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: 20190271968
    Abstract: Provided is a numerical controller having a function for dynamically analyzing a machining program. The numerical controller provided with a subprogram calling function that calls a subprogram in a machining program includes: a program interpretation unit that notifies information related to the call of the subprogram when the subprogram is called; a program calling information storage unit that aggregates and stores the information related to the call of the subprogram that is notified by the program interpretation unit; a program execution unit that notifies information related to execution of a subprogram when executing the subprogram; and a program execution information storage unit that aggregates and stores the information related to the execution of the subprogram that is notified by the program execution unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kimura, Akira Kanemaru
  • Publication number: 20190259037
    Abstract: An information processing device calculates, for each operation of a user, a fraud determination score based on a determination item according to an operation type, determines, in response to an operation of a user, a level of fraud of the operation based on a log of the fraud determination score of an operation type identical to an operation type of the operation, execute, on a user who has executed an operation determined as having a high possibility of fraud regarding the level of fraud, an identity confirmation process at a time of the operation, and executes a payment method change process on a user determined as having a high possibility of fraud at a time of product purchase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc
    Inventor: Satoshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10386749
    Abstract: A developing device includes: a developing tank that is long in shape and that stores a developer; and a developer carrier that carries the developer stored in the developing tank. The developing tank includes a filling portion through which the developing tank is filled with the developer, the developer carrier is provided on one side in a width direction that is orthogonal to both a longitudinal direction of the developing tank and a vertical direction of the developing tank, and the filling portion is provided on the other side of the developing tank in the width direction, the other side is apart from the developer carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10382612
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a business support system that controls business use of a communication device based on a work time without user's awareness. The business support system includes a work time register that registers a work time, and a business use controller that, in reference to the work time register, starts business use of a communication device by a business application for supporting the business use of the communication device when a current time falls within the work time, and stops the business use of the communication device by the business application when the current time falls outside the work time. For example, the business use controller starts the business use of the communication device by the business application by activating a predetermined program in the communication device, and stops the business use of the communication device by the business application by stopping the predetermined program in the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kimura, Kazumi Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 10363692
    Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method for molding a liquid supply member by using a first mold and a second mold in which the first mold is capable of being slid relatively to the second mold, the method including a first molding step of performing injection molding to form a first and second component parts of the liquid supply member at different positions from each other, an evacuating step of sliding the formed second component part in a direction intersecting with a direction of sliding of the first mold relative to the second mold and with a direction of the opening and the closing the first and the second mold, a contacting step of bringing the formed second component part into contact with the molded first component part, and a second molding step of performing injection molding to join the first component part and the second component part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 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: 10350884
    Abstract: There is provided an elongated liquid ejection head capable of voltage drop suppression and high-speed ejection operation. For this purpose, in each of flexible circuits electrically connecting element substrates to electrical substrates, a width Wa on a side connected to the electrical substrate is smaller than the width of another area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Oikawa, Satoshi Kimura, Tatsurou Mori, Kengo Umeda, Masataka Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10307967
    Abstract: Provided is construction that in die slide injection molding, surely leaves each part in a mold on a specified side in the stage of opening a molding mold. In order to accomplish this, in an opening step, a push-out mechanism that applies a force on at least one of the individual parts is used to make the part surely belong to a desired mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 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: 10300643
    Abstract: First and second constituting components are injection-molded and joined within one pair of molds. In order to join the first and second constituting components, one of the respective regions of the first and second constituting components abutted to each other is pushed into the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoko Tsujiuchi, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Mikiya Umeyama, Satoshi Oikawa, Hiromasa Amma, Takuya Iwano, Satoshi Kimura, Yasushi Iijima, Kyosuke Toda
  • Publication number: 20190084365
    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: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Oishi, Masakazu Ohashi, Hiroyuki Uehara, Satoshi Kimura, Taichi Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20190070553
    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: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Oishi, Satoshi Kimura, Taichi Mizuno, Masakazu Ohashi, Hiroyuki Uehara
