Patents by Inventor Jiro Maruyama

Jiro Maruyama 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: 10426319
    Abstract: A imaging device includes: a spotlight emitting unit configured to emit two parallel spotlights; an imaging element configured to capture a measurement frame image having two spot areas irradiated with the spotlights and a plurality of first frame images which do not have the two spot areas, during capturing a moving image; and a controller configured to generate a grid image having a plurality of grid lines arranged at intervals set on the basis of the distance between the two spot areas in the measurement frame image, generate a plurality of second frame images by superimposing the grid image on the first frame images, and display the second frame images on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: RF CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiro Maruyama, Akio Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 10075628
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a lens, a moving mechanism, an imaging device, and a controller. The moving mechanism moves the lens in the optical axis direction. The controller drives, in response to an input of an imaging instruction, the moving mechanism to move the lens to a plurality of imaging positions from one of infinity and close-up ends to the other and drives the imaging device when the lens is positioned at each of the imaging positions. Since the interior of an oral cavity, for example, is difficult to capture, the focus can hardly be adjusted on it with high accuracy when an autofocus mechanism is used. However, since the lens is moved to the plurality of imaging positions in the optical axis direction in response to each input of the imaging instruction to obtain captured images, an in-focus image can be reliably obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: RF CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiro Maruyama, Yusuke Yabana, Akio Koyanagi, Chihiro Komamura, Akio Sunohara
  • Publication number: 20180199795
    Abstract: A imaging device includes: a spotlight emitting unit configured to emit two parallel spotlights; an imaging element configured to capture a measurement frame image having two spot areas irradiated with the spotlights and a plurality of first frame images which do not have the two spot areas, during capturing a moving image; and a controller configured to generate a grid image having a plurality of grid lines arranged at intervals set on the basis of the distance between the two spot areas in the measurement frame image, generate a plurality of second frame images by superimposing the grid image on the first frame images, and display the second frame images on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Jiro MARUYAMA, Akio KOYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20160330365
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a lens, a moving mechanism, an imaging device, and a controller. The moving mechanism moves the lens in the optical axis direction. The controller drives, in response to an input of an imaging instruction, the moving mechanism to move the lens to a plurality of imaging positions from one of infinity and close-up ends to the other and drives the imaging device when the lens is positioned at each of the imaging positions. Since the interior of an oral cavity, for example, is difficult to capture, the focus can hardly be adjusted on it with high accuracy when an autofocus mechanism is used. However, since the lens is moved to the plurality of imaging positions in the optical axis direction in response to each input of the imaging instruction to obtain captured images, an in-focus image can be reliably obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Jiro MARUYAMA, Yusuke YABANA, Akio KOYANAGI, Chihiro KOMAMURA, Akio SUNOHARA
  • Patent number: 8500988
    Abstract: An ELID honing device includes a honing tool 10 positioned above a workpiece 1 having a hollow cylindrical inner surface, and vertically movable and rotationally drivable about a vertical rotation axis while being rockably suspended from an upper end, and a honing guide 20 positioned in proximity to an upper portion of the workpiece to guide the honing tool to the hollow cylindrical inner surface. The honing tool 10 has a fixed guide 12 having a predetermined radius R from the rotation axis to its outer peripheral surface, and honing stones 14a and 14b having outer peripheral surfaces movable in parallel from a diameter-increased position outside the radius R to a diameter-reduced position inside the radius R and capable of being electrolytically dressed. Further, the honing guide 20 has a hollow cylindrical ELID electrode 22 having an inner surface 22a for guiding an outer peripheral surface of the fixed guide of the honing tool and capable of being subjected to a negative voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Weimin Lin, Hitoshi Ohmori, Yasutaka Yamamoto, Jiro Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8303799
    Abstract: A process for grinding workpieces is obtained which includes attaching honing stones to a tool, each of the honing stones including grinding particles and an electroconductive connection for fixing the grinding particles to each other; grinding the workpieces with the honing stones by applying a honing liquid having substantially no electroconductive property to a region between the workpiece and the honing stones, the workpieces being successively ground during a series of processing periods, while interposing non-processing periods between the processing periods, each of the workpieces being ground in one of the processing periods; and performing an electrolytic dressing with respect to the honing stones by using an electrode provided to face the honing stones with a space therebetween, a voltage being applied between the honing stones and an electrode in the presence of an electroconductive liquid in the space between the honing stones and the electrode, the electrolytic dressing being carried out during t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasutaka Yamamoto, Jiro Maruyama, Masaoki Shimano
  • Publication number: 20100240284
