Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Hashimoto

Mitsuhiro Hashimoto 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: 11961429
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a display panel, a reflective optical element, a controller, and an obtainer. The display panel displays a first image. The reflective optical element reflects image light from the first image displayed by the display panel. The controller controls a position at which the first image is displayed on the display panel. The obtainer obtains, as positional information, a position of an eye of a user. The controller changes the position at which the first image is displayed on the display panel in accordance with the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Mitsuhiro Murata, Sunao Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240086365
    Abstract: A data file generation apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry generates a data file. The circuitry writes the data file to an external storage area that is external to the data file generation apparatus. The circuitry writes identification information of the data file to the external storage area as deletion candidate information indicating a candidate for a file to be deleted. The circuitry deletes the deletion candidate information when the data file is successfully stored in the external storage area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro YASHIKI, Yuta HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11849542
    Abstract: A mounting head is configured to be detachably attached to a mounting device main body. This mounting head includes a storage section having multiple storage areas, and a storage control section configured to acquire multiple operation data relating to an operation of the mounting head individually at different timings and store the multiple operation data individually in the multiple storage areas in such a state that the mounting head is attached to the mounting device main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ito, Jun Iisaka, Mitsuhiro Hashimoto, Kazuma Hattori
  • Publication number: 20220269150
    Abstract: An illuminating unit for illuminating an imaging range of a monochromatic camera mounted on a board work machine for working on a board includes a red light source configured to emit a red light, a green light source configured to emit a green light, a blue light source configured to emit a blue light, and a lighting controller configured to adjust independently respective light amounts of the red light source, the green light source, and the blue light source in the same number of gradations within a predetermined dimming range. In the red light source, the green light source, and the blue light source, the upper limit of the dimming range of the light source having the strong light amount is smaller than the upper limit of the dimming range of the light source having the weak light amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220087088
    Abstract: A mounting head is configured to be detachably attached to a mounting device main body. This mounting head includes a storage section having multiple storage areas, and a storage control section configured to acquire multiple operation data relating to an operation of the mounting head individually at different timings and store the multiple operation data individually in the multiple storage areas in such a state that the mounting head is attached to the mounting device main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi ITO, Jun IISAKA, Mitsuhiro HASHIMOTO, Kazuma HATTORI
  • Patent number: 11143979
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus having a simple configuration capable of measuring a toner current included in a developing current and accurately calculating a toner charge amount based on the measurement result. A developing device has a developer carrier that carries a two-component developer including a magnetic carrier and toner. A developing voltage power supply applies a developing voltage obtained by superimposing an AC voltage on a DC voltage on the developer carrier. A control unit estimates a toner charge amount based on a toner current calculated by subtracting a carrier current from a developing current detected by a current detecting unit when a reference image is formed during non-image formation, and a toner developing amount calculated from the density of a reference image detected by a density detecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Shimizu, Mitsuhiro Hashimoto, Takahiro Okubo, Yohei Wakasa, Kazuhiro Nakachi
  • Patent number: 11067923
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a high-voltage generation circuit, a current detection portion and a control portion. The image forming portion includes an image carrying member, a charging device, an exposure device and a developing device which includes a developer carrying member for carrying a two-component developer. The control portion can perform a transfer memory prediction mode that includes a step of estimating, when a first reference image is formed, the level of occurrence of transfer memory based on the direct-current component of a development current flowing through the developer carrying member and a step of measuring, when the measured direct-current component of the development current is larger than a predetermined value, the amount of charge of the toner within the developing device and estimating the cause of occurrence of the transfer memory based on the measured amount of charge of the toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Shimizu, Takahiro Okubo, Mitsuhiro Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nakachi, Shiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20210149321
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus having a simple configuration capable of measuring a toner current included in a developing current and accurately calculating a toner charge amount based on the measurement result. A developing device has a developer carrier that carries a two-component developer including a magnetic carrier and toner. A developing voltage power supply applies a developing voltage obtained by superimposing an AC voltage on a DC voltage on the developer carrier. A control unit estimates a toner charge amount based on a toner current calculated by subtracting a carrier current from a developing current detected by a current detecting unit when a reference image is formed during non-image formation, and a toner developing amount calculated from the density of a reference image detected by a density detecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Shimizu, Mitsuhiro Hashimoto, Takahiro Okubo, Yohei Wakasa, Kazuhiro Nakachi
  • Patent number: 11012121
    Abstract: A wireless terminal includes: an antenna that receives a plurality of beams formed by a radio base station; and a power control unit that adjusts transmission power of an uplink signal transmitted from the antenna to the radio base station after beam switching, on the basis of a reception power difference between a downlink signal of a beam used before the beam switching and a downlink signal of a beam to be used after beam switching, the beam switching being switching of a beam used for communication with the radio base station among the beams formed by the radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Keijiro Take, Mitsuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10996585
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a high-voltage generation circuit, a current detection portion and a control portion. The image forming portion includes an image carrying member, a charging device, an exposure device and a developing device which includes a developer carrying member for carrying a developer including a carrier and a toner. The control portion can perform a development ghost prediction mode that includes a step of measuring the amount of charge of the toner within the developing device at the time of non-image formation, a step of measuring, as a carrier current, the direct-current component of a development current when the amount of development of the toner is 0 [mg/cm2] and a step of estimating the level of occurrence of development ghost and the cause of occurrence based on the amount of charge of the toner and the carrier current which are measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Shimizu, Mitsuhiro Hashimoto, Takahiro Okubo, Kazuhiro Nakachi, Shiro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10992376
