Patents by Inventor Takashi Tomiyama
Takashi Tomiyama 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: 11946124Abstract: An Fe-based alloy for melting-solidification shaping including, in mass %: 18.0?Co<25.0; 12.0?Mo+W/2?20.0; 0.2?Mn?5.0; 0.5?Ni?10.0; and 0?Si?1.0, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and satisfying the following expressions (1) and (2) when [M] represents a content of an element M expressed in mass % basis, 58?[Co]+3([Mo]+[W]/2)?95 (1), A/B?1.6 (2) where A=[Co]+[Ni]+3[Mn], and B=[Mo]+[W]/2+[Si], in which when the Fe-based alloy includes no Mo, the expressions (1) and (2) are calculated using [Mo]=0, when the Fe-based alloy includes no Si, the expression (2) is calculated using [Si]=0, and when the Fe-based alloy includes no W, the expressions (1) and (2) are calculated using [W]=0.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Yoshimoto, Kosuke Tomiyama
-
Publication number: 20240101532Abstract: A compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy is provided. The present inventors have conducted studies on a compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy, and confirmed that a heteroaryl carboxamide compound has DGK ? (DGKzeta) inhibitory effect, leading to completion of the present invention. The heteroaryl carboxamide compound of the present invention has DGK ? inhibitory effect, and can be used as a therapeutic agent for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Hideyuki Watanabe, Takashi Kamikubo, Akio Kamikawa, Takuya Washio, Yohei Seki, Keiichiro Okuyama, Osamu Ikeda, Hiroshi Tomiyama, Yoshinori Iwai, Akihiko Nakamura, Kozo Miyasaka
-
Patent number: 11907778Abstract: A tag communication device includes a communication device and one or more control processors configured to cause the communication device to transmit a first command for notifying selection of a wireless tag including an identification code including a mask pattern that is a part of the common portion of identification codes. The one or more control processors are configured to cause the communication device to transmit a second command for requesting a response to the selected wireless tag and to cause the communication device to transmit a third command for requesting rewriting to the wireless tag that transmits data in response to receiving the data transmitted from one wireless tag. The one or more control processors are configured to cause a repeat of transmission of the second command if a third command is transmitted until the third commands are transmitted to each of a predetermined number of the wireless tags.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashi Tomiyama
-
Publication number: 20240036152Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless tag reading device has an antenna to receive a radio wave transmitted from a wireless tag, a drive unit to move the antenna through different positions along a fixed path, a detection unit configured to determine a received signal strength and a phase of the radio wave received by the antenna, and a processor. The processor receives position data indicating a position of the antenna in conjunction with the received signal strength and the phase of the radio signal at the position, calculates in-phase and quadrature data for the wireless tag at a plurality of positions of the antenna, then inputs the in-phase and the quadrature data to a learned model correlating in-phase data and quadrature data to positions of wireless tags to estimate a position of the wireless tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Takashi TOMIYAMA, Hiroyuki ISHIKAWA
-
Patent number: 11870963Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyance unit that is configured to transport a print medium along a conveyance path. An antenna is configured to emit radio waves towards a predetermined portion of the conveyance path. A controller is configured to control the antenna to emit the radio waves towards the predetermined portion with a polarization direction set according to a type of the print medium being transported by the sheet conveyance unit. The print medium may have, for example, one or more wireless tags thereon or therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumiharu Nakayama, Takashi Tomiyama, Yuki Koike, Toshihiro Imai
-
Patent number: 11868196Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a wireless tag communication device to write data to, and read data from, a wireless tag attached to a sheet. An image forming device in the apparatus is configured to form an image on the sheet. A controller in the apparatus is configured to determine whether a writing of data to a wireless tag was successful based on a notification from the wireless tag communication device and generate investigation support information if the writing was not successful and control the image forming device to form an investigation support image corresponding to the investigation support information if the writing was not successful.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Tomiyama, Sadatoshi Oishi
-
Publication number: 20240004336Abstract: A conductive sheet that is configured to be stacked between a sheet tray of an image forming device and a sheet. The conductive sheet includes a base layer and a regulator. The base layer comprises a conductive material. The base layer is configured to be stacked between the sheet tray and the sheet so that the conductive material overlaps with a wireless tag of the sheet. The regulator is configured to regulate conveyance of the conductive sheet by the image forming device when the conductive sheet is stacked between the sheet tray and the sheet so that the conductive material overlaps with the wireless tag of the sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi TOMIYAMA, Sadatoshi OISHI
