Patents by Inventor Takeshi Minami

Takeshi Minami 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: 11939642
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 1,180 MPa or more, and specified chemical composition. The steel sheet includes a steel structure in which an area fraction of martensite having a carbon concentration of more than 0.7×[% C] and less than 1.5×[% C] is 55% or more, an area fraction of tempered martensite having a carbon concentration of 0.7×[% C] or less is 5% or more and 40% or less, a ratio of a carbon concentration in retained austenite to a volume fraction of retained austenite is 0.05 or more and 0.40 or less, and the martensite and the tempered martensite each have an average grain size of 5.3 ?m or less, where [% C] represents the content, by mass %, of compositional element C in steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Minami, Yuji Tanaka, Junya Tobata, Takeshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 11935026
    Abstract: A payment terminal includes a magnetic card reader slot having a magnetic head, an IC card reader slot configured to be front of a user, and a first board with a touch area for a contactless payment arranged diagonally upward toward the user. The magnetic card reader slot is arranged toward the user obliquely upward with respect to a direction parallel to the plane. The magnetic card reader slot and the IC card reader slot are arranged, so that a swipe direction of the magnetic card into the magnetic card reader slot and an insertion direction of an IC card into the IC card reader slot are substantially perpendicular to each other. The magnetic card reader slot, the IC card reader slot, and the first board are arranged in this order from the plane in a height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenya Yasutomi, Bunzo Goto, Takeshi Goto, Tadayuki Takanashi, Akihito Shimode, Ryota Minami
  • Publication number: 20240050289
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article that is easy to tear along the side seals with transverse ripping hardly occurring upon taking off the article. The disposable wearing article has side seals, each of which has a first line of first melt bonded areas and non-melt-bonded areas alternately arranged in the front-back direction, each of the first melt-bonded areas having a shape elongated in the front-back direction, the first line being positioned on the innermost side in the width direction of the side seal, and a second line of second melt-bonded areas arranged at intervals in the front-back direction, each of the second melt-bonded areas having a shape elongated in the front-back direction, the second line being positioned adjacent outward in the width direction of the first line with a non-melt-bonded zone intervening therebetween, the non-melt-bonded zone extending continuously in the front-back direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi MINAMI
  • Publication number: 20240016668
    Abstract: A disposable diaper whose deformation while the wearer is walking, is suppressed to alleviate discomfort, first slits extend from ventral section to the front of crotch section in their side portions at a distance from and in parallel to first oblique parts, a second slit extends in parallel to straight parts, in the central part in the width direction of middle area of the crotch section, third slits extend at a distance from second oblique parts in the back of the crotch section in its side portions, with the back end of each third slit located outwards of its front end, fourth slits extend crossing each other in parallel to the second oblique parts, in the middle area of dorsal section, back ends of the first slits are located inwards of the straight parts, and front ends of the fourth slits are at a longitudinal distance from the back ends of the third slits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi MINAMI
  • Publication number: 20230310228
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article includes: a waist portion having an outer side portion exposed on an external surface and an inner side portion overlapped with an inner side of the outer side portion; an adjacent portion adjacent to the waist portion; an outer side stretchable region extending over the outer side portion and the waist adjacent portion; and an inner side stretchable region provided in the inner side portion, wherein the outer side portion and the inner side portion are joined with each other in a stripe pattern formed by disposing, alternately and repeatedly in the width direction, inner/outer bonded portions continuous in a front-back direction and inner/outer non-bonded portions continuous in the front-back direction, and a natural length in the width direction of the outer side portion is 1.1 to 1.8 times a natural length in the width direction of the inner side portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi MINAMI
  • Patent number: 11262907
    Abstract: A display device includes a display controller that causes a touch panel to scroll display a plurality of button images, wherein compared with the number of characters displayed in a plurality of button images in a first state being not scrolled, the display controller reduces the number of characters displayed in a plurality of the button images in a second state being scrolled by starting scroll from the first state. Thereby, it is possible to make the scroll speed higher than before.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Minami, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11204730
    Abstract: A printing device includes a printing device communication section configured to receive a print job sent from a host device, a print mechanism configured to perform printing of the received print job, and a printing device control section configured to receive an operation to change a setting of the print job and issue an instruction to send a changed print job in which the setting of the print job has been changed to the host device that is the sender of the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Minami, Mitsuru Annen
  • Patent number: 11182004
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a controller that determines that the button is operated according to the second operation in which the operation tool leaves the button following the first operation in which the operation tool moves to the button being operated, and determines that the button is not operated according to the third operation in which the operation tool leaves the button following the first operation being operated. The controller makes a determination of the second operation and the third operation according to the operation description before the first operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Minami, Yasutaka Shibagaki, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20210200401
    Abstract: A display device includes a display controller that causes a touch panel to scroll display a plurality of button images, wherein compared with the number of characters displayed in a plurality of button images in a first state being not scrolled, the display controller reduces the number of characters displayed in a plurality of the button images in a second state being scrolled by starting scroll from the first state. Thereby, it is possible to make the scroll speed higher than before.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Takeshi MINAMI, Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20200293138
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a controller that determines that the button is operated according to the second operation in which the operation tool leaves the button following the first operation in which the operation tool moves to the button being operated, and determines that the button is not operated according to the third operation in which the operation tool leaves the button following the first operation being operated. The controller makes a determination of the second operation and the third operation according to the operation description before the first operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Takeshi MINAMI, Yasutaka SHIBAGAKI, Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20200293251
