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).

  • Patent number: 10500843
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording apparatus that improves printing quality when printing with a plurality of nozzles. The ink jet recording apparatus performs printing control of a plurality of nozzles using an encoder pulse output from an encoder attached to a conveying line, and is characterized by comprising: an input unit with which a printing character width is separately set for each of the plurality of nozzles; and a control unit that controls printing using a character width corresponding to input information from the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroko Kurihara, Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20190310803
    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: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi KAWANO, Nobuhiro HARADA, Takahiro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190242018
    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: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reona ENDO, Kazuhisa OKAI, Hiroshi KAJIYAMA, Takashi KAWANO
  • Patent number: 10183486
    Abstract: When printing on the same printing object with multiple print nozzles in the past, consideration was not given to cases in which the time relationships of the set times and times-to-be-printed become mismatched between the respective print items of the print nozzles. To solve this problem, an inkjet printer that prints on a conveyed printing object and has multiple print nozzles, multiple auxiliary control units for controlling the printing performed by the multiple print nozzles, and a common main control unit connected to the multiple auxiliary control units via communication unit is provided. The main control unit extracts the time relationship of the set times and the time relationship of the times-to-be-printed between the items to be printed by the respective print nozzles of the multiple print nozzles and revises the print data so as to preserve the time relationship of the set times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: An Kyu, Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20190010029
    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: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto KAWABUCHI, Takashi KAWANO
  • Patent number: 10174430
    Abstract: A Si-containing high-strength cold rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition comprising C: 0.02˜0.3 mass %, Si: 0.8˜2.0 mass %, Mn: 1.0˜5.0 mass % and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities with a ratio of Si content to Mn content (Si/Mn) exceeding 0.4, and has a tensile strength TS of not less than 780 MPa, wherein a metallic structure of the steel sheet surface contains polygonal ferrite and/or bainitic ferrite having a Si concentration of not more than 3.0 mass % and a grain size of not more than 10 ?m and does not have a Si-containing oxide layer on the steel sheet surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Masuoka, Reiko Sugihara, Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20180358565
    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: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi KAWANO, Shin ISHIKAWA, Takuya MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10111920
    Abstract: Provided are: a production method for salt-free miso, in which steamed soy beans and koji are pressurized, heated, and fermented; salt-free miso obtained by said production method; and a hepatic function improvement agent and a hypertension improvement agent that contain said salt-free miso as an effective component thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignees: MARUZEN PHARMACEUTICALS CO., LTD., MASUYAMISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nakahara, Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20180299489
    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: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Tetsuya YOSHIOKA, Takashi KAWANO, Shigeki MAKISE, Mika NASU
  • Patent number: 10036354
    Abstract: A valve body unit (11) in which a plurality of valve bodies (17) which open and close intake passages (10) are attached on a rotational shaft (16) is inserted into inner sides of housing passages (28) of a housing (12) and, thereafter, a holder (13) is mounted in the housing (12) to rotatably support the valve body unit (11). A flange (14) is fixed onto an upper surface of the housing (12) on the holder (13) by means of a vibration welding and the holder (13) is retained with this flange (14) and the housing (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: MAHLE FILTER SYSTEMS JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20180173819
    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: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Takashi KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20180086052
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording apparatus that improves printing quality when printing with a plurality of nozzles. The ink jet recording apparatus performs printing control of a plurality of nozzles using an encoder pulse output from an encoder attached to a conveying line, and is characterized by comprising: an input unit with which a printing character width is separately set for each of the plurality of nozzles; and a control unit that controls printing using a character width corresponding to input information from the input unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroko KURIHARA, Takashi KAWANO
  • Patent number: 9761361
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet produces reduced noise when worked into a transformer, by setting length d of each plastic strain region in the widthwise direction of the steel sheet to 0.05 mm or more and 0.4 mm or less, and a ratio (?d/?w) of a total ?d of the length d to a total ?w of application interval w of each of the above plastic strain regions to 0.2 or more and 0.6 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Okabe, Shigehiro Takajo, Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20170239945
