Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kubo
Hiroshi Kubo 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: 12289874Abstract: An electronic assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an electronic component coupled to the PCB, an electrically conductive fence coupled to the PCB and surrounding a perimeter of the electronic component, and a fan assembly. The fan assembly includes a housing coupled to the fence and disposed over the electronic component and a plurality of fan blades configured to rotate within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Kubo, Yinjuan He, Kristina A. Babiarz, Noell G. Johnson, Sean M. Grove, Sina Bigdeli, Sivesh Selvakumar
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Publication number: 20250122036Abstract: A sheet feeder includes a sheet placement unit to place a sheet, and an indicator indicating a predetermined position at which the sheet is to be set on the sheet placement unit. The indicator is movable between a first position at which the indicator is adjacent to or in contact with the sheet on the sheet placement unit and a second position farther than the first position from the sheet placement unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi KUBO, Ryo KOBAYASHI, Ayumu HASHIMOTO, Shinya TAKAI, Takashi FUJII, Ryuichi SHIRANE, Takashi MUNAKATA, Makoto KURATA, Sakiko TOMIZAWA
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Publication number: 20250028172Abstract: A head mountable display device can include a frame defining an aperture, an optical assembly disposed in the aperture, and a curtain assembly extending between the frame and the optical assembly and occluding the aperture. The curtain assembly can include an elastic layer and an air-impermeable layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Hiroshi Kubo, Yinjuan He, Kristina A. Babiarz, Di Liu
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Publication number: 20240389286Abstract: An electronic assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an electronic component coupled to the PCB, an electrically conductive fence coupled to the PCB and surrounding a perimeter of the electronic component, and a fan assembly. The fan assembly includes a housing coupled to the fence and disposed over the electronic component and a plurality of fan blades configured to rotate within the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: November 21, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi Kubo, Yinjuan He, Kristina A. Babiarz, Noell G. Johnson, Sean M. Grove, Sina Bigdeli, Sivesh Selvakumar
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Patent number: 12138061Abstract: A pulse discrimination device is configured to receive an electrical signal from a living body in which a functional pulse propagates at a predetermined time interval, and is configured to discriminate between the functional pulse and a noise pulse which are included in the electrical signal. The pulse discrimination device includes: a pulse detector configured to sequentially detect an electrical pulse included in the electrical signal based on variation in an intensity of the electrical signal received from the living body; and a pulse discrimination unit configured to determine whether the electrical pulse detected by the pulse detector is the functional pulse or the noise pulse based on a detection interval of the electrical pulse detected by the pulse detector and a pulse time predetermined based on the predetermined time interval.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Koyanagi, Kazutora Iinuma, Hiroshi Kubo
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Patent number: 12093077Abstract: A head mountable display device can include a frame defining an aperture, an optical assembly disposed in the aperture, and a curtain assembly extending between the frame and the optical assembly and occluding the aperture. The curtain assembly can include an elastic layer and an air-impermeable layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Kubo, Yinjuan He, Kristina A. Babiarz, Di Liu
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Publication number: 20240255881Abstract: A drive transmission device includes a plurality of drive transmission units and a heat-resistant member. The drive transmission units include a plurality of drive transmission mechanisms to transmit drive force from a plurality of drive sources to a driven member. At least two drive sources of the drive sources are included in at least two drive transmission units of the drive transmission units. The at least two drive sources are disposed at substantially a same height and on a same side with respect to at least two drive transmission mechanisms of the drive transmission mechanisms that correspond to the at least two drive sources. The heat-resistant member is disposed at a position higher than the at least two drive sources in a use state. The at least two drive transmission mechanisms are shielded from the at least two drive sources by the heat-resistant member at the position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kimiharu YANAGISAWA, Shinya TAKAI, Ryohei MORISAKI, Takehisa SHIMAZU, Hiroshi KUBO, Shinya KITAOKA
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Publication number: 20230260699Abstract: An electrode foil having high capacitance per unit volume is provided. The electrode foil is an electrode foil for an electrolytic capacitor. The electrode foil is an electrode foil extending in a longitudinal direction and having a width direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, the electrode foil including an enlarged surface portion on a surface of the electrode foil, wherein a crack is formed in the enlarged surface portion in a direction oblique to the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi Kubo, Masaya Otsuka
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Patent number: 11671549Abstract: An image reading device and an image forming apparatus. The image reading device includes an image reader to read an image of a document, and a color reference component arranged to face the image reader. In the image reading device, the image reader reads the color reference component at a prescribed timing to obtain color reference image data, and correction data generating processes are executed based on the obtained color reference image data to generate correction data used to correct data of the image read by the image reader. In the image reading device, wherein the color reference component is moved relative to the image reader in a direction orthogonal to a direction toward and away from the image reader. The image forming apparatus includes the image reading device, and an image is formed on a recording material based on data of the image read by the image reading device.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Fumiyuki Heishi, Hiroshi Kubo, Shinya Kitaoka, Satoshi Saito, Yoshito Suzuki, Kimiharu Yanagisawa, Atsushi Kanaya
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Publication number: 20220381620Abstract: A thermosensitive probe includes: a non-metallic thermoconductive member defining a housing space; a thermosensitive element disposed in the housing space; and a coupling member having a portion surrounding the thermosensitive element in the housing space while fixing the thermosensitive element to the thermoconductive member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Hironori SUGAWARA, Hiroshi KUBO, Kohei OTAKA, Takuma SANO
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Patent number: 11483126Abstract: A physiological information system includes: a plurality of physiological information sensors configured to acquire physiological information data of a subject being tested, and a physiological information processing apparatus communicatively connected to each of the plurality of physiological information sensors. The physiological information processing apparatus is configured to transmit a synchronous packet toward each of the plurality of physiological information sensors.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Sugawara, Yukio Koyama, Hiroshi Kubo
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Patent number: 11441580Abstract: A solenoid valve system includes a supply solenoid valve, a plurality of exhaust solenoid valves, and a valve control section controlling opening and closing operation of the supply solenoid valve and the plurality of exhaust solenoid valves using PWM or PFM. The plurality of exhaust solenoid valves are disposed in parallel with each other. The supply solenoid valve and the plurality of exhaust solenoid valves have substantially identical flow rate characteristics. The number of the plurality of the exhaust solenoid valves is twice the number of the supply solenoid valve.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshinori Kurata, Hiroshi Kubo
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Patent number: 11433242Abstract: A pulse discrimination device is configured to receive electrical signals from a plurality of positions of a living body to which a pacing device for outputting a pacing pulse to cause a heart to beat is attached, and is configured to discriminate the pacing pulse included in the electrical signals. The pulse discrimination device includes: a differential processor configured to calculate a difference of the electrical signals received from the plurality of positions, a sum processor configured to calculate a sum of the electrical signals received from the plurality of positions, and a pulse discrimination unit configured to discriminate the pacing pulse included in the electrical signals based on the difference obtained by the differential processor and the sum obtained by the sum processor.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Koyanagi, Kazutora Iinuma, Hiroshi Kubo
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Publication number: 20220094815Abstract: An image reading device and an image forming apparatus. The image reading device includes an image reader to read an image of a document, and a color reference component arranged to face the image reader. In the image reading device, the image reader reads the color reference component at a prescribed timing to obtain color reference image data, and correction data generating processes are executed based on the obtained color reference image data to generate correction data used to correct data of the image read by the image reader. In the image reading device, wherein the color reference component is moved relative to the image reader in a direction orthogonal to a direction toward and away from the image reader. The image forming apparatus includes the image reading device, and an image is formed on a recording material based on data of the image read by the image reading device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Fumiyuki HEISHI, Hiroshi KUBO, Shinya KITAOKA, Satoshi SAITO, Yoshito SUZUKI, Kimiharu YANAGISAWA, Atsushi KANAYA
