Patents by Inventor Takashi Suzuki

Takashi Suzuki 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: 12149821
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus, which can be mounted with an interchangeable lens and operates with power from a battery, includes: a connection detachably connected to the interchangeable lens; a controller that controls a lower-limit voltage indicating a lower limit for supplying power from the battery; and a selector that selects one operation mode from a plurality of operation modes for operating the imaging apparatus with power from the battery, wherein the controller switches the lower-limit voltage among a plurality of set values respectively corresponding to combinations of types of the interchangeable lens and the plurality of operation modes on a basis of the interchangeable lens connected to the connection and the operation mode selected by the selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Kazuhiro Ogawa, Tomonori Kono, Kazuyuki Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20240374166
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire an estimated value of a ground reaction force applied to a user by using sensor data representing movement of a body part of the user and a trained model. The trained model is trained and outputs the estimated value of the ground reaction force when input with the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Martin KLINKIGT, Hideyuki KIMPARA, Naoki NISHIDA, Takashi NAGATOMO, Edwardo Arata YAMAMOTO MURAKAMI, Takashi SUZUKI, Masayuki KISHI
  • Patent number: 12140110
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine capable of reducing an amount of dust taken from an outside air intake opening, with a simple configuration. The internal combustion engine includes a crankshaft, a cooling air intake device that houses a cooling fan coupled to the crankshaft and that includes a cooling air intake port, and an air cleaner device that feeds outside air to an air suction port to a cylinder, and the air cleaner device includes an outside air intake opening that opens toward the cooling air intake port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Yamazaki, Fumio Minami, Takashi Suzuki, Shogo Sakurai
  • Patent number: 12139408
    Abstract: Provided is a synthetic graphite material, in which a size L (112) of a crystallite in a c-axis direction as calculated from a (112) diffraction line obtained by an X-ray wide angle diffraction method is in a range of 4 to 30 nm, a surface area based on a volume as calculated by a laser diffraction type particle size distribution measuring device is in a range of 0.22 to 1.70 m2/cm3, an oil absorption is in a range of 67 to 147 mL/100 g, and a half width ?vG of a peak present in a wavelength range of 1580 cm?1±100 cm?1 is in a range of 19 to 24 cm?1 in Raman spectrum analysis using argon ion laser light having a wavelength of 514.5 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Takashi Maeda, Mitsuo Karakane, Takahiro Shirai, Hiroshi Kawachi, Noriyuki Kiuchi
  • Patent number: 12114277
    Abstract: A radio access network sends, to a mobile device, information indicating a cell on a first carrier of a first type and a cell on a second carrier of a second type, and sends, to the mobile device, configuration information regarding whether the mobile device is to connect with a cell on another carrier of a new carrier type. The radio access network sends, to the mobile device, information relating to a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) configuration that is specific to a type of carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Zhijun Cai, Rene Waraputra Purnadi
  • Publication number: 20240333857
    Abstract: An apparatus memory is configured to store mode information indicating one of a first contract mode, a second contract mode, and a commercial mode. The first contract mode is a mode in which an apparatus contract for an apparatus main body and a consumable contract for a consumable are set. The second contract mode is a mode in which the apparatus contract is not set and the consumable contract is set. The commercial mode is a mode in which neither the apparatus contract nor the consumable contract is set. A controller is configured to perform: receiving first cancellation information of the first contract mode from a server via a communication interface; and in response to receiving the first cancellation information of the first contract mode from the server, switching the mode information from the first contract mode to the second contract mode or the commercial mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240327155
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyor conveying a sheet medium; an image forming part forming an image on the sheet medium; a cutting part; a signal outputting part outputting a state signal; a reporting part; and a controller. The controller executes: an image forming process of conveying the sheet medium by the conveyor and forming the image on the sheet medium by the image forming part, and a cutting process of moving the cutting part. In a case where the sheet medium has not been cut even though the cutting process was executed during image formation on the sheet medium in the image forming process, the controller continues the image formation without interruption and causes the reporting part to report information regarding a failure of cutting of the sheet medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki TSUJIMURA, Takashi SUZUKI, Tetsuya SASO
  • Publication number: 20240328919
    Abstract: The environment measurement device includes: a housing having a first intake port, a second intake port, and an exhaust port, a dust sensor defining a first flow path and configured to detect dust contained in the air passing through the first flow path, the dust sensor being disposed inside the housing such that an inlet of the first flow path is connected to the first intake port, a fan disposed on the exhaust port such that a discharge of the fan is directed toward the exhaust port, a dust filter provided in the second intake port and configured to collect dust contained in the air supplied from the second intake port, and an environmental sensor configured to measure air supplied from the second intake port through the dust filter, wherein the air supplied from the first intake port and the second intake port are exhausted from the exhaust port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke TAKAYANAGI, Atsushi HATA, Takashi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 12103565
    Abstract: An autonomous driving device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a first ECU configured to autonomously drive the vehicle, and a second ECU configured to operate the vehicle under remote control from an outside. The first ECU is configured to keep an activated state while the second ECU is operating the vehicle. The second ECU is configured to keep a power saving state while the first ECU is autonomously driving the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Urano, Sho Otaki, Takashi Suzuki, Toru Takashima, Hojung Jung, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Satoru Niwa, Kosuke Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 12103150
    Abstract: A driving tool includes: a body provided with an outlet where a fastener is driven; an urging member attached to the body; and a plunger movable in a projecting direction toward the outlet by extension of the urging member. An urging force in the projecting direction acts on the body from the urging member when the urging member is extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kondo, Tetsuya Ohno, Takashi Suzuki, Takanari Azami
  • Patent number: 12087484
