Patents by Inventor Naoki Hoshino

Naoki Hoshino 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: 11900440
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, the controller of a commodity pickup apparatus obtains information related to a commodity to be picked up and the number of pieces thereof. Further, the controller detects a fact that a commodity picked up is put in the accommodation portion and commodity information of the commodity put in the accommodation portion, on the basis of an image obtained by imaging the accommodation portion. The display device of the commodity pickup apparatus identifies the commodity to be picked up as a commodity picked up, a commodity to be picked up next, or a commodity not yet picked up and displays the commodity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Mayuko Tsunoda, Shota Konishi, Yumiko Okuma, Kanya Hiroi
  • Patent number: 11879492
    Abstract: To reduce the load required to press-fit a nut into a plate material, the nut includes a base part 2 provided with a female screw 18, a cylindrical protrusion part 3 protruding from one surface of the base part and a plurality of foot parts 4 protruding from an outer peripheral surface side of the protrusion part. An end of the respective foot parts closer to the protrusion part is formed so that a width gradually expands from a tip end side toward a protrusion part side, and that both outer sides of the end are arc-shaped in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Matsunami, Kazuhiro Koga, Tsuyoshi Kojima, Naoki Hoshino, Takuya Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230214907
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, the controller of a commodity pickup apparatus obtains information related to a commodity to be picked up and the number of pieces thereof. Further, the controller detects a fact that a commodity picked up is put in the accommodation portion and commodity information of the commodity put in the accommodation portion, on the basis of an image obtained by imaging the accommodation portion. The display device of the commodity pickup apparatus identifies the commodity to be picked up as a commodity picked up, a commodity to be picked up next, or a commodity not yet picked up and displays the commodity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki HOSHINO, Mayuko TSUNODA, Shota KONISHI, Yumiko OKUMA, Kanya HIROI
  • Publication number: 20220172140
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, the server device includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device stores a product master. The processor stores customer information and product information related to a customer order in the storage device, assembles a collection and delivery route for one or more target products based on both store information related to one or more stores where the target products are available and the customer information and assigns collection and delivery personnel. The processor sends a server order of the target products to the stores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Yumiko Okuma, Mayuko Tsunoda, Shota Konishi, Naoki Hoshino, Kanya Hiroi
  • Publication number: 20220172275
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, the controller of a commodity pickup apparatus obtains information related to a commodity to be picked up and the number of pieces thereof. Further, the controller detects a fact that a commodity picked up is put in the accommodation portion and commodity information of the commodity put in the accommodation portion, on the basis of an image obtained by imaging the accommodation portion. The display device of the commodity pickup apparatus identifies the commodity to be picked up as a commodity picked up, a commodity to be picked up next, or a commodity not yet picked up and displays the commodity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Naoki HOSHINO, Mayuko TSUNODA, Shota KONISHI, Yumiko OKUMA, Kanya HIROI
  • Patent number: 11242882
    Abstract: The staking bolt of the present invention includes a head 10 and a shank 11 having an external thread 12. At the upper end of the shank 11, a ring-shaped protrusion 20 and a ring groove 21 located closer to the head relative to the ring-shaped protrusion 20 are formed. The head 10 is flat, and on the bearing face 13, a whirl-stop protrusion 14 having a plurality of radially extending arms 15 protrudes with a thickness of t. The minimum diameter D between respective arms 15 is larger than the outer diameter d of the ring-shaped protrusion 20, and t×(D?d)/2 which is the longitudinal cross-sectional area A of the minimum diameter portion of the whirl-stop protrusion 14 is equal to or greater than the longitudinal cross-sectional area of the ring groove 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Kazuhiro Koga, Yukinori Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20210115961
    Abstract: To reduce the load required to press-fit a nut into a plate material, the nut includes a base part 2 provided with a female screw 18, a cylindrical protrusion part 3 protruding from one surface of the base part and a plurality of foot parts 4 protruding from an outer peripheral surface side of the protrusion part. An end of the respective foot parts closer to the protrusion part is formed so that a width gradually expands from a tip end side toward a protrusion part side, and that both outer sides of the end are arc-shaped in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: AOYAMA SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki MATSUNAMI, Kazuhiro KOGA, Tsuyoshi KOJIMA, Naoki HOSHINO, Takuya YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10655666
    Abstract: There is provided a caulking bolt which can be fastened by a general nut even when used to fix thin plates to each other, and which can also provide fitting strength similar to that of conventional products. The caulking bolt includes a head part and a shaft part, and has a non-circular, flat, rotation preventive protrusion formed on a seat surface of the head part. Also, the upper end of a normal complete thread part formed in the shaft part is brought close to the seat surface of the head part with a distance of 3 pitches or less, and an incomplete thread part formed at the portion of 3 pitches or less is used as a stopper part into which a metal flows when the caulking bolt is driven into a metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Toshiya Ohta, Mitsuki Yoshida, Tomoyuki Fukuchi, Shigeki Matsunami, Yukinori Fujimoto, Jun Omura
  • Patent number: 10569373
    Abstract: There are provided a bolt caulking method and a bolt caulking device which ensure supply and caulking of a bolt as a single operation. The method is a bolt caulking method including supplying a bolt into a nose piece having a vertical hole, and lowering a punch from above to drive the bolt into a metal plate. The bolt is supplied through a pipe connected to a side of the nose piece, and dropped into a vertical hole formed in the nose piece along an inclined hole formed at a tip end of the pipe with a head part of the bolt being located on the topside. Thereafter, the punch which ejects air from a central hole is lowered within the vertical hole to drive the bolt into a metal plate while holding the bolt at a lower part of the vertical hole by the ejecting air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Toshiya Mori, Yukinori Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20200011365
    Abstract: The staking bolt of the present invention includes a head 10 and a shank 11 having an external thread 12. At the upper end of the shank 11, a ring-shaped protrusion 20 and a ring groove 21 located closer to the head relative to the ring-shaped protrusion 20 are formed. The head 10 is flat, and on the bearing face 13, a whirl-stop protrusion 14 having a plurality of radially extending arms 15 protrudes with a thickness oft. The minimum diameter D between respective arms 15 is larger than the outer diameter d of the ring-shaped protrusion 20, and t×(D?d)/2 which is the longitudinal cross-sectional area A of the minimum diameter portion of the whirl-stop protrusion 14 is equal to or greater than the longitudinal cross-sectional area of the ring groove 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: AOYAMA SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki HOSHINO, Kazuhiro Koga, Yukinori Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20180266475
    Abstract: There is provided a caulking bolt which can be fastened by a general nut even when used to fix thin plates to each other, and which can also provide fitting strength similar to that of conventional products. The caulking bolt includes a head part 11 and a shaft part 12, and has a non-circular, flat, rotation preventive protrusion 14 formed on a seat surface 13 of the head part. Also, the upper end of a normal complete thread part 17 formed in the shaft part 12 is brought close to the seat surface 13 of the head part with a distance of 3 pitches or less, and an incomplete thread part 18 formed at the portion of 3 pitches or less is used as a stopper part into which a metal flows when the caulking bolt is driven into a metal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: AOYAMA SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki HOSHINO, Toshiya OHTA, Mitsuki YOSHIDA, Tomoyuki FUKUCHI, Shigeki MATSUNAMI, Yukinori FUJIMOTO, Jun OMURA
  • Publication number: 20170304969
    Abstract: There are provided a bolt caulking method and a bolt caulking device which ensure supply and caulking of a bolt as a single operation. The method is a bolt caulking method including supplying a bolt into a nose piece having a vertical hole, and lowering a punch from above to drive the bolt into a metal plate. The bolt is supplied through a pipe connected to a side of the nose piece, and dropped into a vertical hole formed in the nose piece along an inclined hole formed at a tip end of the pipe with a head part of the bolt being located on the topside. Thereafter, the punch which ejects air from a central hole is lowered within the vertical hole to drive the bolt into a metal plate while holding the bolt at a lower part of the vertical hole by the ejecting air flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: AOYAMA SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki HOSHINO, Toshiya MORI, Yukinori FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9134939
    Abstract: There is provided a technique to contribute to an improvement in convenience of a setting screen for performing setting for a function capable of being executed by an image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Yuko Kimoto
  • Publication number: 20150112833
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a shopping support system has a plurality of customer terminals and a center server. The customer terminal has an input acceptance unit and a customer terminal controller. The input acceptance unit accepts an input of a candidate commodity to become a purchase candidate. The customer terminal controller transmits purchase schedule information including the candidate commodity to the center server. The center server has a center server controller. The center server controller receives the purchase schedule information transmitted from the customer terminal controller, and notifies a store to sell the candidate commodity included in the received purchase schedule information, of the candidate commodity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Yasutsugu SASAKI, Kanya HIROI, Mahina NAKAMURA, Maki SATO, Yumiko OKUMA, Naoki HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 8970058
