Patents by Inventor Masahiro Osawa
Masahiro Osawa 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: 20240135310Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires mobile object information, parcel information, pickup delivery information as information regarding at least one of pickup and delivery, map information, weather information, and traffic information, a calculation control unit that calculates a delivery company burden, as a cost defrayment by a delivery company, in regard to each combination of target parcels and a mobile object by using the mobile object information, the parcel information, the pickup delivery information, the map information, the weather information and the traffic information, a determination unit that determines an optimum combination out of a plurality of combinations based on the delivery company burden calculated in regard to each combination of target parcels and a mobile object, and an output unit that outputs the optimum combination.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshie IMAI, Kentaro ISHIKAWA, Shunya OSAWA, Masato TSUCHIYA, Yoshiki MITSUI, Nobuaki MOTOYAMA, Satoru FURUTA, Masahiro ABUKAWA
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Publication number: 20230066029Abstract: An EFEM includes a housing having a substantially closed substrate transfer space in the housing and a control part configured to perform a control of supplying an inert gas into at least the housing. The control part includes an inert gas total supply amount setting part configured to set a total supply amount of the inert gas to be supplied into the housing; a door open/purge determination part configured to determine whether a container door of a substrate storage container is in an open state and whether a purge device is performing a purge process; and an in-housing inert gas supply amount calculation part configured to calculate a supply amount of the inert gas to be supplied into the housing. The supply amount of the inert gas to be supplied into the housing is determined according to an inert gas supply amount command value determined based on a calculation result.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Osawa, Toshihiro Kawai
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Patent number: 9577398Abstract: The assisting tool for a connector includes a mounting member able to be mounted in a first housing having a first connector able to mate with a second connector in a second housing, and an operating member able to rotate with respect to the mounting member. Here, the operating member has a lever portion, the operating member is mounted in the first housing, and the lever portion contacts the second housing and applies pressure to the second housing in the direction releasing the mated first connector and second connector when the operating member is rotated while the first connector is mated with the second connector.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Teruki Nagase, Masahiro Osawa, Koji Chikano
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Patent number: 9239228Abstract: The left-right span between a light projection section 5a and a light receiving section 5b of a mapping sensor 5 having an optical axis L1 extending in a left-right horizontal direction is arranged to be narrower than the span of a front opening of a open cassette 12 which is a smaller one of differently-sized containers conveyed to a load port, and the mapping sensor is attached to a mapping device 4. A first protrusion sensor 6 having an optical axis L2 extending in the left-right horizontal direction is attached to the mapping device 4 to be separated from the mapping sensor 5 in a moving direction of the mapping sensor 5. Furthermore, a second protrusion sensor 7 having an optical axis extending in the up-down moving direction of the mapping sensor 5 is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuo Natsume, Masahiro Osawa, Toshimitsu Morihana, Mitsutoshi Ochiai
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Publication number: 20150308812Abstract: The left-right span between a light projection section 5a and a light receiving section 5b of a mapping sensor 5 having an optical axis L1 extending in a left-right horizontal direction is arranged to be narrower than the span of a front opening of a open cassette 12 which is a smaller one of differently-sized containers conveyed to a load port, and the mapping sensor is attached to a mapping device 4. A first protrusion sensor 6 having an optical axis L2 extending in the left-right horizontal direction is attached to the mapping device 4 to be separated from the mapping sensor 5 in a moving direction of the mapping sensor 5. Furthermore, a second protrusion sensor 7 having an optical axis extending in the up-down moving direction of the mapping sensor 5 is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuo NATSUME, Masahiro Osawa, Toshimitsu Morihana, Mitsutoshi Ochiai
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Patent number: 7949293Abstract: An image forming system includes image forming device and bookbinding device. Image forming device has operation unit for selecting sheet and cover and control unit for control of warning. Bookbinding device stacks plural sheets, forms a bundle of sheets, and binds a book by wrapping sheets with the cover in a square-shape. Bookbinding device has measuring unit measuring thickness of the bundle of sheets. Control unit calculates difference between length of selected cover, and sum of twice a length of selected sheet and a spine width, and determines warning, based on result of comparison between the difference and a predetermined value; executes determination of warning in first warning mode, based on result obtained with spine width of a set value, and/or in second warning mode, based on result obtained with spine width according to measured thickness of the bundle of sheets; and executes first warning mode prior to bookbinding output.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2006Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Masahiro Osawa
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Patent number: 7798180Abstract: An electric harness fabricating apparatus includes wire reel out means provided for a pressure welding apparatus for pressure-welding a connector a wire of a wire harness; two rotary encoders are provided at a wire supply apparatus for supplying the wire to the pressure welding apparatus and for detecting the of wire supplied from the wire supply apparatus to the pressure welding apparatus. A main computer is provided to calculate the length of wire reeled out by the wire reel out means and a detected value detected by the rotary encoders and calculating a difference therebetween. The computer provides a means for comparing the difference calculated by the calculating means with a previously determined allowable range, and the wire reel out amount abnormality determining means for determining that an actual amount of wire fed out by the wire reel out means is different from the desired reel out amount when the difference exceeds the allowable range by a comparison by the comparing means.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2003Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Molex IncorporatedInventors: Kamei Kazuaki, Masahiro Osawa, Ken Sano
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Publication number: 20100178068Abstract: This invention provides an image printing apparatus including a communication unit which communicatively connects to at least another image printing apparatus, a tandem output mode, a paper feed unit which feeds recording sheets, a comparison and determination unit which compares the information of recording sheets which can be fed from the paper feed unit with paper size information and paper type information in another image printing apparatus which has received by the communication unit in the tandem output mode, and determines a paper size match/mismatch and a paper type match/mismatch, and a mismatch notification unit which notifies a mismatch when one or both of the paper size and the paper type exhibits a mismatch upon receiving a determination result from the comparison and determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2010Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yoshihisa KAMATA, Junichi Isamikawa, Masahiro Osawa
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Patent number: 7391986Abstract: An image forming system includes a document conveying section that reversely conveys documents such that a front side and back side of the documents pass through a reading position, an image reading section for reading images on the documents conveyed to the reading position and generating image data, an image forming section for forming images on recording media, according to the image data, an input section for inputting designation whether the images are to be formed on both sides or on one side of the recording media, and a control section for controlling image reading by the image reading section and image forming by the image forming section, wherein the control section controls the image forming section to form an image according to image data in a condition where a single job includes both single-sided and double-sided image recording, correspondingly to the designation inputted via the input section.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2005Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Masaru Ushio, Takao Kurohata, Masahiro Osawa
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Patent number: 7345784Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises: an image reading section for reading a plurality of document images of a document having a plurality of sheets page by page, the document being set on a reading position in a state that image directions of the document images are mixed; a designating section for designating each image direction of the document images of the document set on the reading position; a storing section for storing the document images read by the image reading section; an image forming section for recognizing each rotation angle for directing the stored document images to a reference direction which is previously set, in accordance with each designated image direction, and for forming a plurality of output images by rotating the document images by each recognized rotation angle; and an output section for outputting the formed output images.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2003Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Masahiro Osawa, Takao Kurohata, Shinya Tanigami
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Publication number: 20070187884Abstract: An image forming system includes image forming device and bookbinding device. Image forming device has operation unit for selecting sheet and cover and control unit for control of warning. Bookbinding device stacks plural sheets, forms a bundle of sheets, and binds a book by wrapping sheets with the cover in a square-shape. Bookbinding device has measuring unit measuring thickness of the bundle of sheets. Control unit calculates difference between length of selected cover, and sum of twice a length of selected sheet and a spine width, and determines warning, based on result of comparison between the difference and a predetermined value; executes determination of warning in first warning mode, based on result obtained with spine width of a set value, and/or in second warning mode, based on result obtained with spine width according to measured thickness of the bundle of sheets; and executes first warning mode prior to bookbinding output.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2006Publication date: August 16, 2007Inventor: Masahiro Osawa
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Publication number: 20070046971Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a storage section which stores a file including an image data and a predetermined post-processing condition; a reading section which read out a plurality of files to be combined from the storage section; a combination section which combines the plurality of files to produce a combined file; and a control section which controls the post-processing section to conduct a first mode in which the control section invalidates the predetermined post-processing condition set to each of the plurality of files and a post-processing is conducted based on a post-processing condition set to the whole of the plurality of files, or a second mode in which a post-processing is conducted based on the predetermined post-processing condition set to each of the plurality of files.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2005Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventors: Jun Yokobori, Masahiro Osawa, Shoichi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20070017397Abstract: This invention provides an image printing system including an image printing apparatus which prints an image on a sheet as a recording medium, a sheet post-processing section which performs post-processing with respect to the sheet on which an image is printed by the image printing apparatus, a storage section which stores an regulation parameter for the image printing apparatus, which is associated with setting of the sheet post-processing operation, and an regulation parameter changing section which can change the regulation parameter for each job to be executed, a control method for the system, and a control program.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2006Publication date: January 25, 2007Inventors: Yoshihisa Kamata, Masahiro Osawa, Masaru Ushio
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Publication number: 20060262337Abstract: This invention provides an image printing apparatus including a communication unit which communicatively connects to at least another image printing apparatus, a tandem output mode, a paper feed unit which feeds recording sheets, a comparison and determination unit which compares the information of recording sheets which can be fed from the paper feed unit with paper size information and paper type information in another image printing apparatus which has received by the communication unit in the tandem output mode, and determines a paper size match/mismatch and a paper type match/mismatch, and a mismatch notification unit which notifies a mismatch when one or both of the paper size and the paper type exhibits a mismatch upon receiving a determination result from the comparison and determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2006Publication date: November 23, 2006Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kamata, Junichi Isamikawa, Masahiro Osawa
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Patent number: 7133625Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with an image forming section to form an image on a sheet and to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed; a stacking section to stack the sheet discharged from the image forming section; a setting section to set a condition whether or not to allow a mixed stack mode on which plural sheets related to at least two different jobs are mixed and stacked in the stacking section; and a discharge control section to control the image forming section to discharge the sheet to the stacking section in accordance with the setting condition whether or not to allow the mixed stack mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2004Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jun Yokobori, Masahiro Osawa, Shoichi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20060208057Abstract: An electric harness fabricating apparatus includes wire reel out means provided for a pressure welding apparatus for pressure-welding a connector a wire of a wire harness; two rotary encoders are provided at a wire supply apparatus for supplying the wire to the pressure welding apparatus and for detecting the of wire supplied from the wire supply apparatus to the pressure welding apparatus. A main computer is provided to calculate the length of wire reeled out by the wire reel out means and a detected value detected by the rotary encoders and calculating a difference therebetween. The computer provides a means for comparing the difference calculated by the calculating means with a previously determined allowable range, and the wire reel out amount abnormality determining means for determining that an actual amount of wire fed out by the wire reel out means is different from the desired reel out amount when the difference exceeds the allowable range by a comparison by the comparing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2003Publication date: September 21, 2006Inventors: Kamei Kazuaki, Masahiro Osawa, Ken Sano
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Publication number: 20060110177Abstract: An image forming system includes a document conveying section that reversely conveys documents such that a front side and back side of the documents pass through a reading position, an image reading section for reading images on the documents conveyed to the reading position and generating image data, an image forming section for forming images on recording media, according to the image data, an input section for inputting designation whether the images are to be formed on both sides or on one side of the recording media, and a control section for controlling image reading by the image reading section and image forming by the image forming section, wherein the control section controls the image forming section to form an image according to image data in a condition where a single job includes both single-sided and double-sided image recording, correspondingly to the designation inputted via the input section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2005Publication date: May 25, 2006Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Masaru Ushio, Takao Kurohata, Masahiro Osawa
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Publication number: 20050152711Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with an image forming section to form an image on a sheet and to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed; a stacking section to stack the sheet discharged from the image forming section; a setting section to set a condition whether or not to allow a mixed stack mode on which plural sheets related to at least two different jobs are mixed and stacked in the stacking section; and a discharge control section to control the image forming section to discharge the sheet to the stacking section in accordance with the setting condition whether or not to allow the mixed stack mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2004Publication date: July 14, 2005Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jun Yokobori, Masahiro Osawa, Shoichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 6728499Abstract: An image forming apparatus with a left time informing function, which can accurately predict time required for finishing forming an image. The image forming apparatus with a left time informing function, has: a storage for storing data of various types of basic operation time for forming an image, therein; and a status management section for calculating and informing left time required for completing forming the image on the basis of the data stored in the storage, when a condition of forming the image is determined; wherein the basic operation time include print time corresponding to a single-sided mode and a double-sided mode, respectively, for every size of a transfer sheet, and interprocessing time for every postprocessing.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Masaru Ushio, Masahiro Osawa, Yoshihisa Kamata
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Publication number: 20030231342Abstract: An image formation system including a plurality of image formation apparatuses connected to a network that have at least one main image formation apparatus and one sub image formation apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2003Publication date: December 18, 2003Inventors: Takao Kurohata, Yoshihisa Kamata, Masahiro Osawa