Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Gotoh

Hiroshi Gotoh 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).

  • Publication number: 20240361969
    Abstract: An information processing system to conduct a questionnaire for conference participants while a conference with multiple terminal devices is ongoing, the information processing system including processing circuitry configured to cause a first device among the multiple devices to display a screen to create and edit a questionnaire content; register information including the questionnaire content created or edited via the screen in association with the conference; in response to a starting request of questionnaire by a user at the first terminal device, cause one or more second devices among the multiple terminal devices to display a screen to receive an answer to the questionnaire, the screen including the questionnaire content created or edited; and control the first device to prohibit the user to edit the questionnaire content in a case that the questionnaire is being conducted during the conference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuka TSUKAMOTO, Seiya KOURA, Hiroshi GOTOH, Hiromasa KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20240328897
    Abstract: Attachment checking device for checking whether cotter and snap ring are attached to a workpiece, which includes a target component inserted through a shaft, a cotter, a retainer, and a snap ring, includes: a cotter contact portion insertable along an axial direction of the shaft from an opening in the retainer and contactable with the cotter; a holding mechanism that holds the cotter contact portion to be movable forward and backward; a retainer coupling portion that couples to the retainer when the cotter contact portion is inserted into the opening; a cotter inspector that indicates presence or absence of the cotter based on a forward or backward position of the cotter contact portion; and a snap ring inspector that inspects presence or absence of the snap ring based on a change in a coupling state of the retainer when the cotter contact portion is pulled out from the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Hiroshi GOTOH
  • Patent number: 12079534
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: an information processing apparatus configured to manage sharing of a screen performed by a plurality of screen-sharing terminals coupled communicably to the information processing apparatus; and an administrator terminal configured to have administrative authority and to be coupled to the information processing apparatus via a network. The information processing apparatus includes an information management unit and an instruction delivery unit. The administrator terminal includes an accepting unit a communication control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuka Tsukamoto, Seiya Koura, Hiroshi Gotoh, Hiromasa Koike
  • Publication number: 20220416632
    Abstract: A motor having a rotor connected to an input shaft and a stator fixed by a fixing jig during assembly to a case includes: a stator convex part that extends radially outward from an outer circumference of the stator and positions the stator with respect to the case; and a case convex part that extends radially inward from an inner circumference of the case and is arranged so as to overlap with the stator convex part in a circumferential direction. A relief part is provided between the stator convex part and the case convex part, the relief part being arranged such that the stator convex part can be rotated along the circumferential direction with respect to the case during assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi GOTOH, Shintaro YOKOTA, Takuya FUJIMORI, Akihito KUBO, Keita YANO
  • Publication number: 20220043623
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: an information processing apparatus configured to manage sharing of a screen performed by a plurality of screen-sharing terminals coupled communicably to the information processing apparatus; and an administrator terminal configured to have administrative authority and to be coupled to the information processing apparatus via a network. The information processing apparatus includes an information management unit and an instruction delivery unit. The administrator terminal includes an accepting unit a communication control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuka TSUKAMOTO, Seiya KOURA, Hiroshi GOTOH, Hiromasa KOIKE
  • Patent number: 11132166
    Abstract: (Object) To provide an information processing system for controlling a screen-sharing terminal to perform a process, based on an instruction provided from an administrator terminal. (Means of Achieving the Object) An information processing system including: an information processing apparatus configured to manage sharing of a screen performed by a plurality of screen-sharing terminals coupled communicably to the information processing apparatus; and an administrator terminal configured to have administrative authority and to be coupled to the information processing apparatus via a network. The information processing apparatus includes an information management unit and an instruction delivery unit. The administrator terminal includes an accepting unit a communication control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuka Tsukamoto, Seiya Koura, Hiroshi Gotoh, Hiromasa Koike
  • Publication number: 20190303087
    Abstract: To provide an information processing system for controlling a screen-sharing terminal to perform a process, based on an instruction provided from an administrator terminal. (Means of Achieving the Object) An information processing system including: an information processing apparatus configured to manage sharing of a screen performed by a plurality of screen-sharing terminals coupled communicably to the information processing apparatus; and an administrator terminal configured to have administrative authority and to be coupled to the information processing apparatus via a network. The information processing apparatus includes an information management unit and an instruction delivery unit. The administrator terminal includes an accepting unit a communication control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuka TSUKAMOTO, Seiya KOURA, Hiroshi GOTOH, Hiromasa KOIKE