    Abstract: For reducing a storage capacity of a storage battery system and an installation cost at a constant-output control type of wind power plant, a wind power generation control device sets as a planned generation power value PT: an average wind generated power value PA, when a current battery charging rate SOC of the storage battery system is within the range of the upper and lower limit values of the targeted battery charging rate range SOCT (S12); a value obtained by multiplying a positive constant greater than 1 to the said PA, when the current battery charging rate SOC is above the upper limit value of the said SOCT (S14): and a value obtained by multiplying a positive constant less than 1 to the said PA, when the current battery charging rate SOC is below the lower limit value of the said SOCT (S15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yugo Hoshihira, Naoki Hoshino, Masaya Takahashi, Shinichi Kondou, Nobuhiro Kusuno
  • Patent number: 8849144
    Abstract: In a case where a display unit displays a setting screen having a first display area to display a draft graphical image in accordance with draft setting and a second display area to display a finished graphical image in accordance with sheet setting, and a user designates a position to be stapled, a staple region mark is superimposed and displayed on a region corresponding to the position to be stapled in the draft graphical image in accordance with the draft setting, and a staple position mark is superimposed and displayed on a position corresponding to the position to be stapled in the finished graphical image in accordance with the sheet setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Yuko Kimoto
  • Patent number: 8670162
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a facsimile job managing apparatus includes a storing unit, a storage control unit, a history-display-user-interface providing unit, and a transmission processing unit. The storage control unit causes the storing unit to store image data transmitted by facsimile and the outcome of the facsimile transmission processing in association with each other. The history-display-user-interface providing unit provides a client terminal with a history display user interface for acquiring the image data transmitted by facsimile and the outcome of the facsimile transmission processing from the storing unit, displaying a thumbnail image of the image data transmitted by facsimile and outcome information indicating the outcome of the facsimile transmission processing in association with each other, and displaying a retransmission button in association with a thumbnail image of image data unsuccessfully transmitted by facsimile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20140042747
    Abstract: For reducing a storage capacity of a storage battery system and an installation cost at a constant-output control type of wind power plant, a wind power generation control device sets as a planned generation power value PT: an average wind generated power value PA, when a current battery charging rate SOC of the storage battery system is within the range of the upper and lower limit values of the targeted battery charging rate range SOCT (S12); a value obtained by multiplying a positive constant greater than 1 to the said PA, when the current battery charging rate SOC is above the upper limit value of the said SOCT (S14): and a value obtained by multiplying a positive constant less than 1 to the said PA, when the current battery charging rate SOC is below the lower limit value of the said SOCT (S15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yugo HOSHIHIRA, Naoki HOSHINO, Masaya TAKAHASHI, Shinichi KONDOU, Nobuhiro KUSUNO
  • Patent number: 8575886
    Abstract: A power storage apparatus is installed in connection with a power generation system using natural energy generation power. The power storage apparatus is comprised of a control unit and a plurality of electricity storage devices. The control unit is structured to calculate a target value of power station output, to calculate a charge and discharge power instruction of each of the plurality of electricity storage devices, and to instruct the charge and discharge. The control unit calculates a correction value of the charge and discharge power to be charged and discharged by the power storage apparatus to permit the charge rate of the plurality of secondary batteries to follow an individual charge rate target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Engineering & Services Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Oohara, Naoki Hoshino, Masaki Rikitake
  • Patent number: 8369732
    Abstract: An operation device of an image forming apparatus, a display method, and an image forming apparatus. A display unit displays a basic screen including a setting information display area to display setting information and a button display area in which an icon is displayed as a setting button screen. A touch panel detects a contact position on a display screen of the display unit. A display control unit displays, on the display unit, a selection screen including a plurality of options corresponding to a setting particular of the icon displayed in a position where a contact is detected by the touch panel, displays a result selected in the selection screen as new setting information in the setting information display area in the basic screen, and displays a triangular graphic which associates the icon with the setting information corresponding to the setting particular of the icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuko Kimoto, Naoki Hoshino