Patents by Inventor Shigeru Tsukada
Shigeru Tsukada 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: 20240103412Abstract: A fixing member that fixes a lower surface of an apparatus having a caster to an upper surface of a base includes: an engagement part that is inserted through a through hole provided in the lower surface of the apparatus, extends along an upper side of the lower surface of the apparatus, and is engaged with the lower surface of the apparatus; an attachment part that extends along an upper side of the upper surface of the base so as to face the engagement part and is attached to the upper surface of the base; a connection part that has a bent part bent away from the engagement part, is attached to the engagement part at one end thereof and is attached to the attachment part at the other end thereof, and connects the engagement part and the attachment part by passing through the through hole; and a load receiving part that receives a load by making contact with a lower side of the lower surface of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Michiaki KANEKO, Shigeru TSUKADA
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Publication number: 20240101310Abstract: A fixing member that fixes a lower surface of an apparatus having a caster to an upper surface of a base includes: an engagement part that is inserted through a through hole provided in the lower surface of the apparatus, extends along an upper side of the lower surface of the apparatus, and is engaged with the lower surface of the apparatus; an attachment part that extends along an upper side of the upper surface of the base so as to face the engagement part and is attached to the upper surface of the base; a connection part that connects the engagement part and the attachment part by passing through the through hole; and a load receiving part that is provided on a side opposite to the engagement part relative to the connection part and receives a load by making contact with a lower side of the lower surface of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Michiaki KANEKO, Shigeru Tsukada
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Patent number: 11878837Abstract: A supporter includes: a first plate portion having a placement surface on which a support object is to be placed; a second plate portion that transmits downward a weight of the support object placed on the placement surface; a left third plate portion that is disposed between the first plate portion and the second plate portion and that extends diagonally in a direction such that a lower part thereof is separated further leftward; and a right third plate portion that is disposed between the first plate portion and the second plate portion on a right side of the left third plate portion and that extends diagonally in a direction such that a lower part thereof is separated further rightward.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Taisuke Endo, Hiroyuki Kono, Shigeru Tsukada
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Publication number: 20230023277Abstract: A supporter includes: a first plate; a second plate that stands erect from a first edge of the first plate, and changes an angle between the second plate and the first plate when elastically deformed upon receipt of a load; a third plate that extends in a direction away from the first plate from a second edge of the second plate on a higher side, and changes an angle between the third plate and the second plate when elastically deformed upon receipt of a load; a fourth plate that stands erect and extends from a third edge of the third plate on a side away from the first plate, and reduces an angle between the fourth plate and the third plate when elastically deformed upon receipt of a load; and a support portion that is continuous with an upper portion of the fourth plate and supports a to-be-supported object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shigeru TSUKADA, Taisuke ENDO, Hiroyuki KONO
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Publication number: 20230028458Abstract: A supporter includes: a first plate portion having a placement surface on which a support object is to be placed; a second plate portion that transmits downward a weight of the support object placed on the placement surface; a left third plate portion that is disposed between the first plate portion and the second plate portion and that extends diagonally in a direction such that a lower part thereof is separated further leftward; and a right third plate portion that is disposed between the first plate portion and the second plate portion on a right side of the left third plate portion and that extends diagonally in a direction such that a lower part thereof is separated further rightward.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Taisuke ENDO, Hiroyuki KONO, Shigeru TSUKADA
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Patent number: 10710768Abstract: A pallet includes at least one top board on which a load is to be placed and at least one substantially plate-shaped stringer board that is provided independently of the top board and that has at least one non-contact portion, which is not in contact with the top board in a region between the stringer board and the top board, the stringer board being in contact with the top board in a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeru Tsukada, Toshihiro Osawa, Kyoichi Imon, Taisuke Endo, Yusuke Kabe, Satoko Imai, Hideki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20190055054Abstract: A pallet includes at least one top board on which a load is to be placed and at least one substantially plate-shaped stringer board that is provided independently of the top board and that has at least one non-contact portion, which is not in contact with the top board in a region between the stringer board and the top board, the stringer board being in contact with the top board in a vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru TSUKADA, Toshihiro OSAWA, Kyoichi IMON, Taisuke ENDO, Yusuke KABE, Satoko IMAI, Hideki YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9850649Abstract: A control plate is provided at a preferred position in a storm overflow chamber. An inflow pipe, an intercepting pipe, and an outflow pipe are connected to the storm overflow chamber. A vortex flow type water surface control device for a draining device includes the overflow chamber, and a control plate arranged in front of an opening portion of the intercepting pipe opening to the storm overflow chamber. A relation (1) 0.5 D?X?0.7 D and 0.83 D?Y?1.5 D holds true, or a relation (2) 0.4 D?X?0.5 D and 1.0 D?Y?1.5 D holds true, where D represents an inner diameter of the opening portion, X represents a projection length of the control plate with respect to the opening portion, and Y represents a distance between the control plate and the opening portion. As a result, contaminants enter the intercepting pipe.