Patents by Inventor Takanobu Sugiyama

Takanobu 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).

  • Patent number: 11933236
    Abstract: The vehicle control device executes: a stop process for stopping fuel supply to two cylinders to be stopped; and a selection process of selecting one cylinder to be a stop instruction for stopping fuel supply from among the cylinders to be stopped. The selection process is a process of selecting a cylinder whose compression top dead center appears earliest among the stop target cylinders. The crank angle interval from when the cylinder to be the stop instruction target is selected until the stop instruction target cylinder is switched to the next cylinder among the stop target cylinders is the stoppable angle interval. The stop instruction for the selected cylinder is received before the fuel injection start time and at the stoppable angle interval. The control device executes a retard process of retarding the fuel injection start timing so that the stoppable angle interval includes the fuel injection start timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuto Ikeda, Ryota Sugiyama, Takanobu Gotoh
  • Patent number: 10972622
    Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program causing a computer, which is incorporated in a print control device that controls a print job, to perform: a) determining whether or not a reference source part included in a print target document related to the print job and a reference destination part included in the print target document and corresponding to the reference source part are arranged on different pages in a printout obtained by printing out the print target document; b) estimating a binding position in the printout; and c) changing at least one of arrangement target areas of the reference source part and the reference destination part based on the binding position and the arrangement position of the reference source part or the reference destination part, when it is determined that the reference source part and the reference destination part are arranged on different pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takanobu Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20200404114
    Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program causing a computer, which is incorporated in a print control device that controls a print job, to perform: a) determining whether or not a reference source part included in a print target document related to the print job and a reference destination part included in the print target document and corresponding to the reference source part are arranged on different pages in a printout obtained by printing out the print target document; b) estimating a binding position in the printout; and c) changing at least one of arrangement target areas of the reference source part and the reference destination part based on the binding position and the arrangement position of the reference source part or the reference destination part, when it is determined that the reference source part and the reference destination part are arranged on different pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takanobu SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10712985
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program causes a computer to perform: a) detecting a change from a first area to a second area according to a change in a usage area of a setting control device; b), in a case where the change in the usage area is detected in a), determining whether to change a setting value of each of a plurality of setting items; and c) performing control for the setting values of the plurality of setting items, wherein, in c), a setting value of a change target item, which is a setting item whose setting value is determined to be changed is changed to a value corresponding to the second area, and a setting value of a non-change target item which is a setting item other than the change target item is maintained as a value before the usage area is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takanobu Sugiyama, Xingyue Li, Masanori Nishida
  • Publication number: 20190324700
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program causes a computer to perform: a) detecting a change from a first area to a second area according to a change in a usage area of a setting control device; b), in a case where the change in the usage area is detected in a), determining whether to change a setting value of each of a plurality of setting items; and c) performing control for the setting values of the plurality of setting items, wherein, in c), a setting value of a change target item, which is a setting item whose setting value is determined to be changed is changed to a value corresponding to the second area, and a setting value of a non-change target item which is a setting item other than the change target item is maintained as a value before the usage area is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takanobu Sugiyama, Xingyue Li, Masanori Nishida
  • Patent number: 10267206
    Abstract: In inline four cylinder internal combustion engine (1), exhaust ports for a #2 cylinder and a #3 cylinder merge inside cylinder head (3) and form an opening serving as a single collective exhaust port. Exhaust manifold (5) has individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) for #1 and #4 cylinders and collective exhaust pipe (8), and the leading ends of these three exhaust pipes (6, 7, 8) are connected to catalytic converter (11). Exhaust gas introduction angle (?2) of each of individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) is larger by 30-60 degrees than exhaust gas introduction angle (?1) of collective exhaust pipe (8). Consequently, flow velocity distribution and temperature distribution in a catalyst carrier become uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hamamoto, Takanobu Sugiyama, Hidehiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 10270919
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive identifiers for communication of respective destinations from a first server; a display unit configured to display a screen to make an user select any one of the identifiers as an address of image data; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to the selected identifier when any one of the identifiers has been selected and to transmit the image data to a transmission device for storing the identifier or a second server from which the transmission device downloads the data when the identifier is not received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takanobu Sugiyama, Takashi Oikawa, Tatsuya Kitaguchi, Shumpei Iwaoka
