Patents by Inventor Takashi Kawano

Takashi Kawano 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: 20220156022
    Abstract: A print recording system, including: at least one print recording device; and a computer system that includes a database storing a plurality of print setting information items and is capable of sending and receiving data with respect to the print recording device. The computer system searches the print setting information corresponding to a search condition that is input from the database in accordance with the search condition, repeats the search in accordance with a new search condition when the print setting information does not match the search condition, and sends the print setting information obtained by the search or the repeated search to the print recording device to set the print recording device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Huilin CHEN, Takahiro TAKAHASHI, Takashi KAWANO
  • Patent number: 11298962
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus which is able to be operated by communication from a higher-level device includes a printing head that ejects ink, a communication unit which is able to perform communicating with the higher-level device, a program storage unit that stores a program, and a printing control unit that controls the printing head, and the program storage unit includes a communication program storage area in which a program corresponding to a predetermined communication protocol is stored in advance, and the program storage unit includes an extension area in which a program corresponding to a communication protocol different from the predetermined communication protocol is installable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Okawa, Takashi Kawano
  • Patent number: 11174556
    Abstract: Disclosed is a surface-treatment solution for producing a zinc or zinc alloy coated steel sheet with a surface-coating layer that does not contain a chromium compound in the surface-coating layer and that is excellent in all of heat discoloration resistance, heat cracking resistance, planar part anti-corrosion property, corrosion resistance after alkali degreasing, blackening resistance, stack blackening resistance, anti-water stain property, solvent resistance, perspiration resistance, coating adhesion property, and storage stability. The disclosed surface-treatment solution contains a glycidyl group-containing silane coupling agent (A), a tetraalkoxysilane (B), a zirconium carbonate compound (C), and an anionic polyurethane resin (D) having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 80° C. to 130° C., a vanadium compound (E), a molybdic acid compound (F), and water, the surface-treatment solution having a pH of 8.0 to 10.0, and the amount of each component satisfying a predetermined relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reona Endo, Kazuhisa Okai, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Takashi Kawano
  • Patent number: 11167546
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes a charging electrode that charges ink particles ejected from a nozzle, a deflecting electrode that deflects the ink particles charged by the charging electrode, an operating unit that inputs and sets printing conditions for performing the printing, and a control unit, and the control unit receives a moving distance in a direction in which a printing target is conveyed from the operating unit, calculates the number of non-printing particles on the basis of the moving distance, and performs control for changing to a dot pattern in which the number of non-printing particles are inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: An Qiu, Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20210323304
    Abstract: To realize high-quality printing with less printing distortion by reducing an influence of a Coulomb force that acts between ink particles which are ejected in an inkjet recording device. The inkjet recording device is configured to charge ink particles ejected from a nozzle, deflect the charged ink particles, and print a character in a shape of an object to be printed. In the inkjet recording device, dots of each column of the character to be printed are divided into a plurality of blocks in a column direction. In addition, charging voltage data in which the order of the ink particles corresponding to the dots is switched in the divided block unit is stored, and a predetermined charging voltage is applied to the charging electrode on the basis of the charging voltage data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: An KYU, Takashi KAWANO, Tsuneaki TAKAGISHI, Manabu KATO
  • Patent number: 11104165
    Abstract: Previously, a customer may not have known which information was acquired and may have felt anxiety. In addition, only internal data of the apparatus was previously acquired. However, in order to determine a trouble in the inkjet printer with high precision, visual information such as a state of a printer mechanism or a conveyance line and a print result is also necessary to determine the apparatus state. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a maintenance system capable of acquiring such information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroko Kurihara, Takashi Kawano, Nobuhiro Harada, Kenjiro Fujii, Tomohisa Kohiyama, Makiko Naemura
  • Publication number: 20210245495
    Abstract: An inkjet recording device is connected to a database server holding various information (setting value data, operation information data, regular replacement component information, and consumable information) of the inkjet recording device and an AP server that calculates parameter information of the inkjet recording device from the various information of the inkjet recording device. The inkjet recording device receives the parameter information, calculated by the AP server, of the inkjet recording device, calculates running notice information (a date and time of the occurrence of an abnormality/alarm, an operable time, the number of times that printing has been performed before the occurrence of the abnormality/alarm, and maintenance information of a regular replacement component) of the inkjet recording device based on the parameter information, and displays the running notice information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro TAKAHASHI, Takashi KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20210187984
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus which is able to be operated by communication from a higher-level device includes a printing head that ejects ink, a communication unit which is able to perform communicating with the higher-level device, a program storage unit that stores a program, and a printing control unit that controls the printing head, and the program storage unit includes a communication program storage area in which a program corresponding to a predetermined communication protocol is stored in advance, and the program storage unit includes an extension area in which a program corresponding to a communication protocol different from the predetermined communication protocol is installable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke OKAWA, Takashi KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20200398215
    Abstract: A water treatment tank includes: a tank body including a bottom surface extending in a horizontal direction; an overflow wall partitioning the inside of the tank body into an upstream tank into which treatment water having absorbed sulfur from an exhaust gas is introduced and a downstream tank into which the treatment water overflowing from the upstream tank is introduced to flow therein; and an inclined part that is provided between the bottom surface of the tank body and the overflow wall in the downstream tank and is inclined downward as it goes from the overflow wall toward a downstream side inside the downstream tank to be connected to the bottom surface of the tank body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Masamichi IINO, Takashi KAWANO, Hiroshi KAWANE, Hideaki SAKURAI, Naoyuki KAMIYAMA, Ryozo SASAKI, Tetsu USHIKU
  • Publication number: 20200391156
