Patents by Inventor Noboru Tamura
Noboru Tamura 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: 11831830Abstract: An electronic device, a setting method, and an information processing system. The electronic device installs an application, displays on a display, a screen for receiving input of a setting value for a setting item based on setting information that includes one or more setting items for executing the installed application, and control to set the setting value for the setting item received on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroatsu Hatanaka, Noboru Tamura, Tomoki Shibukawa
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Publication number: 20220303422Abstract: An electronic device, a setting method, and an information processing system. The electronic device installs an application, displays on a display, a screen for receiving input of a setting value for a setting item based on setting information that includes one or more setting items for executing the installed application, and control to set the setting value for the setting item received on the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroatsu Hatanaka, Noboru Tamura, Tomoki Shibukawa
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Patent number: 11039039Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus for performing printing in a plurality of colors. The image forming apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive first print data in which an object to be printed in a spot color is designated in a first area in a document to be printed and second print data of the document to be printed from an information processing apparatus; convert the second print data received by the communication unit into image data of a predetermined color; extract an image of the first area from the image data obtained by conversion of the drawing unit; convert the image of the first area extracted by the spot color image control unit into the spot color; and generate image data of the spot color in which the image of the first area converted by the conversion unit is placed.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Keiji Kunimi, Yutaka Ataku, Noboru Tamura, Ryo Kobayashi, Hiroki Matsuura, Yoshio Taga, Kaname Nomura
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Publication number: 20200336622Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus for performing printing in a plurality of colors. The image forming apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive first print data in which an object to be printed in a spot color is designated in a first area in a document to be printed and second print data of the document to be printed from an information processing apparatus; convert the second print data received by the communication unit into image data of a predetermined color; extract an image of the first area from the image data obtained by conversion of the drawing unit; convert the image of the first area extracted by the spot color image control unit into the spot color; and generate image data of the spot color in which the image of the first area converted by the conversion unit is placed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Keiji KUNIMI, Yutaka ATAKU, Noboru TAMURA, Ryo KOBAYASHI, Hiroki MATSUURA, Yoshio TAGA, Kaname NOMURA
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Patent number: 10507653Abstract: In a large format printer, a print head which includes a plurality of drive elements is provided with a head drive circuit which applies a voltage which is based on a first drive signal, a second drive signal, and a reference voltage signal which are input from a control circuit via a cable to the drive element. In a first flat cable and a second flat cable which configure the cable and which are in an overlapping state, a first wire which propagates a first drive signal is adjacent to a third wire which propagates a reference voltage signal, a second wire which propagates a second drive signal is adjacent to a third wire, and, in an overlapping direction, the first wire faces the third wire and the second wire faces the third wire.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Noboru Tamura
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Publication number: 20180370228Abstract: In a large format printer, a print head which includes a plurality of drive elements is provided with a head drive circuit which applies a voltage which is based on a first drive signal, a second drive signal, and a reference voltage signal which are input from a control circuit via a cable to the drive element. In a first flat cable and a second flat cable which configure the cable and which are in an overlapping state, a first wire which propagates a first drive signal is adjacent to a third wire which propagates a reference voltage signal, a second wire which propagates a second drive signal is adjacent to a third wire, and, in an overlapping direction, the first wire faces the third wire and the second wire faces the third wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventor: Noboru TAMURA
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Patent number: 10124581Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus has a head provided with discharge sections which discharge a liquid, a drive circuit configured to generate driving signals for driving the discharge sections and discharging the liquid, a carriage mounted with the head and the drive circuit, and a carriage support section configured and arranged to support the carriage. A shortest distance between the carriage support section and the drive circuit is shorter than a shortest distance between the carriage support section and the discharge section which is closest to the carriage support section.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Noboru Tamura, Toru Matsuyama
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Patent number: 10118382Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus has a head provided with discharge sections which discharge a liquid, a drive circuit configured to generate driving signals for driving the discharge sections and discharging the liquid, a carriage mounted with the head and the drive circuit, a motor configured to move the carriage, and a flushing box configured and arranged to receive the liquid discharged from the discharge sections. The drive circuit is mounted at a position so as not to pass above the flushing box while the carriage is being moved.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Noboru Tamura, Toru Matsuyama
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Patent number: 9944072Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a head unit which includes a discharge unit which discharges a liquid, a controller which controls discharging of the liquid, a plurality of first signal lines which connect the controller to the head unit, and at least one second signal line which connects the controller to the head unit, in which, the controller transmits the differential signal to the head unit via the first signal lines, and in which the head unit transmits the state signal in analog format to the controller via the second signal line.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Noboru Tamura, Toru Matsuyama, Ryo Hirabayashi
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Publication number: 20180009218Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a head unit which includes a discharge unit which discharges a liquid, a controller which controls discharging of the liquid, a plurality of first signal lines which connect the controller to the head unit, and at least one second signal line which connects the controller to the head unit, in which, the controller transmits the differential signal to the head unit via the first signal lines, and in which the head unit transmits the state signal in analog format to the controller via the second signal line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Noboru TAMURA, Toru MATSUYAMA, Ryo HIRABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170266961Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus has a head provided with discharge sections which discharge a liquid, a drive circuit configured to generate driving signals for driving the discharge sections and discharging the liquid, a carriage mounted with the head and the drive circuit, and a carriage support section configured and arranged to support the carriage. A shortest distance between the carriage support section and the drive circuit is shorter than a shortest distance between the carriage support section and the discharge section which is closest to the carriage support section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Noboru TAMURA, Toru MATSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20170266962Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus has a head provided with discharge sections which discharge a liquid, a drive circuit configured to generate driving signals for driving the discharge sections and discharging the liquid, a carriage mounted with the head and the drive circuit, a motor configured to move the carriage, and a flushing box configured and arranged to receive the liquid discharged from the discharge sections. The drive circuit is mounted at a position so as not to pass above the flushing box while the carriage is being moved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Noboru TAMURA, Toru MATSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20160072977Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an address information storage storing recipient information relating to a recipient and the recipient's address with an address identifier as address information; a program storage storing setting information in association with a program identifier as program information, the setting information including program identification information specifying a program and the address identifier; a program execution unit executing the program associated with the program identifier based on the setting information; an address information change unit changing the address information in the address information storage, and changing the address identifier along with the change in the address information; and an information change adjusting unit adjusting, upon detecting a change in one of the address identifier and the address information, the address identifier of the program information including the address identifier in the program storage in response to the change in theType: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki SASAYAMA, Daisuke OKADA, Chan GU, Yuto SHIBATA, Akiko KITAYAMA, Daisuke MASUI, Masashi TANIGUCHI, Noboru TAMURA, Naoya TAMURA, Yuka SAITO, Hiroya URUTA
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Publication number: 20150339548Abstract: A processing function proposing apparatus includes a status detector that detects a current status of a resource, a request acquisition unit that acquires a composite function requested to be executed from multiple composite functions, each composite function combining multiple unit functions, a function selecting unit to select at least one unit function combined that executes the requested composite function based on the current status of the resource, and a proposing unit that proposes the unit function selected by the function selecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Akiko KITAYAMA, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Daisuke Masui, Daisuke Okada, Yuka Saito, Yuto Shibata, Hiroya Uruta, Naoya Tamura, Noboru Tamura, Kazuki Sasayama, Masashi Taniguchi, Chan Gu
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Patent number: 9150965Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a gas supply passage for supplying a corrosive gas having a halogen, a part of the passage being made of a metal; a stabilization reaction unit which has an energy generator for supplying light energy or heat energy to the corrosive gas that has passed through the metallic part of the gas supply passage and/or has an obstacle configured to apply a collision energy to the corrosive gas that has passed through the metallic part of the gas supply passage, the collision energy being generated from a collision between the obstacle and said corrosive gas. A reaction for stabilizing a compound containing the metal and the halogen contained in the corrosive gas takes place by means of at least one of the light energy, heat energy, and collision energy; and a trapping unit which traps the compound stabilized in the stabilization reaction unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRIC LIMITEDInventors: Shuji Moriya, Toyohiko Shindo, Noboru Tamura
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Patent number: 8997320Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an acoustic wave device that has an excellent temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) and high accuracy of IDT pattern forming and is capable of resisting high temperature processing of 200 degrees or more. The method for manufacturing an acoustic wave device according to the present invention includes forming an IDT (2) on a principal surface (1a) of a piezoelectric substrate (1), and forming a film by thermal spraying a material (3) having a smaller linear thermal expansion coefficient than the piezoelectric substrate onto an opposite principal surface (1b) of the piezoelectric substrate (1) where the IDT (2) is formed.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Fuyutsume, Taro Nishino, Hisashi Yamazaki, Noboru Tamura, Nakaba Ichikawa, Masaki Aruga
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Publication number: 20150073935Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage control unit that stores, in a storage medium, device number information for identifying the information processing apparatus and a consumables list of consumables available in the information processing apparatus identified by the device number information; and a processing unit that acquires the consumables list from an order receiving server via a network, causes the consumables list to be displayed, and send order information received from the user to the order receiving server when being connected to the network, causes the consumables list to be displayed and causes the storage control unit to store order information received from the user when being not connected to the network, and sends the order information stored to the order receiving server when the information processing apparatus is recovered from a state of being not connected to the network to a state of being connected to the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Yuto SHIBATA, Noboru Tamura, Yuka Saito, Hiroya Uruta, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Daisuke Masui, Masashi Taniguchi, Naoya Tamura, Chan Gu
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Patent number: 8915577Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first head that forms a first dot group and a second head that forms a second dot group. The first head has a first nozzle row for a first chromatic ink and a second nozzle row for a second chromatic ink. The second head has a third nozzle row for the first chromatic ink and a fourth nozzle row for the second chromatic ink. With respect to at least the first chromatic ink or the second chromatic ink, in a case in which the number of dots that configure dot rows that are lined up in the main scanning direction, is 3500 or more, a rational number, which is expressed using a number of dots included in the first dot group and a number of dots included in the second dot group in the dot rows, is a value other than zero.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shinichi Yamada, Hiroki Hayashi, Ryoichi Tanaka, Noboru Tamura, Akito Sato
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Patent number: 8845052Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a drive signal generation section which generates a drive signal and a liquid ejecting head. The drive signal is a periodic signal. One period of the drive signal has two durations of (i) a droplet ejection duration with a waveform part used to eject the droplet from the nozzle and (ii) a droplet non-ejection duration without the waveform part used to eject the droplet from the nozzle, and the droplet non-ejection duration is equal to or longer than the droplet ejection duration.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Noboru Tamura, Shinichi Yamada, Akito Sato, Toru Matsuyama
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Patent number: 8657398Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus including, a control unit including a digital signal generation unit which generates a digital signal defining the shape of the signal waveform, an analog voltage signal generation unit which generates an analog voltage signal on the basis of the digital signal, and a current signal generation unit which generates a current signal of a magnitude corresponding to a waveform of the analog voltage signal, a head unit including, a voltage signal generation unit which generates a voltage signal by detecting a potential difference between two points which are different from each other in a path to which the current signal flows, and by amplifying the potential difference, and an element which is driven by the voltage signal, and causes liquid to be ejected from a nozzle, and a transmission unit which transmits the current signal to the head unit from the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Noboru Tamura