Patents by Inventor Satoshi Fukada
Satoshi Fukada 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: 20210312720Abstract: A lane pricing technique for charging a mobile body traveling on a road for use of a lane is provided. A lane pricing device according to one embodiment is configured to: acquire from a mobile body traveling on a road, at least one of position information of a mobile body measured based on a positioning signal, and/or a camera image that is acquired by capturing an image from the mobile body and includes a part of a lane in which the mobile body is moving; specify, based on at least one of the position information and/or the camera image, a lane in which the mobile body is moving; acquire lane identification information for identifying a specified lane along with time information indicative of time when the mobile body is moving; and determine and output a toll to be charged to the mobile body in units of lanes based on the lane identification information and the time information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu YOSHIDA, Yuki YOKOHATA, Kouhei MORI, Takahiro HATA, Atsuhiko MAEDA, Ippei SHAKE, Satoshi FUKADA
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Patent number: 9708148Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural medium transport paths that branch at a predetermined branching position and along which a medium is transported in a curved state; a switching member disposed at the branching position and including a guide surface that allows the medium to be transported along one of the medium transport paths, the switching member switching between the medium transport paths; an output unit that outputs the medium toward a stacking portion, on which the medium is to be stacked, while corrugating the medium; and a guide portion that guides the medium from the branching position toward the output unit in a region in which the medium is corrugated.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Yoshitsugu, Ryuichi Sato, Satoshi Fukada
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Publication number: 20160368727Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural medium transport paths that branch at a predetermined branching position and along which a medium is transported in a curved state; a switching member disposed at the branching position and including a guide surface that allows the medium to be transported along one of the medium transport paths, the switching member switching between the medium transport paths; an output unit that outputs the medium toward a stacking portion, on which the medium is to be stacked, while corrugating the medium; and a guide portion that guides the medium from the branching position toward the output unit in a region in which the medium is corrugated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2015Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Koji YOSHITSUGU, Ryuichi SATO, Satoshi FUKADA
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Patent number: 9102486Abstract: An accommodating device includes an accommodating portion including a bottom portion and in which a member to be accommodated is accommodated, a stacking member disposed in the accommodating portion such that, while one end side of the stacking member serves as a fulcrum, the other end side thereof is able to move upward, and on which the member to be accommodated is stacked, a lifting/lowering mechanism that lifts the other end side and causes the stacking member to drop under its own weight by releasing a lifting force, and a buffer member that acts as a buffer between the stacking member and the bottom portion of the accommodating portion while being constantly in contact with a bottom surface of the stacking member and a top surface of the bottom portion of the accommodating portion within a movable range in which the lifting/lowering mechanism causes the stacking member to move.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Yoshitsugu, Satoshi Fukada
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Publication number: 20150108713Abstract: An accommodating device includes an accommodating portion including a bottom portion and in which a member to be accommodated is accommodated, a stacking member disposed in the accommodating portion such that, while one end side of the stacking member serves as a fulcrum, the other end side thereof is able to move upward, and on which the member to be accommodated is stacked, a lifting/lowering mechanism that lifts the other end side and causes the stacking member to drop under its own weight by releasing a lifting force, and a buffer member that acts as a buffer between the stacking member and the bottom portion of the accommodating portion while being constantly in contact with a bottom surface of the stacking member and a top surface of the bottom portion of the accommodating portion within a movable range in which the lifting/lowering mechanism causes the stacking member to move.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji YOSHITSUGU, Satoshi FUKADA
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Patent number: 8977186Abstract: A drive transmission system includes a drive source and a gear. The drive source includes a rotating shaft, a magnet supported by the rotating shaft, and plural electromagnets. The plural electromagnets are arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft, and surround the magnet. The drive source drives the rotating shaft to rotate by a predetermined rotation angle by exciting at least one of the plural electromagnets in accordance with an input of an input signal and by periodically changing a magnetic pole to which each of the plural electromagnets is excited in response to an input of the input signal. The gear is supported by the rotating shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi Fukada
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Patent number: 8515066Abstract: A method for establishing an encrypted communication channel between a first apparatus and a second apparatus by using a session management apparatus. The method includes: establishing a first encrypted communication channel between the session management apparatus and the first apparatus by performing mutual authentication between the session management apparatus and the first apparatus; establishing a second encrypted communication channel between the session management apparatus and the second apparatus by performing mutual authentication between the session management apparatus and the second apparatus; and exchanging key information between the first apparatus and the second apparatus via the first encrypted communication channel and the second encrypted communication channel so as to establish an encrypted communication channel between the first apparatus and the second apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: NTT Communications CorporationInventors: Makoto Saito, Osamu Tokunaga, Toshiyuki Yamasaki, Shin Miyakawa, Yasuhiro Shirasaki, Takamasa Uchiyama, Satoshi Fukada, Takashi Egashira, Toshiaki Suzuki
