Patents by Inventor Noriaki Sato
Noriaki Sato 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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Publication number: 20250254419Abstract: A control apparatus includes a communication unit that communicates with an image capture apparatus, a transmission unit that transmits a control instruction to the image capture apparatus, a reception unit that receives, from the image capture apparatus, a second image in which data amount is smaller than that of a first image shot by the image capture apparatus, a display unit that displays a list of the second images received from the image capture apparatus, and a control unit that notifies the image capture apparatus of the second image selected from the list.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2025Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventor: NORIAKI SATO
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Publication number: 20250170611Abstract: In the IC card, the control circuit includes the microcomputer generating the square-pulse drive signal and the transistor boosting the square-pulse drive signal generated at the microcomputer, and the drive signal boosted by the transistor is used as the drive signal for driving the piezoelectric element. Since the drive signal generated by the transistor is boosted more than the drive signal generated at the microcomputer, the improvement of the vibration intensity of the piezoelectric element can be implemented.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2024Publication date: May 29, 2025Applicant: TDK CorporationInventors: Noriaki SATO, Takashi KATO, Tetsuyuki TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20250176433Abstract: In the IC card, the control circuit includes the first control unit for generating the audio vibration signal and the amplifier circuit for amplifying the audio vibration signal generated at the first control unit, and the drive signal amplified at the amplifier circuit is used as the drive signal for driving the piezoelectric element. Therefore, the vibration of the piezoelectric element exhibits a behavior according to the audio vibration signal. That is, the vibration of the piezoelectric element exhibits a continuous and smooth behavior in comparison with the behavior according to the square-pulse signal, and the vibration pattern of the piezoelectric element is increased in diversity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2024Publication date: May 29, 2025Applicant: TDK CorporationInventors: Noriaki SATO, Takashi KATO, Tetsuyuki TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 12297361Abstract: Provided are a particle including a polymer P including a bond U that is at least one selected from the group consisting of a urethane bond and a urea bond, and a hydrophilic group, a polymerizable monomer, and a moiety A that is at least one selected from the group consisting of a polysiloxane bond and a fluorinated hydrocarbon group; an aqueous dispersion; an ink jet ink; a film-forming method; and an image-forming method.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Noriaki Sato, Ryo Fujiwara, Shota Suzuki
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Publication number: 20250036052Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an attachment portion to which any one of a first fixing apparatus and a second fixing apparatus is selectively attached, and a power supply circuit including a plurality of power supply paths. The first fixing apparatus includes a plurality of first heating elements grouped into a plurality of groups, and a number of the plurality of groups is equal to a number of the plurality of power supply paths. The second fixing apparatus includes at least one second heating element grouped into at least one group whose number is smaller than the number of the power supply paths. In a state where the second fixing apparatus is attached to the image forming apparatus, a power supply path of the plurality of power supply paths in which a power line has a largest allowable current value is electrically connected with the second heating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: NORIAKI SATO, RIKUO KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20250036055Abstract: A heater includes a heater substrate, a first conductor, a second conductor disposed substantially parallel to the first conductor in a longitudinal direction, and at least one heat generator disposed between the first conductor and the second conductor in the transverse direction and configured to electrically connect the first conductor and the second conductor. The at least one heat generator generates heat by energization between the first and second conductors, and a path of a current flowing through the at least one heat generator from one of the first conductor and the second conductor to another conductor has a curved shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventor: NORIAKI SATO
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Patent number: 12147177Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an attachment portion to which any one of a first fixing apparatus and a second fixing apparatus is selectively attached, and a power supply circuit including a plurality of power supply paths. The first fixing apparatus includes a plurality of first heating elements grouped into a plurality of groups, and a number of the plurality of groups is equal to a number of the plurality of power supply paths. The second fixing apparatus includes at least one second heating element grouped into at least one group whose number is smaller than the number of the power supply paths. In a state where the second fixing apparatus is attached to the image forming apparatus, a power supply path of the plurality of power supply paths in which a power line has a largest allowable current value is electrically connected with the at least one second heating element.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noriaki Sato, Rikuo Kawakami
