Patents by Inventor Tomoko Suzuki
Tomoko 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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Publication number: 20220399568Abstract: A solid electrolyte layer having a solid electrolyte and carbon, in which a dispersion degree (CV value) of the carbon measured by a quadrat method in a cross section of the solid electrolyte layer is more than zero and less than one.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoko NAKAMURA, Hisashi SUZUKI, Keiko TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 11526623Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for displaying information on a public device is provided. The present invention may include displaying, based on information received from a connected mobile device, user information and dummy information on a display device. The present invention may further include displaying an indicator alongside the user information and a dummy indicator alongside the dummy information. The present invention may further include transmitting user information and dummy information to a display device, synchronizing display of the user information to the display device, and synchronizing haptic feedback based on a received visual pattern. The present invention may further include generating dummy information according to the type of information.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Tomoko Kuwata, Yuta Adachi, Yuya Suzuki, Mikio Kurihara
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Patent number: 11481835Abstract: A predicted energy consumption calculation unit calculates, when an on-vehicle apparatus of a rental vehicle is operated during the period of depositing an article in a deposit space of the rental vehicle, a predicted energy consumption that is a predicted value of the amount of energy consumed by the on-vehicle apparatus. A rentable period determination unit determines a rentable period of the deposit space on the basis of the predicted energy consumption calculated by the predicted energy consumption calculation unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsuyuki Suzuki, Naoko Imai, Tomoko Shintani
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Publication number: 20220326780Abstract: An information providing system according to an aspect of the present disclosure is an information providing system for providing product information requested by a store visitor, and includes: a detection unit that detects a finger pointing of a person from an image acquired by an imaging device, a specifying unit that specifies a product from a direction of the finger pointing, and a display unit that displays product information of the specified product in a case where a specified elapsed time exceeds a predetermined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Akira Kamei, Kenichiro Ida, Itsumi Kato, Tomotaka Suzuki, Tomoko Nishio
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Publication number: 20220306141Abstract: Provided is a driving support device which can perform an effective warning to occupants of the vehicle in order to avoid collision between one's own vehicle and another vehicle. A driving support device 11 includes: an acoustic device 91; an outside-world information acquisition unit 40; a relative distance measurement unit 201 which measures the relative distance from another vehicle 300 traveling ahead of the vehicle 1 based on the outside-world information acquired by the outside-world information acquisition unit 40; and a music control unit 202 which control music outputted by an acoustic device 91, in which the music control unit 202 modulates the tone of music according to the relative distance, in the case of the relative distance becoming no more than a first predetermined distance D1, in a state of outputting music by the acoustic device 91.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Yuki MURAYAMA, Takashi NISHIOKA, Masayuki SATO, Tomoko NISHINO, Kazuasa SUZUKI, Yuya KISHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220309839Abstract: A driving support device is provided which can evaluate the driving skill of a driver, and improve the driving skill of the driver. A driving support device 11 includes: a peripheral information acquisition unit 40; an outside-world detection unit 201; a driving status detection unit 202; a driving evaluation unit 203 which decides a driving evaluation indicating the driving skill of the driver of the vehicle 1, based on the outside-world detection result of detecting the predetermined target and the driving status; a voice output device 91 which notifies the driver of the driving evaluation result indicating the result of driving evaluation; and a notification control unit 204 which notifies the driver by way of the notification unit of the outside-world detection result or driving status based on the driving evaluation result, when the driving evaluation improves.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Yuya KISHIMOTO, Takashi NISHIOKA, Masayuki SATO, Tomoko NISHINO, Yuki MURAYAMA, Kazuasa SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220292865Abstract: A spatial infection risk determination system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: detect a person from a captured image in a space acquired by an imaging device; and determine an infection risk in the space based on a floor area of the space and an area of a circle whose center is the detected person, the area of the circle being based on a distance to prevent infection of an infectious disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tomoko NISHIO, Akira KAMEI, Kenichiro IDA, Itsumi KATO, Tomotaka SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220277578Abstract: To make it easy to recognize whether each person is in a situation in which the person may catch an infectious disease, the present invention provides an information output apparatus 10 including an acquisition unit 11 that acquires a captured image acquired by photographing a space, a detection unit 12 that detects a person from the captured image, a determination unit 13 that determines a radius of a circle to be displayed over the captured image in an overlapping manner according to a predetermined condition, and a display control unit 15 that displays an image in which a circle surrounding each of the detected persons is displayed over the captured image in an overlapping manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tomoko NISHIO, Akira Kamei, Kenichiro Ida, Itsumi Kato, Tomotaka Suzuki