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Publication number: 20130142557Abstract: A drive transmission system includes a drive source and a gear. The drive source includes a rotating shaft, a magnet supported by the rotating shaft, and plural electromagnets. The plural electromagnets are arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft, and surround the magnet. The drive source drives the rotating shaft to rotate by a predetermined rotation angle by exciting at least one of the plural electromagnets in accordance with an input of an input signal and by periodically changing a magnetic pole to which each of the plural electromagnets is excited in response to an input of the input signal. The gear is supported by the rotating shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Satoshi FUKADA
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Patent number: 8235383Abstract: A discharge device includes: a discharge unit that discharges a recording medium in a discharge direction; and a forming unit arranged downstream of the discharge unit and adapted to form an oblique corrugation with respect to the discharge direction on the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2008Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Masaki, Kouichi Kumeta, Satoshi Fukada, Masahiro Mori, Tomonori Ishikawa, Go Kondoh, Masashi Ikeda
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Patent number: 8085404Abstract: A gas analyzer capable of measuring a concentration of a gas component in gas at sensor units provided at a plurality of positions in real time by decreasing the number of signals input from the sensor units to an analyzer so as to reduce a data amount input to the analyzer and a gas analyzing method. The gas analyzing method includes the steps of: demultiplexing laser light by a demultiplexer into measurement laser light and reference laser light; letting the measurement laser light pass through gas to be received by a photoreceiver; finding an absorption spectrum absorbed by a gas component in the gas based on a light intensity of the received measurement laser light and of the reference laser light; and analyzing the absorption spectrum to measure a concentration of the gas component.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Yamakage, Katsutoshi Goto, Kenji Muta, Yoshihiro Deguchi, Shinichiro Asami, Satoshi Fukada
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Patent number: 7936460Abstract: An exhaust gas analyzer of the present invention includes a sensor unit 11 installed in an exhaust path from an engine, applies laser light to exhaust gas emitted from the engine and receives laser light that has passed through the exhaust gas so as to measure the concentration of a component contained in the gas based on the received laser light. To an aperture 16 formed in a sensor base 15 of the sensor unit 11, an adjustment ring 40 in a circumferential face of which small holes 41 serving as a laser light passage portion is formed and whose inner circumferential face serves as an exhaust gas passage opening 21 is detachably fitted, whereby the sensor unit can be attached so as to conform to different inner diameters of exhaust tubes.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2007Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyasu Iwase, Katsutoshi Goto, Masahiro Yamakage, Tokio Okano, Yoshihiro Deguchi, Minoru Danno, Masazumi Tanoura, Masao Watanabe, Satoshi Fukada
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Publication number: 20100264315Abstract: This invention provides a hydrocarbon concentration measuring apparatus, which, even when the concentration and composition of hydrocarbons contained in an object gas to be measured vary, can measure the concentration of the hydrocarbons with good response and good accuracy, and a hydrocarbon measuring method. Light with a waveband including a common absorption region, which is absorbed by a single or a plurality of chemical species, is applied to the object gas by an infrared irradiation equipment. The light applied to the object gas is detected with a line sensor. The absorbance in the common absorption region of the object gas is computed with an analyzer based on the detected light. The sum of concentrations of chemical species, which absorb light in the waveband in the common absorption region, in the single or plurality of chemical species contained in the object gas, is computed with the analyzer based on the absorbance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2008Publication date: October 21, 2010Inventors: Takahiro Okada, Seiichi Matsumoto, Masahiro Yamakage, Tomoyasu Iwase, Shigenobu Tachibana, Kenji Muta, Masazumi Tanoura, Satoshi Fukada, Ichiro Awaya, Kazuhiro Akihama, Taketoshi Fujikawa, Masami Yamamoto, Ayako Ohshima
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Publication number: 20100207323Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a main body; a sheet transporting unit provided to a side portion of the main body; and a noise source provided inside of the main body with a rotation portion, wherein the sheet transporting unit includes a plate having a plurality of holes, and an opposing member having a surface opposing the plate, and wherein the noise source, the plate, and the opposing member are disposed in the stated order from inside of the main body to outside of the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2009Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouichi KUMETA, Masahiro MORI, Satoshi FUKADA, Go KONDO, Shinji MASAKI, Masashi IKEDA
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Publication number: 20090323068Abstract: A gas analyzer capable of measuring a concentration of a gas component in gas at sensor units provided at a plurality of positions in real time by decreasing the number of signals input from the sensor units to an analyzer so as to reduce a data amount input to the analyzer and a gas analyzing method. The gas analyzing method includes the steps of: demultiplexing laser light by a demultiplexer into measurement laser light and reference laser light; letting the measurement laser light pass through gas to be received by a photoreceiver; finding an absorption spectrum absorbed by a gas component in the gas based on a light intensity of the received measurement laser light and of the reference laser light; and analyzing the absorption spectrum to measure a concentration of the gas component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2007Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Yamakage, Katsutoshi Goto, Kenji Muta, Yoshihiro Deguchi, Shinichiro Asami, Satoshi Fukada
