Patents by Inventor Wataru Uchida

Wataru Uchida 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: 11963816
    Abstract: A radiation image capturing system includes a capturing room and a console. The capturing room includes a bucky apparatus, a radiation irradiating apparatus and a detecting unit. A plurality of portable radiation image capturing apparatuses can be loaded on the bucky apparatus. The radiation irradiating apparatus is able to simultaneously irradiate radiation to the plurality of portable radiation image capturing apparatuses. The console is associated with the capturing room and obtains capturing order information. The console allows the portable radiation image capturing apparatuses to advance to a capturing possible state when the console judges that capturing in the capturing order information is long length capturing. The console allows only one of the portable radiation image capturing apparatuses to advance to the capturing possible state when the console judges that the capturing is not the long length capturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Wataru Matsushita, Kenroku Ubukata, Hidetake Tezuka, Tomonori Gido, Fumikage Uchida, Hisashi Yonekawa, Hirotaka Hara
  • Publication number: 20240091936
    Abstract: A robot automation system includes circuitry configured to generate a plurality of task patterns that are candidates of a task flow for performing a job including a plurality of tasks by at least one robot. Each of the plurality of task patterns includes a corresponding relationship between the plurality of tasks and the at least one robot. The circuitry is further configured to calculate an estimated cycle time of the job based on a simulation in which the at least one robot performs the plurality of tasks, for each of the plurality of task patterns. The circuitry is further configured to generate, as an operation program, at least one task flow for performing the job by the at least one robot, in response to comparing a preset reference cycle time for the job with the estimated cycle time for each of the plurality of task patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Wataru WATANABE, Makoto TAKAHASHI, Masahiro GOYA, Tomoaki UCHIDA, Satoshi HIRONAKA
  • Publication number: 20240012350
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material; and a guide member for guiding the recording material. The guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material The guide member is moved when the guide member is pushed by the recording material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tomooku Koyama, Ken Murooka, Wataru Uchida, Jun Agata, Yohei Suzuki, Daisuke Takamura
  • Patent number: 11803139
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material; and a guide member for guiding the recording material. The guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material The guide member is moved when the guide member is pushed by the recording material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomooku Koyama, Ken Murooka, Wataru Uchida, Jun Agata, Yohei Suzuki, Daisuke Takamura
  • Publication number: 20230043125
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material; and a guide member for guiding the recording material. The guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material The guide member is moved when the guide member is pushed by the recording material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Tomooku Koyama, Ken Murooka, Wataru Uchida, Jun Agata, Yohei Suzuki, Daisuke Takamura
  • Publication number: 20230009949
    Abstract: A translation device includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of pieces of learning data, a normalized sentence learning unit configured to perform learning on the plurality of pieces of learning data by combining original text for learning and a corresponding normalized sentence for learning, a translated sentence learning unit configured to perform learning on the plurality of pieces of learning data by combining the original text for learning and a corresponding translated sentence for learning, and a model generation unit configured to generate one normalization/translation model on the basis of a result of learning by the normalized sentence learning unit and the translated sentence learning unit, in which, on at least a part of the learning data, the translated sentence learning unit performs learning after the normalized sentence learning unit performs learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu NAKAMURA, Noritaka OKAMOTO, Wataru UCHIDA, Yoshinori ISODA
  • Patent number: 11506999
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material, and a guide member for guiding the recording material, wherein the guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material. The fixing portion includes a cylindrical belt and a roller contacting an outer surface of the belt for forming a fixing nip through which the recording material is to be passed, wherein the roller has a shape such that a diameter thereof is increased with a distance thereof toward the end portion with respect to the direction perpendicular to the feeding direction, and the guide member is moved when the guide member is pushed by the recording material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomooku Koyama, Ken Murooka, Wataru Uchida, Jun Agata, Yohei Suzuki, Daisuke Takamura
  • Publication number: 20220245363
    Abstract: A generation device is a device that generates a translated sentence in a second language from an input sentence in a first language to be translated. The generation device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires the input sentence; a normalization unit that converts the input sentence into a normalized sentence that is a grammatically correct sentence in the first language; and a first translation unit that generates the translated sentence by translating the normalized sentence into the second language using first parallel translation data that is parallel translation data between the first language and the second language. The normalization unit generates the normalized sentence by using second parallel translation data that is parallel translation data between a third language and the first language. A data amount of the second parallel translation data is larger than a data amount of the first parallel translation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu NAKAMURA, Noritaka OKAMOTO, Wataru UCHIDA, Yoshinori ISODA
  • Publication number: 20210173332
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material; and a guide member for guiding the recording material. The guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material The guide member is moved when the guide member is pushed by the recording material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Tomooku Koyama, Ken Murooka, Wataru Uchida, Jun Agata, Yohei Suzuki, Daisuke Takamura
  • Patent number: 10955774
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material; and a guide member for guiding the recording material. The guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material The guide member is moved when the guide member is pushed by the recording material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomooku Koyama, Ken Murooka, Wataru Uchida, Jun Agata, Yohei Suzuki, Daisuke Takamura
  • Publication number: 20200125013
