Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Iwamoto

Hiroshi Iwamoto 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: 11932345
    Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left wheel, a right wheel, left and right bearings, left and right axle, left arm, right arm, and lean mechanism. The left arm supports the left wheel from inside in a vehicle width direction. The right arm supports the right wheel from inside in the vehicle width direction. The lean mechanism causes the left wheel and the right wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The single bearing is inserted into a hub hole of the left wheel. The single bearing is inserted into a hub hole of the right wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Taro Iwamoto, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
  • Patent number: 11926388
    Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a lean mechanism, and a lean brake mechanism. The lean mechanism causes the left front wheel and the right front wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The lean brake mechanism brakes a leaning operation of the lean mechanism. The lean brake mechanism includes a brake caliper and a brake disc. The brake caliper is attached to the lean mechanism and has a brake pad. The brake disc is attached to the lower arm of the upper arm and the lower arm that is farther from the brake pad in the front view, has a contact portion that generates braking force by being pressed by the brake pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Taro Iwamoto, Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
  • Patent number: 11919604
    Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a lean mechanism, and a lean brake mechanism. The lean mechanism causes the left front wheel and the right front wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The lean brake mechanism brakes a leaning operation of the lean mechanism. The lean brake mechanism includes a brake disc and brake pads. The brake disc is attached to an upper arm or a lower arm. The brake pads, which are attached such that their position relative to the brake disc changes in the leaning operation, produce a frictional force against the brake disc in the leaning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Taro Iwamoto, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
  • Patent number: 11470858
    Abstract: There is provided a means for sterilizing lactoferrin at a high temperature in a short time while maintaining the activity of the lactoferrin. The present technology provides a method for producing a lactoferrin-containing aqueous solution, including a sterilization step of heat-sterilizing a lactoferrin-containing aqueous solution, in which the total mass content of proteins other than lactoferrin is 1/12 or less of the mass content of lactoferrin, at a temperature of 100° C. or more. The present technology also provides a lactoferrin-containing aqueous solution in which the total mass content of proteins other than lactoferrin is 1/12 or less of the mass content of lactoferrin, and which does not contain living bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ikeda, Junichi Hashimoto, Ichizou Shinoda, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yasuhiro Takeda
  • Publication number: 20210137136
    Abstract: There is provided a means for sterilizing lactoferrin at a high temperature in a short time while maintaining the activity of the lactoferrin. The present technology provides a method for producing a lactoferrin-containing aqueous solution, including a sterilization step of heat-sterilizing a lactoferrin-containing aqueous solution, in which the total mass content of proteins other than lactoferrin is 1/12 or less of the mass content of lactoferrin, at a temperature of 100° C. or more. The present technology also provides a lactoferrin-containing aqueous solution in which the total mass content of proteins other than lactoferrin is 1/12 or less of the mass content of lactoferrin, and which does not contain living bacteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ikeda, Junichi Hashimoto, Ichizou Shinoda, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yasuhiro Takeda
  • Patent number: 10740428
    Abstract: An operation processing device used to operate an information device is provided. The operation processing device includes a script execution portion configured to execute a script used for the operation processing device to cause the information device to perform a process in a state where a web page including the script is displayed; a display processing portion configured to finish, in response to operation for giving a command to finish display of the web page performed during execution of the script, the display of the web page in accordance with the operation; and a script continued execution portion configured to take over, when the display processing portion finishes the display of the web page, the script from the script execution portion to execute the script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Sugaya, Jun Kunioka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takeshi Hibino, Yukina Hisada
  • Patent number: 10275035
    Abstract: A device for determining a gesture includes a display portion for selectively displaying one of screens; a storage portion for storing, for each of the screens, a rule used for distinguishing between gestures; a detection portion for detecting a motion made by a user; and a determination portion for identifying, from among the gestures, a gesture represented by the motion detected by the detection portion based on the rule for a current screen, the current screen being one of the screens and being displayed at a time when the motion has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Sawada, Takeshi Hibino, Tomoko Maruyama
  • Patent number: 9648418
