Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Morimoto
Hiroshi Morimoto 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: 20160378035Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit including a rotating member and being configured to form an image on a paper sheet in accordance with print job data; a rotation position detecting unit configured to detect a rotation position of the rotating member; an image density detecting unit configured to detect a density in an image formed on an image carrier; an image information analyzing unit configured to analyze image information in the print job data; a density profile managing unit configured to form a correction patch image on the image carrier, and create and manage a density profile indicating periodical density unevenness; a correction data creating unit configured to create correction data; a density correcting unit configured to perform density correction; and a density correction control unit configured to predict an appearance of periodical density unevenness, and set conditions for the density correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Kei OKAMURA, HIROSHI MORIMOTO, WATARU WATANABE, SHUNICHI TAKAYA
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Publication number: 20160266533Abstract: An image forming apparatus uses a first developer conveyance amount and a first correction amount calculated respectively in a first state, a second developer conveyance amount and a second correction amount calculated respectively in a second state in which the developer conveyance amount is smaller than the developer conveyance amount of the first state, and a third developer conveyance amount detected in a third state in which the developer conveyance amount is smaller than the developer conveyance amount of the first state and is larger than the developer conveyance amount of the second state to calculate a third correction amount for correcting density unevenness of the toner image in the third state, and perform control to correct the density unevenness of the toner image based on the calculated third correction amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Shunichi TAKAYA, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Wataru WATANABE, Kei OKAMURA
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Patent number: 9436143Abstract: A fixing apparatus includes a heating unit configured to heat an endless belt stretched around a plurality of rollers, a lower pressure roller pressed into contact with the fixing belt, and a control unit configured to control the temperature of the fixing belt by controlling the heating unit, and fixes an unfixed toner image formed on a continuous paper to the continuous paper by heat from the heated object under a nipping pressure applied at the nip portion which is formed by engagement between the fixing belt and the lower pressure roller. The control unit controls the temperature of the fixing belt to be a stand-by temperature lower than such a first temperature, which is set up in advance, that paper trouble might occur if the continuous paper is continuously heated at a temperature not lower than the first temperature in a stand-by state in which fixing is not performed.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Tetsuya Ishikawa, Hiroshi Morimoto, Kazuteru Ishizuka, Kei Okamura
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Patent number: 9420725Abstract: A controller and indoor unit introducing outdoor air and/or return air from an air conditioning control target, and discharging introduced air to the air conditioning control target as supply air. The indoor unit includes a first space including an outdoor air introducing unit introducing outdoor air, a cooler, and a second space including a return air introducing unit introducing return air from the air conditioning control target. The controller, after determining air conditioning control on the air conditioning control target is necessary, introduces the outdoor air to the first space through the outdoor air introducing unit, subjecting such to cooling by the cooler and/or dehumidification to result in processed outdoor air, and introduces the return air to the second space through the return air introducing unit, where the processed outdoor air is mixed with the return air and supplied to the air conditioning control target as the supply air.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Makoto Honda, Hiroshi Morimoto, Kazuhide Sato, Hideyoshi Ootani, Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Dai Murayama, Yasuo Takagi
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Publication number: 20160195290Abstract: According to an embodiment, an air-conditioning controller configured to control an air-conditioning system including a heat source device that supplies a refrigerant for cooling air to an air conditioner includes: a comfort index range recorder for storing a target range of a comfort index of a sensation of warmth of human; a comfort index calculator for calculating the comfort index based on a temperature measured value or a humidity measured value according to an air-conditioning subject obtained by a measured value obtaining unit, and an airflow speed according to the air-conditioning subject; a blast fan controller configured to control changing a wind speed from a blast fan to high when the comfort index is out of the target range; and a consumption energy controller configured to control the heat source device to decrease consumption energy after changing the wind speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Kenzo YONEZAWA, Yasuo TAKAGI, Nobutaka NISHIMURA, Yuuichi HANADA, Naoki MAKINO, Hiroshi MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 9307679Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, a server room managing air conditioning system includes: a first coil; a second coil; and an air supply fan. The first coil adjusts returned air of a server room to a predetermined temperature value lower than a supplied air temperature target value and dehumidifies the returned air. The second coil adjusts the returned air of the server room to a predetermined temperature value higher than the supplied air temperature target value so that the supplied air temperature target value and a supplied air humidity target value can be achieved when the returned air is mixed with air adjusted by the first coil. The air supply fan mixes the returned air and supplies the mixed returned air as the supplied air to the server room.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Dai Murayama, Yasuo Takagi, Yuuichi Hanada, Hideyoshi Ootani, Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Hiroshi Morimoto, Koubun Takahashi
