Patents by Inventor Masashi Iwamoto

Masashi Iwamoto 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: 20240302049
    Abstract: A supply system includes a hydrogen module and a fuel cell module. The hydrogen module includes a portable first housing, which includes at least one wheel, and at least one hydrogen cartridge housed in the first housing. The fuel cell module includes a portable second housing, which includes least one wheel, and a fuel cell housed in the second housing. The fuel cell module and the hydrogen module are mechanically and electrically connected. The fuel cell is capable of generating electric power from hydrogen gas supplied by the hydrogen module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi NAKAMURA, Masahiro Iwamoto, Takao Kataoka, Tomoki Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20240286468
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile body comprises a container apparatus where a plurality of sections can be separately locked and unlocked, where a window using a dimming glass is provided in a door of each of the plurality of sections; and a controller configured to cause movement to a predetermined location corresponding to a user who is a consignee of a first object, in a state where the dimming glass corresponding to a section where the first object is contained is made opaque, and cause the dimming glass of the section where the first object is contained to be transparent, in a case of successful authentication of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Nakamura, Masahiro Iwamoto, Takao Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20240286647
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile body comprises a travel unit configured to move autonomously; a locker unit capable of housing an object; a first power source unit configured to supply electric power to the travel unit; and a second power source unit including at least one hydrogen cartridge, the second power source unit being configured to supply electric power to the locker unit by hydrogen filled in the hydrogen cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Nakamura, Masahiro Iwamoto, Takao Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20240255064
    Abstract: To provide a safety valve capable of suppressing creep of a fusible alloy to the minimum even if a member that blocks a flow path directly presses the fusible alloy. A fusible alloy is disposed between a blocking member that blocks the flow of fluid flowing from a discharge path of a fluid apparatus and a pressing cap, a reservoir part 8 that reserves the fused fusible alloy is formed at least in one of the blocking member 3 and the pressing cap, and two porous plates punched positions of which do not overlap with each other are arranged between the reservoir part and the fusible alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicants: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED, JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Matsuoka, Kunihiko Daido, Tadayuki Yakushijin, Koji Hiramatsu, Yusei Horikawa, Takao Kitanaka, Kazushi Numazaki, Natsuki Iwamoto, Tetsuya Tokuno
  • Publication number: 20240211190
    Abstract: An editing device is configured to edit print data including first print data and second print data via a display device for creating a composite label with a printing device. The composite label includes a first label and a second label and is created by superposing the second label over the first label. A set of program instructions, when executed by a controller of the editing device, causes the editing device to perform displaying an editing screen on the display device. The editing screen has a first region, a second region, and a composite region. The displaying displays a first label image based on the first print data in the first region, a second label image based on the second print data in the second region, and a composite label image formed by superposing the second label image over the first label image in the composite region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Misato OSUKA, Ryuichi KANDA, Masashi IWAMOTO, Yuichiro SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11954385
    Abstract: An editing device is configured to edit print data including first print data and second print data via a display device for creating a composite label with a printing device. The composite label includes a first label and a second label and is created by superposing the second label over the first label. A set of program instructions, when executed by a controller of the editing device, causes the editing device to perform displaying an editing screen on the display device. The editing screen has a first region, a second region, and a composite region. The displaying displays a first label image based on the first print data in the first region, a second label image based on the second print data in the second region, and a composite label image formed by superposing the second label image over the first label image in the composite region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Misato Osuka, Ryuichi Kanda, Masashi Iwamoto, Yuichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11877397
    Abstract: The printed circuit board includes, a first conductive layer including copper foil, an insulating base layer, and a second conductive layer including copper foil in this order, and includes a via-hole laminate that is stacked on an inner circumference and a bottom of a connection hole extending through the first conductive layer and the base layer in a thickness direction. The via-hole laminate has an electroless copper plating layer stacked on the connection hole and an electrolytic copper plating layer stacked on the electroless copper plating layer. The copper foil has copper crystal grains oriented in a (100) plane orientation, and an average crystal grain size of copper of 10 ?m or more. The electroless copper plating layer includes palladium and tin, and an amount of the palladium stacked per unit area of a surface of the copper foil is 0.18 ?g/cm2 or more and 0.40 ?g/cm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Junichi Motomura, Koji Nitta, Shoichiro Sakai, Mari Sogabe, Mitsutaka Tsubokura, Akira Tsuchiko, Masashi Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11833793
