Patents by Inventor Naoki Maeda

Naoki Maeda 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: 20240116274
    Abstract: An inorganic substrate/polymer film laminate with an attached protective film that allows for easy individual removal even when stored in a stacked state for a long period of time is provided. A first laminate is characterized by including an inorganic substrate, a polymer film layer and a first protective film, in that order, wherein the surface roughness Ra of the surface of the inorganic substrate opposite of the polymer film layer is 0.02-1.2 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaya TOKUDA, Satoshi MAEDA, Tetsuo OKUYAMA, Naoki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240089643
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a reproduction system, a display apparatus, and a reproduction apparatus for providing higher acoustic performance. There is provided a reproduction system including a display apparatus including a display section configured to display an image of content, and a first sound output section configured to output a sound of the content in a manner localizing a sound image on a screen of the display section, and a reproduction apparatus including a processing section configured to process an audio signal of the content, and a second sound output section configured to output the sound of the content, in which the first sound output section and the second sound output section output the sound simultaneously on the basis of an audio signal of a center channel of the content. This disclosure may be applied to an AV system formed by a television receiver and audio equipment, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa TAGAMI, Masahiko HORIUCHI, Hiroshi MASUDA, Yusuke MASUDA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Natsuko MAEDA, Takayuki NEGISHI, Naoki SAITO
  • Patent number: 11892050
    Abstract: An anti-vibration device including an outer cylinder 10; a shaft member 20 that is provided in the outer cylinder 10; and an elastic member 40 that links the outer cylinder 10 and the shaft member 20, in which the shaft member 20 has an inner cylinder and four stopper portions 30a to 30d that protrudes from a circumferential surface of the inner cylinder toward the outer cylinder 10 and that are mutually provided at intervals in a circumferential direction, and in which the elastic member 40 links the outer cylinder 10 and the shaft member 20 at a position between stopper portions that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Prospira Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20240010072
    Abstract: When the power source and the electric device are required to be conductive, on condition that the elapsed time from output of the signal for making the positive electrode relay conductive is a predetermined time or more, the positive electrode advance control for outputting a signal for making the negative electrode relay conductive, and the power source and the electric device conductive are required, on condition that the elapsed time from output of the signal for placing the negative electrode relay in the conductive state is the predetermined time or more, the negative electrode advance control for outputting a signal for making the positive electrode relay conductive is configured to be executable, and when the number of times for making the power source and the electric device conductive is a predetermined number of times or more, the positive electrode preceding control and the negative electrode preceding control are switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230418216
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a first positioning portion, a first cartridge including a developer bearing member, and a second positioning portion, the first cartridge being attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body, and a second cartridge including a storage portion configured to accommodate the developer, a first positioned portion, and a second positioned portion. The second cartridge is configured to be attached to and detached from the apparatus body in a state where the first cartridge is attached to the apparatus body, and a position of the second cartridge in the attachment direction and an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the attachment direction with respect to the apparatus body and the first cartridge is determined by the first positioning portion and the second positioning portion coming into contact with the first positioned portion and the second positioned portion, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: SATOSHI KOGA, NAOKI MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230418209
    Abstract: A cartridge including a rotatable image bearing member which bears a developer, a cleaning member for removing a developer remaining on a surface of the image bearing member, the cleaning member having a contact portion in contact with the surface of the image bearing member and a support portion which supports the contact portion, a developer recovering portion which recovers the developer removed by the cleaning member, a first conveyance member which is disposed inside the developer recovering portion and conveys the recovered developer in a rotation axis direction of the image bearing member, and a second conveyance member which conveys the developer conveyed by the first conveyance member in a direction crossing the rotation axis direction toward a discharge port provided in the developer recovering portion, is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki Maeda, Shunsuke Uratani, Makoto Hayashida, Tetsuo Uesugi, Yuuki Nakamura, Joji Goto
  • Publication number: 20230418221
