Patents by Inventor Tadashi Sugiyama

Tadashi Sugiyama 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: 20230408952
    Abstract: A toner cartridge for storing toner to be supplied to an image forming apparatus includes a container in which the toner is stored, extending in a longitudinal direction, and including two walls at ends thereof in the longitudinal direction, one of the walls having a first outlet, a paddle configured to rotate between the walls of the container to stir the toner and removable from the container through the first outlet, and a first lid covering the first outlet and having a first bearing hole through which an end of the paddle is rotatably held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Takaho WATANABE, Tadashi SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11493858
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus of an embodiment includes an image forming unit, a waste toner collection container, a paddle motor, and a controller. The controller acquires a replenishment amount for each toner cartridge, when the image forming component is replenished with the toner from the plurality of toner cartridges, sets a coefficient for each replenishment amount of the toner cartridges, at least one of each set coefficient is different from the others, each of the replenishment amount is corrected by each coefficient, and drives the paddle motor according to a cumulative amount of each corrected replenishment amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Iguchi, Kazuhiko Kikuchi, Tadashi Sugiyama, Tokihiko Ise
  • Publication number: 20210364945
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus of an embodiment includes an image forming unit, a waste toner collection container, a paddle motor, and a controller. The controller acquires a replenishment amount for each toner cartridge, when the image forming component is replenished with the toner from the plurality of toner cartridges, sets a coefficient for each replenishment amount of the toner cartridges, at least one of each set coefficient is different from the others, each of the replenishment amount is corrected by each coefficient, and drives the paddle motor according to a cumulative amount of each corrected replenishment amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ken Iguchi, Kazuhiko Kikuchi, Tadashi Sugiyama, Tokihiko Ise
  • Publication number: 20210302871
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus of an embodiment includes an image forming unit, a waste toner collection container, a paddle motor, a memory unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms a toner image on a sheet using a toner replenished from a toner cartridge containing the toner. The waste toner collection container contains a waste toner generated in the image forming unit. The paddle motor rotates a stirring paddle provided in the waste toner collection container. The memory unit stores a coefficient for each type of toner. The control unit acquires a count value, which is a value related to a replenishment amount, corrects the count value with the coefficient corresponding to the type of toner, updates a cumulative count value with the corrected count value, and drives the paddle motor according to the updated cumulative count value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ken Iguchi, Kazuhiko Kikuchi, Tadashi Sugiyama, Tokihiko Ise
  • Patent number: 11115853
    Abstract: A wireless network system includes a user device, a client and an access point. In the wireless network system, a wireless network mode of the client is started in an AdHoc mode in response to specific operation, a wireless network mode of the user device is switched to an AdHoc mode when it is detected that the wireless network mode of the client is started in the AdHoc mode. Then, infrastructure network information including a network name and an encryption key for setting the wireless network communication in the infrastructure mode is transmitted from the user device to the client, and the wireless network mode of the client is switched to the infrastructure mode on the basis of the infrastructure network information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Suyama, Tadashi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11112723
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus of an embodiment includes an image forming unit, a waste toner collection container, a paddle motor, a memory unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms a toner image on a sheet using a toner replenished from a toner cartridge containing the toner. The waste toner collection container contains a waste toner generated in the image forming unit. The paddle motor rotates a stirring paddle provided in the waste toner collection container. The memory unit stores a coefficient for each type of toner. The control unit acquires a count value, which is a value related to a replenishment amount, corrects the count value with the coefficient corresponding to the type of toner, updates a cumulative count value with the corrected count value, and drives the paddle motor according to the updated cumulative count value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Iguchi, Kazuhiko Kikuchi, Tadashi Sugiyama, Tokihiko Ise
  • Publication number: 20200233367
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a waste toner box, a stirring member, a rotation speed detector, and a rotation time corrector. The waste toner box collects unused part of toner supplied for printing, an adjustment operation, or the like. The stirring member is configured to be rotated to stir the toner in the waste toner box. The rotation speed detector detects a rotation speed of the stirring member. The rotation time corrector corrects a set rotation time based on the rotation speed detected by the rotation speed detector and a set rotation speed of the stirring member which is set in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadashi SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9671333
    Abstract: A laser gas analyzer includes a wavelength-variable laser having a wide wavelength-variable width, a light-split module configured to split an output light of the wavelength-variable laser into a measurement light and a reference light, a first gas cell into which gases to be measured are introduced, and the measurement light is made to be incident, and a data processor configured to obtain an absorption spectrum of each of the gases to be measured based on a reference signal related to the reference light and an absorption signal related to an output light of the first gas cell, and to obtain concentrations of the respective gases to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Hirata, Yasuhiko Mitsumoto, Masaya Ooyama, Nobuhiko Kanbara, Naoyuki Fujimura, Minoru Maeda, Tadashi Sugiyama, Alan Cowie, Jie Zhu
  • Publication number: 20160262039
    Abstract: A wireless network system includes a user device, a client and an access point. In the wireless network system, a wireless network mode of the client is started in an AdHoc mode in response to specific operation, a wireless network mode of the user device is switched to an AdHoc mode when it is detected that the wireless network mode of the client is started in the AdHoc mode. Then, infrastructure network information including a network name and an encryption key for setting the wireless network communication in the infrastructure mode is transmitted from the user device to the client, and the wireless network mode of the client is switched to the infrastructure mode on the basis of the infrastructure network information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko SUYAMA, Tadashi SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9369945
    Abstract: A wireless network system includes a user device, a client and an access point. In the wireless network system, a wireless network mode of the client is started in an AdHoc mode in response to specific operation, a wireless network mode of the user device is switched to an AdHoc mode when it is detected that the wireless network mode of the client is started in the AdHoc mode. Then, infrastructure network information including a network name and an encryption key for setting the wireless network communication in the infrastructure mode is transmitted from the user device to the client, and the wireless network mode of the client is switched to the infrastructure mode on the basis of the infrastructure network information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Suyama, Tadashi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9347877
    Abstract: A laser gas analyzer includes a wavelength-variable laser having a wide wavelength-variable width, a light-split module configured to split an output light of the wavelength-variable laser into a measurement light and a reference light, a first gas cell into which gases to be measured are introduced, and the measurement light is made to be incident, and a data processor configured to obtain an absorption spectrum of each of the gases to be measured based on a reference signal related to the reference light and an absorption signal related to an output light of the first gas cell, and to obtain concentrations of the respective gases to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Hirata, Yasuhiko Mitsumoto, Masaya Ooyama, Nobuhiko Kanbara, Naoyuki Fujimura, Minoru Maeda, Tadashi Sugiyama, Alan Cowie, Jie Zhu
  • Patent number: 9289680
    Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Takao Sawano, Tadashi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9268283
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a toner supply device includes a motor and an estimating unit. The motor rotates a toner container that supplies a toner to an image forming apparatus. The estimating unit estimates a toner residual amount in the toner container at a second point in time on the basis of a total rotation time representing time in which the motor rotates in a period of use from a first point in time when the toner container is attached to the image forming apparatus to the second point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadashi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20150260646
    Abstract: A laser gas analyzer includes a wavelength-variable laser having a wide wavelength-variable width, a light-split module configured to split an output light of the wavelength-variable laser into a measurement light and a reference light, a first gas cell into which gases to be measured are introduced, and the measurement light is made to be incident, and a data processor configured to obtain an absorption spectrum of each of the gases to be measured based on a reference signal related to the reference light and an absorption signal related to an output light of the first gas cell, and to obtain concentrations of the respective gases to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Hirata, Yasuhiko Mitsumoto, Masaya Ooyama, Nobuhiko Kanbara, Naoyuki Fujimura, Minoru Maeda, Tadashi Sugiyama, Alan Cowie, Jie Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150185144
    Abstract: A laser gas analyzer includes a wavelength-variable laser having a wide wavelength-variable width, a light-split module configured to split an output light of the wavelength-variable laser into a measurement light and a reference light, a first gas cell into which gases to be measured are introduced, and the measurement light is made to be incident, and a data processor configured to obtain an absorption spectrum of each of the gases to be measured based on a reference signal related to the reference light and an absorption signal related to an output light of the first gas cell, and to obtain concentrations of the respective gases to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Hirata, Yasuhiko Mitsumoto, Masaya Ooyama, Nobuhiko Kanbara, Naoyuki Fujimura, Minoru Maeda, Tadashi Sugiyama, Alan Cowie, Jie Zhu
  • Publication number: 20140243711
    Abstract: An exemplary information-processing system includes: a first measuring unit that measures body activity amount of a user; a second measuring unit that measures body activity amount of the user, the second measuring unit being different from the first measuring unit; a calculation unit that executes a predetermined calculation based on at least the body activity amount measured by the first measuring unit and the body activity amount measured by the second measuring unit; and an output unit that outputs information based on a result of the calculation executed by the calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi SUGIYAMA, Hiroshi MATSUNAGA, Yugo HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8740705
    Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Takao Sawano, Tadashi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20140031124
    Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi YAMAZAKI, Takao Sawano, Tadashi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8574080
    Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Takao Sawano, Tadashi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20130252735
    Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Takao Sawano, Tadashi Sugiyama, Yugo Hayashi, Nobuhiro Sumiyoshi