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Publication number: 20220266851Abstract: Provided is a driving support device including a storage device and a hardware processor, the hardware processor executing a program stored in the storage device to: acquire, from a mobile object, information on existence of a specific situation on a planned travel route, which is set as a route to a destination set by an occupant of the mobile object; plan a coaching item, including notification of warning information relating to traveling of the mobile object and suggestion relating to traveling of the mobile object, based at least on the information; and control a notification device so as to execute the notification and suggestion based on the planed coaching item.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Masayuki Sato, Takashi Nishioka, Tomoko Nishino, Yuki Murayama, Kazuasa Suzuki, Yuya Kishimoto
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Patent number: 11408010Abstract: A mutant-type flowering-inducing gene encoding a protein comprising an amino acid sequence in which tyrosine corresponding to the tyrosine at position 85 in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 is substituted by a different amino acid, whereby flowering time is accelerated more slowly than conventionally known flowering-inducing genes, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akari Nakasone, Yasuyo Shimamoto, Madoka Abe, Satoshi Kondo, Sumire Fujiwara, Tomoko Niki, Kaoru Suzuki, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Yoshimi Nakano
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Publication number: 20220228819Abstract: A heat exchanger member, a heat exchanger, a heat exchanger, and a cooling system that are highly efficient are realized by providing, to a surface of a metal in contact with a refrigerant, of a heat exchanger used for a cooling unit and a heat dissipation unit, characteristics not found in the metal itself with a coating film excelling in thermal conductivity and excelling in wettability with the refrigerant. A heat exchanger member made of metal having a surface that comes into contact with a refrigerant when a heat exchanger is operated includes a metal oxide film provided on the surface, having protrusions, and containing crystalline carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: YAMAICHI SPECIAL STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideharu TAJIMA, Motoki TAKAGAWA, Tomoko SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11209740Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes: a conductive base body and a photosensitive layer, in which an outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains fluorine-containing resin particles, and in which a fluorine atom concentration at a surface of the outermost surface layer is 1.5 to 5.0 times a fluorine atom concentration at a depth of 1 ?m from the surface of the outermost surface layer, or in which a number density ratio of aggregates of the fluorine-containing resin particles in a second region defined in this specification, to aggregates of he fluorine-containing resin particles in a first region defined in this specification is less than 0.95, and a ratio of an area ratio of the fluorine-containing resin particles in the second region, to an area ratio of the flourine-containing resin particles in the first region is within a range of 1±0.1.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Taketoshi Hoshizaki, Yusuke Watanabe, Keiko Matsuki, Yukiko Kamijo, Kenta Shingu, Tomoko Suzuki, Wataru Yamada
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Publication number: 20210311404Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes: a conductive base body and a photosensitive layer, in which an outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains fluorine-containing non particles, and in which a fluorine atom concentration at a surface of the outermost surface layer is 1.5 to 5.0 times a fluorine atom concentration at a depth of 1 ?m from the surface of the outermost surface layer, or in which a number density ratio of aggregates of the fluorine-containing resin particles is a second region defined in this specification, to aggregates of the fluorine-containing resin particles in a first region defined in this specification is less than 0.95, and a ratio of an area ratio of the fluorine-containing resin particles in the second region, to an area ratio of the fluorine-containing resin particles in the first region is within a range of 1±0.1.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Taketoshi HOSHIZAKI, Yusuke WATANABE, Keiko MATSUKI, Yukiko KAMIJO, Kenta SHINGU, Tomoko SUZUKI, Wataru YAMADA
