Patents by Inventor Satoru Yamada

Satoru Yamada 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: 20150186089
    Abstract: A printer driver includes an assigning unit that assigns a setting value based on storage location information specifying a storage location for each setting value; a compressing unit that converts each of the setting values thus assigned to have a format identifying each storage location, and generates compressed data therefrom; a storage unit that stores each piece of the compressed data compressed by the compressing unit in a storage location specified by the storage location information; a first decompressing unit and a second decompressing unit that decompress the compressed data stored in the storage location; a setting window displaying unit that displays a print setting window using each of the setting values obtained by decompression performed by the first decompressing unit; and a print data generating unit that generates print data using each of the setting values obtained by decompression performed by the second decompressing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventor: Satoru YAMADA
  • Patent number: 9023465
    Abstract: Provided is an electroconductive member that can demonstrate stable performance for a long period of time with an electric resistance value being hardly changed even by electrical conduction for a long period of time. An electroconductive member has a conductive mandrel, and a conductive layer provided on the outer periphery of the conductive mandrel. The conductive layer includes an organic polymeric compound as a binder, and a conductive particle dispersed in the organic polymeric compound, and the particle includes an organic-inorganic hybrid polymer having a specific structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Yamada, Seiji Tsuru, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Norifumi Muranaka, Yuka Hirakoso
  • Patent number: 9019520
    Abstract: A printer driver includes an assigning unit that assigns a setting value based on storage location information specifying a storage location for each setting value; a compressing unit that converts each of the setting values thus assigned to have a format identifying each storage location, and generates compressed data therefrom; a storage unit that stores each piece of the compressed data compressed by the compressing unit in a storage location specified by the storage location information; a first decompressing unit and a second decompressing unit that decompress the compressed data stored in the storage location; a setting window displaying unit that displays a print setting window using each of the setting values obtained by decompression performed by the first decompressing unit; and a print data generating unit that generates print data using each of the setting values obtained by decompression performed by the second decompressing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Satoru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150093517
    Abstract: Provided is an electroconductive member for electrophotography, having a fiber layer on the outer peripheral surface of an electroconductive substrate, the electroconductive member having good adhesion property between the electroconductive substrate and the fiber layer. Specifically, provided is a method of producing an electroconductive member for electrophotography, the electroconductive member comprising an electroconductive substrate; and a fiber layer thereon, the fiber layer comprising fibers which have an average fiber diameter of from 0.01 ?m to 40 ?m, and are adhered to an outer peripheral surface of the electroconductive substrate, the method comprising the steps of: producing the fibers in a space between a nozzle and the outer peripheral surface of the electroconductive substrate by ejecting a liquid containing a raw material for the fibers from the nozzle toward the electroconductive substrate; and adhering the fibers to the outer peripheral surface of the electroconductive substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Norifumi Muranaka, Satoru Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Yuichi Kikuchi, Tetsuo Hino
  • Patent number: 8981480
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a buried well, first and second active regions, an isolation layer, and a low resistance region. The buried well is disposed on a substrate and has impurity ions of a first conductivity type. The first and second active regions are disposed on the buried well and each have impurity ions of a second conductivity type, which is different from the first conductivity type. The isolation layer is disposed between the first and second active regions. The low resistance region is disposed between the isolation layer and the substrate and has impurity ions of the second conductivity type. The concentration of impurity ions in the low resistance region is greater than the concentration of the impurity ions in each of the first and second active regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Hee Lim, Satoru Yamada, Sung-Duk Hong
  • Patent number: 8947950
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a bit line connected to a memory cell; an input/output line configured to input a data signal to the memory cell during a writing operation and to output a data signal stored in the memory cell during a reading operation; and a column select transistor including a first source/drain connected to the bit line and a second source/drain connected to the input/output line, wherein a resistance of the first source/drain is smaller than a resistance of the second source/drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyo-Suk Chae, Satoru Yamada
  • Patent number: 8941173
    Abstract: According to an example embodiment of inventive concepts, a capacitorless memory device includes a capacitorless memory cell that includes a bit line on a substrate; a read transistor, and a write transistor. The read transistor may include first to third impurity layers stacked in a vertical direction on the bit line. The first and third layers may be a first conductive type, and the second impurity layer may be a second conductive type that differs from the first conductive type. The write transistor may include a source layer, a body layer, and a drain layer stacked in the vertical direction on the substrate, and a gate line that is adjacent to a side surface of the body layer. The gate line may be spaced apart from the side surface of the body layer. The source layer may be adjacent to a side surface of the second impurity layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Uk Han, Jae-Hoon Lee, Jun-Su Kim, Satoru Yamada, Jin-Seong Lee, Nam-Ho Jeon
