Patents by Inventor Shingo Ito
Shingo Ito 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: 20230015377Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an exposure unit that reflects a laser beam emitted from a light source by a polygon mirror having a plurality of reflection surfaces to form a latent image on a photosensitive member, and a control unit that controls the image forming apparatus in a plurality of operation modes including a normal mode and a low speed mode having a slower process speed than the normal mode. The control unit controls the polygon mirror to use all of the plurality of reflection surfaces to reflect the laser beam when in the normal mode. When in the low speed mode, the control unit makes the process speed faster than 0.5 times that of the normal mode, rotates the polygon mirror faster than in the normal mode, and controls the polygon mirror to use only some of the plurality of reflection surfaces to reflect the laser beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Shingo Ito, Masashi Tanaka
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Patent number: 11540393Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a stacked body including a first main surface, and a conductor pattern (including a mounting electrode provided on the first main surface, and a first auxiliary pattern provided on the first main surface). The stacked body includes a plurality of insulating base material layers made of a resin as a main material and stacked on one another. The first auxiliary pattern is located adjacent to or in a vicinity of the mounting electrode. The mounting electrode, in a plan view of the first main surface (when viewed in the Z-axis direction), is interposed between a different conductor pattern (the mounting electrode) and the first auxiliary pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Ito, Naoki Gouchi
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Publication number: 20220390928Abstract: A production facilities monitoring method monitors an operation status of a plurality of production facilities of a same kind located at a plurality of production sites and includes: a data information preparation step of aggregating operational data of each of the production facilities for each of the production sites; a data accumulation step of accumulating the operational data aggregated at the data information preparation step into a computer located at a data accumulation site; a data analysis step of analyzing a current operation status at each of the production facilities, using current operational data and past operational data accumulated at the data accumulation step; and an operation status determination step of determining whether operation is abnormal at each of the production facilities, based on an analysis result of the data analysis step.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Tomohiko Ito, Kazuhira Ichikawa, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Shingo Sugioka, Hiroyuki Shimamoto
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Publication number: 20220390930Abstract: An operation method for production facilities operates production facilities of a same kind located at production sites, and includes: a data information preparation step of aggregating operational data of each of the production facilities for each of the production sites; a data accumulation step of accumulating the operational data aggregated at the data information preparation step into a computer located at a data accumulation site; a data analysis step of analyzing an operation status of each of the production facilities, using the operational data accumulated at the data accumulation step; a data display step of displaying information on analyzed the operation status of each of the production facilities on a display unit located at each of the production sites; and a facility operation step of referring to the displayed information and operating a production facility located at a second production site from a first production site.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Tomohiko Ito, Kazuhira Ichikawa, Shingo Sugioka, Hiroyuki Shimamoto, Tetsuya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11523521Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multilayer board includes forming conductor patterns on four or more insulating base material layers, forming a multilayer body by stacking the insulating base material layers in a state in which the conductor patterns face each other with prepreg layers therebetween, and heat-pressing the multilayer body. In a state before the step of heat-pressing, among the prepreg layers, a thickness of an outermost prepreg layer is larger than a thickness of a prepreg layer other than the outermost prepreg layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Ito, Kanto Iida, Naoki Gouchi
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Patent number: 11515069Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a stacked body, coil conductor patterns, and a connection conductor pattern. The stacked body includes insulating layers. A first coil conductor pattern is provided on the front surface of an insulating layer and has a wound shape including outer and inner end portions. A second coil conductor pattern is provided on the front surface of the insulating layer and includes an end portion. The connection conductor pattern is provided in the stacked body, and connects the coil conductor patterns. The outer end portion is connected to a terminal conductor on a back surface of the stacked body. The end portion of the second coil conductor pattern is connected to the terminal conductor on the back surface of the stacked body. The first coil conductor pattern extends parallel or substantially parallel to the second coil conductor pattern along an outer periphery of the second coil conductor pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Ito, Hirotaka Fujii
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Patent number: 11492941Abstract: A controller is applied to an internal combustion engine in which an electrically heated catalyst that is heated when supplied with electric power is installed in an exhaust passage. The controller is configured to perform a preheating process of warming up a first exhaust catalyst by supplying electric power to the electrically heated catalyst through control over a power supply before a start of the internal combustion engine. The controller is configured to, when an insulation resistance of the electrically heated catalyst at a start of the preheating process is lower than a threshold, perform the preheating process while decreasing a voltage supplied to the electrically heated catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigemasa Hirooka, Koichi Kitaura, Yoshio Yamashita, Shingo Korenaga, Katsuhiro Ito, Hikaru Shiozawa
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Publication number: 20220333516Abstract: A controller is applied to an internal combustion engine in which an electrically heated catalyst that is heated when supplied with electric power is installed in an exhaust passage. The controller is configured to perform a preheating process of warming up a first exhaust catalyst by supplying electric power to the electrically heated catalyst through control over a power supply before a start of the internal combustion engine. The controller is configured to, when an insulation resistance of the electrically heated catalyst at a start of the preheating process is lower than a threshold, perform the preheating process while decreasing a voltage supplied to the electrically heated catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigemasa HIROOKA, Koichi KITAURA, Yoshio YAMASHITA, Shingo KORENAGA, Katsuhiro ITO, Hikaru SHIOZAWA
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Publication number: 20220332305Abstract: A control device starts supply of electric power to a catalyst device when a state of charge of a main battery decreases to a value which is equal to or less than an optimal power-supply state of charge set based on a travel load while a vehicle is traveling in an EV travel mode. The control device corrects input electric power of the catalyst device to a value less than the value at the time of starting of supply of electric power when the travel load decreases after the supply of electric power has been started.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigemasa HIROOKA, Koichi KITAURA, Yoshio YAMASHITA, Shingo KORENAGA, Katsuhiro ITO, Hikaru SHIOZAWA
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Publication number: 20220325721Abstract: A propeller fan includes a shaft portion disposed on a rotation axis, and a blade disposed on an outer peripheral side of the shaft portion and including a leading edge and a trailing edge. The blade includes a negative pressure surface in which a plurality of recesses are formed, and the plurality of recesses include a first recess and a second recess disposed on the trailing edge side than the first recess in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis as a center. The first recess has a depth larger than a depth of the second recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Takuya TERAMOTO, Takahide TADOKORO, Katsuyuki YAMAMOTO, Hiroya ITO, Yuki UGAJIN, Shingo HAMADA, Takashi IKEDA, Takafumi ABE
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Publication number: 20220308524Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material includes a fixing unit and a blower unit to blow air around a roller. The fixing unit includes a tubular shape film, a heating member disposed in a space surrounded by the film, and the roller forming a nip portion with the heating member. The fixing unit heats and fixes the toner image onto the recording material at the nip portion. For printing that forms toner images on continuously conveyed recording materials where a roller surface temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature, fan stop and operation periods are set. During the fan stop period, the blower unit is stopped and an interval between preceding and subsequent recording materials is widened. During the fan operation period, the blower unit is in operation and the interval is narrower than the interval during the fan stop period.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Masashi Tanaka, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20220305799Abstract: There is provides liquid discharging apparatus including: head having nozzle; reservoir configured to store the liquid such that liquid surface is positioned higher than opening of the nozzle in a state that the reservoir stores the liquid of maximum storable amount; and atmosphere port connecting gas layer and outside of the reservoir. Inner diameter d of the nozzle and head difference h satisfy expression of ?hd /?cos??4/g, provided that p is specific weight of the liquid, ? is surface tension of the liquid, ? is contact angle of the liquid in the nozzle and g is gravitational acceleration, the head difference h being difference in height between meniscus in the opening of the nozzle and the liquid surface in the state that the reservoir stores the liquid of the maximum storable amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: FUMIO NAKAZAWA, YOSHINORI OSAKABE, HIROYUKI ISHIKAWA, YUJI KOGA, NAOYA OKAZAKI, AKIRA IRIGUCHI, SHINGO ITO, TOSHIO SUGIURA
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Patent number: 11446784Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) apparatus for polishing a workpiece, such as a metal body, to a mirror finish. The chemical mechanical polishing apparatus includes: a polishing pad (2) having an annular polishing surface (2a) which has a curved vertical cross-section; a workpiece holder (11) for holding a workpiece (W) having a polygonal shape; a rotating device (15) configured to rotate the workpiece holder (11) about an axis of the workpiece (W); a pressing device (14) configured to press a periphery of the workpiece (W) against the annular polishing surface (2a); and an operation controller (25) configured to change a speed at which the rotating device (15) rotates the workpiece (W) according to a rotation angle of the workpiece (W). The pressing device (14) is disposed more inwardly than the workpiece holder (11) in a radial direction of the polishing table (3).Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: EBARA CORPORATION, FUJIMI INCORPORATEDInventors: Yu Ishii, Kenya Ito, Hitoshi Morinaga, Kazusei Tamai, Shingo Ohtsuki, Hiroshi Asano
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Publication number: 20220293339Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer coil component 1 includes forming a plurality of insulator layers by a photolithography method using a photosensitive insulator paste, forming a plurality of conductors and via conductors by a photolithography method using a photosensitive conductive paste, a step of forming a first conductor, a step of forming a first insulator layer around the first conductor such that it becomes even with an upper surface of the first conductor, a step of forming a second insulator layer provided with a via hole on the first conductor and the first insulator layer, and a step of forming a second conductor connected to the first conductor via the via hole on the second insulator layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya ISHIMA, Shinichi KONDO, Kosuke ITO, Shingo HATTORI
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Publication number: 20220293332Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer coil component 1 includes: a step of forming a conductor by a photolithography method using photosensitive conductive paste; a step of forming an insulating film covering the conductor by a photolithography method using photosensitive insulating paste; a step of forming a resin layer holding the conductor covered with the insulating film by a positive-type photoresist; a step of forming a plurality of the conductors and the insulating film and then removing the resin layer by irradiating the resin layer with ultraviolet rays and developing the resin layer; and a step of filling the conductor covered with the insulating film with a magnetic material after removing the resin layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya ISHIMA, Kosuke ITO, Shinichi KONDO, Shingo HATTORI, Hidenobu UMEDA
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Publication number: 20220285083Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a stacked body of insulating base material layers and conductor patterns on the insulating base material layers. A thickness adjustment base material layer includes a frame portion, an opening portion inside the frame portion, and an island shaped portion inside the frame portion, and connection portions to connect the island shaped portion to the frame portion. The conductor patterns, in a stacking direction of the insulating base material layers, are wound around the island shaped portion. A line width of the connection portions is smaller than the width of the island shaped portion connected to the frame portion through the connection portions. An area overlapped with the conductor patterns is larger in the opening portion than in the frame portion and the island shaped portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Shingo ITO, Naoki GOUCHI, Hirotaka FUJII, Kazutaka MURAOKA
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Patent number: 11434924Abstract: A propeller fan includes a shaft portion disposed on a rotation axis, and a blade disposed on an outer peripheral side of the shaft portion and including a leading edge and a trailing edge. The blade includes a negative pressure surface in which a plurality of recesses are formed, and the plurality of recesses include a first recess and a second recess disposed on the trailing edge side than the first recess in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis as a center. The first recess has a depth larger than a depth of the second recess.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takuya Teramoto, Takahide Tadokoro, Katsuyuki Yamamoto, Hiroya Ito, Yuki Ugajin, Shingo Hamada, Takashi Ikeda, Takafumi Abe
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Publication number: 20220278554Abstract: A control circuit controls a power supply circuit to generate transmitting power having a frequency varying within a frequency range. The control circuit determines a stably transmitting frequency based on a detected output voltage of a power receiver apparatus, the stably transmitting frequency indicating a frequency of the transmitting power at which dependency of the output voltage on a load value of the power receiver apparatus is at least locally minimized within the frequency range. The control circuit determines a transmitting voltage based on the detected output voltage, the transmitting voltage indicating a voltage of the transmitting power at which the output voltage reaches a target voltage when generating transmitting power having the stably transmitting frequency. The control circuit controls the power supply circuit to generate transmitting power having the stably transmitting frequency and the transmitting voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2019Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Taichi MISHIMA, Yuki ITO, Shingo NAGAOKA, Takeshi UEMATSU
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Publication number: 20220242074Abstract: A laminated optical component, including a transparent substrate, a transparent adhesive layer superposed on the transparent substrate, the transparent adhesive layer including both a first type of crosslinking and a second type of crosslinking of (meta)acrylic polymer, the first type of crosslinking being formed of a first reaction site selected from a first group consisting of: a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, and an amino group, and a second reaction site selected from a second group consisting of: an isocyanate group, an epoxy group, and a metal atom, and the second type of crosslinking being formed by addition polymerization of unsaturated double bond, and a transparent film superposed on the transparent adhesive layer, wherein the transparent substrate, the transparent adhesive layer, and the transparent film form a flush-ended laminate having an end surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Shingo TAKATA, Yutaro KOGAWA, Emiko ITO
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Patent number: 11402799Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material includes a fixing unit and a blower unit to blow air around a roller. The fixing unit includes a tubular shape film, a heating member disposed in a space surrounded by the film, and the roller forming a nip portion with the heating member. The fixing unit heats and fixes the toner image onto the recording material at the nip portion. For printing that forms toner images on continuously conveyed recording materials where a roller surface temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature, fan stop and operation periods are set. During the fan stop period, the blower unit is stopped and an interval between preceding and subsequent recording materials is widened. During the fan operation period, the blower unit is in operation and the interval is narrower than the interval during the fan stop period.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Tanaka, Shingo Ito