Patents by Inventor Michiaki Shinotsuka

Michiaki Shinotsuka 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: 20160218815
    Abstract: An information distribution system includes a sound wave transmitter, a mobile terminal, and an information distribution device. The sound wave transmitter transmits identification information to identify the sound wave transmitter. The mobile terminal receives the identification information and transmits the identification information to the information distribution device. The information distribution device is configured to transmit distribution information related to the identification information received from the mobile terminal to the mobile terminal. The information distribution device counts a number of the mobile terminal that transmits each identification information every predetermined period and identification information and transmits the distribution information to the mobile terminal that transmits the identification information in which the number of the mobile terminal reaches a predetermined number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuyuki NAKAMURA, Tsutomu KAWASE, Michiaki SHINOTSUKA, Fumihiko ITOH
  • Publication number: 20160218817
    Abstract: An information distribution system includes an information distribution apparatus, a sound wave generator that outputs a sound wave including first identification information, and a terminal that transmits an information distribution request. The information distribution apparatus includes a determining unit and a distribution control unit. When a distance between a location of the sound wave generator identified from the first identification information included in a first information distribution request received at a first time and a location of the sound wave generator identified from the first identification information included in a second information distribution request received at a second time prior to the first time is a threshold or less, the determining unit determines that the second identification information included in the first information distribution request is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuyuki NAKAMURA, Tsutomu KAWASE, Fumihiko ITOH, Michiaki SHINOTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20160044419
    Abstract: An energy conversion apparatus including a permanent magnet fixed to a predetermined region; and a diaphragm arranged on the permanent magnet, the diaphragm including a coil having a conductor wire pattern formed on the diaphragm, wherein the diaphragm includes a slit formed in the diaphragm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Michiaki SHINOTSUKA, Tsutomu KAWASE
  • Publication number: 20150222370
    Abstract: A novel positional information transmission system includes a plurality of positional information transmission units. The positional information transmission unit includes a close-range wireless communication unit that performs close-range wireless communication and a sonic wave transmission unit that transmits positional information as a sonic signal used for detecting a position of a receiver that receives the sonic signal based on information transmitted by the close-range wireless communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Michiaki SHINOTSUKA, Tsutomu KAWASE
  • Patent number: 8986567
    Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic body composition, including a resin and a magnetic nanoparticle, the magnetic nanoparticle including an oxide of at least one kind of metal selected from the group composed of Ga, Zn, and Sn and an FeCo oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Michiaki Shinotsuka
  • Publication number: 20150071483
    Abstract: An energy converter includes a permanent magnet and a diaphragm. The permanent magnet is fixed to a predetermined area. The diaphragm is disposed on the permanent magnet and has a coil formed of a conductor pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki SHINOTSUKA, Tsutomu KAWASE
  • Publication number: 20150003661
    Abstract: Provided is an energy conversion apparatus including a diaphragm on which a coil of a lead pattern is formed, a magnet substrate configured to generate a magnetic field towards the coil on the diaphragm, and a magnetic film configured to generate magnetic force between the magnetic film and the magnet substrate to support the diaphragm therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Michiaki SHINOTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20130306903
    Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic body composition, including a resin and a magnetic nanoparticle, the magnetic nanoparticle including an oxide of at least one kind of metal selected from the group composed of Ga, Zn, and Sn and an FeCo oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Michiaki Shinotsuka
  • Patent number: 8449965