  • Patent number: 8941848
    Abstract: A novel print controlling apparatus that facilitates providing easy services that use printer drivers. The print controlling apparatus that executes a print job on a printing apparatus, and includes an additional feature driver 130 that acquires image to be printed and print settings set by a user by working as a printer driver and generates a print data in a format with open specifications by processing the acquired image, an individual driver 150 as a printer driver that generates a print job to be sent to a printer 2 designated in the print settings, and a reprint controlling unit 140 that has the individual driver 150 generate the print job based on the generated print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru Yamada
  • Patent number: 8922317
    Abstract: A coil component including: a magnetic core which is formed by a magnetic material and which has a top surface, a bottom surface facing the top surface and a side surface continuous approximately perpendicularly to the top surface and the bottom surface; a coil which is buried inside the magnetic core and whose end portion protrudes from the side surface of the magnetic core; a flat-shaped terminal which protrudes from the side surface of the magnetic core, is bent toward the bottom surface of the magnetic core and is connected with the end portion of the coil, wherein there is formed an opening portion at a position corresponding to the place which is bent for the flat-shaped terminal from the side surface to the bottom surface of the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sumida Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Yamada, Kazuyuki Kikuchi, Yoshiyuki Tahara
  • Publication number: 20140369110
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes: a memory unit including a first memory sub region including a first memory cell and a second memory sub region including a second memory cell; a temperature information obtaining unit that obtains temperature information; a temperature estimation unit that estimates a first temperature of the first memory sub region and a second temperature of the second memory sub region based on the temperature information; a first sub region control unit that controls the first memory sub region based on the first temperature; and a second sub region control unit that controls the second memory sub region based on the second temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-hee CHO, Satoru YAMADA, Sang-ho SHIN, Sung-sam LEE
  • Publication number: 20140353768
    Abstract: A four transistor layout can include an isolation region that defines an active region, the active region extending along first and second different directions. A common source region of the four transistors extends from a center of the active region along both the first and second directions to define four quadrants of the active region that are outside the common source region. Four drain regions are provided, a respective one of which is in a respective one of the four quadrants and spaced apart from the common source region. Finally, four gate electrodes are provided, a respective one of which is in a respective one of the four quadrants between the common source region and a respective one of the four drain regions. A respective gate electrode includes a vertex and first and second extending portions, the first extending portions extending from the vertex along the first direction and the second extending portions extending from the vertex along the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Kyo-Suk CHAE, Satoru YAMADA
  • Patent number: 8901630
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a buried cell array transistor and an electronic device including the same are provided. The device includes a field region in a substrate and the filed region defines an active region. A first source/drain region and a second source/drain region are in the active region. A gate trench is between the first and second source/drain regions, and in the active region and the field region. A gate structure is within the gate trench. The gate structure includes a gate electrode, an insulating gate capping pattern on the gate electrode, a gate dielectric between the gate electrode and the active region, and an insulating metal-containing material layer between the insulating gate capping pattern and the active region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Jae Huh, Satoru Yamada, Jun-Hee Lim, Sung-Ho Jang
  • Publication number: 20140320250
    Abstract: A coil component includes an air-core winding wire portion wound by a wire with a plurality of wound layers by alignment winding, a spiral shaped wound portion in which the wire wound in a spiral shape from an inner edge of an end surface toward an outer edge thereof along the end surface while in contact with the end surface on one side in the axis direction of the winding wire portion, a first lead portion extended and extracted outward from a winding first end point of the spiral shaped wound portion, and a second lead portion extended and extracted outward from a winding second end point at the outer circumference of the winding wire portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Satoru YAMADA, Yoshiyuki HATAYAMA
  • Patent number: 8864060
    Abstract: A coil component includes an air-core winding wire portion wound by a wire with a plurality of wound layers by alignment winding, a spiral shaped wound portion in which the wire wound in a spiral shape from an inner edge of an end surface toward an outer edge thereof along the end surface while in contact with the end surface on one side in the axis direction of the winding wire portion, a first lead portion extended and extracted outward from a winding first end point of the spiral shaped wound portion, and a second lead portion extended and extracted outward from a winding second end point at the outer circumference of the winding wire portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sumida Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Yamada, Yoshiyuki Hatayama
