Patents by Inventor Shiro Hayashi

Shiro Hayashi 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: 12069208
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that receives setting of a type of a recording medium by a user; a detector that detects a type determination parameter for a recording medium including a recording medium for which setting of a type has been received by the first hardware processor; a second hardware processor that determines a type of a recording medium based on a detection result of the detector; an image former that forms an image on the recording medium; and a third hardware processor that transmits, to an external device, at least two pieces of information of information regarding the type received, information regarding the type determined by the second hardware processor, or information regarding matching or mismatching of the type received and the type determined with respect to the recording medium for which setting of a type has been received by the first hardware processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori Kimata, Takahiro Tsujimoto, Noriyuki Jinbo, Kenichi Hayashi, Shiro Umeda, Satoru Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240275204
    Abstract: Provided is an electric power supply system comprising: an energy harvesting electric power source; and a switching electric power source apparatus which boosts an input voltage supplied from the energy harvesting electric power source for an output, where the switching electric power source apparatus has: an input terminal; an output terminal; a coil; a first switch; a diode; a capacitor; a voltage conversion unit which outputs a converted voltage that is based on the input voltage; and a switch control circuit which outputs a signal having a frequency corresponding to the converted voltage and driving the first switch, where the voltage conversion unit converts the input voltage such that an output impedance of the energy harvesting electric power source and an input impedance of the switching electric power source apparatus have closer values than in a case where the input voltage is inputted to the switch control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Shiro TAGA, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Teppei HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240261839
    Abstract: In an installing method for installing divided upper tools to upper tool holders disposed to be spaced at an appropriate interval in a left-right direction in a lower portion of an upper table of a press brake, by using a tool changer, a round bar-shaped finger provided in the tool changer is engaged in a circular engagement hole provided at a central portion in the lateral direction of each divided upper tool. The divided upper tool is temporarily positioned in a gap between an upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed, and an adjacent upper tool holder. The temporarily positioned divided upper tool is moved in the left-right direction to be installed to the upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Amada co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Shiro Hayashi, Shingo Kamada, Hideto Yamada, Yohei Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20240255879
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance section that conveys a first recording medium and a second recording medium, a sensor that detects information relating to the first recording medium and information relating to the second recording medium, and a hardware processor that causes the sensor to detect the information relating to the first recording medium conveyed first by the conveyance section and to detect the information relating to the second recording medium conveyed by the conveyance section after the first recording medium, and outputs the detected information relating to the second recording medium after the first recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi HAYASHI, Noriyuki JINBO, Akinori KIMATA, Takahiro TSUJIMOTO, Shiro UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20240255878
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sensor that detects information relating to the first recording medium and information relating to the second recording medium; and a hardware processor that causes the sensor to detect information relating to the first recording medium conveyed first by the conveyance section and to detect information relating to the second recording medium conveyed by the conveyance section after the first recording medium, causes the conveyance section to operate such that the second recording medium is conveyed at a conveyance speed based on the information relating to the first recording medium, and causes the conveyance section to operate such that the second recording medium is conveyed at the conveyance speed maintained even when the information relating to the second recording medium after the first recording medium is detected to be different from the information relating to the first recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori KIMATA, Takahiro TSUJIMOTO, Noriyuki JINBO, Kenichi HAYASHI, Shiro UMEDA
  • Patent number: 12036599
    Abstract: An attachment base extending in a left-right direction is provided on a lower end side of a front surface of an upper table of a press brake. On the attachment base, a plurality of protruding tabs protruding downward are formed at intervals in the left-right direction. An upper tool holder is disposed between the protruding tabs adjacent to each other in the left-right direction in the front surface of the attachment base. A connecting member is attached to a back surface of each protruding tab, and the connecting member includes a distal end located on a back side of the upper table. A guide member supporting a moving body movably in the left-right direction is coupled to a distal-end face of the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Shiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12023724
