Patents by Inventor Shinichi Asai
Shinichi Asai 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: 20240097394Abstract: A light emitting sealed body includes: a housing which stores a discharge gas and is provided with a first opening to which first light is incident along a first optical axis and a second opening from which second light is emitted along a second optical axis; a first window portion which hermetically seals the first opening; and a second window portion which hermetically seals the second opening. The housing is formed of a light shielding material which does not transmit the first light and the second light. An internal space is defined by the housing, the first window portion, and the second window portion and the internal space is filled with the discharge gas. The first opening and the second opening are disposed so that the first optical axis and the second optical axis intersect each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Akio Suzuki, Toru Fujita, Akinori Asai, Yusei Nagata, Shinichi Ohba, Takayuki Ohshiro, Matthew Partlow, Ron Collins, Stephen F. Horne, Laura Owens
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Patent number: 11446433Abstract: A feeding device according to the present invention includes a tubular body which has an a female screw portion, a movable shaft which has a male screw portion and is movable between a start position and an end position according to a rotation of the tubular body, a final gear which is provided in the tubular body, a drive unit which has the driving gear, a power transmission mechanism which transmits a driving force from the driving gear to the final gear via a plurality of intermediate gears, and a biasing mechanism which is configured to apply a biasing force to the movable shaft. At least one of the plurality of intermediate gears is a two-stage gear. The biasing mechanism is configured to apply the biasing force from the end position toward the start position and presses the male screw portion against the female screw portion to the start position side.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Yoichi Endo, Akehiko Sato, Masami Oaku, Shinichi Asai
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Patent number: 11359264Abstract: A method for casting an aluminum alloy includes: pouring molten metal of an aluminum alloy comprising 6.0 to 9.0 mass % of Si, 0.4 to 0.8 mass % of Mg, 0.25 to 1.0 mass % of Cu, 0.08 to 0.25 mass % of Fe, 0.6 mass % or less of Mn, 0.2 mass % or less of Ti, and 0.01 mass % or less of Sr, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities into a shot sleeve of a die casting machine; filling a mold cavity of a center-gate die with the molten metal at a gate speed of 1 msec or less so as to produce a laminar flow, and subjecting T5 heat treatment so as to obtain the aluminum alloy having a tensile strength of 240 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Inventors: Tomoo Yoshida, Shinichi Asai
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Publication number: 20220051386Abstract: An image inspecting apparatus may include an image analyzer that may: calculate difference data of each image data obtained by performing smoothing processing for image data with multiple smoothing filters different in range; extract multiple abnormal candidates on a basis of the difference data; make a range in which the multiple extracted abnormal candidates are collected, as a target region; and detect one abnormal candidate as an abnormality from the multiple abnormal candidates included in the target region on a basis of the difference data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Shinichi ASAI
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Publication number: 20200232069Abstract: A method for casting an aluminum alloy includes: pouring molten metal of an aluminum alloy comprising 6.0 to 9.0 mass % of Si, 0.4 to 0.8 mass % of Mg, 0.25 to 1.0 mass % of Cu, 0.08 to 0.25 mass % of Fe, 0.6 mass % or less of Mn, 0.2 mass % or less of Ti, and 0.01 mass % or less of Sr, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities into a shot sleeve of a die casting machine; filling a mold cavity of a center-gate die with the molten metal at a gate speed of 1 msec or less so as to produce a laminar flow, and subjecting T5 heat treatment so as to obtain the aluminum alloy having a tensile strength of 240 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Tomoo YOSHIDA, Shinichi ASAI
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Publication number: 20200215262Abstract: A feeding device according to the present invention includes a tubular body which has an a female screw portion, a movable shaft which has a male screw portion and is movable between a start position and an end position according to a rotation of the tubular body, a final gear which is provided in the tubular body, a drive unit which has the driving gear, a power transmission mechanism which transmits a driving force from the driving gear to the final gear via a plurality of intermediate gears, and a biasing mechanism which is configured to apply a biasing force to the movable shaft. At least one of the plurality of intermediate gears is a two-stage gear. The biasing mechanism is configured to apply the biasing force from the end position toward the start position and presses the male screw portion against the female screw portion to the start position side.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Yoichi ENDO, Akehiko SATO, Masami OAKU, Shinichi ASAI
