Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Komatsu
Hitoshi Komatsu 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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Publication number: 20240132311Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transport section that transports a recording material, a grasping section that grasps a remaining situation of a recording material remaining in a transport path through which the recording material is transported by the transport section, a reception section that receives, from a user, an input of the number of removed sheets of recording material removed from the transport path by the user in a case where the transport of the recording material by the transport section is stopped, and a start section that starts the stopped transport by the transport section based on the number of removed sheets input by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shinya HARADA, Kenichi MIYAZAKI, Masashi HARA, Hitoshi KOMATSU, Ryoji KAWAGUCHI, Tomoyasu TANAKA, Daiji KATO
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Patent number: 11550313Abstract: There is provided an equipment element maintenance analysis system including: a history information acquirer that is attached with at least one equipment element and acquires, at a predetermined timing, operation history information on a piece of manufacturing equipment for manufacturing a product; an error rate calculator that calculates an error rate based on the number of errors related to each of the at least one equipment element, included in the operation history information; a maintenance determiner that determines maintenance necessity of each of the at least one equipment element; and a notifier that notifies an information item on an equipment element determined to require maintenance among the at least one equipment.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Nakajima, Hitoshi Komatsu, Manabu Ohuchi, Kazuyuki Yoshidomi, Noritada Kawamoto, Hirofumi Koga
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Patent number: 11246250Abstract: An equipment element maintenance management method for managing a maintenance operation for an equipment element that is attached to manufacturing equipment for manufacturing a product includes: acquiring operation history information of the manufacturing equipment at a predetermined timing; analyzing a tendency of a state of the equipment element based on the acquired operation history information; performing the maintenance operation for the equipment element of which the state is worse than a predetermined state; creating maintenance result information which is a result of the maintenance operation; and creating a repair operation instruction for performing an instruction of a repair operation for the equipment element of which the state after the maintenance operation is not more improved than the predetermined state based on the maintenance result information.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Koga, Yuji Nakajima, Kazuyuki Yoshidomi, Hitoshi Komatsu, Manabu Ohuchi, Noritada Kawamoto
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Publication number: 20210333752Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to, when humidity detected by a humidity sensor is equal to or above a preset value with paper sheets stacked in a paper sheet holder being fed to an image forming unit, perform control to set a separation operation time used to separate in a separation operation a single paper sheet from multiple paper sheets stacked in the paper sheet holder to be longer than the separation operation time used when the detected humidity is lower than the preset value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Hitoshi KOMATSU, Akira OTSU, Takuma SUWA, Takashi KAWAKAMI, Tatsuya ICHIKAWA, Kunihiko HAYASHI, Yutaka WATANABE, Masae TAKABAYASHI, Ryosuke HIRONAKA, Hiroshi SHIOTA
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Patent number: 11156959Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to, when humidity detected by a humidity sensor is equal to or above a preset value with paper sheets stacked in a paper sheet holder being fed to an image forming unit, perform control to set a separation operation time used to separate in a separation operation a single paper sheet from multiple paper sheets stacked in the paper sheet holder to be longer than the separation operation time used when the detected humidity is lower than the preset value.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Hitoshi Komatsu, Akira Otsu, Takuma Suwa, Takashi Kawakami, Tatsuya Ichikawa, Kunihiko Hayashi, Yutaka Watanabe, Masae Takabayashi, Ryosuke Hironaka, Hiroshi Shiota
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Patent number: 11001690Abstract: Provided is a foamed urethane containing a cushion material, the foamed urethane containing a hard segment and a soft segment, in which the foamed urethane is a reaction cured product formed using an isocyanate component of an MDI compound. In a first aspect, a spin-spin relaxation time (T2) of the hard segment in the foamed urethane is from 20 ?sec to 40 ?sec, and a volume abundance ratio of the hard segment is from 5% to 40%. In a second aspect, a foamed urethane includes: a first region in which T2 of the hard segment is from 30 ?sec to 40 ?sec, and a volume abundance ratio of the hard segment is from 10% to 40%, and a second region in which T2 of the hard segment is from 20 ?sec to less than 30 ?sec, and a volume abundance ratio of the hard segment is from 5% to 40% in a H1 solid-state pulse NMR measurement, and which is adjacent to the first region.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: NHK SPRING Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeki Ichimura, Kunikazu Takiwaki, Kunio Asobe, Hiroyuki Orito, Takaharu Matsuo, Kiyoshi Ota, Hitoshi Komatsu, Taiki Futamura, Toshiharu Sato
