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: 9959891
    Abstract: A method for correcting a mounting position of a disk device on a rack, includes performing a normal seek to position a head of the disk device above a target position on the disk, determining that the normal seek has failed, and performing an excitation seek that causes a position of a base supporting the disk to move and reposition the disk. The disk device includes a carriage arm supporting the head, a voice coil motor configured to drive the carriage arm to position the head, the base supporting the magnetic disk, the voice coil motor, and the carriage arm, and a control unit configured to control a current to the voice coil motor to be supplied with a first current profile during the normal seek and with a second current profile during the excitation seek.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Toru Ikeda, Isamu Tomita
  • Publication number: 20180099307
    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: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yosuke TAKEDA, Takamichi SHIMOSAKA, Toru IKEDA, Osamu HOMMA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9931774
    Abstract: An injecting machine for two different liquid material includes an injection cylinder having a nozzle disposed on a distal end thereof. A plunger is reciprocally received in the injection cylinder for undergoing reciprocating movement between an advanced position and a retracted position, with the plunger injecting a liquid mixture of the two different liquid materials as the plunger moves to the advanced position. A moving mechanism causes the plunger to reciprocate between the advanced position and the retracted position. A mixing mechanism is disposed on the injection cylinder for mixing the two different liquid materials together to feed the liquid mixture into the injection cylinder. A support plate supports a proximal portion of the injection cylinder. The mixing mechanism is supported in its entirety by the injection cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: NISSEI PLASTIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20180088399
    Abstract: A method for producing a glass article from a glass member including a glass substrate including a first main surface, a second main surface and an end face, and an irregular layer formed in at least one of main surfaces, includes forming an irregular layer having a glass transition point Tg which is equal to or lower than a glass transition point in a central part of the glass member in a thickness-direction sectional view and performing a heat treatment on the glass member so as to have an equilibrium viscosity in the central part of the glass member in thickness-direction sectional view of 1017 Pa·s or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takanori FUKUSHI, Satoshi KANASUGI, Makoto FUJII, Toru IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20180061443
    Abstract: A method for correcting a mounting position of a disk device on a rack, includes performing a normal seek to position a head of the disk device above a target position on the disk, determining that the normal seek has failed, and performing an excitation seek that causes a position of a base supporting the disk to move and reposition the disk. The disk device includes a carriage arm supporting the head, a voice coil motor configured to drive the carriage arm to position the head, the base supporting the magnetic disk, the voice coil motor, and the carriage arm, and a control unit configured to control a current to the voice coil motor to be supplied with a first current profile during the normal seek and with a second current profile during the excitation seek.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Toru IKEDA, Isamu TOMITA
  • Patent number: 9890757
    Abstract: An internal-combustion-engine electronic control system according to the present invention is provided with a power switching device that applies or shuts off a primary current of an ignition coil of an internal combustion engine so that at the secondary side of the ignition coil, there is generated a voltage for making an ignition plug of the internal combustion engine produce a spark discharge; and a control unit that turns on or off the power switching device. The internal-combustion-engine electronic control system is characterized in that the control unit is provided with a circuit unit that makes the power switching device softly shut off so as to prevent the ignition plug from producing the spark discharge, and in accordance with the characteristics of the power switching device, the control unit changes the characteristics of the soft shutoff halfway through the shutoff operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizukami, Hisanori Nobe, Toru Ikeda, Yoshiyuki Sera
  • Patent number: 9864480
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of displaying a WEB top button without deteriorating the quality of appearance even if the display size of the WEB top button is changed. A display unit displays a button, to which a URL is assigned, on an operation screen. An acquisition unit accesses a Web server that is identified by the URL and to acquire a plurality of icons in different sizes. The display unit selects an icon, which corresponds to a display size of the button, from among the icons acquired by the acquisition unit, and displays the selected icon together with the button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Ikeda, Tomoya Sato
  • Publication number: 20170341451
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plate with a printed layer containing: a bent plate with a bent portion, including a first main surface, a second main surface and an end surface, and a printed layer formed on the first main surface, in which the printed layer has an average value (average OD value) of optical density (OD values) in visible light in a plane being 4 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun MINAMIDATE, Toru IKEDA, Yosuke TAKEDA, Azusa TAKAI
  • Publication number: 20170346985
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a display unit includes a processor and a memory storing instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the image processing apparatus to function as a detection unit that detects occurrence of a sheet jammed inside the image processing apparatus and a display control unit that displays a screen based on detection of the occurrence of the jammed sheet. The screen includes a first region for displaying work that a user carries out to remove jammed sheets from inside the image processing apparatus and a second region for displaying work that the user carries out after removing the jammed sheets from inside the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20170331965
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for registering a web content item to be displayed, corresponding to a login event, displays the registered web content item at time of receiving the login event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9792824
