Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Shiba

Hiroshi Shiba 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: 9086868
    Abstract: The hub device includes a USB hub IC; a voltage converter that converts a source voltage supplied to the Hub device into a source voltage to be supplied to the USB device/devices connected to the plurality of downstream ports, and, in a case that the USB device/devices is/or in an abnormal condition, outputs a signal notifying the abnormal condition; and a plurality of switch units that interrupts a source voltage to the USB device/devices, and outputs an overcurrent detection signal when overcurrent flows into the USB device/devices, wherein the USB hub IC includes a plurality of overcurrent detection terminals into which the overcurrent detection signal from the plurality of switch units is input, and a signal notifying the abnormal condition causes the plurality of overcurrent detection terminals of the USB hub IC to be in an overcurrent detection condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba
  • Patent number: 8515101
    Abstract: A bending vibration type sound transmitter includes a plurality of vibrating bodies that perform resonant vibration and two lids. The plurality of vibrating bodies is fastened between the two lids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba
  • Patent number: 8508107
    Abstract: A low frequency oscillator includes a plurality of drum-shaped oscillators. Each of the drum-shaped oscillators is constructed so that a pair of disk-shaped flexural vibrators is attached on both open ends of a conductive cylinder so as to be arranged face to face. And a conductive elongated coupling member is fixed to adjacent the drum-shaped oscillators at a central portion thereof so as to electrically connect between adjacent the disk-shaped flexural vibrators and thereby coupling the drum-shaped oscillators along a central axis thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba
  • Patent number: 8442408
    Abstract: A sensor system includes an LED configured to emit light to a recording medium and a light-receiving sensor configured to receive a transmitted light that has passed through the recording medium after having been emitted from the LED to the recording medium. An emitting optical axis of the LED is away from a perpendicular receiving optical axis of the light-receiving sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shiba, Yoshitaka Kukubo, Masanori Akita, Tomoyuki Okada, Kengo Umeda
  • Publication number: 20120194036
    Abstract: A low frequency oscillator includes a plurality of drum-shaped oscillators. Each of the drum-shaped oscillators is constructed so that a pair of disk-shaped flexural vibrators is attached on both open ends of a conductive cylinder so as to be arranged face to face. And a conductive elongated coupling member is fixed to adjacent the drum-shaped oscillators at a central portion thereof so as to electrically connect between adjacent the disk-shaped flexural vibrators and thereby coupling the drum-shaped oscillators along a central axis thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventor: HIROSHI SHIBA
  • Patent number: 8169126
    Abstract: A low frequency oscillator includes a plurality of drum-shaped oscillators. Each of the drum-shaped oscillators is constructed so that a pair of disk-shaped flexural vibrators is attached on both open ends of a conductive cylinder so as to be arranged face to face. And a conductive elongated coupling member is fixed to adjacent the drum-shaped oscillators at a central portion thereof so as to electrically connect between adjacent the disk-shaped flexural vibrators and thereby coupling the drum-shaped oscillators along a central axis thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba
  • Publication number: 20090295420
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, comprising: a wafer; a radio receiving circuit chip that is formed on the wafer, and receives electric power and a test start signal transmitted by radio from outside; and a plurality of non-volatile memory chips that are formed on the wafer and respectively have self-diagnosis test circuits mounted thereon, wherein, in a test in a wafer state, in response to supply of the electric power and the test start signal from the radio receiving circuit chip through an interchip interconnection, all of the non-volatile memory chips on the wafer simultaneously execute tests by the self-diagnosis test circuits, and respectively write results of the tests into their own memory areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hiroshi SHIBA
  • Publication number: 20090236937
    Abstract: A low frequency oscillator includes a plurality of drum-shaped oscillators. Each of the drum-shaped oscillators is constructed so that a pair of disk-shaped flexural vibrators is attached on both open ends of a conductive cylinder so as to be arranged face to face. And a conductive elongated coupling member is fixed to adjacent the drum-shaped oscillators at a central portion thereof so as to electrically connect between adjacent the disk-shaped flexural vibrators and thereby coupling the drum-shaped oscillators along a central axis thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventor: HIROSHI SHIBA
  • Publication number: 20090226195
    Abstract: A sensor system includes an LED configured to emit light to a recording medium and a light-receiving sensor configured to receive a transmitted light that has passed through the recording medium after having been emitted from the LED to the recording medium. An emitting optical axis of the LED is away from a perpendicular receiving optical axis of the light-receiving sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shiba, Yoshitaka Kokubo, Masanori Akita, Tomoyuki Okada, Kengo Umeda
  • Patent number: 7529493
    Abstract: A sensor system includes an LED configured to emit light to a recording medium and a light-receiving sensor configured to receive a transmitted light that has passed through the recording medium after having been emitted from the LED to the recording medium. An emitting optical axis of the LED is away from a perpendicular receiving optical axis of the light-receiving sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shiba, Yoshitaka Kokubo, Masanori Akita, Tomoyuki Okada, Kengo Umeda
  • Publication number: 20080240472
    Abstract: A bending vibration type sound transmitter includes a plurality of vibrating bodies that perform resonant vibration and two lids. The plurality of vibrating bodies is fastened between the two lids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba
  • Patent number: 7376048
    Abstract: Disclosed is an underwater projector projecting a sound underwater. The underwater projector includes a first disk-type resonator unit, a second disk-type resonator unit, and a central space. The second disk-type resonator unit is installed so that a central axis corresponds with that of the first disk-type resonator unit. The central space is set up between the first disk-type resonator unit and the second disk-type resonator unit, and water can enter the central space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba
  • Publication number: 20070286026
    Abstract: Disclosed is an underwater projector projecting a sound underwater. The underwater projector includes a first disk-type resonator unit, a second disk-type resonator unit, and a central space. The second disk-type resonator unit is installed so that a central axis corresponds with that of the first disk-type resonator unit. The central space is set up between the first disk-type resonator unit and the second disk-type resonator unit, and water can enter the central space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba
  • Patent number: 7250706
    Abstract: The present invention achieves the wideband operation of a bolted Langevin-type echo sounder transducer by enabling low frequency operation with securing a sound pressure level above a certain level without changing the external dimensions of the echo sounder transducer. This is an echo sounder transducer includes a Langevin-type vibrator having a front mass and a rear mass, and a cylindrical active vibrator which is sandwiched between the front mass and rear mass, a bend vibrator constituted of a diaphragm arranged in an acoustic radiation surface section of the front mass of the Langevin-type vibrator, and a disc type active vibrator fixed to the diaphragm. This has such structure that a slit, communicating from an outer peripheral side face toward an axial center, is provided on the circumference in the side of the lower portion of the front mass of the Langevin-type vibrator toward the rear mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba
  • Patent number: 7209696
    Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes a rotation made of a metal, a heater to which a current is applied, whereby heat dissipates from the heater and the heater contacts an internal surface of the rotation member, and a pressure roller for pressurizing the rotation member together with the heater to form a nip, wherein the rotation member is electrically grounded via a fuse. By the virtue of the invention, it is rendered possible to suppress charging of the metal rotation member and to suppress a current leak to a main frame of an image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Umezawa, Atsutoshi Ando, Hiroshi Shiba
  • Patent number: 7187105
    Abstract: A transducer includes a Langevin type vibrator, a bending vibrator, and a ring-like member. The Langevin type vibrator has a construction in which a front mass, a cylindrical vibrator, and a rear mass are provided in tandem, and those elements are tightened by a bolt. The bending vibrator is provided apart from the front mass. The ring-like member is provided in outer peripheral portions of the front mass and the bending vibrator to couple the front mass and the bending vibrator to each other. The transducer generates a large sound pressure over a wide frequency band since a sound wave radiation surface is wide and its amplitude amount is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba
  • Publication number: 20070045864
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a package substrate having a chip mounting surface with at least a plurality of first substrate-side pads and a plurality of second substrate-side pads, a rectangular first semiconductor chip having a first main surface fixed on the chip mounting surface, a plurality of first bonding wires through which a plurality of first pads arranged along one side of a second main surface of the first semiconductor chip and the first substrate-side pads are bonded to each other, a rectangular second semiconductor chip having a third main surface fixed on the second main surface, and a plurality of second bonding wires through which a plurality of second pads arranged along one side of a fourth main surface of the second semiconductor chip and the second substrate-side pads are bonded to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shiba, Makoto Segawa
  • Publication number: 20060146681
    Abstract: A sensor system includes an LED configured to emit light to a recording medium and a light-receiving sensor configured to receive a transmitted light that has passed through the recording medium after having been emitted from the LED to the recording medium. An emitting optical axis of the LED is away from a perpendicular receiving optical axis of the light-receiving sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shiba, Yoshitaka Kokubo, Masanori Akita, Tomoyuki Okada, Kengo Umeda
  • Publication number: 20060001334
    Abstract: The present invention achieves the wideband operation of a bolted Langevin-type echo sounder transducer by enabling low frequency operation with securing a sound pressure level above a certain level without changing the external dimensions of the echo sounder transducer. This is an echo sounder transducer includes a Langevin-type vibrator having a front mass and a rear mass, and a cylindrical active vibrator which is sandwiched between the front mass and rear mass, a bend vibrator constituted of a diaphragm arranged in an acoustic radiation surface section of the front mass of the Langevin-type vibrator, and a disc type active vibrator fixed to the diaphragm. This has such structure that a slit, communicating from an outer peripheral side face toward an axial center, is provided on the circumference in the side of the lower portion of the front mass of the Langevin-type vibrator toward the rear mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba
  • Publication number: 20050275312
    Abstract: A transducer includes a Langevin type vibrator, a bending vibrator, and a ring-like member. The Langevin type vibrator has a construction in which a front mass, a cylindrical vibrator, and a rear mass are provided in tandem, and those elements are tightened by a bolt. The bending vibrator is provided apart from the front mass. The ring-like member is provided in outer peripheral portions of the front mass and the bending vibrator to couple the front mass and the bending vibrator to each other. The transducer generates a large sound pressure over a wide frequency band since a sound wave radiation surface is wide and its amplitude amount is large.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shiba