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Patent number: 9269169Abstract: A vehicle display apparatus includes a display panel to be placed at a position where a driver visually recognizes the display panel and to display information related to vehicle traveling status. The display panel includes a first display area for displaying a first information and a second display area for displaying second information. The vehicle display apparatus further includes a first display control portion for obtaining the first information, and a second display control portion for obtaining the second information and displaying the second information. A vehicle display apparatus includes the display panel which has a third display area for displaying third information and a fourth display area for displaying fourth information. The vehicle display apparatus further includes a third display control portion and a fourth display control portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Morimoto, Takeshi Kawashima, Hiroya Takikawa
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Patent number: 9260013Abstract: An awareness level improvement device has an input portion, a determination portion, and a controller. Data related to the awareness level of the driver is input into the input portion. The determination portion determines whether the driver is in a absentminded state based on the data input into the input portion. The controller controls an execution portion to execute an application improving the awareness level of the driver when the determination portion determines that the driver is driving in the absentminded state. The application includes a body motion application that prompts the driver to perform a body motion.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Kume, Takahiro Naito, Yukari Ito, Shinya Matsunaga, Kiyotaka Taguchi, Hiroshi Morimoto
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Patent number: 9237680Abstract: In an embodiment, an air conditioning system for managing a server room, which has first and second spaces separated from each other, in which a server is installed between the first and second spaces, and supply air flowed into the first space is heated by heat generation of the server, and flows out as return air via the second space, includes: a cold air generation device; an air supply fan; a first differential pressure gauge; and a control device. The cold air generation device generates supply air satisfying a predetermined condition. The air supply fan flows the generated supply air into the first space. The first differential pressure gauge measures a differential pressure of a static pressure of the second space with respect to a static pressure of the first space.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Dai Murayama, Yasuo Takagi, Yuuichi Hanada, Hideyoshi Ootani, Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Hiroshi Morimoto, Koubun Takahashi
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Publication number: 20150355584Abstract: A fixing apparatus includes a heating unit configured to heat an endless belt stretched around a plurality of rollers, a lower pressure roller pressed into contact with the fixing belt, and a control unit configured to control the temperature of the fixing belt by controlling the heating unit, and fixes an unfixed toner image formed on a continuous paper to the continuous paper by heat from the heated object under a nipping pressure applied at the nip portion which is formed by engagement between the fixing belt and the lower pressure roller. The control unit controls the temperature of the fixing belt to be a stand-by temperature lower than such a first temperature, which is set up in advance, that paper trouble might occur if the continuous paper is continuously heated at a temperature not lower than the first temperature in a stand-by state in which fixing is not performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Tetsuya ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Kazuteru ISHIZUKA, Kei OKAMURA
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Patent number: 9188356Abstract: According one embodiment, an air-conditioning system is connected to a server room, in which server racks accommodating a plurality of servers are placed between separated first and second spaces, by a return air duct and a supply air duct. In the server room, an airflow is formed so that cold air flown from under the floor into the first space is heated by heat generation of the servers and is flown out from the second space as return air. The system sets control contents for generating supply air within a previously determined supply air temperature target range and a previously determined supply air humidity target range and controls the operation of each device in the system based on the set control contents.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Dai Murayama, Yasuo Takagi, Yuuichi Hanada, Hideyoshi Ootani, Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Hiroshi Morimoto, Koubun Takahashi
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Patent number: 9185829Abstract: A system for a server room management includes an air-conditioning control device including: an acquisition unit; a setting unit that sets content for generating supply air at temperature, absolute humidity, and relative humidity within target range, based on outside air temperature and humidity as well as return air temperature; and a controller controlling amount of outside air, amount of return air, control amount of humidifier, control amount of cooler, and amount of air blown by blower, based on the content. If the outside air is within range greater than absolute humidity upper limit, or within range greater than enthalpy upper limit and greater than the temperature upper limit, the setting unit compares outside air and return air, and then determines, in accordance with the comparison, whether to set the content so that the cooler performs cooling by minimizing or maximizing the amount of the outside air.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Dai Murayama, Yasuo Takagi, Hideyoshi Ootani, Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Yuuichi Hanada, Hiroshi Morimoto, Kobun Takahashi
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Publication number: 20150316878Abstract: A method of controlling an image forming apparatus, an image forming apparatus and image forming system are described, with which banner paper can be processed by appropriately detecting the banner paper in the fixing position when the conveyance of the banner paper is halted. The image forming apparatus comprises a paper conveying unit for conveying banner paper, an image forming unit for transferring an image to the banner paper, a fixing unit for fixing the image to the banner paper in a fixing nip by heating and pressing the banner paper conveyed along a conveying route, and a control unit. This control unit identifies information about the paper position which coincides with the fixing nip when the conveyance of the banner paper is halted and information about the amount of paper deformation of the banner paper in the paper position, and outputs the information which is identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: Kazuteru ISHIZUKA, Tetsuya ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Kei OKAMURA