    Abstract: A jig for sticking a first sheet superposed on a second sheet to the second sheet in a thickness direction of the first and second sheets includes a first regulating portion, a second regulating portion, and a nipper. The first regulating portion regulates a position of the first sheet superposed on the second sheet to be aligned with a position of the second sheet in a first direction perpendicular to the thickness direction. The second regulating portion regulates a position of the first sheet superposed on the second sheet to be aligned with a position of the second sheet in a second direction perpendicular to the thickness direction and the first direction. The nipper nips the first sheet and the second sheet superposed and aligned with each other in the thickness direction such that at least a part of a peripheral portion of the first sheet is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kanda, Masashi Iwamoto, Misato Osuka
  • Patent number: 11707935
    Abstract: A printing apparatus, having a casing, a printer, and a battery cover, is provided. The casing includes a battery compartment, to which a battery is attachable, and a terminal arranged inside the battery compartment. The printer is powered by the battery to print an image on a printable tape. The battery cover is attachable to the casing and, when at an attached position, covers at least a part of the battery compartment. The casing includes a guide arranged outside the battery compartment to guide the battery cover toward the attached position in the casing. The battery cover includes a first wall portion, which contacts the guide at an outer face thereof and slides along the guide as the battery cover moves toward the attached position, and a pressing portion to press the battery in the battery compartment against the terminal as the first wall portion slides along the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Tanizaki, Masashi Iwamoto, Ryuichi Kanda, Yuya Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230205469
    Abstract: An editing device is configured to edit print data including first print data and second print data via a display device for creating a composite label with a printing device. The composite label includes a first label and a second label and is created by superposing the second label over the first label. A set of program instructions, when executed by a controller of the editing device, causes the editing device to perform displaying an editing screen on the display device. The editing screen has a first region, a second region, and a composite region. The displaying displays a first label image based on the first print data in the first region, a second label image based on the second print data in the second region, and a composite label image formed by superposing the second label image over the first label image in the composite region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Misato OSUKA, Ryuichi KANDA, Masashi IWAMOTO, Yuichiro SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11623460
    Abstract: A cutting device, having a supporting base, a cutter section, a protrusive part, is provided. The supporting base has a first area, in which a tape is placeable, and a second area on a surface thereof. The surface is formed of a resin coating layer in the first area alone between the first area and the second area. The cutter section has a blade and is movable to approach and separate from the surface. The protrusive part protrudes from the cutter section in a direction, toward which an edge of the blade points. When the cutter section approaches the surface of the supporting base, with the protrusive part contacting the surface of the supporting base in the second area, the blade cuts the tape located between the surface of the supporting base in the first area and the blade partly in a direction of thickness of the tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Tanizaki, Masashi Iwamoto, Ryuichi Kanda, Yuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11577531
    Abstract: A printing device includes: a motor; a rotary body driven by the motor to rotate; a movable blade driven by rotation of the rotary body to cut a printing tape; a gear mechanism provided on a power transmission path from the motor to the movable blade; a first detector outputting a first signal based on a rotated position of the rotary body; a second detector outputting a second signal based on the rotated position, and a controller performing positioning the rotary body to a predetermined reference rotated position. The positioning includes: starting rotating the rotary body in one direction on the basis of the first signal at the time of starting the positioning; halting the rotation in the one direction of the rotary body on the basis of the second signal; and rotating the rotary body in the opposite direction for a prescribed time period after the halting is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Iwamoto, Feng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11537340
    Abstract: An editing device is configured to edit print data including first print data and second print data via a display device for creating a composite label with a printing device. The composite label includes a first label and a second label and is created by superposing the second label over the first label. A set of program instructions, when executed by a controller of the editing device, causes the editing device to perform displaying an editing screen on the display device. The editing screen has a first region, a second region, and a composite region. The displaying displays a first label image based on the first print data in the first region, a second label image based on the second print data in the second region, and a composite label image formed by superposing the second label image over the first label image in the composite region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Misato Osuka, Ryuichi Kanda, Masashi Iwamoto, Yuichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11485153
    Abstract: A cutting device, having a full-cutting assembly, a half-cutting assembly, and a cam, is provided. The full-cutting assembly includes a first cutting blade and a facing part to cut a tape fully through in a direction of thickness of the tape by rotating a first arm about a first shaft. The half-cutting assembly includes a second cutting blade and a supporting base to cut the tape partly in the direction of thickness by rotating a second arm about a second shaft. The cam is rotatable bidirectionally about a third shaft and has a cam face, on which a first pressing part to press the first arm and a second pressing part to press the second arm are arranged. A distance between the cam face and the second arm is smaller than or equal to a distance between the cam face and the first arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya Nakamura, Masashi Iwamoto, Ryuichi Kanda, Masashi Tanizaki
  • Publication number: 20220225500
    Abstract: The printed circuit board includes, a first conductive layer including copper foil, an insulating base layer, and a second conductive layer including copper foil in this order, and includes a via-hole laminate that is stacked on an inner circumference and a bottom of a connection hole extending through the first conductive layer and the base layer in a thickness direction. The via-hole laminate has an electroless copper plating layer stacked on the connection hole and an electrolytic copper plating layer stacked on the electroless copper plating layer. The copper foil has copper crystal grains oriented in a (100) plane orientation, and an average crystal grain size of copper of 10 ?m or more. The electroless copper plating layer includes palladium and tin, and an amount of the palladium stacked per unit area of a surface of the copper foil is 0.18 ?g/cm2 or more and 0.40 ?g/cm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Junichi MOTOMURA, Koji NITTA, Shoichiro SAKAI, Mari SOGABE, Mitsutaka TSUBOKURA, Akira TSUCHIKO, Masashi IWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210300078
    Abstract: A printing device includes: a motor; a rotary body driven by the motor to rotate; a movable blade driven by rotation of the rotary body to cut a printing tape; a gear mechanism provided on a power transmission path from the motor to the movable blade; a first detector outputting a first signal based on a rotated position of the rotary body; a second detector outputting a second signal based on the rotated position, and a controller performing positioning the rotary body to a predetermined reference rotated position. The positioning includes: starting rotating the rotary body in one direction on the basis of the first signal at the time of starting the positioning; halting the rotation in the one direction of the rotary body on the basis of the second signal; and rotating the rotary body in the opposite direction for a prescribed time period after the halting is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Masashi Iwamoto, Feng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210237488
    Abstract: A cutting device, having a supporting base, a cutter section, a protrusive part, is provided. The supporting base has a first area, in which a tape is placeable, and a second area on a surface thereof The surface is formed of a resin coating layer in the first area alone between the first area and the second area. The cutter section has a blade and is movable to approach and separate from the surface. The protrusive part protrudes from the cutter section in a direction, toward which an edge of the blade points. When the cutter section approaches the surface of the supporting base, with the protrusive part contacting the surface of the supporting base in the second area, the blade cuts the tape located between the surface of the supporting base in the first area and the blade partly in a direction of thickness of the tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Masashi TANIZAKI, Masashi IWAMOTO, Ryuichi KANDA, Yuya NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210237474
    Abstract: A printing apparatus, having a casing, a printer, and a battery cover, is provided. The casing includes a battery compartment, to which a battery is attachable, and a terminal arranged inside the battery compartment. The printer is powered by the battery to print an image on a printable tape. The battery cover is attachable to the casing and, when at an attached position, covers at least a part of the battery compartment. The casing includes a guide arranged outside the battery compartment to guide the battery cover toward the attached position in the casing. The battery cover includes a first wall portion, which contacts the guide at an outer face thereof and slides along the guide as the battery cover moves toward the attached position, and a pressing portion to press the battery in the battery compartment against the terminal as the first wall portion slides along the guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Masashi TANIZAKI, Masashi IWAMOTO, Ryuichi KANDA, Yuya NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210237489
    Abstract: A cutting device, having a full-cutting assembly, a half-cutting assembly, and a cam, is provided. The full-cutting assembly includes a first cutting blade and a facing part to cut a tape fully through in a direction of thickness of the tape by rotating a first arm about a first shaft. The half-cutting assembly includes a second cutting blade and a supporting base to cut the tape partly in the direction of thickness by rotating a second arm about a second shaft. The cam is rotatable bidirectionally about a third shaft and has a cam face, on which a first pressing part to press the first arm and a second pressing part to press the second arm are arranged. A distance between the cam face and the second arm is smaller than or equal to a distance between the cam face and the first arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Yuya NAKAMURA, Masashi IWAMOTO, Ryuichi KANDA, Masashi TANIZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210237416
    Abstract: A jig for sticking a first sheet superposed on a second sheet to the second sheet in a thickness direction of the first and second sheets includes a first regulating portion, a second regulating portion, and a nipper. The first regulating portion regulates a position of the first sheet superposed on the second sheet to be aligned with a position of the second sheet in a first direction perpendicular to the thickness direction. The second regulating portion regulates a position of the first sheet superposed on the second sheet to be aligned with a position of the second sheet in a second direction perpendicular to the thickness direction and the first direction. The nipper nips the first sheet and the second sheet superposed and aligned with each other in the thickness direction such that at least a part of a peripheral portion of the first sheet is exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Ryuichi KANDA, Masashi IWAMOTO, Misato OSUKA