Patents by Inventor Kenichi Shirai
Kenichi Shirai 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: 11962227Abstract: An electric actuator of the disclosure includes a motor, a speed reduction mechanism, and a bearing fixed to a motor shaft having an eccentric axis portion. The speed reduction mechanism has: an externally toothed gear, an internally toothed gear, a facing member facing the externally toothed gear, column members protruding from one member of the facing member and the externally toothed gear toward the other member and surrounding the motor axis, and at least one tube member surrounding the column members. The other member has hole portions surrounding the motor axis. The column members are inserted into the hole portions respectively, and support the externally toothed gear to be swingable around the motor axis via an inner side surface of each of the hole portions. The at least one tube member surrounds the column members in the hole portions and is rotatable around a rotary axis passing through the hole portions.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Shirai, Kohei Osuga, Kenichi Ozawa
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Patent number: 11929589Abstract: A light-emitting component includes: a substrate; plural light-emitting elements that are disposed on the substrate and that emit light in a direction intersecting with a surface of the substrate; and plural thyristors that are stacked on the plural light-emitting elements and that are turned ON to drive the corresponding light-emitting elements so that the light-emitting elements emit light or an amount of light emitted from the light-emitting elements is increased. Each of the plural light-emitting elements includes a current confinement region which is oxidized via a hole provided in a multilayer structure. The multilayer structure is constituted by a corresponding light-emitting element and a corresponding thyristor.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takashi Kondo, Michiaki Murata, Kenichi Ono, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Takehito Hikichi, Yuji Shirai
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Patent number: 11431032Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a mono cell having a sheet-like negative electrode, a sheet-like separator and a sheet-like positive electrode laminated in this order. In this manufacturing method, adhesives are disposed at a plurality of points on an upper surface of the negative electrode, then, the negative electrode is bonded to a lower surface of the separator, and furthermore, adhesives are disposed at a plurality of points on a lower surface of the positive electrode, then the positive electrode is bonded to an upper surface of the separator. When viewed in the lamination direction of the mono cell, the positions of the adhesives and the positions of the adhesives do not overlap each other. Then, adhesives are disposed at a plurality of points on an upper surface of the positive electrode, and a lower surface of a separator is bonded to the upper surface of the positive electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Envision AESC Japan Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Yamashita, Kenichi Shirai
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Patent number: 11302994Abstract: In producing a mono-cell, the mono-cell is formed from separator, positive electrode, separator and negative electrode which are joined to each other. Negative electrode is joined, one by one, to one surface of strip of continuously conveyed separator. Positive electrode having different size from negative electrode is joined, one by one, to the other surface of separator. Strip of continuously conveyed second separator is joined to one of negative and positive electrodes. Position of negative electrode joined to separator is detected by negative electrode joining position detection cameras, and joining position of positive electrode is corrected by positive electrode alignment mechanism with this detected position of negative electrode being a reference during conveyance of positive electrode along positive electrode conveyance direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Envision AESC Japan Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Yamashita, Takanori Satou, Kenichi Shirai
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Patent number: 11079985Abstract: A first hash value calculated by a print server based on print data and a second hash value calculated by an image processing apparatus by using the print data are compared, and printing processing using the print data is cancelled in a case where it is determined that the first hash value and the second hash value are not the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenichi Shirai
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Patent number: 10846033Abstract: A print server includes a determination unit configured to receive a print request from a client, identify a document identification from the print request, and determine whether document information including the document identification is acquired, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire the document information by sending an inquiry to a document server in response to a determination by the determination unit that the document information is not acquired.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenichi Shirai
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Patent number: 10656892Abstract: When virtual printers are collectively registered with a plurality of print services through one operation, a virtual printer may be registered also with print services not utilized. In the present invention, by acquiring information regarding print services, provided by a plurality of print services, and information regarding virtual printers registered with the print services, it is determined, on a basis of the information regarding the virtual printers and a printer ID of the local printer, whether or not the local printer has been registered as a virtual printer with the print services. Information regarding the print service with which the local printer is determined not to have been registered is displayed, and when instructed by a user to register the local printer with the displayed print service as a virtual printer, the local printer is registered as the virtual printer with the instructed print service.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kensuke Hirata, Kei Kitagata, Kenichi Shirai, Takahiko Nishida
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Publication number: 20200136189Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a mono cell having a sheet-like negative electrode, a sheet-like separator and a sheet-like positive electrode laminated in this order. In this manufacturing method, adhesives are disposed at a plurality of points on an upper surface of the negative electrode, then, the negative electrode is bonded to a lower surface of the separator, and furthermore, adhesives are disposed at a plurality of points on a lower surface of the positive electrode, then the positive electrode is bonded to an upper surface of the separator. When viewed in the lamination direction of the mono cell, the positions of the adhesives and the positions of the adhesives do not overlap each other. Then, adhesives are disposed at a plurality of points on an upper surface of the positive electrode, and a lower surface of a separator is bonded to the upper surface of the positive electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Envision AESC Japan Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi YAMASHITA, Kenichi SHIRAI
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Publication number: 20200136190Abstract: A mono-cell is formed of a separator, a positive electrode, a separator and a negative electrode bonded to one another. Each separator includes a ceramic layer facing the positive electrode. On a lower surface and an upper surface of the positive electrode, an adhesive is applied at points lined up on a straight line along a width direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction. When an application length is defined as the product of the number of application points of the adhesive lined up in the width direction and the application diameter of each adhesive, the number of application points and the application diameter are set such that a value obtained by dividing, by the application length, a force applied to each ceramic layer based on acceleration and the weight of the separator during suction and conveyance becomes smaller than the necessary peeling strength per unit length of the ceramic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Envision AESC Japan Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi YAMASHITA, Takanori SATOU, Kenichi SHIRAI, Tomio NAGASHIMA, Asuna MASUDA
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Publication number: 20200067051Abstract: In producing a mono-cell, the mono-cell is formed from separator, positive electrode, separator and negative electrode which are joined to each other. Negative electrode is joined, one by one, to one surface of strip of continuously conveyed separator. Positive electrode having different size from negative electrode is joined, one by one, to the other surface of separator. Strip of continuously conveyed second separator is joined to one of negative and positive electrodes. Position of negative electrode joined to separator is detected by negative electrode joining position detection cameras, and joining position of positive electrode is corrected by positive electrode alignment mechanism with this detected position of negative electrode being a reference during conveyance of positive electrode along positive electrode conveyance direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Takeshi Yamashita, Takanori Satou, Kenichi Shirai
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Publication number: 20200019359Abstract: A print server includes a determination unit configured to receive a print request from a client, identify a document identification from the print request, and determine whether document information including the document identification is acquired, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire the document information by sending an inquiry to a document server in response to a determination by the determination unit that the document information is not acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventor: Kenichi Shirai
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Patent number: 10402135Abstract: In the case of displaying, as a list, information pieces on virtual printers registered in multiple respective printing services, the user may become confused when choosing a printer if virtual printers that correspond to a printer are displayed as different printers, consequently reducing user convenience. The present invention relates to searching for virtual printers registered in multiple respective printing services and generating a printer list that displays, as a group, virtual printers corresponding to a printer among the virtual printers thus found, on the basis of printer identifiers of the virtual printers.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kei Kitagata, Kenichi Shirai, Kensuke Hirata, Takahiko Nishida
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Publication number: 20190155557Abstract: A first hash value calculated by a print server based on print data and a second hash value calculated by an image processing apparatus by using the print data are compared, and printing processing using the print data is cancelled in a case where it is determined that the first hash value and the second hash value are not the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventor: Kenichi Shirai
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Patent number: 9990570Abstract: An information processing apparatus in which an application for print control and a printer driver corresponding to a destination printer operate, comprises a unit configured to, by performing a listening at a listening port designated by a loopback address, receive from the printer driver, on which the designated port is set as a transmission port by the application, print data generated based on data from the application; a unit configured to determine, according to completion of communication corresponding to the print data, a spooling completion of the print data; a unit configured to specify, from the received print data, information corresponding to the data from the application; and a unit configured to notify to the application the determined spooling completion, the print data, and the specified information.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenichi Shirai
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Patent number: 9946498Abstract: An information processing apparatus to execute an agent module for controlling communication between a print server and the information processing apparatus, which includes a conversion unit, a transmission unit, and a notification unit. The conversion unit converts a request received from a spooler system of the information processing apparatus. The transmission unit transmits the converted request to a destination corresponding to the print server. Where a first authentication error indicating that proxy authentication is required is received after the request is transmitted, the spooler system is notified of a second authentication error indicating that a different authentication is required. Where a request including authentication information usable for proxy authentication is received as a response to the second authentication error, the conversion unit adds the authentication information to the request as information for proxy authentication.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenichi Shirai
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Publication number: 20180067701Abstract: By executing parallel processing while keeping a certain parallel number with respect to one user according to a status of processing for converting print data, an information processing apparatus controls the job order and monopolization of computing resources while effectively utilizing scalability of a cloud service.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventor: Kenichi Shirai
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Publication number: 20170109110Abstract: In the case of displaying, as a list, information pieces on virtual printers registered in multiple respective printing services, the user may become confused when choosing a printer if virtual printers that correspond to a printer are displayed as different printers, consequently reducing user convenience. The present invention relates to searching for virtual printers registered in multiple respective printing services and generating a printer list that displays, as a group, virtual printers corresponding to a printer among the virtual printers thus found, on the basis of printer identifiers of the virtual printers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Kei Kitagata, Kenichi Shirai, Kensuke Hirata, Takahiko Nishida
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Publication number: 20170017448Abstract: When virtual printers are collectively registered with a plurality of print services through one operation, a virtual printer may be registered also with print services not utilized. In the present invention, by acquiring information regarding print services, provided by a plurality of print services, and information regarding virtual printers registered with the print services, it is determined, on a basis of the information regarding the virtual printers and a printer ID of the local printer, whether or not the local printer has been registered as a virtual printer with the print services. Information regarding the print service with which the local printer is determined not to have been registered is displayed, and when instructed by a user to register the local printer with the displayed print service as a virtual printer, the local printer is registered as the virtual printer with the instructed print service.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Kensuke Hirata, Kei Kitagata, Kenichi Shirai, Takahiko Nishida
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Publication number: 20160364190Abstract: An information processing apparatus to execute an agent module for controlling communication between a print server and the information processing apparatus, which includes a conversion unit, a transmission unit, and a notification unit. The conversion unit converts a request received from a spooler system of the information processing apparatus. The transmission unit transmits the converted request to a destination corresponding to the print server. Where a first authentication error indicating that proxy authentication is required is received after the request is transmitted, the spooler system is notified of a second authentication error indicating that a different authentication is required. Where a request including authentication information usable for proxy authentication is received as a response to the second authentication error, the conversion unit adds the authentication information to the request as information for proxy authentication.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Inventor: Kenichi Shirai
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Publication number: 20160179450Abstract: An information processing apparatus in which an application for print control and a printer driver corresponding to a destination printer operate, comprises a unit configured to, by performing a listening at a listening port designated by a loopback address, receive from the printer driver, on which the designated port is set as a transmission port by the application, print data generated based on data from the application; a unit configured to determine, according to completion of communication corresponding to the print data, a spooling completion of the print data; a unit configured to specify, from the received print data, information corresponding to the data from the application; and a unit configured to notify to the application the determined spooling completion, the print data, and the specified information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventor: Kenichi Shirai