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignees: NIPPON KOEI CO., LTD, TOKYO METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE SERVICE CORPORATION, TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENTInventors: Hiromi Watanabe, Hiroshi Komatsu, Shigeki Nishimura, Shigeru Tsukada
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Publication number: 20170005939Abstract: A control method performed by a network device includes replenishing a token to a token bucket and updating a timestamp indicating an execution time point of a meter operation when a user packet is received from another device, generating a dummy packet different from the user packet for every certain time period, in response to the dummy packet, replenishing the token to the token bucket, updating the timestamp, and discarding the dummy packet, controlling traffic in accordance with the token within the token bucket.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Motoyuki Tanisho, Tetsuo Ehara, Norihide Kubota, Shigeru Tsukada, Yuji Tanaka
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Publication number: 20160070478Abstract: A storage control device includes a processor to extract a first path to be subjected to load distribution of I/O access from among the first paths connecting virtual disks to a higher-level device in response to scale-out of a storage system based on performance information for the first paths, set a new first path that connects the higher-level device to a new virtual disk having the same space as a virtual disk to which the extracted first path is connected, set a new second path that connects the new virtual disk to an added memory device, use the extracted first path to read existing data stored in the virtual disk connected to the extracted first path, and use the new first path to write and read new data to be written to the new virtual disk as differential data to the existing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Shuji HARA, Shigeru TSUKADA, Tomo FUKUI
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Publication number: 20150154155Abstract: A data acquisition unit acquires sets of display data for displaying information from an inside of an information processing apparatus and other information processing apparatuses. A data converter converts the acquired sets of display data into a single set of display data by a conversion method based on additional information respectively added to each set of display data, and transmits the converted set of display data to a display apparatus. Accordingly, pieces of information acquired from respective information processing apparatuses are collectively displayed on a display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Toshiaki TAKEUCHI, Shigeru TSUKADA
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Patent number: 9037030Abstract: A power control system includes an image forming apparatus, a power calculating unit, and a condition controller. The image forming apparatus operates using power, forms an image corresponding to image information in a first operation mode, and enters a second operation mode in which power consumption is smaller than the first operation mode when the image forming apparatus satisfies a specific transition condition. The power calculating unit calculates power supplied from a power supplying unit. The condition controller controls the specific transition condition for the image forming apparatus in accordance with the power calculated by the power calculating unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeru Tsukada, Koji Ohashi, Hiroyuki Akanuma, Tomohisa Suzuki, Yoshiya Mashimo
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Publication number: 20130315614Abstract: A power control system includes an image forming apparatus, a power calculating unit, and a condition controller. The image forming apparatus operates using power, forms an image corresponding to image information in a first operation mode, and enters a second operation mode in which power consumption is smaller than the first operation mode when the image forming apparatus satisfies a specific transition condition. The power calculating unit calculates power supplied from a power supplying unit. The condition controller controls the specific transition condition for the image forming apparatus in accordance with the power calculated by the power calculating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeru TSUKADA, Koji OHASHI, Hiroyuki AKANUMA, Tomohisa SUZUKI, Yoshiya MASHIMO
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Patent number: 8576508Abstract: A tape library system includes a plurality of cartridge cells for accommodating a plurality of tape cartridges respectively, a tape drive for writing and reading data to and from the tape cartridge inserted therein, a diagnosis drive for diagnosing the tape cartridge inserted therein, an cartridge carriage mechanism for inserting and ejecting the tape cartridge into and from the tape drive and the diagnosis drive, and a diagnosis controller for controlling the cartridge carriage mechanism to load the tape cartridge into the diagnosis drive and for controlling the diagnosis drive to diagnose the tape cartridge inserted therein.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takaaki Yamato, Shigeru Tsukada, Nobuyuki Hirashima
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Publication number: 20130276677Abstract: A loading structure includes a bottom plate on which an object is placed; a support stand that supports the bottom plate from below the bottom plate; a pair of first poles that stand on the support stand; a pair of second poles that stand on the support stand; a first beam located on a far side of the loading structure and extending in a left-right direction, the first beam being fixed to upper portions of the pair of second poles; a pair of second beams extending toward the far side, a distance between inner surfaces of the pair of second beams being larger than a distance between outer surfaces of the pair of second poles; and a supporting member that stands on the support stand on the far side, the supporting member supporting a far-side surface of the object placed on the bottom plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Noritsugu KOKATSU, Naoto YAMADA, Toshihiro OHSAWA, Hiroshi TSUYUKI, Shigeru TSUKADA, Kaoru NISHIOKA
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Publication number: 20130240421Abstract: A control plate is provided at a preferred position in a storm overflow chamber. An inflow pipe, an intercepting pipe, and an outflow pipe are connected to the storm overflow chamber. A vortex flow type water surface control device for a draining device includes the overflow chamber, and a control plate arranged in front of an opening portion of the intercepting pipe opening to the storm overflow chamber. A relation (1) 0.5D?X?0.7D and 0.83D?Y?1.5D holds true, or a relation (2) 0.4D?X?0.5D and 1.0D?Y?1.5D holds true, where D represents an inner diameter of the opening portion, X represents a projection length of the control plate with respect to the opening portion, and Y represents a distance between the control plate and the opening portion. As a result, contaminants enter the intercepting pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicants: NIPPON KOEI CO., LTD., TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT, TOKYO METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE SERVICE CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromi Watanabe, Hiroshi Komatsu, Shigeki Nishimura, Shigeru Tsukada
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Patent number: 8447201Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image holding members; an intermediate transfer material; a transfer unit that transfers the toner images onto a recording medium; a density control toner image creating unit that creates a density control toner image at a constant position on each of the image holding members; a density detection unit that detects density of the density control toner image transferred onto a non-image region; and a creation timing control unit that controls timing of creating the density control toner image to create the density control toner image in the non-image region of the intermediate transfer material at a position where a length obtained by integrally multiplying the length obtained by adding the non-image region to the image region along the moving direction of the intermediate transfer material becomes equal to a length obtained by integrally multiplying the circumferential length of the image holding member.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Matsuyuki Aoki, Shigeru Tsukada
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Patent number: 8392652Abstract: A virtual tape system includes an actual tape device having a magnetic tape which stores data. The virtual tape system includes a virtual tape storage device which stores data stored in the actual tape device as a virtual tape volume, first computers to be connected to a host computer which instructs a storing of data in the actual tape device, and a reading of data from the actual tape device, control an interface with the host computer, second computers which control the virtual tape volume of the virtual tape storage device, third computers which control a writing of the data into the actual tape device, and a local disk controller which stores the data in one of storage devices mounted one in each of the first computers, each of the second computers, and each of the third computers.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Nobuyuki Hirashima, Shigeru Tsukada, Takaaki Yamato
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Patent number: 8370682Abstract: The computer system is capable of improving performance, reliability and redundancy. The computer system comprises: a plurality of server computers having different functions, the server computers being mutually connected by communication lines; a standby server computer being connected to each of the server computers by the communication lines, the standby server computer being capable of performing the function of each of the server computers; a detection unit for detecting an abnormal state of each of the server computers; and a take-over unit for controlling the standby server computer to take over the action of the abnormal server computer when the abnormal state of the abnormal server computer is detected by the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Shigeru Tsukada, Nobuyuki Hirashima, Takaaki Yamato
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Patent number: 7983578Abstract: An image forming device includes an image forming section; a storage section that stores a target darkness of a standard image; a measurement section that measures the darkness of the image formed by the image forming section; a user calibration section that causes the image forming section to form a standard image causes the measurement section to measure the darkness of that standard image, and if there is a discrepancy between the darkness of the standard image specified by the measurement of the physical quantity and the target darkness stored in the storage section, adjusts the image formation conditions to eliminate the discrepancy; a manual darkness adjustment section that changes the image formation conditions to content that is specified by the user; a control section that causes the image forming section to follow image formation conditions that do not reflect the content changed by the manual darkness adjustment section.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Yoshida, Shigeru Tsukada