Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Imazeki

Yasuhiro Imazeki 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: 11084701
    Abstract: A beverage supply apparatus for supplying multiple types of beverage. The beverage supply apparatus may include a number of nozzles for discharging multiple types of beverages, a touch panel for displaying options for the multiple types of beverages while also receiving a selection operation for one beverage from among the multiple types of beverages, a number of physical buttons that correspond to the number of nozzles and that receive an instruction for discharge of the beverage selected by the selection operation, and a control unit that specifies, from among the physical buttons, the physical button corresponding to the nozzle from which the beverage selected by the selection operation will be discharged, and controls the touch panel in such a way as to provide notification of the physical button specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuboi, Kazuya Yajima, Masahiro Kamiyama, Yasuhiro Imazeki
  • Patent number: 10793414
    Abstract: A beverage supply device is provided with: physical buttons for receiving an indicator operation indicating that a beverage selected from among the plurality of types of beverages is to be supplied; a control unit that causes a selected beverage to be discharged from a predetermined nozzle while one of the physical buttons is receiving an indicator operation; and a storage unit that stores the number of sales for each beverage. The control unit increases the number of sales for a beverage by one sale when the same beverage is supplied continuously and the interval during which the beverage is supplied continuously is longer than a predetermined period. The control unit does not increase the number of sales for a beverage when the interval during which the beverage is supplied continuously is shorter than a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yajima, Masahiro Kamiyama, Yasuhiro Imazeki
  • Publication number: 20190119092
    Abstract: A beverage supply device is provided with: physical buttons for receiving an indicator operation indicating that a beverage selected from among the plurality of types of beverages is to be supplied; a control unit that causes a selected beverage to be discharged from a predetermined nozzle while one of the physical buttons is receiving an indicator operation; and a storage unit that stores the number of sales for each beverage. The control unit increases the number of sales for a beverage by one sale when the same beverage is supplied continuously and the interval during which the beverage is supplied continuously is longer than a predetermined period. The control unit does not increase the number of sales for a beverage when the interval during which the beverage is supplied continuously is shorter than a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuya YAJIMA, Masahiro KAMIYAMA, Yasuhiro IMAZEKI
  • Patent number: 10196256
    Abstract: A beverage supply device is provided with: physical buttons (3a) to (3c) for receiving an indicator operation indicating that a beverage selected from among the plurality of types of beverages is to be supplied; a control unit that causes a selected beverage to be discharged from a predetermined nozzle while one of the physical buttons (3a) to (3c) is receiving an indicator operation; and a storage unit that stores the number of sales for each beverage. The control unit increases the number of sales for a beverage by one sale when the same beverage is supplied continuously and the interval during which the beverage is supplied continuously is longer than a predetermined period. The control unit does not increase the number of sales for a beverage when the interval during which the beverage is supplied continuously is shorter than a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yajima, Masahiro Kamiyama, Yasuhiro Imazeki
  • Publication number: 20170334701
    Abstract: A beverage supply apparatus for supplying multiple types of beverage. The beverage supply apparatus may include a number of nozzles for discharging multiple types of beverages, a touch panel for displaying options for the multiple types of beverages while also receiving a selection operation for one beverage from among the multiple types of beverages, a number of physical buttons that correspond to the number of nozzles and that receive an instruction for discharge of the beverage selected by the selection operation, and a control unit that specifies, from among the physical buttons, the physical button corresponding to the nozzle from which the beverage selected by the selection operation will be discharged, and controls the touch panel in such a way as to provide notification of the physical button specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Satoshi KUBOI, Kazuya YAJIMA, Masahiro KAMIYAMA, Yasuhiro IMAZEKI
  • Patent number: 9815092
    Abstract: An ultrasonic cleaning apparatus and an ultrasonic cleaning method for an edge face of a substrate help prevent re-contamination caused by splashing or the like of ultrasonic wave propagating water sprayed onto an edge face of an object to be cleaned. An ultrasonic wave transmitting tube provided to continue from the spot shower and configured to transmit and spray the ultrasonic wave propagating water to the substrate is provided, the ultrasonic wave transmitting tube is installed so as not to be positioned on the substrate, the substrate is retained so that the surface of the substrate assumes a horizontal state, and ultrasonic wave propagating water is sprayed to the edge face, which constitutes an outer periphery of the substrate arranged in a space from the ultrasonic wave transmitting tube in a direction of tangent line of the edge face while rotating the substrate by a rotatable rotation retaining portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: KAIJO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro Soejima, Akihisa Nakano, Yasuhiro Imazeki, Hiroshi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20170313569
    Abstract: A beverage supply device is provided with: physical buttons (3a) to (3c) for receiving an indicator operation indicating that a beverage selected from among the plurality of types of beverages is to be supplied; a control unit that causes a selected beverage to be discharged from a predetermined nozzle while one of the physical buttons (3a) to (3c) is receiving an indicator operation; and a storage unit that stores the number of sales for each beverage. The control unit increases the number of sales for a beverage by one sale when the same beverage is supplied continuously and the interval during which the beverage is supplied continuously is longer than a predetermined period. The control unit does not increase the number of sales for a beverage when the interval during which the beverage is supplied continuously is shorter than a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuya YAJIMA, Masahiro KAMIYAMA, Yasuhiro IMAZEKI
