Patents by Inventor Masahiko Kubo
Masahiko Kubo 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: 20230044689Abstract: A terminal block attachable to a control device includes a main body including a wiring connection part to which wiring is connected, a first rotation mechanism unit arranged at a first end in a first direction of the main body, and a second rotation mechanism unit arranged at a second end in the first direction of the main body. The first rotation mechanism unit and the second rotation mechanism unit are configured that the main body is rotatable about an imaginary straight line extending along the first direction with respect to the control device. The wiring connection part is arranged at an end of the main body in a radial direction with respect to the imaginary straight line.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Tomonori WATANABE, Kohei TANINO, Masahiko KUBO, Masaaki NAGANO
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Patent number: 11553109Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: store a first color patch used in using metallic toner and a second color patch used in using CMYK toner other than the metallic toner without using the metallic toner; receive a first colorimetric value obtained by measuring color of the first color patch and a second colorimetric value obtained by measuring color of the second color patch; calculate a third colorimetric value on a basis of the first colorimetric value obtained by measuring the color of the first color patch and the second colorimetric value obtained by measuring the color of the second color patch, and generate a profile to be used to convert an input color value into an output color value, the profile being generated on a basis of the third colorimetric value; and calculate the third colorimetric value that ranges from the first colorimetric value to the second colorimetric value in response to a total amount of CMYK toner being lower than or equal to a threshold, the totalType: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Ayako Watanabe, Masahiko Kubo
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Publication number: 20220377204Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: store a first color patch used in using metallic toner and a second color patch used in using CMYK toner other than the metallic toner without using the metallic toner; receive a first colorimetric value obtained by measuring color of the first color patch and a second colorimetric value obtained by measuring color of the second color patch; calculate a third colorimetric value on a basis of the first colorimetric value obtained by measuring the color of the first color patch and the second colorimetric value obtained by measuring the color of the second color patch, and generate a profile to be used to convert an input color value into an output color value, the profile being generated on a basis of the third colorimetric value; and calculate the third colorimetric value that ranges from the first colorimetric value to the second colorimetric value in response to a total amount of CMYK toner being lower than or equal to a threshold, the totalType: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Ayako WATANABE, Masahiko KUBO
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Publication number: 20220377205Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive an image; and in response to inputting a magenta component resulting from CMYK conversion of the received image, output the image having undergone color conversion performed by using a profile in which at least one of the magenta component and a pink component that leads to fluorescent color forming is output, in which in an area having an input magenta amount lower than a predetermined threshold, the magenta component is not output and only the pink component is output, the input magenta amount serving as an amount of the magenta component resulting from the CMYK conversion, and in which in an area having the input magenta amount higher than or equal to the threshold, the magenta component and the pink component are output.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Kaoru YAMAUCHI, Masahiko KUBO
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Patent number: 11506718Abstract: A connection part which connects a terminal part and a processing part include an equalization resistor that is inserted into each main line and a 0-? resistor that is a short circuit line for short circuiting a main line of a first terminal and a main line of a second terminal. In the terminal part, the second terminal s unused, and a battery cell adjacent to a high-potential side of a stack bar is connected between the first terminal and a third terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Inventors: Masahiko Ito, Shunichi Kubo, Hayato Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 11480891Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image forming units and a controller. The plural image forming units are configured to form images of colors using colorants, respectively. The controller is configured to perform control such that the plural images formed by the plural image forming units are output as one image onto a recording medium. At least two of the image forming units are configured to form images using colorants of special colors, respectively and are arranged in succession.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kaori Iwaki, Yosuke Tashiro, Kaoru Yamauchi, Toshifumi Takahira, Masahiko Kubo
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Publication number: 20220252977Abstract: An object is to provide a resist composition which can form fine resist patterns and keep them. Another object is to provide a resist layer with good sensitivity and/or resolution. And another object is to provide a negative tone lift off resist composition that removability of resist patterns made from the composition is good. [Solution] The present invention provides a negative tone lift off resist composition comprising an alkali soluble resin and a photo acid generator. And the present invention provides a method for manufacturing metal film patterns on a substrate. The present invention provides a method for a manufacturing a device comprising metal film patterns manufacturing method.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Tomotsugu YANO, Masahiko KUBO, Tomohide KATAYAMA
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Publication number: 20210286287Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image forming units and a controller. The plural image forming units are configured to form images of colors using colorants, respectively. The controller is configured to perform control such that the plural images formed by the plural image forming units are output as one image onto a recording medium. At least two of the image forming units are configured to form images using colorants of special colors, respectively and are arranged in succession.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2020Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Kaori Iwaki, Yosuke Tashiro, Kaoru Yamauchi, Toshifumi Takahira, Masahiko Kubo
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Patent number: 11059995Abstract: [Problem] To provide a film forming composition curable at low temperature and a film forming method using the same. [Means for Solution] A film forming composition comprising a polysilazane, an organic solvent and aspecific additive, and a film forming method comprising applying it on a substrate and curing. The specific additive is selected from the group consisting of (A) guanidines substituted by a hydrocarbylgroup, (B) crown ether amines containing oxygen and nitrogen as a member thereof, (C) cycloalkanes having an amino-substituted polycyclic structure, (D) oximes substituted by a hydrocarbyl group, and (E) imidazolines.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Go Noya, Masahiko Kubo, Noboru Satake, Yoshio Nojima, Yuki Ozaki, Toshiya Okamura
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Publication number: 20200377761Abstract: [Problem] To provide a film forming composition curable at low temperature and a film forming method using the same. [Means for Solution] A film forming composition comprising a polysilazane, an organic solvent and aspecific additive, and a film forming method comprising applying it on a substrate and curing. The specific additive is selected from the group consisting of (A) guanidines substituted by a hydrocarbylgroup, (B) crown ether amines containing oxygen and nitrogen as a member thereof, (C) cycloalkanes having an amino-substituted polycyclic structure, (D) oximes substituted by a hydrocarbyl group, and (E) imidazolines.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Go NOYA, Masahiko KUBO, Noboru SATAKE, Yoshio NOJIMA, Yuki OZAKI, Toshiya OKAMURA
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Publication number: 20200326623Abstract: An object is to provide a resist composition which can form fine resist patterns and keep them. Another object is to provide a negative tone lift off resist composition that defects of resist patterns made from the composition can be decreased. And another object is to provide a negative tone lift off resist composition that removability of resist patterns made from the composition is good. [Solution] The present invention provides a negative tone lift off resist composition comprising alkali soluble resin and cross linkers. And the present invention provides a method for manufacturing metal film patterns on a substrate. The present invention provides a method for a manufacturing a device comprising metal film patterns manufacturing method.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Tomohide KATAYAMA, Tomotsugu YANO, Masahiko KUBO
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Patent number: 10771656Abstract: An information processing device includes: an image acquirer that acquires an image to print onto a medium; a color converter that converts color in the image acquired by the image acquirer depending on a positional relationship between a white image forming section that forms an image on the medium with white color material and a color image forming section that forms an image on the medium with colored color material; and an image output unit that outputs the image whose color is converted by the color converter.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaori Iwaki, Masahiko Kubo, Toshifumi Takahira, Yosuke Tashiro, Kaoru Yamauchi, Ayako Watanabe
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Patent number: 10705443Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming component that forms an image on a recording medium by using a white color material and a color material other than the white color material, and a controller that controls a color material amount of the white color material to differ depending on a position where an image that uses the white color material is formed in order of formation of images that use respective color materials in the image forming component.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaori Iwaki, Masahiko Kubo, Ayako Watanabe, Kaoru Yamauchi, Yosuke Tashiro
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Publication number: 20200128150Abstract: An information processing device includes: an image acquirer that acquires an image to print onto a medium; a color converter that converts color in the image acquired by the image acquirer depending on a positional relationship between a white image forming section that forms an image on the medium with white color material and a color image forming section that forms an image on the medium with colored color material; and an image output unit that outputs the image whose color is converted by the color converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaori IWAKI, Masahiko KUBO, Toshifumi TAKAHIRA, Yosuke TASHIRO, Kaoru YAMAUCHI, Ayako WATANABE
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Patent number: 10616449Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first converter and a second converter. The first converter converts coloring-material amounts of plural coloring materials including a luster coloring material to plural colorimetric values obtained in a case of performing, in plural color measurement directions, a color measurement of a target color image printed using the plural coloring materials. The second converter converts the plural colorimetric values obtained as a result of conversion by the first converter to display values for displaying the target color image on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayako Watanabe, Masahiko Kubo, Yosuke Tashiro, Kaoru Yamauchi, Kaori Iwaki
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Patent number: 10582090Abstract: A color processing apparatus includes a first subtracting unit, a second subtracting unit, and an output unit. The first subtracting unit subtracts color values of CMY color signals corresponding to an achromatic color value from color values of input CMY color signals in accordance with replacement to the achromatic color value. The second subtracting unit subtracts color values of CMY color signals corresponding to a color value of an additional color signal different from the CMY color signals from the color values of the CMY color signals after the subtraction by the first subtracting unit in accordance with replacement to the color value of the additional color signal. The output unit multiplies the color values of the CMY color signals after the subtraction by the second subtracting unit and the color value of the additional color signal by N (N>1) and subsequently outputs the color signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshifumi Takahira, Masahiko Kubo, Ayako Watanabe, Yosuke Tashiro, Kaoru Yamauchi, Kaori Iwaki
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Patent number: 10554859Abstract: An information processing device includes: an image acquirer that acquires an image to print onto a medium; a color converter that converts color in the image acquired by the image acquirer depending on a positional relationship between a white image forming section that forms an image on the medium with white color material and a color image forming section that forms an image on the medium with colored color material; and an image output unit that outputs the image whose color is converted by the color converter.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaori Iwaki, Masahiko Kubo, Toshifumi Takahira, Yosuke Tashiro, Kaoru Yamauchi, Ayako Watanabe
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Patent number: 10524043Abstract: A speaker apparatus according to an embodiment includes a panel, one or more vibration elements, a drive unit, and a reflection part. The one or more vibration elements vibrate the panel. The drive unit applies a driving signal to the one or more vibration elements to form a striped vibration region on the panel. The driving signal is obtained by modulating a carrier wave of an ultrasonic band by a sound signal of an audible frequency band. The reflection part reflects at least one of first and second ultrasonic waves, which are generated from the vibration region and advancing in respective different directions, so as to bring an advancing direction of the first ultrasonic wave and that of the second ultrasonic wave close to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Masahiko Kubo, Keiichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: D876349Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masaaki Nagano, Masahiko Kubo, Tadahiko Ogawa, Tomonori Watanabe, Kei Okada, Masayuki Ueuchi, Takema Sato, Tomoki Konno, Yuki Tsuruguchi, Michihiro Yamamoto, Masato Shimizu, Hiroki Niwa
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Patent number: D879036Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masaaki Nagano, Tadahiko Ogawa, Masahiko Kubo, Yuki Tsuruguchi, Hiroki Niwa, Masayuki Ueuchi, Tomonori Watanabe, Tomoki Konno, Takema Sato, Masato Shimizu, Kei Okada, Michihiro Yamamoto