Patents by Inventor Hisashi Kuroda
Hisashi Kuroda 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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Patent number: 11945673Abstract: A document feeder includes a document placing tray on which a document is placed; a document discharging tray on which a document discharged from a document discharging port in a discharging direction is stacked; and a light source that radiates light to the document discharging tray. The document discharging tray is disposed below the document placing tray. The document discharging tray has a protruding portion protruding upward from the surrounding area. The light source is disposed within a region having a width that is the same as a document having a maximum size in the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shohichi Fukutome, Kenji Kuroda, Hironori Ogasawara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Toshiki Fukunishi
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Patent number: 10644522Abstract: An electronic device includes a charging power determining section and a control section. The charging power determining section determines a state of the charging power with respect to a remaining battery level, with reference to (i) information which indicates whether or not the remaining battery level of a rechargeable battery is lower than a first threshold and (ii) information which indicates whether or not the charging power, which is supplied from an external device to the rechargeable battery, is lower than a second threshold. The control section controls the electronic device to display a result of determination made by the charging power determining section.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi Kuroda, Hiroki Tanabe
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Publication number: 20200089297Abstract: An electronic device including: two or more connectors including a first connector and a second connector; and a control section, the control section being configured to request a first external device to change electric power to be supplied to the electronic device by the first external device, in a case where a second external device is connected to the second connector while the first external device is supplying electric power to the electronic device via the first connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: HIDENORI KUWAJIMA, HISASHI KURODA
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Publication number: 20190157892Abstract: An electronic device includes a charging power determining section and a control section. The charging power determining section determines a state of the charging power with respect to a remaining battery level, with reference to (i) information which indicates whether or not the remaining battery level of a rechargeable battery is lower than a first threshold and (ii) information which indicates whether or not the charging power, which is supplied from an external device to the rechargeable battery, is lower than a second threshold. The control section controls the electronic device to display a result of determination made by the charging power determining section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: HISASHI KURODA, HIROKI TANABE
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Patent number: 9829961Abstract: An electronic device whose power consumption can be reduced appropriately depending on the condition of use by a user is provided. The electronic device having a power saving mode includes a processor and a plurality of memories configured to be able to become a stopped state individually, and available to the processor. The processor causes a predetermined number of memories among the plurality of memories to become the stopped state, based on a processing load of the processor, to thereby make a shift to the power saving mode. In the power saving mode, the processor has a standby state of restricting the operation of a part of the electronic device and an active state of normally controlling the operation of the electronic device, and maintains the stopped state of the predetermined number of memories regardless of whether the processor is in the standby state or the active state.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi Kuroda, Hiroki Tanabe, Junichi Sasaki
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Patent number: 9658680Abstract: An electronic device whose power consumption can be reduced appropriately depending on the condition of use by a user is provided. The electronic device having a power saving mode includes a processor and a plurality of memories configured to be able to become a stopped state individually, and available to the processor. The processor causes a predetermined number of memories among the plurality of memories to become the stopped state, based on a processing load of the processor, to thereby make a shift to the power saving mode. In the power saving mode, the processor has a standby state of restricting the operation of a part of the electronic device and an active state of normally controlling the operation of the electronic device, and maintains the stopped state of the predetermined number of memories regardless of whether the processor is in the standby state or the active state.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi Kuroda, Hiroki Tanabe, Junichi Sasaki
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Publication number: 20160048199Abstract: An electronic device whose power consumption can be reduced appropriately depending on the condition of use by a user is provided. The electronic device having a power saving mode includes a processor and a plurality of memories configured to be able to become a stopped state individually, and available to the processor. The processor causes a predetermined number of memories among the plurality of memories to become the stopped state, based on a processing load of the processor, to thereby make a shift to the power saving mode. In the power saving mode, the processor has a standby state of restricting the operation of a part of the electronic device and an active state of normally controlling the operation of the electronic device, and maintains the stopped state of the predetermined number of memories regardless of whether the processor is in the standby state or the active state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: February 18, 2016Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi KURODA, Hiroki TANABE, Junichi SASAKI
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Patent number: 8328730Abstract: A living body measurement apparatus according to the present invention functions both as a muscular tissue hardness tester for measuring hardness of muscular tissue of a living body and as an algesiometer for measuring a degree of sense of pain of the living body, and the apparatus includes: an contacting section which includes a first contact surface contacting the living body, and which applies pressure to the living body; an auxiliary section which includes a second contact surface contacting the living body, and which supports the second contact surface so that the second contact surface perform reciprocating movement between a coplanar position in which the second contact surface is disposed substantially coplanar with the first contact surface and a retracted position in which the second contact surface is retracted with respect to the first contact surface; and a locking mechanism which locks the auxiliary section in a state in which the second contact surface is disposed at the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2007Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: ITO Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshimasa Sakagami, Hiroshi Karasuno, Hisashi Kuroda, Makoto Sasaki, Wataru Orito
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Patent number: 8246553Abstract: A muscle hardness meter according to the present invention, which measures the hardness of muscle tissue of a living organism, includes: an auxiliary part which touches a periphery of a section of the living organism to be measure so as to apply pressure to the periphery; a touching part which touches the section to be measured so as to apply pressure to the section to be measured; a first pressure sensor which measures pressures that the touching part and the auxiliary part sustain, respectively, from the section to be measured and the periphery, and outputs a first measurement result; a second pressure sensor which measures a pressure that the touching part sustains from the section to be measure, and outputs a second measurement result; a notification part which notifies the second measurement result; and a control part which determines whether or not the first measurement result teaches a reference pressure value input in advance and notifies the second measurement result to the notification part at a timType: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Ito Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshimasa Sakagami, Hiroshi Karasuno, Hisashi Kuroda, Makoto Sasaki, Wataru Orito
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Publication number: 20110144541Abstract: A biometric data-measuring instrument that measures data relating to a living organism by applying pressure to the living organism. The instrument includes: a casing, an auxiliary contacting part that extends from the casing, the auxiliary contacting part being contacted against a vicinity of a point to be measured on the living organism and applying pressure to the vicinity of the point to be measured, a main contacting part that, in a state where the auxiliary contacting part is applying pressure to the vicinity of the point to be measured, is contacted against the point to be measured and applies pressure to the point to be measured in the direction in which the auxiliary contacting part is applying pressure to the vicinity of the point to be measured, a pressure sensor that is provided inside the casing and measures a pressure that the main contacting part receives from the point to be measured, and a biometric data display unit that is provided on the casing and displays the measured biometric data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2010Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: ITO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisashi KURODA, Makoto Sasaki
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Publication number: 20110130682Abstract: A muscle hardness meter according to the present invention, which measures the hardness of muscle tissue of a living organism, includes: an auxiliary part which touches a periphery of a section of the living organism to be measured so as to apply pressure to the periphery; a touching part which touches the section to be measured so as to apply pressure to the section to be measured; a first pressure sensor which measures pressures that the touching part and the auxiliary part sustain, respectively, from the section to be measured and the periphery, and outputs a first measurement result; a second pressure sensor which measures a pressure that the touching part sustains from the section to be measured, and outputs a second measurement result; a notification part which notifies the second measurement result; and a control part which determines whether or not the first measurement result reaches a reference pressure value input in advance and notifies the second measurement result to the notification part at a tType: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2007Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: ITO Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshimasa Sakagami, Hiroshi Karasuno, Hisashi Kuroda, Makoto Sasaki, Wataru Orito
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Patent number: 7820571Abstract: A multi-layer woven or knitted fabric exhibiting reversibly changeable air permeability, which contains reversibly crimping cellulose acetate fibers exhibiting a percentage of crimp of less than 10% at a humidity of 95% or above and a percentage of crimp of 20% or above at a humidity of 45% or below and which has a basis weight of 100 to 350 g/m2. When water content of the fabric is enhanced by the absorption of water or moisture, the air permeability of the fabric increases to inhibit in-clothes stuffiness or stickiness due to sweat and in-clothes temperature rise, while when the fabric has discharged the water into the outside environment, the air permeability of the fabric decreases to the original one to prevent the body temperature from lowering excessively because of the heat of vaporization and thus keep the in-clothes environment comfortable.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2005Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignees: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Rayon Textile Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Kuroda, Mitsuo Tanaka, Mitsuaki Shiotsuki, Teruhiro Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20100174208Abstract: A living body measurement apparatus according to the present invention functions both as a muscular tissue hardness tester for measuring hardness of muscular tissue of a living body and as an algesiometer for measuring a degree of sense of pain of the living body, and the apparatus includes: an contacting section which includes a first contact surface contacting the living body, and which applies pressure to the living body; an auxiliary section which includes a second contact surface contacting the living body, and which supports the second contact surface so that the second contact surface perform reciprocating movement between a coplanar position in which the second contact surface is disposed substantially coplanar with the first contact surface and a retracted position in which the second contact surface is retracted with respect to the first contact surface; and a locking mechanism which locks the auxiliary section in a state in which the second contact surface is disposed at the retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2007Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: ITO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshimasa Sakagami, Hiroshi Karasuno, Hisashi Kuroda, Makoto Sasaki, Wataru Orito
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Publication number: 20080268735Abstract: A multi-layer woven or knitted fabric exhibiting reversibly changeable air permeability, which contains reversibly crimping cellulose acetate fibers exhibiting a percentage of crimp of less than 10% at a humidity of 95% or above and a percentage of crimp of 20% or above at a humidity of 45% or below and which has a basis weight of 100 to 350 g/m2. When water content of the fabric is enhanced by the absorption of water or moisture, the air permeability of the fabric increases to inhibit in-clothes stuffiness or stickiness due to sweat and in-clothes temperature rise, while when the fabric has discharged the water into the outside environment, the air permeability of the fabric decreases to the original one to prevent the body temperature from lowering excessively because of the heat of vaporization and thus keep the in-clothes environment comfortable.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2005Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicants: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Rayon Textile Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Kuroda, Mitsuo Tanaka, Mitsuaki Shiotsuki, Teruhiro Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20080250167Abstract: An input/output device for a memory card is provided, which is capable of simplifying a configuration of direction signals generated when a host controller respectively controls transmission directions of data signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2006Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi Kuroda, Hiroki Tanabe
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Patent number: 4717965Abstract: A portable image forming device which is moved on an original in a direction perpendicular to a primary scan direction for subscan, and divides original reflection light beams into picture pickup elements in the primary scan direction through an image forming optical system to imageform the pickup elements on a pickup device for reading. The pickup range of the pickup device in the primary scan direction is designed to be variable, and means for setting the pickup range is provided. With a portable copying machine which houses the pickup device and a printing section including a writing head in a single casing, paper is fed to the printer section as required by making use of the movement of the machine for original scan.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 1986Date of Patent: January 5, 1988Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Harumitsu Mashiko, Yoshihiro Sakai, Syoji Hayashi, Yoshihiro Ogata, Tsuyoshi Yoshimura, Hisashi Kuroda, Shigeru Suzuki