Patents by Inventor Satoshi Masuda

Satoshi Masuda 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).

  • Patent number: 10122879
    Abstract: An image processing device that communicates with a first server and a second server includes a main controller and a power controller. The main controller establishes a connection that enables communication with the first and second servers, establishes a periodic communication with the first and second servers to maintain the connection, manages a first time interval between the periodic communication with the first server, manages a second time interval between the periodic communication with the second server, and changes one or both of the first time interval and the second time interval. The power controller stops and starts power supply to the main controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuya Anezaki, Atsushi Ohshima, Kenji Matsuhara, Satoshi Masuda, Daisuke Sakiyama, Takeshi Maekawa, Hironori Harada
  • Publication number: 20180311951
    Abstract: On a conveyance path of a liquid absorbing member including a porous body, a liquid absorbing unit 2 that absorbs a first liquid from a first image, a recovery liquid applying unit 3 that applies a recovery liquid to the porous body absorbing the liquid and a liquid collecting unit 4 that collects a liquid component absorbed by the porous body are arranged in this order, and a cleaning unit 5 that brings a cleaning member into contact with the conveyance path of the porous body is disposed at least between the liquid absorbing unit and the recovery liquid applying unit or between the liquid collecting unit and the liquid absorbing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakamoto, Satoshi Masuda, Yoshiyuki Honda, Toru Yamane, Kyosuke Deguchi, Ryosuke Hirokawa, Toru Ohnishi, Akihiro Mouri, Noboru Toyama, Toshimori Miyakoshi, Hiroaki Motooka, Ryohei Goto
  • Publication number: 20180304616
    Abstract: Reaction liquid application S1 to an ink receiving medium, formation of a first image by ink application S2, liquid absorption S3 from the first image by a porous body of a liquid absorbing member, cleaning S4 of the porous body, and liquid collection S5 from the porous body are repeated in an inkjet printing method. When the porous body comes into contact with the first image, first chemical species in the reaction liquid contributing to increasing the ink viscosity is contained, on the ink receiving medium and in the porous body, at a higher level in terms of molar equivalent per unit area than second chemical species in the ink also contributing to increasing the ink viscosity. In the liquid collection S5, the liquid is collected so that the liquid remains in the porous body on the side to be brought into contact with the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Honda, Atsushi Sakamoto, Satoshi Masuda, Toru Yamane, Kyosuke Deguchi, Ryosuke Hirokawa, Toru Ohnishi, Akihiro Mouri, Noboru Toyama
  • Publication number: 20180266483
    Abstract: A thrust roller bearing includes: a plurality of rollers which are radially arranged; a retainer having a pocket which is formed in a circular ring shape as a whole and rollingly retains the plurality of rollers; and at least one raceway ring which is provided with a race surface on which the plurality of rollers roll. The raceway ring includes an iron raceway ring and a resin raceway ring having insulating properties, and the iron raceway ring and the resin raceway ring are integrally assembled by being engaged with each other. In addition, the raceway ring may include a resin raceway ring having insulating properties and a pair of iron raceway rings disposed on both front and back surfaces of the resin raceway ring, and the pair of iron raceway rings and the resin raceway ring may be integrally assembled by being engaged with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki SHIMPO, Shigenori MURATA, Satoshi MASUDA
  • Patent number: 10046673
    Abstract: A seat assembly including a seat rail having an opening at an end of the seat rail, a seat slider that slides relative to the seat rail along a length of the seat rail, and an end stop at the end of the seat rail that prevents the seat slider from sliding beyond the opening and that substantially covers a cross section of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN TECHNICAL CENTER OF AMERICA, INC
    Inventors: Michael Mixon, Satoshi Masuda, Ryosuke Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20180222353
    Abstract: A seat assembly including a seat rail having an opening at an end of the seat rail, a seat slider that slides relative to the seat rail along a length of the seat rail, and an end stop at the end of the seat rail that prevents the seat slider from sliding beyond the opening and that substantially covers a cross section of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN TECHNICAL CENTER OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Michael MIXON, Satoshi MASUDA, Ryosuke MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 10036088
    Abstract: A sliding member which has joined strength that is suitable for the circumstance, to which heavy load is applied, and which is excellent in abrasion resistance property. The sliding member contains a supporting layer composed of ferrous metallic material, and a sliding layer composed of copper metallic material, which is formed on a surface of the supporting layer. The surface of the supporting layer and the sliding layer are configured not to be a plane and a sliding surface formed on a surface of the sliding layer is configured not to be a plane. The sliding layer is formed on the roughened surface of the supporting layer by thermal spraying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Masuda, Takashi Akagawa, Naoki Sato, Ryoichi Kurata
  • Patent number: 10033896
