Patents by Inventor Takashi Shimizu

Takashi Shimizu 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: 10747173
    Abstract: A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keita Shimizu, Tomoya Ichikawa, Takashi Shimizu, Kazuna Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200257243
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and a process cartridge attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body. The apparatus body includes a sheet-feed roller and a body wall. The process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum frame; a developing roller; a cleaner; a conveying pipe and a waste-toner container for storing waste toner removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaner and conveyed by the conveying pipe. The waste-toner container is detachably mountable on the drum frame. The waste-toner container mounted on the drum frame is positioned opposite to the photosensitive drum with respect to the developing roller. The body wall of the apparatus body and a container wall of the waste-toner container constitute a part of a sheet-conveying guide for guiding conveyance of a sheet from the sheet-feed roller toward the photosensitive drum when the process cartridge is attached to the apparatus body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Shougo Sato
  • Patent number: 10732323
    Abstract: The retardation film of the present invention contains a resin having positive refractive index anisotropy and containing at least one bonding group of a carbonate bond and an ester bond and one or more structural units selected from the group consisting of a structural unit represented by the general formula (1) and a structural unit represented by the general formula (2), in which the value of wavelength dispersion (R450/R550) as a ratio of retardation R450 at a wavelength of 450 nm to retardation R550 at a wavelength of 550 nm is more than 0.5 and less than 1.0: (in formula (1) and formula (2), definitions of R1 to R9 are the same as in the description).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Namiki, Yuuichi Hirami, Hisatoshi Uehara, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Takashi Shimizu, Hiroshi Sumimura, Nao Murakami
  • Patent number: 10727532
    Abstract: The positive active material for a lithium secondary battery includes a lithium transition metal composite oxide having an ?-NaFeO2 structure, and having a diffraction peak at 2?=44±1° and a diffraction peak at 2?=18.6±1° in a powder X-ray diffraction diagram using a CuK? ray. In a ratio FWHM (003)/FWHM (104) of a full width at half maximum FWHM (003) for the diffraction peak at 2?=18.6±1° to a full width at half maximum FWHM (104) for the diffraction peak at 2?=44±1°, a ratio of FWHM (003)/FWHM (104) in a charge state immediately after a discharge state to FWHM (003)/FWHM (104) in the discharge state is 0.72 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Endo, Takashi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200228305
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to store first system time; and a processor configured to: receive, from an information acquisition apparatus after the first system time is written in the memory, first information acquired by the information acquisition apparatus and first time information indicating acquisition time of the first information; receive, from the information acquisition apparatus after receiving the first information and the first time information, second information and second time information indicating acquisition time of the second information; converting, based on the first system time, reception time at which the first information and the first time information are received into second system time; convert, based on the second system time and the first time information, the second time information into third system time; attach the second system time to the first information; and attach the third system time to the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Ken Yokoyama, Hiroshi Murakawa
  • Patent number: 10697765
    Abstract: An image processing system comprises: a projector for projecting pattern light whose coordinate component at least in one direction is determinable; an imaging apparatus for imaging an object illuminated with the pattern light to acquire a pattern image; and a controller including a calculator for calculating the 3D coordinates of a point on the object based on the pattern light and the pattern image. The calculator determines a first point on the pattern image; calculates a second point corresponding to the first point in a pattern-light projection plane; calculates a third point based on the second point in the projection plane, a nonlinear line in the projection plane calculated by analyzing the pattern image, and an epipolar line in the projection plane calculated based on the first point; and calculates the three-dimensional coordinates of the point on the object based on the first point and the third point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200203180
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of conductive layers that are stacked in plurality in a first direction via an inter-layer insulating layer, that extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction, and that are disposed in plurality in a third direction which intersects the first direction and the second direction. In addition, the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor layer that has the first direction as a longitudinal direction; a tunnel insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the semiconductor layer; a charge accumulation layer that contacts a side surface of the tunnel insulating layer; and a block insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the charge accumulation layer. Furthermore, in the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, an end in the third direction of the plurality of conductive layers is rounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi SONEHARA, Takahiro HIRAI, Masaaki HIGUCHI, Takashi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10670773
    Abstract: The retardation film of the present invention contains a thermoplastic resin and is constituted of a single layer. A value of wavelength dispersion (R450/R550) that is a ratio of a retardation R450 at a wavelength of 450 nm and a retardation R550 at a wavelength of 550 nm is 0.70 or more and 0.85 or less; and a photoelastic coefficient is 14×10?12 Pa?1 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignees: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Namiki, Yuuichi Hirami, Hisatoshi Uehara, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Takashi Shimizu, Hiroshi Sumimura, Nao Murakami
  • Patent number: 10671016
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and a process cartridge attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body. The apparatus body includes a sheet-feed roller and a body wall. The process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum frame; a developing roller; a cleaner; a conveying pipe and a waste-toner container for storing waste toner removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaner and conveyed by the conveying pipe. The waste-toner container is detachably mountable on the drum frame. The waste-toner container mounted on the drum frame is positioned opposite to the photosensitive drum with respect to the developing roller. The body wall of the apparatus body and a container wall of the waste-toner container constitute a part of a sheet-conveying guide for guiding conveyance of a sheet from the sheet-feed roller toward the photosensitive drum when the process cartridge is attached to the apparatus body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Shougo Sato
  • Patent number: 10671002
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a housing; a photoconductor; a developing unit configured to form a developer image on the photoconductor; a developer cartridge storing developer, the cartridge being removably mountable on the housing, a supplier configured to supply the developer from the developer cartridge to the developing unit; and a controller configured to execute a first printing process of forming a developer image by use of the developer supplied from the developer cartridge, when the developer cartridge is being mounted on the housing, and a second printing process of forming a developer image by use of the developer remaining in the developing unit, when a usage amount of the developing unit is not less than a predetermined value and the developer cartridge is not being mounted on the housing, wherein the controller does not execute the second printing process when the usage amount is less than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Yabuki, Yoshifumi Kajikawa, Takashi Suzuki, Takashi Yasuda, Takashi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200135126