    Abstract: The object is to provide a technique for predicting a time for performing maintenance of optical communication in an electronic component mounting device in which optical communication is performed. A controller in a time prediction process reads the voltage of an electrical signal from a storage section, calculates the slope with respect to time of the read voltage, and based on the amount of decrease with time of the voltage outputted from an AD converter, the time at which the voltage becomes to be equal to or less than a threshold value is calculated. The time at which the output value of the optical signal outputted from the mounting head will become equal to or less than the threshold value is then estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20210041808
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a high-voltage generation circuit, a current detection portion and a control portion. The image forming portion includes an image carrying member, a charging device, an exposure device and a developing device which includes a developer carrying member for carrying a two-component developer. The control portion can perform a transfer memory prediction mode that includes a step of estimating, when a first reference image is formed, the level of occurrence of transfer memory based on the direct-current component of a development current flowing through the developer carrying member and a step of measuring, when the measured direct-current component of the development current is larger than a predetermined value, the amount of charge of the toner within the developing device and estimating the cause of occurrence of the transfer memory based on the measured amount of charge of the toner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tamotsu SHIMIZU, Takahiro OKUBO, Mitsuhiro HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiro NAKACHI, Shiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20210041802
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a high-voltage generation circuit, a current detection portion and a control portion. The image forming portion includes an image carrying member, a charging device, an exposure device and a developing device which includes a developer carrying member for carrying a developer including a carrier and a toner. The control portion can perform a development ghost prediction mode that includes a step of measuring the amount of charge of the toner within the developing device at the time of non-image formation, a step of measuring, as a carrier current, the direct-current component of a development current when the amount of development of the toner is 0 [mg/cm2] and a step of estimating the level of occurrence of development ghost and the cause of occurrence based on the amount of charge of the toner and the carrier current which are measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tamotsu SHIMIZU, Mitsuhiro HASHIMOTO, Takahiro OKUBO, Kazuhiro NAKACHI, Shiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20200358526
    Abstract: The object is to provide a technique for predicting a time for performing maintenance of optical communication in an electronic component mounting device in which optical communication is performed. A controller in a time prediction process reads the voltage of an electrical signal from a storage section, calculates the slope with respect to time of the read voltage, and based on the amount of decrease with time of the voltage outputted from an AD converter, the time at which the voltage becomes to be equal to or less than a threshold value is calculated. The time at which the output value of the optical signal outputted from the mounting head will become equal to or less than the threshold value is then estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200112347
    Abstract: A wireless terminal includes: an antenna that receives a plurality of beams formed by a radio base station; and a power control unit that adjusts transmission power of an uplink signal transmitted from the antenna to the radio base station after beam switching, on the basis of a reception power difference between a downlink signal of a beam used before the beam switching and a downlink signal of a beam to be used after beam switching, the beam switching being switching of a beam used for communication with the radio base station among the beams formed by the radio base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Keijiro Take, Mitsuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10206320
    Abstract: A component mounter is provided with a characteristic value measuring device that measures a characteristic value of first component, and head that mounts each of first component and second component on board. Second component is a digital potentiometer provided with receiver section that receives information from head, variable resistance section for which the resistance is variable, and control section that controls the resistance value of variable resistance section. Head is provided with receiver section that receives information from characteristic value measuring device, sender section that sends information to second component, power source that supplies electric current to variable resistance section, memory section that memorizes the resistance value of second component according to the characteristic value of first component, and control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20170280600
    Abstract: A component mounter is provided with a characteristic value measuring device that measures a characteristic value of first component, and head that mounts each of first component and second component on board. Second component is a digital potentiometer provided with receiver section that receives information from head, variable resistance section for which the resistance is variable, and control section that controls the resistance value of variable resistance section. Head is provided with receiver section that receives information from characteristic value measuring device, sender section that sends information to second component, power source that supplies electric current to variable resistance section, memory section that memorizes the resistance value of second component according to the characteristic value of first component, and control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8520487
    Abstract: An element holding device of the present invention includes: a guide portion engaging with a guide shaft; a lens fixing portion on which to fix a collimator lens; an arm portion; an insertion portion having a hole portion in which to insert a guide shaft; a wire fixing portion made by protruding a side surface of the insertion portion in a ?Y direction; and a wire fixed on the wire fixing portion. A bent portion being a leading end portion of the wire is housed in a slit. Thereby, excess deformation of a contact portion is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignees: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., SANYO Optec Design Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Hashimoto, Koichi Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 8429681
    Abstract: An optical member driving apparatus comprising: a holding member configured to have an optical member mounted thereon; a driving unit assembly configured to be capable of driving the holding member; a connecting member configured to connect the holding member and the driving unit assembly; and a jointing member configured to joint the connecting member and either or both of the holding member and the driving unit assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Optec Design Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Hashimoto, Ryoichi Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20130039161
    Abstract: An element holding device of the present invention includes: a guide portion engaging with a guide shaft; a lens fixing portion on which to fix a collimator lens; an arm portion; an insertion portion having a hole portion in which to insert a guide shaft; a wire fixing portion made by protruding a side surface of the insertion portion in a ?Y direction; and a wire fixed on the wire fixing portion. A bent portion being a leading end portion of the wire is housed in a slit. Thereby, excess deformation of a contact portion is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicants: SANYO OPTEC DESIGN CO. LTD., SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro HASHIMOTO, Koichi MATSUYAMA