Patents by Inventor Shinya Matsubara

Shinya Matsubara 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: 11914910
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer, which reproduces a color tone of a printed matter and displays the color tone on a screen before printing, to realize a function of acquiring a density value of a color material that develops a color by absorption of a specific wavelength component and a property of paper related to the absorption of the specific wavelength component, and a function of displaying an image that reproduces the color tone of the printed matter based on the density value and the property of the paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Koichi Matsubara, Yuichi Nishikuni, Shinya Takaishi, Daichi Kurotsu
  • Patent number: 11472173
    Abstract: A web processing system which includes two rollers configured to rotate at the same phase while being in contact with a web which continuously exists along a movement passage and a suppressing mechanism for suppressing a tension variation of the web between the two rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoto Miyoshi, Takatora Ando, Keita Suzuki, Shinya Matsubara, Taishi Hitomi, Makoto Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11247451
    Abstract: In order to reduce variations in pressing force of a printing nip to make the printing pressure uniform, an apparatus that performs printing on a substrate using a roll-to-roll method according to an aspect of the present application includes: an ink supply member that supplies a printing ink; a blanket cylinder (30) that transfers part of the ink, which has been supplied from the ink supply member and applied on a surface of the blanket cylinder, onto the substrate; a roller mold (40) that removes part of the ink applied on the surface of the blanket cylinder (30); a base (46) on which the blanket cylinder (30) is fixed; a slider (44) that supports the roller mold (40) and moves on the base (46); a moving resistance reduction device (80) that reduces a moving resistance of the slider (44) relative to the base (46); and a roller mold nip device (42) that applies, to the roller mold (40), a nip pressure against the blanket cylinder (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Matsubara, Taishi Hitomi, Masayuki Abe
  • Patent number: 11148412
    Abstract: In order to provide, to a roll-to-roll printing apparatus which seamlessly performs printing on a base material using a roll-to-roll method, performance for finely controlling the tension of the base material, the roll-to-roll printing apparatus includes a drive roll (74) that supplies a base material (B) to a plate cylinder, a drive roll actuator that rotates the drive roll (74), a dancer actuator (84) that changes a path line length of the base material (B) to vary the tension of the base material (B), a tension detection device (78) that detects the tension of the base material (B), and a tension control device (80) that controls the drive roll actuator and the dancer actuator (84) in accordance with a result of the detection by the tension detection device (78) to compensate for a variation in the tension of the base material (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignees: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Suzuki, Shinya Matsubara, Taishi Hitomi, Makoto Ikeda, Kiyoto Miyoshi, Takatora Ando
  • Patent number: 11072508
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a web processing system that executes predetermined processing onto a web continuously existing along a movement passage, in which the web processing system includes a rotating body that rotates while being in contact with the web, and the control apparatus controls a rotation speed of the rotating body such that a circumferential speed of the rotating body at a contact surface with the web matches a transport speed of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoto Miyoshi, Takatora Ando, Ryuta Nakajima, Keita Suzuki, Shinya Matsubara, Taishi Hitomi, Makoto Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20200215814
    Abstract: A web processing system which includes two rollers configured to rotate at the same phase while being in contact with a web which continuously exists along a movement passage and a suppressing mechanism for suppressing a tension variation of the web between the two rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicants: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoto MIYOSHI, Takatora ANDO, Keita SUZUKI, Shinya MATSUBARA, Taishi HITOMI, Makoto IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20200055305
