Patents by Inventor Tomohisa Kano
Tomohisa Kano 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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Publication number: 20220381920Abstract: In this obstacle detection system, if an obstacle has been detected by a front obstacle sensor or a rear obstacle sensor which has an obstacle detection range corresponding to the travel direction of the work vehicle, then a control unit displays the detected position of the obstacle on a display unit and performs collision avoidance control corresponding to the detection position of the obstacle; further, if an obstacle has been detected by a front obstacle sensor or a rear obstacle sensor which has an obstacle detection range not corresponding to the travel direction of the work vehicle, then the control unit displays the detected position of the obstacle on the display unit without performing collision avoidance control corresponding to the detection position of the obstacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tomohisa Kano
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Patent number: 11285747Abstract: A printing device includes: a device case having a front aperture; a first hinge disposed in the device case; and a front cover that is disposed in the first hinge and that exposes or hides the front aperture. The first hinge includes: a joint member; a first rotation shaft that joins the front cover to the joint member; and a second rotation shaft that joins the device case to the joint member. When the front cover hides the front aperture, the joint member covers a gap between the device case and the front cover inside the device case.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tomohisa Kano
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Publication number: 20210023863Abstract: A printing device includes: a device case having a front aperture; a first hinge disposed in the device case; and a front cover that is disposed in the first hinge and that exposes or hides the front aperture. The first hinge includes: a joint member; a first rotation shaft that joins the front cover to the joint member; and a second rotation shaft that joins the device case to the joint member. When the front cover hides the front aperture, the joint member covers a gap between the device case and the front cover inside the device case.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventor: Tomohisa KANO
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Patent number: 9144164Abstract: A switch cover 21 has a frame member 22 and a cover member 23. The frame member 22 is fastened to the case front 6 of a printer 1 and surrounds a power switch 15. The cover member 23 is supported by the frame member 22 pivotably between a closed position 23A covering the opening 24 inside the frame member 22 and shielding the power switch 15 so the power switch 15 is inoperable, and an open position 23B where the opening 24 is open and the power switch 15 is not shielded. By simply fastening the switch cover 21 to the case front 6 with the frame member 22 surrounding the power switch 15, the cover member 23 can cover and prevent operating the power switch 15. Accidental operation of the power switch of electronic devices, including products such as printers, can therefore be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohisa Kano
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Patent number: 9050538Abstract: An object placement managing unit (44) controls whether or not to change the position or direction of a first object according to a positional relationship between a passive area determined based on the position of the first object, and a judging area determined based on the position of a second object. The object placement managing unit (44) controls whether or not to change the position or direction of the second object according to a positional relationship between an active area determined based on the position of the first object and differing from the passive area, and the judging area.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Corporation Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Hajime Sugiyama, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Chihiro Kanno, Tomohisa Kano
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Patent number: 9048650Abstract: An AC adapter unit has an AC adapter that includes an AC adapter block and a DC cable, and a storage tray that stores the AC-adapter. The connector-side cable part of the DC cable is stored in the storage tray on-the left-side part of the AC adapter block. The connector-side cable part has a bundled-part with a figure-8 shape when seen from the top opening side of the storage tray. The-long axis of this bundled part is parallel to the long axis of the AC adapter block.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tomohisa Kano
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Publication number: 20150022610Abstract: A switch cover 21 has a frame member 22 and a cover member 23. The frame member 22 is fastened to the case front 6 of a printer 1 and surrounds a power switch 15. The cover member 23 is supported by the frame member 22 pivotably between a closed position 23A covering the opening 24 inside the frame member 22 and shielding the power switch 15 so the power switch 15 is inoperable, and an open position 23B where the opening 24 is open and the power switch 15 is not shielded. By simply fastening the switch cover 21 to the case front 6 with the frame member 22 surrounding the power switch 15, the cover member 23 can cover and prevent operating the power switch 15. Accidental operation of the power switch of electronic devices, including products such as printers, can therefore be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventor: Tomohisa KANO
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Patent number: 8764322Abstract: A recording device has a recording unit that records on a recording medium, a transportation unit that conveys and discharges from an discharge opening the recording medium recorded by the recording unit, a cutting unit that cuts the recording medium recorded by the recording unit at a predetermined position on the transportation path of the transportation unit, and a control unit that causes a ticket to be output by causing the recording unit to record on the recording medium while causing the transportation unit to convey the recording medium only a specified ticket length and causing the cutting unit to cut. When a next ticket is not output after a ticket is output, the control unit causes the output ticket to be recorded and conveyed the specified ticket length, advanced a preset additional transportation distance, and then cut by the cutting unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Kano, Atsushi Sakai