    Abstract: When printing on the same printing object with multiple print nozzles in the past, consideration was not given to cases in which the time relationships of the set times and times-to-be-printed become mismatched between the respective print items of the print nozzles. To solve said problem, the present invention is an inkjet printer for printing on a conveyed printing object and having multiple print nozzles, multiple auxiliary control units for controlling the printing performed by the multiple print nozzles, and a common main control unit connected to the multiple auxiliary control units via communication means. The main control unit is configured to be equipped with: an extracting function for extracting the time relationship of the set times and the time relationship of the times-to-be-printed between the items to be printed by the respective print nozzles of the multiple print nozzles; and a revising function for revising the print data so as to preserve the time relationship of the set times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: An KYU, Takashi KAWANO
  • Patent number: 9738498
    Abstract: A telescopic boom extension device includes a cylinder-boom coupling mechanism, an inter-boom fixing mechanism, and a driving mechanism that drives the foregoing two. The driving mechanism has a hydraulic supply part and a drive source generation part. The hydraulic supply part includes an AOH and is provided at a cylinder tube of a telescopic boom. The hydraulic supply part supplies operating oil selectively to actuators driving a B pin and a C pin. The drive source generation part includes an air hose and supplies compressed air to the AOH. The air hose is wound around a hose reel in an unrollable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: TADANO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Kawabuchi, Takashi Kawano
  • Patent number: 9688519
    Abstract: A telescopic boom extension device includes a driving mechanism. The driving mechanism that drives B pins and a C pin includes a hydraulic supply part and a drive source generation part. The drive source generation part generates a predetermined hydraulic pressure at the hydraulic supply part based on a pneumatic pressure. The hydraulic supply part has an accumulator and AOHs and supplies a hydraulic pressure to a cylinder-boom coupling mechanism and an inter-boom fixing mechanism. The drive source generation part uses a pneumatic supply part to send compressed air to the hydraulic supply part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Kawabuchi, Takashi Kawano
  • Patent number: 9636912
    Abstract: Under a condition in which bowed printing occurs, a horizontal shift is suppressed to improve print quality. Following a program stored in a ROM 12, an MPU 10 generates video data for charging print particles according to print contents data stored in a RAM 11. Based on the print contents data, the MPU 10 detects a letter to be printed last, and when the letter to be printed last is printed to end a print operation, generates video data so that based on the video data, a non-print charge voltage driving non-print particles to an extent that they do not fly over a gutter 25 is applied to non-print particles. The number of the non-print particles subjected to the non-print charge voltage is determined by the MPU 10, based on the distance from a print head 2 to a print subject 30, a letter height preset value, etc. A character signal generating circuit 18 generates the non-print charge voltage, based on the video data, and applies the generated the non-print charge voltage to a charging electrode 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuneaki Takagishi, Nobuhiro Harada, Manabu Kato, Takashi Kawano, Masato Ikegawa
  • Patent number: 9636911
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to suppress variance in the print quality of an inkjet recording device. In order to solve the above problem, the present invention is an inkjet recording device of a charge control type equipped with two or more nozzles which are disposed side by side in a print head, the inkjet recording device being characterized by the following: having a control unit for performing print control independently for each of a plurality of printing configurations; the control unit having an input unit whereby current values of print elements of each of the printing configurations can be periodically checked, and having an output unit whereby the print elements during a subsequent print can be modified; and in that the control unit further adjusts each of the nozzles for every print so as to cause the “charging voltage”, “deflecting voltage”, and “ink pressure” of the subsequent print to approach a reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroko Kurihara, Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20170100444
    Abstract: Provided are: a production method for salt-free miso, in which steamed soy beans and koji are pressurized, heated, and fermented; salt-free miso obtained by said production method; and a hepatic function improvement agent and a hypertension improvement agent that contain said salt-free miso as an effective component thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicants: MARUZEN PHARMACEUTICALS CO., LTD., MASUYAMISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuo NAKAHARA, Takashi KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20170058847
    Abstract: A valve body unit (11) in which a plurality of valve bodies (17) which open and close intake passages (10) are attached on a rotational shaft (16) is inserted into inner sides of housing passages (28) of a housing (12) and, thereafter, a holder (13) is mounted in the housing (12) to rotatably support the valve body unit (11). A flange (14) is fixed onto an upper surface of the housing (12) on the holder (13) by means of a vibration welding and the holder (13) is retained with this flange (14) and the housing (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: MAHLE FILTER SYSTEM JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi KAWANO