Patents by Inventor Jun Tanabe

Jun Tanabe 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: 8270026
    Abstract: A write control circuit includes a first data switching circuit that sets a correspondence relationship between signals from line buffers and input signals to a delay circuitry, based on a signal from a CPU; and a second data switching circuit that sets a correspondence relationship between output signals of the delay circuitry and drive signals, based on a signal from the CPU. This enables a plurality of light emitting sections to be driven properly, regardless of a main scanning direction and an arrangement of a plurality of light spots being in any of CASE-1 to CASE-4 in an optical scanning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nihei, Masaaki Ishida, Atsufumi Omori, Dan Ozasa, Jun Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8253768
    Abstract: A disclosed optical scanner includes a light source unit and a control unit configured to control the light source unit. Light emitted from the light source unit is scanned to expose a scan object surface and form an image on the scan object surface. The light source unit includes plural light sources arranged at a density equal to N (N being an integer of two or more) times higher than a density of pixels on the scan object surface. The control unit controls the light source unit such that one pixel is formed by at least two of the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ishida, Yasuhiro Nihei, Atsufumi Omori, Jun Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8237760
    Abstract: A light-source driving device includes a high-frequency clock generating circuit that generates high-frequency clock signals of which phases are different from each other; an image-data generating circuit that generates a plurality of pieces of image data corresponding to light emitting units in accordance with image information; a write control circuit that generates a plurality of pieces of modulation data corresponding to the light emitting units based on the image data and adjusts output timing of the modulation data individually in units of time corresponding to a phase difference of the high-frequency clock signals; and a light-source driving circuit that drives the light emitting units based on a plurality of pieces of PWM data output from the write control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nihei, Atsufumi Omori, Dan Ozasa, Jun Tanabe, Masaaki Ishida
  • Patent number: 8209519
    Abstract: A pipeline processor has a first stage to read data from a general purpose register unit, a second stage to execute instruction, and a third stage to write back the data into the general purpose register unit. A pipeline register retains data obtained by executing the second stage. The pipeline register stores a data validity flag. A WRITE suspension unit suspends execution of writing the retained data into a general purpose register of the general purpose register unit until the retained data is rewritten by a subsequent instruction, even if the data validity flag indicates “valid.” A data invalidation unit cancels the execution of writing the data retained in the pipeline register into the general purpose register into which the data is to be written by a preceding instruction and invalidates the retained data, when data is written into the general purpose register by the subsequent instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Jun Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20120062188
    Abstract: A power supply device includes an AC generation part having a sinusoidal wave generation part generating a first sinusoidal wave signal, an integrator integrating a difference between the first sinusoidal wave signal and a feedback signal, a triangular wave generation part generating a triangular wave signal, a comparator comparing an output of the integrator and the triangular wave signal and outputting a PWM signal, a switching drive part amplifying the PWM signal and outputs an amplified PWM signal, a filter converting the amplified PWM signal into a second sinusoidal wave signal, a transformer increasing a voltage of the second sinusoidal wave signal and outputting an AC voltage, and a voltage divider dividing the AC voltage and generating the feedback signal, and a DC generation part generating a DC voltage. The power supply device superimposes the AC voltage and the DC voltage and outputs a superimposed voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Jun TANABE
  • Patent number: 8089665
    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes n-odd (n?2) light sources disposed at different positions at least in a sub-scanning direction, a pixel forming part in which one pixel is depicted by light beams emitted from m-odd (n?m?2) light sources of the n-odd light sources and a distance of adjacent light sources for emitting the light beams in the sub-scanning direction is less than 5 ?m, and a light source driving control part configured to control an emitting state of the light sources for depicting the one pixel and conduct an emission driving control for moving a gravity center of the one pixel in the sub-scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsufumi Omori, Masaaki Ishida, Yasuhiro Nihei, Jun Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8072478
    Abstract: An optical scanning device acquires a displacement amount of each of scanning light beams in the main scanning direction, and corrects, based on the displacement amount, writing energy density at a write position such that a variation in image density due to a variation of the displacement amount is reduced. The light beams are used for scanning a target surface to write image data on the target surface. The writing energy density is an amount of light per unit surface area of the target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Tanabe, Shigeaki Imai, Seizo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110276788
    Abstract: A bypass circuit is provided in a pipeline processor. A pipeline register is provided between an instruction execution stage and a write-back stage. The pipeline register stores a data validity flag and a WRITE control flag to control writing data into a general purpose register unit. The data retained in the pipeline register is allowed to be written back into the general purpose register unit when the WRITE control flag indicates “valid”. The pipeline register continues to retain the retained data even after the writing of the retained data into the general purpose register unit. The first pipeline register supplies the retained data to the second stage through the bypass circuit at the time of executing a subsequent instruction having data dependency on a preceding instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Jun TANABE
  • Publication number: 20110245071
    Abstract: A nitrogen-containing carbon alloy obtained by baking an organic material having a nitrogen-containing crystalline organic compound having a molecular weight of 60 to 2000, wherein the nitrogen-containing crystalline organic compound excludes a nitrogen-containing metal complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: JUN TANABE
  • Patent number: 8019974