  • Patent number: 10207511
    Abstract: There is provided an ink cartridge capable of accomplishing satisfactory electrical connection relative to a printer main assembly. An ink cartridge detachably mountable to a cartridge mounting portion provided with an ink receiving tube and a plurality of electrical connecting portions, the ink cartridge including a tube inserting portion into which the receiving tube is insertable, a substrate provided on a front side in a position above the tube inserting portion, a plurality of electrical contacts electrically connectable with the plurality of electrical connecting portions, the electrical contacts being arranged on the substrate in a direction crossing with a direction from a bottom surface toward an upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nanjo, Yasuo Kotaki, Kenta Udagawa, Hiroshi Koshikawa, Wataru Takahashi, Koichi Kubo, Shigeki Fukui, Naozumi Nabeshima, Soji Kondo, Masafumi Seki, Kazuya Yoshii, Satoshi Kimura, Kyosuke Toda
  • Patent number: 10185300
    Abstract: A numerical controller for controlling a machine receives an instruction to reestablish a machine coordinate value of a movable part of the machine and stops a servo motor driving the movable part. When the servo motor is stopped, the numerical controller acquires position information of a position detector provided to the servo motor. Then, the numerical controller updates the machine coordinate value of the movable part based on the position information, and further updates the absolute coordinate value of the movable part based on the updated machine coordinate value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Haga, Satoshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190016119
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head in accordance with the present invention 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, wherein, at the attitude of the liquid ejection head attached to the main unit of a liquid ejection apparatus, the sensor is disposed below the capacitor in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Satoshi Oikawa, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Kimura, Kengo Umeda
  • Publication number: 20190016137
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head and a liquid ejection apparatus capable of maintaining a high reliability is provided. For this purpose, a first cover member including an aperture and covering a surface of a flow path member facing a print medium of a liquid ejection head, and a second cover member covering a side surface of the liquid ejection head are provided, and a displacement absorption part that absorbs the displacement between the first cover member and the second cover member is provided. Furthermore, the space between the aperture and the flow path member is sealed with a sealing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Toru Nakakubo, Satoshi Kimura, Shingo Okushima
  • Patent number: 10160351
    Abstract: A vehicle seat sliding apparatus includes a lower rail, an upper rail, a slide-lock mechanism that pivots the lock member to a slide-lock position and holds the upper rail in a slide-lock state, and a slide-lock cancellation unit moved by operation of an operation member in a longitudinal direction of the upper rail to cancel an action of the slide-lock mechanism. The slide-lock cancellation unit includes a drive unit and an inclined surface arranged in the drive unit. The drive unit is supported by the upper rail so as to be slidable in the longitudinal direction of the upper rail. Operation of the operation member slides the drive unit. The inclined surface pivots the lock member to a slide-lock cancellation position when sliding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Sugimoto, Makoto Sakai, Naoaki Hoshihara, Yasuhiro Kojima, Satoshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20180361739
    Abstract: A printhead comprises: a print element substrate that includes a print element; and a circuit board electrically connected to the print element substrate, wherein an ink leakage detection unit including a first electrode and a second electrode, and configured to detect an ink leakage is provided on the circuit board, and at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is electrically connected to a terminal of the print element substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kengo Umeda, Satoshi Kimura, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20180341195
    Abstract: A developing device includes: a developing tank that is long in shape and that stores a developer; and a developer carrier that carries the developer stored in the developing tank. The developing tank includes a filling portion through which the developing tank is filled with the developer, the developer carrier is provided on one side in a width direction that is orthogonal to both a longitudinal direction of the developing tank and a vertical direction of the developing tank, and the filling portion is provided on the other side of the developing tank in the width direction, the other side is apart from the developer carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventor: SATOSHI KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10137685
    Abstract: A cover member includes two end regions located at two ends in a first direction, and two beam portions which extend in the first direction and connect the two end regions together and which, together with the two end regions, form a single opening that exposes a plurality of discharge ports. When a width of the opening is denoted as a [mm], a minimum length in the first direction of the end regions is denoted as c [mm], a modulus of longitudinal elasticity of the cover member is denoted as E [GPa], and a thickness of the cover member is denoted as t [mm], the following expression is established: c ? 10 ? ( a 25 ) 4 ( t 0.3 ) 3 ? ( E 200 ) .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Nakakubo, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Kimura, Takuya Iwano, Akira Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20180333955
    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: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Satoshi Oikawa, Tatsurou Mori, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Kimura, Kengo Umeda
  • Publication number: 20180314236
    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: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kimura, Akira Kanemaru