Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Koga

Hiroshi Koga 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: 8646742
    Abstract: A seat rail device provided with an upper rail 1 engaged with and mounted onto a lower rail 2 such that an upper bottom wall section 11 is located above a lower bottom wall section 21 and also such that an upper sloped wall section 16 is located within a lower groove 26 surrounded by a lower wall section 23, a lower top plate section 25, and a lower downwardly extending section 27; a roller 31 provided and rollably supported between the lower bottom wall section 21 and the upper bottom wall section 11; an upper ball-shaped rolling body 33 provided and rollably supported in an upper in-groove space 26a partitioned and defined in the lower groove 26 by the upper sloped wall section 16; and a lower ball-shaped rolling body 35 provided and rollably supported in a lower in-groove space 26b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Shiroki Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Koga
  • Patent number: 8522026
    Abstract: This invention provides an automatic authentication method and system in a print process, which can obviate the need for user's input operations of the user ID and password and can improve security since authentication is automatically done based on print information embedded in a file or information from an application program without any user's input. In a print process that requires user authentication, a printer driver extracts information related to an application and/or a document for the print process as attribute information, and user authentication is made by comparing the attribute information with information stored in a user registration information database of a server. If user authentication has succeeded, the printer driver controls a printer to print, and the server manages and stores accounting information and the like for respective departments in a department management information database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Koga
  • Patent number: 8490940
    Abstract: A seat track apparatus is provided including a first rail disposed on one of a floor side and a seat side, a second rail disposed on the other one of the floor side and the seat side and engaged with the first rail so as to be relatively movable, and a lock mechanism (71) configured to restrict the relative movement of the first rail and the second rail, the lock mechanism (71) includes a lock groove (73) formed on a lower rail (51) and a lock member (75) disposed on an upper rail (61), and the lock member (75) includes a rotation restricting portion (75c) which is brought into press-contact with the upper rail (61) from one side (upper side) to the other side (lower side) with respect to a straight line (L) passing through both end portions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Shiroki Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Ito, Hiroshi Koga
  • Publication number: 20120279332
    Abstract: A stepped lowering device includes a lifting/lowering link having a pivot on a base and on an ascending/descending body; a toothed link pivoted on the base or the ascending/descending body, includes a link ratchet and swings in association with the lifting/lowering link; an input member, supported by the ascending/descending body or the base; a first lowering prevention latch mechanism engaged with the link ratchet to prevent the toothed link swinging downward when the input member is in a neutral position and allows the toothed link to swing downward when the input member is swung in a lowering direction; and a second lowering prevention latch mechanism which allows the toothed link to swing downward by one tooth of the link ratchet and which is engaged with the link ratchet to prevent the toothed link further swinging downward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SUZUKI, Hidehiko FUJIOKA, Hiroshi KOGA
  • Publication number: 20120268462
    Abstract: In a digital color image of longitudinal melanonychia, RGB parameter values of each pixel are assumed as three components to form a three-dimensional vector. Latitudinal and longitudinal variables are obtained for each three-dimensional vector in an RGB space. The latitudinal and longitudinal variables are used to define a distribution of points, and from the distribution, a discrimination index is found. The discrimination index is classified according to a threshold, to discriminate whether the longitudinal melanonychia is malignant or benign. The distribution of points is displayed to realize visualization of the malignancy of the longitudinal melanonychia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: MITAKA KOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Sota, Juzo Fujii, Hiroshi Koga
  • Patent number: 8259336
    Abstract: In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kujirai, Hiroshi Koga, Shigeki Kuroda, Shinichi Yamamura, Kazunori Masaki
  • Publication number: 20120155117
    Abstract: A control apparatus is provided with a substrate disposed inside a main case and on which light sources are mounted. A surface panel in which light-source display windows are formed at positions opposite the light sources, is also disposed in the main case. The outer rim of the surface of the surface panel facing the main case is affixed to the front-surface rim of the main case with an insulating part sandwiched therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: YAMATAKE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriya Uchiumi, Hidefumi Harada, Hiroshi Koga
  • Patent number: 8102092
    Abstract: Split cores comprising laminated iron cores each having formed thereon a tooth, and a yoke and a pole piece which are connected to the tooth at both ends thereof, and arranged and connected together into an annular shape to make a stator. Both ends of the yokes and both ends of the pole pieces are displaced in one circumferential direction by laminated iron core from a top laminated layer of the iron cores of the split cores to a bottom laminated layer of the iron cores or split cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Kenji Tomohara, Seiji Miyazaki, Mitsuhiro Koga, Makoto Matsumoto, Hiroshi Koga, Shinichi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20110310426
    Abstract: In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kujirai, Hiroshi Koga, Shigeki Kuroda, Shinichi Yamamura, Kazunori Masaki
  • Patent number: 8035841
    Abstract: In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kujirai, Hiroshi Koga, Shigeki Kuroda, Shinichi Yamamura, Kazunori Masaki
  • Publication number: 20110108697
    Abstract: [Object] The present invention is intended to provide a seat track apparatus including a first rail disposed on one of a floor side and a seat side, a second rail disposed on the other one of the floor side and the seat side and engaged with the first rail so as to be relatively movable, and a lock mechanism configured to restrict the relative movement of the first rail and the second rail, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a seat track apparatus which prevents generation of abnormal sounds, and achieves smooth locking and unlocking. [Solving Means] A lock mechanism 71 includes a lock groove 73 formed on a lower rail 51 and a lock member 75 disposed on an upper rail 61, and the lock member 75 includes a rotation restricting portion 75c which is brought into press-contact with the upper rail 61 from one side (upper side) to the other side (lower side) with respect to a straight line (L) passing through both end portions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Koji Ito, Hiroshi Koga
  • Publication number: 20110095161
    Abstract: A seat rail device provided with an upper rail 1 engaged with and mounted onto a lower rail 2 such that an upper bottom wall section 11 is located above a lower bottom wall section 21 and also such that an upper sloped wall section 16 is located within a lower groove 26 surrounded by a lower wall section 23, a lower top plate section 25, and a lower downwardly extending section 27; a roller 31 provided and rollably supported between the lower bottom wall section 21 and the upper bottom wall section 11; an upper ball-shaped rolling body 33 provided and rollably supported in an upper in-groove space 26a partitioned and defined in the lower groove 26 by the upper sloped wall section 16; and a lower ball-shaped rolling body 35 provided and rollably supported in a lower in-groove space 26b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Koga
  • Publication number: 20110096350
    Abstract: In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kujirai, Hiroshi Koga, Shigeki Kuroda, Shinichi Yamamura, Kazunori Masaki
  • Patent number: 7889375
    Abstract: In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yauhiro Kujirai, Hiroshi Koga, Shigeki Kuroda, Shinichi Yamamura, Kazunori Masaki
  • Publication number: 20090026872
    Abstract: Although in a conventional permanent magnet type synchronous motor, cogging torque is reduced by displacing permanent magnets of a rotor in a circumferential direction or displacing a stator core in a circumferential direction, since the skew so produced reduces the output of the motor and moreover the winding work of windings cannot be automated to make the resulting motor highly expensive, split cores are provided which solves those problems and enables the winding work of windings to be automated so as to obtain an inexpensive and high-output motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Kenji Tomohara, Seiji Miyazaki, Mitsuhiro Koga, Makoto Matsumoto, Hiroshi Koga, Shinichi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20090022904
    Abstract: A method for modifying an organic fiber cord according to the invention comprises the step (A) of dipping the organic fiber cord (10) into an adhesive, the step (B) of drying the dipped organic fiber cord and the step (C) of heat-treating the dried organic fiber cord to modify it, and is characterized in that the drying step (B) is conducted by irradiating microwaves to the dipped organic fiber cord and/or the heat-treating step (C) is conducted by irradiating far-infrared rays to the dried organic fiber cord.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yotsumoto, Hiroshi Koga
  • Publication number: 20080005781
    Abstract: This invention provides an automatic authentication method and system in a print process, which can obviate the need for user's input operations of the user ID and password and can improve security since authentication is automatically done based on print information embedded in a file or information from an application program without any user's input. In a print process that requires user authentication, a printer driver extracts information related to an application and/or a document for the print process as attribute information, and user authentication is made by comparing the attribute information with information stored in a user registration information database of a server. If user authentication has succeeded, the printer driver controls a printer to print, and the server manages and stores accounting information and the like for respective departments in a department management information database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Koga
  • Patent number: 7313699
    Abstract: This invention provides an automatic authentication method and system in a print process, which can obviate the need for user's input operations of the user ID and password and can improve security since authentication is automatically done based on print information embedded in a file or information from an application program without any user's input. In a print process that requires user authentication, a printer driver extracts information related to an application and/or a document for the print process as attribute information, and user authentication is made by comparing the attribute information with information stored in a user registration information database of a server. If user authentication has succeeded, the printer driver controls a printer to print, and the server manages and stores accounting information and the like for respective departments in a department management information database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Koga
  • Publication number: 20070294532
    Abstract: In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KUJIRAI, Hiroshi KOGA, Shigeki KURODA, Shinichi YAMAMURA, Kazunori MASAKI
  • Patent number: 7286250
    Abstract: In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kujirai, Hiroshi Koga, Shigeki Kuroda, Shinichi Yamamura, Kazunori Masaki