    Abstract: A multilayer optical recording medium including at least multiple information layers each having at least a phase change recording layer capable of recording information by laser irradiation and a reflection layer, wherein each information layer other than the innermost information layer as seen from a side of the laser irradiation has at least a lower protection layer, the phase change recording layer, an upper protection layer, the reflection layer and an optical transmission layer, the upper protection layer and the optical transmission layer in each information layer other than the innermost information layer as seen from the side of the laser irradiation are composed of an Sn oxide-containing material and a thickness of the upper protection layer in each information layer other than the innermost information layer as seen from the side of the laser irradiation is 2 nm to 15 nm is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi, Michiaki Shinotsuka, Masaru Shinkai, Eiko Hibino
  • Patent number: 8084113
    Abstract: A multi-layered phase-change optical recording medium having a first substrate and a second substrate, and a plurality of information layers, wherein each of thermal diffusion layers of information layers other than an information layer disposed at the innermost side as viewed from the first substrate side has In oxide, Zn oxide, Sn oxide and Si oxide, and when the contents of thereof are represented by “a”, “b”, “c” and “d” [mol %] respectively, the following requirements are satisfied, and when the refractive index of the first and second substrates was represented by “n”, the laser light wavelength is represented by “?” and the depth of the groove guide of the first and second substrates is represented by H, the H satisfied the following requirement, 3?a?50 0?d?30 a+b+c+d=100 ?/17n?H??/11.5n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi, Michiaki Shinotsuka, Masaru Shinkai, Masaki Kato
  • Patent number: 8034426
    Abstract: A two-layered optical recording medium which includes a first substrate, a first information layer, a second information layer, and a second substrate formed in this order as viewed from the light beam irradiation side, the first information layer includes a first lower dielectric layer, a first recording layer, a first upper dielectric layer, a first reflective layer, and an inorganic dielectric layer formed in this order as viewed from the light beam irradiation side; the second information layer includes a second lower dielectric layer, a second recording layer, a second upper dielectric layer, and a second reflective layer formed in this order as viewed from the light beam irradiation side; and the first reflective layer is made of Cu with a content of 99.8% by mass to 95.0% by mass and one or more metals selected from Ta, Nb, Zr, Ni, Cr, Ge, Au, and Mo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Shinkai, Michiaki Shinotsuka, Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi, Masaki Kato
  • Patent number: 8000198
    Abstract: A dual-layer structure phase-change type optical recording medium includes a substrate (1), a reflective layer (2), a first protective layer (3), a first recording layer (4), a second protective layer (5), a resin intermediate layer (6), a third protective layer (7), a heat release layer (8) made of Cu or a Cu alloy, a fourth protective layer (9), a second recording layer (10), a fifth protective layer (11) and a cover substrate (12). A product of a reflectance of a high-reflection part and a modulation after recording is a value equal to or higher than a lower limit value for reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Shinotsuka, Masaru Shinkai, Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi, Eiko Hibino, Masaki Kato, Katsuyuki Yamada, Masahiko Nakayama
  • Patent number: 7920454
    Abstract: An optical recording medium wherein a laser beam at a wavelength ? is irradiated and recording and reproducing of information are performed by optical power modulation of binary or more, and when the refraction index of the first substrate being n1, the refraction index of the intermediate layer being n2, the groove depth, the groove width and the track pitch of the first information layer being d1, w1 and p1 respectively and the groove depth, the groove width and the track pitch of the second information layer being d2, w2 and p2 respectively, the following conditions are satisfied. 4?/16n1?d1?7?/16n1 ?/16n2?d2?3?/16n2 or 4?/16n2?d2?7?/16n2 0.2?w1/p1?0.55 0.2?w2/p2?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Iwasa, Michiaki Shinotsuka, Masaru Shinkai
  • Patent number: 7894315
    Abstract: A method of recording information using a laser on a multilayer optical disk having a plurality of recording layers is provided. The plurality of recording layers include a first recording layer and a second recording layer adjacent the first recording layer. The first recording layer is provided with a first test writing area to be used for calibration of write power, and the second recording layer is provided with a second test writing area to be used for calibration of write power. The disk is arranged so that a first region of the first test writing area is superposed with a second region of the second test writing area when considered in the direction in which the laser is arranged to irradiate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Kato, Katsuyuki Yamada, Kazunori Ito, Michiaki Shinotsuka, Eiko Hibino, Masaru Shinkai, Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 7848196
