Patents by Inventor Toru Yoshida

Toru Yoshida 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).

  • Publication number: 20130057979
    Abstract: A library device in which, even if the relation between the number of pulses of a stepping motor and an encoder count number changes, a movement distance of a medium transfer means can be verified by an encoder count number counted by an encoder sensor is provided. A control means (2) determines a proof factor used when calculating an assumed encoder count number assumed based on the number of pulses according to a movement distance of a medium transfer means (5). When a movement distance of the medium transfer means (5) is verified, an assumed encoder count number, which is assumed based on the above-mentioned determined proof factor and the number of pulses according to the movement distance of the medium transfer means (5), and an actual encoder count number, which is counted by an encoder sensor when a stepping motor is driven by the number of pulses according to the movement distance of medium transfer means (5), are compared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: NEC EMBEDDED PRODUCTS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Suzuki, Toru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8385377
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor laser element configured to emit a fundamental wave; a transducer configured to receive the fundamental wave incident thereon and convert a wavelength of the fundamental wave to emit wavelength converted light; a filter configured to selectively transmit wavelength range light having a desired wavelength range of the wavelength converted light; a sealing member including a light-transmitting member and configured to enclose the semiconductor laser element, the light-transmitting member being configured to receive the wavelength range light transmitted through the filter and incident on the light-transmitting member, specularly reflect part of the wavelength range light, and substantially transmit the remaining part of the wavelength range light; and a photoreceptor configured to receive the specularly reflected light from the light-transmitting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Soejima, Takuya Nagai, Toru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8314948
    Abstract: When a client PC receives a request for printing output data, an imaging apparatus captures an image of a user. The image data of the user captured by the imaging apparatus and the output data is transferred to a management server. The management server performs predetermined image processing on the acquired image data, calculates a characteristic amount of the image data of the user, and registers the calculated characteristic amount and the output data by associating with each other. When the user requests printing of the output data from an image forming apparatus, image data of the user captured by the imaging apparatus is transferred to the management server. The management server calculates a characteristic amount of the acquired image data of the user, compares the calculated characteristic amount with the characteristic amount in the management server, and transfers the output data to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20120283344
    Abstract: A polyethylene resin expanded particle has an expansion ratio of not less than 10 times and not more than 50 times, and in a DSC curve obtained by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), the polyethylene resin expanded particle (i) shows two melting peaks, the two melting peaks being a low-temperature side melting peak and a high-temperature side melting peak, and (ii) further has a shoulder in a region not less than 100° C. and not more than the low-temperature side melting peak temperature, the shoulder having a shoulder ratio which is not less than 0.2% and not more than 3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Nakayama, Toru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8154955
    Abstract: An obstacle detection apparatus includes an ultrasonic sensor and a control part. The ultrasonic sensor detects a presence of an obstacle around a vehicle and a distance to the obstacle by transmitting an ultrasonic wave and receiving the ultrasonic wave reflected by the obstacle. The control part includes at least one of a rainfall amount determining portion and a noise determining portion. When the rainfall determining portion determines that a rainfall amount is greater than a predetermined amount or when the noise determining portion determines that noise is present, the control part outputs a command signal to the ultrasonic sensor so that the ultrasonic sensor decreases a directivity compared with a case where the rainfall determining portion determines that the rainfall amount is less than or equal to the predetermined amount or a case where the noise determining portion determines that noise is not present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20120072747
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of shifting to a power saving mode. The image processing apparatus includes a storing unit configured to store a document in a storage device, a notification unit configured to periodically notify an apparatus of a predetermined destination of information about a document that has been newly stored by the storing unit into the storage device, and a control unit configured to restrict shifting to a power saving mode in which the notification unit cannot make the notification after storage of a document by the storing unit has been completed and until the notification unit notifies at least information about the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20120072471
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that positively notifies a notification destination of information to be notified even if a communication protocol is changed before notifying storage of stored data. A notification setting processing section of a document storage notification application sets a protocol for accessing the stored document data from a computer via a network. When document data is stored in a HDD, a mail transmission processing section notifies the computer of storage location information on the document data for accessing the data according to the set protocol. If the set protocol is changed before the storage location information is notified to the computer, a control section causes the mail transmission processing section to notify the computer of storage location information for causing the document data to be accessed using the changed protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20120033700
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor laser element configured to emit a fundamental wave; a transducer configured to receive the fundamental wave incident thereon and convert a wavelength of the fundamental wave to emit wavelength converted light; a filter configured to selectively transmit wavelength range light having a desired wavelength range of the wavelength converted light; a sealing member including a light-transmitting member and configured to enclose the semiconductor laser element, the light-transmitting member being configured to receive the wavelength range light transmitted through the filter and incident on the light-transmitting member, specularly reflect part of the wavelength range light, and substantially transmit the remaining part of the wavelength range light; and a photoreceptor configured to receive the specularly reflected light from the light-transmitting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Soejima, Takuya Nagai, Toru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20120009382
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a protective sheet for photovoltaic apparatus best-suited to build up a photovoltaic apparatus having higher light efficiency than could be achieved with conventional structure. The protective sheet for photovoltaic apparatus comprises a transparent substrate, and a transparent resin layer located on the surface of the transparent substrate and having fine convexities and concavities. The transparent resin of the transparent resin layer has a refractive index equal to or less than that of the transparent substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: TOSOH F-TECH, INC.
    Inventors: Yasukazu KISHIMOTO, Toru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20110281963
    Abstract: Provided are polypropylene resin pre-foamed particles including, as base resin, polypropylene resin that satisfies the following requirements (a) through (c): (a) in cross fractionation chromatography, an amount of components eluted at a temperature of not more than 40° C. is not more than 2.0% by weight; (b) a melting point is not less than 100° C. but not more than 160° C.; and (c) propylene monomer units are present in an amount of not less than 90 mol % but not more than 100 mol %, and olefin units each having a carbon number of 2 or 4 or more are present in an amount of not less than 0 mol % but not more than 10 mol %. The polypropylene resin pre-foamed particles can be molded by in-mold foaming molding at a not high molding heating steam pressure, and a polypropylene resin in-mold foaming molded product excellent in dimensional stability at high temperatures can be prepared from the polypropylene resin pre-foamed particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yoshida, Hiroshi Tsuneishi
  • Publication number: 20110253951
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for low-refractive-index films, components (b) and (c), and an organic solvent. Component (b) is a fluorine-containing polymer. Component (c) is one or more of acrylic acid derivatives and methacrylic acid derivatives having 1 to 5 acryloyl groups or methacryloyl groups. Component (b) is a copolymer comprising 10 to 50 parts by mole of one or more of fluorine-containing polymers having cyclic structures as represented by formulae (1), (2) and (3), and tetrafluoroethylene; 0 to 50 parts by mole of hexafluoropropylene; 90 to 10 parts by mole of vinylidene fluoride; and 10 to 100 parts by mole of vinyl fluoride and component (b) is one or more of methacrylate compounds and acrylate compounds containing a fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: TOSOH F-TECH, INC.
    Inventors: Toru YOSHIDA, Yasukazu KISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110256375
    Abstract: The invention has for its object to coat a single layer form of low-refractive organic thin-film layer on a cover glass of a solar battery to enhance the light-collection efficiency of a solar battery module by a simple method, thereby enhancing the ability of collect sunlight. The invention provides a coating layer for solar batteries which can be formed directly on a protective layer of a solar battery module and used in direct contact with the air. The fluorine-containing coating layer for solar batteries is characterized by having a fluorine content of 5% by weight or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: TOSOH F-TECH, INC.
