Patents by Inventor Satoru Nishio

Satoru Nishio 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).

  • Patent number: 10201908
    Abstract: A wood or resin cutting tool with improved durability is provided. The wood or resin cutting tool is composed of a base material made of steel or a cemented carbide alloy, and a coating formed on at least one of the rake face and the clearance face of the cutting tool. The coating includes a periodic structure layer made of chromium oxynitride, in which high oxygen regions having a high concentration of oxygen in the texture and low oxygen regions having a lower concentration of oxygen in the texture than the high oxygen regions periodically exist in the thickness direction of the coating. The periodic structure layer is formed such that the nitrogen concentration periodically turns high and low in the thickness direction of the layer corresponding to the high oxygen regions and the low oxygen regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Kanefusa Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Minami, Yasunari Yamada, Satoru Nishio
  • Patent number: 10192151
    Abstract: A print control apparatus includes: a job reception unit that receives a print job in which a plurality of different print conditions are capable of being set; a setting reception unit that receives setting of a single print condition among the plurality of print conditions; a print execution unit that prints an image based on the print job as a result of executing the print job in accordance with a single print condition. The print execution unit, when the print condition set in the setting reception unit is changed during execution of the print job, prints an image based on the print job executed under the print condition subsequent to the change immediately after an image based on the print job executed under the print condition prior to the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoru Nishio
  • Publication number: 20180284171
    Abstract: An electrostatic capacitance measuring device includes: a base substrate; a first sensor having a first electrode, one or more second sensors each having a second electrode, and a circuit board mounted on the base substrate. The first sensor is provided along an edge of the base substrate. The second sensors are fixed on the base substrate. The circuit board is connected to the first sensor and the second sensors, and configured to output high frequency signals to the first electrode and the one or more second electrodes and obtain a first measurement value indicating an electrostatic capacitance from a voltage amplitude at the first electrode and one or more second measurement values indicating electrostatic capacitances obtained from voltage amplitudes at the one or more second electrodes. The measuring device has one or more reference surfaces fixed on the measuring device and facing the one or more second electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Kippei SUGITA, Tomohide MINAMI, Satoru NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20180154461
    Abstract: An end mill includes a major-diameter shank, a cone-shaped connector portion disposed at the end of the shank, a minor-diameter body disposed by way of the connector portion coaxially therewith, a toothed element disposed at the leading end of the body, an installation recess dented slightly in the toothed element, and a cutting edge held in the installation recess so as to swell in the shape of an arc to protrude from an outer peripheral face of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: KANEFUSA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoru NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20180071846
    Abstract: In a circular saw blade, cutting teeth are joined to tooth bodies projecting outward in a radial direction at locations on an outer periphery of a disk-shaped metal base, gullets are provided between the tooth bodies so as to be recessed in the radial direction, radial clearance angles of side cutting edges of the cutting teeth are greater than ?1° and less than 1°, and a vibration prevention mechanism for preventing vibration of the metal base itself is provided. A ratio of a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of pitches of the multiple cutting teeth to an average value of the pitches is 40% to 100%. A ratio of a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of average values of depths of the adjacent gullets to an average value of depths of the gullets may be 20% to 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: KANEFUSA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru NISHIO, Ken TAKEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170255846
    Abstract: A print control apparatus includes: a job reception unit that receives a print job in which a plurality of different print conditions are capable of being set; a setting reception unit that receives setting of a single print condition among the plurality of print conditions; a print execution unit that prints an image based on the print job as a result of executing the print job in accordance with a single print condition. The print execution unit, when the print condition set in the setting reception unit is changed during execution of the print job, prints an image based on the print job executed under the print condition subsequent to the change immediately after an image based on the print job executed under the print condition prior to the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Satoru NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20160199997
    Abstract: A spare blade 25 is a square plate formed of cemented carbide and to be attached to an outer circumferential surface of a cutter 10 for forming a plane. A flat face 28 forming cutting edges is a convex portion 28a slightly bulging in a shape of a lateral surface of a single cone, and a center of the square plate lies on an axis of the convex portion 28a. An entire surface of the spare blade 25 is covered with a diamond coating film having a thickness of 5 to 25 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: KANEFUSA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru NISHIO, Mikihiro ANDO, Yuki WADA, Toru MINAMI
  • Publication number: 20160019015
    Abstract: A print image processing device includes an input unit to which print conditions are input, a conversion unit (a printer driver) which converts image information into a print image, and a display unit which displays selection candidates (sample images) of the print image which is formed based on the input print conditions in a selectable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko HIRASAWA, Satoru NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20150273724
    Abstract: A wood or resin cutting tool with improved durability is provided. The wood or resin cutting tool is composed of a base material made of steel or a cemented carbide alloy, and a coating formed on at least one of the rake face and the clearance face of the cutting tool. The coating includes a periodic structure layer made of chromium oxynitride, in which high oxygen regions having a high concentration of oxygen in the texture and low oxygen regions having a lower concentration of oxygen in the texture than the high oxygen regions periodically exist in the thickness direction of the coating. The periodic structure layer is formed such that the nitrogen concentration periodically turns high and low in the thickness direction of the layer corresponding to the high oxygen regions and the low oxygen regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KANEFUSA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Minami, Yasunari Yamada, Satoru Nishio
  • Publication number: 20150251259
    Abstract: A tipped saw blade is comprised of a base metal and a plurality of tips of varying length that are arranged on an outer circumferential periphery of the base metal. The plurality of tips include long tips with a setting line length in a radial direction of 4 mm or more, and short tips with a setting line length in the radial direction of less than 4 mm. The number of long tips may be between 2% to 15% of the total number of long tips and short tips combined, where the number of long tips is two or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: KANEFUSA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoru Nishio
  • Patent number: 9128656
    Abstract: An information processing system that includes: a job execution apparatus; an information processing apparatus configured to send a job to the job execution apparatus; and an information management apparatus configured to store log information of the job, the information processing apparatus including: a job sending unit configured to send identification information of each job to the job execution apparatus with the job; and a first log sending unit configured to send the log information of the job to the information management apparatus by including the identification information into the log information, and the job execution apparatus including: a second log sending unit configured to include the identification information into the log information of the job, and to send the log information to the information management apparatus, wherein the information management apparatus integrates pieces of log information having common identification information, and stores the integrated log information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Nishio
  • Patent number: 9081949
    Abstract: An information processor is disclosed that includes an authentication part configured to authenticate a user based on predetermined information; an information obtaining part configured to obtain first information to be used to authenticate the user from an external device; and an authentication control part configured to cause the authentication part to authenticate the user by inputting information based on the first information to the authentication part as the predetermined information. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain the first information using a program module whose correlation with the information obtaining part is recorded in a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuki Ohtaka, Satoru Nishio, Seijiro Hori
  • Publication number: 20150193182
    Abstract: A disclosed information processing system includes an information processing apparatus configured to carry out a function related to printing, an authentication management apparatus configured to carry out a user authentication for enabling a user to request to carry out the function of the information processing apparatus, and a predetermined data transmission path configured to connect the information processing apparatus to the authentication management apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus carries out a process of the function in response to the request from the user and is enabled to report operation logs to an outside of the information processing apparatus, and any one of the information processing apparatus and the authentication management apparatus determines whether an execution mode of the process required by the user is to be changed based on the operation logs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru NISHIO
  • Patent number: 9053303
    Abstract: A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an authentication information reception unit configured to receive first authentication information input to the image forming apparatus, an authentication control unit configured to send the first authentication information to a first authentication apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus via a network and cause the first authentication apparatus to carry out a first authentication based on the first authentication information, and an authentication information recording unit configured to record, when the first authentication based on the first authentication information has succeeded, the first authentication information therein as second authentication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Nishio