  • Patent number: 9417937
    Abstract: A terminal device passes data between programs. The terminal device includes a data passing unit configured to receive the data from a first program and pass the received data to a second program selected from among one or more second programs associated with a type of the received data; the first program configured to convert the type of the data, which is a passing target, from an original type into a unique type, and then pass the data to the data passing unit; and the second program configured to convert the type of the data received from the data passing unit into the original type from the unique type, the second program being associated with the unique type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20150242257
    Abstract: A terminal device passes data between programs. The terminal device includes a data passing unit configured to receive the data from a first program and pass the received data to a second program selected from among one or more second programs associated with a type of the received data; the first program configured to convert the type of the data, which is a passing target, from an original type into a unique type, and then pass the data to the data passing unit; and the second program configured to convert the type of the data received from the data passing unit into the original type from the unique type, the second program being associated with the unique type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroshi GOTOH
  • Patent number: 8670659
    Abstract: In a camera module, a lens for forming an image on an imaging element having a rectangular light receiving surface is formed in a shape obtained by removing a peripheral portion of a circular lens, such as a generally oval shape, and a cylindrical lens barrel coaxially holding the lens is formed in a shape conforming to that of the lens. A part of a focal adjustment actuator is disposed in a space created on a side of the lens barrel in correspondence with the removed portion of the lens, whereby reduction in size of the entirety of the camera module is promoted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Haruguchi, Hiroshi Gotoh
  • Patent number: 8619290
    Abstract: A printer includes a communicating unit that receives a print job being a unit of execution of a printing process of a first printing protocol and a second printing protocol. The first printing protocol contains a series of process instructions and print data that allow the printing process to be performed from an interrupted point when the printing process is resumed after being interrupted. The printer also includes a print processing unit that performs the printing process by executing the print job, and a priority processing unit that preferentially selects a print job of the first printing protocol related to the interrupted printing process when receiving a print job of the first printing protocol related to the interrupted printing process and a print job of the second printing protocol after the printing process of the print job of the first printing protocol is interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hozumi Yonezawa, Masaaki Igarashi, Hiroshi Gotoh, Takeshi Yoshizumi, Osamu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130305268
    Abstract: An optical pickup device includes: a carriage moveably supported on an upper surface of a mount base and holding a light source, a light condensing member and optical components guiding the laser light from the light source to the light condensing member; a wiring member connected to the light source to supply electric power thereto; and a protection cover covering the upper surface of the mount base and a part of the wiring member and is provided with an opening through which the laser light passing through the light condensing member is irradiated onto the optical disk. The light source, light condensing member and optical components are located within a region obtained by projecting the opening in a direction perpendicular to a disk surface of the optical disk, and at least one of the light source, light condensing member and optical components protrudes into the opening in the protection cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka UENO, Hiroshi Gotoh, Takashi Haruguchi, Takahiro Oomori, Tetsuya Nishio, Hideru Goto
  • Publication number: 20130287383
    Abstract: In a camera module, a lens for forming an image on an imaging element having a rectangular light receiving surface is formed in a shape obtained by removing a peripheral portion of a circular lens, such as a generally oval shape, and a cylindrical lens barrel coaxially holding the lens is formed in a shape conforming to that of the lens. A part of a focal adjustment actuator is disposed in a space created on a side of the lens barrel in correspondence with the removed portion of the lens, whereby reduction in size of the entirety of the camera module is promoted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi HARUGUCHI, Hiroshi GOTOH
  • Patent number: 8564800
    Abstract: A time limit for a printer to be restored to a printable state after an occurrence of a print error that prevents the printer from printing is variably set. If the printer is not in a printable state when an elapsed time since the print error occurred in the printer reaches the time limit being set or exceeds the time limit, a print start command is transmitted to another printer, and a job assignment is switched to the other printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takeshi Yoshizumi, Masaaki Igarashi, Takahiro Hirakawa, Hozumi Yonezawa, Hiroshi Gotoh, Kohji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8547581
    Abstract: A printing system includes a storage unit that stores printing status information and host apparatus identification information. The printing status information includes a printing status representing whether a printing processing of the print job is interrupted, and the host apparatus identification information represents the host apparatus as a requestor of the print job. The printing system includes a update unit that updates the printing status information based on a monitoring result of the printing apparatus; a job managing unit that judges whether to execute the print job according to the printing status information when receiving a processing request of the print job from the host apparatus; and a printing status information managing unit that decides printing status information to be stored in the storage unit. The printing status information managing unit first deletes, from the storage unit, printing status information on a print job transmitted from a low-ranked host apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masaaki Igarashi, Hiroshi Gotoh, Takeshi Yoshizumi, Hozumi Yonezawa, Takahiro Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 8514436
    Abstract: A printer includes a first receiving unit that receives a print job containing a printing requirement, where the printing requirement is set as either an indispensable requirement that is indispensable for executing the print job or a desired requirement that is desirable for executing the print job; a second receiving unit that receives, from each of external image forming apparatuses connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, a printability level indicating whether the external image forming apparatus has a printing function satisfying the indispensable requirement or a printing function satisfying the desired requirement; a selecting unit that selects an image forming apparatus that executes the print job from the external image forming apparatuses by checking the printability level; and a print-operation control unit that sends the print job to the selected image forming apparatus and causes the selected image forming apparatus to execute the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masaaki Igarashi, Hozumi Yonezawa, Hiroshi Gotoh, Takeshi Yoshizumi, Osamu Inoue
  • Patent number: 8488166
    Abstract: A printing system including a plurality of host devices and a plurality of printing devices connected. The printing system includes: a storage unit; a first storage processing unit for storing, in the storage unit, a print status of a print job; an information updating unit for monitoring the plurality of printing devices and updates the execution status identification information stored in the storage unit; and a job management unit for determining, based on the print status, whether the print job is to be executed on the one printing device. When a processing request for the print job is sent from another host device while the printing process for the print job sent from the one host device is suspended in the one printing device, the job management unit allows the one printing device to execute the print job sent from the another host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro Hirakawa, Masaaki Igarashi, Hozumi Yonezawa, Hiroshi Gotoh, Takeshi Yoshizumi, Kohji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8384946
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus prints images of different document sizes on paper having a predetermined paper size. The image forming apparatus includes a computation processing part to compute a print position of the image with respect to the paper, based on the document size, the paper size and moving amount computation information that is input thereto, and a print processing part to arrange and print the image on the paper, based on the print position computed by the computation processing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohji Yamamoto, Hozumi Yonezawa, Takahiro Hirakawa, Takeshi Yoshizumi, Hiroshi Gotoh, Minako Kazume
  • Patent number: 8350303
    Abstract: A display device in which an Al alloy film and a conductive oxide film are directly connected without interposition of refractory metal and some or all of Al alloy components deposit or are concentrated at the interface of contact between the Al alloy film and the conductive oxide film. The Al alloy film contains 0.1 to 6 at % of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ni, Ag, Zn, Cu and Ge, and further contains 1) 0.1 to 2 at % of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Cr, Mn, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ir, Pt, La, Ce, Pr, Gd, Tb, Sm, Eu, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu and Dy or 2) 0.1 to 1 at % of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W, as the alloy components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Gotoh, Toshihiro Kugimiya, Katsufumi Tomihisa
  • Patent number: 8264723
    Abstract: A printing apparatus performs a printing process for a printing job including at least one print data and a series of process commands from a host apparatus. A session setup unit sets up a session with the host apparatus and other printing apparatus. A status obtaining unit obtains a status of the other printing apparatus that is in session with the printing apparatus. Upon performing the print process, a job synchronizing unit maintains a synchronization of the print job with the other printing apparatus that is in session with the printing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Gotoh, Takeshi Yoshizumi, Hozumi Yonezawa, Minako Kazume, Takahiro Hirakawa