Patents by Inventor Tomonori Hayashi
Tomonori Hayashi 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: 20130328689Abstract: A medium processor for processing a medium has a path for transporting the medium; a display for displaying a processing status of the medium; a sensor for sensing the medium on the path, the sensor including a light-emitting device for emitting light and a photosensitive device for receiving the light; and a controller for controlling the operation of the processor. The controller has a light amount detector for detecting the amount of the light the photosensitive device receives; a comparator for comparing the amount of the light with a predetermined reference value; a light amount adjuster for adjusting the amount of electric power to adjust the amount of electric power in steps; a cleaning determiner for determining that the sensor needs to be serviced under a certain condition; and a display controller for controlling the display to display an indication of the sensor to be serviced.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomonori HAYASHI
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Patent number: 8427663Abstract: An image outputting apparatus obtains attribute information about image data prior to acquisition of the image data stored in an external apparatus. The image outputting apparatus accepts an output request of the image data by using the attribute information while obtaining the image data. The image outputting apparatus holds the output request in accordance with the acceptance of the output request before completion of acquisition of the image data and allows the outputting the image data in response to the output request after acquisition of the image data has been completed.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomonori Hayashi, Takayuki Hirata
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Patent number: 8419244Abstract: A motorcycle includes a seat, side covers covering the periphery of the lower side of the seat and formed in curved shapes to gradually decrease in width toward the rear side of the vehicle. Rear blinkers mounted to left and right portions in the vehicle width direction of the side covers. Each of the rear blinkers includes a base member mounted to the side cover, a bulb and a lens covering the bulb. The left and right rear blinkers are disposed at recesses provided in the side covers. Each of the left and right rear blinkers is mounted to the side cover in such a manner that the lens is substantially entirely exposed from the recess to not overlap with a curved surface of the side cover in plan sectional view as viewed from the upper side of the vehicle, the section containing the optical axis of the bulb.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sumada, Tomonori Hayashi, Tetsu Horiuchi
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Patent number: 8363496Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a mask information storage circuit that stores therein mask information indicating an area for which the self refresh operation is not performed among a plurality of areas in a memory cell array, a mask determining circuit that is activated by a self refresh command and generates a match signal in response to a detection of a match between a refresh address and the mask information, and a refresh operation control circuit that disables the self refresh operation in response to an activation of the match signal. When a test mode signal is activated, the mask determining circuit is also activated by the auto refresh command. With this configuration, it is possible to perform a test of a partial array self refresh function without actually entering a self refresh mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.Inventors: Tomonori Hayashi, Akihiko Kagami, Yuji Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8346916Abstract: In a search server, a search request for searching for a device is received from a client PC, the device satisfying a search condition included in the received search request is searched for, and a searched result is transmitted to the client PC. Further, it is judged whether or not an apparatus at a transfer destination to which the search request is transferred has been registered in the search server. If it is judged that the apparatus at the transfer destination has been registered in the search server, the search request is transferred to the registered apparatus at the transfer destination based on the received search request.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomonori Hayashi, Tadahiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 8328399Abstract: A saddle-ride type vehicle has a handlebar cover 27 covering at least a front portion of a handlebar 14. The vehicle includes a turn signal device having mounting stays 26 jointed to the handlebar bar 14, and lamp members 25 supported on the mounting stays 26. The handlebar cover 27 covering the front portion of the handlebar 14 has opening portions 47 formed so as to face in a vehicle body forward direction. The mounting stays 26 penetrate the opening portions 47 and extend in the vehicle body forward direction from the handlebar 14. The lamp members 25 are connected to front end portions of the mounting stays 26. The mounting stays 26 are jointed to end portions 14c of the handlebar 14. Stay covers 45 which cover the mounting stays 26 can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuki Tajima, Takashi Sumada, Tomonori Hayashi, Taiki Sakane
