Patents by Inventor Takehiko Suzuki
Takehiko 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).
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Patent number: 11964469Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural rotating members that are rotatable; an annular circulating member that is wound around the plural rotating members and circulates when the rotating members rotate; a retaining member attached to an attaching portion of the circulating member and that circulates together with the circulating member, the retaining member being configured to retain a recording medium in an area where the attaching portion comes into contact with one of the rotating members; an image forming section that forms an image on the recording medium at an image forming position defined on a circulation path along which the circulating member circulates; a delivering unit that delivers the recording medium to a retaining position where the recording medium is to be retained by the retaining member; a detector that detects rotation of the one rotating member; and a controller that controls delivery of the recording medium from the delivering unit to the retaining position, the delivery being conType: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yuta Chino, Naohito Otsuki, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Takehiko Koizumi
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Patent number: 11954357Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller. The nonvolatile memory includes blocks each including memory cells. The memory controller is configured to control access to the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller is configured to: set a first block, among the plurality of blocks, to be written in a first mode, the first mode being a mode in which data of a first number of bits is written into the memory cell, and set a plurality of second blocks, among the plurality of blocks, to be written in a second mode, the second mode being a mode in which data of a second number of bits is written into the memory cell, the second number being larger than the first number; acquire access information related to the second blocks; and change a writing mode of the first block which has been set in the first mode to the second mode when a first condition of the second blocks based on the access information is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Takehiko Amaki, Shunichi Igahara, Toshikatsu Hida, Yoshihisa Kojima, Riki Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240085389Abstract: A physical property value estimation device that estimates a physical property value corresponding to a physical property required for a composite material is provided with a storage unit that stores a learned physical property regression formula corresponding to the physical property in order to calculate a physical property value corresponding to a physical property predetermined as an objective variable, by using compound data of a material that composes the composite material and feature data of the material as explanatory variables, and stores a feature amount value of the material required for calculating the feature data; a reception unit that receives compound data of the material that composes the composite material as an estimation target; and a physical property calculation unit that obtains the physical property regression formula corresponding to the physical property from the storage unit, and calculates the physical property value based on the obtained compound data by using the obtained physicType: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Daisuke SHANAI, Takahiro SUZUKI, Tamotsu KIBE, Takehiko TANI
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Publication number: 20240077466Abstract: A first synthesized characteristic value calculated based on a first blending ratio of constituent materials contained in a first composite material and on a first characteristic value corresponding to the constituent materials contained in the first composite material, as well as first blending information of the constituent materials contained in the first composite material are used as input parameters (explanatory variables) for an approximate function to estimate a value of physical quantity (objective variable) for the first composite material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Daisuke SHANAI, Tomonori WATANABE, Takahiro SUZUKI, Tamotsu KIBE, Takehiko TANI
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Patent number: 10444673Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus including a configuration in which a voltage of a polarity opposite to a toner charging polarity is applied. In the image forming apparatus, a guide region of a pre-transfer guide is located on a photosensitive drum side with respect to a common tangent line of a photosensitive drum and a development roller to reduce contamination of the pre-transfer guide and prevent contamination of recording materials.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Shindo, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Takaaki Akamatsu, Kohei Okayasu, Takehiko Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190079434Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus including a configuration in which a voltage of a polarity opposite to a toner charging polarity is applied. In the image forming apparatus, a guide region of a pre-transfer guide is located on a photosensitive drum side with respect to a common tangent line of a photosensitive drum and a development roller to reduce contamination of the pre-transfer guide and prevent contamination of recording materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Kenji Shindo, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Takaaki Akamatsu, Kohei Okayasu, Takehiko Suzuki
