Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Abe
Yasuhiro Abe 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: 20240131626Abstract: There is provided a blank in which two or more starting materials that overlap each other are joined with each other by laser welding, including the blank has a single layer region, in which only one of the starting materials is present, and a multi-layer region, in which two or more of the starting materials overlap each other, laser welding is continuously applied to the multi-layer region and the single layer region, and one end of a laser weld zone is located at an end portion of the single layer region of the blank, and the one end forms a concave-shaped welding end portion having a concave shape when the blank is viewed from an end face.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiko ABE, Yasuhiro ITO
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Patent number: 11962904Abstract: A first image blur correction device includes an imaging-element holding-member to which an imaging-element is fixed, a housing that supports the imaging-element holding-member to be movable in a direction X perpendicular to an optical axis of a lens device, and a first drive mechanism that generates thrust of moving the imaging-element holding-member in the direction X. The first drive mechanism includes a first magnet that is fixed to the housing and in which a direction connecting both magnetic poles is parallel to the direction X, and a first coil that is fixed to the imaging-element holding-member to face the first magnet. In a state where the imaging-element holding-member is at a reference position where the optical axis of the lens device coincides with a center of the imaging-element, a position of a first magnet center in the direction X and a first coil central axis deviate from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kouhei Awazu, Yasuhiro Miwa, Takuro Abe
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Patent number: 11930335Abstract: The control device includes: a detection unit that detects a predetermined speech/motion of a user who is present in an output destination space of a directional speaker; an identification unit that identifies, in accordance with the predetermined speech/motion, an audio source of interest among audio sources and a directional speaker as an object to be controlled; and an output control unit that causes the identified directional speakers to output audio supplied from the identified audio source.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Abe, Yuki Kamiya, Osamu Kawase, Yasuhiro Ishiguro
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Publication number: 20240002129Abstract: To provide a set for microwave heating that is capable of giving a crispy texture to a food by using a heating element configured to generate heat by microwave irradiation and is capable of maintaining softness of a portion in a surface of a food other than a fried face if any, and to provide a package including the set for microwave heating and an outer packaging bag configured to accommodate the set for microwave heating. Provided is a set for microwave heating, comprising: a tray; a food accommodated in the tray; and a heating laminate comprising a heating element configured to generate heat by microwave irradiation, and a substrate, wherein the heating laminate is disposed in such a way that the heating element side faces the food, and the substrate is laminated on a face of the heating element, the face being opposite to another face of the heating element, the another face being to be or come in contact with the food.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.Inventors: Kaoru HOSOKAWA, Yasuhiro ABE
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Patent number: 10925969Abstract: Polypeptides and proteins that specifically bind to and immunologically recognize B-Cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA) are disclosed. Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), anti-BCMA binding moieties, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, pharmaceutical compositions, and conjugates relating to the polypeptides and proteins are also disclosed. Methods of detecting the presence of cancer and methods of treating or preventing cancer are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignees: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Service, Sanford ResearchInventors: Ira H. Pastan, Tapan Bera, Satoshi Nagata, Tomoko Ise, Yasuhiro Abe
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Publication number: 20180318435Abstract: Polypeptides and proteins that specifically bind to and immunologically recognize B-Cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA) are disclosed. Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), anti-BCMA binding moieties, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, pharmaceutical compositions, and conjugates relating to the polypeptides and proteins are also disclosed. Methods of detecting the presence of cancer and methods of treating or preventing cancer are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicants: The United States of America,as represented by the Secretary,Department of Health and Human Service, Sanford ResearchInventors: Ira H. Pastan, Tapan Bera, Satoshi Nagata, Tomoko Ise, Yasuhiro Abe
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Patent number: 9847792Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a serializer configured to convert parallel data into serial data and output the serial data; and a deserializer configured to convert the serial data output from the serializer into parallel data and output the parallel data. The serializer is configured to add first data used for detecting unique data in the parallel data before the unique data, add second data used for detecting the unique data after the unique data, and add third data whose length is variable to each of the first data and the second data.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Miyadera, Satoshi Ohmiya, Tatsuo Ohyama, Masahiko Oikawa, Yuichiro Shukuya, Makoto Higashiyama, Yasuhiro Abe
