Patents by Inventor Kiyohiko Shinomiya

Kiyohiko Shinomiya 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: 20030083896
    Abstract: By adopting a recycle goods sales system, a user can always use a new machine and dispense with a maintenance operation for a consumable member such as a toner on a user's part. A manufacturer can reduce prices of parts of a host machine by employing common parts and earn profits from options such as a printer interface. Therefore, this invention provides the recycle goods sales system which can promote spreading the electronic equipment article which employs the toner as a consumable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: Richo Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyohiko Shinomiya, Takeshi Kamada
  • Publication number: 20030016394
    Abstract: A network facsimile apparatus, including a LAN interface unit, a facsimile interface unit, a memory unit, and a control unit, transmits image information received as e-mail through a computer network to another facsimile apparatus through a public channel, stores an e-mail address of a backup transmission destination with respect to the facsimile transmission in a memory unit for storing e-mail addresses beforehand. When the facsimile transmission is completed, the network facsimile apparatus generates communication control information and prepares an e-mail message that indicates the communication control information therein to transmit the e-mail message to the backup transmission address stored in the memory unit. Accordingly, a user can easily and readily ensure the result of the facsimile transmission by receiving the e-mail from the network facsimile apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd
    Inventor: Kiyohiko Shinomiya
  • Patent number: 6016430
    Abstract: A radio communication system including a plurality of base stations which communicate with a plurality of radio terminals respectively is provided with a capability of avoiding occurrence of radio interference of control channel signals among a plurality of base stations even when a plurality of the base stations are located in the close vicinity of each other. The base station of the radio communication system is provided with a device for receiving, when the power is turned on, a control channel signal which is being transmitted at a certain interval by each of the other base stations in the system, a device for frame synchronizing each of TDMA frames of the control channel signal which is received, a device for extracting base station identification information of each of the other base stations from the TDMA frames which are frame synchronized, and a device for storing in a memory each of the base station identification information which is extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyohiko Shinomiya