    Abstract: In order to reduce variations in pressing force of a printing nip to make the printing pressure uniform, an apparatus that performs printing on a substrate using a roll-to-roll method according to an aspect of the present application includes: an ink supply member that supplies a printing ink; a blanket cylinder (30) that transfers part of the ink, which has been supplied from the ink supply member and applied on a surface of the blanket cylinder, onto the substrate; a roller mold (40) that removes part of the ink applied on the surface of the blanket cylinder (30); a base (46) on which the blanket cylinder (30) is fixed; a slider (44) that supports the roller mold (40) and moves on the base (46); a moving resistance reduction device (80) that reduces a moving resistance of the slider (44) relative to the base (46); and a roller mold nip device (42) that applies, to the roller mold (40), a nip pressure against the blanket cylinder (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya MATSUBARA, Taishi HITOMI, Masayuki ABE
  • Publication number: 20200017328
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a web processing system that executes predetermined processing onto a web continuously existing along a movement passage, in which the web processing system includes a rotating body that rotates while being in contact with the web, and the control apparatus controls a rotation speed of the rotating body such that a circumferential speed of the rotating body at a contact surface with the web matches a transport speed of the web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicants: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoto MIYOSHI, Takatora ANDO, Ryuta NAKAJIMA, Keita SUZUKI, Shinya MATSUBARA, Taishi HITOMI, Makoto IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190344558
    Abstract: In order to provide, to a roll-to-roll printing apparatus which seamlessly performs printing on a base material using a roll-to-roll method, performance for finely controlling the tension of the base material, the roll-to-roll printing apparatus includes a drive roll (74) that supplies a base material (B) to a plate cylinder, a drive roll actuator that rotates the drive roll (74), a dancer actuator (84) that changes a path line length of the base material (B) to vary the tension of the base material (B), a tension detection device (78) that detects the tension of the base material (B), and a tension control device (80) that controls the drive roll actuator and the dancer actuator (84) in accordance with a result of the detection by the tension detection device (78) to compensate for a variation in the tension of the base material (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicants: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita SUZUKI, Shinya MATSUBARA, Taishi HITOMI, Makoto IKEDA, Kiyoto MIYOSHI, Takatora ANDO
  • Publication number: 20190235670
    Abstract: An electrically conductive film having a transparent base material and an electrically conductive part including a metal thin wire pattern disposed on the transparent base material, in which the metal thin wire pattern is constituted of a metal thin wire, and when the metal thin wire is projected onto a plane, a projection width that is the longest among projection widths of the metal thin wire is less than the lower limit wavelength of visible light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya MATSUBARA, Masayuki ABE, Katsumi ONO, Ayato IBA
  • Patent number: 9091471
    Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes: an engine; an outdoor unit including a compressor driven by the engine to inhale a refrigerant, and compress and discharge the inhaled refrigerant and an outdoor heat exchanger; an indoor unit including an indoor heat exchanger; a controlling unit which controls a rotational speed of the compressor to be lower than a predetermined upper limit rotational speed; an outdoor temperature detecting unit which detects an outdoor temperature; an in-box temperature detecting unit which detects an in-box temperature within an enclosure box which accommodates therein the engine and the compressor; a correcting unit which corrects an upper limit rotational speed of the compressor when the outdoor temperature exceeds a predetermined outdoor temperature; a canceling unit which cancels the correction of the upper limit rotational speed when the in-box temperature is lower than a predetermined in-box temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Matsubara, Masanori Yasunaga
  • Patent number: 8299193