    Abstract: An information processing device that communicates with a server on Internet over a local network, having: a session establishing part that establishes a session that enables a communication with said server over said local network; a periodic communicating part that establishes periodic communications at a predetermined time interval with said server to maintain said session; a power controller that stops a power supply to said periodic communicating part if a predetermined condition to enter sleep mode is met; and a substitute requesting part that requests another device installed on said local network to establish the periodic communication with said server that should be established by said periodic communicating part for said periodic communicating part when said power controller enables said information processing device to enter sleep mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Masuda, Kazuya Anezaki, Hironori Harada, Atsushi Ohshima, Kenji Matsuhara, Daisuke Sakiyama, Takeshi Maekawa
  • Patent number: 9982080
    Abstract: A photocurable composition contains at least one ultraviolet absorber represented by Formula (1), and a hard coating agent including the photocurable composition. wherein R1, R2 and R3 may be the same as or different from each other and represent a branched or linear alkyl group with 1-20 carbon atoms and is substituted with a (meth)acryloyloxy group; the alkyl group may be substituted with a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group having 1-8 carbon atoms, or an acyloxy group having 1-8 carbon atoms; the alkyl group may be interrupted by an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a carbonyl group, an ester group, an amide group, or an imide group; and R4, R5 and R6 may be the same as or different from each other and represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group having 1-12 carbon atoms, or an alkoxy group having 1-12 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Kamimoto, Satoshi Masuda, Fumihiko Sato, Yosuke Ishima
  • Patent number: 9969892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antifouling coating composition, an antifouling coating film, a substrate with an antifouling coating film and a production process for the substrate. The antifouling coating composition includes a hydrolyzable polymer (A) having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1) and having a weight-average molecular weight of 1000 to 5000 and an antifouling agent (B) including (b1) 4-bromo-2-(4-chlorophenyl)-5-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyrrole-3-carbonitrile, and has a volatile organic compound (VOC) content of not more than 400 g/L. [In the formula (1), M represents zinc or copper, and R1 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Masuda, Yusuke Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180129734
    Abstract: A method for answering consecutive questions, using a system which can access a database is provided. The method includes retrieving a questioner identifier associated with a questioner in response to receipt of a question from the questioner. The method also includes obtaining, using the questioner identifier, a history on class labels which were assigned to questions made by the questioner in the past and choosing a class label among the class labels in the history. The method further includes obtaining a list of keywords of the question and judging whether or not each keyword in the keyword list matches a representative keyword in any node among one or more nodes which exist in a hierarchy level in the database, or matches a synonym of the representative keyword.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Futoshi Iwama, Satoshi Masuda, Kohtaroh Miyamoto, Hironori Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9956613
    Abstract: A sliding member having a hardness proper for an environment where a high-pressure is applied and having a good abrasion resistance. A sliding member 1 comprises a first sintered compact layer 2 formed by solidifying an iron-based metallic powder with a sinter; and a second sintered compact layer 3 formed by solidifying a copper-based metallic powder on a surface of the first sintered compact layer 2 to improve a sliding characteristic. The second sintered compact layer 3 is densified by a blast process where the powder is collided against a surface of the second sintered compact layer 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Masuda, Naoki Sato, Ryoichi Kurata
  • Publication number: 20180105703
    Abstract: An antifouling coating composition contains a silyl ester (co)polymer and medetomidine and is used to prevent the fouling of substrates by aquatic organisms and which can form antifouling coating films exhibiting outstanding antifouling properties over a long period and also has good storage stability. The antifouling coating composition includes a silyl ester (co)polymer (A) and medetomidine (B), the silyl ester (co)polymer (A) including structural units derived from a monomer (a) represented by the general formula (I): R1—CH?C(CH3)—COO—(SiR2R3O)n—SiR4R5R6, and structural units derived from an unsaturated monomer (b) copolymerizable with the monomer (a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki IWATA, Soichiro TANINO, Satoshi MASUDA, Hideyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180104878
    Abstract: Provided is a method for extruding molten resin in a charging space from a head by converting a rotational motion of an electric motor into a linear motion of a piston disposed in the charging space through a ball screw and thus causing the piston to move vertically, the charging space being a space into which the molten resin can be charged and formed in an accumulator, the head having an extrusion port at a lower end thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: KYORAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji ITO, Satoshi MASUDA
  • Patent number: 9921515
