Patents by Inventor Makoto Sasaki

Makoto Sasaki 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: 20190330718
    Abstract: Magnesium alloy containing, in % by mass, 1.0 to 2.0% of Zn, 0.05 to 0.80% by mass of Zr, 0.05 to 0.40% by mass of Mn, and the balance consisting of Mg and unavoidable impurities. The magnesium alloy may further contain, in % by mass, 0.005% or more and less than 0.20% of Ca.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Hironori UEDA, Masashi INOUE, Makoto SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190322257
    Abstract: A brake hydraulic pressure control unit capable of improving mountability of a brake system on a motorcycle is obtained. In addition, a brake system for a motorcycle including such a brake hydraulic pressure control unit and a motorcycle are obtained. In the brake hydraulic pressure control unit of the brake system for a motorcycle, an inlet valve, an outlet valve, and a pump in one of hydraulic circuits as a boost-type hydraulic circuit and a first valve and a second valve in the hydraulic circuit are separately provided in a primary base body and a secondary base body. The primary base body and the secondary base body are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroaki Atsushi, Makoto Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20190317354
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichiro ASHIZAWA, Mitsuo NAKATANI, Hiroaki MIWA, Takao TANAKA, Sadafumi HIRAI, Shinichi KAWABE, Makoto SASAKI, Kazuyuki ITO, Masahiro IEDA
  • Patent number: 10427324
    Abstract: A silicon carbide ingot includes an end surface and an end surface opposite to the end surface. In the silicon carbide ingot, the end surface and the end surface face each other in a growth direction, and a gradient of a nitrogen concentration in the growth direction is not less than 1×1016 cm?4 and not more than 1×1018 cm?4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Hori, Makoto Sasaki, Tsubasa Honke, Tomohiro Kawase
  • Publication number: 20190297202
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first display control unit and a second display control unit. The first display control unit displays, on a display unit, a button on which a setting value of a program is displayed. The second display control unit starts up the program when the button is pressed and, in accordance with the started program, displays, on the display unit, a setting screen that corresponds to the button being pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto SASAKI, Tadashi Sato, Fumiyoshi Kittaka
  • Publication number: 20190286767
    Abstract: An electromagnetic field simulator performs: a model creation information extraction process; a model automatic creation process; and an electromagnetic field analysis process. The model creation information extraction process includes: obtaining evaluation frequency information that includes an evaluation frequency for an apparatus suffering noise; obtaining target material information of a determination target; determining whether a conductive component is present in the obtained target material information; and determining the conductive component as having an antenna operating portion that operates as an antenna if the conductive component is present in the obtained target material information. The model automatic creation process includes: creating the model to have a simplified shape except for the component to be determined determined as having the antenna operation portion of the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro OKUDA, Makoto SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190289144
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: an operation receiving unit to receive operation from a user; a sensor to sense the user existing in a detection range of the electronic device to output detection information indicating that the user exists in the detection range; and processing circuitry to output content for assisting the user in operating the electronic device, when the processing circuitry has determined that the user exists in the detection range based on the detection information and when an elapsed time in which the operation of the user is not received at the operation receiving unit has exceeded a threshold time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190272054
    Abstract: A capacitive sensor includes first transparent electrodes arranged in a first direction; second transparent electrodes arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction and containing conductive nanowires; coupling parts provided integrally with the first transparent electrodes; and bridge wiring parts provided independently of the second transparent electrodes so as to intersect the coupling parts and electrically connecting two adjacent second transparent electrodes to each other. Each of the bridge wiring parts is composed of contact portions in contact with the second transparent electrodes and a bridge portion provided continuously with the contact portions and separated from the second transparent electrodes. Each of the contact portions has a multilayer structure, and a layer including a portion in contact with the second transparent electrode is formed of a zinc-oxide-based material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto SASAKI, Manabu YAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10371991
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Ashizawa, Mitsuo Nakatani, Hiroaki Miwa, Takao Tanaka, Sadafumi Hirai, Shinichi Kawabe, Makoto Sasaki, Kazuyuki Ito, Masahiro Ieda
  • Patent number: 10375256
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first display control unit and a second display control unit. The first display control unit displays, on a display unit, a button on which a setting value of a program is displayed. The second display control unit starts up the program when the button is pressed and, in accordance with the started program, displays, on the display unit, a setting screen that corresponds to the button being pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Tadashi Sato, Fumiyoshi Kittaka
  • Patent number: 10366515
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a region detection unit, an image processing unit, and an image composing unit. The region detection unit detects a specified region from an original image. The image processing unit deforms a shape of a sample image that is an image serving as a sample in accordance with a shape of the specified region and deforms a texture of the sample image so as to express a depth corresponding to the specified region. The image composing unit overlays the deformed sample image on the specified region of the original image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10366384
    Abstract: A payment terminal device attenuates or turns on a backlight illuminating a display of a touch panel displaying a screen relating to payment processing when information relating to the payment processing is printed in a print module. In addition, the payment terminal device turns off the attenuated or turned off backlight, after the printing of the information relating to the payment processing is finished by the print module. When the printer is operated, by pausing or suspending a part of a function or a process, a total amount of current flowing into a power supply stored inside a housing is reduced and power consumption is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Kyohei Kida
  • Publication number: 20190185063
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a cab, a body frame and a restrictor. The body flame includes a base component, and a support frame provided on an upper side of the base component. The support frame supports the cab. The restrictor is provided to a floor frame of the cab. The restrictor is disposed between the base component and the floor frame. The restrictor includes a retaining member disposed on a lower side of the support frame, and an impact absorber disposed on a cab side of the retaining member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto SASAKI, Masashi KATOH, Takahiro NOGUCHI, Kazuaki ADACHI, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA, Nobutaka SHIMIZU, Masahiro NAKATA
  • Patent number: 10311331
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a feature value extractor and an image adjuster. The feature value extractor extracts feature values of a first specified image, which is an image of a region specified in advance in a first image. The image adjuster changes, in a case where the feature values of the first specified image are to be reflected in a second image, for each region of the second image, a degree to which the feature values of the first specified image are to be reflected, and adjusts an image quality of the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Maruyama, Keiko Matsubayashi, Makoto Sasaki, Takayuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10296173
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus and a control method of an in-vehicle apparatus, which is applied to a multimedia terminal having, for example, a function of navigation equipment and a function of video playback so as to improve usability to a user in a case of accepting an operation through a touch panel and a remote commander. A touch panel menu screen suitable for an operation through a touch panel and a remote commander menu screen suitable for an operation through a remote commander are switched to be displayed so as to accept an operation by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nezu, Makoto Sasaki, Satoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10244218
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an illumination light intensity calculating unit that determines, from a brightness value based on a pixel value of each pixel forming an original image, an illumination light intensity image having as a pixel value an illumination light component of the original image, using at least one smoothed image having the brightness value that is smoothed using at least a smoothing degree, and a light source color calculating unit that determines an illumination light source color as a light source color of illumination light in accordance with the original image and the illumination light intensity image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamamoto, Makoto Sasaki, Shota Narumi
  • Patent number: 10186063
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a composite image generation unit that composes a first image that is an attachment target image and a second image to be attached to the first image to generate a composite image in which the second image is included in the first image, a feature quantity acquisition unit that acquires a feature quantity of the first image, and a reflection unit that reflects a feature of the first image into the second image using the feature quantity of the first image acquired by the feature quantity acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamamoto, Kosuke Maruyama, Makoto Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20180363273
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes: a work implement; a cab having a front pillar located at the work implement side; a display unit provided along the front pillar, the display unit being configured to display work assistance information to be overlaid on an actual view of a work site; a display unit provided along the front pillar at a position different from the display unit, the display unit being configured to display work assistance information to be overlaid on the actual view of the work site; and a display controller configured to control displaying on the display units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji OHIWA, Masao YAMAMURA, Tomohiro NAKAGAWA, Makoto SASAKI, Masashi KATOU
  • Patent number: 10142498
    Abstract: An image forming system includes one or more image forming apparatuses and an information processing apparatus connected to the one or more image forming apparatuses through a network. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry that registers an image forming job that is received from one of the image forming apparatuses in association with information on a user who has authority to execute the image forming job, acquires information on a location of the user, determines whether or not the user is located at a first area based on the information on the location of the first user to generate a first determination result, and determines an operation to be performed on the image forming job based on the first determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro Maemura, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Tohru Sasaki, Makoto Sasaki, Atsushi Okazato, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori
  • Patent number: 10129433
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a provider identification information acquiring unit that acquires a piece of provider identification information for each of a plurality of devices that cooperatively execute a plurality of functions, based on device identification information of the device, the piece of provider identification information allowing identification of whether a provider of the device is a predetermined provider as a provider of a cooperating function; a determining unit that determines whether a non predetermined-provider device provided by a provider other than the predetermined provider exists among the devices based on pieces of the provider identification information; a charge processing unit that performs charge processing to profit the predetermined provider when the non predetermined-provider device exists; and a cooperation controlling unit that controls the devices to cooperatively execute the functions based on the cooperating function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takuya Mori, Junki Aoki, Yukinori Ishii, Atsushi Okazato, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Tohru Sasaki, Makoto Sasaki, Koichiro Maemura