  • Publication number: 20130254859
    Abstract: An information processor is disclosed that includes an authentication part configured to authenticate a user based on predetermined information; an information obtaining part configured to obtain first information to be used to authenticate the user from an external device; and an authentication control part configured to cause the authentication part to authenticate the user by inputting information based on the first information to the authentication part as the predetermined information. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain the first information using a program module whose correlation with the information obtaining part is recorded in a recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Yuuki OHTAKA, Satoru NISHIO, Seijiro HORI
  • Patent number: 8479273
    Abstract: An information processor is disclosed that includes an authentication part configured to authenticate a user based on predetermined information; an information obtaining part configured to obtain first information to be used to authenticate the user from an external device; and an authentication control part configured to cause the authentication part to authenticate the user by inputting information based on the first information to the authentication part as the predetermined information. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain the first information using a program module whose correlation with the information obtaining part is recorded in a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Ohtaka, Satoru Nishio, Seijiro Hori
  • Patent number: 8435651
    Abstract: Provided is a wood cutting tool with improved wear resistance and corrosion resistance. A hard fundamental layer (18) of chromium nitride (CrN) is subjected to PVD to be coated on a rake face (16) of a substrate (12) formed of a cemented carbide alloy or a tool steel. The hard fundamental layer (18) has a five-layer structure having a first layer (18a) to a fifth layer (18e) disposed in order from the substrate (12) side. A hard main layer (20) of chromium oxide (Cr2O3) is coated on the outer surface of the fifth layer (18e) of the hard fundamental layer (18). The hard main layer (20), like the hard fundamental layer (18), is formed by PVD. The hard fundamental layer (18) is coated with the hard main layer (20) to suppress corrosion, thereby improving the wear resistance and corrosion resistance of a cemented carbide replaceable knife (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Kanefusa Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Minami, Satoru Nishio
  • Publication number: 20130063777
    Abstract: An information processing system that includes: a job execution apparatus; an information processing apparatus configured to send a job to the job execution apparatus; and an information management apparatus configured to store log information of the job, the information processing apparatus including: a job sending unit configured to send identification information of each job to the job execution apparatus with the job; and a first log sending unit configured to send the log information of the job to the information management apparatus by including the identification information into the log information, and the job execution apparatus including: a second log sending unit configured to include the identification information into the log information of the job, and to send the log information to the information management apparatus, wherein the information management apparatus integrates pieces of log information having common identification information, and stores the integrated log information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru NISHIO
  • Patent number: 8346015
    Abstract: The image processing method includes: (a) detecting a face area or face areas in each of the plurality of images; (b) setting an all-face-inclusion area that includes all of the face areas detected in the operation (a) for each of the plurality of images; (c) setting a plurality of unit areas where the images are to be arranged by dividing the layout area on the basis of the number of the images and the layout area itself; (d) selecting a maximum-face-number image, which is an image that includes the maximum number of the face areas detected in the operation (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Tanaka, Satoru Nishio
  • Patent number: 8042443
    Abstract: A disc-shaped tool includes a plurality of virtual regions formed such that it is surrounded by two radius lines extending from a rotation center of a disc-shaped base metal and two concentric circles on the base metal disposed around the rotation center. A central angle formed by the two radius lines is equal to or less than 90°, and the number of the virtual regions is 4 to 24. The concentric circle located in a center of an interval of the two concentric circles forming the virtual region is in a range of 0.6 r to 0.8 r with respect to the rotation center of the base metal when a maximum gullet bottom radius of the base metal is r. An overlapping of the virtual regions continuously adjoining each other is in a range of 0° to 12°. A minimum neighborhood distance between the adjoining slits is equal to or more than 0.05 r. A ratio of a length of an arc of the central concentric circle in each virtual region with respect to the interval of the two concentric circles in the virtual region is 3 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Kanefusa Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Nishio, Tomoyuki Iinuma, Yasutaka Nakajima