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Patent number: 10216112Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developing unit which develops a toner image on a surface of a photosensitive member and which collects toner which remains on the surface of the photosensitive member after the developed toner image is transferred to a transfer member. The image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to determine whether a cleaning operation of cleaning the surface of the photosensitive member is to be performed after an image forming operation is performed or control a period of time in which the cleaning operation is performed in accordance with a measured downtime of the image forming apparatus which is a period of time after the image forming operation is terminated and before a next image forming operation is started.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Sasame, Kohei Okayasu, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Takaaki Akamatsu, Kenji Shindo, Takehiko Suzuki, Hironori Kato
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Publication number: 20180095386Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus including a configuration in which a voltage of a polarity opposite to a toner charging polarity is applied. In the image forming apparatus, a guide region of a pre-transfer guide is located on a photosensitive drum side with respect to a common tangent line of a photosensitive drum and a development roller to reduce contamination of the pre-transfer guide and prevent contamination of recording materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Kenji Shindo, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Takaaki Akamatsu, Kohei Okayasu, Takehiko Suzuki
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Publication number: 20180024458Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developing unit which develops a toner image on a surface of a photosensitive member and which collects toner which remains on the surface of the photosensitive member after the developed toner image is transferred to a transfer member. The image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to determine whether a cleaning operation of cleaning the surface of the photosensitive member is to be performed after an image forming operation is performed or control a period of time in which the cleaning operation is performed in accordance with a measured downtime of the image forming apparatus which is a period of time after the image forming operation is terminated and before a next image forming operation is started.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Hiroki Sasame, Kohei Okayasu, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Takaaki Akamatsu, Kenji Shindo, Takehiko Suzuki, Hironori Kato
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Patent number: 9643598Abstract: A control device for a vehicle drive device includes performing neutral travel control in which disengagement/engagement elements are disengaged with the wheels rotating so the state of a speed change mechanism is controlled into a neutral state where transfer of a drive force between the input member to the engine and the output member to the wheels is not performed, and the wheels are driven by a rotary electric machine drive force; and comparing an operating state value of each of target actuators that control the state of the disengagement/engagement elements, and a determination value so torque from the speed change mechanism to the wheels because of torque transferred by each of the disengagement/engagement elements, falls within an allowable range during neutral travel control, and determines whether the torque transferred from the speed change mechanism to the wheels falls within the allowable range.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takehiko Suzuki, Yoichi Tajima, Masatoshi Taguchi, Minoru Kubokawa, Tomohiro Kusamizu
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Patent number: 9445731Abstract: According to one embodiment, a pulse wave velocity measuring device includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a base body and a calculation unit. The first sensor is configured to sense a pulse wave propagating through an interior of a vessel. The second sensor is separated from the first sensor and is configured to sense the pulse wave. The base body is configured to hold the first sensor and the second sensor and regulate a distance between the first sensor and the second sensor. The calculation unit is configured to derive a difference between a time of the sensing of the pulse wave by the first sensor and a time of the sensing of the pulse wave by the second sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hideaki Fukuzawa, Osamu Nishimura, Takehiko Suzuki, Michiko Hara, Yoshihiko Fuji
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Patent number: 9274474Abstract: The fixing device includes a rotary member for contacting the unfixed toner image, a pressure member for forming the nip portion by contacting the rotary member, and a cover for covering the rotary member with a space between the rotary member and the cover. In a cross section of the fixing device, the cross section being orthogonal to a generatrix direction of the rotary member, the shortest distance (H) between the nip portion and a farthest surface portion of the rotary member farthest away from a surface portion forming the nip portion of the rotary member, the maximum width (W) of the rotary member in the conveyance direction of the recording member, and an area (S) of the space in a range of the maximum width W in the cross section satisfy with a relationship of S/W?0.7×H.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahito Omata, Shoichiro Ikegami, Masahiko Suzumi, Terutaka Endo, Takeshi Niimura, Takehiko Suzuki, Toshihiko Ochiai
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Patent number: 9200701Abstract: A vehicle transmission apparatus configured such that when transitioning to an actual traveling state by forming one of the shift speeds from a free running state in which a vehicle is in a traveling state and the speed change mechanism is in a neutral state with none of the shift speeds formed, the control device performs a control to determine from the plurality of shift speeds one final target shift speed according to at least a vehicle speed and a driver request, and an intermediate target shift speed with a speed ratio smaller than that of the final target shift speed, and to form the final target shift speed after formation of the intermediate target shift speed.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Sekii, Takehiko Suzuki