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material; and a guide member for guiding the recording material. The guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material The guide member is moved when the guide member is pushed by the recording material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Tomooku Koyama, Ken Murooka, Wataru Uchida, Jun Agata, Yohei Suzuki, Daisuke Takamura
  • Patent number: 10551774
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material; and a guide member for guiding the recording material. The guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material. The guide member is moved when the guide member is pushed by the recording material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomooku Koyama, Ken Murooka, Wataru Uchida, Jun Agata, Yohei Suzuki, Daisuke Takamura
  • Patent number: 10481552
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms a toner image on a recording medium includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording medium; a fixing unit that heats the recording medium bearing the unfixed toner image and fixes the unfixed toner image onto the recording medium at a nip portion; a heating member and a pressurizing member that touches the heating member and forms the nip portion therebetween; a first blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the heating member; and a second blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the pressurizing member. Upon the temperature of the non-sheet-passing area of the heating member exceeding a threshold temperature, the first blower blows without the second blower blowing, then the two blowers start blowing together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taisuke Minagawa, Satoru Izawa, Takahiro Uchiyama, Jun Asami, Toshiya Kaino, Wataru Uchida, Ken Murooka, Yasuhiko Fuse, Masatoshi Yoshida, Tomooku Koyama
  • Patent number: 10108141
    Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly, a developing cartridge, and a cartridge supporting member movable between an inside position in which the pair of the process cartridge and the developing cartridge are located at an image forming position and an outside position in which the process cartridge and the developing cartridge are mountable and demountable. A first portion-to-be-pressed is provided on the process cartridge, a main assembly side process cartridge urging member is provided in the main assembly for pressing the first portion-to-be-pressed when the cartridge supporting member is in the inside position, and a second portion-to-be-pressed is provided on the developing cartridge. In addition, a main assembly side developing cartridge urging member is provided for pressing the second portion-to-be-pressed when the cartridge supporting member is located at the inside position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Uchida, Takeshi Niimura
  • Publication number: 20180267461
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms a toner image on a recording medium includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording medium; a fixing unit that heats the recording medium bearing the unfixed toner image and fixes the unfixed toner image onto the recording medium at a nip portion; a heating member and a pressurizing member that touches the heating member and forms the nip portion therebetween; a first blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the heating member; and a second blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the pressurizing member. Upon the temperature of the non-sheet-passing area of the heating member exceeding a threshold temperature, the first blower blows without the second blower blowing, then the two blowers start blowing together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Taisuke Minagawa, Satoru Izawa, Takahiro Uchiyama, Jun Asami, Toshiya Kaino, Wataru Uchida, Ken Murooka, Yasuhiko Fuse, Masatoshi Yoshida, Tomooku Koyama
  • Patent number: 10031476
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms a toner image on a recording medium includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording medium; a fixing unit that heats the recording medium bearing the unfixed toner image and fixes the unfixed toner image onto the recording medium at a nip portion; a heating member and a pressurizing member that touches the heating member and forms the nip portion therebetween; a blower having a fan and duct, that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the heating member; wherein the duct includes a second opening through which airflow from the fan is directed to the conveyance roller pair, and wherein the second opening of the duct is configured not to overlap with the non-sheet-passing area of the heating member in a longitudinal direction of the heating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taisuke Minagawa, Satoru Izawa, Takahiro Uchiyama, Jun Asami, Toshiya Kaino, Wataru Uchida, Ken Murooka, Yasuhiko Fuse, Masatoshi Yoshida, Tomooku Koyama
  • Publication number: 20180136595
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material; and a guide member for guiding the recording material. The guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material The guide member is moved when the guide member is pushed by the recording material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Tomooku Koyama, Ken Murooka, Wataru Uchida, Jun Agata, Yohei Suzuki, Daisuke Takamura
  • Patent number: 9904222
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material; and a guide member for guiding the recording material. The guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material The guide member is moved when the guide member is pushed by the recording material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomooku Koyama, Ken Murooka, Wataru Uchida, Jun Agata, Yohei Suzuki, Daisuke Takamura
  • Publication number: 20170343957
    Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly, a developing cartridge, and a cartridge supporting member movable between an inside position in which the pair of the process cartridge and the developing cartridge are located at an image forming position and an outside position in which the process cartridge and the developing cartridge are mountable and demountable. A first portion-to-be-pressed is provided on the process cartridge, a main assembly side process cartridge urging member is provided in the main assembly for pressing the first portion-to-be-pressed when the cartridge supporting member is in the inside position, and a second portion-to-be-pressed is provided on the developing cartridge. In addition, a main assembly side developing cartridge urging member is provided for pressing the second portion-to-be-pressed when the cartridge supporting member is located at the inside position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Wataru Uchida, Takeshi Niimura
  • Patent number: 9772591
    Abstract: To notify a residual life of a replaceable part at appropriate time on image quality required by the user. An image forming apparatus including: a replaceable part used for image formation; an output unit configured to output information indicating that a usage amount has reached a threshold; an input unit configured to input information; and a control unit configured to change the threshold in accordance with information about image quality input by the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Taniguchi, Wataru Uchida, Hiroyuki Yamazaki, Toshifumi Kitamura