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Patent number: 12049569Abstract: A colored resin particle dispersion containing colored resin particles and water, in which the colored resin particles contain an oil-soluble dye and a polymer P containing a structural unit represented by Formula (1), a structural unit represented by Formula (2), and a hydrophilic group, an ink, an ink set, and an inkjet printing method. L1 represents a chain hydrocarbon group having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, two *1's each represent a bonding position, L2 represents a chain hydrocarbon group having 2 to 25 carbon atoms which may contain an oxygen atom or the like, or a polymer chain having a number-average molecular weight of 500 or greater, Y1 and Y2 each independently represent —O—, —S—, or, —NRz-, Rz represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and two *2's each represent a bonding position.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Noriaki Sato, Shota Suzuki, Naoka Hamada, Ryoichi Nakano, Masao Ikoshi
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Patent number: 11939479Abstract: Provided are an ink jet ink composition including water and particles including a polymer having an anionic group, a photo-acid generator, and a sensitizer, wherein a value obtained by subtracting a photo-acid generator amount G being a number of millimoles of the photo-acid generator per 1 g of the particles from an anionic group value A being a number of millimoles of the anionic group per 1 g of the particles is ?0.20 or more and 0.20 or less, and the sensitizer is at least one of compounds represented by Formula (S1) to Formula (S3); a method for producing the ink jet ink composition; and an image-forming method. R11, R12, R21, R31, R32, R33, and R34 each independently represent a substituent; n11, n12, n21, n33, and n34 each independently represent an integer of 0 to 4; and R22 and R23 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Noriaki Sato, Shota Suzuki
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Patent number: 11926125Abstract: Provided are a colored resin particle dispersion containing colored resin particles and water, in which the colored resin particles contain a water-insoluble chain polymer and at least one dye selected from the group consisting of an oil-soluble dye, a disperse dye and a vat dye, and the water-insoluble chain polymer has a structure represented by the following General Formula (G), a cyclic structure, and a hydrophilic group, an ink manufactured using the colored resin particle dispersion, an ink set having the ink, an inkjet printing method using the ink, and a method of manufacturing the colored resin particle dispersion. In the General Formula (G), Rg represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, Lg represents —O—, —S—, or —NRz-, Rz represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and * represents a bonding position.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shota Suzuki, Noriaki Sato, Naoka Hamada, Ryoichi Nakano, Masao Ikoshi
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Publication number: 20240077818Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, and a control portion. The fixing portion forms a nip portion to nip a recording material and includes heat-generating elements along a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material. The fixing portion fixes the image on the recording material using heat. The image forming apparatus changes a control target temperature for each heating area heated by each of the heat-generating elements in accordance with the image to be formed on the recording material. When forming the image after a jam clearing process in which the recording material nipped in the nip portion is removed, the control portion changes a distribution of a control target temperature of the whole heater in the direction in which the heat-generating elements are aligned to a second distribution different from a first distribution corresponding to the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventor: Noriaki Sato
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Patent number: 11874618Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, and a control portion. The fixing portion forms a nip portion to nip a recording material and includes heat-generating elements along a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material. The fixing portion fixes the image on the recording material using heat. The image forming apparatus changes a control target temperature for each heating area heated by each of the heat-generating elements in accordance with the image to be formed on the recording material. When forming the image after a jam clearing process in which the recording material nipped in the nip portion is removed, the control portion changes a distribution of a control target temperature of the whole heater in the direction in which the heat-generating elements are aligned to a second distribution different from a first distribution corresponding to the image.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Noriaki Sato
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Publication number: 20230393504Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an attachment portion to which any one of a first fixing apparatus and a second fixing apparatus is selectively attached, and a power supply circuit including a plurality of power supply paths. The first fixing apparatus includes a plurality of first heating elements grouped into a plurality of groups, and a number of the plurality of groups is equal to a number of the plurality of power supply paths. The second fixing apparatus includes at least one second heating element grouped into at least one group whose number is smaller than the number of the power supply paths. In a state where the second fixing apparatus is attached to the image forming apparatus, a power supply path of the plurality of power supply paths in which a power line has a largest allowable current value is electrically connected with the second heating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: NORIAKI SATO, RIKUO KAWAKAMI