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Patent number: 10943215Abstract: An equipment element repair management method for managing a repair operation of an equipment element that is attached to manufacturing equipment for manufacturing a product includes: performing a maintenance operation for the equipment element; determining whether or not a state of the equipment element after the maintenance operation is more improved than a predetermined state; transporting the equipment element of which the state is not more improved than the predetermined state to a repairer for performing the repair operation for the equipment element in a case where the state of the equipment element is not more improved than the predetermined state; and performing the repair operation of the transported equipment element in the repairer.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Koga, Yuji Nakajima, Hitoshi Komatsu, Kazuyuki Yoshidomi, Manabu Ohuchi, Noritada Kawamoto
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Publication number: 20190025811Abstract: There is provided an equipment element maintenance analysis system including: a history information acquirer that is attached with at least one equipment element and acquires, at a predetermined timing, operation history information on a piece of manufacturing equipment for manufacturing a product; an error rate calculator that calculates an error rate based on the number of errors related to each of the at least one equipment element, included in the operation history information; a maintenance determiner that determines maintenance necessity of each of the at least one equipment element; and a notifier that notifies an information item on an equipment element determined to require maintenance among the at least one equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: YUJI NAKAJIMA, HITOSHI KOMATSU, MANABU OHUCHI, KAZUYUKI YOSHIDOMI, NORITADA KAWAMOTO, HIROFUMI KOGA
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Publication number: 20190010301Abstract: Provided is a foamed urethane containing a cushion material, the foamed urethane containing a hard segment and a soft segment, in which the foamed urethane is a reaction cured product formed using an isocyanate component of an MDI compound. In a first aspect, a spin-spin relaxation time (T2) of the hard segment in the foamed urethane is from 20 ?sec to 40 ?sec, and a volume abundance ratio of the hard segment is from 5% to 40%. In a second aspect, a foamed urethane includes: a first region in which T2 of the hard segment is from 30 ?sec to 40 ?sec, and a volume abundance ratio of the hard segment is from 10% to 40%, and a second region in which T2 of the hard segment is from 20 ?sec to less than 30 ?sec, and a volume abundance ratio of the hard segment is from 5% to 40% in a H1 solid-state pulse NMR measurement, and which is adjacent to the first region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Shigeki Ichimura, Kunikazu Takiwaki, Kunio Asobe, Hiroyuki Orito, Takaharu Matsuo, Kiyoshi Ota, Hitoshi Komatsu, Taiki Futamura, Toshiharu Sato
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Publication number: 20180368297Abstract: An equipment element maintenance management method for managing a maintenance operation for an equipment element that is attached to manufacturing equipment for manufacturing a product includes: acquiring operation history information of the manufacturing equipment at a predetermined timing; analyzing a tendency of a state of the equipment element based on the acquired operation history information; performing the maintenance operation for the equipment element of which the state is worse than a predetermined state; creating maintenance result information which is a result of the maintenance operation; and creating a repair operation instruction for performing an instruction of a repair operation for the equipment element of which the state after the maintenance operation is not more improved than the predetermined state based on the maintenance result information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: HIROFUMI KOGA, YUJI NAKAJIMA, KAZUYUKI YOSHIDOMI, HITOSHI KOMATSU, MANABU OHUCHI, NORITADA KAWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20180365658Abstract: An equipment element repair management method for managing a repair operation of an equipment element that is attached to manufacturing equipment for manufacturing a product includes: performing a maintenance operation for the equipment element; determining whether or not a state of the equipment element after the maintenance operation is more improved than a predetermined state; transporting the equipment element of which the state is not more improved than the predetermined state to a repairer for performing the repair operation for the equipment element in a case where the state of the equipment element is not more improved than the predetermined state; and performing the repair operation of the transported equipment element in the repairer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: HIROFUMI KOGA, YUJI NAKAJIMA, HITOSHI KOMATSU, KAZUYUKI YOSHIDOMI, MANABU OHUCHI, NORITADA KAWAMOTO
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Patent number: 7641114Abstract: A system including first and second IC cards and a host device adopts a communication mode in which the host device communicates with the first IC card only, and the first IC card communicates with the second IC card. The host device acquires inherent information encrypted by the first and second IC cards via the first IC card, decrypts the inherent information encrypted by the first and second IC cards, and collates the decrypted information with the inherent information to thereby authenticate the first and second IC cards.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2006Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Hitoshi Komatsu
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Publication number: 20090018215Abstract: The present invention provides a fumigant for wood parasitic nematodes comprising methyl iodide dissolved in liquefied carbon dioxide, in place of methyl bromide the use of which is globally regulated as ozone depleting substance or a fumigant using methyl iodide dissolved in liquefied carbon dioxide in combination with one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of sulfuryl fluoride, methyl isothiocyanate, phosphine, ethylene oxide, carbonyl sulfide and propylene oxide, and a fumigation method for killing wood parasitic nematodes by using said fumigant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2005Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicants: Yashima Sangyo Co., LTD., Japan Fumigation Technology Association, Arysta Life Science CorporationInventors: Yutaka Abe, Yoshio Hisada, Toru Itabashi, Hiroyuki Miyaji, Yukihiro Soma, Yasuo Matsumoto, Hitoshi Komatsu
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Publication number: 20060219778Abstract: A system including first and second IC cards and a host device adopts a communication mode in which the host device communicates with the first IC card only, and the first IC card communicates with the second IC card. The host device acquires inherent information encrypted by the first and second IC cards via the first IC card, decrypts the inherent information encrypted by the first and second IC cards, and collates the decrypted information with the inherent information to thereby authenticate the first and second IC cards.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2006Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Hitoshi Komatsu
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Patent number: 7000835Abstract: In a noncontact type IC card, writing of data is executed when a voltage level of an operating voltage generated from a received power wave is a level suitable for the writing of the data to a nonvolatile memory, and it is recognized that the data write operation is normally terminated when the voltage level of the operating voltage is the level suitable for the writing of the data to the nonvolatile memory even after the writing of the data.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2005Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Hitoshi Komatsu
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Patent number: 6938822Abstract: In a noncontact type IC card, writing of data is executed when a voltage level of an operating voltage generated from a received power wave is a level suitable for the writing of the data to a nonvolatile memory, and it is recognized that the data write operation is normally terminated when the voltage level of the operating voltage is the level suitable for the writing of the data to the nonvolatile memory even after the writing of the data.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2003Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Hitoshi Komatsu
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Publication number: 20050145702Abstract: In a noncontact type IC card, writing of data is executed when a voltage level of an operating voltage generated from a received power wave is a level suitable for the writing of the data to a nonvolatile memory, and it is recognized that the data write operation is normally terminated when the voltage level of the operating voltage is the level suitable for the writing of the data to the nonvolatile memory even after the writing of the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2005Publication date: July 7, 2005Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Hitoshi Komatsu
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Publication number: 20040124249Abstract: In a noncontact type IC card, writing of data is executed when a voltage level of an operating voltage generated from a received power wave is a level suitable for the writing of the data to a nonvolatile memory, and it is recognized that the data write operation is normally terminated when the voltage level of the operating voltage is the level suitable for the writing of the data to the nonvolatile memory even after the writing of the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Hitoshi Komatsu
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Patent number: 6493297Abstract: Multibeam optical disk record and reproduction apparatus and method, in which at least two light beams generated are concentrated in different positions of on recording tracks of a recording medium to record or reproduce data to or from the recording medium on the different positions at the same time. The light beams are moved independently of each other across the recording tracks so that any one light beam is movable during the recording or reproducing of data by another light beam. This allows parallel recording/reproducing with a plurality of light beams without producing areas unaccessed due to the jumps of the light beams.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1993Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Soichi Isono, Satoshi Kawamura, Kiyoshi Honda, Toshimitsu Kaku, Hitoshi Komatsu, Yuji Yamane, Yasushi Fukuda, Toshio Niihara, Hiroshi Ide
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Patent number: 5422682Abstract: A channel selecting apparatus includes a broadcast signal selector provided with a plurality of channels corresponding to respective broadcast stations for selecting a channel among the plurality of channels, channel selecting keys for directly selecting one channel among regular channels, a channel increasing key for establishing at least one auxiliary channel other than the regular channels, a channel shift key for selecting one of the regular channels while sequentially shifting a current channel among the regular channels and the auxiliary channels for generating instructions corresponding to respective keys whenever the channel selecting key, the channel increasing key and the channel shift key are operated, a storage device for storing a plurality of regular channel data corresponding to the respective regular channel auxiliary channel data other than the regular channel data, and a controller for defining storage areas and for controlling the channel shift operation by the channel selector while referrType: GrantFiled: July 16, 1993Date of Patent: June 6, 1995Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomoaki Nakade, Hitoshi Komatsu