    Abstract: Provided is an active noise cancellation apparatus capable of reliably reducing road noise by reducing vibration of a vehicle component part which generates road noise by using a vibration generator. A plurality of reference signal detectors are placed respectively on right and left knuckles for respectively supporting right and left wheels. A vibration generator and an error signal detector are placed on a vehicle component part. A controller performs respective adaptive controls based on each of reference signals and an error signal so as to reduce the error signal, and controls the vibration generator based on a sum of respective output values of the adaptive controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kouichi Hasegawa, Mitsuyoshi Kondo, Naoya Oue
  • Patent number: 9467497
    Abstract: An image forming device having a function of a web server receives a data transmission request relating to a first web page from an external device; and transmits first data (including a first script for automatically transmitting a periodic request (first periodic request) from a browser of the external device to the web server) to the external device in response to the data transmission request. The image forming device transmits second data (including a second script for automatically transmitting a periodic request (second periodic request) from the browser to the web server while the second web page is being displayed) to the external device in response to a new page call command transmitted from the external device, the new page call command being for calling the second web page from the first web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Sugaya, Jun Kunioka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takeshi Hibino, Yukina Hisada
  • Patent number: 9344795
    Abstract: Provided is an active vibration noise suppression apparatus having good robustness without determining a secondary transfer function while not performing adaptive control. A first control unit generates a control signal by a first adaptive algorithm as a direct adaptive algorithm. A storing unit stores an equivalent value Gh of a secondary transfer function G which is adaptively updated as an adaptive filter by the first control unit. A second control unit uses a second adaptive algorithm which uses the equivalent value Gh of the secondary transfer function G stored in the storing unit as a feedforward coefficient and updates a filter coefficient C2 of the control signal as an adaptive filter based on the feedforward coefficient. The second control unit generates the control signal by the second adaptive algorithm when the first control unit does not generate the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kouichi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20150324159
    Abstract: An image forming device having a function of a web server receives a data transmission request relating to a first web page from an external device; and transmits first data (including a first script for automatically transmitting a periodic request (first periodic request) from a browser of the external device to the web server) to the external device in response to the data transmission request. The image forming device transmits second data (including a second script for automatically transmitting a periodic request (second periodic request) from the browser to the web server while the second web page is being displayed) to the external device in response to a new page call command transmitted from the external device, the new page call command being for calling the second web page from the first web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi SUGAYA, Jun KUNIOKA, Hiroshi IWAMOTO, Takeshi HIBINO, Yukina HISADA
  • Patent number: 9141269
    Abstract: A display system includes an image forming device and a mobile communication terminal. In the display system, the mobile communication terminal accepts a flick manipulation to move the screen, and transmits flick information on the accepted flick manipulation to the image forming device. The image forming device decides an area, which is a part of the screen of the mobile communication terminal and in which display is changed when the screen is moving, and sequentially transmits to the mobile communication terminal positional information on the decided area and screen data of the screen before the movement is completed since the movement is started, which is decided based on the flick information in the decided area. The mobile communication terminal displays the screen in the area of the transmitted positional information based on the transmitted screen data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Koichi Amiya, Takatsugu Kuno, Hiroshi Murakami, Yusaku Tanaka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Sawada
  • Patent number: 9124750
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a user identification unit that identifies a user of the apparatus; a registration determination unit that determines whether the settings required for using a function of the apparatus are registered in a user registration unit when a user issues an instruction to execute the function, the settings being related to the user having issued the instruction, the user registration unit being capable of registering settings for each user with respect to setting items including items required for using the function and arbitrary items; a first execution unit that executes the function when the registration determination unit determines that the settings required for using the function are registered; and a second execution unit that performs a predetermined operation other than execution of the function when the registration determination unit determines that the settings required for using the function are not registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Jun Kunioka, Takashi Sugaya, Yukina Hisada, Takeshi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20150220654
    Abstract: An operation processing device used to operate an information device is provided. The operation processing device includes a script execution portion configured to execute a script used for the operation processing device to cause the information device to perform a process in a state where a web page including the script is displayed; a display processing portion configured to finish, in response to operation for giving a command to finish display of the web page performed during execution of the script, the display of the web page in accordance with the operation; and a script continued execution portion configured to take over, when the display processing portion finishes the display of the web page, the script from the script execution portion to execute the script.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Sugaya, Jun Kunioka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takeshi Hibino, Yukina Hisada
