Patents by Inventor Kentaro Okamoto

Kentaro Okamoto 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: 10482444
    Abstract: A computer system includes an inventory management server, a plurality of point-of-sale (POS) terminals communicating with the inventory management server over a first network, a face recognition computer having a camera communicating with the inventory management server over the first network, and a portable terminal communicating wirelessly with the inventory management server over a second network. The inventory management server is configured to generates alerts that are displayed on the portable terminal based on first data from the POS terminals and second data from the face recognition computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kentaro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10485102
    Abstract: A first embodiment of a substrate for a high-frequency printed wiring board according to the present disclosure is directed to a substrate for a high-frequency printed wiring board, the substrate including: a dielectric layer including a fluororesin and an inorganic filler; and a copper foil layered on at least one surface of the dielectric layer, wherein a surface of the copper foil at the dielectric layer side has a maximum height roughness (Rz) of less than or equal to 2 ?m, and a ratio of the number of inorganic atoms of the inorganic filler to the number of fluorine atoms of the fluororesin in a superficial region of the dielectric layer at the copper foil side is less than or equal to 0.08.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Shingo Kaimori, Masaaki Yamauchi, Kentaro Okamoto, Satoshi Kiya, Kazuo Murata
  • Publication number: 20190279300
    Abstract: A trading system includes a trading management system and an electronic device. The trading management system manages a trading. The electronic device has an operation check function. The operation check function checks whether an object of the trading validly operates for the trading. The trading management system includes at least one of a confirmation of the valid operation of the object by the operation check function before sending the object by a seller of the object and a confirmation of the valid operation of the object by the operation check function after receiving the object by a buyer of the object, as a condition of a completion of the trading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Kentaro Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20190215957
    Abstract: A first embodiment of a substrate for a high-frequency printed wiring board according to the present disclosure is directed to a substrate for a high-frequency printed wiring board, the substrate including: a dielectric layer including a fluororesin and an inorganic filler; and a copper foil layered on at least one surface of the dielectric layer, wherein a surface of the copper foil at the dielectric layer side has a maximum height roughness (Rz) of less than or equal to 2 ?m, and a ratio of the number of inorganic atoms of the inorganic filler to the number of fluorine atoms of the fluororesin in a superficial region of the dielectric layer at the copper foil side is less than or equal to 0.08.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Shingo KAIMORI, Masaaki YAMAUCHI, Kentaro OKAMOTO, Satoshi KIYA, Kazuo MURATA
  • Publication number: 20190035670
    Abstract: A substrate transfer hand is provided that is capable of supporting a substrate in a rigid state while reducing the contact points with the substrate. A substrate transfer hand includes a longitudinal hand support 20a extending in a longitudinal direction, and a plurality of transverse hand supports 31a and 32a coupled to the longitudinal hand support 20a and extending transversely to the longitudinal direction of the longitudinal hand support 20a. The plurality of transverse hand supports 31a and 32a include a plurality of first transverse hand supports 31a and a plurality of second transverse hand supports 32a. Each of the first transverse hand supports 31a includes a plurality of first contact points 40A aligned in a direction in which the first transverse hand support 31a extends and capable of contacting the substrate SB. The maximum height position of the first contact points 40A is a first height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventor: Kentaro OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180371191
    Abstract: A base film for a printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention is a base film for a printed circuit board, the base film containing a polyimide as a main component. A ratio of a peak intensity around a wave number of 1705 cm?1 to a peak intensity around a wave number of 1494 cm?1 in an absorption intensity spectrum of a surface of the base film, the spectrum being measured at an angle of incidence of 45° by total reflection infrared absorption spectroscopy, is 0.50 or more and 1.10 or less. A substrate for a printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the base film for a printed circuit board and a metal layer stacked on the surface of the base film for a printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Kayo HASHIZUME, Yoshio OKA, Takashi KASUGA, Kentaro OKAMOTO, Atsushi KIMURA, Hiroshi UEDA
  • Publication number: 20180240089
    Abstract: A computer system includes an inventory management server, a plurality of point-of-sale (POS) terminals communicating with the inventory management server over a first network, a face recognition computer having a camera communicating with the inventory management server over the first network, and a portable terminal communicating wirelessly with the inventory management server over a second network. The inventory management server is configured to generates alerts that are displayed on the portable terminal based on first data from the POS terminals and second data from the face recognition computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventor: Kentaro OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10054736
    Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber and a coating resin layer covering the glass fiber, the coating resin layer having a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer, the primary resin layer comprising a cured resin composition obtained by curing a resin composition comprising an oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the oligomer is a reaction product of a polyol compound, an isocyanate compound, and a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate compound; a proportion of a primary hydroxyl group of hydroxyl groups included in the polyol compound is 3.5% or less; and a Young's modulus of the secondary resin layer at ?40° C. is 1780 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriaki Iwaguchi, Masuo Iida, Kentaro Okamoto, Takashi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20180128969
    Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber and a coating resin layer covering the glass fiber, the coating resin layer having a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer, the primary resin layer comprising a cured resin composition obtained by curing a resin composition comprising an oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the oligomer is a reaction product of a polyol compound, an isocyanate compound, and a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate compound; a proportion of a primary hydroxyl group of hydroxyl groups included in the polyol compound is 3.5% or less; and a Young's modulus of the secondary resin layer at ?40° C. is 1780 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriaki IWAGUCHI, Masuo IIDA, Kentaro OKAMOTO, Takashi FUJII
  • Patent number: 9948796
    Abstract: There is provided an image scanner apparatus, including: a platen; a carriage including an image sensor that captures an image of a script on the platen; an antenna unit on the carriage; and a controller circuit that controls the carriage to move in a forward way and a backward way in a sub-scanning direction over the platen, detects a position of an NFC (Near Field Communication) tag on the script in the sub-scanning direction via the antenna unit, and then detects a position of the NFC tag in a main-scanning direction via the antenna unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Kentaro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9940121
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a control portion (1) including: an installation portion (11) that associates the user who performs installation with the installed program; and a program use control portion (17) that permits all users to use a first installed program associated with a first user and permit a second user and a third user who attempts to install a second installed program associated with the second user to use the second installed program. When the third user who is a user other than an administrator attempts to install an application program that the third user is not permitted to use, if the application program is the second installed program, the installation portion (11) does not perform installation and causes the program use control portion (17) to permit the third user to use the second installed program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Okamoto, Kyota Mitsuyama, Koji Ikawa
  • Patent number: 9924061
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus having a control circuit. The control circuit includes a standard application execution circuit, an apparatus control platform, and a standard application control circuit. The standard application execution circuit has the standard application execution service that executes a standard application. The apparatus control platform includes control service, apparatus control execution service, and an apparatus control management service. The control service controls hardware on an operating system. The apparatus control execution service executes the control service with an interface that is an executing procedure of the control service. The apparatus control management service instructs a call of the control service to the apparatus control execution service. The standard application control circuit manages a state of the standard application and provides an interface for using the hardware resources of the standard application execution service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuji Furushige, Tomonori Naota, Tomihito Doi, Makoto Kowaka, Takashi Murakami, Kyota Mitsuyama, Ayaka Ikejima, Yosuke Nakazato, Masato Hirota, Kentaro Okamoto, Daijiro Kitamoto, Koji Ikawa, Satoshi Imai, Minoru Takahashi, Wataru Tsukuda
  • Publication number: 20180060064
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic machine that is able to update only necessary firmware. The electronic machine includes a panel unit, a storage device, a firmware-management unit, and a system-control unit. The storage device stores a plurality of firmware that is divided for each function, and that has version information to which package information is given that indicates a combination of latest versions of firmware that guarantees operation. The firmware-management unit has a latest version of a management table in which version information of the plurality of the latest versions of firmware, and package information that indicates a combination of the firmware are registered, and that is downloaded from an information-distribution server, and that based on an instruction to check versions of the firmware, checks whether or not version information of the respective firmware that is read from the storage device and version information that is registered in the management table match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro OKAMOTO, Yoshitaka MATSUKI, Kazuki DOZEN
  • Patent number: 9894230
    Abstract: Provided is an image formation device with which expanded is easy and the development cost can be reduced. A device control platform manages hardware resource in an operating system. A standard application service interface unit provides an interface for utilizing a standard application function from outside of a standard application execution unit. A platform service interface unit provides an interface for utilizing hardware resource from the outside of the device control platform. A standard function service enables the use of the standard application functions corresponding to the standard application service interface unit. An expanded function service enables the use of the hardware resource corresponding to the platform service interface unit. An expanded application management unit manages and executes expanded applications capable of calling the standard function service and the expanded function service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Okamoto, Daijiro Kitamoto, Koji Ikawa, Satoshi Imai, Minoru Takahashi, Tomonori Naota, Katsuji Furushige, Tomihito Doi, Makoto Kowaka, Takashi Murakami, Kyota Mitsuyama, Wataru Tsukuda, Ayaka Ikejima, Yosuke Nakazato, Masato Hirota
  • Patent number: 9848095
    Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus, including: a feeder mechanism that feeds a sheet in a sheet-feeding direction; a metal-detector antenna capable of detecting an NFC (Near Field Communication) tag on the sheet entirely in the carriage-moving direction over the sheet; a carriage that moves back and forth in the carriage-moving direction and includes a print head, the print head forming an image on an area of the sheet, the area having passed the metal-detector antenna; an NFC antenna on the carriage, the NFC antenna being capable of communicating with the NFC tag via near field communication; and an NFC writer that writes NFC data in the NFC tag via the NFC antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Kentaro Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20170257499
    Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus, including: a feeder mechanism that feeds a sheet in a sheet-feeding direction; a metal-detector antenna capable of detecting an NFC (Near Field Communication) tag on the sheet entirely in the carriage-moving direction over the sheet; a carriage that moves back-and-force in the carriage-moving direction and includes a print head, the print head forming an image on an area of the sheet, the area having passed the metal-detector antenna; an NFC antenna on the carriage, the NFC antenna being capable of communicating with the NFC tag via near field communication; and an NFC writer that writes NFC data in the NFC tag via the NFC antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventor: KENTARO OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170257498
    Abstract: There is provided an image scanner apparatus, including: a platen; a carriage including an image sensor that captures an image of a script on the platen; an antenna unit on the carriage; and a controller circuit that controls the carriage to move in a forward way and a backward way in a sub-scanning direction over the platen, detects a position of an NFC (Near Field Communication) tag on the script in the sub-scanning direction via the antenna unit, and then detects a position of the NFC tag in a main-scanning direction via the antenna unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventor: KENTARO OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170223208
    Abstract: Provided is an image formation device with which expanded is easy and the development cost can be reduced. A device control platform manages hardware resource in an operating system. A standard application service interface unit provides an interface for utilizing a standard application function from outside of a standard application execution unit. A platform service interface unit provides an interface for utilizing hardware resource from the outside of the device control platform. A standard function service enables the use of the standard application functions corresponding to the standard application service interface unit. An expanded function service enables the use of the hardware resource corresponding to the platform service interface unit. An expanded application management unit manages and executes expanded applications capable of calling the standard function service and the expanded function service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro OKAMOTO, Daijiro KITAMOTO, Koji IKAWA, Satoshi IMAI, Minoru TAKAHASHI, Tomonori NAOTA, Katsuji FURUSHIGE, Tomihito DOI, Makoto KOWAKA, Takashi MURAKAMI, Kyota MITSUYAMA, Wataru TSUKUDA, Ayaka IKEJIMA, Yosuke NAKAZATO, Masato HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20170212744
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a control portion (1) including: an installation portion (11) that associates the user who performs installation with the installed program; and a program use control portion (17) that permits all users to use a first installed program associated with a first user and permit a second user and a third user who attempts to install a second installed program associated with the second user to use the second installed program. When the third user who is a user other than an administrator attempts to install an application program that the third user is not permitted to use, if the application program is the second installed program, the installation portion (11) does not perform installation and causes the program use control portion (17) to permit the third user to use the second installed program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Kentaro Okamoto, Kyota Mitsuyama, Koji Ikawa
  • Patent number: 9661170
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a print device, a print job accepting circuit, an interrupt permission circuit, and a distance acquisition circuit. The interrupt permission circuit permits the interrupt print with a count of paper sheets equal to or less than a count of printable sheets printed by the print device within an interruptible time that ensures execution of the interrupt print, within an acceptable extension time by which an extension of completion time of the interrupted print job is accepted. The interrupt permission circuit calculates the acceptable extension time based on a remaining count of printed sheets of the print job to be interrupted. The interrupt permission circuit calculates the interruptible time by at least reducing an arrival time taken to arrive at the printer for the requester arrives at the print device based on a distance acquired by the distance acquisition circuit from the acceptable extension time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kyota Mitsuyama, Koji Ikawa, Kentaro Okamoto