Patents by Inventor Toshio Honma
Toshio Honma 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: 20200024388Abstract: A polyester resin composition includes a copolymer of a polycarboxylic acid component and a polyol component. The polycarboxylic acid component includes terephthalic acid and/or a derivative thereof The polyol component includes ethylene glycol and/or a derivative thereof and 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediol and/or a derivative thereof. A content by percentage of 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediol and/or the derivative thereof is 27 mol % to 55 mol % based on the total amount of the polyol component. The composition has an intrinsic viscosity of 0.5 dl/g to 0.6 dl/g.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2017Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Yusuke ITO, Tomomitsu UENO, Hideaki TOMURA, Masahiro YAMA, Tetsuo NISHIKAWA, Toshio HONMA
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Patent number: 7464048Abstract: There is disclosed an invention for generating contract information for an image forming apparatus for which the user is going to conclude a contract. The history information of an image forming apparatus used by the user and having a contract history is stored and managed in correlation with the user. Such management is executed in a center server capable communication with the image forming apparatus through a predetermined communication channel. The above-mentioned information includes contract term, machine type, number of print outputs etc. of the image forming apparatus. Also the image forming apparatus to be managed includes that currently contracted and that contracted in the past. In case the user wishes to conclude a new contract for an image forming apparatus, new contract information is generated according to the history information managed by the center server in correlation with the user. This invention provides a system capable of realizing the foregoing.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Ishii, Toshio Honma, Shigeru Ueda, Hironobu Araki, Yoshinori Ikeda, Naoji Hayakawa, Masanori Miyata, Hiroshi Omura, Hirokazu Uchio, Kengo Kawamoto
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Publication number: 20080083287Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a low cost load sensor while securing compact dimensions, high reliability and quality, and also to provide a manufacturing method of the load sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2005Publication date: April 10, 2008Inventors: Daiji Uehara, Yasushi Yamamoto, Toshio Honma
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Publication number: 20010034745Abstract: There is disclosed an invention for generating contract information for an image forming apparatus for which the user is going to conclude a contract. The history information of an image forming apparatus used by the user and having a contract history is stored and managed in correlation with the user. Such management is executed in a center server capable communication with the image forming apparatus through a predetermined communication channel. The above-mentioned information includes contract term, machine type, number of print outputs etc. of the image forming apparatus. Also the image forming apparatus to be managed includes that currently contracted and that contracted in the past. In case the user wishes to conclude a new contract for an image forming apparatus, new contract information is generated according to the history information managed by the center server in correlation with the user. This invention provides a system capable of realizing the foregoing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2001Publication date: October 25, 2001Inventors: Hiroaki Ishii, Toshio Honma, Shigeru Ueda, Hironobu Araki, Yoshinori Ikeda, Naoji Hayakawa, Masanori Miyata, Hiroshi Omura, Hirokazu Uchio, Kengo Kawamoto
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Patent number: 6088138Abstract: An image forming apparatus arranged to receive image information from a memory device for storing color image information and then to form an image on an image-forming medium. This apparatus allows an operator to specify the size and the layout of a color image to be formed on the image-forming medium while viewing a display provided on a monitor device. The apparatus can change the size of the color image information read from the memory device to the required magnification in accordance with a command given by the specifying element, thereby producing a printout. In this case, the operator can adjust the image quality of image information to be printed out while visually confirming the quality of the image displayed on the monitor device, whereby no proof printout is needed.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1994Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Sakai, Toshihiro Kadowaki, Yoshinori Ikeda, Takayuki Komine, Toshio Honma
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Patent number: 6037855Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a rotary electric component having a groove for adjustment with a screw-driver. In the rotary electric component, a rotor having a screw-driver groove and a through hole, with an electrically conductive pattern being formed on the underside thereof, is mounted rotatably on a support shaft which is inserted into the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1999Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshio Honma