    Abstract: A bypass circuit is provided in a pipeline processor. A pipeline register is provided between an instruction execution stage and a write-back stage. The pipeline register stores a data validity flag and a WRITE control flag to control writing data into a general purpose register unit. The data retained in the pipeline register is allowed to be written back into the general purpose register unit when the WRITE control flag indicates “valid”. The pipeline register continues to retain the retained data even after the writing of the retained data into the general purpose register unit. The first pipeline register supplies the retained data to the second stage through the bypass circuit at the time of executing a subsequent instruction having data dependency on a preceding instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Jun Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7995251
    Abstract: A light-source drive control unit divides each pixel of the image data into a plurality of subpixels, deletes certain subpixels from the image data in accordance with predetermined correction data, shifts remaining subpixels in the sub-scanning direction thereby obtaining reduced image data, and controls a plurality of light sources based on the reduced image data in such a manner that one line of the subpixels is formed with a light beam emitted from a corresponding one of the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Jun Tanabe, Masaaki Ishida, Yasuhiro Nihei, Atsufumi Omori
  • Publication number: 20110173415
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, each of routers includes: a cache mechanism that stores data transferred to the other routers or processor elements; and a unit that reads out, when an access generated from each of the processor elements is transferred thereto, if target data of the access is stored in the cache mechanism, the data from the cache mechanism and transmits the data to the processor element as a request source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Jun Tanabe, Hiroyuki Usui
  • Patent number: 7936367
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning device that scans a scan area on an image carrier with light flux containing image information and writes the image information onto an image area in the scan area. In the optical scanning device, a first light receiving unit receives light flux emitted from a light source and reflected by a reflecting optical unit; a second light receiving unit receives light flux that passes through an aperture of the reflecting optical unit, is deflected by a deflecting unit, and heads for outside the image area within the scan area; and a control unit controls a drive signal of the light source based on signals output from the first and second light receiving units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ishida, Yasuhiro Nihei, Atsufumi Omori, Dan Ozasa, Jun Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7920305
    Abstract: An optical scanning device of the invention includes: n-odd (n?2) light sources disposed at different positions at least in a sub scanning direction; a light source driving control part configured to control a light emitting state of the light source; and a sub-scanning pixel position detecting part configured to depict one pixel with m-odd (n?m?2) light sources of the n-odd (n?2) light sources and to detect a deviation in position of the one pixel in a sub scanning direction, wherein the light source driving control part is configured to correct the deviation in position of the one pixel in the sub scanning direction at a resolution equal to or higher than a density of the pixel, depicted with the m-odd light sources, by controlling the light emitting state of the m-odd light sources on the basis of a result of detection with the sub-scanning pixel position detecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ishida, Yasuhiro Nihei, Atsufumi Omori, Jun Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7917566
    Abstract: A plurality of general-purpose registers each has a first bit width. A computing unit has a first and a second input end, at least the first input end having a second bit width wider than the first bit width, and performs an arithmetical operation on data supplied from the general-purpose registers to the first and second input ends. An overflow register having a bit width narrower than the first bit width holds data on figures overflowed as a result of calculation by the computing unit as overflow data and supplies the held overflow data as higher-order bits to at least one input end of the computing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Jun Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7826110
    Abstract: A light scanning apparatus is provided that has plural light sources which scan plural light beams in a main scanning direction. The light scanning apparatus comprises a light source control unit that controls the plural light sources. Where an array of N (N?2) light sources aligned in a sub scanning direction and capable of scanning different positions in the sub scanning direction is called a virtual light source array, and where L (L?2) virtual light source arrays aligned in the sub scanning direction are formed, the light source control unit causes M ((N?1)?M?1) light sources out of the N light sources of each of the L virtual light source arrays to emit light to form a pixel and thereby to form a total of L pixels aligned in the sub scanning direction by giving the same data to the M light sources of each of the L virtual light source arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Tanabe, Masaaki Ishida, Yasuhiro Nihei, Atsufumi Omori
  • Publication number: 20100119262
    Abstract: A light source device includes a light source that includes a plurality of light emitting units, a drive circuit that drives the light source, and a circuit board on which the light source is mounted in a first area and the drive circuit is mounted in a second area and which includes a radiation mechanism between the first area and the second area for heat from the drive circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsufumi Omori, Yasuhiro Nihei, Jun Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7701480
    Abstract: A circuit for driving a plurality of light emitting units includes a current biasing unit that biases a light emitting current with an overshoot current and supplies the resultant current to each of the light emitting units. The light emitting current is determined based on an amount of light emitted from each of the light emitting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Atsufumi Omori, Masaaki Ishida, Yasuhiro Nihei, Jun Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7682443
    Abstract: An organic-pigment aqueous dispersion, containing a pigment at a concentration of 6 to 30 mass %, and having a haze of 0.3 to 10%, as determined by enclosing the dispersion in a transparent glass cell of optical distance 0.2 mm and analyzing with integrating-sphere photoelectric photometry; and a colored coating composition using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahisa Sato, Hideki Maeta, Jun Tanabe, Hirokazu Kyota
  • Publication number: 20100063203
    Abstract: A coating composition containing a build-up organic pigment fine-particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahisa Sato, Hideki Maeta, Jun Tanabe, Hirokazu Kyota