Patents by Inventor Hiromi Tanaka

Hiromi Tanaka 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: 11964495
    Abstract: Provided is an ink set including: an ink containing a cyan pigment; an ink containing a magenta pigment; and an ink containing a yellow pigment, wherein the proportion of the cyan pigment is 0.70% by mass or greater but 1.40% by mass or less, and wherein the proportion of the magenta pigment and the proportion of the yellow pigment are both higher than the proportion of the cyan pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Sakaguchi, Itsuro Sasaki, Ayaka Tanaka, Naoto Shimura, Shunsuke Horie, Hiroshi Gotou, Yuta Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240067033
    Abstract: In order to achieve a charging service using an outlet of 100 V or 200V, the present invention provides a management server 10 including an acquisition unit 11 that acquires, from a user terminal, apparatus specifying information specifying a control apparatus that controls power supply to an outlet, and a control execution unit 12 that executes processing of controlling the control apparatus specified by the apparatus specifying information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki ISHIUJI, Hiromi SUZUKI, Yutaka OKANO, Sayaka ISHIMOTO, Shoko YOKOTE, Satoshi TANAKA, Koji KITAHARA, Megumi YAMAMOTO, Chieko KURIBAYASHI, Tomohide TOYODA
  • Publication number: 20230375794
    Abstract: An optical transceiver includes an electrical connector, an internal circuit, first switch and second switch. The internal circuit is electrically connected to the apparatus through the electrical connector when the optical transceiver is completely inserted into the apparatus, and generate a switching signal after a first signal pad and a second signal pad in a second row of the electrical connector are electrically connected. The first switch isolates a third signal pad in a first row of the electrical connector when the optical transceiver is not fully inserted, and puts the third signal pad electrically connectable in accordance with the switching signal when the optical transceiver is fully inserted. The second switch isolates a fourth signal pad in the first row when the optical transceiver is not fully inserted, and puts the fourth signal pad electrically connectable in accordance with the switching signal when the optical transceiver is fully inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Hiromi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11546130
    Abstract: A control method for an optical transceiver includes interrupting internal repetitive internal processing in response to a command from a host apparatus and executing an interrupt process for transmitting monitoring data. The method sets a processing mode of the interrupt process to a first processing mode when a processing time necessary to execute the interrupt process and one cycle of the repetitive processing is shorter than a threshold value, and to a second processing mode when the processing time necessary to execute the interrupt process and one cycle of the repetitive processing is longer than the threshold value. In the first mode, the interrupt process stores first monitoring data read out from a memory unit in a transmission register, stops the stretching of a clock signal, and subsequently reads out second monitoring data from the memory unit to follow the first monitoring data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11539439
    Abstract: An optical transceiver is pluggable to any one of a first apparatus and a second apparatus and includes a clock recovery circuit capable of regenerating a clock signal from an electrical signal, a memory storing a first program including a first transmission rate and a second program including a second transmission rate, and a processor executing a program with a higher priority level in a boot process. The processor sets a transmission rate of a program being executed to a transmission rate set value, and operates the clock recovery circuit. In accordance with an interrupt request, the processor sets, based on regeneration or non-regeneration of the clock signal, the priority level of the first or second program that is being executed to be lower than the priority level of the first or second program that is not being executed, and boots up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11362356
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, an injection device configured to inject anode gas, an ejector mechanism through which the anode gas injected from the injection device flows, a circulation path configured to return the anode gas, discharged from the fuel cell, to the ejector mechanism, a supply path configured to supply the anode gas, discharged from the fuel cell together with the anode gas injected from the injection device from the ejector mechanism, to the fuel cell, and a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiromi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220069913
    Abstract: An optical transceiver is pluggable to any one of a first apparatus and a second apparatus and includes a clock recovery circuit capable of regenerating a clock signal from an electrical signal, a memory storing a first program including a first transmission rate and a second program including a second transmission rate, and a processor executing a program with a higher priority level in a boot process. The processor sets a transmission rate of a program being executed to a transmission rate set value, and operates the clock recovery circuit. In accordance with an interrupt request, the processor sets, based on regeneration or non-regeneration of the clock signal, the priority level of the first or second program that is being executed to be lower than the priority level of the first or second program that is not being executed, and boots up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210202969
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, an injection device configured to inject anode gas, an ejector mechanism through which the anode gas injected from the injection device flows, a circulation path configured to return the anode gas, discharged from the fuel cell, to the ejector mechanism, a supply path configured to supply the anode gas, discharged from the fuel cell together with the anode gas injected from the injection device from the ejector mechanism, to the fuel cell, and a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiromi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200274690
    Abstract: A control method of an optical transceiver has an interrupt processing step of interrupting repetitive processing step in response to a command from a host apparatus and executing an interrupt process for transmitting monitoring data, and a step of setting the processing mode of the interrupt process to a first processing mode when one cycle of the repetitive processing step is shorter than a specific value, and setting the processing mode to a second processing mode when one cycle of the repetitive processing step is longer than the specific value. The interrupt process stores first data in the transmission register and stopping stretching of a clock signal, and reading out second data to be transmitted next from the memory unit. Furthermore, the interrupt process stops stretching of the clock signal after storing the first data in the transmission register and reading out the second data from the memory unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200243879
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a first injector configured to inject fuel gas, a second injector configured to inject the fuel gas at an injection flow rate that is larger than that of the first injector, an ejector mechanism through which the fuel gas injected from each of the first injector and the second injector passes, a supply passage configured to supply the fuel gas passing through the ejector mechanism to the fuel cell, and a circulation passage configured to return the fuel gas discharged from the fuel cell to the ejector mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiromi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10651939
    Abstract: An optical transceiver includes an optical transmitter, an optical receiver, a first processing unit for controlling a section of the optical transmission circuit, a second processing unit for controlling a section of the optical reception circuit, and a signal line. First and second memory regions constitute a MDIO register space. The selection signal is set to a first level when the first memory region includes a MDIO register, and alternatively is set to a second level when the second memory region includes the MDIO register. The first processing unit responds to another MDIO frame having an OP code set to other than “00h” when the selection signal is at the first level, and the second processing unit alternatively responds to the another MDIO frame when the selection signal is at the second level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Tanaka, Ryutaro Futami
  • Patent number: 10454119
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly; cathode and anode-side water-repellent layers; a cathode-side separator that includes a cathode gas passage and an air exhaust manifold communicated to the cathode gas passage. The cathode gas passage includes a water exhaust inhibiting portion and a water storage portion. The water exhaust inhibiting portion is provided on a lowermost passage positioned on a lowermost side in a gravity direction. The water storage portion is provided upstream of the water exhaust inhibiting portion such that liquid water is stored in the water storage portion by the water exhaust inhibiting portion. A liquid water connection portion is provided in the water-repellent layer so as to pass through the water-repellent layer such that liquid water flows between the catalyst layer and the water storage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Matsusue, Yasushi Araki, Kohsei Yoshida, Hiromi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190238232
    Abstract: An optical transceiver includes an optical transmitter, an optical receiver, a first processing unit for controlling a first section of the optical transmission circuit and the optical reception circuit, a second processing unit for controlling a second section of the optical transmission circuit and the optical reception circuit, and a signal line. A first and second memory regions constitute a MDIO register space, the selection signal is set to a first level when the first memory region includes a MDIO register, and alternatively set to a second level when the second memory region includes the MDIO register, and the first processing unit responds to another MDIO frame having an OP code set to other than “00h” when the selection signal is at the first level, and the second processing unit alternatively responds to the another MDIO frame when the selection signal is at the second level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi TANAKA, Ryutaro Futami
  • Patent number: 10235307
    Abstract: An optical transceiver that shortens an elapsed time for loading data from an external device, and a method of loading data are disclosed. The optical transceiver includes an inner memory, a central processing unit (CPU), and a serial communication line connecting the CPU with the external device. The CPU actively loads data stored in the external device into the inner memory through the serial communication line by operating as a master device in the serial communication line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Tanaka, Ryutaro Futami
  • Patent number: 10171702
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a contact glass provided at an upper surface of a main body of the apparatus to set a manuscript thereon, an image sensor being positioned below the contact glass and having a reading surface on contact glass side for reading an image from the manuscript on the contact glass, a carriage supporting the image sensor accommodated in a sensor container formed to have a recess open to the contact glass side, a rail member slidably supporting the carriage, and a biasing member biasing the image sensor to the contact glass side via a biased portion adjacent to the reading surface of the image sensor. An upper end of the biasing member is positioned below the contact glass and above the lower surface of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Hiromi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180205846
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a contact glass provided at an upper surface of a main body of the apparatus to set a manuscript thereon, an image sensor being positioned below the contact glass and having a reading surface on contact glass side for reading an image from the manuscript on the contact glass, a carriage supporting the image sensor accommodated in a sensor container formed to have a recess open to the contact glass side, a rail member slidably supporting the carriage, and a biasing member biasing the image sensor to the contact glass side via a biased portion adjacent to the reading surface of the image sensor. An upper end of the biasing member is positioned below the contact glass and above the lower surface of the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Hiromi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9936094
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a contact glass provided at an upper surface of a main body of the apparatus to set a manuscript thereon, an image sensor being positioned below the contact glass and having a reading surface on contact glass side for reading an image from the manuscript on the contact glass, a carriage supporting the image sensor accommodated in a sensor container formed to have a recess open to the contact glass side, a rail member slidably supporting the carriage, and a biasing member biasing the image sensor to the contact glass side via a biased portion adjacent to the reading surface of the image sensor. An upper end of the biasing member is positioned below the contact glass and above the lower surface of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Hiromi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180048391
    Abstract: An optical transceiver that shortens an elapsed time for loading data from an external device, and a method of loading data are disclosed. The optical transceiver includes an inner memory, a central processing unit (CPU), and a serial communication line connecting the CPU with the external device. The CPU actively loads data stored in the external device into the inner memory through the serial communication line by operating as a master device in the serial communication line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Hiromi TANAKA, Ryutaro FUTAMI
  • Patent number: 9832330
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a main unit having a document support surface configured to support a document on the document support surface, a reading unit accommodated in the main unit and configured to read an image of the document supported on the document support surface, and an openable unit coupled to the main unit and configured to pivot about a pivot axis between a closed position where the document support surface of the main unit is covered and a released position where the document support surface of the main unit is exposed. The pivot axis of the openable unit is located, in the main unit, below the document support surface and at a rear of the document support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromi Tanaka, Takashi Ohama, Daisuke Kozaki
  • Patent number: 9769340
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a contact glass setting a manuscript thereon; an image sensor extending in a first direction and having a reading surface which faces the contact glass for reading an image from the manuscript on the contact glass; a rail member extending inside the apparatus main body in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a carriage having a sensor container to contain the image sensor, a taper end portion formed in an end portion in the first direction to become smaller in height toward the end side, and an opening formed in the bottom of the sensor container on the taper end portion side; a biased portion adjacent to the reading surface of the image sensor in the second direction; and a biasing member biasing the image sensor toward the contact glass via the biased portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Hiromi Tanaka