    Abstract: A water treatment tank includes: a tank body including a bottom surface extending in a horizontal direction; and an overflow wall installed in the tank body to partition an inside space of the tank body into a seawater intake upstream tank into which treatment water having absorbed sulfur from an exhaust gas is introduced and a seawater intake downstream tank into which treatment water overflowing the seawater intake upstream tank is introduced to flow therein. The treatment water flowing into the seawater intake downstream tank is divided by the overflow wall in the width direction of the overflow wall so as to form a waterfall region and a non-waterfall region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sakurai, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Takashi Kawano, Ryozo Sasaki, Seiji Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20200377346
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with: a manipulation unit; a winch device that operates with an actuation mode of either a high speed mode or a low speed mode, and winds in or reels out a wire rope; a selection unit for an operator to select either the high speed mode or the low speed mode; a load calculation unit calculating a suspended load; a tension calculation unit calculating the tension of the wire rope; and a control unit controlling the actuation of the winch device. If the mode selected by the selection unit is the high speed mode, the manipulation unit is manipulated from a neutral state to a non-neutral state, and the suspended load is smaller than a load threshold and the tension is smaller than a tension threshold, the control unit controls the winch device so as to operate in the high speed mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Naotaka MASUDA, Kenji URUSHIHARA, Takashi KAWANO
  • Patent number: 10838666
    Abstract: In an existing service points granting method, service points are changed according to whether the ink ejection amount is corrected. However, changing the service points according to a user's purchases or purchase frequency for components or services has not been considered. A display unit displays products or services relevant to an ink jet recording apparatus, points corresponding to the products or services, and cumulative points possessed by each customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawano, Nobuhiro Harada, Takahiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10836612
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with: a manipulation unit; a winch device that operates with an actuation mode of either a high speed mode or a low speed mode, and winds in or reels out a wire rope; a selection unit for an operator to select either the high speed mode or the low speed mode; a load calculation unit calculating a suspended load; a tension calculation unit calculating the tension of the wire rope; and a control unit controlling the actuation of the winch device. If the mode selected by the selection unit is the high speed mode, the manipulation unit is manipulated from a neutral state to a non-neutral state, and the suspended load is smaller than a load threshold and the tension is smaller than a tension threshold, the control unit controls the winch device so as to operate in the high speed mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Naotaka Masuda, Kenji Urushihara, Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20200353747
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes a charging electrode that charges ink particles ejected from a nozzle, a deflecting electrode that deflects the ink particles charged by the charging electrode, an operating unit that inputs and sets printing conditions for performing the printing, and a control unit, and the control unit receives a moving distance in a direction in which a printing target is conveyed from the operating unit, calculates the number of non-printing particles on the basis of the moving distance, and performs control for changing to a dot pattern in which the number of non-printing particles are inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: An QIU, Takashi KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20200298601
    Abstract: Previously, a customer may not have known which information was acquired and may have felt anxiety. In addition, only internal data of the apparatus was previously acquired. However, in order to determine a trouble in the inkjet printer with high precision, visual information such as a state of a printer mechanism or a conveyance line and a print result is also necessary to determine the apparatus state. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a maintenance system capable of acquiring such information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroko KURIHARA, Takashi KAWANO, Nobuhiro HARADA, Kenjiro FUJII, Tomohisa KOHIYAMA, Makiko NAEMURA
  • Patent number: 10775411
    Abstract: A probe card includes a probe having a spring property and a probe head that holds the probe. The probe head includes a guide portion that holds the probe such that the probe can move in an axis direction Z. The guide portion includes a heat radiation structure that absorbs heat of the probe generated by energization and emits the heat to the outside of the probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yoshioka, Takashi Kawano, Shigeki Makise, Mika Nasu
  • Publication number: 20200189270
    Abstract: Provided is an inkjet recording device control method including: a printing object detection step of detecting a printing object; a charge control signal transmission step of transmitting signals for controlling charges of a plurality of nozzles at a timing when the printing object is detected in the printing object detection step and signals are received from all of a plurality of processing units; and a printing step of controlling the plurality of nozzles and performing printing on the basis of the signals for controlling the charges that have been transmitted in the charge signal transmission step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Keisuke OKAWA, Takashi KAWANO, An KYU
  • Patent number: 10636985
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate for a photoelectric conversion element that is low in cost as compared with a conventional ITO/glass substrate, easy to handle, and does not lower the power generation performance of the solar cell. The substrate for a photoelectric conversion element is made of a stainless steel sheet having a passive film on a surface thereof, an atomic ratio Cr/(Fe+Cr) of the passive film on a surface thereof is 0.08 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kawano, Shin Ishikawa, Takuya Murakami
  • Patent number: 10604386
    Abstract: An expansion/contraction mechanism includes a telescopic cylinder, boom fixing means, cylinder-boom connecting means, and a hydraulic-pressure supply unit, and telescopes a plurality of booms except a base boom by telescoping the telescopic cylinder. The hydraulic-pressure supply unit includes a pneumatic-pressure source, a selector valve which selects a destination of air provided from the pneumatic-pressure source, a first pneumatic path through which first air sent from the selector valve circulates, a second pneumatic path through which second air sent from the selector valve circulates, a first pneumatic-to-hydraulic conversion unit which converts a pneumatic pressure provided by the first air to a hydraulic pressure and supplies the hydraulic pressure to a first hydraulic cylinder, and a second pneumatic-to-hydraulic conversion unit which converts a pneumatic pressure provided by the second air to a hydraulic pressure and supplies the hydraulic pressure to a second hydraulic cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Kawabuchi, Takashi Kawano
  • Patent number: 10599801
    Abstract: A logic model of a nonvolatile memory device is commonly used in high order synthesis and a logic simulation. Further, the logic model of the nonvolatile memory device divides a one-time rewriting request area of the nonvolatile memory device into a plurality of areas, and rewrites each of the divided areas in a time division manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kawano