-
Patent number: 11796950Abstract: A conductive sheet capable of preventing erroneous reading and writing is provided. The conductive sheet according to one embodiment is configured to be positioned between a sheet tray of an image forming device and a sheet. The conductive sheet includes a base layer and a double conveyance prevention structure. The base layer comprises a conductive material positioned to overlap with a wireless tag of the sheet. The double conveyance prevention structure is coupled to or defined by the base layer. The double conveyance prevention structure is configured to prevent conveyance of the conductive sheet by the image forming apparatus when the conductive sheet overlaps the sheet in the sheet tray.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Tomiyama, Sadatoshi Oishi
-
Publication number: 20230325622Abstract: An image forming device includes a wireless tag communication device and a controller. The wireless tag communication device is configured to acquire identification information to identify a wireless tag from the wireless tag provided in a sheet. The controller is configured to acquire dispensing information required to write to the wireless tag and perform a warning process by using the acquired dispensing information and the acquired identification information, upon the dispensing condition not being satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takashi TOMIYAMA
-
Publication number: 20230307827Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an antenna, a driving unit, a reading control unit, an acquisition unit, and a setting unit. The driving unit is configured to move a relative position of the antenna relative to one or more wireless tags. The measurement control unit is configured to control measurement of tag data of the one or more wireless tags based on reception of radio waves from the one or more wireless tags by the antenna. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire the number of the one or more wireless tags based on the measurement of the tag data of the one or more wireless tags that is accompanied by the movement of the relative position at a first moving speed. The setting unit is configured to set a second moving speed of the relative position based on the acquired number of the one or more wireless tags. The measurement control unit controls measurement of the tag data of the one or more wireless tags that is accompanied by movement of the relative position at the set second moving speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koki NAKAMURA, Takashi TOMIYAMA, Hiroyuki ISHIKAWA
-
Publication number: 20230289247Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a wireless tag communication device to write data to, and read data from, a wireless tag attached to a sheet. An image forming device in the apparatus is configured to form an image on the sheet. A controller in the apparatus is configured to determine whether a writing of data to a wireless tag was successful based on a notification from the wireless tag communication device and generate investigation support information if the writing was not successful and control the image forming device to form an investigation support image corresponding to the investigation support information if the writing was not successful.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Takashi TOMIYAMA, Sadatoshi OISHI
-
Publication number: 20230247163Abstract: A sheet conveyance device has a sheet conveyance path with a first path and a second path. A wireless tag communication device can write information to a wireless tag on a sheet on the first and second paths and receive responses from the wireless tag. A controller controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while on the first path, then determines whether information has been written to the wireless tag on the first path according to a response received from the wireless tag. The controller switches a conveyance destination for the sheet to the second path if the information has not been written or to a discharge location if the information has been written. The controller then controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while the sheet is on the second path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki ISHIKAWA, Takashi TOMIYAMA
-
Patent number: 11659122Abstract: A sheet conveyance device has a sheet conveyance path with a first path and a second path. A wireless tag communication device can write information to a wireless tag on a sheet on the first and second paths and receive responses from the wireless tag. A controller controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while on the first path, then determines whether information has been written to the wireless tag on the first path according to a response received from the wireless tag. The controller switches a conveyance destination for the sheet to the second path if the information has not been written or to a discharge location if the information has been written. The controller then controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while the sheet is on the second path.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Ishikawa, Takashi Tomiyama
