Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Kubota

Tsutomu Kubota 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: 20230393792
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation unit for receiving an instruction given by a user, and according to receipt of a request of a print-and-delivery job from an external apparatus, performs print processing to produce a print and passes the produced print to a print delivery apparatus that delivers a print to a designated delivery destination. A controller controls an order of execution of jobs. In a state in which a print-and-delivery job has been registered in a job queue of the image forming apparatus, in a case where an instruction for executing a predetermined job which cannot be processed in parallel with the print-and-delivery job is received from the operation unit, the controller performs predetermined job priority control for causing the predetermined job to be preferentially executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: MOTOKI KOSHIGAYA, MANABU HADA, TSUTOMU KUBOTA, TATSUYA OGAWA, HIDETAKA TABUCHI, TSUNAHITO NAKASHITA, AKITOMO FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20230384984
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs printing based on a print job and receives a completion notification from an automatic printed material delivery apparatus. Based on receipt of the completion notification, the image forming apparatus transmits a receipt acknowledgement request to a personal computer (PC) corresponding to a user (a requested user or a designated user) based on the job. Further, the image forming apparatus receives, from the PC, an acknowledgement notification based on a user operation performed on the PC in connection with the receipt acknowledgement request. In response to receipt of the acknowledgement notification, the image forming apparatus registers information indicating that the printed material has been received by the user based on the job as a job log of the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: TSUNAHITO NAKASHITA, TSUTOMU KUBOTA, MANABU HADA, MOTOKI KOSHIGAYA, TATSUYA OGAWA, HIDETAKA TABUCHI, AKITOMO FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20230367520
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of preventing a delay in a processing for delivering other printed matter due to the absence of a user is provided. The image forming apparatus that performs a print processing to produce a printed matter in accordance with an instruction from a user, and that transmits a delivery instruction that a delivery destination of the printed matter is set to a printed matter delivery apparatus, includes a controller that executes a presence confirmation processing for the user, and in a case that the presence of the user has been confirmed, transmits a delivery instruction that the user is set as the delivery destination to the printed matter delivery apparatus, and in a case that the presence of the user has not been confirmed, transmits a delivery instruction that a deputy for the user is set as the delivery destination to the printed matter delivery apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: TSUTOMU KUBOTA, MANABU HADA, MOTOKI KOSHIGAYA, TATSUYA OGAWA, TSUNAHITO NAKASHITA, HIDETAKA TABUCHI, AKITOMO FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11647133
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a user of information, and a controller configured to identify at least one unit based on an operation performed by the user among a plurality of units included in the apparatus, wherein the notification unit can notify the user of first information indicating the identified at least one unit and second information regarding disinfection of the identified at least one unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kubota, Motoki Koshigaya, Tatsuya Ogawa, Hidetaka Tabuchi, Tsunahito Nakashita
  • Publication number: 20220362418
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sterilization unit that performs sterilization with an ultraviolet light source a part of the information processing apparatus that is operated on, a management unit that manages lifetime information corresponding to a product lifetime of the ultraviolet light source and usage information corresponding to an irradiation time and an irradiation output of the ultraviolet light source, and a control unit that controls the ultraviolet light source in a first control mode of controlling the ultraviolet light source with a first irradiation time and a first irradiation output or in a second control mode of controlling the ultraviolet light source with a second irradiation time shorter than the first irradiation time and a second irradiation output higher than the first irradiation output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Motoki Koshigaya, Tsutomu Kubota, Tatsuya Ogawa, Hidetaka Tabuchi, Tsunahito Nakashita
  • Publication number: 20220348391
    Abstract: A packaging body configured with a packaging film, in which the outermost layer is a polyethylene-based resin layer and the polyethylene-based resin layer is uniaxially or biaxially stretched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki SAKURAI, Tsutomu KUBOTA, Hiroyuki WAKAKI, Tatsuya TOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220214644
    Abstract: Conventionally, an image forming apparatus including a plurality of antennas for detecting for an arrival direction of a radio wave was not invented. In the present invention, a communication board including a plurality of antennas for wireless communicating with a communication terminal is provided on a front side with respect to a front-rear direction of an image forming apparatus including an imager forming unit in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Kozo Toda, Tsutomu Kubota, Akitomo Fukui, Shozo Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20220152238
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including at least one unit that receives a user operation, the information processing apparatus includes an ultraviolet irradiation device that performs disinfection processing for disinfecting at least a part of the at least one unit, an operation unit including a display that provides notification to a user, and a controller, wherein during the disinfection processing for the at least a part of the at least one unit, the controller causes the operation unit to provide notification to the user not to touch the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Tsunahito Nakashita, Tsutomu Kubota, Motoki Koshigaya, Tatsuya Ogawa, Hidetaka Tabuchi
  • Patent number: 11301026
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is capable of securing electric power needed to complete data writing to a nonvolatile memory even if supplied voltage drops. The information processing apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory that caches write data to the nonvolatile memory. A first power supply unit generates electric power supplied to the nonvolatile memory and the volatile memory by a switching operation. A power source controller lowers a switching frequency of the first power supply unit and controls the first power supply unit to supply the electric power to the nonvolatile memory and the volatile memory in a case where voltage supplied to the information processing apparatus drops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsutomu Kubota
  • Publication number: 20220078290
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a user of information, and a controller configured to identify at least one unit based on an operation performed by the user among a plurality of units included in the apparatus, wherein the notification unit can notify the user of first information indicating the identified at least one unit and second information regarding disinfection of the identified at least one unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kubota, Motoki Koshigaya, Tatsuya Ogawa, Hidetaka Tabuchi, Tsunahito Nakashita
  • Patent number: 11170666
    Abstract: A dental treatment training apparatus allows practice of complex treatments involving high accuracy and skill levels. A dental treatment training apparatus for providing a simulated treatment in which a treatment instrument is applied onto a tooth model includes a display unit that displays, in a superimposed manner, 3D image information based on predefined 3D information about the tooth model and the treatment instrument on a 3D view image, a position detector that detects 3D positional information about the tooth model, the treatment instrument, and the display unit, and a control unit that causes the display unit to display, in a superimposed manner, 3D image information corresponding to an item selected on a superimposed selection operation display for allowing selection of an item associated with the simulated treatment based on the 3D positional information detected by the position detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: J.MORITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kubota, Gaku Yoshimoto, Toshitaka Sekioka, Tomohisa Takagi
  • Publication number: 20200285299
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is capable of securing electric power needed to complete data writing to a nonvolatile memory even if supplied voltage drops. The information processing apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory that caches write data to the nonvolatile memory. A first power supply unit generates electric power supplied to the nonvolatile memory and the volatile memory by a switching operation. A power source controller lowers a switching frequency of the first power supply unit and controls the first power supply unit to supply the electric power to the nonvolatile memory and the volatile memory in a case where voltage supplied to the information processing apparatus drops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventor: Tsutomu Kubota
  • Patent number: 10648503
    Abstract: A slide surface of a thrust bearing includes a planar portion, a taper portion, and a pocket portion. The pocket portion includes a bottom surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface. The first side surface is formed on the side of the taper portion. The second side surface is formed on a side opposed to the first side surface. A depth from the plane of the planar portion to the thinnest portion of the taper portion is between 10 ?m and 80 ?m. A first angle that is an angle between a virtual surface obtained by extending the bottom surface and the second side surface is between 90° and 120°. And a second angle that is an angle between a virtual surface obtained by extending the first side surface and the tapered surface is between 60° and 120°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Uematsu, Takashi Koyama, Tsutomu Kubota, Tadashi Namba
  • Patent number: 10638528
