Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Maeda

Hiroshi Maeda 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: 9905141
    Abstract: An image output apparatus is disclosed that is capable of switching between a normal status and a low power status in which consumption power is lower than that in the normal status. The image output apparatus includes an interface for acquiring an image signal; a signal detector configured to detect a signal at the interface; and a switching controller configured to switch a status from the low power status to the normal status based on a detection result of the signal in the low power status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ozaki, Hiroki Mori, Ryo Iwasaki, Miki Oouchi, Rie Nakamura, Hiroshi Maeda, Shigeyuki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20170352474
    Abstract: A coil device includes a bobbin, a first winding part, and a second winding part. A partition portion is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the bobbin. The first winding part is wound around the outer peripheral surface at one side of the partition portion. The second winding part is wound around the outer peripheral surface at the other side of the partition portion and has an inner winding layer and an outer winding layer located farther to the outer peripheral surface at the other side than the inner winding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Masaaki IWAKURA, Katsuhiro ISHIGAKI, Hiroshi MAEDA, Satoshi SHINBO, Nobuo KITAJIMA
  • Patent number: 9793044
    Abstract: A coil device includes a bobbin, a first winding part, and a second winding part. A partition portion is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the bobbin. The first winding part is wound around the outer peripheral surface at one side of the partition portion. The second winding part is wound around the outer peripheral surface at the other side of the partition portion and has an inner winding layer and an outer winding layer located farther to the outer peripheral surface at the other side than the inner winding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Iwakura, Katsuhiro Ishigaki, Hiroshi Maeda, Satoshi Shinbo, Nobuo Kitajima
  • Publication number: 20170280984
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorescent molecular probe for efficient fluorescent detection (visualization) of tumors or for implementing fluorescent detection and photodynamic treatment, more specifically, the present invention provides a macromolecular fluorescent molecular probe for fluorescent detection of tumor, comprising a complex comprising a fluorescent molecule and a biocompatible macromolecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20170266883
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to provide data for manufacturing an object to an additive manufacturing apparatus that manufactures the object by layering a material based on a cross-sectional shape of the object. The information processing apparatus includes a memory storing a program and a processor configured to execute the program to implement processes of detecting a shape change coordinate at which a shape of the object changes based on data relating to the shape of the object, determining a height at which the cross-sectional shape of the object is to be generated such that the height includes the shape change coordinate, and generating the cross-sectional shape of the object at the determined height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki YUJI, Hiroshi MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20170266884
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to provide an additive manufacturing apparatus with data for creating a modeling object. The additive manufacturing apparatus includes a layering part configured to layer a material and move in accordance with trajectory information to create the modeling object. The information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to create a cross-sectional shape of the modeling object using data on the shape of the modeling object, create the trajectory information based on the created cross-sectional shape, and create width information to dynamically vary the width of the material to be layered based on the trajectory information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi MAEDA
  • Patent number: 9701977
    Abstract: Prephenate dehydrogenases and arogenate dehydrogenase polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences are provided herein. These polypeptides are all insensitive to effector based feedback inhibition. Polypeptides with these activities and lacking feedback inhibition by the product were not previously identified and characterized from plants. The polypeptides may be used to generate constructs and transgenic cells or plants. Methods of increasing production of products of the tyrosine or HPP pathway by increasing expression of the polynucleotides provided herein in plants or cells overexpressing the polypeptides are provided. In addition overexpression of the polypeptides in plant cells increases resistance to herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Hiroshi A. Maeda, Craig Albert Schenck
  • Publication number: 20170165918
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus used for an additive manufacturing system includes a circuitry configured to calculate a contact area of a contact face of a three dimensional (3D) model that contacts a base member of an additive manufacturing apparatus, calculate an adhesive force that is to occur to the contact face of the 3D model and the base member, rotate the 3D model by changing an angle of the 3D model with respect to a 3D modeling area, calculate a warping force that is to occur to the 3D model when the 3D model is to be formed into a 3D object under each orientation set for the 3D model by rotating the 3D model by changing the angle of the 3D model with respect to the 3D modeling area, and search for a target orientation of the 3D model where the warping force becomes smaller than the adhesive force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: YASUAKI YUJI, Koji KOBAYASHI, Reiji YUKUMOTO, Hiroshi MAEDA, Yang FEI
  • Patent number: 9666926
    Abstract: A power supply line for high-frequency current has a two-layered tubular conductor including an inner tube portion and an outer tube portion which is concentric to the inner tube portion and integrally linked thereto by four connecting portions along the entire length in the longitudinal direction. The four connecting portions are circumferentially disposed at predetermined intervals. By providing the four connection portions between the inner tube portion and the outer tube portion, it is possible to more accurately position the inner tube portion and to reduce high frequency resistance when compared with the likes of conventional power supply lines for high-frequency current having only one connecting portion between an inner tube portion and an outer tube portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Futabatake, Hiroshi Maeda, Kouichi Teraura, Yukihiro Matsunobu, Masato Toki, Shinji Hara
  • Publication number: 20170124223
    Abstract: A modeling processing system is provided. The modeling processing system includes an acquisition unit, a memory, and a searching unit. The acquisition unit acquires information on a surface profile of a target three-dimensional object from a reading unit. The target three-dimensional object is a target for a modeling processing. The memory stores, for a plurality of modeled objects, a plurality of modeled object information, and each modeled object information includes surface profile information and internal structure information of the modeled object. The searching unit specifies, from among the plurality of modeled object information stored in the memory, at least one of the plurality of modeled object information based on the information on the surface profile of the target three-dimensional object acquired by the acquisition unit, as a candidate modeled object information for the modeling processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAEDA, Reiji YUKUMOTO, Koji KOBAYASHI, Yasuaki YUJI, Yang FEI, Shigeyuki ISHll
  • Patent number: 9636426
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorescent molecular probe for efficient fluorescent detection (visualization) of tumors or for implementing fluorescent detection and photodynamic treatment, more specifically, the present invention provides a macromolecular fluorescent molecular probe for fluorescent detection of tumor, comprising a complex comprising a fluorescent molecule and a biocompatibie macromolecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maeda, Makoto Hashizume, Jun Fang, Hideaki Nakamura, Haibo Qin, Steffen Hackbarth, Masaharu Murata
  • Patent number: 9564087
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a display unit including two substrates and an electrophoretic element containing electrophoretic particles disposed between the two substrates, and able to display at least a first color and a second color; a processor unit having a first mode and a second mode of lower power consumption than the first mode; a time information generating unit that generates time information; and a drawing unit that displays an image on the display unit. The time information generating unit includes a timer that counts time, and sends a counting completed signal to the processor unit when the timer counts a specific image; and the processor unit goes from the first mode to the second mode after starting counting by the timer in the first mode, and when the counting completed signal is then received, goes from the second mode to the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20170018236
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display control device applies a first voltage to a first electrode and applies a second voltage to a second electrode during a display rewriting period in a display unit in which a dispersion liquid containing particles are arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode that is a pixel electrode, and applies a third voltage that is lower than the first voltage to the first electrode and applies a fourth voltage that is lower than the second voltage to the second electrode during a display retention period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 9529588
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus stores configuration information including sets of version information of modules of firmware in the apparatus; obtains, based on the configuration information, firmware information including sets of version information of modules of firmware in a latest version; compares the sets of version information in the configuration information with those in the firmware information, and, when the sets of version information in the configuration information are not coincident with those in the firmware information, determines that it is possible to update the firmware in the apparatus; downloads the firmware in the latest version; and compares the sets of version information in the downloaded firmware with those in the configuration information, and updates only the module of the firmware in the apparatus for which the version information in the downloaded firmware is different from that in the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maeda, Miki Oouchi, Rie Nakamura, Shigeyuki Ishii, Ryo Iwasaki, Hiroki Ozaki, Hiroki Mori
  • Patent number: 9489984
    Abstract: A display apparatus which can communicate with an information terminal via a network is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives content data which are caused to be displayed on the display apparatus and reproduction control information on reproduction of the content data from the information terminal, an execution information generation unit which causes the reproduction control information to be execution information corresponding to the display apparatus, and a display unit which causes the content data to be displayed on the display apparatus based on the execution information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20160317672
    Abstract: The present invention provides a group of novel SMA derivatives and a covalent conjugate of the derivatives and an active substance. More specifically, the present invention provides: an SMA derivative which contains (i) a styrene-maleic acid copolymer (SMA) and (ii) a side chain (b) that contains a functional group (a) selected from among —NH2, —SH, —OH, —COOH, —NH—(C?NH)—NH2 and —C(CH2—OH)3 and introduced into a carboxyl group of a maleic acid residue of the SMA via an amide bond or an ester bond, and wherein when a plurality of side chain (b) is introduced into the SMA, the side chains (b) may be identical or different from each other; and a conjugate of this SMA derivative and an active substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20160293317
    Abstract: A coil device includes a bobbin, a first winding part, and a second winding part. A partition portion is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the bobbin. The first winding part is wound around the outer peripheral surface at one side of the partition portion. The second winding part is wound around the outer peripheral surface at the other side of the partition portion and has an inner winding layer and an outer winding layer located farther to the outer peripheral surface at the other side than the inner winding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Masaaki IWAKURA, Katsuhiro ISHIGAKI, Hiroshi MAEDA, Satoshi SINBO, Nobuo KITAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160267878
    Abstract: A display control apparatus is connected to another display control apparatus. The display control apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a content; a request reception unit configured to receive a request about the content; a display request generation unit configured to generate a plurality of display requests for controlling display statuses of contents displayed by the display control apparatus and the other display control apparatus synchronously in response to the request, the display requests including a first display request for controlling the display status of the content of the other display control apparatus and a second display request for controlling the display status of the content of the display control apparatus; a communication unit configured to transmit the first display request to the other display control apparatus; and a display control unit configured to control the display status of the content based on the second display request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maeda, Sachiko Abe
  • Patent number: 9361219
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first storage unit configured to store a set value indicating a value corresponding to a set item to define a function and flag information indicating whether an initialization of the set value is required, a second storage unit configured to store a flag address identifying a storage location of the flag information in the first storage unit in association with the set item at least, and an initialization unit configured to identify the flag information for each set item by using the flag address corresponding to each set item, and if the identified flag address indicates that the initialization is required, initialize the set value corresponding to the set item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Iwasaki, Reiji Yukumoto, Yoshifumi Kawai, Hiroshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 9360919
    Abstract: A processing device includes a plurality of input units configured to input a process request; a plurality of processing units configured to execute a process corresponding to the process request input by the plurality of input units; a power control unit configured to transfer the processing device into a power saving state and to transfer the processing device back to a regular state from the power saving state; and an operation suppression control unit configured to send an operation suppression request to the plurality of input units and the plurality of processing units before the power control unit transfers the processing device into the power saving state, and to send an operation suppression release request to the plurality of input units and the plurality of processing units when the power control unit transfers the processing device back to the regular state from the power saving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Iwasaki, Reiji Yukumoto, Yoshifumi Kawai, Hiroshi Maeda, Daigo Uchiyama