Patents by Inventor Shoichi Nomura

Shoichi Nomura 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).

  • Publication number: 20240146854
    Abstract: An image inspection system includes: a hardware processor that controls image formation by an image former based on a read image generated by reading, by a reader, a medium on which a patch is formed, wherein the hardware processor causes the image former to form, on the medium, a patch corresponding to an image formed on a medium by the image former.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: SHOICHI NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20240144463
    Abstract: An image inspection system includes: a hardware processor that controls image formation by an image former based on a read image generated by reading, by a reader, a medium on which a patch is formed, wherein the hardware processor causes the image former to form, on the medium, a patch corresponding to the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: SHOICHI NOMURA
  • Patent number: 11775790
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms a color image on a recording medium by superimposing images of colors formed by image forming units. The apparatus includes a processor that: acquires a read image by reading the recording medium on which the color image has been formed; forms a register patch outside a job image forming region of the recording medium; and corrects image forming positions of the image forming units based on the read image that includes the register patch. The register patch includes: a leading end patch and a rear end patch formed with a reference color material; and one or more measurement target color patches formed with measurement target color materials between the leading end patch and the rear end patch. The hardware processor corrects the image forming positions based on relative positions of the leading end patch, the rear end patch, and the measurement target color patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 11700341
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a first reader and a second reader that acquire read images by respectively reading one side and the other side of a sheet having an image printed thereon, a first background material and a second background material provided at positions as the backgrounds of the sheet in reading by the first reader and the second reader respectively, and a hardware processor that acquires sheet outline information from the read images and measures misalignment of the image with respect to the sheet based on the acquired sheet outline information. The hardware processor acquires read images with the first background material and the second background material having different densities, and acquires sheet outline information of one read image by estimating the sheet outline information of the one read image based on sheet outline information of the other of the read images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20230079849
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms a color image on a recording medium by superimposing images of colors formed by image forming units. The apparatus includes a processor that: acquires a read image by reading the recording medium on which the color image has been formed; forms a register patch outside a job image forming region of the recording medium; and corrects image forming positions of the image forming units based on the read image that includes the register patch. The register patch includes: a leading end patch and a rear end patch formed with a reference color material; and one or more measurement target color patches formed with measurement target color materials between the leading end patch and the rear end patch. The hardware processor corrects the image forming positions based on relative positions of the leading end patch, the rear end patch, and the measurement target color patches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20230081902
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: an image former that prints an image on paper; a corrector that corrects a print position of the image on the paper; and a first sensor that is disposed on a conveyance path upstream of the image former, detects paper, and outputs detection data to the corrector, wherein the corrector obtains, on the basis of the detection data, an amount of change in a shape of first paper from a shape of second paper printed before the first paper is printed, and corrects a print position of a first image on the first paper on the basis of the change amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NOMURA
  • Patent number: 11556084
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes the following. A reader reads a sheet in which an image is printed, reads the sheet together with a background, and obtains a read image. A background member is provided in a position which is to be a background of the sheet when the sheet is read by the reader. A hardware processor extracts sheet outline information of the sheet from the read image and measures a misalignment of a position of the image with relation to the sheet based on the extracted sheet outline information. The hardware processor performs control based on a measured result of the misalignment of the position of the image. The hardware processor adjusts a degree of control performed based on the measured result of the misalignment of the position of the image according to a density difference between the sheet and the background member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20230007142
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a first reader and a second reader that acquire read images by respectively reading one side and the other side of a sheet having an image printed thereon, a first background material and a second background material provided at positions as the backgrounds of the sheet in reading by the first reader and the second reader respectively, and a hardware processor that acquires sheet outline information from the read images and measures misalignment of the image with respect to the sheet based on the acquired sheet outline information. The hardware processor acquires read images with the first background material and the second background material having different densities, and acquires sheet outline information of one read image by estimating the sheet outline information of the one read image based on sheet outline information of the other of the read images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NOMURA
  • Patent number: 11477341
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a first reader and a second reader that acquire read images by respectively reading one side and the other side of a sheet having an image printed thereon, a first background material and a second background material provided at positions as the backgrounds of the sheet in reading by the first reader and the second reader respectively, and a hardware processor that acquires sheet outline information from the read images and measures misalignment of the image with respect to the sheet based on the acquired sheet outline information. The hardware processor acquires read images with the first background material and the second background material having different densities, and acquires sheet outline information of one read image by estimating the sheet outline information of the one read image based on sheet outline information of the other of the read images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20220179349
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes the following. A reader reads a sheet in which an image is printed, reads the sheet together with a background, and obtains a read image. A background member is provided in a position which is to be a background of the sheet when the sheet is read by the reader. A hardware processor extracts sheet outline information of the sheet from the read image and measures a misalignment of a position of the image with relation to the sheet based on the extracted sheet outline information. The hardware processor performs control based on a measured result of the misalignment of the position of the image. The hardware processor adjusts a degree of control performed based on the measured result of the misalignment of the position of the image according to a density difference between the sheet and the background member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20220182509
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a first reader and a second reader that acquire read images by respectively reading one side and the other side of a sheet having an image printed thereon, a first background material and a second background material provided at positions as the backgrounds of the sheet in reading by the first reader and the second reader respectively, and a hardware processor that acquires sheet outline information from the read images and measures misalignment of the image with respect to the sheet based on the acquired sheet outline information. The hardware processor acquires read images with the first background material and the second background material having different densities, and acquires sheet outline information of one read image by estimating the sheet outline information of the one read image based on sheet outline information of the other of the read images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NOMURA
  • Patent number: 11114779
    Abstract: A terminal base includes a plurality of terminals configured to electrically connect a first device and a second device to each other, each of the plurality of terminals being electrically conductive and a housing configured to hold the plurality of terminals, the housing being made of an electrically insulating resin in which each of the plurality of terminals includes a first connection portion exposed to an outside of the housing so as to be connected to the first device, a second connection portion exposed to the outside of the housing so as to be connected to the second device, and an insert portion insert-molded in the housing and in which he insert portion has a solid cylindrical shape or a hollow cylindrical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhide Takahashi, Shoichi Nomura, Eiji Aoki
  • Patent number: 11050224
    Abstract: A wire harness unit applied to a power storage device unit and a wire harness includes a routing material and a cooling unit that cools the routing material. The routing material constitutes a charging conduction path that extends between a charging inlet and a power storage device, and transmits electricity. The charging inlet is provided to a vehicle. The power storage device is provided to the vehicle and can store electric power. As a result, the wire harness unit, the power storage device unit, and the wire harness can reduce a cross-sectional area of the routing material to a relatively small area, thereby having an advantageous effect of capable of having proper mountability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Sugimura, Mitsuaki Morimoto, Kazuya Tsubaki, Eiichiro Oishi, Shoichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 10978823
    Abstract: A wire harness includes at least one electrically conductive path, a waterproof connector, a tubular shield member and a shield shell. The waterproof connector includes a waterproof packing a connector housing and a terminal. The waterproof packing includes a cylindrical packing body and a heat transfer member, the heat transfer member being provided integrally with the cylindrical packing body. The heat transfer member of the waterproof packing is formed of metal, the heat transfer member being configured to transfer heat from the connector housing. The heat transfer member is configured to transfer the heat from the connector housing of the waterproof connector to the metal case when the waterproof packing of the waterproof connector is inserted into an insertion hole of the metal case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhide Takahashi, Shoichi Nomura, Eiji Aoki
  • Patent number: 10788433
    Abstract: A correction value calculation method includes: forming, on a recording medium, an inspection image in which two or more types of individual inspection images is formed; calculating a first correction value group including first correction values, and a second correction value group including second correction values, wherein, in the calculating, a combination of the first correction value regarding positional deviation of a light beam that affects density of the individual inspection image, of the first correction value group, and the second correction values regarding an influence amount of multiple exposure effect according to an image pattern corresponding to the individual inspection image, of the second correction value group, and the first correction value group and the second correction value group are calculated on the basis of density information regarding each density of the individual inspection image and the combination of the first and second correction values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Shoichi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20200212620
    Abstract: A wire harness includes at least one electrically conductive path, a waterproof connector, a tubular shield member and a shield shell. The waterproof connector includes a waterproof packing a connector housing and a terminal. The waterproof packing includes a cylindrical packing body and a heat transfer member, the heat transfer member being provided integrally with the cylindrical packing body. The heat transfer member of the waterproof packing is formed of metal, the heat transfer member being configured to transfer heat from the connector housing. The heat transfer member is configured to transfer the heat from the connector housing of the waterproof connector to the metal case when the waterproof packing of the waterproof connector is inserted into an insertion hole of the metal case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhide Takahashi, Shoichi Nomura, Eiji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20200185844
    Abstract: A terminal base includes a plurality of terminals configured to electrically connect a first device and a second device to each other, each of the plurality of terminals being electrically conductive and a housing configured to hold the plurality of terminals, the housing being made of an electrically insulating resin in which each of the plurality of terminals includes a first connection portion exposed to an outside of the housing so as to be connected to the first device, a second connection portion exposed to the outside of the housing so as to be connected to the second device, and an insert portion insert-molded in the housing and in which he insert portion has a solid cylindrical shape or a hollow cylindrical shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhide Takahashi, Shoichi Nomura, Eiji Aoki
  • Patent number: 10464509
    Abstract: An electrical equipment module includes a main line module that includes a main line routing body that is mounted on a vehicle and is routed along a width direction extending member in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle, a branch portion that is interposed in the main line routing body, and a branch portion retaining member that extends along the width direction extending member and retains the branch portion; and a sub module that is connected to the main line module through the branch portion and is subjected to power supply distribution through the main line routing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tsunoda, Syuji Kimura, Gaku Itou, Shoichi Nomura, Taku Furuta, Naoya Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20190199075
    Abstract: A wire harness unit applied to a power storage device unit and a wire harness includes a routing material and a cooling unit that cools the routing material. The routing material constitutes a charging conduction path that extends between a charging inlet and a power storage device, and transmits electricity. The charging inlet is provided to a vehicle. The power storage device is provided to the vehicle and can store electric power. As a result, the wire harness unit, the power storage device unit, and the wire harness can reduce a cross-sectional area of the routing material to a relatively small area, thereby having an advantageous effect of capable of having proper mountability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo SUGIMURA, Mitsuaki MORIMOTO, Kazuya TSUBAKI, Eiichiro OISHI, Shoichi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20190137414
    Abstract: A correction value calculation method includes: forming, on a recording medium, an inspection image in which two or more types of individual inspection images is formed; calculating a first correction value group including first correction values, and a second correction value group including second correction values, wherein, in the calculating, a combination of the first correction value regarding positional deviation of a light beam that affects density of the individual inspection image, of the first correction value group, and the second correction values regarding an influence amount of multiple exposure effect according to an image pattern corresponding to the individual inspection image, of the second correction value group, and the first correction value group and the second correction value group are calculated on the basis of density information regarding each density of the individual inspection image and the combination of the first and second correction values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NOMURA