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Patent number: 5933587Abstract: An image processing apparatus reads an image and synthesizes it with another, broadcast-standardized image signal supplied from outside the apparatus and stored in a memory provided in the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1997Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Sakai, Hiroyuki Horii, Takayuki Komine, Yasumichi Suzuki, Yoshinori Ikeda, Toshio Honma
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Patent number: 5885318Abstract: A bushing base plate comprised of a bushing base raw plate containing a circular or irregular aperture having inner surfaces and inner diameters; and a hollow tube having outer surfaces and out diameters which is inserted into the aperture and bonded thereto by thermal diffusion. Prior to insertion of the tube in the aperture, the outer diameters are greater than the inner diameters, thereby producing a pressing force between the outer surfaces of the tube and the inner surfaces of the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1995Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.Inventors: Susumu Shimizu, Makoto Mitani, Katsumi Suguro, Toshio Honma
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Patent number: 5760927Abstract: An image processing apparatus reads an image and synthesizes it with another, broadcast standardized image signal supplied from outside the apparatus and stored in a memory provided in the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1994Date of Patent: June 2, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Sakai, Hiroyuki Horii, Takayuki Komine, Yasumichi Suzuki, Yoshinori Ikeda, Toshio Honma
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Patent number: 5748335Abstract: An image reading apparatus such as a color copying apparatus has a plurality of sensing CCD chips for converting an image of an object into an electrical signal, each sensing CCD chip having a plurality of sensing elements. The apparatus also has a circuit for converting the electrical signal into digital data. A first adjusting circuit is provided for conducting either an operation for obtaining level matching of the electrical signal converted by the sensing chips, or an operation for controlling the gain of the electrical signal converted by the sensing chips.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshio Honma, Nobuo Matsuoka, Shizuo Hasegawa, Yasumichi Suzuki, Hiroshi Itagaki, Kenji Sasahara
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Patent number: 5703694Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input device for image data, a discriminating device for discriminating a type of an image represented by the image data, a setting device for setting a discrimination standard of the discriminating device, and a display for displaying a condition of the setting device.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1996Date of Patent: December 30, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Ikeda, Hiroyuki Ichikawa, Mitsuru Kurita, Kimiyoshi Hayashi, Toshio Honma, Yoshiko Horie
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Patent number: 5631983Abstract: An image processing system includes an image reader, a first image storing memory, a second image storing memory arranged in an external device, and a unit for synthesizing an image read by the image reader with the image stored in the first image storing memory on the basis of data read out from the second image storing memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1995Date of Patent: May 20, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Ohnishi, Masanori Sakai, Takayuki Komine, Toshihiro Kadowaki, Naoto Arakawa, Toshio Honma
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Patent number: 5602655Abstract: An image forming apparatus and an electronic device for outputting data to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus comprises an interface for inputting single bit image data and a command from an external device, a first store for storing the single bit image data, a second store for receiving and storing color data for coloring the single bit image data, and an image forming device for forming a color image on the basis of the data in the first and second stores. The electronic device includes a first output for outputting single bit image data, a second output for outputting a color number for one pixel of color image data, and a third output for outputting both first multi-level color component data for the single bit image data and second multi-level color component data for the color number.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1995Date of Patent: February 11, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoto Arakawa, Masanori Sakai, Toshihiro Kadowaki, Tetsuya Ohnishi, Toshio Honma
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Patent number: 5596427Abstract: An image reading apparatus such as a color copying apparatus has a plurality of sensing CCD chips for converting an image of an object into an electrical signal, each sensing CCD chip having a plurality of sensing elements. The apparatus also has a circuit for converting the electrical signal into digital data. A first adjusting circuit is provided for conducting either an operation for obtaining level matching of the electrical signal converted by the sensing chips, or an operation for controlling the gain of the electrical signal converted by the sensing chips.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1994Date of Patent: January 21, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshio Honma, Nobuo Matsuoka, Shizuo Hasegawa, Yasumichi Suzuki, Hiroshi Itagaki, Kenji Sasahara