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Patent number: 9588472Abstract: An image formation apparatus for forming an image and test patterns. The image formation apparatus includes a storage unit that stores dither matrix data used to form the image and the test patterns; and an image formation unit that forms the test patterns based on the dither matrix data. A number of tones of the test patterns to be formed by the image formation unit is changed and the number of tones is determined based on a size of the dither matrix data and a number of bits per pixel within the dither matrix data.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Abe, Satoshi Ohmiya, Masahiko Oikawa, Makoto Higashiyama, Yuichiro Shukuya, Tatsuya Miyadera
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Patent number: 9442447Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes image carriers; an exposing unit that forms latent images on the image carriers; a developing unit that develops the latent images with toners of different colors from each other; a first transfer unit that forms a color image by superimposing and transferring the developed images onto a second image carrier; a test pattern forming unit that forms, on the image carriers, test patterns to be transferred onto the second image carrier; and test pattern detection units capable of detecting the test patterns transferred onto the second image carrier in different positions from each other in a main-scanning direction. The test pattern forming unit selectively switches, depending on a width of the test patterns in the main-scanning direction, whether to form each of the test patterns in a position detectable by the corresponding one of the test pattern detection units.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiro Abe
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Patent number: 9397697Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a serializer configured to convert parallel data into serial data and output the serial data; and a deserializer configured to convert the serial data output from the serializer into parallel data and output the parallel data. The serializer is configured to add first data used for detecting unique data in the parallel data before the unique data, add second data used for detecting the unique data after the unique data, and add third data whose length is variable to each of the first data and the second data.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Miyadera, Satoshi Ohmiya, Tatsuo Ohyama, Masahiko Oikawa, Yuichiro Shukuya, Makoto Higashiyama, Yasuhiro Abe
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Publication number: 20160126977Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a serializer configured to convert parallel data into serial data and output the serial data; and a deserializer configured to convert the serial data output from the serializer into parallel data and output the parallel data. The serializer is configured to add first data used for detecting unique data in the parallel data before the unique data, add second data used for detecting the unique data after the unique data, and add third data whose length is variable to each of the first data and the second data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Tatsuya MIYADERA, Satoshi OHMIYA, Tatsuo OHYAMA, Masahiko OIKAWA, Yuichiro SHUKUYA, Makoto HIGASHIYAMA, Yasuhiro ABE
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Patent number: 9242478Abstract: The invention is concerning the writing controlling apparatus that includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of light amounts of a light source driven while changing an input current in non-effective scanning periods during which an image carrier is not irradiated with light from the light source, as a plurality of output results; a detecting unit configured to detect characteristics of the light source using the output results thus acquired; and a correcting unit configured to correct a current to be applied to the light source based on the characteristics thus detected.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masashi Suzuki, Katsuhiko Maeda, Yoshio Kanzaki, Masahiko Oikawa, Yasuhiro Abe, Hiroaki Nishina, Yuuki Honda
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Publication number: 20160018774Abstract: An image formation apparatus for forming an image and test patterns. The image formation apparatus includes a storage unit that stores dither matrix data used to form the image and the test patterns; and an image formation unit that forms the test patterns based on the dither matrix data. A number of tones of the test patterns to be formed by the image formation unit is changed and the number of tones is determined based on a size of the dither matrix data and a number of bits per pixel within the dither matrix data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Abe, Satoshi Ohmiya, Masahiko Oikawa, Makoto Higashiyama, Yuichiro Shukuya, Tatsuya Miyadera
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Patent number: 9201331Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: at least one first image carrier configured to carry an electrostatic latent image thereon; an image writing unit; a second image carrier configured to move along a transfer position facing to the at least one first image carrier; a first transfer unit provided opposite to the at least one first image carrier; a second transfer unit configured to transfer the subject image to a transfer material; a test pattern detection unit configured to detect the test pattern image; a control unit configured to correct an image forming condition of the subject image based on a result from the detection of the test pattern image, wherein the test pattern image is provided on the second image carrier at an area being out of the image forming area and being at the same range as the subject image in a scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Tadashi Shinohara, Yasuhiro Abe, Hiroaki Nishina, Yutaka Ohmiya
