Patents by Inventor Junichi Nakagawa
Junichi Nakagawa 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: 20220253656Abstract: Formed is a dither pattern that makes it possible to output an image with excellent dot dispersibility and reduced graininess regardless of controls after quantization processing. To this end, an extended pattern in which multiple divided pixels correspond to each of multiple pixels included in quantization data and one or more of the multiple divided pixels are determined as dot-arrangeable-pixels in which dots can be printed is generated. Thereafter, the thresholds of the dither pattern are set based on the extended pattern in which the dots are arranged to obtain predetermined dispersibility.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tsukasa Doi, Mayuko Yamagata, Satoshi Seki
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Patent number: 11390781Abstract: An aqueous dispersion contains a resin component and water, wherein the resin component contains composite particles (D) having the ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer (A) and the polymer having an acrylic acid ester unit as a polymerization unit (B), and composite particles (E) having the ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer (A) and the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (C).Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventor: Junichi Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20220195545Abstract: A charged material containing alloy iron of at least one of ferrochrome containing metallic Si or ferrosilicon, and unreduced slag containing Cr oxide generated by oxidative refining, is charged into an electric furnace as a mixture in which a mass ratio of a metallic Si amount to a Cr oxide amount is from 0.30 to 0.40, and a C concentration is in a range of from 2.0% by mass to a saturation concentration, and molten iron containing Cr obtained due to the Cr oxide undergoing reduction processing is produced, such that, when the charged material is heated and melted in the electric furnace, an attainment temperature is set to from 1400° C. to 1700° C., a maximum average heating rate in any 80° C. interval from 1300° C. to the attainment temperature is set to 15.0° C./min or less, and a minimum average heating rate in any 80° C. interval from 1300° C. to the attainment temperature is set to 3.0° C./min or greater.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Norifumi ASAHARA, Katsuhiko KATO, Mikio FUTAKA, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Naoki KANEKO, Junichi NAKAGAWA
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Publication number: 20220195546Abstract: A charged material containing a metal raw material of at least one of ferrochromium containing metal Si or ferrosilicon and unreduced slag containing Cr oxide generated by oxidation refining is charged into an AC electric furnace including three electrodes, a mass ratio of a metal Si amount to a Cr oxide amount being from 0.30 to 0.40, and a C concentration being from 2.0% by mass to a saturation concentration, and operation is performed under a condition where a diameter PCD (m) of a circle passing through the centers of the three electrodes viewed in a plan view from a central axis direction of the electric furnace, an average electrode height He (m) that is a vertical distance from a tip of each electrode to a molten metal surface, a furnace inner diameter Df (m), a molten slag thickness Hs (m), a spreading diameter Darc (m) of an arc on the molten metal surface, and a deflection angle ? (deg) of the arc satisfy the following relationships to produce molten iron containing Cr. Darc=PCD+2He·tan ? ?=52.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Norifumi ASAHARA, Katsuhiko KATO, Mikio FUTAKA, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Naoki KANEKO, Junichi NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 11333205Abstract: A power transmission device includes an armature that is shaped into a circular ring form. The armature is configured to be coupled with a rotor by an electromagnetic attractive force of an electromagnet at a time of energizing the electromagnet and is configured to be decoupled from the rotor at a time of deenergizing the electromagnet. The armature has an armature-side friction surface that is configured to contact a rotor-side friction surface of the rotor at the time of energizing the electromagnet. The armature-side friction surface has a plurality of grooves, each of which extends from a radially inner end portion of the armature-side friction surface to a location that is on a radially inner side of a radially outer end portion of the armature-side friction surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yugo Yamada, Akira Kishibuchi, Yohei Kushida, Junichi Nakagawa, Satoshi Kawakami, Toshinobu Takasaki, Kozo Tomokawa
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Patent number: 11334778Abstract: Formed is a dither pattern that makes it possible to output an image with excellent dot dispersibility and reduced graininess regardless of controls after quantization processing. To this end, an extended pattern in which multiple divided pixels correspond to each of multiple pixels included in quantization data and one or more of the multiple divided pixels are determined as dot-arrangeable-pixels in which dots can be printed is generated. Thereafter, the thresholds of the dither pattern are set based on the extended pattern in which the dots are arranged to obtain predetermined dispersibility.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tsukasa Doi, Mayuko Yamagata, Satoshi Seki
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Patent number: 11325812Abstract: A damping device for a main rope suspending a car of an elevator includes a coupled, a first pulley and a drive. The coupler is attached to the main rope above the car, and is configured to be pulled, in response to vibrations of the main rope, with a damping rope so as to suppress vibrations of the main rope. The first pulley is supported at a same height as a height of the coupler. The drive is configured to suppress vibration of the main rope by pulling a first damping rope coupled to the coupler and passing over the first pulley.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: FUJITEC CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Sato, Junichi Nakagawa, Yusuke Ono