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body including a plurality of metal magnetic particles, and a plurality of coil conductors. The plurality of coil conductors is disposed in the element body. The plurality of coil conductors is separated from each other in a predetermined direction and electrically connected to each other. The plurality of coil conductors includes one pair of side surfaces opposing each other in the predetermined direction. Surface roughness of the one pair of side surfaces is less than 40% of an average particle size of the plurality of metal magnetic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Sato, Takahiro Sato, Yusuke Nagai, Mitsuharu Koike, Kazuhiro Miura, Seiichi Nakagawa, Shinichi Kondo, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12085872
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a photoconductor; a developing device; a developer storage; a supplier configured to supply developer; an optical sensor; and a controller configured to execute: a developing process of developing an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor; a usage-amount obtaining process of obtaining a usage amount of the developer; a supplying process of supplying the developer to the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a first threshold; and a detecting process of detecting, by the optical sensor, an amount of the developer in the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and wherein the controller is configured to execute the detecting process in a period different from a period in which the developing process is being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Kazuma Hinoue, Takashi Yasuda, Takashi Shimizu, Yoshifumi Kajikawa
  • Publication number: 20240290974
    Abstract: A method for producing an synthetic graphite material for lithium-ion secondary battery negative electrodes, including a step of performing a coking treatment on a raw material oil composition by carrying out a delayed coking process to generate a raw coke composition, a step of performing a heat treatment on the raw coke composition to obtain a heat-treated raw coke composition, a step of crushing the heat-treated raw coke composition to obtain heat-treated raw coke powder, a step of coating the heat-treated raw coke powder with a coating material to obtain coated heat-treated raw coke powder, and a step of graphitizing the coated heat-treated raw coke powder to obtain an synthetic graphite material for lithium-ion secondary battery negative electrodes, in which a specific surface area of the heat-treated raw coke powder is 10.5 m2/g or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi SUZUKI, Toshiyuki HIROKI, Zhen WANG, Keizo IKAI, Noriyuki KIUCHI, Takahiro SHIRAI
  • Patent number: 12075291
    Abstract: A method performed by user equipment (UE) includes receiving a request to access a service unavailable through a first network cell associated with the UE and informing a second network cell that the UE is requesting to obtain the service unavailable through the first network cell. The request may be received from a user of the UE or may be a paging message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Richard Charles Burbidge, Takashi Suzuki, David Philip Hole, Johanna Lisa Dwyer, Venkata Ratnakar Rao Rayavarapu, Maiyuran Wijayanathan, Stephen McCann, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Chen Ho Chin
  • Patent number: 12075198
    Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes a detector that detects a first region emitting non-visible light; a projector that projects a visible-light image onto a second region including the first region detected by the detector; and a controller configured to generate the visible-light image. The controller varies colors of pixels of the visible-light image in a stepwise manner depending on emission intensities of the non-visible light at positions corresponding to the pixels within the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Etsuro Hatano, Takashi Nitta, Satoru Seo, Takashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240276431
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing system, an information processing terminal, and an information processing method that enable payment processing to be performed more reliably. An information processing system includes: a payment processing unit that performs data communication for executing payment processing with an information processing terminal; and a positioning processing unit that performs positioning by switching a positioning method for measuring a position of the information processing terminal for each of a plurality of ranging zones from a wide area to a narrow area set according to a distance from the payment processing unit. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a payment processing system capable of performing payment in a touchless manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: TAKASHI SUZUKI, YO TABAYASHI, MASATSUGU ISHIKO
  • Publication number: 20240272577
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a device main body, a consumable, and a controller. The consumable is attachable to the device main body. The consumable includes a consumable memory for storing therein recycling history information indicating a recycling history of the consumable. The consumable memory includes a first storage area to which a usage amount of the consumable can be written and a second storage area to which the usage amount of the consumable can be written. The controller is configured to perform a determining process to determine, based on the recycling history information, one of the first storage area and the second storage area as a storage area to which the usage amount is to be written.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi SUZUKI, Tadao KYOTANI
  • Patent number: 12060086
    Abstract: An autonomous driving device includes a plurality of driving function ECUs having a function to drive a vehicle in place of an occupant, and a driving function switch ECU is configured to individually change operating states of the driving function ECUs according to a route to a destination and remaining power. The driving function ECUs include an autonomous driving ECU configured to autonomously drive the vehicle, and a remote control ECU configured to operate the vehicle according to remote control from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Urano, Sho Otaki, Takashi Suzuki, Toru Takashima, Hojung Jung, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Satoru Niwa, Kosuke Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 12059788
    Abstract: A driving tool includes: a plunger movable in a launch direction of a fastener; an urging member that is extendable and contractible and is configured to serve as a drive source of the plunger; a moving member that is disposed at an end portion in an extension-contraction direction of the urging member and is movable in the extension-contraction direction of the urging member; a string-like member configured to connect the moving member and the plunger and transmit a driving force of the urging member to the plunger via the moving member; and a rotation prevention portion configured to prevent rotation of the moving member around a central axis in the extension-contraction direction of the urging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ohno, Takashi Suzuki, Takanari Azami
  • Patent number: 12055088
    Abstract: The internal combustion engine includes a fan cover that covers a cooling fan driven by a crankshaft, a top cover that covers the fan cover, and a cooling air passage between the fan cover and the top cover. The fan cover includes a first rib facing the top cover in the cooling air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Yamazaki, Yasunori Matsubara, Takashi Suzuki