Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Baba

Hiroshi 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).

  • Patent number: 11915070
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to implement, at a low cost, highly accurate color calibration in a printing apparatus that performs printing using fluorescent ink. One embodiment of the present invention is an image processing apparatus that includes: a processing unit configured to perform processing relating to color calibration in a printing apparatus that prints an image on a printing medium using fluorescent printing material; and an execution unit configured to perform calibration processing of the printing apparatus based on a measured value that is obtained by measuring a patch chart for obtaining information on an amount of application of the fluorescent printing material in the printing apparatus, wherein a patch included in the patch chart is printed with the fluorescent printing material and subtractive color mixture printing material and at least one dot of the subtractive color mixture printing material covers a dot of the fluorescent printing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Abe, Naoko Baba, Kouta Murasawa, Hiromitsu Yamaguchi, Keiji Kuriyama, Yuki Igarashi, Hiroshi Mori
  • Publication number: 20240010110
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes side frames and plate-shaped brackets. The side frames include cushion side frames disposed to a left and to a right of a seat cushion and back side frames disposed to a left and to a right of a seatback. The plate-shaped brackets are fixed to rear end portions of the cushion side frames to support the back side frames. Each of the brackets includes a first plate shaped part fixed to a corresponding back side frame and a second plate shaped part fixed to a corresponding cushion side frame. The first plate-shaped part is disposed outwardly in the left-right direction relative to a corresponding back side frame, and the second plate-shaped part is disposed inwardly in the left-right direction relative to a corresponding cushion side frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi BABA, Ryota URUSHIHARA, Takuya ARAI, Yoichi TACHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240001828
    Abstract: To reduce the weight of a cross member bridged between right and left sides of a seat frame. A seat frame includes an upper frame forming an upper portion of a seat back frame, and a cross member bridged at the upper frame. The cross member includes right and left end portions in a seat width direction, the right and left end portions being fixed to the upper frame; and a first recessed portion that is recessed upward or downward and provided between the right and left end portions. The first recessed portion is provided at a center portion of the cross member in the seat width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi BABA, Yuki HOSOKAWA, Takaya KURISU
  • Publication number: 20230352220
    Abstract: In a sintered rare-earth magnet containing R2T14B main-phase grains (R being one or more element selected from rare-earth elements and T being one or more element selected from iron group elements), intergranular grain boundaries that from between two mutually adjoining main-phase grains and grain boundary triple junctions surrounded by three or more main-phase grains, the main-phase grains, the intergranular grain boundaries and the grain boundary triple junctions all include TiB2 crystals. The sintered rare-earth magnet is a to high-performance magnet of high coercivity and good squareness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi BABA, Hiroki IIDA, Mikio YOSHIDA, Koichi HIROTA
  • Patent number: 11794619
    Abstract: To reduce the weight of a cross member bridged between right and left sides of a seat frame. A seat frame includes an upper frame forming an upper portion of a seat back frame, and a cross member bridged at the upper frame. The cross member includes right and left end portions in a seat width direction, the right and left end portions being fixed to the upper frame; and a first recessed portion that is recessed upward or downward and provided between the right and left end portions. The first recessed portion is provided at a center portion of the cross member in the seat width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Baba, Yuki Hosokawa, Takaya Kurisu
  • Publication number: 20230302971
    Abstract: An attachment member allowing a connected state between the attachment member and a guide member to be more easily checked is provided. The attachment member for attaching a stay cloth, which guides a deployment direction of an airbag module, to a seat back frame has a holding portion which includes a holding space for housing an attachment portion of the stay cloth. The holding portion is inserted into an attachment hole to be fitted into the attachment hole that is formed in the seat back frame. A through-hole which allows the attachment portion of the stay cloth in the holding space to be exposed in a penetrating direction of the attachment hole is formed in the holding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Jinichi TANABE, Hiroshi BABA, Makoto TAKEUCHI, Hiroshi IZAWA, Yoshihisa KUROSAKI
  • Publication number: 20230278473
    Abstract: A conveyance seat capable of suppressing wrinkles or saggings from occurring on a surface of a seat main body is provided. A conveyance seat S includes a seat back and a movable body which is attached inside the seat back, is disposed at an outer position in relation to a center portion of the seat back, and is operated so that a side portion of the seat back protrudes toward a seated occupant side (seat front side). The movable body is disposed on a back surface of a cushion material in the side portion. An end portion (rear end portion) on the side opposite to the seated occupant side of the movable body is disposed on the seated occupant side (seat front side) in relation to a seating surface of the center portion of the seat back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Takanori YAMAGUCHI, Masahito TASHIRO, Katsuya KAWATA, Kazuya MIYAWAKI, Heehyeok PARK, Kenta KIKUCHI, Naoto YAMAUCHI, Naoya MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki KAKU, Hiroshi BABA, Jinichi TANABE
  • Patent number: 11697364
    Abstract: An attachment member allowing a connected state between the attachment member and a guide member to be more easily checked is provided. The attachment member for attaching a stay cloth, which guides a deployment direction of an airbag module, to a seat back frame has a holding portion which includes a holding space for housing an attachment portion of the stay cloth. The holding portion is inserted into an attachment hole to be fitted into the attachment hole that is formed in the seat back frame. A through-hole which allows the attachment portion of the stay cloth in the holding space to be exposed in a penetrating direction of the attachment hole is formed in the holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinichi Tanabe, Hiroshi Baba, Makoto Takeuchi, Hiroshi Izawa, Yoshihisa Kurosaki
  • Publication number: 20220402417
    Abstract: In a vehicle seat, a side frame of a seat back frame has a front wall that is formed so as to be bent inward continuously from a front edge of a plate-shaped portion and forms a curved region extending vertically from around the rotating shaft and reaching an upper frame, and a rear wall that is formed so as to be bent inward continuously from a rear edge of the plate-shaped portion and forms a curved region extending vertically from around the rotating shaft and reaching the upper frame, and an inner edge of the front wall has a projecting piece that spreads to the inside from a virtual outline corresponding to a shape of the upper frame and is superimposed on the front wall of the upper frame from the rear. This provides a vehicle seat that can contribute to improvement of the work efficiency when assembling a seat back frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi BABA, Soichiro KAMEI, Masashi NAKANO, Takuya ARAI, Ryota URUSHIHARA, Masayuki HOSHI, Hironori WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220105842
    Abstract: To reduce the weight of a cross member bridged between right and left sides of a seat frame. A seat frame includes an upper frame forming an upper portion of a seat back frame, and a cross member bridged at the upper frame. The cross member includes right and left end portions in a seat width direction, the right and left end portions being fixed to the upper frame; and a first recessed portion that is recessed upward or downward and provided between the right and left end portions. The first recessed portion is provided at a center portion of the cross member in the seat width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi BABA, Yuki HOSOKAWA, Takaya KURISU
  • Patent number: 11063779
    Abstract: A content server manages contents used in one or more events. The server includes one or more memories that store, for each one of one or more participants of an event, one or more capture images, each capture image being an image of particular content of a plurality of contents used in the event and having been captured to a personal terminal of the participant during the event in response to an operation to capture the image of the particular content to the personal terminal. The server further includes circuitry configured to transmit distinction information distinguishing each capture image to a particular information processing terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiko Kubo, Hiroshi Baba
  • Publication number: 20210114492
    Abstract: An attachment member allowing a connected state between the attachment member and a guide member to be more easily checked is provided. The attachment member for attaching a stay cloth, which guides a deployment direction of an airbag module, to a seat back frame has a holding portion which includes a holding space for housing an attachment portion of the stay cloth. The holding portion is inserted into an attachment hole to be fitted into the attachment hole that is formed in the seat back frame. A through-hole which allows the attachment portion of the stay cloth in the holding space to be exposed in a penetrating direction of the attachment hole is formed in the holding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Jinichi Tanabe, Hiroshi Baba, Makoto Takeuchi, Hiroshi Izawa, Yoshihisa Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 10983748
    Abstract: An information sharing system includes a first terminal, a second terminal and an information management apparatus. The first terminal is configured to control a first display to output a first screen shareable by a plurality of users. The second terminal is operated by a user of the plurality of users and the second terminal is configured to control a second display to output a second screen to be viewed by the user. The information management apparatus transmits, in response to the screen acquisition request, a request for image data to the first terminal, acquires image data of the first screen from the first terminal, and updates screen information according to the image data. The second terminal further receives the screen information from the information management apparatus, and controls the second display to update the output of the second display based on the screen information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Baba
  • Patent number: 10875427
    Abstract: An attachment member allowing a connected state between the attachment member and a guide member to be more easily checked is provided. The attachment member for attaching a stay cloth, which guides a deployment direction of an airbag module, to a seat back frame has a holding portion which includes a holding space for housing an attachment portion of the stay cloth. The holding portion is inserted into an attachment hole to be fitted into the attachment hole that is formed in the seat back frame. A through-hole which allows the attachment portion of the stay cloth in the holding space to be exposed in a penetrating direction of the attachment hole is formed in the holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinichi Tanabe, Hiroshi Baba, Makoto Takeuchi, Hiroshi Izawa, Yoshihisa Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 10752138
    Abstract: Right and left brackets coupling a seat back frame and seat cushion frame together are configured to adjust an amount of deformation upon impact absorption. A vehicle seat frame includes a seat cushion frame, seat back frame, coupling bracket configured to couple a cushion side frame as a side frame of the seat cushion frame on one side of the vehicle seat frame and a seat back side frame as a side frame of the seat back frame on the one side, and coupling bracket configured to couple a cushion side frame as a side frame of the seat cushion frame on the other side and a seat back side frame as a side frame of the seat back frame on the other side. Deformability upon impact absorption is different between a weak portion provided at the coupling bracket and a weak portion provided at the coupling bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Baba, Takaya Kurisu, Yuki Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20200210136
    Abstract: A content server manages contents used in one or more events. The server includes one or more memories that store, for each one of one or more participants of an event, one or more capture images, each capture image being an image of particular content of a plurality of contents used in the event and having been captured to a personal terminal of the participant during the event in response to an operation to capture the image of the particular content to the personal terminal. The server further includes circuitry configured to transmit distinction information distinguishing each capture image to a particular information processing terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Naohiko KUBO, Hiroshi Baba
  • Publication number: 20200104024
    Abstract: A communication terminal communicable with a content management server includes circuitry to display a first operation display area, a content in the first operation display area based on data of the content transmitted by the content management server, and a second operation display area by a web browser, receive a drag and drop operation for causing the content displayed in the first operation display area to be dragged and dropped to the second operation display area, in response to reception of the drag and drop operation, transmit location specifying information to the content management server, receive the data of the dragged and dropped content to be displayed in the second operation display area, the data of the dragged and dropped content being transmitted by the content management server in response to transmission of the location specifying information, and display the dragged and dropped content in the second operation display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi BABA, Eiichiro Yoshida, Naohiko Kubo, Yuuta Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10604043
    Abstract: It is intended to expand a space at a back portion of a lower portion of a seat. A seat frame includes a lower frame configured to couple lower portions of side frames arranged on right and left sides. The lower frame includes a back wall portion provided on a back side, a front wall portion provided in front of the back wall portion, and a coupling portion that couples lower ends of the back wall portion and the front wall portion. The back wall portion includes a pair of side portions forming ends in a seat width direction and each formed along the outer shapes of the side frames, and an inclined portion provided between the side portions and inclined such that a lower end is positioned in front of an upper end. The inclined portion is provided in front of the side portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignees: TS Tech Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Onuma, Hiroshi Baba, Taiji Misono, Toshimitsu Mizukoshi, Masaki Shimazu
  • Patent number: 10569682
    Abstract: An easy-to-attach clip member that makes the surroundings of a stay cloth mounting portion compact while maintaining high airbag deployment performance, and an airbag module-equipped seat with the clip member are provided. A clip member is connected to a cloth-form body that transmits a tensile force. The clip member includes a connecting portion connected to one end of the cloth-form body, and a groove engaged with an edge portion of a mounted portion. The clip member is provided to reduce a torque generated at the connecting portion by the tensile force transmitted from the cloth-form body when engaged with the edge portion of the mounted portion, and connects the cloth-form body to the mounted portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinichi Tanabe, Hiroshi Izawa, Hiroshi Baba
  • Publication number: 20200045090
    Abstract: An information processing system, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method. The information processing system including an information processing apparatus and a plurality of terminals connected to the information processing apparatus determines, in response to a request sent from one of the terminals to a first address to start an electronic meeting, which one of personal content for each terminal and shared content shared between the terminals to display on the terminal that accessed the first address; and redirects the terminal that accessed the first address to one of a second address of the personal content and a third address of the shared content, according to a determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: HIROSHI BABA