Patents by Inventor Tomoya Shimizu
Tomoya Shimizu 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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Patent number: 11604433Abstract: A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keita Shimizu, Tomoya Ichikawa, Takashi Shimizu, Kazuna Taguchi
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Publication number: 20220357701Abstract: A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keita SHIMIZU, Tomoya ICHIKAWA, Takashi SHIMIZU, Kazuna TAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11486800Abstract: A sample dispersing device contains a container inside of which a dispersal chamber where a power sample is dispersed is formed, and an introducing mechanism that introduces a gas containing the powder sample from the outside of the container into the dispersal chamber based on a pressure difference between the inside and the outside of the container. The introducing mechanism contains an introduction pipe where the gas containing the powder sample flows, and several restrictors arranged in the introduction pipe.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Nagura, Kazuma Aoyagi, Akihiro Minami, Hiroshi Tateno, Tomoya Shimizu, Kusuo Ueno
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Publication number: 20220327779Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique for creating a three-dimensional model of a line-like structure from a point cloud obtained using three-dimensional laser measuring equipment and detecting a three-dimensional model of a cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki INOUE, Hitoshi NIIGAKI, Yukihiro GOTO, Shigehiro MATSUDA, Toshiya OHIRA, Ryuji HONDA, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Patent number: 11467569Abstract: A simulation device includes a first simulation circuitry to simulate the operation performed by a programmable controller in accordance with a first program, and second simulation circuitry to simulate the operation performed by a motion controller in accordance with a second program. Further, there is a data sharing memory into and from which the first simulation circuitry and the second simulation circuitry are allowed to write and read data.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masamitsu Hattori, Isei Kaku, Tomoya Shimizu
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Patent number: 11415933Abstract: A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keita Shimizu, Tomoya Ichikawa, Takashi Shimizu, Kazuna Taguchi
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Publication number: 20220230347Abstract: It is possible to estimate a slack level accurately in consideration of a shape of a deformed cable. A point cloud analysis device sets a plurality of regions of interest obtained by window-searching a wire model including a quadratic curve model representing a cable obtained from a point cloud consisting of three-dimensional points on an object, the region of interest being divided into a first region and a second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2019Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi NIIGAKI, Masaki WAKI, Masaaki INOUE, Yasuhiro YAO, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki OSHIDA, Kana KURATA, Shingo ANDO, Atsushi SAGATA
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Publication number: 20220215572Abstract: Provided is a point cloud analysis device that curbs a decrease in model estimation accuracy due to a laser measurement point cloud. A clustering unit (30) clusters a point cloud representing a three-dimensional point on an object obtained by a measurement unit mounted on a moving body and performing measurement while scanning a measurement position, within a scan line, to obtain a point cloud cluster. A central axis direction estimation unit (32) estimates a central axis direction based on the point cloud cluster. A direction-dependent local effective length estimation unit (34) estimates a local effective length based on an estimated central axis direction and an interval of scan lines, the local effective length being a length when a length of projection of the point cloud cluster in a central axis direction for each of the point cloud clusters is interpolated by an amount of a loss part of the point cloud.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2019Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi NIIGAKI, Yasuhiro YAO, Masaaki INOUE, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Yukihiro GOTO, Shigehiro MATSUDA, Ryuji HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA, Kana KURATA, Shingo ANDO, Atsushi SAGATA
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Publication number: 20220172389Abstract: A structure detection device according to an embodiment includes: a reading processing unit that reads, as three-dimensional point group data on an object present in a three-dimensional space, data including three-dimensional position information and color information at a point on a surface of the object; a filtering processing unit that performs filtering processing for extracting three-dimensional point group data on a detection-target structure from the three-dimensional point group data on the object present in the three-dimensional space based on the color information; and a generation processing unit that generates three-dimensional model data in which the detection-target structure is represented as a three-dimensional model based on the three-dimensional point group data on the detection-target structure, the three-dimensional point group data being extracted by the filtering processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki INOUE, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Ryuji HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Publication number: 20220172114Abstract: A machine learning device, a deterioration estimation device, and a deterioration diagnostic apparatus capable of estimating a deterioration state of a non-inspected outside facility without dispatching a technician to the site are provided. A machine learning device 301 according to the present invention generates a learning model M1 by which a computer determines deterioration of an outside facility and includes an input unit 11 to which facility data D1 representing features and states of the outside facility and deterioration data D2 representing presence or absence of deterioration that has occurred in the outside facility are input, and an analysis unit 12 which generates the learning model M1 by performing supervised learning using the facility data of the outside facility in a deterioration state and the facility data of the outside facility that is not in a deterioration state as training data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi GOTO, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Yukihiro GOTO
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Patent number: 11200800Abstract: A vehicle search system includes a vehicle incorporating a vehicle-mounted camera and a server configured to communicate with the vehicle. The server transmits search target vehicle data for specifying a search target vehicle to the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to (a) store the search target vehicle data from the server and (b) transmit, when a vehicle detected by the vehicle-mounted camera falls under search target vehicles included in the search target vehicle data, detection information on the detected vehicle to the server.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru Sakuma, Shuhei Yamamoto, Munehiro Kamiya, Hideo Hasegawa, Shinji Kurachi, Tomoya Shimizu
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Patent number: 11192544Abstract: A vehicle management system includes a vehicle controller mountable in a vehicle, and a commercial facility management system for managing a parking lot and payment in a commercial facility. The commercial facility management system includes a system controller. The system controller performs processing for associating the vehicle with a user of the vehicle when the vehicle enters the parking lot, and cooperates with the vehicle controller of the vehicle associated with the user to control the vehicle to travel from a parking place to a pick-up/drop-off place for the user when the user finishes payment.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru Sakuma, Shuhei Yamamoto, Munehiro Kamiya, Hideo Hasegawa, Shinji Kurachi, Tomoya Shimizu
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Patent number: 11175143Abstract: An electric efficiency prediction method for a vehicle includes: the first step of obtaining “object vehicle information” showing information about a status of use of a vehicle that is an electrically powered vehicle; and the second step of, for each link connecting nodes virtually set on an expected traveling route of the vehicle, by using the object vehicle information, correcting an electric efficiency actual value of electric efficiency collected from each of a plurality of vehicles to calculate an electric efficiency predicted value in each link for the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru Sakuma, Shuhei Yamamoto, Munehiro Kamiya, Hideo Hasegawa, Shinji Kurachi, Tomoya Shimizu
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Publication number: 20210162880Abstract: A plurality of charging stations and a plurality of commercial facilities where a user of a vehicle can stay during charging in one of the plurality of charging stations are provided. An information providing method for the vehicle includes: causing a charging server to select a plurality of candidates from among the plurality of charging stations in accordance with location information about each of the vehicle and the plurality of commercial facilities; causing the charging server to provide a car navigation device with information showing the plurality of candidates selected; causing the server to deliver an advertisement for a commercial facility associated with each of the plurality of candidates selected; and causing the charging server to receive information about a candidate selected with the car navigation device from among the plurality of candidates by the user referring to the advertisement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru SAKUMA, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Munehiro KAMIYA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Shinji KURACHI, Tomoya SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20210150507Abstract: A serving system may comprise an acquiring unit configured to acquire order information from an external terminal, the order information indicating a content of an order inputted to the external terminal by a user; a presenting unit configured to present the content of the order indicated by the acquired order information to a serving entity that is to serve a serving-target article corresponding to the content; and a delivery vehicle configured to deliver the serving-target article corresponding to the presented content of the order to the user, and including a traction mechanism provided with a power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Makoto Kakuchi, Masashi Takahashi, Shunji Inoue, Takumi Hamajima, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Nobukatsu Fujishita, Katsuhiko Takeuchi, Tomoya Shimizu
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Publication number: 20210138925Abstract: A provider terminal transmits, to a server, (i) location information for specifying a location of a power supply facility for supplying power to a vehicle and (ii) an acceptance period for accepting the supply of power at the location. The user terminal transmits, to the server, (i) a desired location for the supply of power to the vehicle and (ii) a desired starting time for the supply of power to the vehicle at the desired location. The server includes: a provision DB configured to store one or more pieces of association information in which respective pieces of location information are associated with respective acceptance periods; a determination device configured to determine a power supply facility corresponding to the desired location and the desired starting time; and a communicator configured to notify a location of the power supply facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2021Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru SAKUMA, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Munehiro KAMIYA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Shinji KURACHI, Tomoya SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20210088423Abstract: A sample dispersing device contains a container inside of which a dispersal chamber where a power sample is dispersed is formed, and an introducing mechanism that introduces a gas containing the powder sample from the outside of the container into the dispersal chamber based on a pressure difference between the inside and the outside of the container. The introducing mechanism contains an introduction pipe where the gas containing the powder sample flows, and several restrictors arranged in the introduction pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Makoto NAGURA, Kazuma AOYAGI, Akihiro MINAMI, Hiroshi TATENO, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Kusuo UENO
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Patent number: 10946759Abstract: A plurality of charging stations and a plurality of commercial facilities where a user of a vehicle can stay during charging in one of the plurality of charging stations are provided. An information providing method for the vehicle includes: causing a charging server to select a plurality of candidates from among the plurality of charging stations in accordance with location information about each of the vehicle and the plurality of commercial facilities; causing the charging server to provide a car navigation device with information showing the plurality of candidates selected; causing the server to deliver an advertisement for a commercial facility associated with each of the plurality of candidates selected; and causing the charging server to receive information about a candidate selected with the car navigation device from among the plurality of candidates by the user referring to the advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru Sakuma, Shuhei Yamamoto, Munehiro Kamiya, Hideo Hasegawa, Shinji Kurachi, Tomoya Shimizu
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Patent number: 10926658Abstract: A provider terminal transmits, to a server, (i) location information for specifying a location of a power supply facility for supplying power to a vehicle and (ii) an acceptance period for accepting the supply of power at the location. The user terminal transmits, to the server, (i) a desired location for the supply of power to the vehicle and (ii) a desired starting time for the supply of power to the vehicle at the desired location. The server includes: a provision DB configured to store one or more pieces of association information in which respective pieces of location information are associated with respective acceptance periods; a determination device configured to determine a power supply facility corresponding to the desired location and the desired starting time; and a communicator configured to notify a location of the power supply facility.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru Sakuma, Shuhei Yamamoto, Munehiro Kamiya, Hideo Hasegawa, Shinji Kurachi, Tomoya Shimizu
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Patent number: 10723872Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of reducing the hardness of a molded article obtained by cross-linking a cross-linking elastomer. The problem addressed by the present invention is solved by cross-linking a cross-linking elastomer composition including at least a cross-linking elastomer and a fluorine oligomer (a) not including hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: NICHIAS CORPORATIONInventors: Kojiro Otani, Takeshi Kuboyama, Tomoya Shimizu