Patents by Inventor Toru Ikeda

Toru Ikeda 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).

  • Patent number: 12601998
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus registers sheet information including a plurality of set values. When one of the set values included in a first type of sheet information is changed, the first type of sheet information is copied as tentative sheet information for new sheet information, and when a chart print instruction for adjusting image quality of an image being formed on a sheet is received, a first screen selectable for all sheet feeding trays of the plurality of sheet feeding trays is displayed. When a set value included in a second type of sheet information is changed and the chart print instruction is received, a second screen selectable for the sheet feeding tray in which the second type of the sheet information is set and not selectable for the sheet feeding tray in which the second type of the sheet information is not set is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12509318
    Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a peeling position where a protective film is peeled off a sheet, and a control unit that controls a roll device based on the information and moves the peeling position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Chokyu, Toru Ikeda, Kazuki Matsunaga, Koya Shimada
  • Patent number: 12444728
    Abstract: A joining device includes a first roller that rotates an attached first workpiece in the conveying direction to convey the first workpiece, and a second roller that rotates the attached second workpiece in the conveying direction to join the second workpiece to the conveyed first workpiece by heat. The second roller includes a main body drum, a plurality of protruding portions provided at intervals in the rotational direction of the main body drum, and a plurality of suction portions that is provided to each of the protruding portions and attaches a second workpiece onto end surfaces of the protruding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayaka Wakasugi, Daigo Mukasa, Toru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20250309292
    Abstract: A manufacturing device for a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell joins a membrane electrode laminate, having electrodes with gas diffusion layers arranged on both surfaces of an electrolyte membrane, with a frame member integrally joined to a circumferential edge of the electrolyte membrane, to have a membrane electrode assembly. The manufacturing device for a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell includes: a mold having a fixed die and a movable die to be moved between a compressing position and a separated position with respect to the fixed die; and a moving mechanism to move the movable die. For the mold, the manufacturing device includes: a heating means to heat the mold; and a humidified gas supply means to supply humidified gas to a surface of the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Inventors: Toshio MIHATA, Satoshi OYAMA, Keiichi IIO, Toru IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20250309286
    Abstract: A fuel cell stack including a joined separator, and a membrane electrode structure including a membrane electrode assembly disposed between a pair of the joined separators, the membrane electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane and an electrode. The joined separator includes a first metal separator and a second metal separator welded together along a welding line, and the second metal separator includes a convex portion formed along the welding line so as to protrude toward the first metal separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Inventors: Kei Matsumoto, Kazuyuki Sanda, Satoshi Oyama, Toru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20250249605
    Abstract: A thin plate conveyance apparatus including a suction pad having a contact portion with a rectangular frame shape to come into contact with a thin plate with protrusions and recess arranged in a horizontal direction and generating a suction force by a negative pressure inside the contact portion, and a support part movably supporting the suction pad between a first position where the thin plate is suctioned and a second position where a suction to the thin plate is released. The contact portion includes a pair of first frame portions extending in the first direction and a pair of second frame portions extending in the second direction, and a width of the pair of first frame portions in the second direction is larger than a width of the recesses in the second direction or a width of the protrusions in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Satoru Uchiumi, Toru Ikeda, Yoshinori Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 12311760
    Abstract: A glass substrate includes a first major surface, a second major surface, an end surface, a first boundary surface, a second boundary surface, and a bent portion in which the first major surface is bent so as to be concave and the second major surface is bent so as to be convex. The bent portion includes a portion in which a distance D1 from the end surface to the first major surface in a tangential direction, extending from the end surface toward the first major surface, of the glass substrate is longer than a distance D2 from the end surface to the second major surface in a tangential direction, extending from the end surface toward the second major surface, of the glass substrate. A difference between the distance D1 and the distance D2 is 50 ?m or larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Takeaki Ono, Koki Moriya, Toru Ikeda, Kensuke Fujii
  • Publication number: 20250110436
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, having: a setting unit configured to set sheet information on a sheet including a plurality of set values to each of a plurality of sheet feeding trays; and a registration unit configured to, in a case where an instruction to change at least one of the set values included in the sheet information is received, copy the sheet information as tentative sheet information for new sheet information and register at least one of the sheet feeding trays in association with the tentative sheet information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240377997
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus accepts an editing operation to edit registered paper information. A screen to accept change of a name of paper is not displayed in a case where a type of the paper in the paper information on which the editing operation is performed is base paper, and the name of the paper in the paper information has been changed by the editing operation, and the screen is displayed in a case where the type of the paper on which the editing operation is performed is the base paper, and the name of the paper has not been changed by the editing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventor: TORU IKEDA
  • Patent number: 12124750
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a touch panel display configured to display an execution button provided to perform processing using a function of the image processing apparatus and realized in the form of a software key, and detect a user operation onto the execution button. The image processing apparatus includes an adjustment unit configured to adjust, in an instruction portion of a user, a time since the execution button is touched until the execution button is released therefrom according to a user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240313246
    Abstract: An assembling method for a fuel cell stack including stacking alternately a unitized electrode assembly having an electrolyte membrane and an electrode, and a separator in a predetermined region to form a cell stacked body. Each of the unitized electrode assembly and the separator is a stack element, and the stacking includes transporting the stack element above the predetermined region while sucking the stack element by a suction portion, descending the stack element while positioning the stack element along a guide member extending upward around the predetermined region, and releasing a suction by the suction portion when a lower surface of the stack element abuts on an upper surface of another stack element having been stacked in the predetermined region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Kunihiko Yanagisawa, Toru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12055735
    Abstract: A transparent substrate with an antiglare film, includes a transparent substrate having first and second main surfaces and an antiglare film formed on the first main surface. The antiglare film includes a low refractive index layer formed on the first main surface and a high refractive index layer formed in the low refractive index layer and having a refractive index different from that of the low refractive index layer. The low refractive index layer has nlow of 1.4 to 1.8. The high refractive index layer has nhigh at least 0.1 higher than the nlow. The high refractive index layer has an area ratio of its portion where a surface inclination to the first main surface is 0.5° or less of 15% or less. An average length RSm of elements of a roughness curve of an outermost surface on a first main surface side is 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masanobu Isshiki, Toru Ikeda, Yosuke Takeda, Takamichi Shimosaka, Takaaki Murakami
  • Patent number: 12015752
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, if an image forming apparatus receives a FAX data, the image forming apparatus posts a message to a chat service indicating that the FAX data has been received, and according to a setting of a forwarding destination of FAX data and scheduled forwarding time, the image forming apparatus posts a message indicating the scheduled forwarding time of the received FAX data. If the image forming apparatus receives an instruction related to forwarding the received FAX data (canceling, changing scheduled time, changing forwarding destination) via the chat service, the image forming apparatus performs processing related to the forwarding the received FAX data (canceling to forward processing, changing scheduled time processing, changing forwarding destination processing) based on the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20230317915
    Abstract: A joining device includes a first roller that rotates an attached first workpiece in the conveying direction to convey the first workpiece, and a second roller that rotates the attached second workpiece in the conveying direction to join the second workpiece to the conveyed first workpiece by heat. The second roller includes a main body drum, a plurality of protruding portions provided at intervals in the rotational direction of the main body drum, and a plurality of suction portions that is provided to each of the protruding portions and attaches a second workpiece onto end surfaces of the protruding portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ayaka WAKASUGI, Daigo MUKASA, Toru IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230319212
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, if an image forming apparatus receives a FAX data, the image forming apparatus posts a message to a chat service indicating that the FAX data has been received, and according to a setting of a forwarding destination of FAX data and scheduled forwarding time, the image forming apparatus posts a message indicating the scheduled forwarding time of the received FAX data. If the image forming apparatus receives an instruction related to forwarding the received FAX data (canceling, changing scheduled time, changing forwarding destination) via the chat service, the image forming apparatus performs processing related to the forwarding the received FAX data (canceling to forward processing, changing scheduled time processing, changing forwarding destination processing) based on the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11772356
    Abstract: To provide a translucent structure having a low haze factor and low sparkle. The translucent structure has an uneven structure at the surface thereof, wherein the uneven structure includes first convex portions 5a, of which the diameters at a height of the bearing height+0.05 ?m of the surface shape (a), obtainable by measuring the uneven structure by a laser microscope, are at least 1 ?m, and in an image (c) in which a plurality of convex portions are scattered, obtained by filtering the surface shape (a) by image processing software to obtain a smoothing image (b), and subtracting XYZ data of the smoothing image (b) from XYZ data of the surface shape (a), said plurality of convex portions include second convex portions 5b, of which the diameters at a height of 0.01 ?m when the bearing height is deemed to be 0, are at least 0.4 ?m, the density of the second convex portions is from 0.023 to 7.210 units/?m2, and the proportion of the total area in cross-section at a height of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yosuke Takeda, Toru Ikeda, Makoto Fukawa
  • Patent number: 11772125
    Abstract: To provide an antiglare film-coated substrate that has an excellent antiglare property and reduced haze and through which cloudiness is not easily recognized visually on a black printed layer when the black printed layer is seen therethrough, for example, an antiglare film forming liquid composition for forming the antiglare film, and a method of producing an antiglare film-coated substrate. An antiglare film-coated substrate 1 includes a transparent substrate 2; and an antiglare film 3 provided on the transparent substrate 2, in which the antiglare film 3 contains silica as its main component and a CF3(CH2)n-group where n is an integer of 1 to 6, and the antiglare film 3 has surface roughness curve skewness Rsk of 1.3 or less and has arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 0.01 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yosuke Takeda, Takamichi Shimosaka, Toru Ikeda, Osamu Homma, Daisuke Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230234797
    Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a peeling position where a protective film is peeled off a sheet, and a control unit that controls a roll device based on the information and moves the peeling position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Shinsuke CHOKYU, Toru IKEDA, Kazuki MATSUNAGA, Koya SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 11660849
    Abstract: A roll conveying unit of a joined body manufacturing apparatus includes a rotating unit and a suction unit. The outer peripheral surface of the rotating unit includes a contact suction portion that makes contact with a first back surface. The rotating unit rotates while bringing the contact suction portion into contact with the first back surface. The suction unit suctions the second layer from the contact suction portion through pores of the first layer, to thereby form a suctioned portion attracted to the contact suction portion under suction, in a laminated body of the first layer and the second layer. The peeling unit peels the coating film from the second back surface of the suctioned portion of the film-attached joined body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Matsunaga, Toru Ikeda, Nobuyoshi Muromoto, Shinsuke Chokyu
  • Patent number: 11658317
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of inspection for erroneous assembly of a fuel cell stack which allows for determination of whether the fuel cell stack has been properly assembled without depending on the appearance of the fuel cell stack. The erroneous assembly inspection method inspects for erroneous assembly of a fuel cell stack that is produced by stacking power generation cells and dummy cells in proper power generation positions and proper dummy positions. The erroneous assembly inspection method measures a pressure difference in anode gas passages and cathode gas passages when gas is supplied at different pressures respectively to an anode gas inlet and a cathode gas inlet of the workpiece to determine whether or not the workpiece is in a third erroneous assembly state including a first abnormal cell in which a dummy MEA and a power generation separator are assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kato, Toru Ikeda, Naohiro Kawakita, Keiichi Iio