    Inventors: Toru YOSHIDA, Yasukazu Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 7983578
    Abstract: An image forming device includes an image forming section; a storage section that stores a target darkness of a standard image; a measurement section that measures the darkness of the image formed by the image forming section; a user calibration section that causes the image forming section to form a standard image causes the measurement section to measure the darkness of that standard image, and if there is a discrepancy between the darkness of the standard image specified by the measurement of the physical quantity and the target darkness stored in the storage section, adjusts the image formation conditions to eliminate the discrepancy; a manual darkness adjustment section that changes the image formation conditions to content that is specified by the user; a control section that causes the image forming section to follow image formation conditions that do not reflect the content changed by the manual darkness adjustment section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Yoshida, Shigeru Tsukada
  • Patent number: 7869724
    Abstract: An image density control device includes a first detecting unit that detects a light amount of first specular reflected light which is reflected from a surface of an image carrier, a second detecting unit that detects a light amount of first diffuse reflected light which is reflected from an image on the surface of the image carrier, a surface change information acquiring unit that acquires a surface change information which shows changes with time, and a control unit that corrects the light amount of the first specular reflected light by using the surface change information to a light amount of second specular reflected light, and controls the density of the image by using the light amount of the first diffuse reflected light and the light amount of the second specular reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Yamasaki, Shunichiro Shishikura, Toru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100332691
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an interface unit configured to connect with a peripheral device capable of loading a storage medium, a first processing unit configured to execute a process for causing the storage medium inserted into the peripheral device connected to the interface unit to be in an unusable state, a connection detection unit configured to detect that the peripheral device is connected to the interface unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether the storage medium which is caused by the first processing unit to be in the unusable state is inserted into the peripheral device detected by the connection detection unit, and a control unit configured to control the first processing unit to cause the storage medium to be in the unusable state according to the determination unit determining that the storage medium which is caused by the first processing unit to be in the unusable state is inserted into the peripheral device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100318902
    Abstract: A processing apparatus that can produce a suitable display according to a user's operation purpose, thus improving operability for a user. A purpose of a user's operation is determined, and processing capacity information on the processing apparatus, which suits the determined purpose, is obtained. Based on the obtained processing capacity information, a type of document information to be displayed is determined. The display information is generated in accordance with document information corresponding to the determined type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100267850
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing expanded polyolefin resin particles whose cells are not made nonuniform or extremely smaller as seen in conventional expanded particles, whose cell diameter and expansion ratio can be easily controlled independently, and which, when subjected to in-mold expansion molding, give in-mold expanded molded products satisfactory in fusibility and excellent in surface properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Toru Yoshida, Jun Fukuzawa, Takamasa Imai, Kiyoshi Mori, Hiroshi Tsuneishi
  • Publication number: 20100246327
    Abstract: An obstacle detection apparatus includes an ultrasonic sensor and a control part. The ultrasonic sensor detects a presence of an obstacle around a vehicle and a distance to the obstacle by transmitting an ultrasonic wave and receiving the ultrasonic wave reflected by the obstacle. The control part includes at least one of a rainfall amount determining portion and a noise determining portion. When the rainfall determining portion determines that a rainfall amount is greater than a predetermined amount or when the noise determining portion determines that noise is present, the control part outputs a command signal to the ultrasonic sensor so that the ultrasonic sensor decreases a directivity compared with a case where the rainfall determining portion determines that the rainfall amount is less than or equal to the predetermined amount or a case where the noise determining portion determines that noise is not present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7774853
    Abstract: A document processing device comprises, an authentication unit adapted to authenticate the user, a history information storage unit adapted to store history information indicating that document data was processed after the document data was stored in a document management server, the history information including identification information for identifying the document data was processed after the document data was stored in a document management server, a user access right judgment unit adapted to judge whether or not the authenticated user has an access right to each document data corresponding to the identification information included in the history information, a display unit adapted to display information for enable a user to select the document data to which the authenticated user has the access right from among the document data corresponding to the identification information included in the history information, and a processing unit adapted to process to the document data selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100053646
    Abstract: An image density control device includes: a light irradiation unit that irradiates an irradiation light of a wave-length, in which reflectance of a second color layer is higher than reflectance of a first color layer, onto an image which is a laminated layer image formed by an image forming unit on an image carrier and formed out of the first color layer and the second color layer laminated on the first color layer; a detection unit that detects a quantity of a reflection light reflected on the laminated layer image irradiated by the irradiation light from the light irradiation unit; and a control unit that controls density of the image according to the quantity of the reflection light detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Shunichiro Shishikura, Naoya Yamasaki, Toru Yoshida