Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Chihara
Hiroshi Chihara 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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Patent number: 12122628Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus includes a second tray arranged below a first tray detachable from a main body having a first discharge port corresponding to the first tray and a second discharge port corresponding to the second tray, a discharge unit, a tray detecting unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges a sheet toward the first or second discharge port. In a state that the first tray is detached from the main body and the discharge unit discharges sheets from the first discharge port to the second tray and then the first tray is detected as attached to the main body, the control unit selects a discharge destination of a second sheet, subsequent to a first sheet discharged and stacked first after the first tray is attached to the main body, such that the second sheet is stacked on a tray having the first sheet thereon.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Genki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Sato
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Patent number: 11958709Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a detecting unit, a stapling unit, an instructing unit, a control unit, a switching unit, and a notifying unit. The detecting unit detects recording material placed in the processing tray. The stapling unit executes a stapling process for the recording material placed in the processing tray. The instructing unit outputs a stapling process execution instruction. Upon receipt of the execution instruction in a state in which the detecting unit has detected a recording material inserted in the processing tray from an outside of a main body of a main body apparatus, the control unit cause the stapling process to be executed. The switching unit switches a position of the stapling unit among a plurality of positions. The notifying unit provides notification of a placement position of the recording material in the processing tray corresponding to each of the plurality of positions.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Kazuhisa Sato
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Publication number: 20240067486Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus includes a second tray arranged below a first tray detachable from a main body having a first discharge port corresponding to the first tray and a second discharge port corresponding to the second tray, a discharge unit, a tray detecting unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges a sheet toward the first or second discharge port. In a state that the first tray is detached from the main body and the discharge unit discharges sheets from the first discharge port to the second tray and then the first tray is detected as attached to the main body, the control unit selects a discharge destination of a second sheet, subsequent to a first sheet discharged and stacked first after the first tray is attached to the main body, such that the second sheet is stacked on a tray having the first sheet thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Genki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Sato
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Patent number: 11840416Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus includes a second tray arranged below a first tray detachable from a main body having a first discharge port corresponding to the first tray and a second discharge port corresponding to the second tray, a discharge unit, a tray detecting unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges a sheet toward the first or second discharge port. In a state that the first tray is detached from the main body and the discharge unit discharges sheets from the first discharge port to the second tray and then the first tray is detected as attached to the main body, the control unit selects a discharge destination of a second sheet, subsequent to a first sheet discharged and stacked first after the first tray is attached to the main body, such that the second sheet is stacked on a tray having the first sheet thereon.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Genki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Sato
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Publication number: 20230331508Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a detecting unit, a stapling unit, an instructing unit, a control unit, a switching unit, and a notifying unit. The detecting unit detects recording material placed in the processing tray. The stapling unit executes a stapling process for the recording material placed in the processing tray. The instructing unit outputs a stapling process execution instruction. Upon receipt of the execution instruction in a state in which the detecting unit has detected a recording material inserted in the processing tray from an outside of a main body of a main body apparatus, the control unit cause the stapling process to be executed. The switching unit switches a position of the stapling unit among a plurality of positions. The notifying unit provides notification of a placement position of the recording material in the processing tray corresponding to each of the plurality of positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Kazuhisa Sato
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Patent number: 11713207Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a detecting unit, a stapling unit, an instructing unit, a control unit, a switching unit, and a notifying unit. The detecting unit detects recording material placed in the processing tray. The stapling unit executes a stapling process for the recording material placed in the processing tray. The instructing unit outputs a stapling process execution instruction. Upon receipt of the execution instruction in a state in which the detecting unit has detected a recording material inserted in the processing tray from an outside of a main body of a main body apparatus, the control unit cause the stapling process to be executed. The switching unit switches a position of the stapling unit among a plurality of positions. The notifying unit provides notification of a placement position of the recording material in the processing tray corresponding to each of the plurality of positions.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Kazuhisa Sato
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Publication number: 20220411222Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a detecting unit, a stapling unit, an instructing unit, a control unit, a switching unit, and a notifying unit. The detecting unit detects recording material placed in the processing tray. The stapling unit executes a stapling process for the recording material placed in the processing tray. The instructing unit outputs a stapling process execution instruction. Upon receipt of the execution instruction in a state in which the detecting unit has detected a recording material inserted in the processing tray from an outside of a main body of a main body apparatus, the control unit cause the stapling process to be executed. The switching unit switches a position of the stapling unit among a plurality of positions. The notifying unit provides notification of a placement position of the recording material in the processing tray corresponding to each of the plurality of positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Kazuhisa Sato
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Patent number: 11472659Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a detecting unit, a stapling unit, an instructing unit, a control unit, a switching unit, and a notifying unit. The detecting unit detects recording material placed in the processing tray. The stapling unit executes a stapling process for the recording material placed in the processing tray. The instructing unit outputs a stapling process execution instruction. Upon receipt of the execution instruction in a state in which the detecting unit has detected a recording material inserted in the processing tray from an outside of a main body of a main body apparatus, the control unit cause the stapling process to be executed. The switching unit switches a position of the stapling unit among a plurality of positions. The notifying unit provides notification of a placement position of the recording material in the processing tray corresponding to each of the plurality of positions.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Kazuhisa Sato
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Publication number: 20220024712Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus includes a second tray arranged below a first tray detachable from a main body having a first discharge port corresponding to the first tray and a second discharge port corresponding to the second tray, a discharge unit, a tray detecting unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges a sheet toward the first or second discharge port. In a state that the first tray is detached from the main body and the discharge unit discharges sheets from the first discharge port to the second tray and then the first tray is detected as attached to the main body, the control unit selects a discharge destination of a second sheet, subsequent to a first sheet discharged and stacked first after the first tray is attached to the main body, such that the second sheet is stacked on a tray having the first sheet thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Genki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Sato
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Patent number: 11174119Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus includes a second tray arranged below a first tray detachable from a main body having a first discharge port corresponding to the first tray and a second discharge port corresponding to the second tray, a discharge unit, a tray detecting unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges a sheet toward the first or second discharge port. In a state that the first tray is detached from the main body and the discharge unit discharges sheets from the first discharge port to the second tray and then the first tray is detected as attached to the main body, the control unit selects a discharge destination of a second sheet, subsequent to a first sheet discharged and stacked first after the first tray is attached to the main body, such that the second sheet is stacked on a tray having the first sheet thereon.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Genki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Sato
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Publication number: 20210309483Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a detecting unit, a stapling unit, an instructing unit, a control unit, a switching unit, and a notifying unit. The detecting unit detects recording material placed in the processing tray. The stapling unit executes a stapling process for the recording material placed in the processing tray. The instructing unit outputs a stapling process execution instruction. Upon receipt of the execution instruction in a state in which the detecting unit has detected a recording material inserted in the processing tray from an outside of a main body of a main body apparatus, the control unit cause the stapling process to be executed. The switching unit switches a position of the stapling unit among a plurality of positions. The notifying unit provides notification of a placement position of the recording material in the processing tray corresponding to each of the plurality of positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Kazuhisa Sato
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Patent number: 11066267Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a detecting unit, a stapling unit, an instructing unit, a control unit, a switching unit, and a notifying unit. The detecting unit detects recording material placed in the processing tray. The stapling unit executes a stapling process for the recording material placed in the processing tray. The instructing unit outputs a stapling process execution instruction. Upon receipt of the execution instruction in a state in which the detecting unit has detected a recording material inserted in the processing tray from an outside of a main body of a main body apparatus, the control unit cause the stapling process to be executed. The switching unit switches a position of the stapling unit among a plurality of positions. The notifying unit provides notification of a placement position of the recording material in the processing tray corresponding to each of the plurality of positions.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Kazuhisa Sato
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Patent number: 10707018Abstract: A polycrystalline dielectric thin film and a capacitor element have a large relative dielectric constant. The polycrystalline dielectric thin film has a perovskite oxynitride as a principal component. The perovskite oxynitride is represented by compositional formula Aa1Bb1OoNn (a1+b1+o+n=5), and the a-axis length of the crystal lattice of the perovskite oxynitride is larger than a theoretical value.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kumiko Yamazaki, Hiroshi Chihara, Yuki Nagamine, Junichi Yamazaki, Yuji Umeda
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Publication number: 20200172369Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a detecting unit, a stapling unit, an instructing unit, a control unit, a switching unit, and a notifying unit. The detecting unit detects recording material placed in the processing tray. The stapling unit executes a stapling process for the recording material placed in the processing tray. The instructing unit outputs a stapling process execution instruction. Upon receipt of the execution instruction in a state in which the detecting unit has detected a recording material inserted in the processing tray from an outside of a main body of a main body apparatus, the control unit cause the stapling process to be executed. The switching unit switches a position of the stapling unit among a plurality of positions. The notifying unit provides notification of a placement position of the recording material in the processing tray corresponding to each of the plurality of positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Kazuhisa Sato
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Patent number: 10611693Abstract: A polycrystalline dielectric thin film and capacitor element has a small dielectric loss tan ?. The polycrystalline dielectric thin film, in which the main composition is a perovskite oxynitride. The perovskite oxynitride is expressed by the compositional formula AaBbOoNn (a+b+o+n=5), where a/b>1 and n?0.7.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kumiko Yamazaki, Hiroshi Chihara, Yuki Nagamine, Junichi Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20190263620Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus includes a second tray arranged below a first tray detachable from a main body having a first discharge port corresponding to the first tray and a second discharge port corresponding to the second tray, a discharge unit, a tray detecting unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges a sheet toward the first or second discharge port. In a state that the first tray is detached from the main body and the discharge unit discharges sheets from the first discharge port to the second tray and then the first tray is detected as attached to the main body, the control unit selects a discharge destination of a second sheet, subsequent to a first sheet discharged and stacked first after the first tray is attached to the main body, such that the second sheet is stacked on a tray having the first sheet thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Genki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Sato
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Publication number: 20190023616Abstract: A polycrystalline dielectric thin film and capacitor element has a small dielectric loss tan ?. The polycrystalline dielectric thin film, in which the main composition is a perovskite oxynitride. The perovskite oxynitride is expressed by the compositional formula AaBbOoNn (a+b+o+n=5), where a/b>1 and n?0.7.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kumiko YAMAZAKI, Hiroshi CHIHARA, Yuki NAGAMINE, Junichi YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20190019622Abstract: A polycrystalline dielectric thin film and a capacitor element have a large relative dielectric constant. The polycrystalline dielectric thin film has a perovskite oxynitride as a principal component. The perovskite oxynitride is represented by compositional formula Aa1Bb1OoNn (a1+b1+o+n=5), and the a-axis length of the crystal lattice of the perovskite oxynitride is larger than a theoretical value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2017Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kumiko YAMAZAKI, Hiroshi CHIHARA, Yuki NAGAMINE, Junichi YAMAZAKI, Yuji UMEDA
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Patent number: 9022532Abstract: The displacement as an actuator or the sensitivity as a sensor of a piezoelectric element can be increased and, in addition, the electric power consumption can be reduced by providing a thin film of potassium-sodium niobate, which is a perovskite type compound represented by a general formula ABO3, as a piezoelectric layer, wherein a crystal orientation of a crystal structure of potassium-sodium niobate has in-plane fourfold symmetry as a whole piezoelectric layer, where a first axis of rotational symmetry is a thickness direction of the piezoelectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Aida, Ryu Ohta, Yoshitomo Tanaka, Hiroshi Chihara, Hitoshi Sakuma, Kazuhiko Maejima
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Publication number: 20150109372Abstract: The displacement as an actuator or the sensitivity as a sensor of a piezoelectric element can be increased and, in addition, the electric power consumption can be reduced by providing a thin film of potassium-sodium niobate, which is a perovskite type compound represented by a general formula ABO3, as a piezoelectric layer, wherein a crystal orientation of a crystal structure of potassium-sodium niobate has in-plane fourfold symmetry as a whole piezoelectric layer, where a first axis of rotational symmetry is a thickness direction of the piezoelectric layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Yasuhiro AIDA, Ryu OHTA, Yoshitomo TANAKA, Hiroshi CHIHARA, Hitoshi SAKUMA, Kazuhiko MAEJIMA