Patents by Inventor Masayuki Shimazu
Masayuki Shimazu 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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Patent number: 9528312Abstract: An active object detection sensor is provided which allows an installation worker to easily adjust a detection area, and further identify an optimum position of a guide mark in a touch detection area. The active object detection sensor used for opening/closing of automatic an opening/closing unit (3) includes: an object determination unit (52) that during an operation mode determines that an object is in a detection area (A) when a detection level of a detection beam received by a receiver (22) exceeds an operation threshold to output an object detection signal; and a detection level indication unit (43) that during an adjustment mode indicates the detection level of the detection beam received by the receiver (22).Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: OPTEX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Shimazu, Takayasu Ikeda, Kenta Shimoji, Takuya Maeda
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Patent number: 9207073Abstract: An optical divider is disposed, in front of at least one of the transmitter and receiver elements, therebetween, and at least one of a transmission and reception side, and has a plurality of optical dividing pieces each having an optical deflection surface on which an angle of a detection ray is varied to a plurality of angles for dividing the detection ray toward a plurality of division areas. The optical deflection surface on at least one of the transmission and reception side is set to have a given angle, to assign at least one of the detection ray from the transmitter elements and toward the receiver elements, to a given division area, such that a combination of the transmitter and receiver elements forming one of the division areas is different from a combination of the transmitter and receiver elements forming another one of the division areas.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: OPTEX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayasu Ikeda, Kiyofumi Fukuda, Kenta Shimoji, Masayuki Shimazu, Takuya Maeda
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Patent number: 9201144Abstract: Transmitter elements to transmit a detection ray for object detection, to a transmission area, receiver elements to receive, from a reception area, the detection ray reflected by an object, and a transmission-side optical divider and a reception-side optical divider, disposed in front of the transmitter elements and the receiver elements, respectively, which includes optical dividing pieces having optical deflection surfaces on which a traveling direction angle of the detection ray is varied to angles so as to correspond to division areas, are provided. In the optical dividers, a ratio of an area of a second optical deflection surface that forms a division area that is closer to the sensor, relative to an area of a first optical deflection surface that forms a division area that is farther from the sensor, is set so as to be different between a transmission side and a reception side.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: OPTEX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenta Shimoji, Takayasu Ikeda, Masayuki Shimazu, Takuya Maeda
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Publication number: 20150322707Abstract: An active object detection sensor is provided which allows an installation worker to easily adjust a detection area, and further identify an optimum position of a guide mark in a touch detection area. The active object detection sensor used for opening/closing of automatic an opening/closing unit (3) includes: an object determination unit (52) that during an operation mode determines that an object is in a detection area (A) when a detection level of a detection beam received by a receiver (22) exceeds an operation threshold to output an object detection signal; and a detection level indication unit (43) that during an adjustment mode indicates the detection level of the detection beam received by the receiver (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: OPTEX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki SHIMAZU, Takayasu IKEDA, Kenta SHIMOJI, Takuya MAEDA
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Publication number: 20150160339Abstract: Transmitter elements to transmit a detection ray for object detection, to a transmission area, receiver elements to receive, from a reception area, the detection ray reflected by an object, and a transmission-side optical divider and a reception-side optical divider, disposed in front of the transmitter elements and the receiver elements, respectively, which includes optical dividing pieces having optical deflection surfaces on which a traveling direction angle of the detection ray is varied to angles so as to correspond to division areas, are provided. In the optical dividers, a ratio of an area of a second optical deflection surface that forms a division area that is closer to the sensor, relative to an area of a first optical deflection surface that forms a division area that is farther from the sensor, is set so as to be different between a transmission side and a reception side.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2014Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: OPTEX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenta SHIMOJI, Takayasu IKEDA, Masayuki SHIMAZU, Takuya MAEDA
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Publication number: 20150153451Abstract: An optical divider is disposed, in front of at least one of the transmitter and receiver elements, therebetween, and at least one of a transmission and reception side, and has a plurality of optical dividing pieces each having an optical deflection surface on which an angle of a detection ray is varied to a plurality of angles for dividing the detection ray toward a plurality of division areas. The optical deflection surface on at least one of the transmission and reception side is set to have a given angle, to assign at least one of the detection ray from the transmitter elements and toward the receiver elements, to a given division area, such that a combination of the transmitter and receiver elements forming one of the division areas is different from a combination of the transmitter and receiver elements forming another one of the division areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: OPTEX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayasu IKEDA, Kiyofumi FUKUDA, Kenta SHIMOJI, Masayuki SHIMAZU, Takuya MAEDA
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Publication number: 20080162189Abstract: To enable a retail store that sells cosmetics to grasp the situations of its own customers who are cosmetics users precisely. An information management system includes a center side system, a plurality of store side systems and a plurality of member terminals both connected with the center side system, wherein the store side system has a function for collecting member information and a function for sending the collected information to the center side system, and the center side system has a function for storing the received information, and a function for extracting necessary information based on the request from the store side system or the member terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2006Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Akihide Hamano, Tomoko Fukuyama, Masayuki Shimazu
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Patent number: 6745190Abstract: In a member managing system including a plurality of store terminals provided to a plurality of stores, respectively, in which customers purchase a product and a server for managing member information of registered customers of the customer, the registered customer being registered as the members, the server centralizes and stores the member information sent from the plurality of stores for each of the members in the member information database and sends the member information stored in the member information database to a store of the plurality of stores based on the request from a store terminal of the store, the store terminal being one of the plurality of store terminals.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2001Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Shiseido Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Masuda, Takeshi Sato, Masayuki Shimazu
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Publication number: 20020087581Abstract: In a member managing system including a plurality of store terminals provided to a plurality of stores, respectively, in which customers purchase a product and a server for managing member information of registered customers of the customer, the registered customer being registered as the members, the server centralizes and stores the member information sent from the plurality of stores for each of the members in the member information database and sends the member information stored in the member information database to a store of the plurality of stores based on the request from a store terminal of the store, the store terminal being one of the plurality of store terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Shoji Masuda, Takeshi Sato, Masayuki Shimazu