Patents by Inventor Koji An

Koji An 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: 20170078647
    Abstract: A camera system is configured to capture video content with 360 degree views of an environment. The camera array comprises a housing including a first quadrant, a second quadrant, a third quadrant, and a fourth quadrant, wherein each of the first quadrant, the second quadrant, the third quadrant, and the fourth quadrant form a plurality of apertures, a chassis bottom that is removably coupled to the housing, and a plurality of camera modules, each camera module comprising a processor, a memory, a sensor, and a lens, wherein each of the camera modules is removably coupled to one of the plurality of apertures in the housing, wherein the first quadrant, the second quadrant, the third quadrant, and the fourth quadrant each include a subset of the plurality of camera modules. Each of the plurality of camera modules includes a heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Arthur Van Hoff, Thomas M. Annau, Jens Christensen, Koji Gardiner, Punit Govenji, James Dunn
  • Publication number: 20170075299
    Abstract: A process cartridge comprises a photosensitive drum and a developing roller. A coupling member is provided adjacent to one axial end of the developing roller. The coupling member includes a driven portion, and an intermediary portion configured and positioned to engage with the driven portion. The intermediary portion is also configured to be movable relative to the driven portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the driven portion. The coupling member further includes a driving portion configured and positioned to receive a driving force for rotating the developing roller. The driving portion is also configured to engage with the intermediary portion, and to be movable relative to the intermediary portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the intermediary portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuo Chadani, Tomonori Mori, Koji Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20170076808
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method, and a system are disclosed. The apparatus includes a string of memory cells coupled to a select gate drain transistor that has a front control gate and a back control gate. The front and back control gates can be coupled together such that they are biased at the same voltage or separate such that they can be biased at different voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventor: Koji Sakui
  • Publication number: 20170073164
    Abstract: Provided is a workpiece conveyance method for conveying a workpiece (1) in a predetermined direction by applying a conveying force (F) to the workpiece (1) while supporting the workpiece (1) through use of free rollers (11), and the workpiece conveyance method includes: applying flows of a fluid to the free rollers (11) to apply a rotation auxiliary force (f) to the free rollers (11) in a rotation direction of the free rollers (11) during conveyance of the workpiece (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Shuji AKIYAMA, Kaoru MITSUGI, Koji NISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170076813
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a string unit including a plurality of memory cell transistors which are connected in series, a first select transistor connected to a first end of the plurality of memory cell transistors, and a second select transistor connected to a second end of the plurality of memory cell transistors; and a bit line connected to the first select transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Koji KATO, Eietsu TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170071186
    Abstract: Provided are a mosquito control aerosol which can produce a good control effect on mosquitoes over a long period of time while reducing influence on humans and pets, and a mosquito control method using the mosquito control aerosol. The mosquito control aerosol includes: a pressure-resistant container equipped with a metering spray valve, that contains a liquid aerosol-forming material including an insect pest control component and an organic solvent, and a propellant; and a spray button having a spray outlet connected to the metering spray valve. The volume of the liquid aerosol-forming material sprayed when the spray button is pressed down once is adjusted to 0.1 to 0.4 mL, and the spray force thereof as measured at a distance of 20 cm from the spray outlet at 25° C. is adjusted to 0.3 to 10.0 g·f.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Ayako NOTOMI, Hiroko YOSHINAKA, Yoko KOBAYASHI, Osamu TANAKA, Yumi KAWAJIRI, Koji NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170071454
    Abstract: An endoscope holding apparatus includes: a base section; a support column; a first link and a second link that rotate around a first linking portion; a third link that rotates around a second linking portion; a fourth link capable of holding an endoscope; a fifth link including a first counter weight; a second counterweight linked to the second linking portion; a sixth link including one arm linked to the fifth link; and a seventh link including a first end configured to rotate around a fifth linking portion and a second end configured to rotate around a sixth linking portion, wherein the first, fifth, sixth, and third linking portions form a parallelogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji YASUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20170078524
    Abstract: A print control system 1 has a control server 10 that transmits print data, and a printer 12 that communicates with the control server 10 through an asynchronous duplex communication path, receives print data sent by the control server 10 through the communication path, and prints based on the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Shigeo Tajima, Koji Nishizawa, Keigo Mori
  • Publication number: 20170079168
    Abstract: A system for mounting electronic components on a substrate includes component holders each configured to hold an electronic components to be mounted on the substrate. A revolving device is configured to revolve the component holders along a pre-determined path so that each one of the component holders is moveable into a component receiving location for receiving a respective electronic component and/or a component mounting location for mounting the respective electronic component on the substrate. An actuator is configured to actuate a respective component holder in the component receiving location and/or the component mounting location. A safety device is configured to determine whether the respective component holder to be actuated by the actuator is properly placed in an operative position on the revolving device. The safety device is arranged separately from the actuator and is spaced apart from the actuator along the pre-determined path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Frederik Arnell, Marc Kunze, Bruno Chichiricco
  • Publication number: 20170077366
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes first and second light emitting bodies, a first electrode, a second electrode and a first interconnection. The first and second light emitting bodies are disposed on a conductive substrate, and each includes first and second semiconductor layers and a light emitting layer therebetween. The first electrode is provided between the first light emitting body and the conductive substrate, and electrically connected to a first semiconductor layer and the conductive substrate. The second electrode is provided between the second light emitting body and the conductive substrate, and electrically connected to a first semiconductor layer. The first interconnection electrically connects the second semiconductor layer of the first light emitting body and the second electrode. The first interconnection includes a first portion extending over the first and second light emitting bodies and a second portion extending into the second light emitting body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Koji Kaga, Jumpei Tajima, Toshiyuki Oka, Kazuyuki Miyabe
  • Publication number: 20170075334
    Abstract: A controller, such as a PLC, stores a task execution condition management table that indicates execution conditions for tasks and executes programs periodically in accordance with the execution conditions for the tasks. The controller provides a setting instruction for modifying the execution conditions for the tasks. A user enters the setting instruction in a user program by using a support device, for example. The controller updates the task execution condition management table with regard to a task associated with the instruction by executing the instruction for modifying the execution conditions for the tasks, including priorities of the tasks and cycles of the tasks, contained in the user program, and executes the programs in accordance with the updated execution conditions for the tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Koji YAOITA, Tatsuya KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170075549
    Abstract: Techniques involving gestures and other functionality are described. In one or more implementations, the techniques describe gestures that are usable to provide inputs to a computing device. A variety of different gestures are contemplated, including bimodal gestures (e.g., using more than one type of input) and single modal gestures. Additionally, the gesture techniques may be configured to leverage these different input types to increase the amount of gestures that are made available to initiate operations of a computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Koji Yatani, Andrew S. Allen, Jonathan R. Harris, Georg F. Petschnigg
  • Publication number: 20170072139
    Abstract: A device, method, and system are provided for monitoring the delivery of fluids through a drip chamber. The device includes an electromagnetic radiation (EMR) source and an EMR detector. A device body is employed to position the source and detector about the drip chamber so that the source and detector define an optical path across the drip chamber. A processor device is employed to detect fluid drops from differences between detector signal values separated by a lag time. The flow rate is determined from a drip factor and the detection of multiple drops. In the context of delivering intravenous (IV) fluids, a battery powered handheld monitoring device that includes the source, detector, device body, and processor device may be affixed to a drip chamber included in an infusion set. The device includes a user interface, including buttons, a display, and an audio speaker, for the input and output of information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Shift Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Beth Elise Kolko, Lisa Kathryn Lafleur, Robert John Flickenger, Jennifer Hu, Koji Intlekofer, Phillip Edward Rutschman
  • Publication number: 20170074577
    Abstract: Provided are a refrigeration cycle that is formed by connecting a compressor, a condenser, expansion means, and an evaporator and that performs cooling operation; an evaporator heating device that heats the evaporator; a drain pan that receives drain-water from the evaporator and drains the drain-water; a drain-pan heating device that heats the drain pan; frost detecting means including a light-emitting element that emits light to the evaporator and a light-receiving element that receives reflected light from the evaporator and outputs a voltage according to the reflected light; and a control device that controls on-off operation of the evaporator heating device and the drain-pan heating device. The control device determines a frosting condition on the evaporator from an output of the frost detecting means and individually controls the evaporator heating device and the drain-pan heating device in accordance with the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Mamoru HAMADA, Fumitake UNEZAKI, Akira MORIKAWA, Satoshi UEYAMA, Koji YAMASHITA, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO, Yuji MOTOMURA, Tetsuya YAMASHITA, Yusuke OTSUBO
  • Publication number: 20170073923
    Abstract: Provided is a work vehicle which is capable of appropriately setting the height of a work tool as a control threshold value for a ride control device or an automatic transmission control device, and which is excellent in operability, travel stability, and work efficiency. A value detected by an angle sensor (39) when a signal import switch (46) is operated by an operator is stored in a height position storage unit (35b) of a main controller (35) as height position information about a bucket (13) for excavation work. In the height position storage unit (35b), the height position of the bucket (13) for hauling work and the height position of the bucket (13) for loading work are stored in advance as offset values from the height position information about the bucket (13) for excavation work. In this way, the ride control device or the automatic transmission control device can be appropriately controlled regardless of the preference or habit of the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Isamu AOKI, Koji HYODO, Tetsuji TANAKA, Keigo KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170077011
    Abstract: A lead frame includes a die pad and a plurality of lead portions each including an internal terminal and an external terminal. The external terminals of the plurality of lead portions are arranged in an alternately staggered form such that the respective external terminals of a pair of lead portions adjacent to each other are alternatively located on an inside or an outside. A lead portion has an inside region located on the inside of a first external terminal, an outside region located on the outside of the first external terminal, and an external terminal region having the first external terminal. The inside region and the outside region are each formed thin by means of half etching. A maximum thickness of the outside region is larger than a maximum thickness of the inside region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi SHIBASAKI, Koji TOMITA, Masaki YAZAKI, Kazuyuki MIYANO, Atsushi KURAHASHI, Kazuhito UCHIUMI, Masachika MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20170071507
    Abstract: An individual authentication method includes (i) indicating a first position of a user's arm or arms when gripping an electrocardiographic sensor, (ii) measuring the user's electrocardiographic activity at the first position by using the electrocardiographic sensor, (iii) indicating a second position of the user's arm or arms when gripping the electrocardiographic sensor, the second position being different from the first position, (iv) measuring the user's electrocardiographic activity at the second position by using the electrocardiographic sensor, (v) receiving ID information of the user, and (vi) registering, in a database, electrocardiographic authentication information including first authentication information associating the ID information with the user's electrocardiographic activity measured at the first position, and second authentication information associating the ID information with the user's electrocardiographic activity measured at the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: JEFFRY FERNANDO, KOJI MORIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9595844
    Abstract: A battery control system that communicates by way of a communication network with a plurality of batteries that are connected to an electric power system includes: communication characteristics detection means that detects characteristics of communication paths between the batteries and the battery control system for each of the plurality of batteries; selection means that, based on the detection results of the communication characteristics detection means, selects from among the plurality of batteries each battery that uses a communication path having characteristics within a predetermined range of communication characteristics as a candidate of a regulating battery that is to be used for regulating the electric power of the electric power system, and that selects regulating batteries from among candidates of regulating batteries based on predetermined conditions; and control means that supplies operation instructions that instruct the regulating batteries to charge or discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kudo, Hitoshi Yano, Hisato Sakuma, Takayuki Shizuno, Toshiya Okabe
  • Patent number: 9592996
    Abstract: An elevator system is a one-shaft double-car elevator system and includes a floor-recognition abnormality detector to detect, with respect to one of the cars, a floor recognition abnormality that at least one of a car position and floor information cannot be normally recognized, a terminal-floor driving mechanism to make, on the basis of a notification of floor-recognition abnormality information detected by the floor-recognition abnormality detector, the other one of the cars travel to a terminal floor in a direction opposite to a direction toward the one of the cars, and a floor-recognition-abnormality correcting-operation mechanism to perform, on the basis of terminal-floor traveling information from the terminal-floor driving mechanism, a floor-recognition-abnormality correcting-operation to correct the floor recognition abnormality of the one of the cars; therefore, an operation to recover from the abnormality can be safely performed without collision of the cars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 9593194
    Abstract: A method for producing an olefin block polymer, the method including: polymerizing olefins using a polymerization catalyst (X) and an organometallic compound (C) containing an atom of any of Groups 2, 12, and 13 of the periodic table of the elements, the organometallic compound (C) excluding an activating co-catalyst agent (B), wherein the polymerization catalyst (X) is formed by bringing a transition metal compound (A) into contact with the activating co-catalyst agent (B), the transition metal compound (A) is represented by the following general formula (1), and the activating co-catalyst agent (B) is selected from among an organoaluminumoxy compound (B-1), an organoboron compound (B-2), a zinc co-catalyst component (B-3), and ion-exchange layered silicate (B-4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Koji Ishiwata, Masato Takano, Kazuo Takaoki