    Abstract: A printing device includes a printing device communication section configured to receive a print job sent from a host device, a print mechanism configured to perform printing of the received print job, and a printing device control section configured to receive an operation to change a setting of the print job and issue an instruction to send a changed print job in which the setting of the print job has been changed to the host device that is the sender of the print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Takeshi MINAMI, Mitsuru ANNEN
  • Patent number: 10469705
    Abstract: A management device for an image processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a hardware processor. The communication interface transmits and receives a job to be executed in the image processing apparatus. Before transmission and reception of a job, the hardware processor transmits data on a communication path of the job for measuring a communication speed to obtain information representing a communication speed of a communication path for the job transmitted and received by the communication interface, and sets a timeout time of an image processing apparatus that executes the job, based on the obtained information representing a communication speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Minami, Kazuya Anezaki
  • Patent number: 10367970
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface capable of communication over a plurality of frequency bands and a controller configured to determine whether the content of communication of the communication interface satisfies a predetermined condition. The controller is configured to execute control for switching the frequency band of communication via the communication interface to another frequency band over the frequency bands when the content of communication of the communication interface satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Torigoshi, Junichi Hase, Takeshi Minami, Tomoaki Nakajima, Nobuhiro Mishima, Yuji Tanaka, Daisuke Nakano
  • Patent number: 10248481
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a determination result of a state of a user, who has given a transmission job execution instruction, determined based on biological information of the user; and a job control unit configured to control an execution of the transmission job according to the user state determination result, wherein when it is determined that the user is in an off-normal state, the job control unit executes a confirmation request process to request the user to make a confirmation related to the transmission job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Minami, Junichi Hase, Nobuhiro Mishima, Akihiro Torigoshi, Tomoaki Nakajima, Daisuke Nakano, Yuji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180191923
    Abstract: A management device for an image processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a hardware processor. The communication interface transmits and receives a job to be executed in the image processing apparatus. Before transmission and reception of a job, the hardware processor transmits data on a communication path of the job for measuring a communication speed to obtain information representing a communication speed of a communication path for the job transmitted and received by the communication interface, and sets a timeout time of an image processing apparatus that executes the job, based on the obtained information representing a communication speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi MINAMI, Kazuya ANEZAKI
  • Patent number: 9986131
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a terminal worn by a user for use; and an image output apparatus configured to perform an output process for outputting an image in accordance with a command given by the user. The terminal includes an obtaining portion configured to obtain, from the user, a physical feature of the user. Any one or both of the terminal and the image output apparatus includes an authentication portion configured to perform, prior to the output process, an authentication process for verifying the user based on the physical feature obtained by the obtaining portion. The image output apparatus includes an output process portion configured to perform the output process when the authentication portion verifies the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Tanaka, Junichi Hase, Takeshi Minami, Tomoaki Nakajima, Nobuhiro Mishima, Akihiro Torigoshi, Daisuke Nakano
  • Patent number: 9926397
    Abstract: A vinylpyridine resin that is hardly pulverized and thermally decomposed such that the degradation of the catalytic activity is suppressed while having a pore volume and a specific surface area to maintain a sufficient catalytic activity, and also a method of manufacturing the vinylpyridine resin are provided. The resin represents: a volume ratio of the pores having a diameter of 3 through 5 nm to all the pores of not less than 4% and not more than 60%; a total pore volume of not less than 0.15 cc/g and not more than 0.35 cc/g; and a specific surface area of not less than 20 m2/g and not more than 100 m2/g. The resin can be manufactured by using a poor solvent and not less than 50 wt % and not more than 90 wt % of a good solvent as porous agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: CHIYODA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhixiong You, Takeshi Minami, Chikako Hashimoto, Yoichi Umehara
  • Publication number: 20180084144
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface capable of communication over a plurality of frequency bands and a controller configured to determine whether the content of communication of the communication interface satisfies a predetermined condition. The controller is configured to execute control for switching the frequency band of communication via the communication interface to another frequency band over the frequency bands when the content of communication of the communication interface satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro TORIGOSHI, Junichi HASE, Takeshi MINAMI, Tomoaki NAKAJIMA, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Yuji TANAKA, Daisuke NAKANO
  • Patent number: 9888137
    Abstract: A processing apparatus having a function to perform specific processing based on a request from a terminal is provided. The processing apparatus includes a connection portion configured to connect the processing apparatus to the terminal; and a processor configured to control the terminal to display a second screen including a part or a whole of a first screen, the first screen having been displayed in the terminal by another processing apparatus with the function before the processing apparatus connects to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsuhara, Takeshi Minami, Kenichi Takahashi, Kaitaku Ozawa, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Yosuke Taniguchi, Atsushi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20170371729
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a determination result of a state of a user, who has given a transmission job execution instruction, determined based on biological information of the user; and a job control unit configured to control an execution of the transmission job according to the user state determination result, wherein when it is determined that the user is in an off-normal state, the job control unit executes a confirmation request process to request the user to make a confirmation related to the transmission job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi MINAMI, Junichi Hase, Nobuhiro Mishima, Akihiro Torigoshi, Tomoaki Nakajima, Daisuke Nakano, Yuji Tanaka