Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Abe
Noriyuki Abe 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: 20240385570Abstract: A cartridge includes a drum unit and a development unit. The drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a frame, a transfer roller, and a cleaning member. The development unit includes a development roller, and a memory. The cleaning member is configured to come into contact with the photosensitive drum at a region between a development nip portion and a transfer nip portion in a circumferential direction of the photosensitive drum and at an end portion of the photosensitive drum in a direction of the rotational axis. The frame has an exposing hole through which the memory is exposed from the frame, and a recessed portion that is adjacent to the exposing hole in the direction of the rotational axis, and stores foreign matters removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaning member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Inventors: NORIYUKI KOMATSU, MASAKI OJIMA, DAISUKE ABE, TOMONORI MORI, TADAYUKI TSUDA, TETSUYA NUMATA, NAOYA ASANUMA
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Publication number: 20240367445Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to be able to convey a roll sheet that is wound in a rolled shape and a cut sheet that is not wound in a rolled shape to a printing unit configured to print an image; a receiving unit detachably attached to the apparatus, the receiving unit being configured to receive the cut sheet onto which printing has been performed by the printing unit; a detection unit configured to detect whether the receiving unit is attached to the apparatus; and a holding unit configured to, in a case where the detection unit detects that the receiving unit is not attached to the apparatus, nip to hold the cut sheet onto which printing has been performed by the printing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: Itaru Wada, Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 12115781Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus. A printing unit prints an image on a printing medium and is able to move. A cutter unit is able to connect with or separate from the printing unit, and, by following a movement of the printing unit, cuts the printing medium. A setting unit sets, in accordance with a size of the printing medium, a standby position of the cutter unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 12099325Abstract: A process cartridge includes a first unit including an image bearing member configured to carry an electrostatic latent image, and a second unit including a developer bearing member configured to develop the electrostatic latent image carried on the image bearing member into a toner image, the second unit being capable of being mounted on the first unit in a mounting direction. The first unit includes a moving member that moves the second unit mounted on the first unit at a mounting position to a detachment position. The second unit includes a storage unit that stores information about the second unit. The moving member is disposed on a first side of the process cartridge in a longitudinal direction of the image bearing member. An electrode of the storage unit is disposed on a second side of the process cartridge in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noriyuki Komatsu, Masaki Ojima, Tomonori Mori, Daisuke Abe, Tadayuki Tsuda
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Patent number: 12064959Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to be able to convey a roll sheet that is wound in a rolled shape and a cut sheet that is not wound in a rolled shape to a printing unit configured to print an image, a receiving unit detachably attached to the apparatus, the receiving unit being configured to receive the cut sheet onto which printing has been performed by the printing unit; a detection unit configured to detect whether the receiving unit is attached to the apparatus; and a holding unit configured to, in a case where the detection unit detects that the receiving unit is not attached to the apparatus, nip to hold the cut sheet onto which printing has been performed by the printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Itaru Wada, Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Publication number: 20240269996Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus comprises a holding unit configured to hold a roll sheet. The printing apparatus performs: supplying the sheet by rotating the roll sheet held by the holding unit; nipping and conveying the supplied sheet; performing printing on the conveyed sheet; detecting occurrence of a print medium jam of the sheet; and, if the printing apparatus has detected a print medium jam of the sheet, performing a control process of supplying the sheet in a state in which the conveying is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Yoshiaki Suzuki, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki, Yasuyuki Asai
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Patent number: 12024064Abstract: A solar power generation control device, controlling a solar power generation system configured to charge a power storage device of a vehicle with electric power generated by a plurality of solar cells provided on different surfaces of a vehicle body respectively, includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an output of each solar cell; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the information indicating an output of the solar cell acquired by the acquisition unit, a startup solar cell that causes power generation for charging the power storage device to be performed; and a control unit configured to cause charging of the power storage device with electric power generated by the startup solar cell determined by the determination unit to perform, and cause charging of the power storage device with electric power generated by another solar cell different from the startup solar cell to stop.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Noriyuki Abe
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Patent number: 11859993Abstract: Based on position information indicating a position of a vehicle on a map, whether the vehicle has arrived at an entrance of an area in a vicinity of a destination of the vehicle where road links do not exist is determined, a history of the vehicle having parked in the area is stored as parking information, the parking information is referenced when it is determined that the vehicle has arrived at the area, and guidance information is output as information which guides the vehicle based on recommendation information and which includes at least a parking position in the area.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Kondo, Noriyuki Abe, Norikazu Nara, Makoto Orino, Takaaki Yashiro
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Patent number: 11861307Abstract: A request paraphrasing system 120 allowing a dialogue system to flexibly address to requests in various different manners of expression includes: a pre-processing unit 130 converting a user input 56 to a word vector sequence; and a neural paraphrasing model 94 trained in advance by machine learning to receive the word vector sequence as an input and paraphrasing a request represented by the word vector sequence to a request having a higher probability of obtaining an answer from a question-answering device 122 than the request before paraphrasing. As pre-processing, whether the user input 56 is a request or not may be determined and it may be paraphrased only when it is determined to be a request. Further, a classification model 98 may classify the input request to determine to which request class it belongs, and the classification may be input as one feature to neural paraphrasing model 94.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyInventors: Yoshihiko Asao, Ryu Iida, Canasai Kruengkrai, Noriyuki Abe, Kanako Onishi, Kentaro Torisawa, Yutaka Kidawara
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Patent number: 11834030Abstract: A vehicle includes a drive system ground fault determination unit configured to determine that, when the first magnetic contactor is in a conduction state, the drive system electrical system has a ground fault when a ground stray capacitance of the drive system electrical system measured by a drive system ground fault sensor included in the drive system electrical system exceeds a drive system conduction state threshold value, and to determine that, when the first magnetic contactor is in a non-conduction state, the drive system electrical system has a ground fault when the ground stray capacitance of the drive system electrical system measured by the drive system ground fault sensor exceeds a drive system non-conduction state threshold value, which is different from the drive system conduction state threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Noriyuki Abe
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Patent number: 11811228Abstract: A solar power generation control device, controlling a solar power generation system configured to charge a power storage device of a vehicle with electric power generated by a solar cell provided in the vehicle, includes: an acquisition unit that acquires environmental information on weather or a planimetric feature around the vehicle; a prediction unit that predicts a change in solar radiation state of the vehicle based on the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit and a moving state of the vehicle; and a control unit that controls an operation mode of the solar power generation system, including a first mode, in which the power storage device is charged with electric power generated by the solar cell, and a second mode, in which power consumption of the solar power generation system is lower than in the first mode, based on a prediction result of the prediction unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Noriyuki Abe
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Patent number: 11691577Abstract: A shielded electric wire includes one metal pipe and one electric wire having a conductor and an insulator. An outer diameter of the conductor at 25° C. is set as a, a coefficient of linear expansion of the conductor is set as ?a, and a temperature difference between a maximum temperature and 25° C. is set as ?t, an outer diameter a? of the conductor after thermal expansion is a?=a+?a×a×?t, and when a wall thickness of the insulator at 25° C. is set as b and a coefficient of linear expansion of the insulator is set as ?b, an insulator wall thickness b? after thermal expansion is b?=b+?b×b×?t, and an inner diameter c of the one metal pipe is set to satisfy c?a?+2b?.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Mizuki Shirai, Hiroki Kondo, Noriyuki Abe
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Patent number: 11645477Abstract: A response sentence creation device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a situation and trigger information serving as a trigger of start of response sentence creation, a first query creation unit configured to create a first query for deriving the first answer on the basis of the trigger information, a first answer derivation unit configured to derive a first answer to the first query on the basis of the information indicating the situation, a second query creation unit configured to creates a second query for deriving a second answer on the basis of the first answer, a second answer derivation unit configured to derive the second answer to the second query on the basis of the information indicating the situation, and a response sentence creation unit configured to combine the first answer with the second answer to create a response sentence.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Noriyuki Abe, Kanako Oonishi
