Patents by Inventor Takafumi Hirose

Takafumi Hirose 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: 20190276031
    Abstract: Provided a vehicle management system including an information acquirer (182) that acquires information indicating a mode of use of a vehicle on the basis of information acquired by a vehicle device mounted in the vehicle or information received from an external device, a determiner (183) that determines whether an occupant of the vehicle is a restricted person who is subject to restriction of use of an object within the vehicle in accordance with the mode of use of the vehicle acquired by the information acquirer, and a restricting processor (184) that executes a restricting process related to use of the object in a case where the occupant is determined to be the restricted person by the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Naoto Yasuda, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10042280
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an opening, an image forming unit, a storage portions, a moving unit, and a sensing unit. The storage portions store, inside the apparatus body, a sheet having an image. The moving unit can move the sheet stored in each storage portion and stop the sheet in an exposure state where the sheet is exposed outside the apparatus body through the opening. The moving unit moves a first stored sheet and stops the first sheet in the exposure state. If the sensing unit enters a state in which the first sheet is not sensed from a state in which the first sheet is sensed, the moving unit moves a second stored sheet and stops the second sheet in the exposure state where the second sheet is exposed outside the apparatus body through the opening through which the first sheet is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Hajime Sugaya
  • Publication number: 20170082939
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an opening, an image forming unit, a storage portions, a moving unit, and a sensing unit. The storage portions store, inside the apparatus body, a sheet having an image. The moving unit can move the sheet stored in each storage portion and stop the sheet in an exposure state where the sheet is exposed outside the apparatus body through the opening. The moving unit moves a first stored sheet and stops the first sheet in the exposure state. If the sensing unit enters a state in which the first sheet is not sensed from a state in which the first sheet is sensed, the moving unit moves a second stored sheet and stops the second sheet in the exposure state where the second sheet is exposed outside the apparatus body through the opening through which the first sheet is exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Hajime Sugaya
  • Patent number: 9285749
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that executes image forming processing and stores sheets in a sheet storage location of the image forming apparatus even when the image forming processing results in needing to store more sheets that the amount of sheets storable in the sheet storage location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takafumi Hirose
  • Publication number: 20150078797
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that executes image forming processing and stores sheets in a sheet storage location of the image forming apparatus even when the image forming processing results in needing to store more sheets that the amount of sheets storable in the sheet storage location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Takafumi Hirose