  • Patent number: 9687888
    Abstract: An ultrasonic cleaning apparatus includes: an ultrasonic vibrator (11); a liquid storage part (12) provided in contact with the ultrasonic vibrator; an inflow port (12a) that makes a cleaning liquid (13) flow in the liquid storage part; and an outflow port (12b) that makes the cleaning liquid flow out of the liquid storage part. A contact surface (11a), of the ultrasonic vibrator, which comes into contact with the cleaning liquid, is disposed lower than each of the inflow port and the outflow port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: KAIJO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yasuhiro Imazeki, Shoji Yakuwa
  • Publication number: 20150336138
    Abstract: To reduce the amount of a cleaning liquid used in cleaning an object to be cleaned. An ultrasonic cleaning apparatus, includes: an ultrasonic vibrator 11; a liquid storage part 12 provided in contact with the ultrasonic vibrator; an inflow port 12a that makes a cleaning liquid 13 flow in the liquid storage part; and an outflow port 12b that makes the cleaning liquid flow out the liquid storage part, wherein a contact surface 11a on which the ultrasonic vibrator comes into contact with the cleaning liquid is disposed lower than each of the inflow port and the outflow port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroshi HASEGAWA, Yasuhiro IMAZEKI, Shoji YAKUWA
  • Publication number: 20150283588
    Abstract: An ultrasonic cleaning apparatus and an ultrasonic cleaning method for an edge face of a substrate help prevent re-contamination caused by splashing or the like of ultrasonic wave propagating water sprayed onto an edge face of an object to be cleaned. An ultrasonic wave transmitting tube provided to continue from the spot shower and configured to transmit and spray the ultrasonic wave propagating water to the substrate is provided, the ultrasonic wave transmitting tube is installed so as not to be positioned on the substrate, the substrate is retained so that the surface of the substrate assumes a horizontal state, and ultrasonic wave propagating water is sprayed to the edge face, which constitutes an outer periphery of the substrate arranged in a space from the ultrasonic wave transmitting tube in a direction of tangent line of the edge face while rotating the substrate by a rotatable rotation retaining portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: KAIJO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro Soejima, Akihisa Nakano, Yasuhiro Imazeki, Hiroshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8652262
    Abstract: An ultrasonic cleaning method of using ultrasonic vibrations to clean an object that is immersed in a cleaning liquid in a cleaning tank is provided. The method includes generating a frequency modulated signal including at least two frequency modulated portions having modulation widths different from each other with a single frequency as a center frequency, such that among the at least two frequency modulated portions a frequency modulated portion having a smaller modulation width is generated at a timing when a frequency modulated portion having a larger modulation width reaches the center frequency. The method further includes generating the ultrasonic vibrations based on the frequency modulated signal and transferring the ultrasonic vibrations to the cleaning tank to clean the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kaijo Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Tomoharu Kamamura, Yasuhiro Imazeki
  • Publication number: 20130048013
    Abstract: An ultrasonic cleaning method of using ultrasonic vibrations to clean an object that is immersed in a cleaning liquid in a cleaning tank is provided. The method includes generating a frequency modulated signal including at least two frequency modulated portions having modulation widths different from each other with a single frequency as a center frequency, such that among the at least two frequency modulated portions a frequency modulated portion having a smaller modulation width is generated at a timing when a frequency modulated portion having a larger modulation width reaches the center frequency. The method further includes generating the ultrasonic vibrations based on the frequency modulated signal and transferring the ultrasonic vibrations to the cleaning tank to clean the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: Kaijo Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi HASEGAWA, Tomoharu KAMAMURA, Yasuhiro IMAZEKI
  • Publication number: 20130008473
    Abstract: To provide an ultrasonic cleaning apparatus and an ultrasonic cleaning method capable of suppressing generation of cleaning unevenness after the ultrasonic cleaning of an object to be cleaned. An aspect of the present invention includes a cleaning tank 21 in which a cleaning liquid 23 is stored; a first and a second ultrasonic transducers 34a and 34b that give ultrasonic vibrations to the object to be cleaned 22 immersed in a cleaning liquid within the cleaning tank; a first ultrasonic generator 36 that applies a high-frequency output to the first ultrasonic transducer; a second ultrasonic generator 37 that applies a high-frequency output to the second ultrasonic transducer; and a controller 38 that varies and controls at least one of the outputs of the first and the second ultrasonic generators, and a first ultrasonic wave oscillated from the first ultrasonic transducer is caused to interfere with a second ultrasonic wave oscillated from the second ultrasonic transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Toru Tuziuti, Yasuo Iida, Kyuichi Yasui, Yasuhiro Imazeki, Hiroshi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20100108111
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ultrasonic cleaning apparatus having a high cleaning efficiency by restraining lowering of the sound pressure applied to the object to be cleaned per unit time while securing the uniformization of the sound pressure in the entire area in the cleaning tank. An ultrasonic cleaning apparatus for cleaning an object to be cleaned by ultrasonic vibrations including: ultrasonic vibration generating means configured to generate a frequency modulated signal and generate the ultrasonic vibrations; and a cleaning tank configured to store cleaning liquid in which the object to be cleaned is to be immersed in the interior thereof and clean the object to be cleaned by the ultrasonic vibrations generated by the ultrasonic vibration generating means, characterized in that the signal includes at least two frequency modulated portions having modulation widths different from each other with a single frequency as a center frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Tomoharu Kamamura, Yasuhiro Imazeki