  • Patent number: 9069461
    Abstract: A display system includes an image forming apparatus for storing screen data and a portable information terminal for displaying a screen based on the screen data stored by the image forming apparatus. The display system accepts flick operation for requesting movement of a screen at the portable communication terminal and transmits flick information concerning the flick operation to the image forming apparatus. The display system successively transmits screen data of screens from the start of movement to completion of movement from the image forming apparatus to the portable communication terminal, based on the flick information. The display system displays a screen based on the transmitted screen data on the portable communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Koichi Amiya, Takatsugu Kuno, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Hiroshi Murakami, Yusaku Tanaka, Kenichi Sawada
  • Publication number: 20150146227
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a user identification unit that identifies a user of the apparatus; a registration determination unit that determines whether the settings required for using a function of the apparatus are registered in a user registration unit when a user issues an instruction to execute the function, the settings being related to the user having issued the instruction, the user registration unit being capable of registering settings for each user with respect to setting items including items required for using the function and arbitrary items; a first execution unit that executes the function when the registration determination unit determines that the settings required for using the function are registered; and a second execution unit that performs a predetermined operation other than execution of the function when the registration determination unit determines that the settings required for using the function are not registered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi IWAMOTO, Jun KUNIOKA, Takashi SUGAYA, Yukina HISADA, Takeshi HIBINO
  • Patent number: 9036176
    Abstract: An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) receives, from a remote terminal, information on a first operation to request the MFP to execute processing. The MFP transmits, to the remote terminal, information on a screen in accordance with the information on the first operation, and receives, from the remote terminal, a report that a screen in accordance with the transmitted information is displayed on the remote terminal. The MFP receives, from the remote terminal, information on a second operation to request the MFP to execute processing, after receipt of the information on the first operation and before receipt of the report, and decides whether to execute or cancel the processing in accordance with the information on the second operation, depending on the type of the information on the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Sawada, Takatsugu Kuno, Koichi Amiya, Yusaku Tanaka, Hiroshi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9030701
    Abstract: An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) as an image forming apparatus displays a remote operation screen that is a screen for operating the MFP on an operation terminal and accepts a print setting and a print execution instruction from the operation terminal through the remote operation screen. The MFP prints the acquired image with the print setting accepted through the remote operation screen if a print execution instruction is accepted through a screen of an application different from an application that accepts a request for display of the remote operation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Amiya, Kenichi Sawada, Hiroshi Murakami, Yusaku Tanaka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takatsugu Kuno
  • Patent number: 8928692
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display device that displays a plurality of windows having hierarchy levels in such a manner that a low-level window overlaps a high-level window, each of the plurality of windows containing a first object to close the subject window and one or more second objects to select items; an extraction portion that extracts, from one or more second objects in the high-level window, a selection candidate object that is likely to be selected by a user after the low-level window is closed; and a control portion that controls, when the extraction portion extracts the selection candidate object, the display device in such a manner that the first object in the low-level window overlaps the selection candidate object, or the first object in the low-level window is disposed close to the selection candidate object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Eiichi Narimatu, Shinichi Asai, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takashi Oikawa
  • Patent number: 8908199
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus implements a plurality of functions and includes a display device. The plurality of functions include a function belonging to a first group and a function belonging to a second group. A selection accepting unit accepts selection of any of the first group and the second group. A first display control unit causes the display device to display on a display screen, a plurality of first keys corresponding to respective functions belonging to the first group, regardless of which of the first group and the second group has been selected. A second display control unit causes, when the second group is selected, the display device to display in a second region of the display screen other than a first region where the first keys are displayed, second keys corresponding to respective functions belonging to the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eiichi Narimatu, Takashi Oikawa, Shinichi Asai, Hiroshi Iwamoto