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in an axial direction; a memory including a storing element configured to store information, a memory contact electrically connected to the storing element, and a substrate having a surface on which the memory contact is provided; and a frame which supports the photosensitive drum, on which the substrate is mounted, and which includes a first end with respect to the axial direction and a second end opposite from the first end. The frame includes a container provided with an accommodating chamber for accommodating a developer collected from the photosensitive drum and with an opening communicating with the accommodating chamber and includes a mounting member mounted on the container so as to cover the opening. The mounting member includes a supporting portion for supporting the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: YOSUKE KASHIIDE, YUICHI FUKUI, NAOKI HAYASHI, NAOKI MAEDA, TAKASHI KIMURA, TOSHIAKI TAKEUCHI, SHUICHI GOFUKU, TAKAYUKI YADA
  • Publication number: 20230418215
    Abstract: A cartridge is used, which has a receptacle with a replenishment port from which a developer is replenished and which is configured to receive the developer replenished from the replenishment port. The receptacle has a transport region that is located lower than the replenishment port in the direction of gravity, where the received developer is transported in a transport direction. The receptacle is provided with a first filter and a second filter downstream and upstream of the replenishment port respectively in the transport direction. The first filter and second filter restrict passage of the developer while allowing passage of air. The first filter or the second filter is located higher than the transport region in the direction of gravity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: TAKAYUKI YADA, NAOKI MAEDA, YUUKI NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230364634
    Abstract: A multi-nozzle device includes a nozzle body having a chamber into which fluid enters, a reference nozzle and a specific nozzle. The reference nozzle and the specific nozzle are each provided in the nozzle body. The inflow ends of the nozzles are communicated to the chamber. The outflow ends of the nozzles protrude from an end surface of the nozzle body. A length of the specific nozzle and a length of the reference nozzle differ from each other depending on the target discharge amount of the reference nozzle and the target discharge amount of the specific nozzle. An inner diameter of the specific nozzle and an inner diameters and of the reference nozzles and may be different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke YONEKURA, Naoki MAEDA, Subaru TOMIZAWA, Shinya IWASHITA
  • Publication number: 20230350340
    Abstract: A developing unit, which is attachable to and detachable from a photosensitive member unit, includes: a developing roller; a housing in which a holding space that holds toner is formed; and a pressing receiving portion that receives pressing force from a pressing member. The housing includes a first bottom portion that projects toward an outer side of the holding space, and a second bottom portion that projects toward the outer side of the holding space, in a state in use. When viewed in a direction of a rotation axis of the developing roller, at least part of the pressing receiving portion is located in a space surrounded by the first bottom portion, the second bottom portion, and a tangent line tangent to both an outer wall of the first bottom portion and an outer wall of the second bottom portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Noriyuki KOMATSU, Tomonori MORI, Teruhiko SASAKI, Makoto HAYASHIDA, Naoki MAEDA, Satoru HARADA
  • Patent number: 11740585
    Abstract: A developing unit, which is attachable to and detachable from a photosensitive member unit, includes: a developing roller; a housing in which a holding space that holds toner is formed; and a pressing receiving portion that receives pressing force from a pressing member. The housing includes a first bottom portion that projects toward an outer side of the holding space, and a second bottom portion that projects toward the outer side of the holding space, in a state in use. When viewed in a direction of a rotation axis of the developing roller, at least part of the pressing receiving portion is located in a space surrounded by the first bottom portion, the second bottom portion, and a tangent line tangent to both an outer wall of the first bottom portion and an outer wall of the second bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Komatsu, Tomonori Mori, Teruhiko Sasaki, Makoto Hayashida, Naoki Maeda, Satoru Harada
  • Publication number: 20230167147
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing an aliphatic glycoside compound or a sugar fatty acid ester compound by subjecting an intramolecularly dehydrated sugar and an alcohol or carboxylic acid compound of an aliphatic hydrocarbon to an addition reaction in the presence of an acid catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kousuke HIROMORI, Naoki MAEDA, Tomone SASAYAMA, Naomi KITAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11586140
    Abstract: A mountable unit set usable with an electrophotographic-image-forming apparatus includes a cartridge and an attachment. A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling member for receiving a driving force for rotating the photosensitive drum, from a driving shaft. An attachment includes a cylindrical portion for being mounted to a periphery of the driving shaft to suppress tilting of the driving shaft. Tilting of a driving-force transmitting member is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20220382186
    Abstract: A developing unit, which is attachable to and detachable from a photosensitive member unit, includes: a developing roller; a housing in which a holding space that holds toner is formed; and a pressing receiving portion that receives pressing force from a pressing member. The housing includes a first bottom portion that projects toward an outer side of the holding space, and a second bottom portion that projects toward the outer side of the holding space, in a state in use. When viewed in a direction of a rotation axis of the developing roller, at least part of the pressing receiving portion is located in a space surrounded by the first bottom portion, the second bottom portion, and a tangent line tangent to both an outer wall of the first bottom portion and an outer wall of the second bottom portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Noriyuki Komatsu, Tomonori Mori, Teruhiko Sasaki, Makoto Hayashida, Naoki Maeda, Satoru Harada
