Patents by Inventor Masaharu Ueda

Masaharu Ueda 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).

  • Patent number: 9552351
    Abstract: An information processing system for input prediction that displays written character string candidates of words or phrases corresponding to an input character string in a terminal device. The terminal device acquires internal candidates by performing a search based on the input character string and transmits a candidate transmission request signal including identification information of a terminal dictionary stored in the terminal device and the input character string to a server. The server performs a search through the terminal dictionary corresponding to the identification information in the received signal and through a server dictionary dedicated to the server. From dictionary data extracted from the server dictionary, the server returns dictionary data of external candidates different from dictionary data extracted from the terminal dictionary as external candidates to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Chihoka Moribe, Mayu Nakano, Takuya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9534278
    Abstract: A rail is provided in which in a range from a surface of a head of the rail to a depth of 30 mm, 95% or more of a structure is composed of a pearlite structure by area %, and in a range with a depth of 20 mm to 30 mm from the surface of the head of the rail, an average grain size of a pearlite block in a transverse section is 120 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Teruhisa Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 9289914
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first conveying unit provided downstream an image forming unit; a second conveying unit provided downstream the first conveying unit; a first cutting unit provided downstream the second conveying unit; and a second cutting unit provided downstream the first cutting unit. One of the first and second cutting units cuts an upstream end of an image on the continuous sheet, the other cuts a downstream end of the same image. The second conveying unit is stopped during the cutting by the first cutting unit to form a loop of the continuous sheet, and then if the cutting is ended, the second conveying unit conveys the continuous sheet at a higher conveyance speed than a conveyance speed by the first conveying unit to reduce the loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Akio Okubo
  • Publication number: 20150261741
    Abstract: An information processing system for input prediction that displays written character string candidates of words or phrases corresponding to an input character string in a terminal device. The terminal device acquires internal candidates by performing a search based on the input character string and transmits a candidate transmission request signal including identification information of a terminal dictionary stored in the terminal device and the input character string to a server. The server performs a search through the terminal dictionary corresponding to the identification information in the received signal and through a server dictionary dedicated to the server. From dictionary data extracted from the server dictionary, the server returns dictionary data of external candidates different from dictionary data extracted from the terminal dictionary as external candidates to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Chihoka Moribe, Mayu Nakano, Takuya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9127409
    Abstract: In the rail, 95% or more of a structure in a head surface section, which is a range from surfaces of head corner sections and a head top section of the rail as a starting point to a depth of 20 mm, is a pearlite or bainite structure and the structure contains 20 to 200 MnS-based sulfides formed around an Al-based oxide as a nucleus and having a grain size in a range of 1 ?m to 10 ?m per square millimeter of an area to be inspected on a horizontal cross section of the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Teruhisa Miyazaki, Takeshi Yamamoto, Takashi Morohoshi
  • Publication number: 20150211087
    Abstract: A stress-relief heat treatment apparatus according to the present invention for stress-relief heat-treating a rail which is welded includes an induction heating coil, and the induction heating coil is arranged at a lateral lace of a web of the rail while being separated from a welding center of the rail by 20 mm to 300 mm in a longitudinal direction of the rail. The stress-relief heat treatment apparatus may include a plurality of the induction heating coils, and the induction heating coils may be arranged at both sides of the welding center. The stress-relief heat treatment apparatus may include a plurality of the induction heating coils, an axial direction of the induction heating coil may be vertical to a lateral surface of the rail and a plurality of the induction heating coils, of which distances from the welding center along the longitudinal direction of the rail are the same, may be arranged to cover a whole circumference of the rail while being separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Kenichi Karimine, Masaharu Ueda
  • Publication number: 20150136864
    Abstract: A rail is provided in which in a range from a surface of a head of the rail to a depth of 30 mm, 95% or more of a structure is composed of a pearlite structure by area %, and in a range with a depth of 20 mm to 30 mm from the surface of the head of the rail, an average grain size of a pearlite block in a transverse section is 120 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Teruhisa Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8980019
    Abstract: A steel rail includes: by mass %, higher than 0.85% to 1.20% of C; 0.05% to 2.00% of Si; 0.05% to 0.50% of Mn; 0.05% to 0.60% of Cr; P?0.0150%; and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein 97% or more of a head surface portion which is in a range from a surface of a head corner portion and a head top portion as a starting point to a depth of 10 mm has a pearlite structure, a Vickers hardness of the pearlite structure is Hv320 to 500, and a CMn/FMn value which is a value obtained by dividing CMn [at. %] that is a Mn concentration of a cementite phase in the pearlite structure by FMn [at. %] that is a Mn concentration of a ferrite phase is equal to or higher than 1.0 and equal to or less than 5.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Jun Takahashi, Akira Kobayashi, Takuya Tanahashi
  • Publication number: 20150069141
    Abstract: In the rail, 95% or more of a structure in a head surface section, which is a range from surfaces of head corner sections and a head top section of the rail as a starting point to a depth of 20 mm, is a pearlite or bainite structure and the structure contains 20 to 200 MnS-based sulfides formed around an Al-based oxide as a nucleus and having a grain size in a range of 1 ?m to 10 ?m per square millimeter of an area to be inspected on a horizontal cross section of the rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Teruhisa Miyazaki, Takeshi Yamamoto, Takashi Morohoshi
  • Patent number: 8939547
    Abstract: A holder that holds a line recording head is displaced in a sheet width direction against the urging force of an elastic portion to bring an abutment portion of the holder into contact with one of a plurality of positioning surfaces provided at a reference portion of a sheet conveying mechanism. The holder is positioned and fixed to the reference portion, with the urging force exerted thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Kida, Masahiro Sugimoto, Masaharu Ueda
  • Patent number: 8747576
    Abstract: This high-carbon pearlitic steel rail having excellent ductility, includes: in terms of percent by mass, C: more than 0.85% to 1.40%; Si: 0.10% to 2.00%; Mn: 0.10% to 2.00%; Ti: 0.001% to 0.01%; V: 0.005% to 0.20%; and N: less than 0.0040%, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein contents of Ti and V fulfill the following formula (1), and a rail head portion has a pearlite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Teruhisa Miyazaki, Masaharu Ueda, Suguru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140087320
    Abstract: A method of reheating a rail weld zone after rails were welded, a distance C between a reheating region P of a rail web portion 2 and a welding center Q is set to more than or equal to 0.2 times and less than or equal to three times a HAZ length Lh of the rail weld zone. A length B of the reheating region P may be more than or equal to 0.5 times and less than or equal to five times the HAZ length Lh of the rail weld zone. A height A of the reheating region P may be more than or equal to 0.2 times a height Hw of the rail web portion 2. A temperature Th reached in a reheating process at a center of the reheating region P may be higher than or equal to 400° C. and lower than or equal to 750° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL AND SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Karimine, Masaharu Ueda, Katsuya Iwano, Hideo Tottori, Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8557064
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of cooling a rail weld zone. The method includes a first rail web portion cooling process of cooling a rail web portion cooling region of the rail weld zone in a part of a temperature range until the completion of transformation from austenite to pearlite, a second rail web portion cooling process of cooling the rail web portion cooling region after the entire rail web portion of the rail weld zone is transformed to pearlite, a foot portion cooling process of cooling a foot portion of the rail weld zone, and a head portion cooling process of cooling a head portion of the rail weld zone. When cooling time of the first and second rail web portion cooling processes is t minute, a k value satisfies an expression represented as ?0.1t+0.63?k??0.1t+2.33.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Karimine, Masaharu Ueda, Katsuya Iwano, Seiji Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8469284
    Abstract: This pearlitic rail consists of a steel including: in terms of percent by mass, C: 0.65% to 1.20%; Si: 0.05% to 2.00%; Mn: 0.05% to 2.00%; and REM: 0.0005% to 0.0500%, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein, in a head portion of the rail, a head surface portion which ranges from surfaces of head corner portions and a head top portion to a depth of 10 mm has a pearlite structure, and the hardness Hv of the head surface portion is in a range of 320 to 500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Takashi Morohoshi, Kazunori Seki
  • Publication number: 20130065079
    Abstract: A steel rail includes: by mass %, higher than 0.85% to 1.20% of C; 0.05% to 2.00% of Si; 0.05% to 0.50% of Mn; 0.05% to 0.60% of Cr; P?0.0150%; and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein 97% or more of a head surface portion which is in a range from a surface of a head corner portion and a head top portion as a starting point to a depth of 10 mm has a pearlite structure, a Vickers hardness of the pearlite structure is Hv320 to 500, and a CMn/FMn value which is a value obtained by dividing CMn [at. %] that is a Mn concentration of a cementite phase in the pearlite structure by FMn [at. %] that is a Mn concentration of a ferrite phase is equal to or higher than 1.0 and equal to or less than 5.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, jun Takahashi, Akira Kobayashi, Takuya Tanahashi
  • Patent number: 8361246
    Abstract: A pearlite rail contains, by mass %, 0.65 to 1.20% of C; 0.05 to 2.00% of Si; 0.05 to 2.00% of Mn; and the balance composed of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein at least part of the head portion and at least part of the bottom portion has a pearlite structure, and the surface hardness of a portion of the pearlite structure is in a range of Hv320 to Hv500 and a maximum surface roughness of a portion of the pearlite structure is less than or equal to 180 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Kyohei Sonoyama, Takuya Tanahashi, Teruhisa Miyazaki, Katsuya Iwano
  • Patent number: 8307281
    Abstract: This invention easily realizes a process of changing the display order of the candidates according to various input states. In a character input device of a mobile telephone, a wide variety of attributes representing an input state are set, and a conversion dictionary in which the attributes are registered in dictionary data of a corresponding word is set. An adjustment value setting unit determines the input state at a relative time point according to the start of input of the read character or the confirmation of the candidate, and sets an adjustment value to each attribute according to the determination content. A priority adjustment unit adjusts the priority with the adjustment value set to the attribute of the candidate for the candidate set with an attribute of each candidate extracted from the conversion dictionary by the read character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Takuya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8210019
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a pearlitic rail by rough hot rolling and finish hot rolling a billet. In the finish hot rolling, the billet is rolled at a rail head surface temperature in a range of not higher than 900° C. to not lower than the Ar3 transformation point or Arcm transformation point to produce a head cumulative reduction of area of not less than 20%, where the reaction force ratio of the finish rolling is not less than 1.25. The finish hot rolled rail head surface is subjected to accelerated cooling or spontaneous cooling to a temperature of 550° C. or less at a cooling rate of 2 to 30° C./seconds, thereby refining the rail head structure to attain a hardness within a predetermined range, and improving rail wear resistance and ductility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Ueda, Kazunori Seki, Takuya Sato, Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120087825
    Abstract: This high-carbon pearlitic steel rail having excellent ductility, includes: in terms of percent by mass, C: more than 0.85% to 1.40%; Si: 0.10% to 2.00%; Mn: 0.10% to 2.00%; Ti: 0.001% to 0.01%; V: 0.005% to 0.20%; and N: less than 0.0040%, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein contents of Ti and V fulfill the following formula (1), and a rail head portion has a pearlite structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Teruhisa Miyazaki, Masaharu Ueda, Suguru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20120015212
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of cooling a rail weld zone. The method includes a first rail web portion cooling process of cooling a rail web portion cooling region of the rail weld zone in a part of a temperature range until the completion of transformation from austenite to pearlite, a second rail web portion cooling process of cooling the rail web portion cooling region after the entire rail web portion of the rail weld zone is transformed to pearlite, a foot portion cooling process of cooling a foot portion of the rail weld zone, and a head portion cooling process of cooling a head portion of the rail weld zone. When cooling time of the first and second rail web portion cooling processes is t minute, a k value satisfies an expression represented as ?0.1t+0.63?k??0.1t+2.33.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Karimine, Masaharu Ueda, Katsuya Iwano, Seiji Sugiyama