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Publication number: 20090116883Abstract: A discharge device includes: a discharge unit that discharges a recording medium in a discharge direction; and a forming unit arranged downstream of the discharge unit and adapted to form an oblique corrugation with respect to the discharge direction on the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji MASAKI, Kouichi KUMETA, Satoshi FUKADA, Masahiro MORI, Tomonori ISHIKAWA, Go KONDOH, Masashi IKEDA
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Publication number: 20090095918Abstract: An exhaust gas analyzer of the present invention includes a sensor unit 11 installed in an exhaust path from an engine, applies laser light to exhaust gas emitted from the engine and receives laser light that has passed through the exhaust gas so as to measure the concentration of a component contained in the gas based on the received laser light. To an aperture 16 formed in a sensor base 15 of the sensor unit 11, an adjustment ring 40 in a circumferential face of which small holes 41 serving as a laser light passage portion is formed and whose inner circumferential face serves as an exhaust gas passage opening 21 is detachably fitted, whereby the sensor unit can be attached so as to conform to different inner diameters of exhaust tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2007Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tomoyasu Iwase, Katsutoshi Goto, Masahiro Yamakage, Tokio Okano, Yoshihiro Deguchi, Minoru Danno, Masazumi Tanoura, Masao Watanabe, Satoshi Fukada
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Publication number: 20070133803Abstract: A method for establishing an encrypted communication channel between a first apparatus and a second apparatus by using a session management apparatus. The method includes: establishing a first encrypted communication channel between the session management apparatus and the first apparatus by performing mutual authentication between the session management apparatus and the first apparatus; establishing a second encrypted communication channel between the session management apparatus and the second apparatus by performing mutual authentication between the session management apparatus and the second apparatus; and exchanging key information between the first apparatus and the second apparatus via the first encrypted communication channel and the second encrypted communication channel so as to establish an encrypted communication channel between the first apparatus and the second apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2004Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventors: Makoto Saito, Osamu Tokunaga, Toshiyuki Yamasaki, Shin Miyakawa, Yasuhiro Shirasaki, Takamasa Uchiyama, Satoshi Fukada, Takashi Egashira, Toshiaki Suzuki
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Patent number: 6085737Abstract: A light-weight portable cooking gas stove to be connected to a source of pressurized gas fuel comprises a hollow circular plate, a circular pipe gas cylinder, a gas discharge control, a piezoelectric ignition, a ceramic crater for gas combustion substantially centrally disposed with respect to the plate and a double cover forming a trivet. The cylinder is installed adjacent to an inner circumference on the bottom of the plate to ensure stability of the stove. A filter is disposed within the cylinder to remove dust in the gas fuel. The cylinder includes on its exterior a gas fuel injection entrance. The gas discharge control is provided with a secondary regulator with a gas discharge valve for the gas fuel and an adjustable air intake for combustion in the crater. The gas discharge control may include a vinyl pipe which takes a roundabout path alongside the crater between the air intake and the cylinder to evaporate the gas fuel by waste heat of the crater.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1998Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Fukadack Co., Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi Fukada
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Patent number: 6065465Abstract: A light-weight portable cooking gas stove which is used for cooking at a picnic, hiking, camping, climbing, etc., comprises a hollow circular plate, a circular pipe gas cylinder, a piezo ignition means, a ceramic circular crater substantially centrally disposed with respect to the plate, and an upper cover. The circular gas cylinder is installed adjacent an inner circumference on the bottom of the hollow circular plate to ensure physical stability of the stove. The circular pipe gas cylinder includes on its exterior a gas fuel injection entrance. The ceramic circular crater has a great number of fine through holes to enhance heat efficiency by emission of infra-red rays when ignited. The gas injection entrance and all control means for cooking is operable from the exterior of the hollow circular plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1997Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: Fukadack Co. LtdInventor: Satoshi Fukada
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Patent number: 5828924Abstract: In an optical detecting device, used for an image forming apparatus, for detecting an object to be detected, such as a paper, by an optical means including a light emitting means 20c, a photo sensing means 20d, a reflecting means 20b, and the like, there is provided at least one of a paper detecting devices in which conductive attracting means connected to a predetermined potential is disposed close to the optical means, the optical means is attached to a periodical replacing component of the image forming apparatus, a reflecting means 20b and a paper transporting path are oriented in different directions with respect to a photo sensing means 20d and a distance from the light emitting means 20c and the like to the reflecting means 20b is different from a distance from the light emitting means 20c and the like to the paper transporting path.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1996Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Fukada, Nobuo Hyakutake, Kenji Tomizawa, Junichirou Sameshima, Mikio Kobayashi, Norio Hokari, Yukio Hayashi, Shuji Iseki, Ryoichi Tsuruoka