Patents by Inventor Hiroyoshi NAKAYAMA

Hiroyoshi NAKAYAMA 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: 11476770
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter has a configuration in which a first full-bridge circuit and a second full-bridge circuit are connected via a transformer and an inductor. A control circuit performs soft switching of each switching element in the first full-bridge circuit and the second full-bridge circuit. An inductor current flowing through an equivalent inductor at a time of switching of turning on or off each switching element is greater than or equal to a threshold current, the equivalent inductor being equivalent to the transformer and the inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DIAMOND & ZEBRA ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Nakahara, Hiroyoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11469676
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter has a configuration in which a first full-bridge circuit and a second full-bridge circuit are connected via a transformer and an inductor. A control circuit controls soft switching of each switching element in the first full-bridge circuit and the second full-bridge circuit. An inductor current flowing through an equivalent inductor at a time of switching of turning on or off each switching element is greater than or equal to a threshold current, the equivalent inductor being equivalent to the transformer and the inductor. The control circuit outputs predetermined power by changing a voltage output period of the first full-bridge circuit and a voltage output period of the second full-bridge circuit while fixing the switching frequency and keeping constant a polarity inversion period in which the output of the second full-bridge circuit and the output of the first full-bridge circuit have reverse polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: DIAMOND ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Nakahara, Hiroyoshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20220300227
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to store an instruction to execute a first job by using a first setting, in a case in which the first setting is changed to a second setting different from the first setting when the first job is executed, store first setting information regarding the first setting and second setting information regarding the second setting in association with each other in a storage unit, and in a case in which an instruction for execution of a second job different from the first job is given by using the first setting of the first job, perform control to display the first setting and the second setting, which are stored in the storage unit, in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11349399
    Abstract: The DC-DC converter has a configuration in which a first full-bridge circuit and a second full-bridge circuit are connected via a transformer. A control circuit controls soft switching of each switching element. An inductor current flowing through the transformer or an equivalent inductor equivalent to the transformer at a time of switching of turning on or off each switching element is greater than or equal to a threshold current. When the first full-bridge circuit and the second full-bridge circuit have different output voltages V1 and V2, the control circuit causes the inductor current at start times t4 and t8 of a polarity inversion period to approach the inductor current at end times t5 and t9, the polarity inversion period being a period in which V1 and V2 have reverse polarities. This suppresses an increase in loss resulting from a flow of large current and enables ZVS control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: DIAMOND & ZEBRA ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Nakahara, Hiroyoshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20210175808
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter (1) has a configuration in which a first full-bridge circuit (10) and a second full-bridge circuit (20) are connected via a transformer (T) and an inductor (L1). A control circuit (30) controls soft switching of each switching element in the first full-bridge circuit (10) and the second full-bridge circuit (20). An inductor current flowing through an equivalent inductor at a time of switching of turning on or off each switching element is greater than or equal to a threshold current, the equivalent inductor being equivalent to the transformer (T) and the inductor (L1). The control circuit (30) outputs predetermined power by changing a voltage output period of the first full-bridge circuit (10) and a voltage output period of the second full-bridge circuit (29) while fixing the switching frequency and keeping constant a polarity inversion period in which the output of the second full-bridge circuit (20) and the output of the first full-bridge circuit (10) have reverse polarities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Shogo NAKAHARA, Hiroyoshi NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210175809
    Abstract: The DC-DC converter has a configuration in which a first full-bridge circuit and a second full-bridge circuit are connected via a transformer. A control circuit controls soft switching of each switching element. An inductor current flowing through the transformer or an equivalent inductor equivalent to the transformer at a time of switching of turning on or off each switching element is greater than or equal to a threshold current. When the first full-bridge circuit and the second full-bridge circuit have different output voltages V1 and V2, the control circuit causes the inductor current at start times t4 and t8 of a polarity inversion period to approach the inductor current at end times t5 and t9, the polarity inversion period being a period in which V1 and V2 have reverse polarities. This suppresses an increase in loss resulting from a flow of large current and enables ZVS control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Shogo NAKAHARA, Hiroyoshi NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210167689
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter has a configuration in which a first full-bridge circuit and a second full-bridge circuit are connected via a transformer and an inductor. A control circuit performs soft switching of each switching element in the first full-bridge circuit and the second full-bridge circuit. An inductor current flowing through an equivalent inductor at a time of switching of turning on or off each switching element is greater than or equal to a threshold current, the equivalent inductor being equivalent to the transformer and the inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Shogo NAKAHARA, Hiroyoshi NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190384553
    Abstract: A production integrated management system for a printed material includes plural step management apparatuses that manage respective steps of a series of steps that constitute a printed material production process; and an integrated management apparatus that manages a job process in the printed material production process in an integrated manner on a basis of reports from the respective step management apparatuses. The integrated management apparatus includes: a sheet generating unit that generates a job process management sheet for management of all of the series of steps every time a printed material job is received in an initial one of the series of steps; and an adding unit that adds a status record to the job process management sheet on a basis of status information included in the reports from the respective step management apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun WAKAMATSU, Hiroyoshi NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10182166
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory and a storage controller. The memory stores a setting of an image forming process in accordance with generation of a first image formation command or an input of a command for generating the first image formation command. The storage controller causes a first setting designated as a result of a first operation to be overwritten and stored over a second setting designated as a result of a second operation and corresponding to a second image formation command. The first setting and the second setting are included in the stored setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9858019
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory and a warning unit. The memory stores information indicating a past document that has been processed for printing in the past and a past print setting that is a print setting used when the past document has been processed for printing in association with each other. The warning unit outputs a warning to a user in a case where a present document that is presently processed for printing is identical or similar to the past document, and a present print setting that is a print setting set for the present document is different from the past print setting for the past document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Nakayama, Yoshihiro Chida, Masatake Kawabe, Ryohei Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20170366691
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory and a storage controller. The memory stores a setting of an image forming process in accordance with generation of a first image formation command or an input of a command for generating the first image formation command. The storage controller causes a first setting designated as a result of a first operation to be overwritten and stored over a second setting designated as a result of a second operation and corresponding to a second image formation command. The first setting and the second setting are included in the stored setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170060504
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory and a warning unit. The memory stores information indicating a past document that has been processed for printing in the past and a past print setting that is a print setting used when the past document has been processed for printing in association with each other. The warning unit outputs a warning to a user in a case where a present document that is presently processed for printing is identical or similar to the past document, and a present print setting that is a print setting set for the present document is different from the past print setting for the past document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi NAKAYAMA, Yoshihiro CHIDA, Masatake KAWABE, Ryohei IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20100251225
    Abstract: A recording medium storing a computer readable resource-bound program for instructing the computer to execute processing, the resource-bound program including receiving an execution start instruction, initiating the executable program when the execution start instruction is an execution instruction for the executable program including a resource used for generating an executable program, and extracting and outputting the resource when the execution start instruction is an output instruction of the resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi NAKAYAMA