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a glass substrate; a light emitting device included in a pixel structure disposed on one principal surface of the glass substrate; an input electrode, disposed on the one principal surface, for inputting a driving signal to the light emitting device; and a back connection member disposed on the other principal surface of the glass substrate so as to be electrically connected to the input electrode. A back insulating layer is disposed on the other principal surface, and a top face of the back insulating layer is located above a top face of the back connection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi YOKOYAMA, Takashi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10632696
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing a transparent film, including the step of stretching a film in at least one direction under a condition(s) that satisfies an expression (5): 200%/min?[stretching speed(strain rate)]?1,200%/min??(5), wherein the film comprises a polycarbonate resin containing at least a constitutional unit derived from a dihydroxy compound (A) that has a bonded structure represented by a structural formula (1): in which no hydrogen atom is bonded to the oxygen atom contained in the structural formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Tanaka, Michiaki Fuji, Nao Murakami, Takashi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10615049
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of conductive layers that are stacked in plurality in a first direction via an inter-layer insulating layer, that extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction, and that are disposed in plurality in a third direction which intersects the first direction and the second direction. In addition, the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor layer that has the first direction as a longitudinal direction; a tunnel insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the semiconductor layer; a charge accumulation layer that contacts a side surface of the tunnel insulating layer; and a block insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the charge accumulation layer. Furthermore, in the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, an end in the third direction of the plurality of conductive layers is rounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Sonehara, Takahiro Hirai, Masaaki Higuchi, Takashi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200089158
    Abstract: A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is detachably attachable; a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller; and a conveying roller. The drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the frame in a second direction. The transfer roller is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction and in contact with the drum. The conveying roller is rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction and separated from the transfer roller in the second direction. A first opening of the frame is positioned between the transfer roller and the conveying roller in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is exposed to an outside through the first opening in a case where the developing cartridge is attached to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi SHIMIZU, Koji ABE
  • Publication number: 20200089157
    Abstract: A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is detachably attachable; a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller; and a conveying roller. The drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the frame in a second direction. The transfer roller is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction and in contact with the drum. The conveying roller is rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction and separated from the transfer roller in the second direction. A first opening of the frame is positioned between the transfer roller and the conveying roller in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is exposed to an outside through the first opening in a case where the developing cartridge is attached to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi SHIMIZU, Koji ABE
  • Patent number: 10560262
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first-processor, and a programmable integrated circuit coupled to the first-processor; a second-processor, and a memory coupled to the second-processor, the second-processor being configured to access the first-processor; and a third-processor to manage the first-processor, wherein the first-processor is configured to write, to the rewritable-integrated circuit, a computation circuit to perform computation according to information from the second-processor, and an encryption circuit to generate encrypted data by encrypting a computation result computed by the computation circuit, by using an encryption key for the computation circuit, the third-processor is configured to manage the encryption key in association with the computation circuit and notify the second-processor of the encryption key for the computation circuit, and the second-processor is configured to read out the encrypted data from the memory for storing the encrypted data, and decrypt the read encrypted data by using the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Takashi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 10532526
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a thin polarizing film having both excellent optical characteristics and excellent in-plane uniformity. The method of producing a thin polarizing film includes stretching a thermoplastic resin substrate in a first direction, followed by formation of a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin layer on the thermoplastic resin substrate to prepare a laminate and shrinking and stretching the laminate in the first direction and a second direction, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Araki, Seiji Kondo, Hiroyuki Morikazu, Takashi Shimizu, Hiroaki Sawada
  • Publication number: 20190391953
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system comprises a Clock Extension Peripheral Interface (CXPI) bus and a device coupled to the CXPI bus as a slave node. The device comprises a transceiver configured to: generate a first signal by delaying an inverted signal of a transmission data signal; generate a second signal based on the transmission data signal, where the second signal has a low slew rate; selectively output the first signal or the second signal as a third signal, in response to a selector signal; and generate a clock signal in response to the third signal, where the clock signal is at a high level when the third signal is at a low level, and where the clock signal is at the low level when the third signal is at the high level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Masami Nakashima, Masuo Inui, Koji Okada, Takeo Zaitsu, Takashi Shimizu, Shinichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Tomita, Susumu Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20190392599
    Abstract: A control device acquires a plurality of observation signals observed using a plurality of projection patterns having different spatial frequencies, as observation signals for a measurement point on a measurement object. The control device repeatedly executes processing for estimating two component signals included in each observation signal, so as to separate the observation signal into two component signals, and calculate a three-dimensional position of the measurement point based on the phases of the separated component signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OHNISHI, Takashi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10514655
    Abstract: A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is detachably attachable; a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller; and a conveying roller. The drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the frame in a second direction. The transfer roller is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction and in contact with the drum. The conveying roller is rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction and separated from the transfer roller in the second direction. A first opening of the frame is positioned between the transfer roller and the conveying roller in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is exposed to an outside through the first opening in a case where the developing cartridge is attached to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Koji Abe