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Publication number: 20150216086Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, a server room managing air conditioning system includes: a first coil; a second coil; and an air supply fan. The first coil adjusts returned air of a server room to a predetermined temperature value lower than a supplied air temperature target value and dehumidifies the returned air. The second coil adjusts the returned air of the server room to a predetermined temperature value higher than the supplied air temperature target value so that the supplied air temperature target value and a supplied air humidity target value can be achieved when the returned air is mixed with air adjusted by the first coil. The air supply fan mixes the returned air and supplies the mixed returned air as the supplied air to the server room.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Dai Murayama, Yasuo Takagi, Yuuichi Hanada, Hideyoshi Ootani, Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Hiroshi Morimoto, Koubun Takahashi
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Patent number: 9046810Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an image carrying member on a surface of which a latent image is formed, a developing roller to develop the latent image on the surface of the image carrying member by providing a developer to the latent image, a smoother, an applying roller to apply the smoother to the surface of the image carrying member, and a controller to determine whether the image forming apparatus is in a waiting mode wherein the image carrying member is moved and is ready for a subsequent image forming operation. The controller controls a rotation and a stop of the rotation of the developing roller when the controller determines that the image forming apparatus is in the waiting mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Hiroshi Morimoto
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Patent number: 9033776Abstract: An embodiment includes a first space, a second space, a first damper, a second damper, and a third damper. The first space is connected to a cold space, having cold air reside therein to send to the cold space. The second space has return air reside therein, as it is discharged from a hot space. The first damper has an opening adjusted under control of a controller to take in outdoor air to the first space, and is operable to have an open state in an emergency with a server being supplied with power. The second damper has an opening adjusted under control of the controller to discharge return air in the second space, outside thereof, and is operable to have an open state in the emergency. The third damper has an opening adjusted under control of the controller to recirculate return air in the second space to the first space.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Yuuichi Hanada, Hideyoshi Ootani, Yasuo Takagi, Dai Murayama, Hiroshi Morimoto, Koubun Takahashi
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Publication number: 20150081528Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a system for providing an energy creation service of a turbine generator. The users can receive a desired energy creation service without any initial investment and the providers of the service can expect sufficient profits. The method includes the steps of installing a new turbine generator for a user owning a power-generating facility having a turbine generator; obtaining power generation efficiency of the new turbine generator by a monitoring device; comparing the power generation efficiency of the new turbine generator and power generation efficiency of a turbine generator predetermined as a standard, by a computing device; performing a charging process for an excess of the power generation efficiency of the new turbine generator over the power generation efficiency of the standard turbine generator, by a processing device; and charging the user for a price reflecting the excess of the power generation efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Kenichi HATTORI, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Gustavo MONTOYA, Atsushi ISHIHARA, Tomoaki HAYAMIZU, Akitomi SEMBA, Takashi YABUTANI
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Publication number: 20150062750Abstract: A rotating device includes a stationary body, a rotating body formed with an opening encircling a rotation axis, a fluid dynamic bearing mechanism which supports the rotating body relative to the stationary body, and which has a portion at one end side fitted in and fixed to the opening, a support portion that protrudes from an outer circumference of the fluid dynamic bearing mechanism to support the rotating body, and an abutting portion provided at the rotating body so as to abut the support portion. The support portion includes a flange protruding outwardly in a radial direction from the outer circumference of the fluid dynamic bearing mechanism, and the abutting portion includes a step that is a recess which is formed along an open end of the opening and into which at least a part of the flange enters.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS JAPAN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CO. LTDInventors: Akikazu IZUMI, Hiroshi MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 8961279Abstract: Some embodiment includes an air conditioner, an air blower, a sensor, and a controller. The air conditioner works for supply to cold spaces. The air blower produces streams of air in and between a server room and an air conditioning system. The sensor takes a measure of current or power as consumption at servers. The controller operates on the measure at the sensor, to control the air blower.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuo Takagi, Dai Murayama, Yuuichi Hanada, Hideyoshi Ootani, Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Hiroshi Morimoto, Koubun Takahashi
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Publication number: 20140349563Abstract: A controller and indoor unit introducing outdoor air and/or return air from an air conditioning control target, and discharging introduced air to the air conditioning control target as supply air. The indoor unit includes a first space including an outdoor air introducing unit introducing outdoor air, a cooler, and a second space including a return air introducing unit introducing return air from the air conditioning control target. The controller, after determining air conditioning control on the air conditioning control target is necessary, introduces the outdoor air to the first space through the outdoor air introducing unit, subjecting such to cooling by the cooler and/or dehumidification to result in processed outdoor air, and introduces the return air to the second space through the return air introducing unit, where the processed outdoor air is mixed with the return air and supplied to the air conditioning control target as the supply air.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Makoto Honda, Hiroshi Morimoto, Kazuhide Sato, Hideyoshi Ootani, Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Dai Murayama, Yasuo Takagi