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Patent number: 11795334Abstract: A photo-curable ink composition is provided, the composition including: a polymer including a structural unit represented by General Formula 1 below; and a radical-polymerizable monomer, in which a total content of a monofunctional radical-polymerizable monomer and a bifunctional radical-polymerizable monomer is 50% by mass or more with respect to a total amount of the composition: in which, in General Formula 1: R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; X represents an oxygen atom or —NR2—, R2 representing a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms; Y represents a group including at least one selected from the group consisting of a thioether structure, a phosphorus atom, and a hindered phenol structure; and * represents a bonding site.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Suzuki, Noriaki Sato, Ichiro Koyama
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Publication number: 20230300272Abstract: An image capturing apparatus receives an operation by a user and communicates with an external apparatus. The apparatus performs control to transmit a plurality of captured images in a predetermined order to a communication apparatus via the communication unit. During transmission of the plurality of the images in the predetermined order, in accordance with an instruction to change a transmission order of a first image having been received, the image capturing apparatus performs control to prioritize transmission of the first image and further performs control such that transmission of an image linked with the first image to the communication apparatus is prioritized by another image capturing apparatus capable of communicating via the communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventor: NORIAKI SATO
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Publication number: 20230095585Abstract: Provided are a photosensitive composition including a colorant A, a photopolymerization initiator B, a polymerizable compound C, and a compound D which is a salt of an anion and a di- or higher valent cation having a formula weight or molecular weight of 1000 or less and has a specific absorbance of 5 or less, the specific absorbance being at a maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 400 to 700 nm; a film formed of the photosensitive composition; and a color filter, a solid-state imaging element, and an image display device, which includes the film.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Noriaki SATO, Yasuhiro SAWAMURA, Hiroaki IDEI, Satomu ISHII
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Patent number: 11595533Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first developing unit configured to develop an image, a second developing unit by which a developed image better than a developed image developed by the first developing unit is obtained, an estimation unit configured to estimate an improvement effect of a quality of the developed image obtained using the second developing unit instead of the first developing unit, and a notification unit configured to notify content based on the improvement effect estimated by the estimation unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Noriaki Sato
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Publication number: 20220326638Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, and a control portion. The fixing portion forms a nip portion to nip a recording material and includes heat-generating elements along a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material. The fixing portion fixes the image on the recording material using heat. The image forming apparatus changes a control target temperature for each heating area heated by each of the heat-generating elements in accordance with the image to be formed on the recording material. When forming the image after a jam clearing process in which the recording material nipped in the nip portion is removed, the control portion changes a distribution of a control target temperature of the whole heater in the direction in which the heat-generating elements are aligned to a second distribution different from a first distribution corresponding to the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventor: Noriaki Sato
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Publication number: 20220294914Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first developing unit configured to develop an image, a second developing unit by which a developed image better than a developed image developed by the first developing unit is obtained, an estimation unit configured to estimate an improvement effect of a quality of the developed image obtained using the second developing unit instead of the first developing unit, and a notification unit configured to notify content based on the improvement effect estimated by the estimation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventor: Noriaki Sato
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Patent number: 11435648Abstract: An image capture apparatus detects an eye approaching to a finder, switches between a locked state in which execution of a function corresponding to an operation on a touch panel having a display surface of a display unit capable of displaying a captured image as an operation surface is restricted and an unlocked state in which the execution of the function is not restricted, and performs control such that in the locked state, even if a specific operation is performed on the touch panel without detecting the eye approaching, predetermined processing corresponding to the specific operation is not executed, and the predetermined processing is executed in response to the specific operation on the touch panel being performed in a state where a predetermined condition including detection of the eye approaching is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Noriaki Sato