Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kikuchi
Hiroshi Kikuchi 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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Publication number: 20240151297Abstract: There is provided a drive power transmitting mechanism that can transmit drive power losslessly and can be used in environments where silence is required. The drive power transmitting mechanism includes a rotor having a first outer circumferential surface and rotatable about a first rotational axis, a rotor having a second outer circumferential surface pressed against the first outer circumferential surface and rotatable about a second rotational axis due to a frictional force produced between the second outer circumferential surface and the first outer circumferential surface, a gear rotatable in unison with the rotor about the first rotational axis, and a gear rotatable in unison with the rotor about the second rotational axis, in which the gear and the gear are brought into mesh with each other when the second outer circumferential surface slips against the first outer circumferential surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Koichi Obana, Kazuya Kikuchi, Hiroshi Osawa
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Patent number: 11972161Abstract: A print setting extension application is provided to a client terminal as an application used for extending a function of a printer driver that issues a print job used for performing printing at a printer registered in a cloud print server via the cloud print server that registers a printer in accordance with an instruction transmitted when a user performs an operation on the printer side. The print setting extension application issues, as a print job for a cloud print, a print job that requires entry of a password on the printer side when printing is performed.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20240105758Abstract: The present technology relates to a light source apparatus that makes it possible to provide a widely applicable light source apparatus. A light source apparatus includes a transmissive board that transmits light emitted by a light-emitting element, a circuit board that drives the light-emitting element and is joined to the transmissive board, and a light-emitting board that has the light-emitting element and is connected to the circuit board via a first bump. Further, in the light source apparatus, the circuit board and an organic board are configured to be connected by sandwiching the light-emitting board via second bumps. The present technology can be applied to a light source apparatus that emits light.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: HIIZU OHTORII, HIROSHI MORITA, YUSUKE OYAMA, EIJI OTANI, KEN KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20240107677Abstract: The present technology relates to an electronic circuit board, a base member, electronic equipment, an electronic equipment manufacturing method and an electronic circuit board manufacturing method that make it possible to mount an electronic circuit board easily on a curved surface, for example. An electronic circuit board has a deformable wiring board having a plurality of areas that is long in one direction and is formed to be partially continuous with each other, and the plurality of areas of the wiring board is provided with deformable plate-like plate members that are more rigid than the wiring board. For example, the present technology can be applied to an electronic circuit board on which various devices are mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: HIIZU OHTORII, HIROSHI MORITA, YUSUKE OYAMA, EIJI OTANI, KEN KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20240071750Abstract: A method of processing a substrate includes: (a) providing a substrate; (b) supplying a processing gas comprising H2O-containing radicals to the substrate; (c) supplying a gas including at least one element of Si, Ti, Mo, Al, W, Hf or Zr and a halogen element to the substrate; (d) supplying a gas including one or both of an oxygen element and a nitrogen element to the substrate after (c); and (e) repeating (c) and (d).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi ASHIHARA, Toshiyuki KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20230382162Abstract: An outer surface of a tire can include a tread surface and a pair of side surfaces. A contour line of the tread surface can include a center arc, a pair of middle arcs, a pair of side arcs, and a pair of shoulder arcs. A contour line of each side surface can be connected to the shoulder arc. A position, on the outer surface, corresponding to a ground-contact end obtained by applying a load that is 80% of a standardized load, to the tire in a standardized state, and bringing the tire into contact with a flat surface is a reference ground-contact position, and a boundary between the shoulder arc and the side arc is a reference boundary. The reference boundary can be located axially outward of the reference ground-contact position. A ratio of a distance in an axial direction from an equator plane to the reference boundary to a distance in the axial direction from the equator plane to a tread reference end TE can be not less than 0.94 and not greater than 0.98.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi KIKUCHI, Masahiro NAGASE, Shouta MAKINO
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Publication number: 20230384730Abstract: A powder conveying device includes a drop conveyance passage, an intersecting conveyance passage, a conveying screw, and a floating member. Powder entering from an inflow port drops in the drop conveyance passage. The intersecting conveyance passage communicates with a lower end of the drop conveyance passage and extends in an intersecting direction that intersects the drop conveyance passage. The conveying screw is disposed in the intersecting conveyance passage and rotates in a specified direction to convey the powder in the intersecting direction. The floating member is movably installed in the drop conveyance passage and floats in the drop conveyance passage to move by contact with the conveying screw. The inflow port and the floating member interfere with each other to prevent the floating member from coming out of the inflow port of the drop conveyance passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Kazuhiro SHIMADA, Seiichi KOGURE, Hideki KIMURA, Hiroshi KIKUCHI, Yusuke ISHIZUKA, Yutaka TAKAHASHI, Takuya AKIYAMA, Yutaka GOTO, Yuuki AOKI
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Publication number: 20230369079Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus applies a hydrophilic treatment to a bonding surface of a target object bonded to a bonded object using hydrogen bonding, the hydrophilic treatment being applied prior to the bonding. The surface treatment apparatus includes a support base and a spray nozzle. The support base supports a surface of the target object opposite to the bonding surface, the target object being one or more target objects. The spray nozzle causes dew condensation temporarily on the bonding surface by spraying, onto the bonding surface of the target object supported by the support base, humidified air having a water vapor pressure equal to or higher than a saturated water vapor pressure corresponding to a temperature of the bonding surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2020Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Yamaha Robotics Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi KIKUCHI, Kin RI, Tetsuo TAKANO
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Patent number: 11789385Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer; a nip forming member configured to form a transfer nip between the image bearer and the nip forming member; a nip pressure changer configured to change a nip pressure of the transfer nip; a transfer bias applier configured to apply, to the transfer nip, a transfer bias in which an AC component is superimposed on a DC component; and a DC component adjuster configured to adjust the DC component in the transfer bias, according to the nip pressure that is changed by the nip pressure changer.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuki Aoki, Seiichi Kogure, Hideki Kimura, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yutaka Takahashi, Yusuke Ishizuka, Takuya Akiyama, Yutaka Goto, Kazuhiro Shimada
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Patent number: 11775236Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first acquisition unit that acquires a user print setting for a user, a change unit that changes the user print setting based on per-user print restriction information, and an edition unit that edits print data based on the changed user print setting.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11725596Abstract: An intake control device 1 includes: a body 3 including an intake passage 2; and a valve body 4 located in the intake passage 2. The intake passage 2 includes a direction continuation segment 13 in which a first major axis direction d1 and a second major axis direction d2 are approximately parallel to each other continuously from a downstream opening 6 of the body 3. The body 3 includes a seal plane 14 formed along a plane that intersects with part of the direction continuation segment 13. The valve body 4 includes a valve plane 15 formed by a plane that abuts the seal plane 14, and is configured to slide relative to the seal plane 14 via the valve plane 15 to adjust an opening degree of the intake passage 2.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11710013Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are configured to allow a general user to select a preset setting as much as possible even when some of print setting items are lock-set by an administrator user. Accordingly, even when the print setting item is lock-set, the general user may select a preset setting as long as there is no conflict.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20230202237Abstract: A tire 2 includes a tread 4 and a belt 14 including inner and outer layers 38 and 40. Each end of the outer layer 40 is located axially inward of an end of the inner layer 38. A circumferential narrow groove 48 is formed on each shoulder land portion 46s so as to continuously extend in a circumferential direction. A groove width of the circumferential narrow groove 48 is smaller than that of a shoulder circumferential groove 44s. The circumferential narrow groove 48 is located between the shoulder circumferential groove 44s and the end of the outer layer 40 in an axial direction. A ratio of a distance in the axial direction from the shoulder circumferential groove 44s to the circumferential narrow groove 48 to a distance in the axial direction from the shoulder circumferential groove 44s to the end of the outer layer 40 is 15% to 55%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi KIKUCHI, Takuya OSAWA, Jo SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20230175445Abstract: An intake control device 1 includes: a body 3 including an intake passage 2; and a valve body 4 located in the intake passage 2. The intake passage 2 includes a direction continuation segment 13 in which a first major axis direction d1 and a second major axis direction d2 are approximately parallel to each other continuously from a downstream opening 6 of the body 3. The body 3 includes a seal plane 14 formed along a plane that intersects with part of the direction continuation segment 13. The valve body 4 includes a valve plane 15 formed by a plane that abuts the seal plane 14, and is configured to slide relative to the seal plane 14 via the valve plane 15 to adjust an opening degree of the intake passage 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventor: Hiroshi KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 11667157Abstract: In a tire, a tread includes a cap layer forming a part of the outer surface of the tire, an intermediate layer disposed inwardly of the cap layer in the radial direction, and a base layer disposed inwardly of the intermediate layer in the radial direction. A loss tangent of the intermediate layer at 30° C. is less than a loss tangent of the cap layer at 30° C., and a loss tangent of the base layer at 30° C. is less than the loss tangent of the intermediate layer at 30° C. An outer end of the cap layer is disposed outwardly of an outer end of the base layer in the axial direction. In the radial direction, a position of the outer end of the cap layer coincides with a position of the outer end of the base layer, or the outer end of the cap layer is disposed inwardly of the outer end of the base layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11667156Abstract: In a tire, a tread includes a cap layer forming a part of an outer surface of the tire, a base layer disposed inwardly of the cap layer in a radial direction, and an intermediate layer disposed between the cap layer and the base layer in the radial direction. A loss tangent of the intermediate layer at 30° C. is less than a loss tangent of the cap layer at 30° C. and a loss tangent of the base layer at 30° C. is less than the loss tangent of the intermediate layer at 30° C. The tread includes at least two three-layer body portions formed of the cap layer, the intermediate layer, and the base layer, and at least one two-layer body portion that is formed of the cap layer and the base layer and disposed between a first three-layer body portion and a second three-layer body portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Koga, Hiroshi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20230145977Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an information processing apparatus comprises: a storage device configured to store a first network address used when connected to a first printer and a second network address used when connected to a second printer; one or more memories; and one or more processors that are configured to cooperate with the one or more memories to control the information processing apparatus to control, when communicable with the first and second printers: displaying the first printer as a candidate of destination of print data, the first printer being accessible using the first network address; and not displaying the second printer as a candidate of destination of the print data, the second printer being inaccessible using the first network address.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11633993Abstract: A tire 2 includes a tread 4, a pair of sidewalls 6, a pair of beads 10, a carcass 12, a belt 14, an inner liner 20, and a pair of insertion layers 22 disposed between the carcass 12 and the inner liner 20. Each insertion layer 22 is disposed between an end of the belt 14 and an end PB of the bead 10. Each insertion layer 22 has a volume resistivity of less than 108 ?·cm. A complex elastic modulus of the insertion layer 22 is equivalent to or higher than a complex elastic modulus of the inner liner 20. A thickness of each sidewall 6 at a maximum width position PW is not greater than 5.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kikuchi, Takuya Osawa, Hiroki Uno, Kentaro Yagyu
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Publication number: 20230120573Abstract: The capacitor array that includes: a capacitor layer including a plurality of capacitor portions divided by a plurality of through-portions and arranged in a plane, and the capacitor portions each have a first main surface and a second main surface that are opposite to each other in a thickness direction. The plurality of through-portions include a first through-portion extending in a first direction perpendicular to the thickness direction, and a second through-portion extending in a second direction perpendicular to the thickness direction and intersecting the first direction. In a sectional view, each of the first through-portion and the second through-portion independently has a taper having a width decreasing from one of the first main surface and the second main surface to the other main surface. The first through-portion has a taper angle that is different from a taper angle of the second through-portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Takafumi KUSUYAMA, Hiroshi KIKUCHI, Masanori YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11625205Abstract: A print expansion application is downloaded by using, as a key, a printer Hardware Identifier (HWID) acquired when a printer driver to be commonly used in an operating system (OS) is installed, and the print expansion application is associated with the printer driver.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi