Patents by Inventor Masao Hayashi

Masao Hayashi 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: 11697362
    Abstract: Provided is a conveyance seat capable of reducing the number of components and reducing swing of a seat cushion while a vehicle is travelling. The conveyance seat is a seat including a cushion lock apparatus turnably coupling a seat cushion to a seat back and configured switchable between a seatable state and a housing state. The cushion lock apparatus includes a lock member attached to a seat cushion side, a lock target member attached to a seat back side and engaging with the lock member to lock turning motion of the seat cushion, and a position holding member holding at least one of the positions of the lock member and the lock target member to hold a state in which a clearance is, in the seatable state, formed between an engagement portion provided at the lock member and an engagement target portion provided at the lock target member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Tanaka, Masao Hayashi, Yuji Ueno, Takamasa Kubo
  • Patent number: 11276263
    Abstract: One object is to acquire from a paper sheet circulating in the market data for updating the data for recognition. A paper sheet handling apparatus used for recognizing a paper sheet and the like includes a recognition unit that recognizes a paper sheet, an operation unit for instructing execution of a data collection processing, and a control unit that controls, in the data collection processing that is executed after an instruction operation is performed by using the operation unit, data from a paper sheet that is not correctly recognized by the recognition unit, and a memory that stores therein the data collected by the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenori Moribayashi, Yoshihiko Miyama, Masao Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11225176
    Abstract: In a vehicle seat that can switch the state of a seat main body which includes a seat back and a seat cushion between a seatable state in which the seat back is erected to a car body floor to allow a seated occupant on the seat cushion and a storage state in which the seat back tilts down to the car body floor and the seat cushion is disposed between the seat back and the car body floor, the vehicle seat is provided with a guide part that contacts the lower portion of the seat cushion and supports the seat cushion when the seat state is in the seatable state, that slidably contacts a part of the seat main body in the transition of the state to the storage state, and that thus guides the movement of the seat back and the seat cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210331608
    Abstract: Provided is a conveyance seat capable of reducing the number of components and reducing swing of a seat cushion while a vehicle is travelling. The conveyance seat is a seat including a cushion lock apparatus turnably coupling a seat cushion to a seat back and configured switchable between a seatable state and a housing state. The cushion lock apparatus includes a lock member attached to a seat cushion side, a lock target member attached to a seat back side and engaging with the lock member to lock turning motion of the seat cushion, and a position holding member holding at least one of the positions of the lock member and the lock target member to hold a state in which a clearance is, in the seatable state, formed between an engagement portion provided at the lock member and an engagement target portion provided at the lock target member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji TANAKA, Masao HAYASHI, Yuji UENO, Takamasa KUBO
  • Publication number: 20200215943
    Abstract: In a vehicle seat that can switch the state of a seat main body which includes a seat back and a seat cushion between a seatable state in which the seat back is erected to a car body floor to allow a seated occupant on the seat cushion and a storage state in which the seat back tilts down to the car body floor and the seat cushion is disposed between the seat back and the car body floor, the vehicle seat is provided with a guide part that contacts the lower portion of the seat cushion and supports the seat cushion when the seat state is in the seatable state, that slidably contacts a part of the seat main body in the transition of the state to the storage state, and that thus guides the movement of the seat back and the seat cushion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventor: Masao HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180261031
    Abstract: One object is to acquire from a paper sheet circulating in the market data for updating the data for recognition. A paper sheet handling apparatus used for recognizing a paper sheet and the like includes a recognition unit that recognizes a paper sheet, an operation unit for instructing execution of a data collection processing, and a control unit that controls, in the data collection processing that is executed after an instruction operation is performed by using the operation unit, data from a paper sheet that is not correctly recognized by the recognition unit, and a memory that stores therein the data collected by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Shigenori MORIBAYASHI, Yoshihiko MIYAMA, Masao HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9353719
    Abstract: A power supply device is mounted in a vehicle capable of starting an engine with power supplied from a battery, and includes a booster configured to boost voltage supplied from the battery, a detecting unit configured to detect an engine start, a counting unit configured to count an engine start count based on the detecting unit, and a control unit configured to control the booster. The control unit outputs a control signal to permit the booster to boost the voltage in response to the engine start when the engine start count counted by the counting unit within a timer period does not exceed an allowable number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiko Shoji, Masao Hayashi, Takafumi Kurimoto
  • Patent number: 8961275
    Abstract: A coin depositing and dispensing machine that enables reduction of the space required to be provided above the coin passage in order to transport coins, thereby enabling the machine body to be made more compact, or increasing the coin accommodating capacity of the accommodating and ejecting units by the amount equivalent to the volume of the reduction of the space. An endless transporting belt is provided above an identifying passage and a sorting passage. The transporting belt is stretched across a plurality of pulleys rotatably supported in a horizontal position by vertically extending shafts. As the space required to be provided above the coin passage to install the transporting belt can be reduced, it is possible to make the machine body more compact, or increase the coin accommodating capacity of the accommodating and ejecting units by the amount equivalent to the volume of the reduction of the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Tanaka, Shinichi Chiba, Keita Toyama, Masao Hayashi, Atsushi Nagase
  • Publication number: 20140278022
    Abstract: A power supply device is mounted in a vehicle capable of starting an engine with power supplied from a battery, and includes a booster configured to boost voltage supplied from the battery, a detecting unit configured to detect an engine start, a counting unit configured to count an engine start count based on the detecting unit, and a control unit configured to control the booster. The control unit outputs a control signal to permit the booster to boost the voltage in response to the engine start when the engine start count counted by the counting unit within a timer period does not exceed an allowable number of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiko Shoji, Masao Hayashi, Takafumi Kurimoto
  • Patent number: 7970817
    Abstract: An information processing method includes a storing step of storing a correspondence between destination names and e-mail addresses in a storage unit; a setting step of setting a destination name to which a document is to be transmitted; and an upload step of uploading the document to a document management server for a network printing in accordance with an e-mail address corresponding to the set destination name, a document being uploaded to the document management server and then being output in response to an output request from an owner of the e-mail address in the network printing. The uploaded document can be downloaded from the document management server to a printer through a communication medium and can be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Hagiuda, Masao Hayashi, Kentaro Saito, Yoichi Takaragi, Akio Ito, Kazuhiro Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 7616337
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving a print request from an information device, a transmitting unit for, upon receiving the print request, transmitting address information of a server and identification information of the printing apparatus to the information device, and a printing unit for carrying out printing based on print data received from the information device via the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20090227193
    Abstract: A coin depositing and dispensing machine that enables reduction of the space required to be provided above the coin passage in order to transport coins, thereby enabling the machine body to be made more compact, or increasing the coin accommodating capacity of the accommodating and ejecting units by the amount equivalent to the volume of the reduction of the space. An endless transporting belt is provided above an identifying passage and a sorting passage. The transporting belt is stretched across a plurality of pulleys rotatably supported in a horizontal position by vertically extending shafts. As the space required to be provided above the coin passage to install the transporting belt can be reduced, it is possible to make the machine body more compact, or increase the coin accommodating capacity of the accommodating and ejecting units by the amount equivalent to the volume of the reduction of the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Glory Ltd
    Inventors: Takashi Tanaka, Shinichi Chiba, Keita Toyama, Masao Hayashi, Atsushi Nagase
  • Patent number: 7361552
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including an interlayer insulation film formed on a substrate so as to cover first and second regions defined on the substrate, and a capacitor formed over the interlayer insulation film in the first region, wherein the interlayer insulation film includes, in the first region, a stepped part defined by a groove having a bottom surface lower in level than a surface of the interlayer insulation film in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tadaaki Hayashi, legal representative, Taiji Ema, Narumi Ohkawa, Masao Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7130559
    Abstract: A recycling system for managing reusable units to be used in an image-forming apparatus (e.g., MFP device including units, the system comprising inputting kind information of the units), storing use information corresponding to the image-forming apparatus, and determining a reuse level of a reusable unit to be provided based on the kind information and the use information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kimura, Masao Hayashi, Yoichi Takaragi, Kentaro Saito, Hiroshi Kaburagi, Toshikazu Sekizawa, Akio Ito
  • Patent number: 7118957
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including an interlayer insulation film formed on a substrate so as to cover first and second regions defined on the substrate, and a capacitor formed over the interlayer insulation film in the first region, wherein the interlayer insulation film includes, in the first region, a stepped part defined by a groove having a bottom surface lower in level than a surface of the interlayer insulation film in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tadaaki Hayashi, legal representative, Taiji Ema, Narumi Ohkawa, Masao Hayashi, deceased
  • Publication number: 20060139685
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image-processing apparatus that can generate image data from inputted print data, store the generated image data in storage, perform notification about the generation state of the image data, obtain identification information, and output the stored image data based on the obtained identification information. Subsequently, the image-processing apparatus can reduce the time a user spends in waiting in front of a printer until printing is finished.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20060059093
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a position-information acquisition unit adapted to acquire position information of the data processing apparatus, a key-generation unit adapted to generate a key dependent on the position information acquired by the position-information acquisition unit, an encryption unit adapted to generate encrypted data by encrypting data using the key generated by the key-generation unit, a recording unit adapted to record the encrypted data onto an external recording medium, and a decryption unit adapted to decrypt the encrypted data recorded onto the external recording medium by using a key that is dependent on the position information acquired by the position-information acquisition unit and that is generated by the key-generation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Takaragi, Masao Hayashi, Kentaro Saito, Akio Ito, Tadashi Hagiuda, Kazuhiro Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20050270569
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving a print request from an information device, a transmitting unit for, upon receiving the print request, transmitting address information of a server and identification information of the printing apparatus to the information device, and a printing unit for carrying out printing based on print data received from the information device via the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20050257126
    Abstract: An information processing method includes a storing step of storing a correspondence between destination names and e-mail addresses in a storage unit; a setting step of setting a destination name to which a document is to be transmitted; and an upload step of uploading the document to a document management server for a network printing in accordance with an e-mail address corresponding to the set destination name, a document being uploaded to the document management server and then being output in response to an output request from an owner of the e-mail address in the network printing. The uploaded document can be downloaded from the document management server to a printer through a communication medium and can be printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Hagiuda, Masao Hayashi, Kentaro Saito, Yoichi Takaragi, Akio Ito, Kazuhiro Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20050117918
    Abstract: A recycling system for managing reusable units to be used in an image-forming apparatus (e.g., MFP device including units, the system comprising inputting kind information of the units, storing use information corresponding to the image-forming apparatus, and determining a reuse level of a reusable unit to be provided based on the kind information and the use information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kimura, Masao Hayashi, Yoichi Takaragi, Kentaro Saito, Hiroshi Kaburagi, Toshikazu Sekizawa, Akio Ito