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Patent number: 8757906Abstract: A recording device has a recording unit that records on a recording medium, a transportation unit that conveys and discharges from an discharge opening the recording medium recorded by the recording unit, a cutting unit that cuts the recording medium recorded by the recording unit at a predetermined position on the transportation path of the transportation unit, and a control unit that causes a ticket to be output by causing the recording unit to record on the recording medium while causing the transportation unit to convey the recording medium only a specified ticket length and causing the cutting unit to cut. When a next ticket is not output after a ticket is output, the control unit causes the output ticket to be recorded and conveyed the specified ticket length, advanced a preset additional transportation distance, and then cut by the cutting unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Kano, Atsushi Sakai
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Patent number: 8634197Abstract: There is provided a board module to be mounted on an electronic apparatus for adding functions to the electronic apparatus. A second board extends perpendicularly from a first board. The second board is locked to the first board at an abutting end which abuts on the first board. A plate-shaped board fixing member pinches and fixes a fixed end of the second board, which is parallel to the abutting end. The board fixing member is arranged parallel to the first board. The board fixing member is formed with a slit-shaped opening into which the fixed end is inserted, a pair of pinching projections protruding from an opening edge of the opening and pinching the fixed end from both front and rear surfaces of the second board, and a pair of slits being located adjacent to the pair of pinching projections, respectively and being parallel to the opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tomohisa Kano
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Publication number: 20120303343Abstract: An object placement managing unit (44) controls whether or not to change the position or direction of a first object according to a positional relationship between a passive area determined based on the position of the first object, and a judging area determined based on the position of a second object. The object placement managing unit (44) controls whether or not to change the position or direction of the second object according to a positional relationship between an active area determined based on the position of the first object and differing from the passive area, and the judging area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Hajime SUGIYAMA, Hitoshi ISHIKAWA, Chihiro KANNO, Tomohisa KANO
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Publication number: 20120273245Abstract: An AC adapter unit has an AC adapter that includes an AC adapter block and a DC cable, and a storage tray that stores the AC-adapter. The connector-side cable part of the DC cable is stored in the storage tray on-the left-side part of the AC adapter block. The connector-side cable part has a bundled-part with a figure-8 shape when seen from the top opening side of the storage tray. The-long axis of this bundled part is parallel to the long axis of the AC adapter block.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tomohisa Kano
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Patent number: 8194396Abstract: An AC adapter unit compactly houses the AC adapter block and DC cable so that radiation noise from the DC cable is not amplified. The AC adapter unit 4 has an AC adapter 7 that includes an AC adapter block 52 and a DC cable 51, and a storage tray 6 that stores the AC adapter 7. The connector-side cable part 51b of the DC cable 51 is stored in the storage tray 6 on the left-side part 6D of the AC adapter block 52. The connector-side cable part 51b has a bundled part 51c with a figure-8 shape when seen from the top opening 6a side of the storage tray 6. The long axis of this bundled part 51c is parallel to the long axis of the AC adapter block 52. Because the DC cable 51 has a figure-8 shaped bundled part 51c, the part that runs parallel to electronic circuit boards inside the AC adapter block 52 is reduced and amplification of radiation noise is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tomohisa Kano
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Publication number: 20110309727Abstract: There is provided a board module to be mounted on an electronic apparatus for adding functions to the electronic apparatus. A second board extends perpendicularly from a first board. The second board is locked to the first board at an abutting end which abuts on the first board. A plate-shaped board fixing member pinches and fixes a fixed end of the second board, which is parallel to the abutting end. The board fixing member is arranged parallel to the first board. The board fixing member is formed with a slit-shaped opening into which the fixed end is inserted, a pair of pinching projections protruding from an opening edge of the opening and pinching the fixed end from both front and rear surfaces of the second board, and a pair of slits being located adjacent to the pair of pinching projections, respectively and being parallel to the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohisa KANO
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Patent number: D660348Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Seiji Kimura, Kanako Nakatani, Yoshiki Kinoshita, Masaaki Nakamura, Tomohisa Kano
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Patent number: D674838Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Kano, Seiji Kimura, Kanako Nishimoto
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Patent number: D706341Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Kano, Seiji Kimura, Takashi Makino
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Patent number: D710438Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Kano, Ayumu Nakamura, Hiroto Miyauchi, Takaaki Inui
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Patent number: D728677Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Koji Kawasaki, Tomohisa Kano, Takaaki Inui, Hiroto Miyauchi
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Patent number: D774485Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohisa Kano, Makoto Terashima