external device to be projected and retracted, based on a determination result by the determining unit and a detection result by the detecting unit, and outputs the drive signal to the external device.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Mishio, Hiroki Koyama, Yoshihisa Ogata, Naohisa Nakada
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Publication number: 20180297731Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a production or manufacturing apparatus that performs processing for sequentially producing an item to be produced through units arranged in a line, includes: a physical quantity acquirer that acquires a physical quantity representing a state of processing in a unit subjected to monitoring for each cycle, the cycle being defined as unit processing time of processing performed by each unit; an abnormality determiner that determines occurrence of an abnormality in the unit, based on the physical quantity or a feature value extracted from the physical quantity; and a control instructor that specifies, when it is determined that an abnormality occurs in the unit, a cycle during which a downstream unit performs processing on an item to be produced that is affected by the abnormality, and perform control so that abnormality handling processing is performed as processing in the specified cycle by the downstream unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Reiko HATTORI, Akira NAKAJIMA, Hiroki KOYAMA
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Patent number: 9931915Abstract: A sliding member includes a casing and a plate spring. The plate spring is placed in a middle accommodating portion of the casing between front and rear portions of a middle lower wall portion and a protruding portion of a middle upper wall portion constructed by a mountain-shaped wall portion and the protruding portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: HOWA TEXTILE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Sawai, Hiroki Koyama
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Publication number: 20170066308Abstract: A sliding member includes a casing and a plate spring. The plate spring is placed in a middle accommodating portion of the casing between front and rear portions of a middle lower wall portion and a protruding portion of a middle upper wall portion constructed by a mountain-shaped wall portion and the protruding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: HOWA TEXTILE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro SAWAI, Hiroki KOYAMA
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Publication number: 20150316989Abstract: An operating terminal operates an external device for projecting and retracting a part of the external device, and includes: a display unit that displays an image; a touch panel on the display unit, and configured to detect a touched area of an object and to receive a position signal in response to the touched area; a determining unit that determines a change of the touched area on the touch panel, based on the position signal; a detecting unit that detects a boundary of areas having different features in the touched area in the image; and a signal generating unit that generates a drive signal indicating a drive amount for causing the part of the external device to be projected and retracted, based on a determination result by the determining unit and a detection result by the detecting unit, and outputs the drive signal to the external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki MISHIO, Hiroki KOYAMA, Yoshihisa OGATA, Naohisa NAKADA
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Publication number: 20120128349Abstract: In a PON system having a station side apparatus (OLT) and plural home side apparatuses (ONUs), the station side apparatus includes an uplink frame transfer processing part controlling frame transfer from the home side apparatus to the station side apparatus, a transfer database managing the destination of frame transfer from the station side apparatus to the plural home side apparatuses, a statistical counter part counting transfer data amount for each user, and a user usage state management part managing the user usage situation. The user usage state management part determines the user usage situation (used/unused) based on the state monitoring result of any one or all of parts described above, switches the operation of the uplink frame transfer control part depending on the usage situation and adjusts DBA control frame amount between the station side apparatus and the home side apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Inventors: Daiji MITSUNAGA, Hiroki Koyama, Michiaki Moriya, Tomoki Yamashita
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Patent number: 7751702Abstract: The digital camera capable of printing shot images by directly connecting a digital camera to the printing device, and even if the printing device does not support at least one of the index printing and the multiple printing, a synthetic image corresponding to the printing mode not supported by the printing device is generated by the digital camera and is sent to the printing device. Thereby, even if the printing device does not support one of, or both of the index printing and the multiple printing, the index printing and/or the multiple printing can be conducted.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2006Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventor: Hiroki Koyama
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Patent number: 7335618Abstract: A heavy oil is hydrorefined using a hydrorefining catalyst. A spent hydrorefining catalyst whose activity has decreased is heat treated (S1) and pulverized to obtained a regenerated powder (S2). This regenerated powder is fractionated according to its metal content (S3), formed (S6), dried (S7), and calcined (S7) to manufacture a regenerated catalyst whose volume of pores with a diameter of 50 to 2000 nm is at least 0.2 ml/g, and whose volume of pores with a diameter over 2000 nm is no more than 0.1 mL/g. Using this regenerated catalyst, a heavy oil containing at least 45 wt ppm vanadium and nickel as combined metal elements is hydrodemetalized, and the vanadium and nickel are recovered from the used regenerated catalyst (SS1). Through hydrorefining, the metal components are recovered more efficiently, and the spent catalyst can be reused to manufacture a regenerated catalyst that exhibits high reaction, activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2002Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Japan Energy CorporationInventors: Hiroki Koyama, Toru Saito, Yoshiki Iwata, Chikanori Nakaoka
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Publication number: 20060269280Abstract: The digital camera capable of printing shot images by directly connecting a digital camera to the printing device, and even if the printing device does not support at least one of the index printing and the multiple printing, a synthetic image corresponding to the printing mode not supported by the printing device is generated by the digital camera and is sent to the printing device. Thereby, even if the printing device does not support one of, or both of the index printing and the multiple printing, the index printing and/or the multiple printing can be conducted.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2006Publication date: November 30, 2006Applicant: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventor: Hiroki Koyama
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Publication number: 20060258531Abstract: A heavy oil is hydrorefined using a hydrorefining catalyst. A spent hydrorefining catalyst whose activity has decreased is heat treated (S1) and pulverized to obtained a regenerated powder (S2). This regenerated powder is fractionated according to its metal content (S3), formed (S6), dried (S7), and calcined (S7) to manufacture a regenerated catalyst whose volume of pores with a diameter of 50 to 2000 nm is at least 0.2 ml/g, and whose volume of pores with a diameter over 2000 nm is no more than 0.1 mL/g. Using this regenerated catalyst, a heavy oil containing at least 45 wt ppm vanadium and nickel as combined metal elements is hydrodemetalized, and the vanadium and nickel are recovered from the used regenerated catalyst (SS1). Through hydrorefining, the metal components are recovered more efficiently, and the spent catalyst can be reused to manufacture a regenerated catalyst that exhibits high reaction activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2006Publication date: November 16, 2006Inventors: Hiroki Koyama, Toru Saito, Yoshiki Iwata, Chikanori Nakaoka
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Patent number: 7001503Abstract: A unit for hydrorefining of hydrocarbon crude oil comprising sulfur-containing compounds comprises first catalyst layer 33 and second catalyst layer 38, top space 34 for separating vapor component and liquid component, bottom space 36, and valve tray 35 that divides top space 34 and bottom space 36. Hydrogen released from hydrogen nozzle 40 placed in the bottom space is passed through liquid component that has accumulated in the valve tray and stripping of liquid components is performed. Hydrogen released from hydrogen nozzle 40 is again introduced, to second catalyst layer 38 as a cocurrent with the stripped liquid component. By stripping, it is possible to reduce the sulfur content, the nitrogen content and reduce the aromatic content of the hydrocarbon crude oil when compared to the conventional method. Since the hydrorefining unit has a simple structure, the unit can be easily made by modifying existing units.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2000Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Japan Energy CorporationInventors: Hiroki Koyama, Yuichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 6858132Abstract: A heavy oil hydrorefining catalyst of the present invention is such that the total volume of pores with a diameter of 60 nm or less is at least 0.5 mL/g, and the pore diameter distribution has a broad band over a pore diameter range of 8 to 30 nm. The hydrorefining catalyst has excellent desulfurization characteristics and excellent demetalization characteristics, and its performance can be maintained over an extended period. When this catalyst is used in a hydrorefining apparatus equipped with a plurality of catalyst layers, the apparatus can be operated stably at a higher temperature than in the past without decreasing the desulfurization performance, and this also enhances the demetalization characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2001Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Japan Energy CorporationInventors: Hideaki Kumagai, Hiroki Koyama, Kenji Nakamura, Naoharu Igarashi, Masayuki Mori, Takayuki Tsukada