Patents by Inventor Takahiro Asai

Takahiro Asai 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: 9797354
    Abstract: To provide a fuel line joint capable of improving resistance to an external force in a joint configured to store a liquid fuel. A fuel line joint is equipped with an integrally formed main body portion that has a storage region configured to store a liquid fuel in a lower part thereof and has an opening portion above the storage region of the liquid fuel; a lid that is formed separately from the main body portion, is attached to the main body portion so as to close the opening portion of the main body portion, and is not connected to members other than the main body portion; and a plurality of mounting portions that is formed integrally with the main body portion and mounted to each of a plurality of pipes forming a fuel line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9787729
    Abstract: A transmission management system, when a request for starting communication with a second transmission terminal is received from a first transmission terminal, obtains first service contents information associated with first service identification information for identifying a service to be provided to the first transmission terminal, and causes a relay device to transmit content data that matches the first service contents information to the second transmission terminal in response to receiving content data at the relay device from the first transmission terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Horiuchi, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9787944
    Abstract: A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Alain Volmat, Masaki Nakagawa, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9779056
    Abstract: A communication server includes a terminal management unit managing data identifying each of a plurality of communication terminals in association with group identification data identifying a group to which the communication terminals belong; a determination unit determining, when a session for transmitting and receiving content data is established between first and second communication terminals, whether group identification information sets of the first and the second communication terminals associated with the session are the same as each other based on the group identification data; and a report unit reporting, when the group identification information sets of the first and the second communication terminals are the same as each other, shared location information indicating a location of a shared memory area shared between the first and the second communication terminals to the first and the second communication terminals associated with the session while the session is being established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Mihara, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20170274738
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laminated glass to be used in a windshield of an automobile, and the laminated glass includes: an outer glass sheet; an inner glass sheet arranged opposite to the outer glass sheet, the inner glass sheet having a smaller thickness than that of the outer glass sheet; and an interlayer sandwiched between the outer glass sheet and the inner glass sheet. The interlayer includes at least a core layer and a pair of outer layers between which the core layer is sandwiched, the outer layers having a higher rigidity than that of the core layer. An attachment angle to the vertical with respect to the automobile is 45 degrees or more. The core layer has a Young's modulus of 1 to 25 MPa at a frequency of 100 Hz and a temperature of 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi KANKI, Takahiro ASAI
  • Patent number: 9769220
    Abstract: A control apparatus determines one of a plurality of relay devices as a representative relay device to manage a relay destination of content data in a session to be established. In response to receiving a request for starting relay of content data, from a communication terminal, the control apparatus transmits, with a request for starting relay of content data, relay device identification information for identifying the representative relay device to a relay device connected to the communication terminal, to cause the relay device to further transmit the request for starting relay of content data to the representative relay device identified with the relay device identification information of the representative relay device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Umehara, Takahiro Asai, Hiroshi Hinohara
  • Patent number: 9762853
    Abstract: A transmission management apparatus for managing a session performing transmission/reception of content data via a relay apparatus includes a service information management unit configured to manage service management information in which service identification information for identifying service content provided to each of a plurality of transmission terminals, and service content corresponding to the service identification information are stored preliminarily; a service identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire service identification information of each of transmission terminals participating in the session; a service content determination unit configured to determine service content of the session, based on the service identification information acquired by the service identification information acquisition unit and the service management information; and a session control unit configured to report information specifying quality of the content data to be sent, based on the determine
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Horiuchi, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9762298
    Abstract: To reduce a bandwidth required for an optical transmission path (30) in a base station system including an RAU (21) for performing MIMO transmission using a plurality of antenna elements and a BBU (11), in a communication control method of the present invention, the BBU (11) transmits antenna weight coefficient information indicative of antenna weight coefficients of a plurality of antenna elements (205) and a transmission signal, and the RAU (21) multiplies the transmission signal from the BBU (11) by each of the antenna weight coefficients to generate weighted signals of the plurality of antenna elements (205), and transmits the weighted signals from the plurality of antenna elements (205).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kubo, Takahiro Asai, Jiyun Shen, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Publication number: 20170257402
    Abstract: A control system includes first and second control devices. The first control device is connected to a first communication terminal to control a session for sending and receiving contents data. The second control device is connected to a second communication terminal to control a session for sending and receiving contents data. The first control device receives a start request for starting communication between the communication terminals, and sends the start request to the second communication terminal. The second control device receives authorization for starting communication between the first and second communication terminals, and sends the authorization to the first communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Naoki UMEHARA, Takahiro ASAI, Hiroshi HINOHARA
  • Patent number: 9749466
    Abstract: A transmission system includes one or more processors that cause a source transmission terminal to transmit data to a destination transmission terminal, the processors including a receiving unit that receives availability information generated based on a current place of a destination candidate, a displaying unit that displays the availability information on a display to allow a user to determine whether transmitting the data to a destination transmission terminal associated with the destination candidate is appropriate, an operation reception unit that receives a selection of the destination candidate corresponding to the availability information displayed, and a transmission unit that transmits the data to the destination transmission terminal associated with the destination candidate the selection of which is received by the operation reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Homma, Takahiro Asai, Yuya Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20170214809
