Patents by Inventor Kouichirou Matsushita
Kouichirou Matsushita 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).
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Publication number: 20230351720Abstract: An image processor includes: a first hardware processor that extracts irreversible first image feature information from a read image of a printed matter; and a second hardware processor that selects second image feature information most similar to the first image feature information among a plurality of pieces of irreversible second image feature information extracted by the first hardware processor from read images of a plurality of printed matters printed previously, and acquires, as a comparison result, print setting information associated with the second image feature information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventor: KOUICHIROU MATSUSHITA
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Patent number: 11545795Abstract: A connector includes: a cylindrical terminal to be electrically connected with a cylindrical counterpart terminal; an internal terminal located in the cylindrical terminal; and a housing holding the cylindrical terminal. The cylindrical terminal has a contact portion configured by bending a plate-shaped conductor into a cylindrical shape to contact one edge portion of the conductor with the other edge portion of the conductor. The one edge portion has a recessed shape at its circumferential end portion by reducing its thickness outwardly in a radial direction of the cylindrical terminal to configure one reduced thickness portion. The other edge portion has a recessed shape at its circumferential end portion by reducing its thickness inwardly in the radial direction to configure the other reduced thickness portion. The contact portion is configured by overlapping the one reduced thickness portion and the other reduced thickness portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TAKASAKI MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiro Maejima, Kouichirou Matsushita, Takuya Otake, Fujio Usui
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Patent number: 11495925Abstract: A connector includes: a cylindrical terminal; an internal terminal; and a housing. The cylindrical terminal has an engagement portion of its one edge portion and its opposite other edge portion. The one edge portion has a first reduced thickness portion at its circumferential end portion. The first reduced thickness portion has a first protrusion protruding inwardly in a radial direction and extending in an axial direction. The other edge portion has a second reduced thickness portion. The second reduced thickness portion has a second protrusion protruding outwardly in the radial direction and extending in the axial direction. The engagement portion is configured by overlapping the first reduced thickness portion and the second reduced thickness portion and further by locating the first protrusion and the second protrusion to face each other in the circumferential direction to allow an engagement between them in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro Maejima, Kouichirou Matsushita, Takuya Otake
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Publication number: 20210376543Abstract: A connector includes: a cylindrical terminal; an internal terminal; and a housing. The cylindrical terminal has an engagement portion of its one edge portion and its opposite other edge portion. The one edge portion has a first reduced thickness portion at its circumferential end portion. The first reduced thickness portion has a first protrusion protruding inwardly in a radial direction and extending in an axial direction. The other edge portion has a second reduced thickness portion. The second reduced thickness portion has a second protrusion protruding outwardly in the radial direction and extending in the axial direction. The engagement portion is configured by overlapping the first reduced thickness portion and the second reduced thickness portion and further by locating the first protrusion and the second protrusion to face each other in the circumferential direction to allow an engagement between them in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro Maejima, Kouichirou Matsushita, Takuya Otake
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Publication number: 20210376539Abstract: A connector includes: a cylindrical terminal to be electrically connected with a cylindrical counterpart terminal; an internal terminal located in the cylindrical terminal; and a housing holding the cylindrical terminal. The cylindrical terminal has a contact portion configured by bending a plate-shaped conductor into a cylindrical shape to contact one edge portion of the conductor with the other edge portion of the conductor. The one edge portion has a recessed shape at its circumferential end portion by reducing its thickness outwardly in a radial direction of the cylindrical terminal to configure one reduced thickness portion. The other edge portion has a recessed shape at its circumferential end portion by reducing its thickness inwardly in the radial direction to configure the other reduced thickness portion. The contact portion is configured by overlapping the one reduced thickness portion and the other reduced thickness portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicants: Yazaki Corporation, TAKASAKI MFG CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiro MAEJIMA, Kouichirou Matsushita, Takuya Otake, Fujio Usui
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Patent number: 10862226Abstract: A terminal fitting including a cylindrical portion into which a mating terminal is to be inserted; and a contact beam provided inside the cylindrical portion, the contact beam extending toward an insertion direction of the mating terminal into the cylindrical portion, being elastically deformable along a deflection direction of the contact beam and including a protruding portion extending in a direction intersecting the deflection direction, and the cylindrical portion including a peripheral wall and an engagement portion to be engaged with the protruding portion to regulate a movement of the contact beam, the engagement portion including a first portion and a second portion protruding from the peripheral wall of the cylindrical portion toward an inside of the cylindrical portion to regulate the movement of the contact beam in the deflection direction and in the insertion direction respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Kouichirou Matsushita