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Patent number: 11319189Abstract: An elevator includes a compensating sheave, a compensating rope, a guide, a holder, a driver, a lateral vibration detector, and driver controller. The compensating rope is looped around the compensating sheave to be bent back upward in a hoistway, and has a first end connected to a car and a second end connected a counterweight, the compensating rope suspended from the car and the counterweight. The guide guides the compensating sheave in a vertically displaceable manner. The holder holds the guide to be displaceable in a horizontal direction. The driver drives the holder in the horizontal direction. The lateral vibration detector detects lateral vibration of the compensating rope. The driver controller controls the driver based on a result of detection by the lateral vibration detector and accordingly drive the holder in the horizontal direction so as to dampen lateral vibration of the compensating rope.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: FUJITEC CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Sato, Junichi Nakagawa, Yuji Morooka, Yusuke Ono
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Patent number: 11247482Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processing unit that converts first input image data for a first region and second input image data for a second region to reduce a difference between first region recorded image density and second region recorded image density, and generates dot position data of a dot to be generated in each of the first and second regions based on the dot data after the conversion processing. The acquisition unit acquires edge information indicating a first object pixel edge of an image pixel for the first region and a second object pixel edge of an image pixel for the second region. Based on the acquired edge information, conversion and generation processing are performed in such a manner that a color signal of an edge pixel is increased/reduced to a degree lower than a degree to which a color signal of a non-edge object pixel is increased/reduced.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Yumi Yanai
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Publication number: 20220032610Abstract: An object is to print a high quality image with resistance to print misalignment. To this end, the image processing apparatus generates quantized data for printing a first dot pattern and a second dot pattern in an overlapping manner. The first dot pattern and the second dot pattern are lattice patterns varying in a combination of two basis vectors. In a combined dot pattern obtained by combining the first and second dot patterns, there is a neighboring dot in which a dot in the first dot pattern and a dot in the second dot pattern are arranged at an interval smaller than a lattice spacing. The neighboring dot includes multiple neighboring dots varying in an approach direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Tsukasa Doi, Hirokazu Tanaka, Satoshi Seki, Junichi Nakagawa, Mayuko Yamagata
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Publication number: 20220032646Abstract: In a printing apparatus configured to print an image by bidirectional multipass printing while using multiple print element rows that apply color material of the same color, a high-quality image suppressed in hue unevenness and density unevenness is printed. To this end, the printing apparatus forms first and second dot patterns on a print medium in an overlapping manner. In the first dot pattern, dot arrays in which first dot groups are arranged at an interval B1 are arranged in a nozzle arrangement direction while being shifted from each other by C1 in a scanning direction of a print head. In the second dot pattern, dot arrays in which the first dot groups are arranged at the interval B1 are arranged in a nozzle arrangement direction while being shifted from each other by C2 in the scanning direction of the print head. Here, values of C1 and C2 are different.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Hirokazu Tanaka, Tsukasa Doi, Junichi Nakagawa, Mayuko Yamagata, Satoshi Seki
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Publication number: 20220035577Abstract: A first dot pattern printed according to a result of quantization performed on a multi-valued grayscale value by using a first threshold matrix and a second dot pattern printed according to a result of quantization performed on multi-valued grayscale value by using a second threshold matrix are printed on a print medium in an overlapping manner. In order to generate the threshold matrices, a first initial pattern being a dot pattern corresponding to a first grayscale value and a second initial pattern being a dot pattern corresponding to a second grayscale value lower than the first grayscale value are generated for pixel regions of the first and second threshold matrices. Then, thresholds of the first and second threshold matrices are set such that dot patterns having continuity with the first and second initial patterns are obtained at grayscale values between the first and second grayscale values.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tsukasa Doi, Mayuko Yamagata, Satoshi Seki
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Patent number: 11170146Abstract: An analysis apparatus derives a second factor (102) according to a physical phenomenon with which an analysis target (104) is to comply. The analysis apparatus derives, based on the second factor (102), a third factor (103) according to a physical phenomenon with which the analysis target (104) is to comply. The analysis apparatus decides, based on a result of evaluating the third factor (103), a first factor (102) corresponding to the third factor. The second factor (102) indicates a state in the analysis target when the first factor (101) is given to the analysis target (104).Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Junichi Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20210155456Abstract: An elevator includes a compensating sheave, a compensating rope, a guide, a holder, a driver, a lateral vibration detector, and driver controller. The compensating rope is looped around the compensating sheave to be bent back upward in a hoistway, and has a first end connected to a car and a second end connected a counterweight, the compensating rope suspended from the car and the counterweight. The guide guides the compensating sheave in a vertically displaceable manner. The holder holds the guide to be displaceable in a horizontal direction. The driver drives the holder in the horizontal direction. The lateral vibration detector detects lateral vibration of the compensating rope. The driver controller controls the driver based on a result of detection by the lateral vibration detector and accordingly drive the holder in the horizontal direction so as to dampen lateral vibration of the compensating rope.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Koichi SATO, Junichi NAKAGAWA, Yuji MOROOKA, Yusuke ONO
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Publication number: 20210122167Abstract: A print medium is conveyed in a first direction and a printing head prints an image on the print medium by using a printable region of the print head that extends in a second direction crossing the first direction. Storing units can feed multiple sorts of print media. Among the multiple sorts of the print media, the print medium to print a check pattern for checking a printing state of the printing head is selected as the print medium to be fed from the corresponding storing unit. The check pattern is printed on the print medium by using a portion of the printable region of the printing head corresponding to a size of the print medium fed from the storing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2021Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Norihiro Kawatoko, Masashi Hayashi, Junichi Nakagawa, Seiji Abe, Kentaro Muro, Eiji Komamiya
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Publication number: 20210078828Abstract: A damping device for a main rope suspending a car of an elevator includes a coupled, a first pulley and a drive. The coupler is attached to the main rope above the car, and is configured to be pulled, in response to vibrations of the main rope, with a damping rope so as to suppress vibrations of the main rope. The first pulley is supported at a same height as a height of the coupler. The drive is configured to suppress vibration of the main rope by pulling a first damping rope coupled to the coupler and passing over the first pulley.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Koichi SATO, Junichi NAKAGAWA, Yusuke ONO
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Publication number: 20210054188Abstract: A highly hygroscopic sea-island type composite fiber has characteristics (1)-(4) below: (1) the island component in a polymer has hygroscopicity; (2) the ratio of the outermost layer thickness T to the fiber diameter R in a cross section of the fiber is 0.05-0.25; (3) the difference (?MR) in moisture absorption rate after hot water treatment is 2.0-10.0%; and (4) the content of a phenol group is 16-160 mmol/kg, wherein the outermost layer thickness is the difference between the radius of the fiber and the radius of a circumscribed circle connecting the vertices of the island component disposed at the outermost circumference, and represents the thickness of the sea component present in the outermost layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Masataka MAKINO, Junichi NAKAGAWA, Yoichiro TANAKA, Katsuhiko MOCHIZUKI
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Patent number: 10919314Abstract: A print medium is conveyed in a first direction and a printing head prints an image on the print medium by using a printable region of the print head that extends in a second direction crossing the first direction. Storing units can feed multiple sorts of print media. Among the multiple sorts of the print media, the print medium to print a check pattern for checking a printing state of the printing head is selected as the print medium to be fed from the corresponding storing unit. The check pattern is printed on the print medium by using a portion of the printable region of the printing head corresponding to a size of the print medium fed from the storing unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro Kawatoko, Masashi Hayashi, Junichi Nakagawa, Seiji Abe, Kentaro Muro, Eiji Komamiya
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Publication number: 20210031538Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processing unit that converts first input image data for a first region and second input image data for a second region to reduce a difference between first region recorded image density and second region recorded image density, and generates dot position data of a dot to be generated in each of the first and second regions based on the dot data after the conversion processing. The acquisition unit acquires edge information indicating a first object pixel edge of an image pixel for the first region and a second object pixel edge of an image pixel for the second region. Based on the acquired edge information, conversion and generation processing are performed in such a manner that a color signal of an edge pixel is increased/reduced to a degree lower than a degree to which a color signal of a non-edge object pixel is increased/reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Yumi Yanai
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Publication number: 20210019582Abstract: Formed is a dither pattern that makes it possible to output an image with excellent dot dispersibility and reduced graininess regardless of controls after quantization processing. To this end, an extended pattern in which multiple divided pixels correspond to each of multiple pixels included in quantization data and one or more of the multiple divided pixels are determined as dot-arrangeable-pixels in which dots can be printed is generated. Thereafter, the thresholds of the dither pattern are set based on the extended pattern in which the dots are arranged to obtain predetermined dispersibility.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tsukasa Doi, Mayuko Yamagata, Satoshi Seki