-
Publication number: 20230145916Abstract: A wireless tag communication device includes an antenna, a first maximum value acquiring unit, a second maximum value acquiring unit, a first minimum value acquiring unit, a second minimum value acquiring unit, and a polarization direction determining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Yuki Kawasaki, Takashi Tomiyama
-
Patent number: 11643291Abstract: A sheet conveyance device includes a roller by which a sheet having a wireless tag is conveyed along a path, a communication device configured to transmit a radio signal to the wireless tag and receive a response signal therefrom, and a processor configured to repeatedly perform a process of controlling the roller to convey a sheet along the path while controlling the communication device to transmit the radio signal to a wireless tag of the sheet using a transmission power that is different in each repeat, and acquire a strength of the response signal from the wireless tag, and specify a minimum strength of the response signal that has been acquired in the repeated process, the minimum strength being equal to or greater than a threshold, and set a transmission power that has been used when the minimum strength has been acquired as a reference strength of the radio signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koki Nakamura, Takashi Tomiyama
-
Publication number: 20230138589Abstract: A conductive sheet capable of preventing erroneous reading and writing is provided. The conductive sheet according to one embodiment is configured to be positioned between a sheet tray of an image forming device and a sheet. The conductive sheet includes a base layer and a double conveyance prevention structure. The base layer comprises a conductive material positioned to overlap with a wireless tag of the sheet. The double conveyance prevention structure is coupled to or defined by the base layer. The double conveyance prevention structure is configured to prevent conveyance of the conductive sheet by the image forming apparatus when the conductive sheet overlaps the sheet in the sheet tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi TOMIYAMA, Sadatoshi OISHI
-
Publication number: 20230060257Abstract: A tag communication device includes a communication device and one or more control processors configured to cause the communication device to transmit a first command for notifying selection of a wireless tag including an identification code including a mask pattern that is a part of the common portion of identification codes. The one or more control processors are configured to cause the communication device to transmit a second command for requesting a response to the selected wireless tag and to cause the communication device to transmit a third command for requesting rewriting to the wireless tag that transmits data in response to receiving the data transmitted from one wireless tag. The one or more control processors are configured to cause a repeat of transmission of the second command if a third command is transmitted until the third commands are transmitted to each of a predetermined number of the wireless tags.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashi TOMIYAMA
-
Publication number: 20230041388Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a wireless tag communication device to write data to, and read data from, a wireless tag attached to a sheet. An image forming device in the apparatus is configured to form an image on the sheet. A controller in the apparatus is configured to determine whether a writing of data to a wireless tag was successful based on a notification from the wireless tag communication device and generate investigation support information if the writing was not successful and control the image forming device to form an investigation support image corresponding to the investigation support information if the writing was not successful.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Takashi TOMIYAMA, Sadatoshi OISHI
-
Publication number: 20220400185Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyance unit that is configured to transport a print medium along a conveyance path. An antenna is configured to emit radio waves towards a predetermined portion of the conveyance path. A controller is configured to control the antenna to emit the radio waves towards the predetermined portion with a polarization direction set according to a type of the print medium being transported by the sheet conveyance unit. The print medium may have, for example, one or more wireless tags thereon or therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Fumiharu NAKAYAMA, Takashi TOMIYAMA, Yuki KOIKE, Toshihiro IMAI
-
Patent number: 11457119Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyance unit that is configured to transport a print medium along a conveyance path. An antenna is configured to emit radio waves towards a predetermined portion of the conveyance path. A controller is configured to control the antenna to emit the radio waves towards the predetermined portion with a polarization direction set according to a type of the print medium being transported by the sheet conveyance unit. The print medium may have, for example, one or more wireless tags thereon or therein.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumiharu Nakayama, Takashi Tomiyama, Yuki Koike, Toshihiro Imai