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Patent number: 5550638Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a circuit for inputting a plurality of color component signals of a subtractive color system, a circuit for detecting a minimum value signal of the color component signals input by the input means, a circuit for emphasizing a high-frequency component of the minimum value signal detected by the detection means, and a circuit for discriminating a feature of an image in accordance with the minimum value signal whose high-frequency component is emphasized by the emphasizing means.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: August 27, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Ikeda, Hiroyuki Ichikawa, Mitsuru Kurita, Kimiyoshi Hayashi, Toshio Honma, Yoshiko Horie
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Patent number: 5481335Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a device for setting the apparatus in a check mode to check a state of the apparatus and for selectively executing one of a plurality of check operations. In one aspect, each check operation is set using a commonly provided numeral key, and the check mode is unconditionally released using a clear key. In another aspect, one of the check modes includes a test movement of a movable member used in image formation. In still other aspects, sheet transporting operations are controlled based on the location of a sheet jam, or based on the selection of a sheet sorter. The state of each of the image formation devices is checked even if an improper state has already been detected, plural error states are repeatedly displayed in a specific order, and a display unit is commonly used.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1994Date of Patent: January 2, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsushi Furuichi, Yoshikazu Yokomizo, Toshio Honma, Katsumi Murakami
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Patent number: 5333068Abstract: An image processing system including: a reproducing apparatus to reproduce a plurality of image signals recorded on a recording medium; and an image forming apparatus to form the image signals of a plurality of picture planes which were read out of the reproducing apparatus as a plurality of visible images. The reproducing apparatus and the image forming apparatus process the plurality of image signals, while communicating with each other via a wire. With this system, since the image recording and reproducing apparatus can be preferably controlled on the image forming apparatus side, the image forming apparatus can be provided in a portable small image recording and reproducing apparatus such as an electronic still camera which executes an electrophotographic image process.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1993Date of Patent: July 26, 1994Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Sakai, Saburo Nakazato, Takayuki Komine, Norio Nakajima, Tetsuya Ohnishi, Toshio Honma, Yasutomo Suzuki, Toshihiro Kadowaki
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Patent number: 5317727Abstract: In a data base processing method including a central processing unit for analyzing a plurality of queries made from a plurality of users so as to determine an internal processing procedure with respect to a data base, and for performing the internal processing procedure; a secondary storage for storing data capable of being shared by each user; and, an input/output controlling processing unit including at least one cache storage, for controlling a transfer of a plurality of records which are required for input/output processing operations between the central processing unit and secondary storage.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1989Date of Patent: May 31, 1994Assignees: Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd., Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Tsuchida, Kazuhiko Ohmachi, Toshio Honma, Yasuhiro Imai, Nobuo Kawamura
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Patent number: 5296946Abstract: There is provided a color image processing apparatus in which, by making use of an image reading apparatus of a digital full-color copying apparatus, the designated color to be obtained after conversion is input and stored as component ratio of color-separated image data, and monochromatic image data proportional to the gradation levels, e.g., density, lightness, luminance and so forth are obtained from the color separated image data produced from the original image, the monochromatic image data thus obtained being converted into the color separation data corresponding to the component ratio of the designated color to be obtained after conversion, thereby making it possible to preserve the hue of the designated color and to effect color conversion to the designated color having gradation proportional to the gradation of the original image.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1992Date of Patent: March 22, 1994Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihiro Kadowaki, Tetsuya Ohnishi, Koichi Katoh, Yasumichi Suzuki, Toshio Honma
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Patent number: 5285290Abstract: This invention provides an image storing apparatus which can store input image information while preserving the aspect ratio thereof. The image storing apparatus compares the memory capacity of a memory device with the size of the input image information to change the size of the input image to the required magnification, thereby preventing the image to be stored from being partially cut away. Moreover, if another image information is allowed to be stored in the memory device, this image information can be stored in the same, whereby image information can be efficiently stored.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1989Date of Patent: February 8, 1994Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Sakai, Toshihiro Kadowaki, Toshio Honma, Takayuki Komine