Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Aoki
Noriyuki Aoki 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: 20230241905Abstract: A printing apparatus that includes a holding unit configured to hold a roll sheet 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: January 31, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Yoshiaki Suzuki, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki, Yasuyuki Asai
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Patent number: 11712910Abstract: A printing apparatus, comprising a conveyance unit for conveying a sheet, a carriage mounted with a printhead and configured to scan the printhead in a sheet widthwise direction, a platen arranged so as to face the printhead, a detection unit mounted on the carriage and configured to detect a distance to a sheet, a support portion, for supporting a sheet from below, arranged on a downstream side of the carriage in a conveyance direction, movable between a first position at which the support portion forms a conveyance surface for a sheet and a second position at which the support portion protrudes above the conveyance surface, and a determination unit configured to determine, based on a detection result of the detection unit, whether the support portion is at the first position or the second position.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Abe, Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 11710855Abstract: An all-solid-state battery is provided that includes a cathode layer, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer, in which a porosity of the solid electrolyte layer is equal to or less than 10%. Moreover, the batter includes a surface roughness Rz1 of the cathode layer and a surface roughness Rz2 of the anode layer, such that Rz1+Rz2?25.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Mamoru Nakashima, Masayuki Arimochi, Masamitsu Suzuki, Masahiro Morooka, Noriyuki Aoki, Keiko Hayashi
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Patent number: 11679606Abstract: There is provided with 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 control unit, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied after the printing medium is cut by the cutter unit, causes the printing unit to perform printing on a succeeding printing medium, while moving the printing unit in a state in which the cutter unit is connected with the printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromasa Yoneyama, Yasuyuki Asai, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Publication number: 20230098088Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus which includes the following: A printhead including a plurality of nozzles that discharge ink to a print medium. A first detection unit that detects a distance between the printhead and a platen. An adjustment unit that adjusts the distance between the printhead and the platen. An acquisition unit that acquires difference information concerning a difference of a distance between the platen and each of the nozzle on an upstream side and the nozzle on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the print medium. The adjustment unit adjusts the distance based on a detection result of the first detection unit and the difference information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Tomohito Abe, Daigo Kuronuma, Ryutaro Takahashi, Naoaki Wada, Noriyuki Aoki, Ryohei Maruyama, Masakazu Nagashima, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11590777Abstract: A printing apparatus that includes a holding unit configured to hold a roll sheet 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiaki Suzuki, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki, Yasuyuki Asai
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Patent number: 11541674Abstract: 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: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Itaru Wada, Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 11524512Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus which includes the following: A printhead including a plurality of nozzles that discharge ink to a print medium. A first detection unit that detects a distance between the printhead and a platen. An adjustment unit that adjusts the distance between the printhead and the platen. An acquisition unit that acquires difference information concerning a difference of a distance between the platen and each of the nozzle on an upstream side and the nozzle on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the print medium. The adjustment unit adjusts the distance based on a detection result of the first detection unit and the difference information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Abe, Daigo Kuronuma, Ryutaro Takahashi, Naoaki Wada, Noriyuki Aoki, Ryohei Maruyama, Masakazu Nagashima, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20220388318Abstract: 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: August 16, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Itaru Wada, Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Publication number: 20220320590Abstract: A solid state battery including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, wherein the positive electrode layer includes a positive electrode active material in which a spacing d003 of a lattice plane (003) is 4.800 ? or more in a charged state at a positive electrode potential of 4.55 V.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki IWANE, Noriyuki AOKI, Katsunori TAKAHARA, Yusuke FUNADA, Kiyoshi KUMAGAE, Keisuke SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20220252443Abstract: A volume measurement apparatus comprises: a point group conversion part converting depth information from a depth sensor into point group data; a raw material heap detection part detecting a point group related to a raw material heap from the point group data, using repose angle information; and a raw material heap volume calculation part that calculates a volume of the raw material heap non-occlusion part based on the point group related to the raw material heap; estimates a volume of the raw material heap occlusion part in the raw material heap, using at least the point group related to the raw material heap; and calculates a volume of the raw material heap, which is a sum of the calculated volume of the raw material heap non-occlusion part and the estimated volume of the raw material heap occlusion part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki YOKOTA, Masanori TAKAOKA, Noriyuki AOKI, Kenji KONO
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Patent number: 11376875Abstract: A printing apparatus including: a carriage having a print head and configured to be movable in an intersecting direction; a slitter unit configured to be movable in the intersecting direction and cut a roll sheet in a conveyance direction; a detection sensor mounted on the carriage and configured to detect a cut portion of the roll sheet that has been cut by the slitter unit; and a control unit configured to control the carriage to move after controlling the slitter unit to move and cut the roll sheet, so that the cut portion made by the slitter unit is detected by the detection sensor, and configured to control a moving distance of the carriage or the slitter, based on a first moving distance by which the slitter unit has moved and a second moving distance of the carriage at a timing where the detection sensor detects the cut portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daigo Kuronuma, Ryutaro Takahashi, Naoaki Wada, Tomohito Abe, Noriyuki Aoki, Ryohei Maruyama, Masakazu Nagashima, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11361547Abstract: An object detection apparatus comprising: an input part configured to input video data, an extraction part configured to extract image data from the video data, and a determination part configured to determine whether or not the image data includes an object, wherein the determination part is configured to: set a plurality of regions in a learning image data such that the object appearing in the learning image data extracted from a learning video data captured in advance extends over at least the plurality of regions, assign a learning teach label to each of the regions set, and determine whether or not the image data includes the object by using a prediction model generated by utilizing the learning teach label assigned to each of the regions set.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: NEC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Aoki, Masanori Takaoka, Tetsuya Ito, Hiroki Yokota
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Publication number: 20210394539Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus which includes the following: A printhead including a plurality of nozzles that discharge ink to a print medium. A first detection unit that detects a distance between the printhead and a platen. An adjustment unit that adjusts the distance between the printhead and the platen. An acquisition unit that acquires difference information concerning a difference of a distance between the platen and each of the nozzle on an upstream side and the nozzle on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the print medium. The adjustment unit adjusts the distance based on a detection result of the first detection unit and the difference information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Tomohito Abe, Daigo Kuronuma, Ryutaro Takahashi, Naoaki Wada, Noriyuki Aoki, Ryohei Maruyama, Masakazu Nagashima, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11198302Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet printing apparatus that can reduce the time for the initial installment. In the present invention, in the initial installation, once an ink tank is attached to a printing apparatus main body, a notification unit makes a notification prompting attaching of a printing head during an operation of supplying ink from the ink tank to a reservoir tank.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoaki Wada, Noriyuki Aoki, Tomohito Abe, Daigo Kuronuma, Ryutaro Takahashi, Masakazu Nagashima, Ryohei Maruyama, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11196090Abstract: A solid battery including a positive electrode layer; a negative electrode layer; a current collecting layer; a solid electrolyte layer; and an insulating layer. Each of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the current collecting layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the insulating layer contains a material having a glass transition point of 500° C. or less in an amount of 10 vol % to 60 vol %, and among contents of the material having a glass transition point of 500° C. or less in each of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the current collecting layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the insulating layer, a difference between a maximum content and a minimum content is 30 vol % or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Tomohiro Kato, Masamitsu Suzuki, Noriyuki Aoki, Masahiro Morooka
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Patent number: 11165100Abstract: A solid battery including a positive electrode layer; a negative electrode layer; a current collecting layer; a solid electrolyte layer; and an insulating layer. Each of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the current collecting layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the insulating layer contains a material having a glass transition point of 500° C. or less in an amount of 10 vol % to 60 vol %, and among contents of the material having a glass transition point of 500° C. or less in each of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the current collecting layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the insulating layer, a difference between a maximum content and a minimum content is 30 vol % or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Tomohiro Kato, Masamitsu Suzuki, Noriyuki Aoki, Masahiro Morooka
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Publication number: 20210276344Abstract: A printing apparatus, comprising 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 was 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 was performed by the printing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Itaru Wada, Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 11052681Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes: a conveyance unit configured to convey a printing medium in a conveyance direction; a print head configured to print an image on the printing medium conveyed by the conveyance unit; and a slitter disposed on a downstream relative to the print head in the conveyance direction and configured to cut the printing medium in the conveyance direction in accordance with the conveyance by the conveyance unit, wherein the slitter is configured to cut the printing medium from a leading edge of the printing medium up to a predetermined position in accordance with the conveyance of the printing medium by the conveyance unit, and wherein the print head is configured to print the image in between the leading edge of the printing medium and the predetermined position in the conveyance direction after the printing medium is cut by the slitter.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Daigo Kuronuma, Ryutaro Takahashi, Naoaki Wada, Tomohito Abe, Noriyuki Aoki, Ryohei Maruyama, Masakazu Nagashima
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Publication number: 20210197592Abstract: There is provided with 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 control unit, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied after the printing medium is cut by the cutter unit, causes the printing unit to perform printing on a succeeding printing medium, while moving the printing unit in a state in which the cutter unit is connected with the printing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Hiromasa Yoneyama, Yasuyuki Asai, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki