Patents by Inventor Naoki Hashimoto

Naoki 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).

  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTI-GLARE FILM, ANTI-GLARE FILM, COATING SOLUTION, POLARIZING PLATE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20140002899
    Abstract: A method for producing an anti-glare film, capable of controlling a flocculation state of particles without depending on flocculation characteristics of the particles and forming an anti-glare layer having desired surface asperities. A coating solution containing resin, particles, thixotropy-imparting agents, and a solvent and satisfying at least one of conditions (I) and (II) is coated on a translucent base and then sheared and cured, (I) a contribution ratio R2 is 0.95 or more in a linear approximate equation of the amount of thixotropy-imparting agents to be added and a Ti value in the range from 1.2 to 3.5, (II) a quadratic coefficient a is a negative value in a quadratic polynomial approximate equation, y=ax2+bx+c of the amount x of thixotropy-imparting agents to be added and a Ti value y in the range from 1.2 to 3.5, Ti value=?1/?2??(A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kishi, Masaki Ninomiya, Naoki Hashimoto, Hiroki Kuramoto, Hiroyuki Takemoto
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTI-GLARE FILM, ANTI-GLARE FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20140002901
    Abstract: A method for producing an anti-glare film, capable of widely and freely control a surface profile of the anti-glare film. The method including the steps of: coating a coating solution on at least one surface of a translucent base to form a coating layer; and curing the coating solution to form an anti-glare layer, wherein the coating solution contains a resin, particles, and a solvent, the method further includes the step of: shearing the coating solution coated on the translucent base, and a surface profile of the anti-glare film is adjusted by adjusting a shear distance of the coating layer, defined by the following equation (I) in the step of shearing, S=?Vdt??(I) V: shear velocity (m/s) t: shear holding time (s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Atsushi Kishi, Masaki Ninomiya, Naoki Hashimoto, Hiroki Kuramoto, Hiroyuki Takemoto
  • IMAGE DISPLAY, ANTI-GLARE FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTI-GLARE FILM
    Publication number: 20140002904
    Abstract: An image display having superior anti-glare properties, less glare, and a small reduction in contrast even though surface asperities of an anti-glare film are easily formed by filler flocculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Atsushi Kishi, Masaki Ninomiya, Naoki Hashimoto, Hiroki Kuramoto, Hiroyuki Takemoto
  • Hard-coated antiglare film, polarizing plate and image display including the same, and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 8591046
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hard-coated antiglare film that has an extremely low haze value, superior anti-fluorescent lamp glare properties, and anti-face glare properties, and can improve the depth of black in black display by preventing white blur from occurring. The hard-coated antiglare film: including a transparent plastic film substrate; and a hard-coating antiglare layer containing fine particles, and has a total haze value in a range of 0% to 5%. The number Ntotal of convexities and the number N50 of convexities satisfy the relationship 0.4?N50/Ntotal?0.8. And the number of convexities in which line segments of portions of the mean line that cross the convexities each have a length of 50 ?m or shorter, among convexities the exceed a second standard line that is parallel with the mean line and is located at a height of 0.2 ?m, is 10 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Hamamoto, Naoki Hashimoto, Hiroki Kuramoto
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 8565666
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a recording medium is fed by being switched between a first conveying path feeding a recording medium to a first image forming portion and a second conveying path feeding the recording medium to a second image forming portion without being enabled to pass through the first image forming portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Hashimoto
  • Utility vehicle
    Patent number: 8556331
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a vehicle body; a seat provided on the vehicle body; a pair of right and left entrances through which a user to be seated on the seat gets into and out of the vehicle, the entrances being provided at both sides of the vehicle body in a vehicle width direction; and a pair of right and left doors for opening and closing the pair of right and left entrances, respectively; each of the pair of right and left doors including a door body closing at least a portion of a corresponding entrance and a hinge for coupling the door body to the vehicle body such that the door body is rotatable around the hinge; and the door body including a door component which is substantially symmetric in shape in a rightward and leftward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Hidetoshi Kaku, Chad Enger, Kazuhiro Maeda, Naoki Hashimoto
  • IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130258387
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a receiving unit configured to receive a job from an external apparatus; an image processing unit configured to perform image processing on the basis of the job received by the receiving unit; and a control device. The control device configured to perform: an establishing process of establishing an allowance status in which the image processing apparatus is allowed to be designated as a job input destination from a user, with respect to the external apparatus; and a restricting process of restricting the image processing apparatus from being in the allowance status in a case where the image processing apparatus is in a restriction status in which the image processing is restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki HASHIMOTO
  • Printer and method for controlling the same
    Patent number: 8517617
    Abstract: A printer is provided that includes a double-side feeding path on which a first sheet is conveyed in a double-side printing operation, a manual feeding path on which a manually-fed second sheet is conveyed to a junction where the manual feeding path joins the double-side feeding path, a detector detecting the second sheet fed via the manual feeding path, and a controller configured to continue the double-side printing operation when the detector detects the second sheet during a continued-execution period, during which feeding of the second sheet is unlikely to have an influence on feeding of the first sheet even though the second sheet is fed via the manual feeding path in execution of the double-side printing operation. When the detector detects the second sheet outside the continued-execution period, the controller stops the double-side printing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Hashimoto
  • Driving method and driving apparatus for optical modulator, and optical transmitter using same
    Patent number: 8483576
    Abstract: A driving apparatus supplies a drive signal to an optical modulator corresponding to a phase modulation format, and also, divides a part of an output light from the optical modulator; extracts some optical component of the divided light, which is distant from a carrier frequency by integral multiple of a modulation frequency, to detect a power of the optical component; and feedback controls a duty ratio of the drive signal or a cross-point level thereof so that the detected power approaches a minimum value. Thus, it is possible to stably perform phase modulation with high precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shinji Yamashita, Naoki Hashimoto
  • SERVER AND METHOD FOR THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130135675
