Patents by Inventor Masashi SUEMATSU

Masashi SUEMATSU 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: 11187890
    Abstract: A movable diffraction element and a spectroscope. The movable diffraction element includes a movable component having a comb-like shape, a supporting unit configured to support the movable component, a first cantilever actuator coupled to the supporting unit, a displacement determiner coupled to an edge of the first cantilever actuator, and a second cantilever actuator disposed parallel to the first cantilever actuator. In the movable diffraction element, a slope generated when the second cantilever actuator deforms is approximately equivalent to a slope generated at the first cantilever actuator. The spectroscope includes the movable diffraction element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Fujishima, Hidetaka Noguchi, Hidenori Kato, Masashi Suematsu, Junichi Azumi, Shuichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11060909
    Abstract: (Object) To enable to provide a small-scale and low-cost spectrometer (Means of Achieving the Object) A spectrometer includes: a light incidence unit configured to allow incidence of light from outside; a diffraction grating configured to disperse, according to wavelength, the light that is incident through the light incidence unit; and a reflection unit including a reflection surface for reflecting the light that has been dispersed according to wavelength by the diffraction grating. Tilt of the reflection surface is changeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Noguchi, Junichi Azumi, Hidenori Kato, Masashi Suematsu, Masayuki Fujishima, Shuichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200088572
    Abstract: To enable to provide a small-scale and low-cost spectrometer (Means of Achieving the Object) A spectrometer includes: a light incidence unit configured to allow incidence of light from outside; a diffraction grating configured to disperse, according to wavelength, the light that is incident through the light incidence unit; and a reflection unit including a reflection surface for reflecting the light that has been dispersed according to wavelength by the diffraction grating. Tilt of the reflection surface is changeable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hidetaka NOGUCHI, Junichi AZUMI, Hidenori KATO, Masashi SUEMATSU, Masayuki FUJISHIMA, Shuichi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10544032
    Abstract: A MEMS device includes a plurality of ribbon elements, a securing portion, and a plurality of connecting portions. The securing portion supports the plurality of ribbon elements. The plurality of connecting portions are disposed on ends of each of the plurality of ribbon elements and connect each of the plurality of ribbon elements to the securing portion. An angle formed by a longitudinal extending line of each of the plurality of ribbon elements and each of the plurality of connecting portions is greater than 0° in a planar direction of each of the plurality of ribbon elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Fujishima, Hidetaka Noguchi, Hidenori Kato, Junichi Azumi, Masashi Suematsu, Shuichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10444073
    Abstract: A frame, a spectroscope, a spectrometry unit, and an image forming apparatus. The frame has hollow structure and includes at least four apertures including a first aperture, a second aperture, a third aperture through which light enters the frame, and a fourth aperture, a concave diffraction grating disposed at a position of the first aperture, and a movable reflector disposed at a position of the second aperture to reflect light dispersed by the concave diffraction grating and change a reflection angle of the reflected light. Through the fourth aperture of the frame, the light reflected by the movable reflector exits the frame. The spectroscope includes the frame, and the frame further includes an optical entrance disposed at a position of the third aperture, and an optical exit disposed at a position of the fourth aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Noguchi, Junichi Azumi, Hidenori Kato, Masayuki Fujishima, Masashi Suematsu
  • Patent number: 10247349
    Abstract: In a configuration of a method for preventing progression of corrosion in a steel pipe structure according to the present invention, two or more types of liquids 150 are injected, while being mixed, into a steel pipe that constitutes the steel pipe structure, from an opening at one of both ends of the steel pipe, and the inside of the steel pipe is filled with resin foam product (foam product 152) by foam expansion and hardening of the two or more types of liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Nitto Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaishi, Takehiro Miyazawa, Yoshio Tamura, Takuhiko Ohashi, Masashi Suematsu, Osamu Hatsumi, Tadashi Kimura, Makoto Ide, Isao Naganuma, Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti, Tetsuya Matayoshi, Kouei Miyazato, Shinichi Suzuki, Nobuo Okamura, Kozo Hatsumi, Hiromi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10119862
    Abstract: A spectrum measuring device including a ribbon element, a light detection element, and circuitry. The ribbon element includes a first light reflector including a plurality of first light reflection surfaces configured to be translated in an out-of-plane direction, and a second light reflector including a plurality of second light reflection surfaces that are fixed. The circuitry supplies a drive signal to the ribbon element in such a manner that a change of a displacement amount difference between the first light reflection surfaces and the second light reflection surfaces corresponds to a predetermined frequency; and acquires the light quantity data detected by the light detection element at a predetermined sampling frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Suzuki, Hidetaka Noguchi, Masayuki Fujishima, Hidenori Kato, Junichi Azumi, Masashi Suematsu