    Abstract: The present invention provides a film including, in at least a part thereof, a layer comprising an ethylene-based resin, which is a copolymer of ethylene and an ?-olefin of 4 to 10 carbon atoms, and satisfies the following requirements (1) to (5) at the same time or an ethylene-based resin composition containing the resin; (I) the melt flow rate at 190° C. under a load of 2.16 kg is in the range of 0.1 to 50 g/10 min, (II) the density is in the range of 875 to 970 kg/m3, (III) the ratio of a melt tension at 190° C. to a shear viscosity at 200° C. and an angular velocity of 1.0 rad/sec is in the range of 1.00×10?4 to 9.00×10?4, (IV) the sum of the number of methyl branches and the number of ethyl branches, each number being based on 1000 carbon atoms and measured by 13C-NMR, is not more than 1.8, and (V) the zero shear viscosity [?0(P)] at 200° C. and the weight-average molecular weight (Mw) as measured by a GPC-viscosity detector method (GPC-VISCO) satisfy the following relational formula (Eq-1): 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Masao Suzuki, Yasuo Satoh, Takahiro Akashi, Tsutomu Tasaki, Shinya Matsubara, Hideki Bando
  • Publication number: 20100319375
    Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes: an engine; an outdoor unit including a compressor driven by the engine to inhale a refrigerant, and compress and discharge the inhaled refrigerant and an outdoor heat exchanger; an indoor unit including an indoor heat exchanger; a controlling unit which controls a rotational speed of the compressor to be lower than a predetermined upper limit rotational speed; an outdoor temperature detecting unit which detects an outdoor temperature; an in-box temperature detecting unit which detects an in-box temperature within an enclosure box which accommodates therein the engine and the compressor; a correcting unit which corrects an upper limit rotational speed of the compressor when the outdoor temperature exceeds a predetermined outdoor temperature; a canceling unit which cancels the correction of the upper limit rotational speed when the in-box temperature is lower than a predetermined in-box temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Matsubara, Masanori Yasunaga
  • Publication number: 20090291285
    Abstract: The present invention provides a film including, in at least a part thereof, a layer comprising an ethylene-based resin, which is a copolymer of ethylene and an ?-olefin of 4 to 10 carbon atoms, and satisfies the following requirements (1) to (5) at the same time or an ethylene-based resin composition containing the resin; (I) the melt flow rate at 190° C. under a load of 2.16 kg is in the range of 0.1 to 50 g/10 min, (II) the density is in the range of 875 to 970 kg/m3, (III) the ratio of a melt tension at 190° C. to a shear viscosity at 200° C. and an angular velocity of 1.0 rad/sec is in the range of 1.00×10?4 to 9.00×10?4, (IV) the sum of the number of methyl branches and the number of ethyl branches, each number being based on 1000 carbon atoms and measured by 13C-NMR, is not more than 1.8, and (V) the zero shear viscosity [?0(P)] at 200° C. and the weight-average molecular weight (Mw) as measured by a GPC-viscosity detector method (GPC-VISCO) satisfy the following relational formula (Eq-1): 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: Masao Suzuki, Yasuo Satoh, Takahiro Akashi, Tsutomi Tasaki, Shinya Matsubara, Hideki Bando
  • Publication number: 20090018299
    Abstract: An ethylene-?-olefin copolymer for a film or sheet satisfying the following requirements [1] to [5] simultaneously is excellent in transparency and moldability and is suitably used for a film or sheet excellent in mechanical strength. [1] The density (d) is in the range of 890 to 980 kg/m3. [2] The intrinsic viscosity ([?]) measured at 135° C. in decalin is in the range of 0.5 to 10 dl/g. [3] The ratio of weight average molecular weight (Mw) to number average molecular weight (Mn) (Mw/Mn) measured by GPC is in the range of 2.0 to 50. [4] In an elution temperature-elution amount curve given by cross fractionation chromatography (CFC), the difference between a temperature at which the integrated elution amount is 1% by mass and a temperature at which the integrated elution amount is 40% by mass is 12° C. or less, wherein the total elution amount is 100% by mass. [5] The amount of a component soluble in decane is 0.5% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tasaki, Takahiro Akashi, Shinya Matsubara, Masahiko Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20050172993
    Abstract: A thermoelectric generator for an internal combustion engine that prevents a thermoelectric generation element from being damaged. The thermoelectric generator includes a casing, which is arranged in an exhaust passage, and a sleeve. A cooling mechanism is arranged outside the sleeve. Thermoelectric generation elements are arranged between the sleeve and the cooling mechanism in a manner movable relative to both the sleeve and the,cooling mechanism. The thermoelectric generation elements convert heat energy from exhaust in the exhaust passage to electric energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Kouji Shimoji, Kouichi Suzuki, Shinya Matsubara