Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Sato

Yasuhiro Sato 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: 20090190168
    Abstract: A document processing system is disclosed that is capable of processing both fixed-format and unfixed-format hand written paper documents. The document processing system includes an encoding unit that encodes a sheet ID for identifying a hand written first document on a sheet to generate a coded sheet ID; a decoding unit that decodes the coded sheet ID; a document-sheet ID association unit that associates the sheet ID with a document ID assigned to a computerized second document; a printing unit that acquires the sheet ID and prints the coded sheet ID on the first document; a sheet ID management unit that manages the sheet ID; an information acquisition unit that acquires the sheet ID decoded by the decoding unit, and hand-written data from the first document on which the coded sheet ID is printed; and a process-sheet ID association unit that associates the sheet ID with a process ID of a process for processing the hand-written data acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Toshiyuki FURUTA, Tomohiko Beppu, Naoki Kozuka, Satoshi Suga, Sadao Takahashi, Yasuhiro Sato, Takashi Ohkuma, Yasuhiro Ono, Hirofumi Horikawa
  • Patent number: 7489415
    Abstract: A document processing system is disclosed that is capable of processing both fixed-format and unfixed-format hand written paper documents. The document processing system includes an encoding unit that encodes a sheet ID for identifying a hand written first document on a sheet to generate a coded sheet ID; a decoding unit that decodes the coded sheet ID; a document-sheet ID association unit that associates the sheet ID with a document ID assigned to a computerized second document; a printing unit that acquires the sheet ID and prints the coded sheet ID on the first document; a sheet ID management unit that manages the sheet ID; an information acquisition unit that acquires the sheet ID decoded by the decoding unit, and hand-written data from the first document on which the coded sheet ID is printed; and a process-sheet ID association unit that associates the sheet ID with a process ID of a process for processing the hand-written data acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Furuta, Tomohiko Beppu, Naoki Kozuka, Satoshi Suga, Sadao Takahashi, Yasuhiro Sato, Takashi Ohkuma, Yasuhiro Ono, Hirofumi Horikawa
  • Publication number: 20090007399
    Abstract: A strength of engagingly locking a second member to a first member is remarkably improved without causing deterioration in workability, even when improvement in the locking strength between two members is attempted using a clip. In order to lock and fix a connector housing 19 to a rotor housing 15 in an erected state, an engagement force occurs and acts between a locking claw 27 and a locking part 45, via an insertion locking male part 29 provided in a connector housing 19. By this engagement force, the movement of the insertion locking male part 29 in the inserting/extracting direction is regulated. Further, by inserting the clip 23 from the direction almost at a right angle to the inserting direction of the insertion locking male part 29, a mechanical mutual action occurs between the clip 23 and a pair of insertion engagement parts 40a and 40b, thus secondarily regulating the movement of the insertion locking male part 29 in the inserting/extracting direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: NILES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sato, Yoshinori Wakana
  • Publication number: 20080307777
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas after-treatment apparatus (30) including a particulate filter (32) that receives as exhaust gas having passes through a catalyst converter (31) and traps particulates in an exhaust, injectors (6 through 9) used for a post fuel injection to activate the catalyst converter (31) and a filter control unit (36) that performs pest fuel injection control, the filter control unit (36) includes a determination portion that determines whether a post fuel injection operation should be started, and a calculation portion that calculates an integration value of a fuel injection amount after the post fuel injection operation is started in a case where the post fuel injection operation is started in responding to the determination portion. The post fuel injection operation is stopped when the integration value has reached a specified value. It is thus possible to appropriately perform the post fuel injection control to activate the catalyst converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi Hirano, Yasuhiro Sato, Kazuhiro Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20080285293
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to widely illuminate a road surface at a side of a vehicle body along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body before and after housing of the outer mirror. An outer mirror of the present invention is pivotally movable in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body around a base end portion of the outer mirror, and includes a mirror housing which is thrust laterally from a side surface of the vehicle body. In the mirror housing, a light unit and a lens fixed on an optical axis of the light unit are provided. Any one of the light unit and the lens is moved to illuminate identical or substantially identical area on the road surface at the side of the vehicle body before and after pivotal movement of the mirror housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Murakami Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20080222316
