Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Matsumoto

Tetsuya Matsumoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20170275846
    Abstract: A construction machine includes a cooling fan (10) and a shroud (11). The cooling fan (10) sends air drawn in via a radiator (30) to an engine. The shroud (11) is disposed on an outer peripheral side of the cooling fan and forms a passage for air to be drawn in via the radiator. The construction machine includes a tank (12) and a cover (14B). The tank (12) is disposed superior to an upper end portion of the radiator and stores cooling water to be supplied to the radiator and the engine. The cover (14B) is disposed openably in an opening (14A) formed in a top surface plate (11B) of the shroud. The tank (12) is disposed at a position adjacent to the shroud (11) on a side closer to the engine side than the cover (14B) is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Hitoshi NISHIGUCHI, Toshihiro ABE, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170270353
    Abstract: There are provided an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a recording medium capable of calculating the actual intimacy between persons even in a case where there is a deviation in the actual intimacy between persons by calculating the intimacy between persons in consideration of only the contents of images. In the image processing apparatus, the image processing method, the program, and the recording medium of the invention, a person specifying unit determines persons appearing in each image, and specifies one or more first persons among the determined persons. An intimacy calculation unit calculates the intimacy between the first person and each photographer based on the presence of a first person in each image and photographer information of each image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kei YAMAJI, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 9769267
    Abstract: Of a plurality of tenants that form a hierarchical structure, a first tenant that manages management information to be transferred between tenants and a second tenant to serve as a transfer destination are designated. Second management information, of the management information managed by the first tenant, that is shared with another tenant is specified in accordance with a sharing relationship for the second management information. Of the management information managed by the first tenant, third management information except for the specified second management information is transferred to the second tenant. The sharing relationship for the specified second management information is changed to a sharing relationship in which the second management information is shared between the second tenant and a tenant in a level above or below the second tenant in accordance with a new hierarchical structure formed after the transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170141589
    Abstract: In a battery system that connects a plurality of types of batteries through a switch SW, when the switch SW is switched at a voltage (charge rate), it has been possible to increase a stored charge during charging, depending on the DC resistance of the battery. An object of the present invention is to provide switch SW switching control so that the stored charge can further be increased. A first feature of the present invention is to provide a battery system in which a first battery and a second battery are connected in parallel through the switch SW, including an estimator which estimates the charging current by measuring the resistance and OCV of each battery. The battery system can further increase the stored charge by switching to a switch SW combination that can increase the stored charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Takeshi INOUE, Keizo YAMADA, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 9636920
    Abstract: A liquid applying apparatus includes a feeding container; first and second liquid-supply containers for supplying a liquid to the feeding container; a switch for switching a supply source between the first and second liquid-supply containers; a first storage for storing a supply start time of a supply operation; a second storage for storing supply information including a supply source or a supply route; a third storage for storing a liquid level in the feeding container at the supply start time; a fourth storage for storing a supply operation time of the supply operation; a controller that determines a condition of the liquid applying apparatus based on the supply operation time, and determines the supply source or the supply route as an inspection-required spot based on the supply information when the liquid applying apparatus is in a potentially-abnormal condition; and a fifth storage for storing the inspection-required spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9604466
    Abstract: A liquid-supply apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus supplies liquid to be applied onto a recording medium to a liquid-supply pan. The liquid-supply apparatus comprises a temporary-storage room arranged lower than a liquid surface of the liquid-supply pan, the temporary-storage room storing the liquid inside the liquid-supply pan by temporal evacuation, an evacuation line connecting the liquid-supply pan and the temporary-storage room, the evacuation line being a flow channel for the liquid during evacuation, an evacuation-line opening and closing member opening and closing the evacuation line, and a controller controlling an opening and closing operation of the evacuation-line opening and closing member. The liquid surface in the temporary-storage room is in a position lower than that of the liquid-supply pan. The controller controls the operation of the evacuation-line opening and closing member so as to fill the evacuation line with the liquid as an auxiliary operation just before the evacuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9571671
    Abstract: A management device transmits a response confirmation request to multiple image forming devices, receives a response from any one of the multiple image forming devices, and acquires data indicating an operational status of an image forming device by requesting the pertinent data from an image forming device that has issued a response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170001445
    Abstract: A liquid applying apparatus includes a feeding container; first and second liquid-supply containers for supplying a liquid to the feeding container; a switch for switching a supply source between the first and second liquid-supply containers; a first storage for storing a supply start time of a supply operation; a second storage for storing supply information including a supply source or a supply route; a third storage for storing a liquid level in the feeding container at the supply start time; a fourth storage for storing a supply operation time of the supply operation; a controller that determines a condition of the liquid applying apparatus based on the supply operation time, and determines the supply source or the supply route as an inspection-required spot based on the supply information when the liquid applying apparatus is in a potentially-abnormal condition; and a fifth storage for storing the inspection-required spot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuya MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160212981
    Abstract: A method for a dual-bearing reel includes detecting a rotational speed of a spool rotatably mounted to a reel unit, a fishing line to be wound about the spool, controlling a spool brake to brake the spool with a first braking force when a detected tension that acts on the fishing line is equal to a reference tension controlling the spool brake to brake the spool with a braking force obtained by correcting the first braking force based on a second braking force when the detected tension and the reference tension are different from each other, the second braking force positively or negatively correcting the first braking force by increasing or decreasing the first braking force, and performing a decrease processing of decreasing the second braking force with the elapse of time when the second braking force has been determined to fluctuate with a predetermined amplitude or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Akira Niitsuma, Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9393571
    Abstract: In a coolant system, the interior of a reservoir frame storing the coolant discharged from a machine tool is partitioned by a partition member into an outer peripheral coolant tub and a central coolant tub. The partition member is formed with a silt that extends in the depth direction to make the outer peripheral coolant tub communicate with the central coolant tub. A suction port of a pump that feeds the coolant in the central coolant tub to a filtering device is arranged in the central coolant tub. The coolant discharged from the machine tool is supplied to the central coolant tub without passing through the outer peripheral coolant tub. At least a part of the coolant filtered by the filtering device is supplied to the outer peripheral coolant tub without passing through the central coolant tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: JTEKT Corporation, CNK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobumitsu Hori, Tetsuaki Wada, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Hiroto Kamei, Shigeyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 9335807
    Abstract: To determine power consumption of an image forming apparatus in each state in detail, an analysis server collects job history of a plurality of image forming apparatuses, calculates power consumption of each of the image forming apparatuses in a job processing state in a designated period by using the job history, identifies a number of times each of the image forming apparatuses has executed processing, which is performed when printing is started, in the designated period based on the job history, and adding a value obtained by multiplying job start time power consumption by the number of times of identification to the power consumption of each of the image forming apparatuses, and corrects the power consumption of each of the image forming apparatuses in the job processing state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9323188
    Abstract: In a fixing apparatus of an image forming apparatus, a heating member melts and fixes the unfixed toner. A heat controller controls temperatures of opposite end portion areas and a middle portion area of a surface of the heating member in a width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction on an individual area basis. A pressure member is pressed against and contacted with the heating member to form a fixing part between the pressure member and the heating member. The heat controller controls the temperatures of the surface of the heating member so that the temperature of at least one of the opposite end portion areas of the surface of the heating member is higher than the temperature of the middle portion area of the surface of the heating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20160078904
    Abstract: In a content management system, the still image extracting unit extracts a plurality of frames of still image data from the moving image data based on the motion of the person of interest. The scene determining unit determines a scene of the moving image including a still image corresponding to each of the plurality of frames of the still image data. The management marker registration unit registers, as a management marker, each of the plurality of frames of still image data or an image feature amount of each still image in association with a scene of a moving image corresponding to each still image. The management image generator generates management image data including at least two pieces of the still image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kei YAMAJI, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Keiichi YOSHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20160072914
    Abstract: It is determined whether a user has logged in to a web browser. If the user has logged in to the web browser, local storage data is encrypted and stored in a user-specific storage. If the user has logged in to the web browser, local storage data is decrypted and acquired from the user-specific storage. If the user has logged in to the web browser, data in the user-specific storage is deleted. If the user has not logged in, data is stored in a shared storage without encryption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventor: Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9227697
    Abstract: A bicycle electrical system diagnostic device is provided for a bicycle electrical system in which several electric devices are connected. The diagnostic device includes a connecting section and an electric device recognizing section. The connecting section is configured to be connected to and disconnected from the electrical system. The electric device recognizing section is configured to communicate with the electrical system and recognize any of the electric devices while the connecting section is electrically connected to anyone of the electric devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsumoto, Akinori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20150347612
    Abstract: An information terminal, on which a web browser having a function of storing, for each web application, data specified by a web application accessed by the web browser in a browser storage, operates, includes a determination unit configured to determine a state of a communication of a web application for using the browser storage, and a display control unit configured to display information relating to use of the web application in accordance with determination made by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20150304434
    Abstract: Of a plurality of tenants that form a hierarchical structure, a first tenant that manages management information to be transferred between tenants and a second tenant to serve as a transfer destination are designated. Second management information, of the management information managed by the first tenant, that is shared with another tenant is specified in accordance with a sharing relationship for the second management information. Of the management information managed by the first tenant, third management information except for the specified second management information is transferred to the second tenant. The sharing relationship for the specified second management information is changed to a sharing relationship in which the second management information is shared between the second tenant and a tenant in a level above or below the second tenant in accordance with a new hierarchical structure formed after the transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventor: Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9124738
    Abstract: An analysis system according to the present invention has a configuration for obtaining power consumption of an image forming apparatus in which a power log has been collected, and controlling a display of the power consumption. In a case where if the image forming apparatus is in a predetermined state, and power consumption of the image forming apparatus in the predetermined state has not been recorded in a log, then the analysis is performed and power consumption in the predetermined state is obtained by using time spent in the predetermined state and power consumption per unit time of the image forming apparatus in the predetermined state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9118901
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus is adapted to shoot a subject at two or more different viewpoints to obtain a right viewpoint image and a left viewpoint image, or multi-viewpoint images, with parallax that are to be merged together into a 3D image. The apparatus includes a monitor for displaying the image to be taken upon shooting; an input device for inputting an indispensable output area which an user wants to be included in the 3D image outputted; and a control unit for causing the indispensable output area and an area out of mergence, which is unable to be included in the 3D image in accordance with the amount of parallax between the right viewpoint image and the left viewpoint image, or between the multi-viewpoint images, to be merged together into the 3D image, to be indicated in the image to be taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Yamaji, Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: D737773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Fukano, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Masazumi Takakura