    Abstract: An optical writing device having; a plurality of light-emitting points; a photodiode configured to output a signal which represents a quantity of incident light from a predetermined light-emitting point selected from the plurality of light-emitting points; and a calculation section for calculating a temperature of the photodiode based on a magnitude of a photodiode dark current included in the signal output from the photodiode while the predetermined light-emitting point is OFF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: So Yano, Satoshi Masuda, Makoto Obayashi, Masayuki Iijima, Yoshikazu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9896004
    Abstract: A tailgate of a vehicle including a back portion and a seat portion, a telescopic mechanism including a first link, a second link, and a slotted link with a slot connected to the back portion of the tailgate allowing the tailgate to slide and pivot, and a four-bar mechanism including a third link and a fourth link hingedly connected to the back portion and the seat portion of the tailgate, wherein the telescopic mechanism and the four-bar mechanism allow the tailgate to transition between a first position, a second position, and a third position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN TECHNICAL CENTER OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Justin Kahl, Satoshi Masuda, Ryosuke Mizuno, Michael Mixon
  • Patent number: 9866407
    Abstract: A cloud server acquires a stop period indicating a period during which a management server refrains from providing services; transmits connection requests to said management server if not in the stop period; establishes first communication session when establishment requests including the same address information as address information of connection destination included in the connection request are received from a relay device receiving connection requests forwarded from the management server after transmission of connection requests; transmits jobs to a control target device via first communication session; after first communication session is established, in response to acquisition of result of jobs executed by the control target device, if in the stop period, disconnects first communication session after the stop period finished; and if jobs are generated in the stop period, transmits to the control target device jobs generated in the stop period, via first communication session established before the sto
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsuhara, Hirokazu Kubota, Kazuya Anezaki, Daisuke Sakiyama, Yuki Asai, Satoshi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20170277756
    Abstract: A method of recommending Mashups, including identifying, using a processor, pre-existing Mashups implementing application program interfaces (APIs), where each implemented API has one or more attached Tag(s) including API characteristics; extracting the characteristics from the Tags attached to the API(s) implemented in the Mashup, form a set including all of the characteristics from the APIs implemented in Mashup; identifying one or more API(s) not implemented in the Mashups; extracting the characteristics from the Tags attached to the API(s) not implemented in the Mashup to form another set; identifying API characteristics that are an element of one set, but not an element of the other set, forming a third set of these characteristics; modeling a relationship between API(s) using the sets; calculating the probability of one or more API(s) not implemented in a Mashup being used for new Mashup; and presenting the API(s) to a user for new Mashups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Satoshi Masuda, Akiko Suzuki, Hiroaki Nakamura, Toshiro Takase
  • Publication number: 20170275474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antifouling coating composition, an antifouling coating film, a substrate with an antifouling coating film, a antifouling substrate, a method for producing substrate with an antifouling coating film, and a method for preventing substrate from fouling. The antifouling coating composition includes a hydrolyzable polymer (A) including at least one selected from the group consisting of a polymer (A1) having a structural unit represented by the formula (1) below and a polymer (A2) having a structural unit represented by the formula (2) below, a tertiary carboxylic acid component (B) including versatic acid, and an antifouling agent component (C). [In the formula (1), M is zinc or copper, and R1 independently at each occurrence is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group.] —COO-M-O—COR2??(2) [In the formula (2), M is zinc or copper, and R2 is an organic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi MASUDA, Yusuke HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9762756
    Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of communication relay apparatuses relaying communication between the plurality of devices provided inside a LAN and an external server provided outside the LAN. A first communication relay apparatus performs a device search process of searching the LAN for a device, acquires information on a first management target device which is a device whose communication relay process is managed by a second communication relay apparatus, and determines a second management target device which is a device whose communication relay process is managed by the first communication relay apparatus. The first communication relay apparatus determines the second management target device after removing at least partial duplication of the second management target device and the first management target device, by excluding at least some of the first management target device from two or more devices which are retrieved in the device search process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuya Anezaki, Hirokazu Kubota, Kenji Matsuhara, Satoshi Masuda, Daisuke Sakiyama, Yuki Asai