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Patent number: 10616060Abstract: An apparatus for selectively applying settings for each of items set in a first processing device to a second processing device is provided. The settings for each of the items are indicated in each file, and the file is dividable into sets of separate data having a predetermined size or smaller. The apparatus includes a user interface configured to allow a user to choose target separate data from among the sets of separate data of each of the files; a selection portion configured to set, at selected data, the sets of separate data of a file having the target separate data among the files; and an application processing portion configured to perform application processing for applying the settings to the second processing device by using, among the sets of separate data of each of the files, the sets of separate data set at the selected data.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Asai, Takashi Sugaya, Hideyuki Matsuda, Yu Sonoda, Shohei Ichiyama
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Publication number: 20200013158Abstract: A learning apparatus includes an image defect detector that detects an image defect on a sheet on which an image has been formed, a likelihood calculator that calculates a likelihood that an image forming member associated with the image formation is a generation factor of the image defect, a predictor that predicts a change in the image defect generated by the image forming member as a generation factor; and a learning unit that causes the predictor to perform learning using the detected image defect as learning data, wherein the learning unit changes, according to the likelihood, a learning mode of the image defect to be used as the learning data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Shinichi ASAI, Daisuke GENDA
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Patent number: 10491779Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display; a memory that stores multiple key frames of a video guide on how to recover from an operating error; an error sensor that detects the operating error; and a display processor that allows the display to display at least one of the multiple key frames as a still frame for a digest along with an operation button for video playback, when the error sensor detects the operating error, the multiple key frames being stored on the memory, and that further allows the display to play back the video guide by serially displaying the multiple key frames, when the operation button is pressed.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Kenichi Komaba, Shinichi Asai, Yu Sonoda
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Patent number: 10409538Abstract: A web system includes a web client having a web browser, and a web server for providing the web client with a computer program to be executed on the web browser. The web server includes a delivery portion configured to deliver, as the computer program, a predetermined processing program to the web client, the predetermined processing program causing the web client, when the web client starts receiving specific data from the web server, to execute inquiry processing of inquiring of the web server as to a state of transmission of the specific data in the web server, and the predetermined processing program causing the web client to execute predetermined processing after a reply that the transmission is completed is received as the state, and a reply portion configured to, when an inquiry as to the state is sent from the web client, inform the web client of the state.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Hideyuki Matsuda, Yusaku Tanaka, Shinichi Asai, Chohiko Fukuoh, Hiroyuki Ohno
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Patent number: 10412260Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a display portion; an error sensor that detects an operating error; a recovery sensor that detects the recovery from an operating error; and a display processor that makes the display portion display a notice of an operating error when the error sensor detects the operating error and that makes the display portion display an operation guide for preventing the reoccurrence of the same operating error when the recovery sensor detects the recovery from the operating error.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Asai, Kenichi Komaba, Shoko Haba, Yu Sonoda
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Patent number: 10027842Abstract: An image processing device includes: a hardware processor configured to: execute a process according to a received remote operation in response to reception of the remote operation from a master device registered in advance among a plurality of mobile information devices; confirm to a duplicate login device other than an own device among the plurality of image processing devices that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device in a case where a remote operation of instructing connection with a sub device different from the master device is received from the master device; and execute a process according to a remote operation received from the sub device in a case where it is confirmed by a confirmation unit that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Shoko Haba, Kenichi Komaba, Shinichi Asai, Hiroki Ueda, Yu Sonoda
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Patent number: 9900450Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processing portion, a storage portion, and a touch pad. The processing portion is adapted to accept input of a value for a prescribed processing condition for an image forming job. The storage portion is adapted to store the value accepted by the processing portion. The touch pad is adapted to accept a touch operation. The processing portion updates the value stored in the storage portion based on a manner of change in touch position resulting from a second touch operation on the touch pad while a first touch operation in a prescribed region of the touch pad continues.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Shinichi Asai, Jiro Goto, Takashi Oikawa
