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).

  • Publication number: 20210197592
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hiromasa Yoneyama, Yasuyuki Asai, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
  • Publication number: 20210197593
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
  • Publication number: 20210197594
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohito Abe, Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
  • Publication number: 20210197582
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Suzuki, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki, Yasuyuki Asai
  • Publication number: 20210066771
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solid-state battery includes a battery element including alternating positive electrode layers and negative electrode layers each separated by a respective solid electrolyte layer interposed in between; a positive electrode terminal that is attached to the battery element to be electrically connected to the positive electrode layers and electrically separated from the negative electrode layers; a negative electrode terminal that is attached to the battery element to be electrically connected to the negative electrode layers and electrically separated from the positive electrode layers; an insulating coating that covers the battery element, wherein a respective portion of each of the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal lead out of the covered battery element; and a heat receiving member that is attached to the insulating coating so as to be electrically separated from both the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Jusuke Shimura, Noriyuki Aoki, Tomohiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20200394415
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: NEC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki AOKI, Masanori TAKAOKA, Tetsuya ITO, Hiroki YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 10828890
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention, even though there is a print shift due to a gap between a nozzle in an upstream side and a nozzle in a downstream side of a printhead, a printing apparatus capable of precisely adjusting a slant of a printhead with respect to a conveyance direction in a nozzle surface of the printhead is provided. According to the embodiment, two adjustment patterns are printed at two different carriage speeds, respectively, and a print shift due to a slant of the nozzle surface of the printhead with respect to a conveyance direction of a print medium is adjusted based on these two print results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daigo Kuronuma, Masakazu Nagashima, Ryohei Maruyama, Tomohito Abe, Noriyuki Aoki, Naoaki Wada, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200338899
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Naoaki Wada, Noriyuki Aoki, Tomohito Abe, Daigo Kuronuma, Ryutaro Takahashi, Masakazu Nagashima, Ryohei Maruyama, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200307270
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Daigo Kuronuma, Ryutaro Takahashi, Naoaki Wada, Tomohito Abe, Noriyuki Aoki, Ryohei Maruyama, Masakazu Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20200307273
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Daigo Kuronuma, Ryutaro Takahashi, Naoaki Wada, Tomohito Abe, Noriyuki Aoki, Ryohei Maruyama, Masakazu Nagashima, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10703110
    Abstract: A liquid holding container includes a top face portion having an opening portion, a bottom face portion facing the top face portion, a first ink absorber being disposed near the opening portion and layered in a first direction from the bottom face portion to the top face portion, the first ink absorber being configured to absorb a liquid introduced from the opening portion, and a second ink absorber being disposed outside the first absorber in a second direction that intersects the first direction and layered in the second direction, the second ink absorber being configured to absorb the liquid moving from the first ink absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Aoki, Masakazu Nagashima, Ryohei Maruyama, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Naoaki Wada, Tomohito Abe, Daigo Kuronuma
  • Patent number: 10607565
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a convertor that executes a control program to convert an input video signal, and, when having received a first notification querying for a connection state of the first display device and having detected a resistance value corresponding to a state where a first display device is connected on a path connected with the first display device, transmits a second notification; a display controller that transmits the first notification to the convertor when having received an instruction to update the control program, and updates the control program when having received the second notification as a response to the first notification; and a resistance changer that connects a dummy resistor to the path and causes the path to have the resistance value corresponding to the state when the resistance value corresponding to the state is not detected on the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU CLIENT COMPUTING LIMITED
    Inventor: Noriyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 10569560
    Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a print head, an ink tank containing ink to be supplied to the print head, a cap switchable between a covering position to cover a discharge port face and an exposing position to expose the discharge port face, a suction unit connected to the cap, and a control unit. The control unit controls the performing of an ink filling operation of filling the print head with the ink supplied from the ink tank. The ink filling operation includes a valve-closing suction operation of performing suction through the suction unit for a predetermined period of time while the cap is in the covering position. The apparatus further includes a detection unit configured to detect an ink filling state. The control unit controls the stopping of the ink filling operation in accordance with a detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoaki Wada, Toshiro Sugiyama, Noriyuki Aoki, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Masakazu Nagashima, Ryohei Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20200014071
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Mamoru NAKASHIMA, Masayuki ARIMOCHI, Masamitsu SUZUKI, Masahiro MOROOKA, Noriyuki AOKI, Keiko HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190295501
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a convertor that executes a control program to convert an input video signal, and, when having received a first notification querying for a connection state of the first display device and having detected a resistance value corresponding to a state where a first display device is connected on a path connected with the first display device, transmits a second notification; a display controller that transmits the first notification to the convertor when having received an instruction to update the control program, and updates the control program when having received the second notification as a response to the first notification; and a resistance changer that connects a dummy resistor to the path and causes the path to have the resistance value corresponding to the state when the resistance value corresponding to the state is not detected on the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited
    Inventor: Noriyuki Aoki
  • Publication number: 20190252727
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Tomohiro Kato, Masamitsu Suzuki, Noriyuki Aoki, Masahiro Morooka
  • Publication number: 20190232677
    Abstract: A liquid holding container includes a top face portion having an opening portion, a bottom face portion facing the top face portion, a first ink absorber being disposed near the opening portion and layered in a first direction from the bottom face portion to the top face portion, the first ink absorber being configured to absorb a liquid introduced from the opening portion, and a second ink absorber being disposed outside the first absorber in a second direction that intersects the first direction and layered in the second direction, the second ink absorber being configured to absorb the liquid moving from the first ink absorber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Noriyuki Aoki, Masakazu Nagashima, Ryohei Maruyama, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Naoaki Wada, Tomohito Abe, Daigo Kuronuma
  • Publication number: 20190232641
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention, even though there is a print shift due to a gap between a nozzle in an upstream side and a nozzle in a downstream side of a printhead, a printing apparatus capable of precisely adjusting a slant of a printhead with respect to a conveyance direction in a nozzle surface of the printhead is provided. According to the embodiment, two adjustment patterns are printed at two different carriage speeds, respectively, and a print shift due to a slant of the nozzle surface of the printhead with respect to a conveyance direction of a print medium is adjusted based on these two print results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Daigo Kuronuma, Masakazu Nagashima, Ryohei Maruyama, Tomohito Abe, Noriyuki Aoki, Naoaki Wada, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10319337
    Abstract: An information processing device capable of connecting to a display device using a function expansion unit includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: calculate a data transfer rate of the display device from a resolution to be used in the display device; and display, based on a data transfer rate at a given resolution calculated by the calculation unit, a ratio of the data transfer rate of the display device to an allowable data transfer rate, so as to be visibly recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited
    Inventor: Noriyuki Aoki
  • Publication number: 20180281444
    Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a print head, an ink tank containing ink to be supplied to the print head, a cap switchable between a covering position to cover a discharge port face and an exposing position to expose the discharge port face, a suction unit connected to the cap, and a control unit. The control unit controls the performing of an ink filling operation of filling the print head with the ink supplied from the ink tank. The ink filling operation includes a valve-closing suction operation of performing suction through the suction unit for a predetermined period of time while the cap is in the covering position. The apparatus further includes a detection unit configured to detect an ink filling state. The control unit controls the stopping of the ink filling operation in accordance with a detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Naoaki Wada, Toshiro Sugiyama, Noriyuki Aoki, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Masakazu Nagashima, Ryohei Maruyama