    Abstract: An information providing device is capable of communicating with an image forming device, a data managing device, and a transmission terminal. The information providing device includes a storage unit; a communication unit that transmits a forming instruction to instruct the image forming device to perform image forming, and receives, from the image forming device, storage location information indicating the data managing device that stores data obtained by image forming by the image forming device and indicating a storage location in the data managing device; and a storage location managing unit that generates, in the storage unit, management information in which identification information of the image data is associated with the storage location information. The communication unit receives the data saved in the storage location indicated by the storage location information from the data managing device and transmits the received data to the transmission terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Takahiro ASAI
  • Publication number: 20170201718
    Abstract: A communication terminal receives display data for displaying certain data on a screen of a display device and image data of an optical-to-electrical-converted image from another communication terminal via a communication network, includes a storage part storing reception information indicating whether the display data has been received by the communication terminal and arrangement information indicating at least one of a size and a position of the image based on the image data, in a manner of associating with one another; a reception part receiving the display data and the image data; an extraction part extracting, based on the reception information, the corresponding arrangement information from the storage part; and a display control part displaying the image using the image data based on the arrangement information extracted by the extraction part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Kenji TANAKA, Shizu KANAUCHI, Masaki NAKAGAWA, Alain VOLMAT, Takahiro ASAI
  • Patent number: 9706164
    Abstract: A communication management system manages group information regarding one or more groups of a plurality of communication terminals, while the plurality of communication terminals are communicating in the same communication session. In response to a request from one communication terminal, the communication management system updates the group information to reflect the currently-established groups, and transmits updated group information to all of the plurality of communication terminals communicating in the same communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Shiro, Takahiro Asai, Yohei Yamamoto, Atsushi Nakafuji, Shogo Hyakutake
  • Publication number: 20170187021
    Abstract: A method for producing a porous polyimide film comprises: forming a first un-burned composite film wherein the first film is formed on a substrate using a first varnish that contains (A1) a polyamide acid or a polyimide and (B1) fine particles at a volume ratio (A1):(B1) of from 19:81 to 45:65; forming a second un-burned composite film wherein the second film is formed on the first film using a second varnish that contains (A2) a polyamide acid or a polyimide and (B2) fine particles at a volume ratio (A2):(B2) of from 20:80 to 50:50 and has a lower fine particle content ratio than the first varnish; burning wherein an un-burned composite film composed of the first film and the second film is burned, thereby obtaining a polyimide-fine particle composite film; and a fine particle removal step wherein the fine particles are removed from the polyimide-fine particle composite film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa SUGAWARA, Takahiro ASAI
  • Patent number: 9662333
    Abstract: A tetrahydropyridopyrimidine compound represented by formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and a pharmaceutical composition including the tetrahydropyridopyrimidine compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TAIHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Minamiguchi, Shigeo Okajima, Shinichi Aoki, Masanori Asai, Takahiro Asai, Hiroyoshi Yamanaka, Suguru Dohi
  • Patent number: 9661057
    Abstract: A transmission management system includes a destination name data managing unit which manages a plurality of destination name data items which indicate a plurality of names of a destination in communications between transmission terminals, a destination name data reading unit which reads a destination name data item from the plurality of destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit, and a destination name data transmitting unit which transmits the destination name data item read by the destination name data reading unit to a transmission terminal capable of communicating with the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Maeda, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9661162
    Abstract: An information providing device is capable of communicating with an image forming device, a data managing device, and a transmission terminal. The information providing device includes a storage unit; a communication unit that transmits a forming instruction to instruct the image forming device to perform image forming, and receives, from the image forming device, storage location information indicating the data managing device that stores data obtained by image forming by the image forming device and indicating a storage location in the data managing device; and a storage location managing unit that generates, in the storage unit, management information in which identification information of the image data is associated with the storage location information. The communication unit receives the data saved in the storage location indicated by the storage location information from the data managing device and transmits the received data to the transmission terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9654730
    Abstract: A communication terminal receives display data for displaying certain data on a screen of a display device and image data of an optical-to-electrical-converted image from another communication terminal via a communication network, includes a storage part storing reception information indicating whether the display data has been received by the communication terminal and arrangement information indicating at least one of a size and a position of the image based on the image data, in a manner of associating with one another; a reception part receiving the display data and the image data; an extraction part extracting, based on the reception information, the corresponding arrangement information from the storage part; and a display control part displaying the image using the image data based on the arrangement information extracted by the extraction part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Kenji Tanaka, Shizu Kanauchi, Masaki Nakagawa, Alain Volmat, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9648276
    Abstract: A transmission management apparatus for managing a session performing transmission/reception of content data via a relay apparatus includes a service information management unit configured to manage service management information in which service identification information identifying service content provided to each of a plurality of transmission terminals, and service content corresponding to the service identification information are stored preliminarily; a service identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire service identification information of each of the transmission terminals participating in the session; a service content determination unit configured to determine the service content of the session, based on the service identification information acquired by the service identification information acquisition unit and the service management information; and a session control unit configured to report session information based on the service content of the session determined by the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Horiuchi, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9616824
    Abstract: A dash silencer has a lamination structure of a first layer, an intermediate layer, and a second layer. The intermediate layer is formed as a non-air permeable thin-membrane layer. The second layer is formed as a perforated layer having a plurality of opening portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: HOWA TEXTILE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinobu Fushiki, Takahiro Asai, Junichi Sato