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Publication number: 20180007227Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display; a memory that stores multiple key frames of a video guide on how to recover from an operating error; an error sensor that detects the operating error; and a display processor that allows the display to display at least one of the multiple key frames as a still frame for a digest along with an operation button for video playback, when the error sensor detects the operating error, the multiple key frames being stored on the memory, and that further allows the display to play back the video guide by serially displaying the multiple key frames, when the operation button is pressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Kenichi Komaba, Shinichi Asai, Yukito Sonoda
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Publication number: 20170366698Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a display portion; an error sensor that detects an operating error; a recovery sensor that detects the recovery from an operating error; and a display processor that makes the display portion display a notice of an operating error when the error sensor detects the operating error and that makes the display portion display an operation guide for preventing the reoccurrence of the same operating error when the recovery sensor detects the recovery from the operating error.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Shinichi ASAI, Kenichi KOMABA, Shoko HABA, Yu SONODA
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Publication number: 20170280003Abstract: An image processing device includes: a hardware processor configured to: execute a process according to a received remote operation in response to reception of the remote operation from a master device registered in advance among a plurality of mobile information devices; confirm to a duplicate login device other than an own device among the plurality of image processing devices that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device in a case where a remote operation of instructing connection with a sub device different from the master device is received from the master device; and execute a process according to a remote operation received from the sub device in a case where it is confirmed by a confirmation unit that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Shoko HABA, Kenichi KOMABA, Shinichi ASAI, Hiroki UEDA, Yu SONODA
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Patent number: 9715205Abstract: An image forming apparatus remotely operated by an external terminal includes a generation unit that generates a first composite image by combining a first image and a second image such that the second image is displayed within and over the first image, the first image being an operation screen image corresponding to an operation screen of the image forming apparatus, and the second screen being an image of an area including hardware key images corresponding to hardware keys of the image forming apparatus, a transmission unit that transmits first image data that is image data of the first composite image to the external terminal as data for displaying a remote operation image for the image forming apparatus, and a reception unit that receives, from the external terminal, first manual input information on manual input to the first composite image displayed as the remote operation image on the external terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kentaro Nagatani, Takao Kurohata, Junichi Isamikawa, Shinichi Asai, Yusuke Shinosaki
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Publication number: 20170033993Abstract: An apparatus for selectively applying settings for each of items set in a first processing device to a second processing device is provided. The settings for each of the items are indicated in each file, and the file is dividable into sets of separate data having a predetermined size or smaller. The apparatus includes a user interface configured to allow a user to choose target separate data from among the sets of separate data of each of the files; a selection portion configured to set, at selected data, the sets of separate data of a file having the target separate data among the files; and an application processing portion configured to perform application processing for applying the settings to the second processing device by using, among the sets of separate data of each of the files, the sets of separate data set at the selected data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Asai, Takashi Sugaya, Hideyuki Matsuda, Yu Sonoda, Shohei Ichiyama
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Publication number: 20160355908Abstract: An aluminum alloy used for a die casting process and a method for casting the aluminum alloy are provided. The aluminum alloy exhibits excellent internal quality, high elongation, and high strength. The aluminum alloy includes 6.0 to 9.0 mass % of Si, 0.4 to 0.8 mass % of Mg, 0.25 to 1.0 mass % of Cu, 0.08 to 0.25 mass % of Fe, 0.6 mass % or less of Mn, 0.2 mass % or less of Ti, and 0.01 mass % or less of one element selected from the group consisting of Sr, Sb, Ca, and Na, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Tomoo YOSHIDA, Shinichi ASAI
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Publication number: 20160357486Abstract: A data providing device includes a transmission unit configured to transmit at least one of a plurality of pieces of data to a terminal device, and a compression unit configured to compress the at least one of the plurality of pieces of data, the data providing device including: a reception unit configured to receive, from the terminal device, specification of one or a plurality of pieces of target data that are transmission targets among the plurality of pieces of data, wherein, in a case where the number of pieces of the one or the plurality of pieces of target data is less than a predetermined number, the transmission unit transmits the target data to the terminal device without the compression unit compressing the target data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Yu SONODA, Takashi SUGAYA, Shinichi ASAI, Hideyuki MATSUDA