  • Patent number: 10255533
    Abstract: A device includes a first processing portion configured to keep a memory region to perform a first process; a second processing portion configured to perform any one of a plurality of second processes by using a memory region provided by the first processing portion; and a predicting portion configured to predict a first size of a first memory region to be required next to a second memory region which is required at present by the second processing portion. The second processing portion requests, from the first processing portion, a memory region having at least a larger size of the first size and a second size of the second memory region. In response to the request, the first processing portion provides the second processing portion with a memory region which is a part of the memory region kept and is of a size requested by the second processing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Oikawa, Tomoyuki Atsumi, Takanobu Sugiyama, Tatsuya Kitaguchi
  • Patent number: 10240507
    Abstract: In an in-line four-cylinder internal combustion engine, exhaust ports (2b, 2c) of cylinders #2 and #3 merge together inside a cylinder head and become open as one flat collective exhaust port (2bc). An exhaust manifold (5) includes separate individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) for cylinders #1 and #4 and a collective exhaust pipe (8) for cylinders #2 and #4. Tip ends of these three exhaust pipes are connected to a catalytic converter (11). An equivalent diameter of the collective exhaust port (2bc) is larger than equivalent diameters of the exhaust ports (2a, 2d) before merging. A short diameter of the collective exhaust port (2bc) is smaller than or equal to the equivalent diameters of the exhaust ports (2b, 2c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanobu Sugiyama, Hidehiro Fujita, Takayuki Hamamoto, Yuta Kanashima
  • Patent number: 10057437
    Abstract: A processor included in an image processing apparatus includes a display control portion configured to display any one of a plurality of operation screens in the display, a setting portion configured to control the operation panel, accept a setting value defined for the displayed operation screen, and set the setting value, an operation screen extraction portion configured to search screen information respectively associating one or more search indexes with one or more operation screens among the plurality of operation screens using a search key and extract one or more operation screens, an operation screen determination portion configured to determine one operation screen from among the one or more extracted operation screens, and a change portion configured to change the screen information based on an operation of a user accepted by the operation panel after the determined operation screen is displayed in the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kitaguchi, Takashi Oikawa, Tomoyuki Atsumi, Takanobu Sugiyama, Shumpei Iwaoka
  • Publication number: 20170298803
    Abstract: In an in-line four-cylinder internal combustion engine, exhaust ports (2b, 2c) of cylinders #2 and #3 merge together inside a cylinder head and become open as one flat collective exhaust port (2bc). An exhaust manifold (5) includes separate individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) for cylinders #1 and #4 and a collective exhaust pipe (8) for cylinders #2 and #4. Tip ends of these three exhaust pipes are connected to a catalytic converter (11). An equivalent diameter of the collective exhaust port (2bc) is larger than equivalent diameters of the exhaust ports (2a, 2d) before merging. A short diameter of the collective exhaust port (2bc) is smaller than or equal to the equivalent diameters of the exhaust ports (2b, 2c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanobu SUGIYAMA, Hidehiro FUJITA, Takayuki HAMAMOTO, Yuta KANASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20170234202
    Abstract: In inline four cylinder internal combustion engine (1), exhaust ports for a #2 cylinder and a #3 cylinder merge inside cylinder head (3) and form an opening serving as a single collective exhaust port. Exhaust manifold (5) has individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) for #1 and #4 cylinders and collective exhaust pipe (8), and the leading ends of these three exhaust pipes (6, 7, 8) are connected to catalytic converter (11). Exhaust gas introduction angle (?2) of each of individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) is larger by 30-60 degrees than exhaust gas introduction angle (?1) of collective exhaust pipe (8). Consequently, flow velocity distribution and temperature distribution in a catalyst carrier become uniform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki HAMAMOTO, Takanobu SUGIYAMA, Hidehiro FUJITA
  • Patent number: 9689457
    Abstract: A torque rod (1) has two elastic bushes (2, 3) to be mounted respectively to a vibration-generating side and a vibration-receiving side, and a connecting rod (4) connecting the two elastic bushes (2, 3). The actively controlled vibration cancellation means (5) is an actuator including: the shaft (5a) having two opposite ends mounted to the connecting rod (4) and extending in an axial direction of the connecting rod (4), the mass member (5b) shaped in a tube to surround the shaft (5a); a coil (5e) and a winding core (5f) fixed to the shaft (5a) in the tube-shaped mass member (5b); a permanent magnet (5d) mounted to an inner peripheral surface of the tube-shaped mass member (5b) or the shaft (5a), and a connecting member (5c) for connecting at least one end of the tube-shaped mass members (5b) to the shaft (5a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignees: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kojima, Yukihiro Sugimoto, Akira Ueki, Humiharu Kurose, Takanobu Sugiyama, Yoshiyasu Kimura, Masahiko Kondo, Yuusuke Satou
  • Patent number: 9648109