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus plays a movie representing operation procedures to be performed to make maintenance on the image forming apparatus. In a case where start of a job is detected and an operation by a user is detected, the image forming apparatus plays the movie of which frame rate is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20170265342
    Abstract: In an electronic component mounting system 1 configured by coupling electronic component mounting devices M1 to M4A each having a first substrate transport mechanism 12A and a second substrate transport mechanism 12B together, the electronic component mounting device M4A includes a first tray feeder 20A that stores an electronic component extracted by a first mounting head 15A of a component mounting mechanism as a first work operation mechanism, and a second tray feeder 20B that stores an electronic component extracted by a second mounting head 15B of a component mounting mechanism as a second work operation mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Shuzo Yagi, Takashi Tamura, Hiroki Yamamoto, Toru Ikeda, Kazuhiro Kishikawa
  • Publication number: 20170214810
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus combines a plurality of sub-movies representing operation procedures to be performed to perform maintenance on the image forming apparatus and plays the combined sub-movies sequentially as one movie. In response to stopping the movie being played, the image forming apparatus displays a replay mark for use to issue a command to replay the movie from the beginning of a sub-movie corresponding to a position where the movie is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20170208205
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus locks a particular cover so as not to be opened based on a particular jam being detected, and displays a particular screen for notifying a user that the particular cover is locked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9706695
    Abstract: In an electronic component mounting system 1 configured by coupling electronic component mounting devices M1 to M4A each having a first substrate transport mechanism 12A and a second substrate transport mechanism 12B together, the electronic component mounting device M4A includes a first tray feeder 20A that stores an electronic component extracted by a first mounting head 15A of a component mounting mechanism as a first work operation mechanism, and a second tray feeder 20B that stores an electronic component extracted by a second mounting head 15B of a component mounting mechanism as a second work operation mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuzo Yagi, Takashi Tamura, Hiroki Yamamoto, Toru Ikeda, Kazuhiro Kishikawa
  • Publication number: 20170139082
    Abstract: To provide a translucent structure, which is excellent in the antiglare property, and which has its sparkle sufficiently suppressed. The translucent structure of the present invention has the following concavo-convex structure on its surface. The concavo-convex structure: having first convex portions having a diameter of larger than 10 ?m in a cross section at a height of 0.05 ?m+the bearing height of a surface shape obtained by measuring a region of 101×135 ?m to 111×148 ?m by a laser microscope, and second convex portions having a diameter of larger than 1 ?m in a cross section at a height of 0.5 ?m+the above bearing height of the surface shape; the average diameter of the first convex portions being larger than 10 ?m and at most 185 ?m in a cross section at a height of 0.05 ?m+the above bearing height of the surface shape; the maximum height of the first convex portions being from 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Azusa TAKAI, Toru IKEDA, Satoshi KASHIWABARA, Yosuke TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20170124438
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of presenting to a user movies that show operation steps for solving a maintenance event occurring in the apparatus without increasing the number of times the user needs to perform the operation of playing the movie. A CPU is configured to play a combination of a plurality of movies as a series of movies that show operation steps for solving a maintenance event occurring in the image forming apparatus. The CPU is further configured to determine a stop point at which the series of movies that is playing stops playing, based on stop point information set for each of the combination of the plurality of movies. The CPU is further configured to stop the series of movies that is playing at the determined stop point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9464598
    Abstract: An exhaust gas cooling device, which cools exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle through heat exchange between the exhaust gas and a coolant, includes: a plurality of tubes through which the exhaust gas flows; a tubular shell which houses the plurality of tubes and is configured to allow the coolant to flow therethrough; and a header plate disposed at an end portion in the shell to prevent the coolant from flowing out of the shell. The header plate includes support holes in which end portions of the plurality of the tubes are fitted and supported, and each of axial end faces of the plurality of tubes is located in the corresponding support hole at a position between both ends of the header plate in a thickness direction of the header plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tomita, Toru Ikeda, Isao Kuroyanagi, Takayuki Hayashi, Takeshi Iguchi, Takao Ikeda, Ryoichi Sanada
  • Patent number: 9429113
    Abstract: An exhaust gas cooling device, which cools exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle through heat exchange between the exhaust gas and a coolant, includes: a plurality of tubes through which the exhaust gas flows; a tubular shell which houses the plurality of tubes and is configured to allow the coolant to flow therethrough; and a header plate disposed at an end portion in the shell to prevent the coolant from flowing out of the shell. The header plate includes support holes in which end portions of the plurality of the tubes are fitted and supported, and each of axial end faces of the plurality of tubes is located in the corresponding support hole at a position between both ends of the header plate in a thickness direction of the header plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tomita, Toru Ikeda, Isao Kuroyanagi, Takayuki Hayashi, Takeshi Iguchi, Takao Ikeda, Ryoichi Sanada
  • Patent number: 9405850
    Abstract: This invention aims to improve the response characteristics of screen display in an information (image) processing apparatus capable of displaying a screen based on screen data provided from a Web server. The image processing apparatus transmits cache data, which is stored in association with content data acquired from a Web server, to a cache management server together with a user ID in logout of a user. The cache management server stores the cache data, which is received from the image processing apparatus, in association with the user ID. When the user then logs in to any image processing apparatus, the cache management server retrieves the cache data, which is stored in association with the user ID transmitted from the image processing apparatus, and transmits the retrieved cache data to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda