Patents by Inventor Masafumi Nagao

Masafumi Nagao 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: 20130179871
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit to store data set including version information; an acquiring unit to acquire update-use data set including version information; a providing unit to provide the version information read from the storage unit; a updating management unit to determine whether updating of the data set stored in the storage unit is required, when determined that updating is required based on the acquired version information and the provided version information, updating the data set stored in the storage unit using the update-use data set; and a updating completion determination unit to determine whether the updating of data set by the updating management unit is completed, when determined that the updating of the data set is not completed correctly, the providing unit provides specific version information indicating the updating is not completed correctly instead of the version information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventors: Masafumi NAGAO, Eijiro Inoue, Yasukiyo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8375918
    Abstract: An example lubricant supply device for an auxiliary machine of an engine includes a cam formed at one end of a cam shaft rotatably supported by a cylinder head. The lubricant supply device further includes a housing, for storing the auxiliary machine, attached to an attaching surface formed at an end of the cylinder head. The housing may hold a driven member driven by the cam. The lubricant supply device may further include a lubricant hole formed on the attaching surface through which lubricant is supplied from a lubricant passage formed in the cylinder head to the cam storage space. The lubricant supply device may further include a metal gasket positioned between the attaching surface and the housing to seal the cam storage space and outside. The metal gasket has a hole for communicating with the lubricant hole and a slit communicating between the hole and the cam storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Masafumi Nagao
  • Publication number: 20120221947
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is connected to a viewing apparatus through which a document is viewed. A view management part creates view information that indicates a viewed portion of the document where the document has been viewed. A document management part creates change information that indicates a changed portion of the document where the document has been changed. A creation part creates individual apparatus basis change information that indicates a coincident portion where the viewed portion indicated in the view information and the changed portion indicated in the change information are coincident with each other. A transmission part transmits the individual apparatus basis change information to the viewing apparatus through which the document was viewed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Reiji YUKUMOTO, Tetsuo Asakawa, Osamu Torii, Masafumi Nagao, Miki Oouchi, Daisuke Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20120215828
    Abstract: An information processing device is arranged to include a macro changing unit to change a pertinent device of a process in macro information to a second information processing device when the second information processing device has a function required to execute the process and determined as being not executable on the information processing device, and to set the pertinent device in the macro information to the information processing device when the function required to execute the process is determined as being executable on the information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMAPNY, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu TORII, Takahiko Hayashi, Reiji Yukumoto, Ayako Watanabe, Ryo Takemoto, Masafumi Nagao, Yasukiyo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120215883
    Abstract: A document management apparatus delivers a to-be-delivered document to a delivery destination and collects information about browsing history of the document. The document management apparatus includes: a delivery-pattern determining unit; a delivery-information generating unit; a document delivery unit that delivers the document by transmitting the information of the delivery pattern to a network address of the delivery destination; and a browsing-history management unit that acquires information about browsing history. The delivery-pattern determining unit, when the type of the device is a type not adapted to a function of collecting information about browsing history, determines that a pattern for delivering a program for implementing collection of the information about browsing history together with the document as the delivery pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Daisuke NOGUCHI, Miki OOUCHI, Masafumi NAGAO, Osamu TORII, Reiji YUKUMOTO, Tetsuo ASAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120133970
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus having a function to cooperatively output, via a cooperative image processing apparatus, document data, including a data sending unit that sends to the cooperative image processing apparatus the document data to be output, for which the total limited number of output times is set, with output setting information including an allocated number of output times for the document data individually allocated for the cooperative image processing apparatus; and a number updating unit that updates the total limited number of output times set for the document data based on the allocated number of output times by subtracting the allocated number of output times from the total limited number of output times, when the data sending unit sends the document data with the output setting information to the cooperative image processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Reiji Yukumoto, Takahiko Hayashi, Ayako Watanabe, Ryo Takemoto, Osamu Torii, Masafumi Nagao, Yasukiyo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110317223
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first acquiring unit and a selecting unit. The first acquiring unit acquires information on respective communication capacities of a plurality of transmitters with a facsimile communication function and communication capacity of a partner device to be in facsimile communication with the transmitter. The selecting unit selects a transmitter having communication capacity that is the same as or closest to the communication capacity of the partner device from the plurality of transmitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masafumi Nagao, Ayako Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20110299108
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a first image processing apparatus and a second image processing apparatus connected to the first image processing apparatus. The first image processing apparatus includes a reader reading image data, a storage storing job information, a request unit transmitting a job request as a job to the second image processing apparatus to execute the job corresponding to the job information based on a job execution scheduling, and an introducing unit introducing the job information to the second image processing apparatus. The second image processing apparatus includes a receiver receiving the job request from the first image processing apparatus as the job, a job executing unit executing the job corresponding to the job information, a determining unit determining whether to acquire the job information based on the job execution scheduling, and an acquiring unit acquiring the job information based on a determined result from the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Nagao, Ayako Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20110030649
    Abstract: An example lubricant supply device for an auxiliary machine of an engine includes a cam formed at one end of a cam shaft rotatably supported by a cylinder head. The lubricant supply device further includes a housing, for storing the auxiliary machine, attached to an attaching surface formed at an end of the cylinder head. The housing may hold a driven member driven by the cam. The lubricant supply device may further include a lubricant hole formed on the attaching surface through which lubricant is supplied from a lubricant passage formed in the cylinder head to the cam storage space. The lubricant supply device may further include a metal gasket positioned between the attaching surface and the housing to seal the cam storage space and outside. The metal gasket has a hole for communicating with the lubricant hole and a slit communicating between the hole and the cam storage space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masafumi Nagao