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Patent number: 11067928Abstract: A fixing member includes a substrate layer including a resin; a first metal layer that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate layer and including Cu; a second metal layer that is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the first metal layer so as to be in contact with the first metal layer, includes Ni, and has crystal orientation indexes of 0.80 to 1.30 for a (111) plane, 0.80 to 1.50 for a (200) plane, and 0.70 to 1.30 for a (311) plane; and an elastic layer that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the second metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Tomotake Inagaki, Yusuke Watanabe, Tomoko Suzuki, Hideaki Ohara, Ryohei Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10996594Abstract: An endless belt includes either a single-layer body including a layer including an imide resin and conductive particles, or a multilayer body including the layer as an outermost layer. The ratio y/x of the layer is 0.8992 or more and 1.0157 or less, where x [log ?/?] is the common logarithm of the surface resistivity of the outer peripheral surface of the layer measured with a ring probe when a voltage of 100 V is applied to the layer for 3 seconds at a load of 1 kg, and y [log ?·cm] is the common logarithm of the volume resistivity of the layer measured with a ring probe when a voltage of 100 V is applied to the layer for 5 seconds at a load of 1 kg.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Tanaka, Satoya Sugiura, Daisuke Tanemura, Masato Ono, Masato Furukawa, Shigeru Fukuda, Masayuki Seko, Koichi Matsumoto, Shogo Hayashi, Tomoko Suzuki
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Patent number: 10976690Abstract: Provided is a transfer device that includes an intermediate transfer body which is a first endless belt including a resin and conductive carbon particles and in which in a spatial distribution of the conductive carbon particles that are present in an evaluation region of 6.3 ?m×4.2 ?m on an outer peripheral surface; a first transfer component that first-transfers a toner image formed on a surface of an image carrier to a surface of the intermediate transfer body; and a second transfer component which has a second endless belt disposed so as to face the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer body, which second-transfers the toner image transferred to the surface of the intermediate transfer body to a surface of a recording medium on the second endless belt.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masato Furukawa, Shigeru Fukuda, Futoshi Takei, Satoya Sugiura, Daisuke Tanemura, Masato Ono, Hiroaki Tanaka, Shogo Hayashi, Minoru Rokutan, Tomoko Suzuki, Masayuki Seko, Koichi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20210088944Abstract: A fixing member includes a substrate layer including a resin; a first metal layer that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate layer and including Cu; a second metal layer that is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the first metal layer so as to be in contact with the first metal layer, includes Ni, and has crystal orientation indexes of 0.80 to 1.30 for a (111) plane, 0.80 to 1.50 for a (200) plane, and 0.70 to 1.30 for a (311) plane; and an elastic layer that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the second metal layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomotake INAGAKI, Yusuke WATANABE, Tomoko SUZUKI, Hideaki OHARA, Ryohei YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 10946684Abstract: A printed material of the present invention is a printed material including a recording medium, a color material layer, and a fine irregular layer functioning as an outermost layer in this order; the color material layer contains a pigment; the fine irregular layer contains spherical particles having a specific average particle diameter; the spherical particles are present in a thickness direction of the fine irregular layer; and the surface of the fine irregular layer has convex portions having an average height of 0.04 to 0.15 ?m and an image definition C(2) is 50% or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryohei Goto, Fumihiro Goto, Yohei Iwasaki, Tomoko Suzuki
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Patent number: 10926551Abstract: A heat transfer system is provided with a first heating element that transfers ink in an ink layer to a transfer-receiving body in a first pattern, a winding part that winds an ink ribbon having ink transferred therein on the downstream side of the first heating element in such a manner that a back surface layer is positioned outside the ink layer, a second heating element that transfers ink in the ink layer to the back surface layer inside the ink layer in a second pattern near the winding part, and a controller that controls the heating elements, and the controller controls the first heating element to transfer ink corresponding to the first pattern by transferring a portion of the ink layer, and controls the second heating element to transfer ink corresponding to the second pattern by transferring the ink layer as a whole.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichiro Kuroda, Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Daisuke Fukui, Miki Kato, Tomoko Suzuki
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Patent number: 10890868Abstract: A fixing member includes: a substrate layer including a resin; a first metal layer that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the substrate layer and includes Cu; a second metal layer that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the first metal layer so as to be in contact with the first metal layer and includes Ni, and has crystal orientation indexes of from 1.0 to 1.8 for a (111) plane, from 0.5 to 1.3 for a (200) plane, and from 1.0 to 1.6 for a (311) plane; and an elastic layer that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the second metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomotake Inagaki, Hideaki Ohara, Tomoko Suzuki, Yusuke Watanabe