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a communicator portion that communicates with a portable terminal apparatus having an address book, a contact data obtaining portion that obtains contacts from the address book, the contacts including contact names and addresses, a registration portion that registers the contacts to a shared address book along with user identification information indicating the log-in user, a display, and a display controller that makes the display show the contacts at least by the contact name, the contacts being registered in the shared address book, that judges whether or not the shared address book contains contacts with different contact names but with identical addresses, and that, if it contains contacts with different contact names but with identical addresses, makes the display show any of the contacts by the contact name, the any contact having the user identification information indicating the log-in user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takanobu Sugiyama, Takashi Oikawa, Tatsuya Kitaguchi, Tomoyuki Atsumi
  • Patent number: 9615000
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus has at least one standard function to be available upon start-up of the image processing apparatus itself and at least one optional function to be available by settings. The image processing apparatus includes an image input portion that inputs image data, an encoder that encodes the input image data, a main memory that stores the encoded image data, a non-volatile memory that stores a backup copy of the image data stored on the main memory, a settings portion that allows setting the optional function available, and a controller that reserves a memory area for an optional program to execute the available optional function in the main memory, and a memory area for input of the encoded image data in the main memory, the memory area being smaller than a memory area to be reserved if the optional function is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Atsumi, Takanobu Sugiyama, Takashi Oikawa, Tatsuya Kitaguchi, Satoshi Osako
  • Publication number: 20160360047
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive identifiers for communication of respective destinations from a first server; a display unit configured to display a screen to make an user select any one of the identifiers as an address of image data; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to the selected identifier when any one of the identifiers has been selected and to transmit the image data to a transmission device for storing the identifier or a second server from which the transmission device downloads the data when the identifier is not received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takanobu SUGIYAMA, Takashi OIKAWA, Tatsuya KITAGUCHI, Shumpei IWAOKA
  • Patent number: 9491325
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus having functions installed thereon includes a job input portion that inputs a first job, a job storage that stores the first job, a job output portion that outputs the first job, a memory that allows allocating memory areas to the functions and reallocating the memory areas, a first judgment portion that judges whether or not the memory areas were reallocated after input but before output of the first job, a second judgment portion that judges whether or not output of the first job requires any unavailable function, a third judgment portion that judges whether or not the unavailable function will be available by restricting operations related to a second job and by adjusting the memory areas, and an operation restriction portion restricts operations related to the second job and adjusts the memory areas, wherein the first job is output while restrictions on the operations are effective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Oikawa, Tomoyuki Atsumi, Takanobu Sugiyama, Tatsuya Kitaguchi, Satoshi Osako
  • Publication number: 20160277606
    Abstract: A processor included in an image processing apparatus includes a display control portion configured to display any one of a plurality of operation screens in the display, a setting portion configured to control the operation panel, accept a setting value defined for the displayed operation screen, and set the setting value, an operation screen extraction portion configured to search screen information respectively associating one or more search indexes with one or more operation screens among the plurality of operation screens using a search key and extract one or more operation screens, an operation screen determination portion configured to determine one operation screen from among the one or more extracted operation screens, and a change portion configured to change the screen information based on an operation of a user accepted by the operation panel after the determined operation screen is displayed in the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuya KITAGUCHI, Takashi OIKAWA, Tomoyuki ATSUMI, Takanobu SUGIYAMA, Shumpei IWAOKA
  • Publication number: 20160219190
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a communicator portion that communicates with a portable terminal apparatus having an address book, a contact data obtaining portion that obtains contacts from the address book, the contacts including contact names and addresses, a registration portion that registers the contacts to a shared address book along with user identification information indicating the log-in user, a display, and a display controller that makes the display show the contacts at least by the contact name, the contacts being registered in the shared address book, that judges whether or not the shared address book contains contacts with different contact names but with identical addresses, and that, if it contains contacts with different contact names but with identical addresses, makes the display show any of the contacts by the contact name, the any contact having the user identification information indicating the log-in user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takanobu SUGIYAMA, Takashi OIKAWA, Tatsuya KITAGUCHI, Tomoyuki ATSUMI
  • Patent number: 9363392
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image input portion that inputs image data page by page; a sub memory; an encoder that encodes the image data; a main memory and a non-volatile memory; a mode judgment portion that judges a mode; and a controller that implements a first or second method depending on the judgment, the first method including: storing a part of one page on the sub memory; reserving a memory area for the one page in the main memory; storing the one page on the main memory; and reserving a memory area for next one page in the main memory, the second method including: reserving a memory area being capable of storing image data page by page in the sub memory; storing a part of image data on the main memory; storing a backup copy on the non-volatile memory; and deleting the image data from the main memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kitaguchi, Takanobu Sugiyama, Tomoyuki Atsumi, Takashi Oikawa