Patents by Inventor Sayaka Kobayashi

Sayaka Kobayashi 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: 20240065658
    Abstract: A mammography apparatus includes: an arm; a first cooling fan that is disposed on a stand side with respect to the radiation source in the arm, sucks air from an outside of the arm, and discharges air that has cooled the radiation source from a first exhaust port provided on the stand side with respect to the radiation source; a projector that is disposed in the arm; a second cooling fan that is disposed between the projector and the first exhaust port in the arm, sucks a part of air directed from the first cooling fan to the first exhaust port, blows the sucked air toward the projector to cool the projector, and has a flow rate smaller than that of the first cooling fan; and a second exhaust port that is provided separately from the first exhaust port and through which air that has cooled the projector is discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke OGAWA, Kohei OTA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Sayaka SAITO
  • Publication number: 20240065659
    Abstract: A mammography apparatus includes: an imaging table; a radiation source; a compression plate that compresses the breast and is movable between the radiation source and the imaging table; a projector that includes a display displaying an image including first information projected onto a first surface facing the radiation source on the imaging table and second information projected onto a second surface facing the radiation source on the compression plate, and a projection optical system, in which a focus of the projection optical system is adjusted in accordance with a projection distance to the first surface; and a processor that is configured to control the display and change at least one of a display size or a display position of the second information in the image on an image display surface of the display in accordance with movement of the compression plate having the second surface independently of the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei GEMMA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Sayaka SAITO
  • Publication number: 20240065650
    Abstract: A mammography apparatus includes an arm; and a stand, the arm is provided with a drive mechanism including a motor that rotationally drives the radiation source holding portion, and a first restriction mechanism that restricts rotation of the imaging table about the axis of the support shaft, the first restriction mechanism is disposed on a side opposite to a radiation source with respect to the support shaft, and the drive mechanism is disposed on a radiation source side with respect to the first restriction mechanism and in a case where a center line of the arm extending in a direction connecting the radiation source and a center of the support shaft is assumed, the drive mechanism is disposed so as to intersect the center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei OTA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Sayaka SAITO
  • Publication number: 20240065660
    Abstract: A mammography apparatus includes an imaging table; a radiation source; a stand; the compression plate including a bottom plate that compresses the breast and side plates provided on at least two locations of a subject side and a stand side of the bottom plate; and a projector that projects an image toward the compression plate and the imaging table, in which in a case where an intersection between an imaginary plane formed by extending the inner wall surface toward the projector and an imaginary horizontal line crossing the projector in a horizontal direction is defined as an imaginary intersection, an optical element closest to the compression plate on an optical path directed from the projector to the compression plate is located on the subject side with respect to the imaginary intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei GEMMA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Sayaka SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230105537
    Abstract: A special car operation system includes a passenger prediction unit that predicts the number of passengers on a train scheduled to operate and outputs passenger count information indicating the predicted number of passengers, and a car-count determination unit that determines the number of special cars in the train on the basis of the passenger count information output by the passenger prediction unit and outputs car count information indicating the determined number of special cars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori SAIKAWA, Sayaka KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230070414
    Abstract: A facility presentation device includes: a departure place acquiring unit to acquire departure place information; an available facility acquiring unit to search for an available facility on the basis of the departure place information and to acquire available facility information for each facility, the available facility information including facility name information corresponding to the available facility information; a guidance basics acquiring unit to acquire guidance basic information regarding a facility that a business operator wants to guide to; a priority determining unit to determine a priority of the facility that the business operator wants to guide to on the basis of the guidance basic information; an available facility list acquiring unit to acquire available facility list information in which one or more pieces of available facility information are arranged on the basis of the priority; and an available facility list outputting unit to output the available facility list information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori SAIKAWA, Sayaka KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230046952
    Abstract: A guidance system includes: a station congestion estimating unit to estimate congestion situations in respective areas in a station and to output station congestion information indicating the estimated congestion situations in the respective areas in the station; a guidance determining unit to determine a mode of guiding station users on the basis of the station congestion information output by the station congestion estimating unit and to output guidance information indicating the mode that has been determined; and an output generation unit to generate an output signal for guiding the station users on the basis of the guidance information output by the guidance determining unit, to output the output signal that has been generated to an output device, and to cause the output device to provide output corresponding to the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori SAIKAWA, Sayaka KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 8005808
