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).
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Patent number: 11900440Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Hoshino, Mayuko Tsunoda, Shota Konishi, Yumiko Okuma, Kanya Hiroi
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Patent number: 11879492Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeki Matsunami, Kazuhiro Koga, Tsuyoshi Kojima, Naoki Hoshino, Takuya Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230214907Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Naoki HOSHINO, Mayuko TSUNODA, Shota KONISHI, Yumiko OKUMA, Kanya HIROI
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SERVER DEVICE FOR COLLECTION AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND COLLECTION AND DELIVERY CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
Publication number: 20220172140Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Yumiko Okuma, Mayuko Tsunoda, Shota Konishi, Naoki Hoshino, Kanya Hiroi -
Publication number: 20220172275Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Naoki HOSHINO, Mayuko TSUNODA, Shota KONISHI, Yumiko OKUMA, Kanya HIROI
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Patent number: 11242882Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Kazuhiro Koga, Yukinori Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20210115961Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: AOYAMA SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeki MATSUNAMI, Kazuhiro KOGA, Tsuyoshi KOJIMA, Naoki HOSHINO, Takuya YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 10655666Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Toshiya Ohta, Mitsuki Yoshida, Tomoyuki Fukuchi, Shigeki Matsunami, Yukinori Fujimoto, Jun Omura
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Patent number: 10569373Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Toshiya Mori, Yukinori Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20200011365Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: AOYAMA SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki HOSHINO, Kazuhiro Koga, Yukinori Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20180266475Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: AOYAMA SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki HOSHINO, Toshiya OHTA, Mitsuki YOSHIDA, Tomoyuki FUKUCHI, Shigeki MATSUNAMI, Yukinori FUJIMOTO, Jun OMURA
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Publication number: 20170304969Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: AOYAMA SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki HOSHINO, Toshiya MORI, Yukinori FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 9134939Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Hoshino, Yuko Kimoto
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Publication number: 20150112833Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Yasutsugu SASAKI, Kanya HIROI, Mahina NAKAMURA, Maki SATO, Yumiko OKUMA, Naoki HOSHINO
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Patent number: 8970058Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yugo Hoshihira, Naoki Hoshino, Masaya Takahashi, Shinichi Kondou, Nobuhiro Kusuno
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Patent number: 8849144Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Hoshino, Yuko Kimoto
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Patent number: 8670162Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Naoki Hoshino
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Publication number: 20140042747Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yugo HOSHIHIRA, Naoki HOSHINO, Masaya TAKAHASHI, Shinichi KONDOU, Nobuhiro KUSUNO
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Patent number: 8575886Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 10, 2009Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Engineering & Services Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Oohara, Naoki Hoshino, Masaki Rikitake
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Patent number: 8369732Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 5, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuko Kimoto, Naoki Hoshino