Patents by Inventor Kohei Asano

Kohei Asano 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: 20240288571
    Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of determining the presence or absence of an obstacle between devices while achieving highly accurate distance measurement. The communication apparatus communicates with a distance measurement device. The communication apparatus outputs, at a constant interval, an advertisement packet including information to be used for first distance measurement using a signal strength of radio waves, receives, from the distance measurement device, an inquiry wave for performing second distance measurement using a time of arrival of radio waves, stops output of the advertisement packet in accordance with reception of the inquiry wave, and when a predetermined time has elapsed since the reception of the inquiry wave, outputs a response wave to be used for the second distance measurement to the distance measurement device and resumes output of the advertisement packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventor: KOHEI ASANO
  • Publication number: 20240033828
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a powder feeder to feed powder, a head to discharge the powder, a first flow passage connecting the powder feeder and the head, a flow passage switching valve provided disposed in the first flow passage, a reservoir tank configured to receive the powder fed from the powder feeder, a second flow passage connecting the flow passage switching valve to the reservoir tank, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The flow passage switching valve is configured to take a first position and a second position alternatively. The powder feeder is connected to the head via the first flow passage in the first position to supply the powder to the head. The powder feeder is connected to the reservoir tank via the second flow passage in the second position to supply the powder to the reservoir tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Yamazaki Mazak Corporation
    Inventors: Seigo OUCHI, Kohei ASANO
  • Patent number: 11818837
    Abstract: A circuit board to be secured to a support member includes a first structure, a second structure, and a third structure. The first structure prevents the circuit board from moving in a horizontal direction with respect to the support member. The second structure prevents the circuit board from rotating around the first structure with respect to the support member. The third structure prevents the circuit board from moving in a vertical direction with respect to the support member. A distance between the first structure and the second structure is shorter than a distance between the first structure and the third structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kohei Asano
  • Publication number: 20230155924
    Abstract: An object is to provide a route switching method, a transfer device, and communication system that can continue communication even during route switching work. In a route switching method according to the present invention, in bypass transfer that transfers a packet while bypassing a non-transferable route, the transfer device having detected the non-transferable route attaches a bypass packet flag to the packet that passes through a non-transferable route and specifies the packet as a bypass packet, the transfer device having detected the non-transferable route returns the bypass packet and transfers the bypass packet in a direction opposite to that of the packet in the ring network, and the transfer device for which the blocked port is set in the ring network transfers the bypass packet through the blocked port before the route switching work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke YAMAGATA, Kohei ASANO, Shinichi YOSHIHARA, Hideo KAWATA
  • Patent number: 11294445
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory, a control unit to accept an access to the memory, a power supply circuit to supply a voltage to the memory and the control unit, a detection circuit to detect a drop in the voltage, a discharge circuit, and a delay circuit. The discharge circuit discharges a charge on a voltage supply line extending between the power supply circuit and the memory. The delay circuit delays receipt of a control signal by the discharge circuit for a predetermined period after the discharge circuit receives a charge discharge instruction from the control unit. The control signal is to control discharging the supply line charge. The discharge circuit discharges supply line charges per a control signal based on detection of a drop in the voltage by the detection circuit and based on the delay of the control signal delayed by the delay circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohei Asano
  • Publication number: 20210403420
    Abstract: The present invention provides a benzoic acid ester compound that has an enteropeptidase inhibitory effect, and use of the compound as a medicament for the treatment or prevention of obesity, diabetes mellitus, or the like. A compound represented by the formula (I) or a salt thereof has an enteropeptidase inhibitory effect and is useful as a medicament for the treatment or prevention of obesity, diabetes mellitus, or the like: [in the formula, each symbol is as defined in the specification].
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ryoma HARA, Kohei ASANO, Ayumu NIIDA, Shizuo KASAI, Tsuyoshi MAEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210400804
    Abstract: A circuit board to be secured to a support member includes a first structure, a second structure, and a third structure. The first structure prevents the circuit board from moving in a horizontal direction with respect to the support member. The second structure prevents the circuit board from rotating around the first structure with respect to the support member. The third structure prevents the circuit board from moving in a vertical direction with respect to the support member. A distance between the first structure and the second structure is shorter than a distance between the first structure and the third structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kohei Asano
  • Patent number: 10853205
    Abstract: If a storage device B that is a target of rebuild processing is an SSD, in the rebuild processing, a RAID controller copies system data of the image forming apparatus to the storage device B after copying to the storage device B data other than the system data out of data stored in a storage device A. Accordingly, it is possible to copy the system data from the storage device A to the storage device B after the temperature of the flash memory in the storage device B (SSD) has increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiro Ito, Takeru Imamura, Kohei Asano
  • Publication number: 20200201409
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory, a control unit to accept an access to the memory, a power supply circuit to supply a voltage to the memory and the control unit, a detection circuit to detect a drop in the voltage, a discharge circuit, and a delay circuit. The discharge circuit discharges a charge on a voltage supply line extending between the power supply circuit and the memory. The delay circuit delays receipt of a control signal by the discharge circuit for a predetermined period after the discharge circuit receives a charge discharge instruction from the control unit. The control signal is to control discharging the supply line charge. The discharge circuit discharges supply line charges per a control signal based on detection of a drop in the voltage by the detection circuit and based on the delay of the control signal delayed by the delay circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventor: Kohei Asano
  • Patent number: 10506114
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a non-volatile storage unit, a power circuit, a power switch for the power circuit, a determination unit, and a power control unit. The determination unit is configured to determine an address through a predetermined method before power is turned off or voltage decreases after activation. The power control unit is configured to execute power-off processing in a case where an operation instruction of the power switch is provided after power-on processing and execute writing of information to be saved with respect to an address of the non-volatile storage unit previously determined by the determination unit in a case where a decrease in voltage of the power circuit is detected after the power-on processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohei Asano
  • Publication number: 20190018745
    Abstract: If a storage device B that is a target of rebuild processing is an SSD, in the rebuild processing, a RAID controller copies system data of the image forming apparatus to the storage device B after copying to the storage device B data other than the system data out of data stored in a storage device A. Accordingly, it is possible to copy the system data from the storage device A to the storage device B after the temperature of the flash memory in the storage device B (SSD) has increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Takehiro Ito, Takeru Imamura, Kohei Asano
  • Publication number: 20180150122
    Abstract: In an electronic device, a first sensor detects a detection target on a first region. A second sensor detects a detection target on a second region. A third sensor detects a detection target on a third region. A power control unit turns on the second sensor in a case where the first sensor detects the detection target on the first region. The power control unit turns on the third sensor and turns off the first sensor in a case where the second sensor detects the detection target on the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventor: Kohei Asano
  • Publication number: 20180091662
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a non-volatile storage unit, a power circuit, a power switch for the power circuit, a determination unit, and a power control unit. The determination unit is configured to determine an address through a predetermined method before power is turned off or voltage decreases after activation. The power control unit is configured to execute power-off processing in a case where an operation instruction of the power switch is provided after power-on processing and execute writing of information to be saved with respect to an address of the non-volatile storage unit previously determined by the determination unit in a case where a decrease in voltage of the power circuit is detected after the power-on processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: Kohei Asano
  • Patent number: 9915997
    Abstract: In an electronic device, a first sensor detects a detection target on a first region. A second sensor detects a detection target on a second region. A third sensor detects a detection target on a third region. A power control unit turns on the second sensor in a case where the first sensor detects the detection target on the first region. The power control unit turns on the third sensor and turns off the first sensor in a case where the second sensor detects the detection target on the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kohei Asano
  • Patent number: 9873174
    Abstract: A turning controller includes a storage, a working program processing device, a command value setting processing device, an approach angle setting command amount calculator, and a command processing device. The storage is configured to store a working program and tool shape data. The working program processing device is configured to analyze the working program and to calculate and output command amounts. The command value setting processing device is configured to set an approach angle command value for defining an approach angle. The approach angle setting command amount calculator is configured to calculate, as an approach angle setting command amount, a B-axis command amount for controlling to cause the approach angle to have the approach angle command value based on the tool shape data. The command processing device is configured to output the approach angle setting command amount to the B-axis driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: YAMAZAKI MAZAK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Asano, Yasuharu Sumida
  • Patent number: 9571673
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus equipped with a sleep function and for forming an image using an image forming unit and a control method thereof. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit that controls the image forming unit. When a job is received in a sleep state, a port number of the received job is discriminated, whether or not to perform initialization processing of the image forming unit is determined based on the discriminated port number, and in a case that it is determined that initialization processing of the image forming unit is necessary, initialization processing of the image forming unit is started and thereafter the control unit is controlled to start processing of the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keishi Inaba, Koji Shimizu, Kohei Asano, Kiyokazu Umimura, Yuji Naya, Yuichi Konosu
  • Patent number: 9436260
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that is capable of preventing overcharge and overdischarge of a battery. The electronic apparatus is operatable in a normal mode and a first power saving mode with less power consumption. A battery supplies electric power until battery residual capacity reaches a first threshold in the first power saving mode. A charging unit charges the battery in the normal mode. A control unit controls, in a case that the battery residual capacity is smaller than a second threshold larger than the first threshold when transition to the first power saving mode is made, so as to charge the battery until the battery residual capacity reaches the second threshold, and make a transition to the first power saving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohei Asano
  • Patent number: 9360836
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided in which, in receiving a job and processing an image, a central processing unit (CPU) that can be cooled by a cooling unit to which electric power is supplied from a power supply unit controls a printing unit. The CPU, after a power state of the image forming apparatus is shifted to a second power state lower in power consumption than a first power state, recognizes that a receiving unit has received a job for returning from the second power state to the first power state. Then, the CPU performs adjustment such that start timing for supplying electric power from the power supply unit to the cooling unit is delayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kohei Asano
  • Publication number: 20160089760
    Abstract: A turning controller includes a storage, a working program processing device, a command value setting processing device, an approach angle setting command amount calculator, and a command processing device. The storage is configured to store a working program and tool shape data. The working program processing device is configured to analyze the working program and to calculate and output command amounts. The command value setting processing device is configured to set an approach angle command value for defining an approach angle. The approach angle setting command amount calculator is configured to calculate, as an approach angle setting command amount, a B-axis command amount for controlling to cause the approach angle to have the approach angle command value based on the tool shape data. The command processing device is configured to output the approach angle setting command amount to the B-axis driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: Yamazaki Mazak Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei ASANO, Yasuharu SUMIDA
  • Patent number: 9245218
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a server apparatus, includes a receiving unit configured to receive a packet from the server apparatus, a determining unit configured to determine whether a packet received by the receiving unit is a specific packet, a power supply control unit which, when the determining unit determines that a packet received by the receiving unit is the specific packet, brings the image forming apparatus into a first power condition which enables the image forming apparatus to start quickly using data stored in a volatile memory, and a start control unit configured to start the image forming apparatus quickly using data stored in the volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Naya, Keishi Inaba, Koji Shimizu, Kohei Asano, Kiyokazu Umimura, Yuichi Konosu