Patents by Inventor Satoshi Kimura

Satoshi Kimura 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: 20200276822
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including: a cartridge holder that holds a cartridge; a motor for moving the cartridge holder in a moving direction; and a motor control circuit that controls a movement in the moving direction of the cartridge holder by the motor, wherein the motor control circuit applies a voltage or a current to the motor to apply, to the cartridge holder, a resisting force in a direction facing an external force, against the external force which is applied along the moving direction to the cartridge holder through the cartridge so as to mount the cartridge in the cartridge holder from the moving direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventor: Satoshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10737215
    Abstract: A housing includes an air introduction flow passage, an air discharge flow passage, and a desiccant agent accommodated in the housing. One end portion of the housing is at a lower side of the housing in a vertical direction aligned with the axial direction. An air-liquid separation chamber is formed at a bottom portion of the housing, and includes an air supply passage supplying air to the desiccant agent at an upper housing surface, and is communicated with the air introduction flow passage and the air discharge flow passage to separate moisture in the air introduced from the air introduction flow passage. An adsorption member is accommodated in the air-liquid separation chamber to adsorb moisture separated in the air-liquid separation chamber. Air introduced from the air introduction flow passage is supplied to an air suspension device through the adsorption member and the desiccant agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Oishi, Satoshi Kimura, Taichi Mizuno, Masakazu Ohashi, Hiroyuki Uehara
  • Patent number: 10668782
    Abstract: An air suspension system is provided with air spring devices, a pressure accumulation tank, a compressor device that supplies compressed air at least to the pressure accumulation tank, and that includes an electric motor, a pump device, and a dryer, and a control device that performs a vehicle height increase control, a vehicle height decrease control, an air suction control, and a regeneration air discharge control. The control device performs a heat accumulation control, by actuating the pump device with the communication between the compressor device and the air spring devices being blocked, supplying the compressed air discharged through the dryer to the pump device to be circulated, and accumulating heat of compression of the compressed air in the dryer, to regenerate the dryer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Oishi, Masakazu Ohashi, Hiroyuki Uehara, Satoshi Kimura, Taichi Mizuno
  • Patent number: 10596815
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head is capable of performing high-speed ejection operation as well as reducing a depth dimension. For this purpose, in a configuration in which flexible circuits electrically connect element substrates to electrical substrates, the electrical substrates are arrayed in two lines along a plane different from a plane on which the element substrates are arrayed and the flexible circuits electrically connect the element substrates to the electrical substrates while being bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Oikawa, Satoshi Kimura, Tatsurou Mori, Kengo Umeda, Masataka Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10589520
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a recording element substrate which ejects a liquid downward; an electric substrate which is disposed above the recording element substrate, which has a plurality of electric components, including a capacitor, and which is electrically connected to the recording element substrate; a wall which covers the electric substrate such that a liquid can be retained between the wall and the electric substrate; and a sensor which is disposed in an area covered by the wall and which detects for the presence of a liquid. In the attitude of the liquid ejection head as attached to the main unit of a liquid ejection apparatus, the sensor is disposed below the capacitor in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Oikawa, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Kimura, Kengo Umeda
  • Publication number: 20200047498
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a recording element substrate including a discharge port. A channel member is configured to supply the recording element substrate with a liquid. An electric wiring board is configured to supply the recording element substrate with power. A plate-like protective member is directly or indirectly fixed to the channel member. In a case where a direction in which the recording element substrate is viewed from the channel member is defined as downward, the protective member includes a first bent portion configured to be bent in a transverse direction of the liquid discharge head. The first bent portion is located at a position that is above an upper end of the channel member and below a midpoint of a line segment connecting the upper end of the channel member and an upper end of the protective member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Yumi Komamiya, Satoshi Kimura, Shingo Okushima
  • Patent number: 10551823
    Abstract: A numerical controller generates a machine configuration table in which function modules to be enabled are set based on an option or a parameter, a memory management table for managing a memory usage, and a performance management table for managing a CPU use rate. The numerical controller determines selected numbers of the function modules, based on the machine configuration table, memory management table, and performance management table, generates a module selection table, and attaches and detaches the function modules according to the selected numbers of the function modules. In this way, resources are assigned to a plurality of function modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kimura, Akira Kanemaru
  • Patent number: 10534349
    Abstract: A machining program editing apparatus includes a GUI unit configured to specify an indication route having two points located on an original machining path, as a start point and an end point, and a program editing unit configured to edit a machining program indicative of the original machining path to thereby form a new machining path by replacing an area from the start point to the end point on the original machining path, with the indication route specified through the GUI unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kimura, Akira Kanemaru
  • Patent number: 10513069
    Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method for molding a liquid supply member by using a first mold and a second mold. The method includes a first molding step of performing injection molding to form a first component part of the liquid supply member and a plurality of component parts of the liquid supply member other than the first component part at different positions from each other, with the first and the second mold closed relative to each other, a contacting step of moving each of the formed plurality of component parts relatively to the first component part to bring the formed first component part into contact with the formed plurality of component parts, with the first and the second mold opened relative to each other, and a second molding step of performing injection molding to join the first component part and the plurality of component parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Oikawa, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Mikiya Umeyama, Hiromasa Amma, Takuya Iwano, Satoshi Kimura, Naoko Tsujiuchi, Yasushi Iijima, Kyosuke Toda
  • Patent number: 10496077
    Abstract: A numerical controller generates a machine configuration table in which function modules to be enabled are set based on an option or a parameter, a memory management table for managing a memory usage, and a performance management table for managing a CPU use rate. The numerical controller determines selected numbers of the function modules, based on the machine configuration table, memory management table, and performance management table, generates a module selection table, and attaches and detaches the function modules according to the selected numbers of the function modules. In this way, resources are assigned to a plurality of function modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kimura, Akira Kanemaru
  • Patent number: 10479079
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head (recording head) includes a structure (flow path member) having a plurality of stacked plates (a nozzle plate, a flow path plate, and a diaphragm) in which end surfaces at both sides in one direction are aligned. At least two plates of the plates (the nozzle plate, the flow path plate, and the diaphragm) have different coefficients of linear expansion in the one direction, and holding members are fixed to the end surfaces of the structure (flow path member) at both sides in the one direction, the holding members having stiffness higher than stiffness of a plate having the highest coefficient of linear expansion in the one direction among the plates (the nozzle plate, the flow path plate, and the diaphragm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kimura, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Wataru Takahashi, Satoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10471713
    Abstract: An inkjet print head includes an ejection module having a printing element substrate that ejects ink to a print medium and a flexible wiring substrate electrically connected to the printing element substrate; and a member for supporting the ejection module by joining, wherein the flexible wiring substrate has a capacitor, a periphery of the capacitor being covered with a sealing agent, and the capacitor is provided in a recess formed on the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Oikawa, Tatsurou Mori, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Kimura, Kengo Umeda
  • Patent number: 10471719
    Abstract: A filter is compressed between facing surfaces of a first configuration component and a second configuration component, and a molten resin is poured in such a compressed state. Injection molding of the first configuration component and the second configuration component, joining of the configuration components, and sealing of the circumference of the filter are performed by a pair of metal molds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kyosuke Toda, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Mikiya Umeyama, Satoshi Oikawa, Hiromasa Amma, Takuya Iwano, Satoshi Kimura, Naoko Tsujiuchi, Yasushi Iijima
  • Patent number: 10442203
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head and a liquid ejection apparatus capable of maintaining high reliability include a first cover member including an aperture and covering a surface of a flow path member facing a print medium of the liquid ejection head, a second cover member covering a side surface of the liquid ejection head, and a displacement absorption part that absorbs the displacement between the first cover member and the second cover member. Furthermore, the space between the aperture and the flow path member is sealed with a sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Nakakubo, Satoshi Kimura, Shingo Okushima
  • Patent number: 10434772
    Abstract: A printhead comprises a print element substrate that includes a print element and a circuit board electrically connected to the print element substrate. An ink leakage detection unit, which includes a first electrode and a second electrode, and which is configured to detect ink leakage, is provided on the circuit board. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is electrically connected to a terminal of the print element substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kengo Umeda, Satoshi Kimura, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Oikawa
  • Patent number: 10434694
    Abstract: A resin molding method includes a first molding step of molding a first molded part and a second molded part in a mold and a second molding step of joining the first molded part and the second molded part. In the first molding step, the second molded part is formed by injecting resin into an area where a first core movable in the first direction and a second core movable in a second direction are engaged. In the second molding step, the second molded part is joined to the first molded part by injecting the resin while the first core is in contact with the second molded part and the second core is removed from the second molded part. Areas where the first core and the second core are located in the first molding step become hollow areas connected to each other and part of ends of the first core in the first direction is not in contact with the second core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasushi Iijima, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Mikiya Umeyama, Satoshi Oikawa, Hiromasa Amma, Takuya Iwano, Satoshi Kimura, Naoko Tsujiuchi, Kyosuke Toda
  • Patent number: 10434337
    Abstract: A particle beam adjustment device includes: a position monitor that detects a positional deviation of a particle beam transported from a beam transport section; an interlock device to interrupt irradiation of the particle beam when a positional deviation of the particle beam is detected by the position monitor; a pair of screen monitors that measure position and angle of an axis of the particle beam; a correction electromagnet that controls the axis of the particle beam by adjusting a magnetic field on a basis of a signal indicating the particle beam position and angle measured by the screen monitors; and a beam scanning electromagnet that irradiates an irradiation target with the particle beam. One of the screen monitors is installed outside a treatment room, and the other screen monitor and the position monitor are installed inside the treatment room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shinji Hanada, Yasushi Iseki, Satoshi Kimura, Katsushi Hanawa
  • Patent number: 10427981
    Abstract: A piezoelectric material contains: a first component which is a rhombohedral crystal in a single composition, has a Curie temperature Tc1, and is a lead-free-system composite oxide having a perovskite-type structure; a second component which is a crystal other than the rhombohedral crystal in a single composition, has a Curie temperature Tc2<Tc1, and is a lead-free-system composite oxide having a perovskite-type structure; and a third component which is a crystal other than the rhombohedral crystal in a single composition similar to the second component, has a Curie temperature Tc3?Tc1, and is a lead-free-system composite oxide that has a perovskite-type structure and is different from the second component. When a molar ratio of the third component to the sum of the second component and the third component is ? and ?×Tc3+(1??)×Tc2 is Tc4, |Tc4?Tc2|?50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Sumi, Kazuya Kitada, Tomohiro Sakai, Yasuaki Hamada, Tetsuya Isshiki, Satoshi Kimura, Akio Ito, Tsuneo Handa
  • Patent number: 10414187
    Abstract: A method of creating a three-dimensionally shaped object, the method having: a creation step for creating image data for printing an image on a thermally expandable sheet; a printing step for printing an image on the thermally expandable sheet on the basis of the image data created in the creation step; and a protuberation step for partially protuberating the thermally expandable sheet via thermal expansion by irradiating light toward the image printed on the thermally expandable sheet in the printing step. The creation step creates image data such that a grayscale of an image is set so that a fastening portion that fastens a thermally expandable sheet is either intermittently or continuously surrounded by a region where a protuberation height resulting from the thermal expansion is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: D859243
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Kimura, Hideaki Iida, Nobuyuki Tomatsu