Patents by Inventor Masato Suzuki
Masato Suzuki 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: 20230238772Abstract: A plurality of laser diode bars and a plurality of dummy bars are alternately arranged on projections provided on an upper surface of a plate so that an opening of the plate is sandwiched between the projections. The plurality of laser diode bars and the plurality of dummy bars are arranged with the projections as reference positions. End surfaces of the plurality of laser diode bars are protruded upward relative to the plurality of dummy bars. Next, an insulation film is formed on protruding portions of the plurality of laser diode bars relative to the plurality of dummy bars.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masato SUZUKI, Masatsugu KUSUNOKI
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Publication number: 20230231360Abstract: A dummy bar is used to deposit an insulating film on a front end face (32) and a rear end face (34) of a laser diode bar (30), the dummy bar including a body part (12) having a plate shape, and including a pair of side surfaces (14), an upper surface (16), and a lower surface (18), the body part having a longitudinal length equal to a longitudinal length of the laser diode bar (30), the pair of side surfaces (14) being orthogonal to a longitudinal direction and opposite each other, the upper surface (16) and the lower surface (18) being orthogonal to the pair of side surfaces, parallel to a thickness direction of the plate shape, and opposite each other and a handle part (20) provided at a position separated from the lower surface (18) on each of the pair of side surfaces (14).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masato SUZUKI, Masatsugu KUSUNOKI
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Publication number: 20230228936Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber or the like that can be adapted to an optical transceiver for a short wavelength band of 850 nm or more and 1060 nm or less while maintaining compatibility with an SMF of the related art. An optical fiber of one embodiment includes a core, a cladding, and a resin coating, and has a mode field diameter of 8.2 µm or more and 9.6 µm or less at a wavelength of 1310 nm, a cable cutoff wavelength of an LP11 mode of 1060 nm or more and 1260 nm or less, and a cable cutoff wavelength of an LP02 mode of 1060 nm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Takemi HASEGAWA, Yuki KAWAGUCHI, Masato SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20230159291Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a stacking unit including a plate, a feeding unit including a roller, a holder including a detected member, a drive unit and a controller. The detected member is positioned in a first position where the detected member is not detected by a detector in a case that the feeding unit is new, and is moved from the first position to a second position where the detected member is projected so as to be detected by the detector when the new feeding unit is mounted on the holder and the roller is driven. The controller controls the drive unit to perform up-and-down operation of the plate so that the plate is set to a feedable state of the sheet in a case that the feeding unit is mounted, and determines whether or not the feeding unit is new based on a detection result of the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventors: Masato Suzuki, Kenichirou Isobe, Eiji Wakiyama, Takashi Yano, Hidehiro Ushiozu
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Publication number: 20230111721Abstract: A system includes: a light source that emits pulsed light that illuminates a user's head portion; a photodetector that detects at least part of pulsed light returning from the head portion and that outputs one or more signals corresponding to an intensity of the at least part; electrical circuitry; and a memory that stores an emotion model indicating a relationship between the one or more signals and emotions. Based on a change in the one or more signals, the electrical circuitry selects an emotion by referring to the model. The one or more signals include a first signal corresponding to an intensity of first part of the reflection pulsed light and a second signal corresponding to an intensity of second part of the reflection pulsed light. The first part incudes part before a falling period is started; and the second part includes at least part in the falling period.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Masato SUZUKI, Takamasa ANDO
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Publication number: 20230101392Abstract: An optical fiber according to an embodiment has a structure capable of reducing an increase in transmission loss. The optical fiber includes a glass part extending in a direction of a central axis, and the glass part is comprised of silica-based glass, includes a core and a cladding, and has residual stress approximately uniform throughout a cross section of the glass part orthogonal to the central axis, the core having the central axis and being doped with chlorine with a mass fraction of 1% or more, the cladding surrounding the core and having a refractive index lower than a maximum refractive index of the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka SAKUMA, Yuki KAWAGUCHI, Masato SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20230032618Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a driving transmission member, a feeding unit, and a switching member. The feeding unit is detachable from the sheet feeding device and includes a driven transmission member that receives a driving force from the driving transmission member, a feeding member, and a holding member that holds the driven transmission member and the feeding member. The switching member abuts the holding member and moves the feeding member between a second position and a first position lowered from the second position. When the driving force is transmitted to the driven transmission member, the feeding unit is positioned to the sheet feeding device by receiving a positioning force in an attachment direction of the feeding unit. When the driving force is not transmitted to the driven transmission member, the feeding unit is regulated by the switching member in movement in a direction opposite to the attachment direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Masato Suzuki, Satoshi Tsuda
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Patent number: 11557148Abstract: A system includes: a light source that emits pulsed light that illuminates a user's head portion; a photodetector that detects at least part of pulsed light returning from the head portion and that outputs one or more signals corresponding to an intensity of the at least part; electrical circuitry; and a memory that stores an emotion model indicating a relationship between the one or more signals and emotions. Based on a change in the one or more signals, the electrical circuitry selects an emotion by referring to the model. The one or more signals include a first signal corresponding to an intensity of first part of the reflection pulsed light and a second signal corresponding to an intensity of second part of the reflection pulsed light. The first part includes part before a falling period is started; and the second part includes at least part in the falling period.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masato Suzuki, Takamasa Ando
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Publication number: 20220378298Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining first image data indicating an image of at least one portion of a face of a target person from a camera connected to or built into a first computer; obtaining cerebral blood flow information indicating a state of cerebral blood flow of the target person from a detector that is connected to or built into the first computer and that detects the cerebral blood flow information; and displaying, on a display connected to or built into a second computer connected to the first computer through a remote network, an output image including a first image based on the first image data and a second image based on the cerebral blood flow information. The first image is a moving image including the at least one portion of the face, and the second image indicates changes over time in the cerebral blood flow information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Masaaki YANAGIDA, Masato SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11513748Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an accommodating unit that accommodates recording materials and a feeding unit that feeds an accommodated recording material, detects a fed recording material, and measures time from a predetermined timing until a recording material is detected. An information processing apparatus receives measured time data from the image forming apparatus, classifies the received plurality of time data into a first group and a second group in accordance with a length of time, selects a group for predicting a remaining life time of the feeding unit from the classified first group and second group, and predicts a remaining life time of the feeding unit using time data included in the selected group.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Takashi Yano, Hidehiro Ushiozu, Masato Suzuki, Kosuke Ogino
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Patent number: 11493690Abstract: An optical fiber line of one embodiment comprises an HNLF, an SMF, and an MFD transition portion. The MFD transition portion includes end portions of both the HNLF and the SMF facing with a fusion point thereof, and is a section in which an MFD changes such that a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value is 0.3 ?m or more for a 100 ?m-length. A splicing loss of the HNLF and the SMF at 1,550 nm is one-fifth or less than an ideal butting loss at stationary portions thereof. A total length of the MFD transition portion is 10 mm or less. In a region between one end surface of the HNLF at the fusion point and the other end surface separated from the one end surface by 50 ?m or more and 300 ?m or less, the MFD increases monotonically from the other end surface to the one end surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masato Suzuki, Yoshinori Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Tamura, Takemi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11470724Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus that includes a conveyance device that moves a stage, where an electronic device shaped by multiple layers is placed, in X-axis and Y-axis directions. A first shaping unit, a second shaping unit, and a component mounting unit are arranged within a range in which the stage can move. The manufacturing apparatus performs additive manufacturing of the electronic device on the stage by performing a sequential movement of the stage to respective working positions of different units. As a result, in this manufacturing apparatus, a workpiece on the stage does not have to be removed and repositioned during each work process such as shaping by a first shaping unit, shaping by a second shaping unit, and electronic component mounting by a component mounting unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Masato Suzuki, Akihiro Kawajiri, Masatoshi Fujita, Kenji Tsukada, Yoshitaka Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11445920Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining first image data indicating an image of at least one portion of a face of a target person from a camera connected to or built into a first computer; obtaining cerebral blood flow information indicating a state of cerebral blood flow of the target person from a detector that is connected to or built into the first computer and that detects the cerebral blood flow information; and displaying, on a display connected to or built into a second computer connected to the first computer through a remote network, an output image including a first image based on the first image data and a second image based on the cerebral blood flow information. The first image is a moving image including the at least one portion of the face, and the second image indicates changes over time in the cerebral blood flow information.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Yanagida, Masato Suzuki
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Publication number: 20220286733Abstract: A video output method receives an operation from each of a plurality of users, generates a performance image and a performance sound based on the received operation, receives first video data, synthesizes the first video data and the performance image to generate output video data, and outputs the output video data and the performance sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Masato SUZUKI, Shintaro NOGUCHI
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Patent number: 11439025Abstract: In a circuit forming device, a resin laminated body is formed by curing an ultraviolet curable resin ejected by an ejecting device. Then, ultraviolet curable resin is ejected into a cavity of the resin laminated body, and an electronic component is placed on the ultraviolet curable resin. Then, the electronic component is cured and the electronic component is fixed.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Hashimoto, Masatoshi Fujita, Kenji Tsukada, Akihiro Kawajiri, Masato Suzuki, Katsuaki Makihara
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Publication number: 20220252975Abstract: An imprint apparatus includes a moveable substrate support configured to hold a substrate having a transfer target material thereon, a template holder configured to hold a template in which a pattern, which is to be transferred to the transfer target material, is formed, a light source configured to emit light at different selectable intensities toward the transfer target material, and a controller. The controller includes a processing unit and a storage unit, and is configured to retrieve exposure conditions for the transfer target material and control the intensity, and timing of initiation, of the light output by the light source, based on the retrieved exposure conditions, such that the transfer target material is subjected to main curing after undergoing temporary curing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Kazuya FUKUHARA, Masaki MITSUYASU, Masato SUZUKI, Takuya KONO, Tetsuro NAKASUGI
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Patent number: 11390476Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes an apparatus body, a drawer portion including a first contact portion, a feeding portion, and a pivot member configured to pivot between a first position and a second position, the pivot member constituting a part of a conveyance path at the first position, wherein the pivot member does not overlap a moving path of the drawer portion in a case where the pivot member is located at the first position, and overlaps the moving path in a case where the pivot member is located at the second position. The pivot member includes a second contact portion that pivots the pivot member from the second position toward the first position while being in sliding contact with the first contact portion in a case where the pivot member is located at the second position and the drawer portion is being inserted into the apparatus body.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato Suzuki, Akira Matsushima
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Patent number: 11383875Abstract: A double container includes: an outer layer body including an outer mouth portion and a barrel portion; an inner layer body including an inner mouth portion and a containing portion; an outside air introduction port for introducing outside air; and a plurality of vertical ribs arranged with spacing in a circumferential direction on an inner surface of the outer layer body or an outer surface of the inner layer body, and each extending over the outer mouth portion to the shoulder portion or extending over the inner mouth portion to the containing portion, wherein at least one of the plurality of vertical ribs faces the outside air introduction port.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Masato Suzuki, Junichi Chiba, Masaaki Sasaki
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Patent number: 11384172Abstract: Provided is a polymer having antimicrobial and disinfecting properties against a wide range of kinds of germs. A polymer, including: a polymer chain having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1); and a partial structure (excluding the polymer chain) derived from a compound containing a group represented by —NH—. [In formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Z represents a group forming an organic ammonium salt, —NR5R6 (where R5 and R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group), or a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group, and X represents a single bond, or a divalent linking group.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignees: JSR CORPORATION, JAPAN AS REPRESENTED BY DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF NATIONAL INSTITUTE of INFECTIOUS DISEASES, JSR LIFE SCIENCES CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori Naruse, Atsushi Itou, Shigeru Ikawa, Tsutomu Shimokawa, Masato Suzuki, Mari Matsui, Satowa Suzuki, Keigo Shibayama, Kazuhiro Ikkyuu
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Publication number: 20220206214Abstract: An optical fiber has a structure uniform in a longitudinal direction. This optical fiber includes a core and a cladding that surrounds the core in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A refractive index of the cladding is lower than a refractive index of the core. The cladding has, in the cross-section, an inner cladding layer including an inner circumferential surface of the cladding, and an outer cladding layer including an outer circumferential surface of the cladding. The inner cladding layer contains fluorine. The inner and outer cladding layers have refractive indexes different from each other. The outer cladding layer includes a local maximum portion where a residual stress, which is a tensile stress, becomes local maximum. A radial distance between the local maximum portion and an inner circumferential surface of the outer cladding layer is 10 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki TAMURA, Yuki KAWAGUCHI, Hirotaka SAKUMA, Masato SUZUKI