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Publication number: 20150222290Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a serializer configured to convert parallel data into serial data and output the serial data; and a deserializer configured to convert the serial data output from the serializer into parallel data and output the parallel data. The serializer is configured to add first data used for detecting unique data in the parallel data before the unique data, add second data used for detecting the unique data after the unique data, and add third data whose length is variable to each of the first data and the second data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2015Publication date: August 6, 2015Inventors: Tatsuya MIYADERA, Satoshi OHMIYA, Tatsuo OHYAMA, Masahiko OIKAWA, Yuichiro SHUKUYA, Makoto HIGASHIYAMA, Yasuhiro ABE
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Patent number: 9091987Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms toner images based on image data on first image carriers; a second image carrier, on which the toner images formed on the first image carriers are transferred; a second image forming unit that transfers the toner images transferred on the second image carrier onto a transfer medium; a test pattern generating unit that generates a test pattern group with a predetermine length in a moving direction of the second image carrier; and an adjusting unit that determines a method to adjust an image formation condition for the first image forming unit using the test pattern group, based on a relationship between the predetermined length and a length of an image area, in which a print image based on the image data is formed, in a sub-scanning direction corresponding to the moving direction of the second image carrier.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Yutaka Ohmiya, Tadashi Shinohara, Yasuhiro Abe, Hiroaki Nishina
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Patent number: 8929783Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising: at least one first image carrier; an image writing unit configured to write the electrostatic latent image including a test pattern; a second image carrier configured to move along a transfer position facing to the at least one first image carrier; an image forming unit configured to transfer the subject image transferred on the second image carrier to a transfer material; a detector configured to detect the test pattern image; and a controller configured to correct an image forming condition of the subject image, wherein during a period from the detection of the test pattern to the writing a subsequent subject image, the controller calculates a correction amount of a correction matter, and reflects the calculated amount in the image forming condition of the subject image.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Hiroaki Nishina, Tadashi Shinohara, Yasuhiro Abe, Yutaka Ohmiya
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Patent number: 8816920Abstract: A mobile electronic device comprises an RFID antenna section that sends and receives signals on a first useful frequency band, a main antenna section that sends and receives signals on a second useful frequency band, which is a higher frequency band than the first useful frequency band, an adjustment section that adjusts a resonance frequency of the RFID antenna section, and a control section that identifies a reactance value of the RFID antenna section based on the receiving sensitivity with respect to signals on the first useful frequency band and adjusts the resonance frequency of the RFID antenna section based on the identified reactance value by an adjustment section such that a high-order resonance frequency of the RFID antenna section is spaced apart from the second useful frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Abe, Hiroshi Sakai
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Patent number: 8766857Abstract: There are provided a first circuit substrate 22 on which an antenna 32 and electronic components are arranged, a case body 24 that is molded of a non-conductive material and that is attached to the first circuit substrate 22 so that the case body 24 overlaps the first circuit substrate 22 in the thickness direction of the first circuit substrate 22, and a housing 8 including the first circuit substrate 22 and the case body 24 in the housing 8. The case body 24 comprises a conductive layer formed on the surface of the case body 24, except for an antenna opposing area S where the case body 24 overlaps the antenna 32 in the thickness direction of the first circuit substrate 22.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2006Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Abe
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Publication number: 20140168343Abstract: The invention is concerning the writing controlling apparatus that includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of light amounts of a light source driven while changing an input current in non-effective scanning periods during which an image carrier is not irradiated with light from the light source, as a plurality of output results; a detecting unit configured to detect characteristics of the light source using the output results thus acquired; and a correcting unit configured to correct a current to be applied to the light source based on the characteristics thus detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masashi SUZUKI, Katsuhiko MAEDA, Yoshio KANZAKI, Masahiko OIKAWA, Yasuhiro ABE, Hiroaki NISHINA, Yuuki HONDA