Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Matsumoto

Hiroshi Matsumoto 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).

  • DEVICE FOR FORMING AMORPHOUS FILM AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME
    Publication number: 20140335283
    Abstract: PROBLEM: To provide a large device and a method which is advantageous for forming a large-area amorphous film. SOLUTION: A device of the invention sprays a flame including a particulate material with a spraying machine toward a substrate, melts the material with the flame, and cools the material and flame by cooling gas before they reach the substrate to form an amorphous film. The spraying machine has particulate material spraying ports and flame spraying ports such that the flame including the material has an oblong cross section. Inert gas spraying ports are successively placed on both sides across the ports of the material and flame. Mist spraying ports are successively placed on both sides across the ports for the material, flame and inert gas. A skirt is attached/detached depending on a combustion gas or a film width to restrain film width narrowing and increase of film thickness deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Ryurou Kurahashi, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Junji Takehara, Yoshihisa Fukutome
  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140295766
    Abstract: To perform a communication by selecting an appropriate communication path when there are a plurality of communication paths between two wireless communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi MATSUMOTO, Yutaka AKAHORI, Hirofumi MIYAMOTO, Norihiko YAMADA
  • Image forming apparatus improved in operability for print job involving single-sided printing and double-sided printing
    Patent number: 8843055
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of improving productivity in a print job mixedly involving single-sided printing and double-sided printing. Sheets are fed one by one to an image forming section. When double-sided printing is to be performed, a sheet having an image formed on the first side thereof by the image forming section is re-fed thereto so as to have an image formed on the second side thereof. When a sheet for double-sided printing exists, which is posterior in page order to a sheet for single-sided printing, an image forming order is changed such that the first side of the sheet for double-sided printing is subjected to image formation prior to the sheet for single-sided printing. When it is predicted that a state will occur in which the sheet for single-sided printing cannot be fed, the image forming order is not changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenori Matsumoto, Takayuki Fujii, Akinobu Nishikata, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Katsuya Nakama
  • Method for producing amide compound
    Patent number: 8816069
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a high purity, high quality amide compound, particularly, lactam. A first embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that an amount of each of a halide, an aldehyde compound, an alcohol compound and a nitrile compound contained in a solution recycled into an oxime-forming step is controlled to an amount of 0.4 mol % or less based on the ketone as a starting material. A second embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of a ketone, an oxime and an amide compound are purified by hydrogenation and/or crystallization for eliminating impurities containing a double bond. A third embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that a content of impurities having a cyclic bridge structure is controlled by using a cycloalkanone purified by recrystallization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Kugimoto, Joji Kawai, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Hollow fiber membrane element, frame for hollow fiber membrane element, and membrane filtration apparatus
    Patent number: 8795526
    Abstract: A membrane filtration apparatus is provided in which a hollow fiber membrane element 1 including a water collecting cap 20 having a water collecting port and a groove and being engaged liquid-tightly with a bundle of a hollow fiber membrane is engaged with a frame 60 having supporting beams 65 to be fitted in the grooves. The engagement and the rotation of the hollow fiber membrane element 1 is possible merely by inserting the supporting beams 65 into the grooves formed in the water collecting cap 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Masaki Iwanaga
  • Image forming device and control method thereof
    Patent number: 8787785
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: an image forming section, a fixing unit, an oscillation mechanism and a controller. The image forming section forms an image on paper. The fixing unit thermally fixes the image on the paper by using a fixing rotating member to pinch and convey the paper. The oscillation mechanism oscillates at least the entire fixing rotating member of the fixing unit in an axis direction thereof. The controller determines an oscillation quantity of the fixing rotating member based on rigidity of the paper in a state where the paper is pinched and conveyed by the fixing rotating member and another rotating member at the same time, and oscillates the fixing rotating member using the oscillation mechanism with the determined oscillation quantity. The controller determines the oscillation quantity of the fixing rotating member to be reduced as rigidity of the paper becomes lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD
    Publication number: 20140153021
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus divides image data into a plurality of image regions in a sub-scanning direction and performs predetermined processing on the image data of each divided image region so as to form an image on a recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects whether the image data of the image region is blank data; a storage unit that stores the image data of the image region that has been subjected to detection; and a control unit that controls whether to cause the detection unit to perform the detection depending on a predetermined printing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Image forming apparatus improved in operability for print job involving single-sided printing and double-sided printing
    Patent number: 8744335
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of improving productivity in a print job mixedly involving single-sided printing and double-sided printing. Sheets are fed one by one to an image forming section. When double-sided printing is to be performed, a sheet having an image formed on the first side thereof by the image forming section is re-fed thereto so as to have an image formed on the second side thereof. When a sheet for double-sided printing exists, which is posterior in page order to a sheet for single-sided printing, an image forming order is changed such that the first side of the sheet for double-sided printing is subjected to image formation prior to the sheet for single-sided printing. When it is predicted that a state will occur in which the sheet for single-sided printing cannot be fed, the image forming order is not changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenori Matsumoto, Takayuki Fujii, Akinobu Nishikata, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Katsuya Nakama
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TRANSLATION CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20140147169
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing unit that heats and presses a recording sheet having a toner image formed thereon, by means of a fixing nip portion to thereby fix the toner image to the recording sheet; a translation section that translates the fixing unit in a direction that is orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording sheet; and a controlling section that controls the translation section so that the fixing unit is translated by a translation amount that is one-half of a value obtained by subtracting an image width of the toner image from a sheet width of the recording sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunori NISHINOUE, Hiroshi MATSUMOTO, Makoto FUJII, Miho YAMANO, Taizou OONISHI
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FORMING AN IMAGE
    Publication number: 20140147151
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing member; a moving section that moves the fixing member in a sheet width direction; a temperature detection section disposed at a position corresponding to an end portion of the fixing member, the temperature detection section moving together with the fixing member to detect a temperature of the end portion; and a control section that performs a first movement control and a second movement control on the basis of a result of a detection by the temperature detection section, the first movement control being intended to move the fixing member in the sheet width direction in a reciprocating manner with a predetermined cycle, the second movement control being intended to move the fixing member in the sheet width direction so that the temperature of the fixing member falls within a predetermined temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Taizou OONISHI, Makoto FUJII, Miho YAMANO, Kazunori NISHINOUE, Hiroshi MATSUMOTO
  • MULTI CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING METHOD AND MULTI CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140124684
    Abstract: A multi charged particle beam writing method includes performing ON/OFF switching of a beam by an individual blanking system for the beam concerned, for each beam in multi-beams of charged particle beam, with respect to each time irradiation of irradiation of a plurality of times, by using a plurality of individual blanking systems that respectively perform beam ON/OFF control of a corresponding beam in the multi-beams, and performing blanking control, in addition to the performing ON/OFF switching of the beam for the each beam by the individual blanking system, with respect to the each time irradiation of the irradiation of the plurality of times, so that the beam is in an ON state during an irradiation time corresponding to irradiation concerned, by using a common blanking system that collectively performs beam ON/OFF control for a whole of the multi-beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc
    Inventors: Hiroshi MATSUMOTO, Tomohiro Iijima, Munehiro Ogasawara, Hideo Inoue, Ryoichi Yoshikawa
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING AMIDE COMPOUND
    Publication number: 20140114061
    Abstract: A method for producing a high purity, high quality amide compound, particularly a lactam. An amount of each of a halide, an aldehyde compound, an alcohol compound and a nitrile compound contained in a solution recycled into an oxime-forming step is controlled to an amount of 0.4 mol % or less based on the ketone as a starting material. One or more of a ketone, an oxime and an amide compound are purified by hydrogenation and/or crystallization for eliminating impurities containing a double bond. A content of impurities having a cyclic bridge structure is controlled using a cycloalkanone purified by recrystallization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Kugimoto, Joji Kawai, Kazuo Yamato, Masahide Okada, Tsunemi Sugimoto, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING AMIDE COMPOUND
    Publication number: 20140114062
    Abstract: A method for producing a high purity, high quality amide compound, particularly a lactam. An amount of each of a halide, an aldehyde compound, an alcohol compound and a nitrile compound contained in a solution recycled into an oxime-forming step is controlled to an amount of 0.4 mol % or less based on the ketone as a starting material. One or more of a ketone, an oxime and an amide compound are purified by hydrogenation and/or crystallization for eliminating impurities containing a double bond. A content of impurities having a cyclic bridge structure is controlled using a cycloalkanone purified by recrystallization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Kugimoto, Joji Kawai, Kazuo Yamato, Masahide Okada, Tsunemi Sugimoto, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Traffic signal control system, traffic signal control apparatus, and traffic signal control method
    Patent number: 8698651
    Abstract: Provided is a traffic signal control system that can operate in a flexible and sophisticated manner by, after selecting a pattern of a traffic signal control parameter corresponding to the current time using a first pattern switching table that is used in a time-controlled pattern selection scheme, selecting again a pattern using an additional second pattern switching table, where a call condition for selecting a set pattern is set in the second pattern switching table, and by selecting the pattern set in the second pattern switching table in place of the pattern selected in the first pattern switching table if a calculated travel time matches the call condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Nishimura, Katsuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Light emitting device and electronic device
    Patent number: 8692458
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, and a light emitting layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; a capacitor having a third electrode formed in a position overlapping the light emitting element and an insulating layer provided between the first and third electrodes; a first drive transistor disposed on a first side of the first electrode and having a gate electrode; and a second drive transistor disposed on a second side of the first electrode and having a gate electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first drive transistor via the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Kunihiro Matsuda
  • Pulse abnormality detecting device
    Patent number: 8647283
    Abstract: A pulse abnormality detecting device comprises a band attached to a wrist, a first sliding member with which the band is armored and which slides in the circumference direction of the band along the band, a second sliding member which is slidably provided on the first sliding member and which slides in the axis direction of the band, a pulse sensor which is provided on the second sliding member and which is provided in such a manner that the position of the sensor can be adjusted to the inner side or the side of the band, and a pulse abnormality detecting unit for detecting the abnormality of the pulse from the output data of the pulse sensor. The device can accurately detect the pulse of a user with high precision, adapting to a personal difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: The Matsumoto Institute of Leading Edge of Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Kazuko Komatsu
  • Charged particle beam writing apparatus and charged particle beam writing method
    Patent number: 8610091
    Abstract: A charged particle beam writing apparatus according to an embodiment, includes a first dose calculating unit configured to calculate a first dose map for each set of a proximity effect correction coefficient map and a base dose map of a beam; a dimension map creation unit configured to create a dimension map of a pattern by using the first dose map calculated for each set; an adder configured to add dimensions of all sets for each position of the dimension map by using the dimension map of each set; a set map creation unit configured to create a set of a proximity effect correction coefficient map and a base dose map by using an added dimension map after addition; and a second dose calculating unit configured to calculate a second dose map by using a created set of the proximity effect correction coefficient map and the base dose map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Solid-state imaging device and driving method of solid-state imaging device
    Patent number: 8575532
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device of the present invention is capable of thinning signals for each column. The solid-state imaging device includes: photo diodes, a drain into which charges transferred by first column CCDs are swept-off, and transfer control units each of which is provided to the corresponding first column CCDs, and transfers, to a row CCD and to the drain, the charges transferred by the corresponding first column CCDs. Each of the transfer control units includes: a second column CCD which transfers, in a column direction, the charges transferred by the first column CCDs corresponding to the transfer control unit, and a column CCD terminal gate which is provided between the second column CCD and the row CCD, and forms a potential barrier between the second column CCD and the row CCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Mamoru Iesaka, Sei Suzuki, Katsuya Furukawa
  • COMPOSITE TYPE TARGET, NEUTRON GENERATING METHOD IN USE THEREOF AND NEUTRON GENERATING APPARATUS IN USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130279638
    Abstract: A target is provided herein such that the radioactivation of a member thereof due to protons may be reduced. In order to reduce the radioactivation of the member due to protons, a novel target composed by compositing a beryllium material (or lithium material) and a nonmetal material is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Inter-University Research Insitute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Masakazu Yoshioka
  • Image forming system
    Patent number: 8561978
    Abstract: An image forming system having: a sheet feeding unit which cuts a roll sheet and feeds cut sheets; a stack unit which stacks and stores the sheets fed by the sheet feeding unit and feeds the stored sheets; an image forming portion which forms an image on the sheets fed from the stack unit; and a controlling unit configured to control the feeding unit and the stack unit so that the stack unit feeds a sheet stored in the stack unit to the image forming portion when the sheet feeding unit feeds a sheet to the stack unit so as to stack the sheet from the sheet feeding unit into the stack unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Takahashi, Naohisa Nagata, Akinobu Nishikata, Nobuo Sekiguchi, Tadaaki Saida, Satoshi Okawa, Satoru Yamamoto, Hiroshi Matsumoto