  • Publication number: 20180267293
    Abstract: A movable diffraction element and a spectroscope. The movable diffraction element includes a movable component having a comb-like shape, a supporting unit configured to support the movable component, a first cantilever actuator coupled to the supporting unit, a displacement determiner coupled to an edge of the first cantilever actuator, and a second cantilever actuator disposed parallel to the first cantilever actuator. In the movable diffraction element, a slope generated when the second cantilever actuator deforms is approximately equivalent to a slope generated at the first cantilever actuator. The spectroscope includes the movable diffraction element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Masayuki FUJISHIMA, Hidetaka Noguchi, Hidenori Kato, Masashi Suematsu, Junichi Azumi, Shuichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180252578
    Abstract: A spectrum measuring device including a ribbon element, a light detection element, and circuitry. The ribbon element includes a first light reflector including a plurality of first light reflection surfaces configured to be translated in an out-of-plane direction, and a second light reflector including a plurality of second light reflection surfaces that are fixed. The circuitry supplies a drive signal to the ribbon element in such a manner that a change of a displacement amount difference between the first light reflection surfaces and the second light reflection surfaces corresponds to a predetermined frequency; and acquires the light quantity data detected by the light detection element at a predetermined sampling frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Shuichi Suzuki, Hidetaka Noguchi, Masayuki Fujishima, Hidenori Kato, Junichi Azumi, Masashi Suematsu
  • Publication number: 20180215608
    Abstract: A MEMS device includes a plurality of ribbon elements, a securing portion, and a plurality of connecting portions. The securing portion supports the plurality of ribbon elements. The plurality of connecting portions are disposed on ends of each of the plurality of ribbon elements and connect each of the plurality of ribbon elements to the securing portion. An angle formed by a longitudinal extending line of each of the plurality of ribbon elements and each of the plurality of connecting portions is greater than 0° in a planar direction of each of the plurality of ribbon elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Masayuki FUJISHIMA, Hidetaka NOGUCHI, Hidenori KATO, Junichi AZUMI, Masashi SUEMATSU, Shuichi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9903758
    Abstract: A spectral measurement device includes a light reflection grating having a plurality of movable gratings and a movable grating drive unit that displaces the movable gratings to alter a grating pattern of the light reflection grating, a light detecting element that detects light incident on the light reflection grating, a storage unit storing a relationship between a light quantity to be detected by the light detecting element and corresponding light intensities at differing wavelengths for different grating patterns, and a computation unit that calculates light intensities at the differing wavelengths of the light incident on the light reflection grating based on the light quantity of the incident light detected by the light detecting element for each of the different grating patterns by altering the grating pattern based on the relationship between the light quantity and the corresponding light intensities for the different grating patterns stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Azumi, Hidetaka Noguchi, Hidenori Kato, Masashi Suematsu, Masayuki Fujishima
  • Publication number: 20170350759
    Abstract: A spectral measurement device includes a light reflection grating having a plurality of movable gratings and a movable grating drive unit that displaces the movable gratings to alter a grating pattern of the light reflection grating, a light detecting element that detects light incident on the light reflection grating, a storage unit storing a relationship between a light quantity to be detected by the light detecting element and corresponding light intensities at differing wavelengths for different grating patterns, and a computation unit that calculates light intensities at the differing wavelengths of the light incident on the light reflection grating based on the light quantity of the incident light detected by the light detecting element for each of the different grating patterns by altering the grating pattern based on the relationship between the light quantity and the corresponding light intensities for the different grating patterns stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi AZUMI, Hidetaka NOGUCHI, Hidenori KATO, Masashi SUEMATSU, Masayuki FUJISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20160319981
    Abstract: In a configuration of a method for preventing progression of corrosion in a steel pipe structure according to the present invention, two or more types of liquids 150 are injected, while being mixed, into a steel pipe that constitutes the steel pipe structure, from an opening at one of both ends of the steel pipe, and the inside of the steel pipe is filled with resin foam product (foam product 152) by foam expansion and hardening of the two or more types of liquids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TAKAISHI, Takehiro MIYAZAWA, Yoshio TAMURA, Takuhiko OHASHI, Masashi SUEMATSU, Osamu HATSUMI, Tadashi KIMURA, Makoto IDE, Isao NAGANUMA, Marco VOLPATO, Maurizio CORTI, Tetsuya MATAYOSHI, Kouei MIYAZATO, Shinichi SUZUKI, Nobuo OKAMURA, Kozo HATSUMI, Hiromi HASEGAWA