Patents by Inventor Kentaro Yano

Kentaro Yano 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).

  • Publication number: 20180244083
    Abstract: A printing apparatus including a plurality of printing units along one guide can read test patterns printed with a plurality of types of conveying amount of a recording medium and determine a conveying amount based on the reading result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi Nakamura, Akitoshi Yamada, Kentaro Yano
  • Publication number: 20180175485
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing including an accommodation space therein, a conduction portion located to be exposed to the outside of the housing and to the inside of the housing, a cover member which covers the housing, and a flexible connection member which is located between the housing and the cover member, includes a free one end, and has one end fixed to the housing. The connection member includes a contact portion which is opposed to and in contact with the conduction portion, and the contact portion is in contact with the conduction portion as a side of the free end of the connection member is pressed toward the housing by the cover member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Kentaro YANO
  • Publication number: 20180134043
    Abstract: The remaining amounts of inks in tanks are obtained, and, based on the obtained results, whether direction for printing an image next is to be inverted with respect to a set direction. This can reduce a difference in ink remaining amount between the tanks corresponding to print heads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi Nakamura, Akitoshi Yamada, Okinori Tsuchiya, Junichi Nakagawa, Kentaro Yano
  • Publication number: 20170282586
    Abstract: A system comprises: an obtaining unit that obtains predetermined information relating to amount of printing materials for a tank attached to a printing apparatus; and a determining unit that determines an interchangeable tank to be provided from a plurality of types of interchangeable tanks based on the predetermined information, wherein the plurality of types of interchangeable tanks include a first tank and a second tank, the first tank contains printing materials of at least two colors, with a ratio of amounts of the printing materials of the at least two colors being a first constituent ratio, and the second tank contains printing materials of at least the same two colors as those in the first tank, with a ratio of amounts of the printing materials of at least the two colors being a second constituent ratio different from the first constituent ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Takeru Sasaki, Yusuke Hashii, Akitoshi Yamada, Kentaro Yano, Takayuki Aizawa
  • Patent number: 9716525
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a case, a lid removably attachable to the case, a bolt as a first fastening portion which is located in the lid and can secure at least a part of the lid to the case, and an insert nut as a second fastening portion which is located in the case and can be fastened to the first fastening portion. The lid can take at least two states of a proper attached state and a provisional attached state with respect to the case. In the proper attached state, the lid is relatively fixed to the case as the bolt and the insert nut are fastened to each other, and in the provisional attached state, the bolt is pressed against the insert nut while the bolt is not fastened to the insert nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Yano
  • Patent number: 9705181
    Abstract: An antenna connecting structure includes a battery as a first component having a first main surface and a second main surface directed oppositely to the first main surface, a housing component including a flat portion located on the first main surface side, a spacer located on the first main surface, a sheet-like antenna unit main body located on a surface of the spacer opposite to the first main surface and abutting on the flat portion in surface contact, a circuit board disposed on the second main surface side and having a connector, an antenna connecting cable extending from the antenna unit main body and having flexibility, and an antenna connecting terminal disposed at an end of the antenna connecting cable and connected to the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Yano, Takeshi Saimyoji, Katsushige Kohri
  • Publication number: 20170093452
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a case, a lid removably attachable to the case, a bolt as a first fastening portion which is located in the lid and can secure at least a part of the lid to the case, and an insert nut as a second fastening portion which is located in the case and can be fastened to the first fastening portion. The lid can take at least two states of a proper attached state and a provisional attached state with respect to the case. In the proper attached state, the lid is relatively fixed to the case as the bolt and the insert nut are fastened to each other, and in the provisional attached state, the bolt is pressed against the insert nut while the bolt is not fastened to the insert nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventor: Kentaro YANO
  • Patent number: 9495033
    Abstract: A touch panel (20) is attached, via a reflection-prevention layer (31) or an adhesive layer, to the polarizing plate (2) side of a display device (10) having the polarizing plate (2) laminated upon a display panel (1). The polarizing plate (2) has: a polarizer (3); and a film (4) having a film thickness of no more than 35 ?m and laminated on the touch panel (20) side of the polarizer (3). The contact angle for the surface of the touch panel (20) side in the film is less than 60°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yano, Hiroshi Bekku, Satoshi Okano
  • Patent number: 9456065
    Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes a casing, a containing portion that is depressed in the casing to contain an electronic component, a lid body detachably mounted on the containing portion to water-tightly close the containing portion, and a lock operation piece that locks the lid body in the casing by rotation. The lock operation piece has a shaft portion projected toward the casing, and in an outer surface of the casing, a bottomed receiving portion into which the shaft portion is fitted is depressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Yano, Takeshi Saimyoji
  • Publication number: 20160209551
    Abstract: A film (6) of a glass laminate (2) is an anti-fogging film obtained by performing a hydrophilic treatment on the surface of a polymer film in which a carbon is substituted in one or more side chains of a glucose ring. The retardation Ro in the planar direction of the film (6) is 40 nm or more and 200 nm or less. Three seconds after exposing the film (6) to 40° C. steam for 120 seconds under conditions of 55% RH at 23° C., the change in haze in comparison to before the exposure to steam is 3% or less, and the change in retardation Ro is 30% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi BEKKU, Ayako INAGAKI, Hiroki UMEDA, Tomohiro YAMAMOTO, Kentaro YANO
  • Publication number: 20160209548
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing a polarizing plate entails applying a hydrophilic polymer coating solution onto a thermoplastic resin layer to form a hydrophilic polymer layer; drying the hydrophilic polymer layer on the thermoplastic resin layer to form a laminate; stretching the laminate of the thermoplastic resin layer and the hydrophilic polymer layer in a longitudinal or lateral direction; dyeing the laminate with a dichroic substance to adsorb the dichroic substance onto the hydrophilic polymer layer of the laminate; bonding the dyed, stretched laminate to a substrate having a hard coat layer formed by an application process to form a bonded laminate substrate; and removing the thermoplastic resin layer from the bonded laminate substrate to form a polarizing plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuhiro WATANABE, Kentaro YANO
  • Patent number: 9389824
    Abstract: In a printing system in which a digital camera (DSC) and PD printer apparatus are directly connected via a USB, and image data is transmitted from the DSC to the PD printer apparatus and printed, Capability of the PD printer apparatus is transmitted from the PD printer apparatus to the DSC after communication procedures are established by an application (NCDP) installed in the PD printer apparatus and DSC. The PD printer apparatus is caused to execute print operation in accordance with print conditions set by the DSC on the basis of the transmitted Capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Yano, Kazuya Sakamoto, Takao Aichi, Fumihiro Goto, Akitoshi Yamada, Tatsuya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9369609
    Abstract: Based on information corresponding to the degree of compression of image data compressed in a lossy compression method, a parameter to be used when error diffusion processing is performed on the image data is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Suwa, Hiroyuki Sakai, Yuto Kajiwara, Akitoshi Yamada, Kentaro Yano
  • Publication number: 20160126621
    Abstract: An antenna connecting structure includes a battery as a first component having a first main surface and a second main surface directed oppositely to the first main surface, a housing component including a flat portion located on the first main surface side, a spacer located on the first main surface, a sheet-like antenna unit main body located on a surface of the spacer opposite to the first main surface and abutting on the flat portion in surface contact, a circuit board disposed on the second main surface side and having a connector, an antenna connecting cable extending from the antenna unit main body and having flexibility, and an antenna connecting terminal disposed at an end of the antenna connecting cable and connected to the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Kentaro YANO, Takeshi SAIMYOJI, Katsushige KOHRI
  • Patent number: 9300844
    Abstract: The number of gradation levels to be obtained after lossy-compressed data corresponding to a predetermined number of gradation levels is expanded and gradation conversion is performed is determined in such a manner that the number of gradation levels is determined to be a first number of gradation levels in a case where the degree of compression when the data to be processed is compressed in lossy compression is more than a first threshold value, and the number of gradation levels is determined to be a second number of gradation levels in a case where the degree of compression is less than or equal to the first threshold value, the first number of gradation levels being smaller than the second number of gradation levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sakai, Tetsuya Suwa, Yuto Kajiwara, Akitoshi Yamada, Kentaro Yano
  • Patent number: 9277099
    Abstract: Information corresponding to the degree of compression of lossy-compressed image data to be printed is acquired. Furthermore, based on the acquired information, a providing method of a recording agent when the image data to be printed is expanded and an image based on the expanded image data is printed, is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuto Kajiwara, Hiroyuki Sakai, Tetsuya Suwa, Akitoshi Yamada, Kentaro Yano
  • Publication number: 20150301667
    Abstract: A touch panel (20) is attached, via a reflection-prevention layer (31) or an adhesive layer, to the polarizing plate (2) side of a display device (10) having the polarizing plate (2) laminated upon a display panel (1). The polarizing plate (2) has: a polarizer (3); and a film (4) having a film thickness of no more than 35 ?m and laminated on the touch panel (20) side of the polarizer (3). The contact angle for the surface of the touch panel (20) side in the film is less than 60°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Kentaro YANO, Hiroshi BEKKU, Satoshi OKANO
  • Patent number: 9081231
    Abstract: A vertical alignment mode liquid crystal display comprising: a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizer; a second polarizer; a first optical film arranged between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal cell; and a second optical film arranged between the liquid crystal cell and the second optical film, wherein the first and the second optical films each are a resin film having an optically biaxial property, the first and the second optical films meet: Formula (1) Ro1>Ro2; Formula (2) Rth1<Rth2; Formula (3) DSPRo1<DSPRo2; and Formula (4) DSPRth1<DSPRth, wherein Ro1 and Ro2 represent in-plane retardation values of the first and the second optical films, respectively, Rth1 and Rth2 represent retardation values in the thickness direction of the first and the second optical films, respectively, and DSPRo1, DSPRo2, DSPRth1 and DSPRth2 represent wavelength dispersion properties of Ro1, Ro2; Rth1 and Rth2, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA OPTO, INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yano, Shigeki Oka, Ayako Inagaki, Yuki Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20150181083
    Abstract: Information corresponding to the degree of compression of lossy-compressed image data to be printed is acquired. Furthermore, based on the acquired information, a providing method of a recording agent when the image data to be printed is expanded and an image based on the expanded image data is printed, is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Yuto Kajiwara, Hiroyuki Sakai, Tetsuya Suwa, Akitoshi Yamada, Kentaro Yano
  • Publication number: 20150181082
    Abstract: The number of gradation levels to be obtained after lossy-compressed data corresponding to a predetermined number of gradation levels is expanded and gradation conversion is performed is determined in such a manner that the number of gradation levels is determined to be a first number of gradation levels in a case where the degree of compression when the data to be processed is compressed in lossy compression is more than a first threshold value, and the number of gradation levels is determined to be a second number of gradation levels in a case where the degree of compression is less than or equal to the first threshold value, the first number of gradation levels being smaller than the second number of gradation levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sakai, Tetsuya Suwa, Yuto Kajiwara, Akitoshi Yamada, Kentaro Yano