  • Patent number: 11454924
    Abstract: A developing unit, which is attachable to and detachable from a photosensitive member unit, includes: a developing roller; a housing in which a holding space that holds toner is formed; and a pressing receiving portion that receives pressing force from a pressing member. The housing includes a first bottom portion that projects toward an outer side of the holding space, and a second bottom portion that projects toward the outer side of the holding space, in a state in use. When viewed in a direction of a rotation axis of the developing roller, at least part of the pressing receiving portion is located in a space surrounded by the first bottom portion, the second bottom portion, and a tangent line tangent to both an outer wall of the first bottom portion and an outer wall of the second bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Komatsu, Tomonori Mori, Teruhiko Sasaki, Makoto Hayashida, Naoki Maeda, Satoru Harada
  • Publication number: 20220224918
    Abstract: A video transport system includes a video transmission device that performs compression processing on video data and transmits the video data subjected to compression processing and a video reception device that receives the video data subjected to compression processing from the video transmission device and performs decompression processing on the received video data. Of a prescribed attention area within a frame of the video data and a prescribed non-attention area different from the attention area within the frame, the video transmission device performs prescribed compression processing within the frame on the non-attention area and does not perform the prescribed compression processing on the attention area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220221017
    Abstract: An anti-vibration device including an outer cylinder 10; a shaft member 20 that is provided in the outer cylinder 10; and an elastic member 40 that links the outer cylinder 10 and the shaft member 20, in which the shaft member 20 has an inner cylinder and four stopper portions 30a to 30d that protrudes from a circumferential surface of the inner cylinder toward the outer cylinder 10 and that are mutually provided at intervals in a circumferential direction, and in which the elastic member 40 links the outer cylinder 10 and the shaft member 20 at a position between stopper portions that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11259713
    Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes: a pulse wave detection unit that continuously detects pulse waves from a living body; a biological information calculation unit that calculates biological information based on pulse waves detected by the pulse wave detection unit and stores, in a storage medium, biological information calculation results information including said biological information; a storage control unit that stores, in the storage medium, pulse wave detection results information by the pulse wave detection unit in order to calculate biological information included in biological information calculation results information; a measurement efficiency information generation unit that generates measurement efficiency information indicating measurement efficiency for biological information included in biological information calculation results information, generating same based on the biological information calculation results information and pulse wave detection results information; and a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11116455
    Abstract: A diagnosis assistance device assists a diagnosis, by using a plurality of sets of biological information that are measured from a subject, and that are stored in a storage medium. The diagnosis assistance device includes an achievement status determining section and a notification processing section. The achievement status determining section determines an achievement status of a predetermined condition related to biological information that is measured from the subject, based on the plurality of sets of biological information stored in the storage medium. The notification processing section performs a process of notifying of the achievement status. The condition is that the pattern of a change of biological information which is stored in the storage medium contains, threshold or more times, a specific pattern. The specific pattern is extreme-dipper, non-dipper, or riser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11116408
    Abstract: A system control unit in the biological information measurement device generates and reports measurement efficiency information indicating measurement efficiency for biological information included in biological information calculation results information, based on biological information calculation results information and pulse wave detection results information from a storage medium storing the biological information calculation results information and the pulse wave detection results information, said biological information calculation results information being information indicating the calculation results for biological information from a biological information calculation unit that calculates biological information based on pulse waves for each pulse detected for a living body, said biological information calculation results information including at least the biological information, and said pulse wave detection results information indicating results from pulse wave detection performed for calculating b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda