Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Kawasaki
Yasuhiro Kawasaki 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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Patent number: 11952675Abstract: Provided is a surface-treated copper foil in which in order to avoid failures of electronic parts by corrosion, a high bond strength between an electrolytic copper foil and a resin base material can be maintained even when the surface-treated copper foil is exposed to corrosive gases and microparticles, and a method for manufacturing the same. The surface-treated copper foil of the present invention comprises an electrolytic copper foil, a roughened layer covering at least one surface side of the electrolytic copper foil, and a rust preventive layer further covering the roughened layer, wherein the rust preventive layer is at least one surface of the surface-treated copper foil; the rust preventive layer comprises at least a nickel layer; and the thickness of the nickel layer is 0.8 to 4.4 g/m2 in terms of mass per unit area of nickel; and the noncontact roughness Spd of the rust preventive layer is 1.4 to 2.6 peaks/?m2 and the surface roughness RzJIS of the rust preventive layer is 1.0 to 2.5 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIPPON DENKAI, LTD.Inventors: Toshio Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Endo
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Publication number: 20240101845Abstract: The present invention relates to a coated body comprising a decorative layer having excellent visibility and gradation characteristics and a wide color reproduction region, and more particularly, to a coated body comprising a substrate and a decorative layer, in which the decorative layer is formed from an ink set comprising at least a cyan ink, a magenta ink, and a yellow ink, and all of Ch, Mh, and Yh are 10% or more, in which Ch, Mh, and Yh are contrast ratios (%) of dried films having a thickness of 10 ?m formed from the cyan ink, the magenta ink, and the yellow ink, respectively, and all of the following Relational Expressions (1) to (3) are satisfied: 0?|Ch?Mh|?25%;??Expression (1) 0?|Mh?Yh|?25%; and??Expression (2) 0?|Yh?Ch|?25%.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: DAI NIPPON TORYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke TAKAOKA, Hiroki KAWASAKI, Akira SUETSUGU, Yasuhiro ANZAI, Kazuo MINAMI
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Patent number: 11693348Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet, a conveyance guide unit, and a conveyance unit. The conveyance guide unit conveys the sheet on which the image is to be formed by the image forming unit. The conveyance unit conveys the sheet toward a first conveyance guide unit. The conveyance guide unit includes an urging member, a rotary member to be urged by the urging member and to rotate while abutting the sheet, a holding unit holding the urging member and the rotary member, and the first conveyance guide unit that is detachably attached to the holding unit to guide the sheet. The first conveyance guide unit includes a pressed portion, and the pressed portion is to be pressed by the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit and has strength less than strength of the holding unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Yohei Suzuki
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Patent number: 11577921Abstract: The present invention provides a rain-guard device for shipping that can prevent water from seeping into a hatch opening. A rain-guard device for shipping 20, includes a rail 19, which is placed on a sliding hatch cover 11, an on-board chute 22, which is provided in the rail 19 in a travelable manner, which covers part of a hatch opening 13, and which, furthermore, supplies cargo from a shiploader 1 into the hold 7, a lid member 23 to cover the rest of the hatch opening 13, and a water-blocking part 100, which prevents water from seeping into the hatch opening 13, through a gap between the lid member 23 and the sliding hatch cover 11.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: IHI Transport Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Otake, Koji Miyazawa, Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Shuhei Kinugawa
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Patent number: 11505284Abstract: The present disclosure provides an inexpensive rain-guard device for shipping, that can cope with large vessels. The rain-guard device for shipping has a rail 19, which is disposed on a sliding hatch cover 11, an on-board chute 22, which is provided on the rail 19 in a travelable manner, covers part of a hatch opening 13, and, furthermore, supplies cargo from a shiploader 1 into a hold 7, and a lid member 23, which covers another part of the hatch opening 13, and the lid member 23 is disposed both in front and in rear in the traveling direction of the on-board chute 22, and, furthermore, configured to expand and contract as the on-board chute 22 travels.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Transport Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Koji Miyazawa
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Publication number: 20220290757Abstract: The wind-and-rain guard device for shipping is provided that can restrain wind and rain from seeping in from between the sliding hatch cover and the hatch coaming. The wind-and-rain guard device for shipping 30 includes a water-stop member 31 that closes a gap formed between a sliding hatch cover 11 and a hatch coaming 14 when the sliding hatch cover 11 is lifted from the hatch coaming 14.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Yasuhiro Otake, Shuhei Kinugawa, Yasuhiro Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20220011707Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet, a conveyance guide unit, and a conveyance unit. The conveyance guide unit conveys the sheet on which the image is to be formed by the image forming unit. The conveyance unit conveys the sheet toward a first conveyance guide unit. The conveyance guide unit includes an urging member, a rotary member to be urged by the urging member and to rotate while abutting the sheet, a holding unit holding the urging member and the rotary member, and the first conveyance guide unit that is detachably attached to the holding unit to guide the sheet. The first conveyance guide unit includes a pressed portion, and the pressed portion is to be pressed by the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit and has strength less than strength of the holding unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Yohei Suzuki
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Publication number: 20210339967Abstract: The present invention provides a rain-guard device for shipping that can prevent water from seeping into a hatch opening. A rain-guard device for shipping 20, includes a rail 19, which is placed on a sliding hatch cover 11, an on-board chute 22, which is provided in the rail 19 in a travelable manner, which covers part of a hatch opening 13, and which, furthermore, supplies cargo from a shiploader 1 into the hold 7, a lid member 23 to cover the rest of the hatch opening 13, and a water-blocking part 100, which prevents water from seeping into the hatch opening 13, through a gap between the lid member 23 and the sliding hatch cover 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Yasuhiro Otake, Koji Miyazawa, Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Shuhei Kinugawa
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Publication number: 20210214046Abstract: The present disclosure provides an inexpensive rain-guard device for shipping, that can cope with large vessels. The rain-guard device for shipping has a rail 19, which is disposed on a sliding hatch cover 11, an on-board chute 22, which is provided on the rail 19 in a travelable manner, covers part of a hatch opening 13, and, furthermore, supplies cargo from a shiploader 1 into a hold 7, and a lid member 23, which covers another part of the hatch opening 13, and the lid member 23 is disposed both in front and in rear in the traveling direction of the on-board chute 22, and, furthermore, configured to expand and contract as the on-board chute 22 travels.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Koji Miyazawa
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Patent number: 10928760Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a recording material; a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the recording material by heating the toner image formed on the recording material; a flow path including a first space connecting with the fixing portion and a second space connecting with the first space and through which air discharged from the fixing portion passes; a first electrode portion provided in the first space and provided with a first potential; and a second electrode portion provided in the second space and provided with a second potential different from the first potential. An air speed of the air passing through the second space is slower than an air speed of the air passing through the first space.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Chitose Tempaku, Yuki Nishizawa
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Patent number: 10698968Abstract: There is provided an information providing apparatus including: an accumulating section sequentially accumulating profile information of a user, which is generated by newly collecting user-relevant information including an action history of the user; an acquiring section acquiring a search result in a case where information search according to a request of the user is performed by using current profile information in the accumulated profile information; and a control section determining an output mode on the basis of the accumulated profile information to perform control such that the acquired search result is output in the determined output mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Yasuhiro Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20200165090Abstract: A conveyance apparatus includes a change conveyance unit. In a case where a first sheet in a sheet storage unit included in the feeding apparatus is fed in a landscape orientation to the conveyance apparatus, the change conveyance unit changes a conveyance orientation of the first sheet to a portrait orientation. The landscape orientation is an orientation in which a short side of the first sheet is parallel to a sheet conveyance direction of the first sheet. The portrait orientation is an orientation in which a long side of the first sheet is parallel to the sheet conveyance direction. The change conveyance unit changes the conveyance orientation of the first sheet from the landscape orientation to the portrait orientation on a substantially horizontal region between the image forming apparatus and the feeding apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Kazushi Ino, Koji Kawamura, Kazuhide Okuno
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Publication number: 20190212682Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a recording material; a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the recording material by heating the toner image formed on the recording material; a flow path including a first space connecting with the fixing portion and a second space connecting with the first space and through which air discharged from the fixing portion passes; a first electrode portion provided in the first space and provided with a first potential; and a second electrode portion provided in the second space and provided with a second potential different from the first potential. An air speed of the air passing through the second space is slower than an air speed of the air passing through the first space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Chitose Tempaku, Yuki Nishizawa