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus connectable to a terminal through a network, a terminal type of the terminal is specified based on a first request requesting Web information, said first request sent from the terminal through the network, and reference Web information is generated so as to include reference path created by adding terminal type information showing the specified terminal type to a path indicated in the first request for accessing the Web information and to allow the terminal to automatically accesses to the reference path. Then, the reference Web information is sent to the terminal as a response with respect to the first request, and a second request for requesting the Web information specified by the reference path is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Takahashi, Hiroki Kobayashi, Sayaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20090128767
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a curable resin composition for a column spacer which has excellent developability and solubility and is capable of forming a clearly patterned column spacer without leaving a development residue at the time of pattern formation of the column spacer to be used in producing a liquid crystal display panel. The present invention is directed to a curable resin composition for a column spacer, which contains a compound having two or more polymerizable unsaturated bonds in a molecule, an alkali-soluble polymer compound, and a photo-reaction initiator, the compound having two or more polymerizable unsaturated bonds in a molecule being an oxide-modified compound having two or more polymerizable unsaturated bonds in a molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Minoru Suezaki, Yoshio Nishimura, Toru Takahashi, Sayaka Kobayashi, Tatsuya Matsukubo
  • Publication number: 20080189423
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus connectable to a terminal through a network, a terminal type of the terminal is specified based on a first request requesting Web information, said first request sent from the terminal through the network, and reference Web information is generated so as to include reference path created by adding terminal type information showing the specified terminal type to a path indicated in the first request for accessing the Web information and to allow the terminal to automatically accesses to the reference path. Then, the reference Web information is sent to the terminal as a response with respect to the first request, and a second request for requesting the Web information specified by the reference path is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Seiji TAKAHASHI, Hiroki Kobayashi, Sayaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7373347
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus connectable to a terminal through a network, a terminal type of the terminal is specified based on a first request requesting Web information, said first request sent from the terminal through the network, and reference Web information is generated so as to include reference path created by adding terminal type information showing the specified terminal type to a path indicated in the first request for accessing the Web information and to allow the terminal to automatically accesses to the reference path. Then, the reference Web information is sent to the terminal as a response with respect to the first request, and a second request for requesting the Web information specified by the reference path is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Takahashi, Hiroki Kobayashi, Sayaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20060280878
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide the column spacer capable of forming a liquid crystal display element which does not produce the color irregularity due to gravity defect and the cold bubbling and exhibits the high durability when the column spacer is used as a spacer for maintaining a gap between two glass substrates at a constant distance in a liquid crystal display element, the liquid crystal display element using the column spacers and the curable resin composition for column spacers from which the column spacer can be produced. The present invention is directed a column spacer for maintaining a gap between two glass substrates at a constant distance in a liquid crystal display element, which comprises an elastic modulus of 0.2 to 1.0 GPa in compressing by 15% at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Minoru Suezaki, Yoshio Nishimura, Tatsuhiko Shimizu, Sayaka Kobayashi, Toru Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20040268114
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided with an updating unit to update a value of a parameter depending on a parameter update request received via a network, and a rebooting unit to reboot the electronic apparatus based on an updated value of the parameter after sending a response with respect to the parameter update request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Sayaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20040199651
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method, a system and a program of providing information are disclosed to efficiently provide information corresponding to a plurality of protocols for clients. The information providing apparatus, in response to a request transmitted in accordance with one of different protocols from a terminal via a network, for transmitting dynamic information to the terminal, includes an information obtaining part and an information converting part. The information obtaining part executes a predefined operation corresponding to the request transmitted in accordance with the protocol and obtains the dynamic information. The information converting part converts the dynamic information obtained by the information obtaining part into data corresponding to the protocol in accordance with a conversion rule defined for request identification information included in the request to identify the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventor: Sayaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20040064469
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus connectable to a terminal through a network, a terminal type of the terminal is specified based on a first request requesting Web information, said first request sent from the terminal through the network, and reference Web information is generated so as to include reference path created by adding terminal type information showing the specified terminal type to a path indicated in the first request for accessing the Web information and to allow the terminal to automatically accesses to the reference path. Then, the reference Web information is sent to the terminal as a response with respect to the first request, and a second request for requesting the Web information specified by the reference path is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Seiji Takahashi, Hiroki Kobayashi, Sayaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D815463
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Okamura Corporation
    Inventor: Sayaka Kobayashi