Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Shimura

Hiroshi Shimura 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: 11964710
    Abstract: A crawler type traveling body includes a drive wheel, an in-wheel motor incorporated in the drive wheel, a plurality of rotating wheels disposed below the drive wheel, a crawler, and a tensioner. The crawler is wound around the drive wheel and the rotating wheels and configured to be rotated by the drive wheel. The tensioner is coupled to a drive shaft of the in-wheel motor and configured to press the drive wheel against the crawler and apply tension to the crawler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eichi Koizumi, Hiroshi Shimura, Ryota Yamashina, Taku Kitahara, Hiroshi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11964495
    Abstract: Provided is an ink set including: an ink containing a cyan pigment; an ink containing a magenta pigment; and an ink containing a yellow pigment, wherein the proportion of the cyan pigment is 0.70% by mass or greater but 1.40% by mass or less, and wherein the proportion of the magenta pigment and the proportion of the yellow pigment are both higher than the proportion of the cyan pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Sakaguchi, Itsuro Sasaki, Ayaka Tanaka, Naoto Shimura, Shunsuke Horie, Hiroshi Gotou, Yuta Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230373577
    Abstract: A crawler-type traveling body includes: a crawler; a drive wheel including a drive shaft, the drive wheel configured to apply a driving force to the crawler; at least two track rollers disposed below the drive wheel, the crawler being stretched around the drive wheel and said at least two track rollers; and an auxiliary mechanism between said at least two track rollers, the auxiliary mechanism includes two auxiliary wheels swingably provided, wherein a push-up amount of one of the two auxiliary wheels pushed up in a vertical direction is larger than a push-down amount of another of the two auxiliary wheels pushed down in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMURA, Eichi KOIZUMI, Taku KITAHARA, Hiroshi OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230088453
    Abstract: A crawler traveling body includes: a wheel around which a crawler belt is wound; a disc; a disc connector configured to connect the wheel and the disc, and rotate the wheel and the disc together; a brake caliper configured to sandwich the disc with a brake pad; and a motor configured to open or close the brake pad according to a control signal for controlling a degree of opening or closing of the brake pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMURA, Taku KITAHARA, Hiroshi OKAMOTO, Eichi KOIZUMI
  • Patent number: 11335295
    Abstract: A processing system includes a timing controller and source driver circuitry. The timing controller is configured to stop scanning of a plurality of gate lines of a display panel in response to a detection of a communication failure between the processing system and a controller. The source driver circuitry is configured to update a plurality of display elements of the display panel to cause a black display in response to expiration of a time limit after the detection of the communication failure. The timing controller may be further configured to resume the scanning of the plurality of gate lines in response to the expiration of the time limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tomohiro Hirakawa, Takayuki Noto, Masaaki Shiomura, Hirokazu Hatayama, Yoriaki Miyoshi, Keiichi Yoshida, Hiroshi Shimura
  • Publication number: 20210229760
    Abstract: A crawler type traveling body includes a drive wheel, an in-wheel motor incorporated in the drive wheel, a plurality of rotating wheels disposed below the drive wheel, a crawler, and a tensioner. The crawler is wound around the drive wheel and the rotating wheels and configured to be rotated by the drive wheel. The tensioner is coupled to a drive shaft of the in-wheel motor and configured to press the drive wheel against the crawler and apply tension to the crawler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eichi KOIZUMI, Hiroshi SHIMURA, Ryota YAMASHINA, Taku KITAHARA, Hiroshi OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200112651
    Abstract: Provide is an image forming system and a control program capable of preventing a setting error of an output mode by a user when newly generating a correct image. An image forming system includes an image forming unit, an image reading unit, a reference image acquiring unit, and a control unit. The image reading unit reads the image on the sheet formed by the image forming unit. The reference image acquiring unit acquires a reference image as a reference for determining whether the image of the print job formed on the sheet is normal. The control unit prohibits forming of a plurality of copies of the image of the print job by the image forming unit when the reference image acquiring unit newly generates and acquires a reference image by reading the image formed on the sheet by the image forming unit using the image reading unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi SHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190342458
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming part that forms an image on a recording material; a reader that optically reads the recording material output from the image forming part; and a hardware processor that stores a proper image, compares the image obtained by optically reading the recording material and the proper image stored with each other to inspect normality/abnormality of an output product, and controls execution of a proper image group creation function including: forming an image of each of pages related to a print job on a recording material by the image forming part; optically reading, by the reader, the recording material output from the image forming part; and storing the image of each of the pages, and execution of a replacement function of replacing a proper image, wherein the hardware processor guides a user to the replacement function after executing the proper image group creation function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi SHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10091365
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: an image formation unit that forms an image based on a job; and a control unit that controls the image formation unit, the control unit having an image quality verification/adjustment function to compare an image quality of the scanned image and a predetermined image quality standard, and to carry out an image quality adjustment such that the image quality of the image is within an allowable range of the predetermined image quality standard when the image quality of the scanned image is not within the allowable range, the control unit comparing a required image quality for the job and the predetermined image quality standard before a carrying-out procedure to carry out the image quality verification/adjustment function before execution of the job as necessary, and deciding whether the image for the job satisfies the required image quality by the image quality verification/adjustment function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shimura
  • Patent number: 10059004
    Abstract: A robot includes a three-dimensional shape detecting sensor to detect a three dimensional shape of a travel surface existing in a forward travelling direction of the robot, a posture stabilizer to stabilize a posture of a body of the robot, a feature data generator to generate feature data of the detected three dimensional shape, an inclination angle prediction generator to generate a prediction value of an inclination angle of the body when the robot is to reach a position on the travel surface in the forward travelling direction at a future time point based on the feature data and a prediction model, and an overturn prevention controller to control the posture stabilizer to prevent an overturn of the robot based on the prediction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki Inaba, Wataru Hatanaka, Hiroshi Shimura, Atsuo Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 9956942
    Abstract: Provided is a reservoir in which an inlet for injecting a liquid from the outside into a reservoir chamber in which the liquid is stored is provided at one side of a vehicle, a communication path that extends from the inlet toward the other side of the vehicle is provided, and a communication opening that is capable of making communication between the communication path and the reservoir chamber is formed. A surface part that gets higher from one side of the vehicle toward the communication opening of the other side of the vehicle in a state in which the reservoir chamber is mounted in the vehicle is formed at an upper portion of the reservoir chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naganori Koshimizu, Hiroshi Shimura, Ryoichi Yagi
  • Patent number: 9870117
    Abstract: Disclosed is a processing apparatus, which makes it possible to make a cursor automatically move by employing a pointing device. The processing apparatus includes a control section and a processing section that implements processing under the controlling operations conducted by the control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shin Ohba, Takatsugu Kuno, Ken Miyazaki, Hiroshi Shimura, Shigeo Konuma
  • Patent number: 9851211
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a travel purpose acquisition unit that acquires a travel purpose of a mobile object; a setting unit that sets multiple travel routes in different travel directions in a forward area with respect to the mobile object; a calculation unit that calculates, regarding each of the multiple travel routes, a predictive value of a travel state in which the mobile object travels along each of the multiple travel routes; a computing unit that computes, regarding each of the multiple travel routes, an evaluation value for the mobile object to realize traveling according to the travel purpose from weighting values that are predetermined according to the travel purpose and the predictive values; and a determining unit that determines, as a travel route to be followed next, a travel route with the highest evaluation represented by the evaluation value among the multiple travel routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Hatanaka, Daiki Inaba, Hiroshi Shimura
  • Patent number: 9613272
    Abstract: An image analyzing device, an image analyzing method, and a recording medium storing an image analyzing program are provided. Each of the image analyzing device, the image analyzing method, and the recording medium storing the image analyzing program recognizes an area where a target is displayed based on a feature value of an input image, generates space recognition information to recognize spatial properties of each portion of the input image, divides the image into a plurality of similar areas according to similarity in feature value of the input image, the similar area having a similar feature value, obtains specified attribute data of the spatial properties to be referred to, from image areas around the recognized area where the target is displayed, recognizes the spatial properties according to the space recognition information, and determines whether a result of recognition is appropriate at the portion where the target is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuka Kihara, Hiroshi Shimura
  • Publication number: 20170064096
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: an image formation unit that forms an image based on a job; and a control unit that controls the image formation unit, the control unit having an image quality verification/adjustment function to compare an image quality of the scanned image and a predetermined image quality standard, and to carry out an image quality adjustment such that the image quality of the image is within an allowable range of the predetermined image quality standard when the image quality of the scanned image is not within the allowable range, the control unit comparing a required image quality for the job and the predetermined image quality standard before a carrying-out procedure to carry out the image quality verification/adjustment function before execution of the job as necessary, and deciding whether the image for the job satisfies the required image quality by the image quality verification/adjustment function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi SHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160368149
    Abstract: A robot includes a three-dimensional shape detecting sensor to detect a three dimensional shape of a travel surface existing in a forward travelling direction of the robot, a posture stabilizer to stabilize a posture of a body of the robot, a feature data generator to generate feature data of the detected three dimensional shape, an inclination angle prediction generator to generate a prediction value of an inclination angle of the body when the robot is to reach a position on the travel surface in the forward travelling direction at a future time point based on the feature data and a prediction model, and an overturn prevention controller to control the posture stabilizer to prevent an overturn of the robot based on the prediction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Daiki INABA, Wataru HATANAKA, Hiroshi SHIMURA, Atsuo KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160363454
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a travel purpose acquisition unit that acquires a travel purpose of a mobile object; a setting unit that sets multiple travel routes in different travel directions in a forward area with respect to the mobile object; a calculation unit that calculates, regarding each of the multiple travel routes, a predictive value of a travel state in which the mobile object travels along each of the multiple travel routes; a computing unit that computes, regarding each of the multiple travel routes, an evaluation value for the mobile object to realize traveling according to the travel purpose from weighting values that are predetermined according to the travel purpose and the predictive values; and a determining unit that determines, as a travel route to be followed next, a travel route with the highest evaluation represented by the evaluation value among the multiple travel routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Wataru HATANAKA, Daiki INABA, Hiroshi SHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160251006
    Abstract: Provided is a reservoir in which an inlet for injecting a liquid from the outside into a reservoir chamber in which the liquid is stored is provided at one side of a vehicle, a communication path that extends from the inlet toward the other side of the vehicle is provided, and a communication opening that is capable of making communication between the communication path and the reservoir chamber is formed. A surface part that gets higher from one side of the vehicle toward the communication opening of the other side of the vehicle in a state in which the reservoir chamber is mounted in the vehicle is formed at an upper portion of the reservoir chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Naganori KOSHIMIZU, Hiroshi SHIMURA, Ryoichi YAGI
  • Patent number: 9274659
    Abstract: In a method of input object sensing, a plurality of transmitter electrodes are driven in a first way to acquire a first sub-frame image with the plurality of transmitter electrodes and a plurality of receiver electrodes of a sensor electrode pattern during a first sub-frame of a transcapacitive sensing frame. The plurality of transmitter electrodes is also driven in a second way to acquire a second sub-frame image with the plurality of transmitter electrodes and the plurality of receiver electrodes during a second sub-frame of the transcapacitive sensing frame, wherein the first way and the second way differ. A capacitive image is determined by combining the first sub-frame image with the second sub-frame image such that a motion artifact associated with an input object and present in at least one of the sub-frame images is suppressed by the combining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tanemura, Hiroshi Shimura, Wenchang Chen
  • Publication number: 20150177910
    Abstract: A coordinate-detection system for detecting coordinates pointed by a pointing device on a board face includes an image display to display an image, a first signal transmitter to output a first signal along the board face, a first signal receiver to receive the first signal output from the first signal transmitter, a first coordinate detector to detect coordinates pointed by the pointing device based on the received first signal, a signal requesting unit to transmit a third signal to the pointing device to request an output of a second signal from the pointing device when the first coordinate detector does not detect coordinates pointed by the pointing device, a second signal receiver to receive the second signal output from the pointing device, and a second coordinate detector to detect coordinates pointed by the pointing device based on the received second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi SHIMURA