  • Patent number: 8852743
    Abstract: An electro-conductive member for electrophotography, including an electro-conductive mandrel and an electro-conductive layer; and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus using the same. The layer contains a binder resin having a sulfo or a quaternary ammonium group as an ion exchange group, and an ion opposite in polarity to the ion exchange group. The resin has any one of structures represented by formulas (1)-1 and (1)-2, and any one of structures represented by formulas (2)-1 to (2)-3; and the resin has a molecular structure preventing occurrence of a matrix-domain structure. M represents an integer of 2-20, n represents an integer of 5-50, p represents an integer of 1-25, q represents an integer of 1-15, and r represents an integer of 1-12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Kikuchi, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Satoru Nishioka, Norifumi Muranaka, Satoru Yamada, Masahiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8823113
    Abstract: A four transistor layout can include an isolation region that defines an active region, the active region extending along first and second different directions. A common source region of the four transistors extends from a center of the active region along both the first and second directions to define four quadrants of the active region that are outside the common source region. Four drain regions are provided, a respective one of which is in a respective one of the four quadrants and spaced apart from the common source region. Finally, four gate electrodes are provided, a respective one of which is in a respective one of the four quadrants between the common source region and a respective one of the four drain regions. A respective gate electrode includes a vertex and first and second extending portions, the first extending portions extending from the vertex along the first direction and the second extending portions extending from the vertex along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyo-Suk Chae, Satoru Yamada, Sang-Yeon Han, Young-Jin Choi, Wook-Je Kim
  • Patent number: 8809930
    Abstract: Semiconductor memory devices may include a write transistor including a first write gate controlling a first source/drain terminal and a second write gate controlling a channel region, and a read transistor including a memory node gate connected to the first source/drain terminal of the write transistor. The first write gate may have a first work function and the second write gate may have a second work function different from the first work function. The first source/drain terminal of the write transistor may not have a PN junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Namho Jeon, Jun-Su Kim, Satoru Yamada, Jaehoon Lee, Seunguk Han, Jiyoung Kim, Jin-Seong Lee
  • Patent number: 8771818
    Abstract: To provide an electrically conducting member for electrophotography that has made itself kept from increasing in electrical resistance with time even in a low temperature and low humidity environment and also has made any ion conducting agent kept from bleeding to its surface. To also provide a process cartridge, and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, that can stably form high-grade electrophotographic images over a long period of time in a variety of environments. The conductive member for electrophotography has an electrically conducting substrate and an electrically conducting layer, and the electrically conducting layer contains a resin having in the molecule at least one structure selected from structures represented by the formula (1), formula (2) and formula (3) each defined in the specification. The process cartridge and the electrophotographic image forming apparatus each make use of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Nishioka, Satoru Yamada, Masahiro Watanabe, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Norifumi Muranaka, Yuichi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20140132974
    Abstract: A printer driver includes an assigning unit that assigns a setting value based on storage location information specifying a storage location for each setting value; a compressing unit that converts each of the setting values thus assigned to have a format identifying each storage location, and generates compressed data therefrom; a storage unit that stores each piece of the compressed data compressed by the compressing unit in a storage location specified by the storage location information; a first decompressing unit and a second decompressing unit that decompress the compressed data stored in the storage location; a setting window displaying unit that displays a print setting window using each of the setting values obtained by decompression performed by the first decompressing unit; and a print data generating unit that generates print data using each of the setting values obtained by decompression performed by the second decompressing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Satoru YAMADA
  • Patent number: 8715830
    Abstract: To provide an electrically conducting member for electrophotography which can not easily come to change in electrical resistance value even upon application of direct current and also has made any ion conducting agent kept from bleeding. The electrically conducting member has an electrically conducting substrate and an electrically conducting layer; the electrically conducting layer containing an epichlorohydrin rubber having in the molecular structure at least an alkylene oxide (AO) unit, an epichlorohydrin (ECH) unit and a unit having a sulfonate ion; the AO unit being at least one unit of an ethylene oxide unit, a propylene oxide unit and a butylene oxide unit; and the AO unit(s) in the rubber being in a content of 5 to 60% by mass in total and the ECH unit in the rubber being in a content of 30% by mass or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Yamada, Norifumi Muranaka, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Satoru Nishioka