    Abstract: A power determining method is disclosed for determining the light emitting power of a light source upon recording information on an optical disk having plural rewritable recording layers, the method involving obtaining an optimum erasing power with respect to an optimum recording power by recording test data on the optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi, Michiaki Shinotsuka, Masaru Shinkai, Eiko Hibino, Masaki Kato, Katsuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 7773478
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an recording method for a multi-layered optical recording medium including M phase change recording layers, with M?2. The method comprises recording a mark in a Kth one of said recording layers by using a laser to irradiate the Kth recording layer using a recording pulse train including a plurality of laser beam pulses. The recording pulse train for the Kth recording layer has a cycle of t(K)[T], the 1st recording layer is the recording layer closest the laser beam, and the Mth recording layer is the recording layer furthest from the laser beam, T is a clock cycle. The following relationship is satisfied: t(1)<t(M), and the cycle of recording pulse train does not decrease from one recording layer to the next recording layer in the direction in which the laser beam irradiates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiko Hibino, Hiroshi Miura, Kazunori Ito, Makoto Harigaya, Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi, Michiaki Shinotsuka, Masaru Shinkai, Masaki Kato, Katsuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 7767284
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an optical recording medium which comprises a substrate, and a first information layer and a second information layer disposed on the substrate, and an intermediate layer disposed between the first information layer and the second information layer, wherein any one of recording and reproducing is performed in the first information layer and the second information layer by irradiating a laser beam from the first information layer side, the second information layer comprises a protective layer, a second dye layer which comprises an organic dye, an oxidized layer, and a reflective layer in this order from the laser beam irradiation side, and the oxidized layer comprises an oxide which is a material constituting the reflective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Shinotsuka, Masaru Shinkai, Hiroyuki Iwasa, Tatsuo Mikami, Yuki Nakamura, Tohru Yashiro
  • Publication number: 20090286036
    Abstract: A multi-layered phase-change optical recording medium having a first substrate and a second substrate, and a plurality of information layers, wherein each of thermal diffusion layers of information layers other than an information layer disposed at the innermost side as viewed from the first substrate side has In oxide, Zn oxide, Sn oxide and Si oxide, and when the contents of thereof are represented by “a”, “b”, “c” and “d” [mol %] respectively, the following requirements are satisfied, and when the refractive index of the first and second substrates was represented by “n”, the laser light wavelength is represented by “?” and the depth of the groove guide of the first and second substrates is represented by H, the H satisfied the following requirement, 3?a?50 0?d?30 a+b+c+d=100 ?/17n?H??/11.5n.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi, Michiaki Shinotsuka, Masaru Shinkai, Masaki Kato
  • Patent number: 7613091
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to enable the identification of double-layer disc type (recordable double-layer disc, rewritable double-layer disc and ROM-type double-layer disc) to be easily and accurately performed. The method for identifying double-layer disc contains obtaining a reflectance of each light by irradiating light of different wavelengths under focused state to each layer of a double-layer disc loaded in an optical apparatus, and identifying if the double-layer disc is a recordable double-layer disc, a rewritable double-layer disc or a ROM-type double-layer disc corresponding to the combination of reflectance of each obtained light. It is preferable that the wavelength of one light is a wavelength for DVD-based disc and the wavelength of the other light is a wavelength for CD-based disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Shinotsuka, Hiroyuki Iwasa, Masaru Shinkai
  • Patent number: 7601481
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a multilayer phase-change information recording medium comprises a substrate, and N layers of information layer (N represents an integral number of 2 or more), and each of the information layers comprises at least a recording layer in which information is recorded by irradiating laser beam to induce a phase change between crystalline phase and amorphous phase. The present invention is characterized in that when the information layer is disposed so that a first information layer, a second information layer, a third information layer . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Shinkai, Michiaki Shinotsuka, Hiroyuki Iwasa