Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Tsuji

Hiroyuki Tsuji 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).

  • Image forming apparatus having plural image supporting bodies
    Patent number: 7224481
    Abstract: In a color printer having plural photosensitive drums for respective recording color components, when images are continuously formed on recording sheets, lengths of image data of one page in its main scan direction and its sub scan direction are held for plural pages. Then, image data writing and reading addresses to and from a delay memory for delaying the image data according to an inter-drum distance are controlled for each page on the basis of the held lengths of the image data in its main scan direction and its sub scan direction, whereby an interval between the successively transported recording sheets is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tsuji
  • Method of manufacturing flexible laminate substrate
    Publication number: 20070113972
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a flexible laminate substrate having an improved appearance and dimensional stability after removal of a metal foil. Specifically disclosed is a method of manufacturing a flexible laminate substrate 5 wherein a metal foil 2 is bonded to at least one surface of a heat-resistant adhesive film 3. The method comprises a step wherein the heat-resistant adhesive film 3 and the metal foil 2 are thermally laminated between a pair of metal rolls 4 via a protective film 1, thereby forming a laminate 7 wherein the heat-resistant adhesive film 3, the metal foil 2, and the protective film 1 are bonded together, and another step wherein the protective film 1 is removed. The tension of the laminate 7 at the time when the protective film 1 is removed is higher than the tension of the laminate 7 before the removal of the protective film 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Tsuji
  • Tire condition monitoring system
    Patent number: 7202777
    Abstract: A tire condition monitoring system is composed of a detector installed in each tire, a transmitter positioned in the vicinity of each tire, and a monitor communicating with the transmitters and the detectors. An initiation signal for initiating operation of the detector is wirelessly sent from the transmitter to the detector, using a low frequency, and the pressure and temperature data detected by the detector are wirelessly sent to the monitor, using a radio frequency. A vehicle identification code differentiating the vehicle from other vehicles may be included in the initiation signal to avoid confusion with signals wirelessly sent from other vehicles. The detector is operated only when the tire condition data from that detector are required to minimize power consumption in the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuji, Koji Murayama, Ryozo Okumura
  • Electronic apparatus with air cooling unit
    Patent number: 7203062
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a display that is used both in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, and a housing connected to the display. The housing includes a heating element therein and includes an exhaust port formed thereon. The electronic apparatus also has a fan arranged inside the housing. The fan is adapted to exhaust air heated by the heating element. The position of the exhaust port is located at an elevated end portion of the housing in any posture of both the horizontal direction and the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tsuji
  • Method for producing flexible laminate
    Publication number: 20070034326
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing a flexible laminate in which the appearance and dimensional stability after removal of metal foils are improved. The present invention provides a method for producing a flexible laminate 5 including a heat-resistant adhesive film 3 and a metal foil 2 bonded to at least one surface of the heat-resistant adhesive film 3. The method includes a step of performing thermal lamination by passing the heat-resistant adhesive film 3 and the metal foil 2 between a pair of metal rolls 4 through a protective film 1, and a step of separating the protective film 1. The molecular orientation ratio of the protective film 1 is in a range of 1.0 to 1.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Takashi Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Tsuji
  • Electronic device and storage medium for control program thereof
    Publication number: 20070028191
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed that can scroll a display screen displayed by means a display apparatus thereon in line units as well as in page units by means of operating only the up and down cursor keys. With this electronic device, a mode setting means sets a page scroll mode in order to scroll the display screen by page units if a predetermined operation is performed with at least one of either the up cursor key or the down cursor key. A determination means determines whether or not the page scroll mode has been set when only one of either the up cursor key or the down cursor key has been operated. A scrolling means both scrolls the display screen in page units in the direction of the up cursor key or down cursor key that was operated if the determination means determines that the page scroll mode has been set, and resets the page scroll mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tsuji
  • Method for manufacturing biochips
    Patent number: 7160512
