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).
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Publication number: 20200276822Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventor: Satoshi KIMURA
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Patent number: 10737215Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Oishi, Satoshi Kimura, Taichi Mizuno, Masakazu Ohashi, Hiroyuki Uehara
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Patent number: 10668782Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Oishi, Masakazu Ohashi, Hiroyuki Uehara, Satoshi Kimura, Taichi Mizuno
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Patent number: 10596815Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Oikawa, Satoshi Kimura, Tatsurou Mori, Kengo Umeda, Masataka Sakurai
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Patent number: 10589520Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Oikawa, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Kimura, Kengo Umeda
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Publication number: 20200047498Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Yumi Komamiya, Satoshi Kimura, Shingo Okushima
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Patent number: 10551823Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventors: Satoshi Kimura, Akira Kanemaru
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Patent number: 10534349Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Kimura, Akira Kanemaru
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Patent number: 10513069Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Oikawa, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Mikiya Umeyama, Hiromasa Amma, Takuya Iwano, Satoshi Kimura, Naoko Tsujiuchi, Yasushi Iijima, Kyosuke Toda
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Patent number: 10496077Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventors: Satoshi Kimura, Akira Kanemaru
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Patent number: 10479079Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Satoshi Kimura, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Wataru Takahashi, Satoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 10471713Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Oikawa, Tatsurou Mori, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Kimura, Kengo Umeda
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Patent number: 10471719Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kyosuke Toda, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Mikiya Umeyama, Satoshi Oikawa, Hiromasa Amma, Takuya Iwano, Satoshi Kimura, Naoko Tsujiuchi, Yasushi Iijima
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Patent number: 10442203Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Nakakubo, Satoshi Kimura, Shingo Okushima
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Patent number: 10434772Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kengo Umeda, Satoshi Kimura, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Oikawa
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Patent number: 10434694Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasushi Iijima, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Mikiya Umeyama, Satoshi Oikawa, Hiromasa Amma, Takuya Iwano, Satoshi Kimura, Naoko Tsujiuchi, Kyosuke Toda
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Patent number: 10434337Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shinji Hanada, Yasushi Iseki, Satoshi Kimura, Katsushi Hanawa
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Patent number: 10427981Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Koji Sumi, Kazuya Kitada, Tomohiro Sakai, Yasuaki Hamada, Tetsuya Isshiki, Satoshi Kimura, Akio Ito, Tsuneo Handa
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Patent number: 10414187Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Satoshi Kimura
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Patent number: D859243Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Kimura, Hideaki Iida, Nobuyuki Tomatsu