    Abstract: In an installing method for installing divided upper tools to upper tool holders disposed to be spaced at an appropriate interval in a left-right direction in a lower portion of an upper table of a press brake, by using a tool changer, a round bar-shaped finger provided in the tool changer is engaged in a circular engagement hole provided at a central portion in the lateral direction of each divided upper tool. The divided upper tool is temporarily positioned in a gap between an upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed, and an adjacent upper tool holder. The temporarily positioned divided upper tool is moved in the left-right direction to be installed to the upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Shiro Hayashi, Shingo Kamada, Hideto Yamada, Yohei Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20240181378
    Abstract: The filter pack incudes a filter medium having folds alternately repeated on upstream and downstream sides of airflow by a pleating process, at least one pair of upstream ventilation surfaces facing each other via the fold on the downstream side therebetween and into which the airflow flows, and at least one pair of downstream ventilation surfaces facing each other via the fold on the upstream side therebetween and from which the airflow flows out, and a plurality of space maintaining members formed on each of the upstream ventilation surfaces and each of the downstream ventilation surfaces to maintain spaces of each pair of upstream ventilation surfaces and each pair of downstream ventilation surfaces. The plurality of space maintaining members formed on the upstream ventilation surfaces are intermittently formed in a direction orthogonal to the fold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON MUKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya SEKI, Takumu JINGUUJI, Shiro HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11819901
    Abstract: A tool for a press brake includes a tool main body, an attachment portion formed on a base end side of the tool main body and configured to be detachably attached to a tool installation portion of the press brake by using a tool changer, and a bending portion formed on a distal end side of the tool main body and used to bend a plate-shaped workpiece. An engagement hole having a circular cross-sectional shape to be engaged with a bar-shaped finger of the tool changer extends through the tool main body in a thickness direction. An anti-rotation bottomed depressed portion configured to receive a distal end of an anti-rotation member of the tool changer is formed in a vicinity of the engagement hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Shiro Hayashi, Shingo Kamada, Hideto Yamada, Yohei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11806774
    Abstract: A punch tool with an expanded portion, a movable punch provided on a fixed punch so as to be able to move up and down in a direction along an inclined portion, and an interlocking member configured to interlock with a relative ascending and descending motion of the movable punch with respect to the fixed punch. The punch tool with an expanded portion is provided with an operation member provided on the fixed punch so as to be movable in the lateral direction, configured to move in the lateral direction by means of a moving motion of an external operation member, and including an abutting element capable of being abutted with the interlocking member, and an urging member configured to urge the operation member toward the inside in the lateral direction such that the abutting element is abutted with the interlocking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiro Hayashi, Nobuo Oyamada, Yousuke Onagi
  • Patent number: 11762035
    Abstract: An abnormality detection method according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a method of detecting an abnormality in an AC signal to be input from an AC power supply. The method includes, where an ideal AC signal is represented as V0 sin ?t (V0: amplitude, co: angular frequency, t: time), calculating an arithmetic value including a value represented by sin2?t+cos2?t and determining that the AC signal is abnormal when the arithmetic value is out of a threshold range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, AVALDATA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Bessho, Shiro Hayashi, Junichi Harada, Akitsugu Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20230249117
    Abstract: Provided are a filter pack capable of suitably maintaining a space between pleats while suppressing an increase in pressure loss, and an air filter provided with the same. The filter pack includes a filter medium that collects fine particles in a gas and has multiple pairs of ventilation surfaces which are continuous and face each other through alternating folds due to pleating, and a space holding member that holds a space between each of the pairs of ventilation surfaces, and that is formed extending in a direction orthogonal to the fold on at least one of the pair of ventilation surfaces and has a base material layer and at least one space forming layer formed on the base material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON MUKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya SEKI, Shiro HAYASHI, Hitoshi NIINUMA
  • Patent number: 11638947
    Abstract: A mold for a press brake includes an upper mold that is mountable on an upper table and a lower mold mountable on a lower table in a press brake. The upper mold and the lower mold vertically face each other and have respective pressurizing surfaces. The respective pressurizing surfaces are superposed with each other in a pressing direction so as to define a wedge shaped recess between the respective pressurizing surfaces. The respective pressurizing surfaces are configured to pressurize a workpiece positioned between the respective pressurizing surfaces. Further, one of the pressurizing surfaces is formed as a level surface and the other is formed as an inclined surface. The upper mold includes a V-shaped workpiece bending portion that can freely enter into a bending groove provided in the lower mold, and the respective pressurizing surfaces are positioned outside of the bending groove of the lower mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingjun Jin, Takahiro Shibata, Shiro Hayashi, Shin Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220401871
    Abstract: An air filter includes: a pleated filter material folded into a zig-zag form at folding lines along a first direction to have peak parts and valley parts arising alternately in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, trapping fine particles in a gaseous matter flowing in a gas flow direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction; a filter frame being a rectangular filter frame including one pair of first frame materials facing each other in the second direction having end parts in the first direction, and one pair of second frame materials facing each other in the first direction having end parts in the second direction, opening in the gas flow direction and housing the pleated filter material, each of the first frame materials and each of the second frame materials being combined to provide an overlap part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON MUKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya SEKI, Shiro HAYASHI, Takeki YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220390525
    Abstract: An abnormality detection method according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a method of detecting an abnormality in an AC signal to be input from an AC power supply. The method includes, where an ideal AC signal is represented as V0 sin ?t (V0: amplitude, co: angular frequency, t: time), calculating an arithmetic value including a value represented by sin2?t+cos2?t and determining that the AC signal is abnormal when the arithmetic value is out of a threshold range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoya BESSHO, Shiro HAYASHI, Junichi HARADA, Akitsugu NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220379361
    Abstract: A punch tool with an expanded portion, a movable punch provided on a fixed punch so as to be able to move up and down in a direction along an inclined portion, and an interlocking member configured to interlock with a relative ascending and descending motion of the movable punch with respect to the fixed punch. The punch tool with an expanded portion is provided with an operation member provided on the fixed punch so as to be movable in the lateral direction, configured to move in the lateral direction by means of a moving motion of an external operation member, and including an abutting element capable of being abutted with the interlocking member, and an urging member configured to urge the operation member toward the inside in the lateral direction such that the abutting element is abutted with the interlocking member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Shiro HAYASHI, Nobuo OYAMADA, Yousuke ONAGI
  • Publication number: 20220226876
    Abstract: An attachment base extending in a left-right direction is provided on a lower end side of a front surface of an upper table of a press brake. On the attachment base, a plurality of protruding tabs protruding downward are formed at intervals in the left-right direction. An upper tool holder is disposed between the protruding tabs adjacent to each other in the left-right direction in the front surface of the attachment base. A connecting member is attached to a back surface of each protruding tab, and the connecting member includes a distal end located on a back side of the upper table. A guide member supporting a moving body movably in the left-right direction is coupled to a distal-end face of the connecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Shiro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210387128
    Abstract: A filter pack includes a pleated filter medium and spacing members that maintain a distance between adjacent mountain or valley folded portions of the filter medium. The filter medium includes pairs of extension portions that extend to both sides of folds of the filter medium and face each other when filter medium is folded. The plurality of spacing members include paired spacing members that are respectively provided on the extension portions so as to linearly extend in a direction that is orthogonal to the folds. The paired spacing members are in contact with each other when the filter medium is folded. Surfaces of the paired spacing members that come into contact with each other each include a flat surface that extends in a direction that is orthogonal to a direction in which the spacing members face each other when viewed along an extending direction of the spacing members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Hirokazu IZUMIYA, Osamu KITAGAWA, Shiro HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11199184
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor includes a displacement control valve that is configured to change crank chamber pressure, and an opening adjusting valve that adjusts an amount of refrigerant sucked into a suction chamber. The opening adjusting valve includes a valve case, a first valve element, a second valve element, and an urging spring. The valve case has a valve seat on which the second valve element is seated. The valve seat regulates movement of the second valve element toward the first valve element. A sealing member is provided between an inner peripheral surface of the valve case that defines a second valve chamber and an outer peripheral surface of the second valve element to prevent refrigerant in the second valve chamber so that leakage between a bleed passage and a control passage is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Noriaki Satake, Shinichi Kakegawa, Shuhei Sekinaga, Shiro Hayashi, Akinobu Kanai
  • Publication number: 20210339303
    Abstract: A tool for a press brake includes a tool main body, an attachment portion formed on a base end side of the tool main body and configured to be detachably attached to a tool installation portion of the press brake by using a tool changer, and a bending portion formed on a distal end side of the tool main body and used to bend a plate-shaped workpiece. An engagement hole having a circular cross-sectional shape to be engaged with a bar-shaped finger of the tool changer extends through the tool main body in a thickness direction. An anti-rotation bottomed depressed portion configured to receive a distal end of an anti-rotation member of the tool changer is formed in a vicinity of the engagement hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Shiro HAYASHI, Shingo KAMADA, Hideto YAMADA, Yohei YAMAGUCHI