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Patent number: 8300487Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a plurality of terminals, a plurality of drive units corresponding to the plurality of terminals, and a data control unit. The data control unit outputs parallel data applied to the plurality of terminals to the plurality of drive unit in a normal operation mode, and converts serial data applied to a particular terminal, which is one of the plurality of terminals, to parallel data, and outputs the parallel data to which the serial data applied to the particular terminal is converted to the plurality of drive units in a test mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.Inventor: Tomonori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20120133972Abstract: Information identifying a user who made an instruction to send a document from a personal computer (PC) to an image forming apparatus and to store the document in the image forming apparatus, that is, a user who caused the risk of information leakage to increase could not be identified. Code image data which includes information identifying the user who made the storage instruction and information identifying another user who made a print instruction is printed together with print data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomonori Hayashi
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Patent number: 8081510Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit including a nonvolatile memory cell is provided with a detection/word line voltage control circuit for sequentially supplying two or more mutually different unstable bit detecting voltages to a control gate of the nonvolatile memory cell to cause the nonvolatile memory cell to output a plurality of pieces of readout data, and an OK/NG determination circuit for comparing the plurality of pieces of readout data to determine whether the nonvolatile memory cell is stable or not.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.Inventor: Tomonori Hayashi
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Patent number: 8059296Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus which can guarantee the originality of a document consisting of a plurality of pages. To achieve the object, an image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an extracting unit that extracts fiber information from paper media; a first storage unit that synthesizes and storing fiber information extracted from pages of a first paper medium consisting of a plurality of pages by using the extracting unit as first fiber information; a second storage unit that synthesizes and stores fiber information extracted from pages of a second paper medium consisting of a plurality of pages by using the extracting unit as second fiber information; and a comparing unit that compares the first fiber information and the second fiber information and determining whether these match each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomonori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20110229237Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an input unit, a holding unit, a printing unit, sheet stacking units, a storage unit, a sheet feeding unit, a detection unit, a determination unit, a request unit, a receiving unit, and a control unit. The sheet feeding unit feeds a sheet to be used by the printing unit when executing a specific print job, from a specific sheet stacking unit stored in the storage unit in association with attribute information included in the specific print job. When the determination unit determines that a remaining number of sheets stacked in the specific sheet stacking unit will run short by finishing the specific print job, the requesting unit requests an operator's instruction for changing sheet attribute information included in the specific print job. The control unit changes the sheet attribute information per the operator's instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomonori Hayashi
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Patent number: 7997500Abstract: In a semiconductor integrated circuit, a device identification-code-information circuit includes an internal circuit which can set device identification code information and which can selectively read the same. This structure enables reduction in size of an LSI chip and improvement in reliability.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2008Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.Inventor: Tomonori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20110167952Abstract: A saddle-ride type vehicle has a handlebar cover 27 covering at least a front portion of a handlebar 14. The vehicle includes a turn signal device having mounting stays 26 jointed to the handlebar bar 14, and lamp members 25 supported on the mounting stays 26. The handlebar cover 27 covering the front portion of the handlebar 14 has opening portions 47 formed so as to face in a vehicle body forward direction. The mounting stays 26 penetrate the opening portions 47 and extend in the vehicle body forward direction from the handlebar 14. The lamp members 25 are connected to front end portions of the mounting stays 26. The mounting stays 26 are jointed to end portions 14c of the handlebar 14. Stay covers 45 which cover the mounting stays 26 can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuki TAJIMA, Takashi SUMADA, Tomonori HAYASHI, Taiki SAKANE
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Patent number: 7907433Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of package terminals included in a package, a plurality of chips provided on the package, each of the chips including a memory cell array and a plurality of data input/output terminals, and a plurality of data line control switch disposed between the plurality of package terminals and the plurality of data input/output terminals. The plurality of data line control switches of each of the chips connects the data input/output terminals of each of the chips to corresponding ones of the plurality of package terminals in a normal mode. The plurality of data line control switches connects different groups of the data input/output terminals in different ones of the chips to respective groups of the package terminals in a test mode. The respective groups of the data input/output terminals belong to the plurality of data input/output terminals. The respective groups of the package terminals are different between different ones of the chips.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.Inventors: Hideo Nomura, Tomonori Hayashi, Yuji Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20110051440Abstract: A motorcycle includes a seat, side covers covering the periphery of the lower side of the seat and formed in curved shapes to gradually decrease in width toward the rear side of the vehicle. Rear blinkers mounted to left and right portions in the vehicle width direction of the side covers. Each of the rear blinkers includes a base member mounted to the side cover, a bulb and a lens covering the bulb. The left and right rear blinkers are disposed at recesses provided in the side covers. Each of the left and right rear blinkers is mounted to the side cover in such a manner that the lens is substantially entirely exposed from the recess to not overlap with a curved surface of the side cover in plan sectional view as viewed from the upper side of the vehicle, the section containing the optical axis of the bulb.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: Takashi SUMADA, Tomonori Hayashi, Tetsu Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20110026339Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a mask information storage circuit that stores therein mask information indicating an area for which the self refresh operation is not performed among a plurality of areas in a memory cell array, a mask determining circuit that is activated by a self refresh command and generates a match signal in response to a detection of a match between a refresh address and the mask information, and a refresh operation control circuit that disables the self refresh operation in response to an activation of the match signal. When a test mode signal is activated, the mask determining circuit is also activated by the auto refresh command. With this configuration, it is possible to perform a test of a partial array self refresh function without actually entering a self refresh mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: Elpida Memory, Inc.Inventors: Tomonori Hayashi, Akihiko Kagami, Yuji Sugiyama
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Patent number: 7783136Abstract: An image data search system capable of easily and surely detecting when, where, and how image data has been processed in an image forming apparatus capable of setting various output forms. A storage server stores image data involved in each job executed by a copying machine. A history management server records information including at least information indicating an output form of image data in the job as history information. A search server searches for image data matching desired image data from the image data stored in the storage server, and detects history information corresponding to the image data stored in the storage server, from the history information recorded in the history management server. Further the search server changes a search method based on the information indicating the output form, which is recorded in the detected history information.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomonori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20100195428Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a plurality of terminals, a plurality of drive units corresponding to the plurality of terminals, and a data control unit. The data control unit outputs parallel data applied to the plurality of terminals to the plurality of drive unit in a normal operation mode, and converts serial data applied to a particular terminal, which is one of the plurality of terminals, to parallel data, and outputs the parallel data to which the serial data applied to the particular terminal is converted to the plurality of drive units in a test mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: Elpida Memory, Inc.Inventor: Tomonori HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20090300175Abstract: In a search server, a search request for searching for a device is received from a client PC, the device satisfying a search condition included in the received search request is searched for, and a searched result is transmitted to the client PC. Further, it is judged whether or not an apparatus at a transfer destination to which the search request is transferred has been registered in the search server. If it is judged that the apparatus at the transfer destination has been registered in the search server, the search request is transferred to the registered apparatus at the transfer destination based on the received search request.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomonori Hayashi, Tadahiro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20090268498Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of package terminals included in a package, a plurality of chips provided on the package, each of the chips including a memory cell array and a plurality of data input/output terminals, and a plurality of data line control switch disposed between the plurality of package terminals and the plurality of data input/output terminals. The plurality of data line control switches of each of the chips connects the data input/output terminals of each of the chips to corresponding ones of the plurality of package terminals in a normal mode. The plurality of data line control switches connects different groups of the data input/output terminals in different ones of the chips to respective groups of the package terminals in a test mode. The respective groups of the data input/output terminals belong to the plurality of data input/output terminals. The respective groups of the package terminals are different between different ones of the chips.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventors: Hideo Nomura, Tomonori Hayashi, Yuji Sugiyama