Patents by Inventor Yasuharu Sakurai

Yasuharu Sakurai 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: 20180229250
    Abstract: A paint spraying apparatus includes a supporting structure, a lower nozzle unit, and an upper nozzle unit. The lower nozzle unit includes lower flexible tubes and nozzles, and ejects powder paint toward an eye portion on a lower side of a stabilizer. The upper nozzle unit includes a first frame and a second frame. First flexible tubes are arranged on the first frame. Second flexible tubes are arranged on the second frame. The upper nozzles eject the powder paint toward an eye portion on an upper side of the stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu SAKURAI, Yoshihiro KOSHITA, Akifumi OTANI
  • Publication number: 20180229576
    Abstract: An annular reference surface is formed around a through-hole of an eye portion. A distal-end-side curved portion is formed at a first corner portion, on an outer side of the annular reference surface. The thickness of the distal-end-side curved portion is reduced in a range of a length from the first flat surface toward the distal end surface. A hole-side curved portion whose thickness is reduced toward an inner surface of the through-hole is formed at a second corner portion, on an inner side of the annular reference surface. The length of the hole-side curved portion is less than the length of the distal-end-side curved portion. The hole-side curved portion is curved with a greater curvature than that of the distal-end-side curved portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu SAKURAI, Yoshihiro KOSHITA, Akihiko NISHIKAWA, Akifumi OTANI
  • Publication number: 20180222267
    Abstract: A stabilizer includes a stabilizer main body, and eyes formed on both ends of the stabilizer main body. Through-holes are formed in fastening surfaces of the eyes, respectively. The stabilizer main body is covered with a main body coating film. The eye is covered with an eye coating film whose thickness is less than a thickness of the main body coating film. An inner surface of the through-hole is covered with an inner surface coating film. An incomplete coating portion is formed at a part of the inner surface of the through-hole in a circumferential direction. The incomplete coating portion is located on an extension of a straight line connecting a center of the through-hole and the center of gravity of the stabilizer main body in a side view of the stabilizer main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu SAKURAI, Yoshihiro KOSHITA, Akihiko NISHIKAWA, Akifumi OTANI
  • Publication number: 20180196430
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot includes a robot body, a movement unit, a detector, and a controller. The movement unit moves the robot body to a destination point. The detector detects a state of a person present around the destination point. The controller controls the movement unit so as to make the autonomous mobile robot approach the person present around the destination point along a travel route that differs depending on the state of the person detected by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu SAKURAI, Hirokazu TSUBOTA, Kunitoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180173238
    Abstract: A moving device includes a transportation mechanism, a detector, and a controller. The transportation mechanism moves from a departure point to a destination point. The detector detects an obstacle existing on a path to the destination point. When the detector detects that the obstacle exists on the path to the destination point, and another path to the destination point does not exist, the controller controls the transportation mechanism to move to a location that does not impede traffic, and stand by.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu TSUBOTA, Yasuharu SAKURAI, Kunitoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180011492
    Abstract: A service providing device includes a mobile unit, a providing unit, and an obtaining unit. The mobile unit moves to a destination. The providing unit moves together with the mobile unit and provides a service. The obtaining unit obtains information at a destination at which the providing unit provides a service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime KAJIYAMA, Kunitoshi YAMAMOTO, Naoya OGATA, Hideki FUJIMOTO, Mariko MIYAZAKI, Toshihiko SHIBUSAWA, Masatoshi MARUO, Hirokazu TSUBOTA, Yasuharu SAKURAI, Tetsuya KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180009108
    Abstract: A mobile robot includes a receiving unit that receives designation of a destination region including a destination, a moving unit that moves toward the destination region, and a seeking unit that seeks a client after movement toward the destination region starts. The moving unit moves toward the sought client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunitoshi YAMAMOTO, Hajime KAJIYAMA, Naoya OGATA, Hideki FUJIMOTO, Mariko MIYAZAKI, Toshihiko SHIBUSAWA, Masatoshi MARUO, Hirokazu TSUBOTA, Yasuharu SAKURAI, Tetsuya KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9645771
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a print request with respect to a mobile image forming apparatus, and an instructing unit that instructs the mobile image forming apparatus to move to a request source of the print request and perform printing if the instructing unit determines that the request source is in motion, on the basis of a temporal change of location information indicating a location of the request source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuharu Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20150378652
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a print request with respect to a mobile image forming apparatus, and an instructing unit that instructs the mobile image forming apparatus to move to a request source of the print request and perform printing if the instructing unit determines that the request source is in motion, on the basis of a temporal change of location information indicating a location of the request source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuharu SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 9110469
    Abstract: A self-propelled work apparatus includes a traveling unit, a work unit, and a user interface. The traveling unit moves in a self-propelled manner to a position near a user. The work unit performs predetermined work. The user interface adjusts a position of the traveling unit located near the user, in accordance with a motion of the user. The work unit starts the predetermined work when the user interface is activated in accordance with the user motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Yamamoto, Shigeru Yamamoto, Yasuharu Sakurai, Hirokazu Tsubota
  • Publication number: 20140365060
    Abstract: A self-propelled work apparatus includes a traveling unit, a work unit, and a user interface. The traveling unit moves in a self-propelled manner to a position near a user. The work unit performs predetermined work. The user interface adjusts a position of the traveling unit located near the user, in accordance with a motion of the user. The work unit starts the predetermined work when the user interface is activated in accordance with the user motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu YAMAMOTO, Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Yasuharu SAKURAI, Hirokazu TSUBOTA
  • Patent number: 7913736
    Abstract: An apparatus affixes an adhesive tape to a workpiece having a cylindrical portion and an outer peripheral surface. The apparatus comprises a tape-feeding device for feeding an adhesive tape below the outer peripheral surface such that the adhesive surface faces upwardly in a direction approximately perpendicular to an axis of the cylindrical portion, a tape-cutting device for cutting the adhesive tape fed from the tape-feeding device in a predetermined length, and a tape-affixing device for thrusting and affixing the adhesive surface of the adhesive tape which was cut by the tape-cutting device to the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion such that the tape-affixing device passes through both sides of the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion from below thereof so as to elevate the adhesive tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Sakurai, Kousaku Yamada
  • Publication number: 20080078507
    Abstract: An apparatus affixes an adhesive tape to a workpiece having a cylindrical portion and an outer peripheral surface. The apparatus comprises a tape-feeding device for feeding an adhesive tape below the outer peripheral surface such that the adhesive surface faces upwardly in a direction approximately perpendicular to an axis of the cylindrical portion, a tape-cutting device for cutting the adhesive tape fed from the tape-feeding device in a predetermined length, and a tape-affixing device for thrusting and affixing the adhesive surface of the adhesive tape which was cut by the tape-cutting device to the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion such that the tape-affixing device passes through both sides of the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion from below thereof so as to elevate the adhesive tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Sakurai, Kousaku Yamada
  • Patent number: 6574008
    Abstract: An image processing device that executes high speed overwriting of an input image with one or more partial images. A processing prediction unit judges whether overwriting is completed on all the partial images held in a small area buffer. If overwriting is completed, the overwritten partial image is compressed by an encoding unit, and the coded image is stored in a compact page memory. If overwriting is not completed, the uncompressed partial image is stored in the compact page memory. The uncompressed partial image is read from the compact page memory and is fed back to the overwriting unit through an output switch unit. The coded image stored in the compact page memory is sent to a decoding unit through the output switch unit, and is decoded to be outputted as an output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Yokose, Ikken So, Mitsuyuki Tamatani, Yasuharu Sakurai