Patents by Inventor Takashi Abe

Takashi Abe 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: 20250137198
    Abstract: A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes: a measurement portion that weighs paper pieces, in which the measurement portion includes: a first frame portion; a second frame portion separated from the first frame portion; a lid portion on which paper pieces to be weighed are placed in a closed state, and which transmits the weighed paper pieces to a downstream merging portion in an open state; a sensor portion that measures a mass of the paper pieces placed on the lid portion; and a shutter portion configured to close a space between the lid portion and the merging portion, the sensor portion is attached to the first frame portion, and the shutter portion is attached to the second frame portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Keisuke YAMAYA, Koji MOTOHASHI, Takashi ABE, Makoto SATO
  • Publication number: 20250126375
    Abstract: A pixel layout is optimized. An amplification unit generates a signal corresponding to a charge held in a charge holding unit and outputs the signal to a predetermined first output node. A first capacitive element has one end connected to the first output node and holds a reset level that is a level of the signal at the time of resetting. A second capacitive element has one end connected to the first output node and holds an image signal level that is a level of the signal when the charge is transferred to the charge holding unit. A readout circuit is connected to a second output node, reads each of the reset level held in the first capacitive element and the image signal level held in the second capacitive element, and outputs the reset level and the image signal level as a reset signal and an image signal, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimichi KUMAGAI, Masashi BANDO, Naoyuki OSAWA, Shunya AKIYAMA, Toru SHIRAKATA, Takashi ABE, Tomoya AOTA
  • Publication number: 20250114559
    Abstract: To improve the quality of sleep. A control device includes a determiner that determines a stage of sleep of a subject on the basis of biological information on the subject, and a controller that controls a sleep induction device including a beat generator that generates a binaural beat. The controller causes the beat generator to generate a binaural beat having a frequency lower than 1.0 Hz at least in the stage of sleep of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Junki ENDO, Takashi ABE, Yunyao ZHU
  • Publication number: 20250073655
    Abstract: A stirring device has a storage tank and a stirring member that stirs an inside of the storage tank, and the stirring member has a humidified air release port through which humidified air, which is air humidified, is released into the storage tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Koji MOTOHASHI, Makoto SATO, Jun SAKURADA, Takashi ABE
  • Publication number: 20250075426
    Abstract: There is provided a crushed piece supply device including a storage tank that stores a crushed piece containing a fiber, a partition portion that partitions an inside of the storage tank into a first space and a second space positioned below the first space by narrowing the inside of the storage tank, an adjusting section that adjusts a moving amount of the crushed piece moving from the first space to the second space, a stirring section that stirs the crushed piece in the second space, and a discharge port through which the crushed piece is discharged from the second space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Jun SAKURADA, Makoto SATO, Koji MOTOHASHI, Karen HASEBE, Takashi ABE
  • Publication number: 20250072132
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging device and an electronic device that make it possible to obtain a better pixel signal. A photoelectric conversion part that converts received light into a charge; a holding part that holds a charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion part; and a light shielding part that shields light between the photoelectric conversion part and the holding part are provided. The photoelectric conversion part, the holding part, and the light shielding part are formed in a semiconductor substrate. The light shielding part of a transfer region that transfers the charge from the photoelectric conversion part to the holding part is formed as a non-penetrating light shielding part that does not penetrate the semiconductor substrate. The light shielding part other than the transfer region is formed as a penetrating light shielding part that penetrates the semiconductor substrate. The present technology is applicable to an imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimichi KUMAGAI, Takashi ABE, Ryoto YOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20250033391
    Abstract: A recording apparatus including a carriage configured to carry a recording head that discharges a liquid, the carriage including a main body which is provided with an opening for internally housing the recording head and which includes a locking portion and a cover which is rotatable between a closed state, in which the opening is blocked, and an open state, which exposes the opening, and which includes a locked portion that engages with the locking portion in the closed state. The cover includes an operating portion including a protruded portion which protrudes, from a surface constituting an outer wall surface of the carriage, in a rotating direction of the cover from the closed state to the open state, the operating portion having an attitude which changes so that an engagement between the locked portion and the locking portion is released due to the protruded portion being pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: SHUHEI YAMAGUCHI, ATSUSHI KOHNOTOH, KEN TAKENAGA, TAKASHI ABE, DAIJU TAKEDA, KOUSUKE TANAKA, YUSUKE NARATANI
  • Patent number: 12208629