    Abstract: A biochip manufacturing method can densely align spots of a plurality of samples in predetermined locations on a substrate using a discharge head equipped with one or more discharge modules composed of one or more discharge units, and a first moving table on which one or more trays with one or more substrates fixed thereon are detachably mounted. According to the biochip manufacturing method, the high precision in the operation for densely aligning and fixing droplets with a minute volume on a predetermined substrate (micro spot-forming operation) can be attained, and the time required for the micro spot-forming operation can be shortened as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Hirota, Takao Ohnishi, Hiroyuki Tsuji
  • Image processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 7142717
    Abstract: By smoothing a full-color image, staircasing of characters even in a gradation image is removed. An area to be smoothed is detected from image data having a plurality of color components, and image data included in the detected area is smoothed in units of color components. Image data which places an importance on resolution is smoothed by increasing the resolution to reproduce smooth characters and figures. Image data which places an importance on gradation characteristic is output without increasing the resolution, thus attaining high-gradation recording. A character or figure is detected from bitmap image data input from external equipment, and is smoothed. In correspondence with the density of the smoothed image data, the pulse width is switched, thereby changing the resolution of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yushi Matsukubo, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Yukihiko Shimizu
  • Tray for heat treatment and method of manufacturing ceramic product using the tray
    Publication number: 20060263552
    Abstract: A tray for heat treatment includes a plate-shaped ceramic substrate which includes at least one pocket for placing a workpiece and a notch formed therein. The tray for heat treatment does not crack or undergo deformation such as warping during use and can be manufactured by a simplified process while achieving a higher yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuji, Kazumasa Kitamura, Koji Ikeda
  • Remote control system
    Patent number: 7129816
    Abstract: Provided is a remote control system capable of preventing a key code from being deciphered when the key code is transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver to be registered. In the transmitter, in response to a specified switch operation, a k-th common key code in a table to be used for enciphering a key code is changed to a registration key code stored in advance so that a key code is enciphered through the use of the table including the registration key code. A transmission code is produced by adding a predetermined code to the enciphered key code and the transmission code signal is transmitted to the receiver. This prevents easy deciphering of the key code because the key code is transmitted in a state enciphered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuji, Ryozo Okumura
  • Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and storage medium
    Patent number: 7126612
    Abstract: An image processing system and method includes selecting a color desired by a user, extracting a partial image corresponding to the color desired by the user and selected from a bit-map image, converting the partial image into vector data, storing the vector data in a memory, and setting the converted vector data as vector data to be processed as desired by the user. The image processing system and method further includes calculating a palette color from the bit-map image, extracting a partial image corresponding to the palette color, converting the partial image into vector data per color object, storing the vector data in a memory, and setting, as vector data to be processed as desired by the user, vector data per object that is selected from the vector data stored in the memory based on the color selected from the calculated palette colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenzou Sekiguchi, Yushi Matsukubo, Hiroyuki Yaguchi, Eiichi Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Shinichi Kato, Masakazu Kitora, Hiroyoshi Yoshida
  • Information processing apparatus and operation control method
    Publication number: 20060236015
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body to which an external device is connectable, a detection unit configured to detect that a switch arranged on the external device is operated, and a control unit configured to execute a device removing process for setting a system of the main body to a state wherein the external device can be removed from the main body, when the detection unit detects that the switch is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tsuji
  • Information processing apparatus and operation control method
    Publication number: 20060236086
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body to which an external device is connectable, a power supply control unit configured to turn on a power supply of the main body in response to an operation of one of a first switch arranged on the main body and a second switch arranged on the external device, a determination unit configured to determine whether a power-on factor of the main body is one of the operation of the first switch and the operation of the second switch in response to power-on of the main body, and a control unit configured to boot a first operating system when the power-on factor of the main body is the operation of the first switch, and to boot a second operating system when the power-on factor of the main body is the operation of the second switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuji, Hiroshi Aiba
  • Structure of retaining cut-processed components, method of fabricating cut-processed components, tray for housing cut-processed components, and method of cleaning cut-processed components
    Patent number: 7122091
    Abstract: A structure of retaining cut-processed components includes a first base (18A). The structure includes cut-processed components (1A) removably fixed to the first base, with the cut-components aligned with each other in a longitudinal direction of the first base. The cut-processed components have first and second cut surfaces (1Aa, 1Ab) parallel to each other. First cut surfaces are positioned flush with each other. Second cut surfaces are positioned flush with each other. The cut-processed components are fixed to the first base by a dissoluble adhesive (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuji, Kazumasa Kitamura
  • Bonding sheet and on-side metal-clad laminate
    Publication number: 20060216502
    Abstract: A bonding sheet that can be bonded with a metal foil by thermal lamination and has excellent adhesiveness and reduced warpage, and a one-side metal-clad laminate are provided. A bonding sheet has an adhesive layer containing a thermoplastic resin disposed on one side of a heat resistant film and a non-adhesive layer containing a non-thermoplastic resin and a thermoplastic resin disposed on the other side of the heat resistant film. The ratio of the non-thermoplastic resin to the thermoplastic resin in the non-adhesive layer is 82/18 to 97/3 on a weight basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Takashi Kikuchi, Naoki Hase, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Yasuo Fushiki
  • Wire sawing apparatus and wire sawing method
    Patent number: 7082940
    Abstract: A wire sawing apparatus includes a wire, a wire feed roller, and two basic rollers. The three rollers have the same diameter and are arranged in such a manner that their axes of rotation are in parallel with one another. Cutting-positioning circumferential grooves are formed on the two basic rollers at axially paired same positions. Intermediate circumferential grooves are formed on the wire feed roller and arranged in the axial direction such that the axial position of each intermediate circumferential groove corresponds to an axially central position between two adjacent pairs of cutting-positioning circumferential grooves. The wire is spirally wound a plurality of turns on the three rollers while being fitted into the circumferential grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihisa Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Kazumasa Kitamura, Masashi Watanabe
  • Information processing apparatus and information processing method
    Publication number: 20060087675
    Abstract: When a print processing apparatus is in a power saving mode, an information processing apparatus informs, for the print processing apparatus, the user that the print processing apparatus is in the power saving state. It can thus be made known to the user that the print processing apparatus is in the power saving state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naomi Terada, Katsuhiko Yanagawa, Masahiro Ishiyama, Michio Fukushima, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Yoshihisa Nomura
  • Multislit type actuator, inkjet head and method for manufacturing multislit type actuator
    Patent number: 7025444
    Abstract: A multislit type actuator including a plurality of piezoelectric actuators aligned and allocated like teeth of a comb formed on a substrate, wherein a condition of crystal grains in side surfaces of the piezoelectric actuators forming wall surfaces of a slit between the comb teeth is that the crystal grains under transgranular fracture are 1% or below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihisa Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Kazumasa Kitamura, Nobuo Takahashi
  • Process for producing heat-resistant flexible laminate and heat-resistant flexible laminate produced thereby
    Publication number: 20060054262
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a heat resistant flexible laminate effectively enabling avoidance of not only visual defects but occurrence of dimensional changes, and a heat resistant flexible laminate are provided. In a process for laminating a heat resistant adhesive material and a metallic foil by thermal lamination, a film-like protective material is disposed between a pressurized surface and the metallic foil at the time of thermal lamination. At this time, coefficients of linear expansion in a temperature range of 200 degree C. to 300 degree C. of the heat resistant adhesive material and the protective material are within a range of a coefficient of linear expansion of the metallic foil ±10 ppm/degrees C. Thereby, occurrence of visual defects is not only effectively avoidable, but excellent dimensional change after etching may be exhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Takashi Kikuchi, Naoki Hase, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Yasuo Fushiki
  • Heat-resistant flexible laminated board manufacturing method
    Publication number: 20060021699
    Abstract: A laminate having good appearance, which avoids such a problem that end waviness is produced in the laminate during lamination, thus making it impossible to fix the laminate in the process for formation of a circuit pattern. A method of producing a laminate is disclosed which comprises continuously laminating a heat-resistant film having thermal fusibility with a metallic foil, characterized in that the temperature of the ends of the laminate is the same as or higher than that of the center portion in the cooling process after lamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Naoki Hase, Shinji Matsukubo, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Yasuo Fushiki