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Publication number: 20210361951Abstract: A pulse discrimination device is configured to receive electrical signals from a plurality of positions of a living body to which a pacing device for outputting a pacing pulse to cause a heart to beat is attached, and is configured to discriminate the pacing pulse included in the electrical signals. The pulse discrimination device includes: a differential processor configured to calculate a difference of the electrical signals received from the plurality of positions; a sum processor configured to calculate a sum of the electrical signals received from the plurality of positions; and a pulse discrimination unit configured to discriminate the pacing pulse included in the electrical signals based on the difference obtained by the differential processor and the sum obtained by the sum processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Takashi KOYANAGI, Kazutora IINUMA, Hiroshi KUBO
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Publication number: 20210362922Abstract: The present invention provides a packaging material that allows for lesser adsorption of a medicinal component on the material, that can be processed into a packaging pouch without using an adhesive, and that has excellent tearability. Specifically, the present invention provides a packaging material including, on or above one or both surfaces of a substrate, a primer layer and a low-adsorption coating layer with a grammage of 0.5 to 20 g/m2 in this order, wherein the primer layer contains an acid-modified product of a block copolymer that contains a block A containing a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound, and a block B containing a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound and/or an acid-modified product of a hydrogenated product of the block copolymer; and the low-adsorption coating layer contains a cyclic polyolefin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: TOYO ALUMINIUM KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuya Terasawa, Keiichi Kanno, Hiroshi Kubo, Hiroki Ishii, Ryota Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11115561Abstract: An inclination detecting device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect, in image information that is an image of an object imaged by an imaging device at an imaging position where a background member forms a background, a first boundary between the background member and a shadow of the object; detect a second boundary between the object and the shadow of the object in the image information; and detect an inclination of the object in the image information from the first boundary and the second boundary detected by the processing circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Tsukahara, Hiroki Shirado, Ayumu Hashimoto, Yuuki Nakada, Tomohiko Ono, Tatsuya Ozaki, Hiroshi Kubo, Yoshiaki Nagao, Kimiharu Yanagisawa, Masahiro Itoh
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Patent number: 11106067Abstract: To provide a display device that implements highly reliable waterproofness without reducing the ratio of a display member in a housing. The display device includes a display member having a flat-plate shape, a frame provided on a peripheral edge of a back surface facing a display surface of the display member, and a housing member provided on a side surface of the display member to surround the display surface, in which the housing member is provided with adhesive members on surfaces substantially parallel to the display surface and different from each other on a long side and a short side of the housing member, and at least one or more corners of four corners of the display surface are provided with a connecting adhesive member that connects the adhesive member of the long side of the housing member and the adhesive member of the short side of the housing member.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyohito Fujita, Takuya Inaba, Takashi Arai, Hiroshi Kubo, Yasuhiro Kageyama, Tomohito Oda, Koichiro Takashima
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Patent number: 11102364Abstract: An inclination detecting device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect, in image information that is an image of an object imaged by an imaging device at an imaging position where a background member forms a background, a first boundary between the background member and a shadow of the object at detection positions in at least one of main-scanning and sub-scanning directions on an outline of the object; detect a second boundary between the object and the shadow of the object at detection positions in at least one of the main-scanning and sub-scanning directions on the outline of the object in the image information; detect a boundary group including detection results of the second boundary at the detection positions; and detect an inclination of the object in the image information from detection results of the first boundary, the second boundary, and the boundary group.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yuuki Nakada, Hajime Tsukahara, Hiroki Shirado, Ayumu Hashimoto, Tomohiko Ono, Tatsuya Ozaki, Hiroshi Kubo, Yoshiaki Nagao, Kimiharu Yanagisawa, Masahiro Itoh
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Patent number: 11102365Abstract: An edge detecting device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire first color information and second color information in an image including a document region and a background region outside the document region. The first color information is color information of the background region and the second color information is color information of the document region. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a boundary between the background region and the document region from a change in color information between the first color information and the second color information.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tomohiko Ono, Hajime Tsukahara, Hiroki Shirado, Ayumu Hashimoto, Yuuki Nakada, Tatsuya Ozaki, Hiroshi Kubo, Yoshiaki Nagao, Kimiharu Yanagisawa, Masahiro Itoh