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a carriage, a recording head, a frame, and a guide member. The conveyance unit conveys a sheet in a conveyance direction. The carriage moves in a scanning direction crossing the conveyance direction and has a first abutment portion and a second abutment portion higher in position than the first abutment portion. The recording head is mounted on the carriage, arranged to face a sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and ejects a liquid onto the conveyed sheet to record an image. The frame has a first sliding portion in abutment with the first abutment portion and has a second sliding portion in abutment with the second abutment portion. The guide member supports the carriage and is fixed to the frame at a position separated from the first sliding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taiji Maruyama, Atsushi Kohnotoh, Yasuyuki Takanaka, Norio Sakurai, Takashi Abe, Kousuke Tanaka, Yusuke Naratani, Shuhei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12194117
    Abstract: The present invention provides resin beads that can provide various types of products, such as a cosmetic having excellent tactile impression, such as spreadability on the skin, moist feeling, and softness, and having high stability such that such tactile impression is kept over a long period of time, that can be substituted for resin particles composed of a synthetic material derived from petroleum, and that have favorable biodegradability. The present invention also provides various types of products, such as a cosmetic, using the resin beads. The resin beads are obtained by surface-treating, with a solid surface treatment agent, core beads formed with a resin containing cellulose as a main component, and have a cumulative 50% particle size on a volume basis of 50 ?m or smaller, a degree of sphericity of 0.7 to 1.0, a degree of surface smoothness of 70 to 100%, and a degree of crystallinity of 60% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Abe
  • Patent number: 12170306
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging device and an electronic device that make it possible to obtain a better pixel signal. A photoelectric conversion part that converts received light into a charge; a holding part that holds a charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion part; and a light shielding part that shields light between the photoelectric conversion part and the holding part are provided. The photoelectric conversion part, the holding part, and the light shielding part are formed in a semiconductor substrate. The light shielding part of a transfer region that transfers the charge from the photoelectric conversion part to the holding part is formed as a non-penetrating light shielding part that does not penetrate the semiconductor substrate. The light shielding part other than the transfer region is formed as a penetrating light shielding part that penetrates the semiconductor substrate. The present technology is applicable to an imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kumagai, Takashi Abe, Ryoto Yoshita
  • Publication number: 20240413176
    Abstract: In order to solve the foregoing problem, the present disclosure provides an imaging device composed of a plurality of pixels, wherein a first pixel among the plurality of pixels includes: a first photoelectric conversion element; a first power storage unit; a first transfer element that enables a conductive state or a non-conductive state between the first photoelectric conversion element and the first power storage unit; and a first amplifying element that amplifies an image signal on the basis of a charge stored by photoelectric conversion in at least any of adjacent pixels, including a second pixel, that are adjacent to the first pixel, the second pixel including: a second amplifying element that amplifies an image signal based on a charge stored in the first power storage unit by photoelectric conversion of the first photoelectric conversion element, and a second distance between the first power storage unit and the second amplifying element is shorter than a first distance between the first power storage
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: NAOYUKI OSAWA, YOSHIMICHI KUMAGAI, MASASHI BANDO, TORU SHIRAKATA, SHUNYA AKIYAMA, TAKASHI ABE
  • Patent number: 12083804
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an inkjet printing apparatus includes a print head having an ejection opening surface on which ejection openings for ejecting ink are formed, a tank storing ink to be supplied to the print head, a supply flow path for supplying the ink from the tank to the print head, a collection flow path for collecting the ink from the print head to the tank, a supply pump provided in the supply flow path to supply the ink from the tank to the print head, a tank decompression pump which decompresses the inside of the tank, and a control unit which controls to drive the supply pump and the tank decompression pump to fill the collection flow path with ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tokisawa, Yumi Mukoyama, Kyoshiro Okude, Takashi Abe, Takahiro Kiuchi
  • Patent number: 12070936
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a recording unit that records an image on a recording medium, a discharge unit configured to discharge the recording medium on which recording has been performed by the recording unit, a first conveying path for conveying the recording medium from the recording unit to the discharge unit, a heating unit configured to heat the recording medium on which recording has been performed by the recording unit and disposed on the first conveying path, and a second conveying path configured to branch off from the first conveying path at a branching portion between the heating unit and the discharge unit and configured to merge with the first conveying path between the recording unit and a stacking unit on the first conveying path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Abe, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi Saeki, Yoshiyuki Kurita, Yumi Mukoyama
  • Publication number: 20240282217
    Abstract: A work training support system includes: a detector detecting a movement of a tool during a first period, wherein the first period is a period in which an instructor performs work using the tool; a controller programmed to generate a first image using a detection result of the detector during the first period, wherein the first image represents the movement of the tool during the first period; and a head mounted display worn on a head of a trainee, wherein the head mounted display displays the first image in a field of view of the trainee during a second period, wherein the second period is a period in which the trainee performs the work using the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Abe, Hiroyuki Imai, Yusuke Kobayashi, Ryotaro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12065779
    Abstract: A raw-material feeding device includes: a storage section that includes a bottom section and a side wall standing from the bottom section and that stores, in a storage space surrounded by the bottom section and the side wall, small pieces of raw material constituted by a material containing fibers; a stirring section that is provided in the bottom section at a position facing the storage space, that includes a blade which rotates about a rotational axis extending in a direction in which the side wall stands, and that stirs the raw material in the storage space by rotating the blade; a first discharging section that is provided in the side wall so as to communicate with the storage space, that includes a first tubular body rotating about a first axis intersecting the rotational axis, and that discharges, upon rotation of the first tubular body, the raw material in the storage space to a processing section; and a second discharging section that is provided in the side wall at a position different from a positio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Motohashi, Makoto Sato, Takashi Abe
  • Publication number: 20240247112
    Abstract: The present invention provides resin beads that can provide various types of products, such as a cosmetic having excellent tactile impression, spreadability on the skin, and transparency, that can be substituted for resin particles composed of a synthetic material derived from petroleum, and that have favorable biodegradability, and the present invention also provides various types of products, such as a cosmetic using the resin beads. The resin beads are formed with a resin containing cellulose as a main component. The resin beads have a cumulative 50% particle size on a volume basis of 50 ?m or smaller, a degree of sphericity of 0.7 to 1.0, a degree of surface smoothness of 70 to 100%, a degree of solidity of 50 to 100%, and a biodegradation rate for 5 days, as measured in accordance with JIS K6950:2000 (ISO 14851:1999), of 20% or more, and the content of the cellulose in the resin is 90 to 100% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventor: Takashi ABE
  • Publication number: 20240228437
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method suitable for industrial production of a compound of formula (V): (V) comprising a step of subjecting a compound (IV) to an asymmetric reductive amination reaction in the presence of a metal complex comprising a chiral ligand and subjecting this product to purification using salt formation with N-(4-methylbenzene-1-sulfonyl)-L-phenylalanine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Masatoshi YAMADA, Sayuri HIRANO, Osamu YABE, Yuichi KAJITA, Tsuneo ODA, Takashi ABE, Hironori YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240181787
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a container configured to store a liquid to be supplied to a discharge unit, a first cover portion capable of moving between a closing position where an inlet portion in the container is covered and an opening position, a second cover portion capable of moving between a closing position where the first cover portion is covered and an opening position where the first cover portion is exposed so as to be opened/closed, and a valve which opens/closes a passage communicating with an inside of the container. The valve closes the passage interworking with a movement of the first cover portion to the opening position, and opens the passage interworking with a movement of the second cover portion to the closing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Masashi Ito, Yuri Mori, Takashi Abe, Nanae Uchinuno
  • Patent number: 12003878
    Abstract: An imaging device including an imaging unit in which a plurality of shared sections each including two pixel regions adjacent at least in a first direction is provided and the shared sections provided at closest positions in a second direction are disposed to shift in the first direction by the one pixel region, a photoelectric converter provided for each of the pixel regions, an electric charge holding unit that holds signal charge generated by the photoelectric converter, an electric charge voltage converter to which the signal charge is transferred from the electric charge holding unit, and a pixel transistor that is electrically coupled to the electric charge voltage converter. The second direction intersects the first direction. The pixel transistor is provided for each of the shared sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kumagai, Takashi Abe, Ryoto Yoshita, Masashi Bando, Naoyuki Osawa
  • Patent number: 11998630
    Abstract: The present invention provides resin beads that can provide various types of products such as cosmetics which are unlikely to generate an odor and have superior tactile impression and spreadability on the skin and that can be substituted for resin particles composed of a synthetic material derived from petroleum, and the present invention also provides various types of products such as cosmetics using the resin beads. The resin beads are formed with a resin containing a cellulose derivative as a main component. In the resin beads, the cellulose derivative is at least one selected from the group consisting of cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate propionate, ethyl cellulose, and hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, the volume average particle diameter is 50 ?m or smaller, the degree of sphericity is 0.7 to 1.0, the degree of surface smoothness is 80 to 100%, the acetyl group content ratio is 15% by mass or less, and the propionyl group content ratio is 10% by mass or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Abe