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Patent number: 9096217Abstract: A control apparatus for a transmission that form a plurality of shift speeds by engaging those of a plurality of engagement elements which need be engaged for each shift speed. The control apparatus having a target shift speed changing unit that changes a target shift speed based on a vehicle speed and a neutral control unit that, when predetermined conditions that are predetermined to bring the transmission into a neutral state are satisfied during traveling, engages at least one of the engagement elements that need be engaged to attain the target shift speed, and disengages the remainder of the engagement elements, thereby bringing the transmission into the neutral state.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takehiko Suzuki, Tomonori Tsugo, Yukio Sugiura
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Publication number: 20150142233Abstract: A control device for a vehicle drive device includes performing neutral travel control in which disengagement/engagement elements are disengaged with the wheels rotating so the state of a speed change mechanism is controlled into a neutral state where transfer of a drive force between the input member to the engine and the output member to the wheels is not performed, and the wheels are driven by a rotary electric machine drive force; and comparing an operating state value of each of target actuators that control the state of the disengagement/engagement elements, and a determination value so torque from the speed change mechanism to the wheels because of torque transferred by each of the disengagement/engagement elements, falls within an allowable range during neutral travel control, and determines whether the torque transferred from the speed change mechanism to the wheels falls within the allowable range.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Takehiko Suzuki, Yoichi Tajima, Masatoshi Taguchi, Minoru Kubokawa, Tomohiro Kusamizu
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Publication number: 20150086253Abstract: The fixing device includes a rotary member for contacting the unfixed toner image, a pressure member for forming the nip portion by contacting the rotary member, and a cover for covering the rotary member with a space between the rotary member and the cover, wherein in a cross section of the fixing device, the cross section being orthogonal to a generatrix direction of the rotary member, wherein a shortest distance (H) between the nip portion and a farthest surface portion of the rotary member farthest away from a surface portion forming the nip portion of the rotary member, a maximum width (W) of the rotary member in the conveyance direction of the recording member, and an area (S) of the space in a range of the maximum width W in the cross section satisfy with a relationship of S/W?0.7×H.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Masahito Omata, Shoichiro Ikegami, Masahiko Suzumi, Terutaka Endo, Takeshi Niimura, Takehiko Suzuki, Toshihiko Ochiai
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Patent number: 8914174Abstract: A control device for controlling a vehicle drive unit including an input member drivingly connected to an engine; an output member drivingly connected to a wheel; and a transmission device that includes engagement elements, that switches between shift speeds by control of engagement and disengagement of engagement elements, and that transmits a rotational driving force of the input member to the output member at a speed changed at a speed ratio of each of the shift speeds. The control device includes a control unit that controls the transmission device to achieve a one-way transmission speed in a running idle state in which a vehicle is running while the rotational driving force of the input member is not transmitted to the output member and a rotational speed of the engine is controlled to a predetermined idle speed.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takehiko Suzuki, Kyosuke Komizo, Takahiro Sekii
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Patent number: 8847180Abstract: A charged particle beam apparatus, which processes an object with a charged particle beam, includes: a detector having a detection surface, and configured to detect a charged particle beam incident on a partial region of the detection surface; and a controller configured to make target incident positions of charged particle beams, to be sequentially incident on the detection surface, different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takehiko Suzuki
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Patent number: 8754382Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes: a detector configured to output a current in accordance with a pulse of a charged particle beam; and a processor including a capacitor and configured to detect a value of a voltage of the capacitor and to obtain an intensity of the pulse based on a value of a capacitance of the capacitor and the detected voltage value. The processor is configured to detect a current output from the detector in accordance with a charged particle beam incident thereon through a voltage drop, to supply a current having a value determined based on the detected current, to the capacitor to detect a value of a voltage of the capacitor, and to obtain the value of the capacitance based on the determined current value and the detected value of the voltage of the capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takehiko Suzuki, Yoshikiyo Yui
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Publication number: 20130324364Abstract: A control apparatus for a transmission that form a plurality of shift speeds by engaging those of a plurality of engagement elements which need be engaged for each shift speed. The control apparatus having a target shift speed changing unit that changes a target shift speed based on a vehicle speed and a neutral control unit that, when predetermined conditions that are predetermined to bring, the transmission into a neutral state are satisfied during traveling, engages at least one of the engagement elements that need be engaged to attain the target shift speed, and disengages the remainder of the engagement elements, thereby bringing the transmission into the neutral state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takehiko Suzuki, Tomonori Tsugo, Yukio Sugiura