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Patent number: 10790605Abstract: There is provided a female terminal and a continuity test device. The female terminal has a pair of continuity test contacts protruded so as to be brought into contact with a continuity test pin in a position closer to the entrance side of a cylindrical part where the connection portion is inserted, in the direction of insertion of a connection portion, than a contact, with the connection portion, of an elastic contact piece provided on an inner surface of the cylindrical part. The female terminal sandwiches the connection portion between the elastic contact piece and an inner surface facing another inner surface of the cylindrical part. The pair of continuity test contacts are protruded on inner surfaces of the cylindrical part facing in the direction orthogonal to the direction of sandwiching of the connection portion by the elastic contact piece.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Kouichirou Matsushita
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Publication number: 20200128135Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a hardware processor that inspects an abnormality of printed matter by comparing a preliminarily prepared answer image with an image obtained by reading a printed image, wherein the hardware processor generates a plurality of answer images based on a combination of pieces of arrangement information on a reusable object and a variable unique object in variable printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Kouichirou MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20200083619Abstract: A terminal unit for a coaxial cable provided in a terminal portion of a coaxial cable includes an outer conductor terminal and a cylindrical sleeve. The sleeve is crimped to the coaxial cable together with an outer conductor by the outer conductor terminal. The outer conductor is sandwiched between the outer conductor crimping portion and the sleeve in a state of being wound around the sleeve so as to go around an outer peripheral surface of the sleeve. The sleeve has a spiral uneven structure on the outer peripheral surface thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventor: Kouichirou Matsushita
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Publication number: 20200083618Abstract: A terminal fitting including a cylindrical portion into which a mating terminal is to be inserted; and a contact beam provided inside the cylindrical portion, the contact beam extending toward an insertion direction of the mating terminal into the cylindrical portion, being elastically deformable along a deflection direction of the contact beam and including a protruding portion extending in a direction intersecting the deflection direction, and the cylindrical portion including a peripheral wall and an engagement portion to be engaged with the protruding portion to regulate a movement of the contact beam, the engagement portion including a first portion and a second portion protruding from the peripheral wall of the cylindrical portion toward an inside of the cylindrical portion to regulate the movement of the contact beam in the deflection direction and in the insertion direction respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Kouichirou Matsushita
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Patent number: 10461456Abstract: The connector includes: a housing provided with a terminal accommodating chamber; a terminal to be accommodated in the terminal accommodating chamber; a locking lance flexibly provided in the terminal accommodating chamber, a free end side of the locking lance configured to abut on the terminal when the terminal is inserted into the terminal accommodating chamber, thereby the locking lance being restored after being bent, thereby the free end side being capable of locking the terminal in the terminal accommodating chamber; and a thin-walled portion flexibly provided on the free end side of the locking lance, a thickness in a bending direction of the locking lance being set to be smaller than a thickness on a base end side of the locking lance in the thin-walled portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Kouichirou Matsushita, Naoki Takamura
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Patent number: 10382637Abstract: A hardware processor includes: a communication part connected to the hardware processor; a rasterization processing time predictor that predicts a rasterization processing time required for rasterization processing; an output setting information extractor that extracts output setting information from print information about each page and transmits the output setting information to the hardware processor; a warm-up start time calculator that calculates a warm-up start time at which the hardware processor starts warm-up processing in accordance with productivity information about the hardware processor; a warm-up start notifier that notifies the hardware processor of a start of the warm-up processing, when a current time reaches the warm-up start time; a rasterization processor that transmits image data to the hardware processor, the image data being generated by performing the rasterization processing for each page; and a print start notifier that notifies the hardware processor of a print start after the warmType: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Kouichirou Matsushita
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Publication number: 20190140381Abstract: There is provided a female terminal and a continuity test device. The female terminal has a pair of continuity test contacts protruded so as to be brought into contact with a continuity test pin in a position closer to the entrance side, in the direction of insertion of a connection portion of a male terminal, of a cylindrical part where the connection portion is inserted than a contact, with the connection portion, of an elastic contact piece provided on an inner surface of the cylindrical part so as to sandwich the connection portion between the elastic contact piece and an inner surface facing the inner surface and on inner surfaces and of the cylindrical part facing in the direction orthogonal to the direction of sandwiching of the connection portion by the elastic contact piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Kouichirou Matsushita
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Patent number: 10268424Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: rasterization processors that rasterize input image data and generate raster image data; a predictor that predicts a rasterization processing time required for the rasterization processors to rasterize input image data of a unit to be subjected to an image formation process on each recording paper sheet; a hardware processor that determines an order in which the rasterization processors rasterize the input image data of the unit; an image former that performs the image formation process based on the raster image data; a sheet ejection processor that acquires, from the image former, each recording paper sheet subjected to the image formation process, and performs a sheet ejection process; and the hardware processor that determines an order of the recording paper sheets to be ejected by the sheet eject processor, to adjust the order of the recording paper sheets to an order of pages.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Kouichirou Matsushita
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Publication number: 20190098146Abstract: A hardware processor includes: a communication part connected to the hardware processor; a rasterization processing time predictor that predicts a rasterization processing time required for rasterization processing; an output setting information extractor that extracts output setting information from print information about each page and transmits the output setting information to the hardware processor; a warm-up start time calculator that calculates a warm-up start time at which the hardware processor starts warm-up processing in accordance with productivity information about the hardware processor; a warm-up start notifier that notifies the hardware processor of a start of the warm-up processing, when a current time reaches the warm-up start time; a rasterization processor that transmits image data to the hardware processor, the image data being generated by performing the rasterization processing for each page; and a print start notifier that notifies the hardware processor of a print start after the warmType: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Kouichirou MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20180316116Abstract: The connector includes: a housing provided with a terminal accommodating chamber; a terminal to be accommodated in the terminal accommodating chamber; a locking lance flexibly provided in the terminal accommodating chamber, a free end side of the locking lance configured to abut on the terminal when the terminal is inserted into the terminal accommodating chamber, thereby the locking lance being restored after being bent, thereby the free end side being capable of locking the terminal in the terminal accommodating chamber; and a thin-walled portion flexibly provided on the free end side of the locking lance, a thickness in a bending direction of the locking lance being set to be smaller than a thickness on a base end side of the locking lance in the thin-walled portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Nobuyoshi MOCHIZUKI, Kouichirou MATSUSHITA, Naoki TAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20180217792Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: rasterization processors that rasterize input image data and generate raster image data; a predictor that predicts a rasterization processing time required for the rasterization processors to rasterize input image data of a unit to be subjected to an image formation process on each recording paper sheet; a hardware processor that determines an order in which the rasterization processors rasterize the input image data of the unit; an image former that performs the image formation process based on the raster image data; a sheet ejection processor that acquires, from the image former, each recording paper sheet subjected to the image formation process, and performs a sheet ejection process; and the hardware processor that determines an order of the recording paper sheets to be ejected by the sheet eject processor, to adjust the order of the recording paper sheets to an order of pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Kouichirou MATSUSHITA
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Patent number: 9843120Abstract: A terminal connecting body of a terminal metal fitting includes: a first engaging part and a second engaging part on one end side and another end side, respectively, that engage each other movements of an end of the one end side and an end of the other end side in separating directions; has a first gap formed between the first engaging part and the end of the other end side, that allows the end and the other end in directions opposite to the separating directions; and has a second gap formed therein, between the second engaging part and the end of the one end side, that enables the end and the other end in similar opposite directions. The first gap and the second gap are formed so that the first engaging part can be inserted into a notch provided on the other end side while being bent from its base.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kouichirou Matsushita, Naoki Takamura, Toshiaki Okabe
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Patent number: 9779338Abstract: A print control device includes a receiver that receives a print job and a processor that generates image data by rasterizing data of each page of the print job in parallel with a reception of the print job and controls a page order for rasterizing the data of each page. The processor rasterizes the data of each page in an order from a front page until a finish of a reception of data of a predetermined page determined according to a binding format of an output document to be prepared by the print job. After the reception of the data of the predetermined page is finished, the processor controls the page order to optimally rasterize the data of each page according to the binding format.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Kouichirou Matsushita
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Publication number: 20170103288Abstract: A print control device includes a receiver that receives a print job and a processor that generates image data by rasterizing data of each page of the print job in parallel with a reception of the print job and controls a page order for rasterizing the data of each page. The processor rasterizes the data of each page in an order from a front page until a finish of a reception of data of a predetermined page determined according to a binding format of an output document to be prepared by the print job. After the reception of the data of the predetermined page is finished, the processor controls the page order to optimally rasterize the data of each page according to the binding format.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Kouichirou Matsushita