    Abstract: A server is provided that includes a connection establishing unit configured to establish a connection with an intended image processing device, an information acquiring unit configured to acquire user information for identifying a user who requests to establish the connection with the intended image processing device, a storage unit configured to store the user information acquired by the information acquiring unit, in association with the intended image processing device, and a changing unit configured to change a setting for each image processing device belonging to a group that includes image processing devices stored in the storage unit in association with user information identical to the acquired user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventor: Naoki HASHIMOTO
  • PRINTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130027717
    Abstract: A printing device includes an acquiring section, a determining section, a selecting section, and a printing section. The acquiring section is configured to access, based on reference information, a reference location on a network and to acquire print data from the reference location. The determining section is configured to determine whether the print data are constituted by a plurality of frames. The selecting section is configured to select at least one of the plurality of frames as a print target based on a user instruction when the determining section determines that the print data are constituted by the plurality of frames, and to select a single frame as the print target when the determining section determines that the print data are constituted by the single frame. The printing section is configured to print the print target selected by the selecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki HASHIMOTO
  • Transmission method of WDM light and WDM optical transmission system
    Patent number: 8331786
    Abstract: According to the WDM optical transmission system, for optical signals of respective wavelength in a WDM light propagated through a transmission path, a spectrum component at a center wavelength of each optical signal and a spectrum component in the vicinity of the center wavelength thereof are selectively attenuated by a spectrum correction optical filter, so that the WDM light is transmitted in a state where intensity of sideband components in the spectrum of each optical signal is relatively increased. As a result, even if spectrum width of the optical signal of each wavelength is limited when the WDM light passes through the band-limiting device on the transmission path, degradation of transmission characteristics caused by the attenuation of sideband components is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Naoki Hashimoto
  • Optical signal processing apparatus
    Patent number: 8331779
    Abstract: An OADM in a wavelength division multiplexing transmission system includes a wavelength selection switch that selects a predetermined wavelength from a multiple optical signal obtained by multiplexing a phase modulated signal and an intensity modulated signal and outputs the selected wavelength signal to a predetermined output port. The wavelength selection switch has a different delay for each wavelength of the multiple optical signal. For example, the wavelength selection switch includes a mirror array. Optical paths from the surfaces of mirrors arranged on the mirror array to the diffraction grating are different in the case of adjacent mirrors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroki Ooi, Akira Miura, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Naoki Hashimoto
  • Printing apparatus with data decryption
    Patent number: 8319990
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a data reading unit that reads data from a storage device that can store pieces of data, the data reading unit being connectable to the storage device, an input panel that accepts an input a password used to decrypt encrypted data stored in the storage device, a password storing unit that stores the input password, a data decrypting unit that decrypts the encrypted data by using the stored password, a decrypted data storing unit that temporarily stores the decrypted data, and a re-decrypting unit that decrypts other encrypted data stored in the storage device by using the stored password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sadaaki Miyazaki, Naoki Hashimoto, Norio Mizutani
  • PACKET TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND PACKET RECEPTION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20120275324
    Abstract: This invention provides a simultaneous packet transmission system and a simultaneous packet reception system which enable a reception side to receive simultaneous packets without transmitting a retransmission request to retransmit discarded simultaneous packets even if part of simultaneous packets are discarded. A wireless LAN base station multicasts a simultaneous packet which is obtained by allocating a sequence number to a LAN packet a plurality of times. If a wireless LAN terminal receives the same simultaneous packets a plurality of times, the wireless LAN terminal discards duplicated simultaneous packets and leaves only one simultaneous packet. Since the simultaneous packet is multicast a plurality of times, the wireless LAN terminal can receive the simultaneous packet as long as all the same simultaneous packets are not lost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Naoki Hashimoto, Yoshikazu Kobayashi
  • IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120269562
    Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes a belt member for heating in a nip an image formed on a recording material; an urging portion, contacted to an inner surface of the belt member, for forming the nip; a guide portion, contacted to the inner surface of the belt member at an end portion, for guiding rotation of the belt member; a belt unit, including at least the belt member, the urging member and the guide portion, integrally detachably mountable to the image heating apparatus, wherein the belt member is detachably mountable to the belt unit; a frame for supporting the belt unit; and a limiting portion, provided on the frame, for limiting the belt member by abutment to an edge of the belt member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Hashimoto
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120243926
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a recording medium is fed by being switched between a first conveying path feeding a recording medium to a first image forming portion and a second conveying path feeding the recording medium to a second image forming portion without being enabled to pass through the first image forming portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Hashimoto
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120218597
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a receiving unit; a printing unit; a power feed unit including a non-power saving mode and a power saving mode, the power feed unit configured to change the mode; an input unit configured to receive an input of a switching instruction; a switching unit configured to switch the mode from the non-power saving mode to the power saving mode when a stop condition is satisfied, the switching unit configured to switch the mode when the switching instruction is input; and a change unit configured to change the stop condition to a second condition which is more likely not to be satisfied than a first condition, after the mode is changed from the non-power saving mode to the power saving mode and when the mode is switched from the power saving mode to the non-power saving mode by the switching instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki HASHIMOTO
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 8253965
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an input unit which inputs a keyword; a preparation unit which prepares list data relating to a print file containing the keyword among a plurality of print files stored in a storage unit; and a printing unit that prints a list based on the list data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Mizutani, Kousuke Fukaya, Naoki Hashimoto
  • Truck
    Patent number: D675960
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Hashimoto, Norikazu Matsumura