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Patent number: 10185586Abstract: A system includes circuitry configured to determine available electric energy to be supplied to each of a plurality of servers over a predetermined period of time based on electric energy generated by alternative energy sources for each of the plurality of servers disposed at a plurality of geographically separate locations, each of the plurality of servers being configured to run a virtual machine. The circuitry is further configured to control a virtual machine running on a first server of the plurality of servers to migrate to a second server of the plurality of servers, which is determined to have a larger amount of available electric energy than the first server.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Tomoyuki Kumeta, Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Keita Murakami
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Publication number: 20190012397Abstract: There is provided an information providing apparatus including: an accumulating section sequentially accumulating profile information of a user, which is generated by newly collecting user-relevant information including an action history of the user; an acquiring section acquiring a search result in a case where information search according to a request of the user is performed by using current profile information in the accumulated profile information; and a control section determining an output mode on the basis of the accumulated profile information to perform control such that the acquired search result is output in the determined output mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventor: Yasuhiro KAWASAKI
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Patent number: 9939283Abstract: When an instruction to start a setting operation for a destination is provided by a user during a period in which a navigation server is not available for a mobile device while a navigation function, which uses the navigation server providing distribution function of map data and route search function, of the mobile device is being utilized in a navigation device, the navigation function provided in the navigation device itself is activated and is caused to perform destination setting operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Yasuhiro Kawasaki
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Patent number: 9678823Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory configured to hold a condition for determining whether or not to migrate a virtual machine that runs on a certain information processing apparatus included in a plurality of information processing apparatuses, to other information processing apparatus included in the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to when the condition is satisfied in a first information processing apparatus included in the plurality of information processing apparatuses, migrate a first virtual machine that runs on the first information processing apparatus to another information processing apparatus included in the plurality of information processing apparatuses, after migrating the first virtual machine, detect a status of an error occurring in the first information processing apparatus, and change the condition, based on the detected status of the error.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Tomoyuki Kumeta, Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Keita Murakami
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Publication number: 20170063622Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory. The processor acquires information on the safety of locations where multiple data centers are placed through a network. The multiple data centers are able to communicate with one another. The processor calculates scores respectively indicating the safety of the multiple data centers on the basis of the acquired information. The processor further determines whether to move virtual machines built on each of the multiple data centers on the basis of the scores. The processor moves virtual machines placed in one data center to another data center on the basis of a result of the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Akimasa Yoshida, Tomoyuki Kumeta, Keita Murakami, YASUHIRO KAWASAKI
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Publication number: 20160298975Abstract: When an instruction to start a setting operation for a destination is provided by a user during a period in which a navigation server is not available for a mobile device while a navigation function, which uses the navigation server providing distribution function of map data and route search function, of the mobile device is being utilized in a navigation device, the navigation function provided in the navigation device itself is activated and is caused to perform destination setting operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: Alpine Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Yasuhiro Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20160070612Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory configured to hold a condition for determining whether or not to migrate a virtual machine that runs on a certain information processing apparatus included in a plurality of information processing apparatuses, to other information processing apparatus included in the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to when the condition is satisfied in a first information processing apparatus included in the plurality of information processing apparatuses, migrate a first virtual machine that runs on the first information processing apparatus to another information processing apparatus included in the plurality of information processing apparatuses, after migrating the first virtual machine, detect a status of an error occurring in the first information processing apparatus, and change the condition, based on the detected status of the error.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Tomoyuki Kumeta, Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Keita Murakami