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Patent number: 11621102Abstract: An electric wire includes a flat stranded conductor having a flat shape in cross sectional view and configured by a plurality of conductive wires each having a wire diameter of 1.2 mm or less and which are stranded to each other, and a flat covering portion that is an insulator and covers the flat stranded conductor. The flat covering portion has a uniform elongation of 43.5% or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Abe, Hiroki Kondo
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Patent number: 11618334Abstract: A solar power generation control device, controlling a solar power generation system configured to charge a power storage device of a vehicle with electric power generated by a solar cell provided in the vehicle, includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether irradiation light to the vehicle is sunlight based on an output of an optical sensor; and a control unit configured to control an operation mode of the solar power generation system, including a first mode, in which the power storage device is charged with electric power generated by the solar cell, and a second mode, in which power consumption of the solar power generation system is lower than in the first mode, based on a determination result of the determination unit. The control unit sets the solar power generation system to the first mode when the determination unit determines that the irradiation light is sunlight.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Abe, Yoshio Kojima
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Publication number: 20220314830Abstract: A secondary battery management device includes a target setting portion that sets a target charging rate that is a target for a charging rate of a secondary battery mounted in a vehicle, and a target charging rate reaching time that is a time when main charging in which the secondary battery is charged to the target charging rate at a main charging speed is completed; a main charging setting portion that sets a main charging start time when the main charging is started and the main charging speed on the basis of an output of a charger, the target charging rate, and the target charging rate reaching time; at least one of a discharging setting portion that sets a discharging start time when discharging of the secondary battery is started and a discharging speed that is a speed of the discharging, and a sub-charging setting portion that sets a sub-charging start time when sub-charging in which the secondary battery is charged at a sub-charging speed is started and the sub-charging speed; and a charging/dischargiType: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventor: Noriyuki Abe
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Publication number: 20220316908Abstract: A vehicle control device which is used in a vehicle traveling by electric power generated by solar power generation, includes: a solar radiation information acquisition unit which acquires solar radiation information showing a solar radiation amount on a travel route which is a planned travel route; and a target speed determination unit which determines a target speed on the travel route on the basis of the solar radiation information acquired by the solar radiation information acquisition unit and information in which the solar radiation amount is associated with the speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventor: Noriyuki Abe
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Publication number: 20220319735Abstract: An electric wire includes a flat stranded conductor having a flat shape in cross sectional view and configured by a plurality of conductive wires each having a wire diameter of 1.2 mm or less and which are stranded to each other, and a flat covering portion that is an insulator and covers the flat stranded conductor. The flat covering portion has a uniform elongation of 43.5% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Abe, Hiroki Kondo
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Publication number: 20220314958Abstract: A vehicle includes a drive system electrical system configured to supply power to a driver system, a non-drive system electrical system configured to supply power to a non-drive system, a first magnetic contactor that is electrically connected between the drive system electrical system and the non-drive system electrical system, a second magnetic contactor that is electrically connected between a power supply system configured to supply power to the non-drive system electrical system and the non-drive system electrical system, and a magnetic contactor control unit configured to execute at least one of first control processing of setting the first magnetic contactor to a non-conduction state when the non-drive system electrical system does not operate by using a DC power supply included in the drive system electrical system and second control processing of setting the second magnetic contactor to a non-conduction state when the non-drive system electrical system does not operate by using the power supply systeType: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventor: Noriyuki Abe
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Publication number: 20220320867Abstract: A grid system in which a first storage battery and a second storage battery can be connected and electric power can be transferred between the first storage battery and the second storage battery, includes: an electric power value setting unit that sets an electric power value per a predetermined amount of electric power according to an electric power state of either or both of the first storage battery and the second storage battery; and an electric power transfer control unit that adjusts an amount of electric power to be transferred between the first storage battery and the second storage battery on the basis of the electric power value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventor: Noriyuki Abe