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates a beacon packet including state information indicating an operational state of the self-apparatus, and periodically transmits the packet by a short-range wireless communication. A mobile terminal, when a data packet transmission request to the information processing apparatus occurs, detects the beacon packet transmitted from the information processing apparatus from signals received by the short-range wireless communication. When the mobile terminal detects the beacon packet, it controls the timing of initiating transmission of a data packet in accordance with the operational state of the information processing apparatus which the state information included in the beacon packet indicates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsutomu Kubota
  • Publication number: 20200005676
    Abstract: A dental treatment training apparatus allows practice of complex treatments involving high accuracy and skill levels. A dental treatment training apparatus for providing a simulated treatment in which a treatment instrument is applied onto a tooth model includes a display unit that displays, in a superimposed manner, 3D image information based on predefined 3D information about the tooth model and the treatment instrument on a 3D view image, a position detector that detects 3D positional information about the tooth model, the treatment instrument, and the display unit, and a control unit that causes the display unit to display, in a superimposed manner, 3D image information corresponding to an item selected on a superimposed selection operation display for allowing selection of an item associated with the simulated treatment based on the 3D positional information detected by the position detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Tsutomu KUBOTA, Gaku YOSHIMOTO, Toshitaka SEKIOKA, Tomohisa TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20190387127
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus with a plurality of network interfaces includes: at least one controller configured to function as; a unit that associates network information related to any one of the plurality of network interfaces with a folder that stores data; a unit that determines, based on at least the network information, whether or not to permit an external device that communicates with the information processing apparatus via a network corresponding to the network information to perform predetermined communication relating to the folder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventor: Tsutomu Kubota
  • Publication number: 20190186533
    Abstract: A slide surface of a thrust bearing includes a planar portion, a taper portion, and a pocket portion. The pocket portion includes a bottom surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface. The first side surface is formed on the side of the taper portion. The second side surface is formed on a side opposed to the first side surface. A depth from the plane of the planar portion to the thinnest portion of the taper portion is between 10 ?m and 80 ?m. A first angle that is an angle between a virtual surface obtained by extending the bottom surface and the second side surface is between 90° and 120°. And a second angle that is an angle between a virtual surface obtained by extending the first side surface and the tapered surface is between 60° and 120°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta UEMATSU, Takashi KOYAMA, Tsutomu KUBOTA, Tadashi NAMBA
  • Patent number: 10294987
    Abstract: A bearing device includes a thrust bearing. The thrust bearing has a bearing surface in a half-split ring shape, and a plurality of oil grooves formed to cross the bearing surface from an inner circumferential side to an outer circumferential side. Further, the thrust bearing includes a first thrust bearing that is disposed on a side surface facing a side of a transmission, and a second thrust bearing that is disposed on a side surface facing an opposite side to the transmission. In the first thrust bearing, a bearing surface between the plurality of oil grooves is configured by including a taper surface formed so that a wall thickness becomes thicker toward a rotation direction of the crankshaft. Further, in the second thrust bearing, a bearing surface between the plurality of oil grooves is configured by a plane in which a wall thickness is constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Koyama, Yuta Uematsu, Tsutomu Kubota
  • Publication number: 20180274586
    Abstract: A bearing device includes a thrust bearing. The thrust bearing has a bearing surface in a half-split ring shape, and a plurality of oil grooves formed to cross the bearing surface from an inner circumferential side to an outer circumferential side. Further, the thrust bearing includes a first thrust bearing that is disposed on a side surface facing a side of a transmission, and a second thrust bearing that is disposed on a side surface facing an opposite side to the transmission. In the first thrust bearing, a bearing surface between the plurality of oil grooves is configured by including a taper surface formed so that a wall thickness becomes thicker toward a rotation direction of the crankshaft. Further, in the second thrust bearing, a bearing surface between the plurality of oil grooves is configured by a plane in which a wall thickness is constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TAIHO KOGYO CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi KOYAMA, Yuta UEMATSU, Tsutomu KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20180216608
    Abstract: Swash plate 3, which is a sliding member, includes base material 31, and coating layer 31 that is formed on base material 31 and has a thickness of 10 ?m or more. Coating layer 31 includes binder resin 321 and solid lubricant 322, which is dispersed in binder resin 321 and has a c-axis orientation, and a relative c-axis intensity ratio of solid lubricant 321 in coating layer 32 is 80% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Tsutomu KUBOTA