    Abstract: An ELID honing device includes a honing tool 10 positioned above a workpiece 1 having a hollow cylindrical inner surface, and vertically movable and rotationally drivable about a vertical rotation axis while being rockably suspended from an upper end, and a honing guide 20 positioned in proximity to an upper portion of the workpiece to guide the honing tool to the hollow cylindrical inner surface. The honing tool 10 has a fixed guide 12 having a predetermined radius R from the rotation axis to its outer peripheral surface, and honing stones 14a and 14b having outer peripheral surfaces movable in parallel from a diameter-increased position outside the radius R to a diameter-reduced position inside the radius R and capable of being electrolytically dressed. Further, the honing guide 20 has a hollow cylindrical ELID electrode 22 having an inner surface 22a for guiding an outer peripheral surface of the fixed guide of the honing tool and capable of being subjected to a negative voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicants: RIKEN, FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Weimin Lin, Hitoshi Ohmori, Yasutaka Yamamoto, Jiro Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20080057835
    Abstract: A process for grinding workpieces is obtained which includes attaching honing stones to a tool, each of the honing stones including grinding particles and an electroconductive connection for fixing the grinding particles to each other; grinding the workpieces with the honing stones by applying a honing liquid having substantially no electroconductive property to a region between the workpiece and the honing stones, the workpieces being successively ground during a series of processing periods, while interposing non-processing periods between the processing periods, each of the workpieces being ground in one of the processing periods; and performing an electrolytic dressing with respect to the honing stones by using an electrode provided to face the honing stones with a space therebetween, a voltage being applied between the honing stones and an electrode in the presence of an electroconductive liquid in the space between the honing stones and the electrode, the electrolytic dressing being carried out during t
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Yasutaka Yamamoto, Jiro Maruyama, Masaoki Shimano
  • Patent number: 7234229
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process and an apparatus for the preparation of a motor coil by which a longitudinally wound motor coil, so called, can be easily prepared. First, a molded product 10 comprising a column part 11, and a fin part 12 projected in the form of flat plate from an outer peripheral surface 11A, 11B, 11C, 11D of the column part to an outer side in a radial direction of the column part and helically continuing in an axis direction of the column part at predetermined intervals along the outer peripheral surface of column part is prepared. The column part 11 of the first molded product is punched out in an axis direction of the column part with retaining the fin part 12 to remove the column part, and the fin part 12 having helical shape left after the removal is coated with an insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jiro Maruyama, Motoyuki Fujiwara, Nobuyuki Mabuchi, Koji Etoh
  • Patent number: 7126451
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a process for the preparation of coil for an electric appliance by which a coil for electric appliances comprising an edgewise wound square coil having small intervals between coils and high quality can be easily prepared in good productivity and low-cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jiro Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20060179644
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process and an apparatus for the preparation of a motor coil by which a longitudinally wound motor coil, so called, can be easily prepared. First, a molded product 10 comprising a column part 11, and a fin part 12 projected in the form of flat plate from an outer peripheral surface 11A, 11B, 11C, 11D of the column part to an outer side in a radial direction of the column part and helically continuing in an axis direction of the column part at predetermined intervals along the outer peripheral surface of column part is prepared. The column part 11 of the first molded product is punched out in an axis direction of the column part with retaining the fin part 12 to remove the column part, and the fin part 12 having helical shape left after the removal is coated with an insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Jiro Maruyama, Motoyuki Fujiwara, Nobuyuki Mabuchi, Koji Etoh
  • Publication number: 20050046538
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a process for the preparation of coil for an electric appliance by which a coil for electric appliances comprising an edgewise wound square coil having small intervals between coils and high quality can be easily prepared in good productivity and low-cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventor: Jiro Maruyama
  • Patent number: 4226165
    Abstract: A fishing net and a method for making the same. The net of the invention has a plurality of improved knots, each of which knots has four leg strings extending separately in four directions and one or both of the loops of warp and weft overlie each crotch formed of a pair of adjoining leg strings. Further, the knots are easily formed and tightened but hardly loosened or worn so that a well-ordered diamond pattern of the net is always formed when the net is spread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1980
    Assignee: Hakodate Seimo Sengu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiro Maruyama, Seiji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 4139225
    Abstract: A fishing net and a method for making the same. The net of the invention has a plurality of improved knots, each of which knots has four leg strings extending separately in four directions and one or both of the loops of warp and weft overlie each crotch formed of a pair of adjoining leg strings. Further, the knots are easily formed and tightened but hardly loosened or worn so that a well-ordered diamond pattern of the net is always formed when the net is spread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Assignee: Hakodate Seimo Sengu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiro Maruyama, Seiji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 4047316
    Abstract: A knotted fishing net wherein the knot is formed of a warp and a weft, said warp being wound at least one more time about the weft than in the prior art double knot; and the feed portion of the warp alternately passes over and below the return portion thereof at adjacent intersections except for the outermost intersection of both feed and return portions of the warp on the outlet side of a knot on which the return portion of the warp is drawn outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: Hakodate Seimo Sengu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiro Maruyama