Patents by Inventor Kenji Shimizu

Kenji Shimizu 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: 8461076
    Abstract: To provide a thermosensitive recording medium, containing: a support; a thermosensitive recording layer; and a surface layer, where the thermosensitive recording layer and the surface layer are provided over the support, wherein the thermosensitive recording layer contains a binding agent, a coloring agent, and a color developer, and wherein the surface layer contains polyester (meth)acrylate having at least three (meth)acryloyl groups, and an ?-hydroxyketone-based polymerization initiator having a melting point of 80° C. or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Okada, Kenji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20130070022
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes recording heads, head holders, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, and a pressing member. The recording heads have nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The holders hold the recording heads. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holding the holders. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to hold the holders. The pressing member presses at least one of the holders toward at least another of the holders. The holders have reference faces to contact each other in the main scanning direction to determine relative positions of the holders. With the recording heads positioned based on the reference faces of the holders, the recording heads are held by the holders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato OGAWA, Shinichiro Naruse, Kenji Shimizu, Takayuki Niihara
  • Publication number: 20130060408
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes an electric motor, a homing control section, a distance determination section, and a forbiddance section. The electric motor moves a control object equipped to a vehicle at least between two positions. The homing control section executes a homing control for controlling the electric motor to move the control object so that the control object press-contacts a stopper wall when an initialization condition is satisfied. The distance determination section determines whether a user of the vehicle is apart from the vehicle at a distance greater than a predetermined distance. The forbiddance section forbids the homing control during a period, which starts at a time of the homing control execution and ends at a time when the user of the vehicle is apart from the vehicle farther than the predetermined distance, even when the initialization condition is satisfied during the period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya IWAMI, Katsuki Ishigaki, Kenji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8390698
    Abstract: Provided is an image capturing apparatus (100) that can improve coding efficiency, and record a still image with a wide dynamic range and smooth moving images. The apparatus includes: an image capturing unit (110) capturing images by exposure for a first exposure time and a second exposure time longer than the first exposure time to generate a short-time exposure image and a long-time exposure image; a short-time exposure image storage unit (120) storing the short-time exposure image; a long-time exposure image storage unit (130) storing the long-time exposure image; a motion blur adding unit (140) generating a predicted image of the long-time exposure image by adding motion blur to the short-time exposure image; a subtracting unit (150) calculating a difference between the long-time exposure image and the predicted image to generate a difference image; and a coding unit (170) coding the short-time exposure image and the difference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Ryuji Fuchikami
  • Patent number: 8380746
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a database system includes first, second and third storing units, and an image generating unit. The first storing unit stores a first data table that describes plural first data records respectively including information concerning plural information fields. The second storing unit stores a second data table that describes second data records each including plural kinds of attribute information respectively representing display attributes concerning the information fields. The third storing unit stores, concerning the information, display definition data that describes plural kinds of attribute information respectively representing display attributes set independently of the display attributes represented by the attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Masanori Sambe, Masao Hiruma
  • Patent number: 8375057
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a database system includes a first and second storage unit, a reading unit, and a generating unit. The first storage unit stores a first data table in which first data records, each including information about information fields, are described. The second storage unit stores a second data table in which second data records including pieces of attribute information, each representing a display attribute about the information field included in the first data record, are described. The reading unit reads out the first and second data records from the first and second storage units in accordance with the fact that displaying the information included in the first data table is requested. The generating unit generates an image for displaying the information included in the read first data record in accordance with the display attribute represented by the attribute information included in the read second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Masanori Sambe
  • Publication number: 20130014370
    Abstract: Doors D (collectively representing doors D1 and D2) are removed from a vehicle body W, and are mounted to door holders 4 which are put laterally outside a base 2. While a carrier 1 is conveyed downstream with the door holders 4 kept holding the doors D and put outside the base 2 in the lateral directions, and, components are assembled to the doors D. Thereafter, the doors D to which the components are assembled are removed from the door holders 4, and are mounted to the vehicle body W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20130008763
    Abstract: A door transportation method in a vehicle body assembly line, in which the vehicle body is placed and transported on a vehicle body transportation carriage of a floor conveyer, and thereby components are assembled to the vehicle body, includes: placing and transporting the door, which is detached from the vehicle body, on a door placing section arranged on a base stand of the vehicle body transportation carriage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20130006486
    Abstract: In a motor ECU, a motor control unit detects an abnormality when a parking mechanism has not attained a target range within a predetermined period after control of the driving of a motor is started. A data memory unit stores diagnosis information when the motor control unit detects an abnormality. An abnormality check unit compares the state of a changeover mechanism outputted by the motor control unit with the target range and stores diagnosis information in the data memory unit, when the state of the parking mechanism has not attained the target range within a predetermined period after the state of the parking mechanism is outputted and when the motor control unit has not detected an abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Tomoya Iwami, Katsuki Ishigaki
  • Publication number: 20120306970
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head including plural nozzles discharging liquid droplets, a head holder holding the recording head, a carriage holding the head holder, a guide member extending in a main scanning direction of the image forming apparatus, and a reference member extending in the direction substantially parallel to the direction of the guide member. Further, the carriage moves along the guide member, a part of the reference member is disposed in the carriage, and the head holder is attachably and detachably hooked on and held by the reference member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichiro NARUSE, Takayuki NIIHARA, Kenji SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20120306960
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a head holder, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, and a pressing unit. The recording head has a plurality of nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The head holder holds the recording head. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holds the head holder. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to rotatably hold the head holder. The pressing unit presses the head holder toward the carriage. The head holder is pressed against the reference member and the carriage by the pressing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki NIIHARA, Shinichiro Naruse, Kenji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20120306967
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a head holder, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, an intermediate member, and an adjuster. The recording head has a plurality of nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The head holder holds the recording head. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holds the head holder. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to hold the head holder. The intermediate member is displaceably disposed between the head holder and the carriage and held by the carriage. The adjuster adjusts a position of the head holder by displacing the intermediate member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji SHIMIZU, Takayuki Niihara, Shinichiro Naruse
  • Patent number: 8309238
    Abstract: The present invention has its object to offer magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproducing device that can record and reproduce high density data by optimizing the soft magnetic layer material forming the soft magnetic underlayer and the under layer material. In the present invention, the perpendicular magnetic recording medium A has at least the soft magnetic underlayer a, the under layer 5, the intermediate layer 6 and the perpendicular magnetic recording layer on the non-magnetic substrate 1. The soft magnetic layers 2, 4 that form the soft magnetic underlayer a, has an amorphous structure and is made of CoAl alloy or CoFeAl alloy having saturation magnetic flux density Bs greater than 1.1 T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventor: Kenji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8297500
    Abstract: A display unit displays information in a fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Masanori Sanbe, Kenya Hiramatsu, Takahide Kubota, Akio Hiruma
  • Patent number: 8222999
    Abstract: A commodity display position alert system includes commodity display shelves set in a selling floor space of a store, an RFID reader provided in each of the commodity display shelves, and a server as a system control unit. The RFID reader reads a commodity code from an RFID tag attached to a commodity. A server compares the commodity code of the commodity and display permission information stored in a database functioning as a shelf-rule storing unit and determines whether the read commodity code is a commodity code of a commodity that should be displayed on the commodity display shelf. When the server determines that a commodity other than the commodity that should be displayed on the commodity display shelf is displayed on the commodity display shelf, the server performs control for outputting a reporting signal for causing the PDA terminal to perform reporting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenya Hiramatsu, Akio Hiruma, Kenji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20120124912
    Abstract: A vehicle door frame includes a sash frame that forms a vehicle door frame body and a bracket joined to the sash frame, wherein the sash frame and the bracket are made to mutually overlap each other so that an edge portion of one of the sash frame and the bracket is positioned on the other of the sash frame and the bracket. The sash frame and the bracket are fixed to each other at the edge portion by welding, thereby forming a welded portion thereat. The sash frame and the bracket are fixed to each other by an adhesive injected in between opposed surfaces of the mutually overlapping portions of the sash frame and the bracket, thereby forming an adhesion portion thereat. A method of producing such a vehicle door frame is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki OKADA, Kenji Shimizu, Jun Makita, Kazuyoshi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20120120193
    Abstract: Provided is an image coding apparatus which is capable of reducing fatigue of a viewer which is caused by three-dimensional viewing and of preventing a blurring process on a significant area due to an image capturing method. An image coding apparatus (10) includes: a method determining unit (12) which determines a method of capturing two images; a disparity detection unit (11) which detects, for each of blocks making up the respective two images, a disparity between the two images; an adjustment unit (13) which determines, for each of the blocks, an adjustment amount for blurring an image, based on the determined image capturing method and the disparity detected for the block; and a coding unit (14) which codes, for each of the blocks, the two images so that an image of the block is blurred by the adjustment amount determined for the block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventor: Kenji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8172125
    Abstract: A vehicle door frame includes first and second door frame members which are positioned end-to-end to be butt-welded to each other, wherein each of the first and second door frame members includes a design part, an enclosed section provided on a vehicle interior side, a connecting part which connects an inner surface of the design part with the enclosed section; and first and second dam protrusions which project from the inner surface of the design part and are positioned on opposite sides of the connecting part, respectively. Molten metal is present in the first and second spaces after the molten metal has melted and passed through the inner surface of the design part from the outer surface thereof upon butted ends of the first and second door frame members being butt-welded to each other from the outer surface of the design part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Shiroki Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Okada, Kenji Shimizu, Go Yamane, Masaki Koyama
  • Publication number: 20120062649
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a carriage, an image forming unit, a driving pulley, a driven pulley, a driving source, an open-ended carriage drawing member, and a mount. The drawing member is extended between the pulleys and having end portions mounted to the carriage. Each end portion has a surface including an indented area. The mount is disposed on the carriage and having first engagement portions and second engagement portions. Each first engagement portion has at least one indented area to engage the indented area of the drawing member. Each second engagement portion is connected to a corresponding first engagement portion in an orientation to be folded back relative to the corresponding first engagement portion. The end portions are mounted to the mount in a state in which the surface having the indented area is directed to a portion folded back along a corresponding second engagement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichiro NARUSE, Takayuki Niihara, Soichi Saiga, Kenji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20120056936
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a carriage movably supported to move reciprocally in a main scanning direction, an image forming unit mounted on the carriage to form an image, a driving pulley disposed at a first end in the main scanning direction, a driven pulley disposed at a second end opposite the first end in the main scanning direction, a driving source operatively connected to the driving pulley to rotate the driving pulley, a carriage drawing member extended between the driving pulley and the driven pulley and partially mounted to the carriage to draw the carriage, a mount disposed on the carriage to mount the carriage drawing member, a holder disposed on the carriage to hook the carriage drawing member extended from the mount during assembly, and a guide member to guide the carriage drawing member extended from the mount and the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji SHIMIZU, Takayuki Nihara, Shinichiro Naruse, Soichi Saiga