    Abstract: A disclosed communication system, communication method, and communication device enable an intended command to be easily acquired from a movement of an operator and executed. The communication system includes a first communication device and a second communication device communicating with each other. The first communication device includes a physical quantity detection unit that detects a physical quantity that changes as the first communication device moves. Based on an increase or a decrease in the physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detection unit, a communication direction is determined by a direction determination unit of the first communication device. Based on the thus determined communication direction, a communication unit of the first communication device communicates with the second communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 7368673
    Abstract: A knob for performing a parallel operation, a rotational operation and a pushing operation relative to a case, a first rotor disposed rotatably to the case, a second rotor positioned face to face and adjacent to the first rotor in the direction of a knob rotational axis and disposed rotatably to the case and movable in a rotational, radial direction such that the knob performs the pushing operation in the direction of the knob rotational axis and makes rotational engagement to the second rotor, and a positioning engagement portion disposed between the first and the second rotor and disengaged against urging forces to allow movement of the second rotor in the direction of the knob rotational axis relative to the first rotor and perform rotational transmission between the first and the second rotor are provided. A detecting portion corresponding to any one of the parallel operation, the rotational operation and the pushing operation is activated based upon the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Niles Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20080051961
    Abstract: Since rotation of a rotor gear which rotates integrally with a steering shaft is made to reduce by a speed reduction system constituted by a planetary gear system, and rotation after the speed reduction is made to be transmitted to a speed reduction side detecting gear, transmission efficiency of the rotation is improved, and since shafts of respective gears constituting the speed reduction system are directed to the same direction, the rotation of the steering shaft can be transmitted to the speed reduction side detecting gear with reduced clattering. Accordingly, since the clattering at the speed reduction system is reduced, the rotational angle of the steering shaft can be detected more accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: NILES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Ebashi, Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 7324134
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a deviation of a camera as a result of a shaking. The apparatus includes a shaking detector which detects a deviation of the camera from shaking based upon an output of at least two pairs of acceleration sensors which are located on different axes of the camera coordinates. A calculator calculates tilt angles of each of the axes from outputs of the pairs of the acceleration sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sato, Takashi Kitaguchi
  • Patent number: 7307787
    Abstract: In order to obtain a beam splitting prism which a beam can be split with simpler configuration in a state in which an optical path length is precisely controlled, there is provided a beam splitting prism having an incident and an outgoing faces orthogonal or parallel to each other, wherein transparent mediums, at least one beam splitter, and at least one reflector are combined so that the beam splitter and the reflector are located between the transparent mediums, the beam splitter and the reflector are arranged whose normal directions are orthogonal to each other, whereby a beam incident from an incident end face is outputted from an outgoing end face in the form of a plurality of split output beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Furuki, Yasuhiro Sato, Izumi Iwasa, Satoshi Tatsuura, Minquan Tian, Hiroyuki Mitsu
  • Publication number: 20070265046
    Abstract: A predetermined time point is added to an accumulated value of the time point in accordance with lapse of time. A special effect and a special effect applied value set to the special effect are stored when specification of the special effect is received. When the special effect applied value is subtracted from the accumulated maximum value of the time point, the special effect is applied to the player character. When specification of action commands is received, the received action command, an action command value and a received order of the action command are stored. The action command whose received order is the earliest among the received action commands is activated in the case where the accumulated value of the time point is the action command value of the action command or more. The action command value of the activated action command is subtracted from the time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX Co., LTD.)
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 7282609
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing an N-aryl-2,2,2-trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride represented by Formula (2): the process comprising the step of reacting in an organic solvent a tertiary amine, a 2,2,2-trifluoro-N-arylacetamide represented by Formula (1): and at least one member selected from the group consisting of phosphorus oxychloride and diphenyl chlorophosphate; and a process for producing a 1-aryl-5-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-tetrazole represented by Formula (4): the process comprising the step of reacting in an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent, in the presence of an amine salt, an N-aryl-2,2,2-trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride represented by Formula (2) shown above and an azide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Toyo Kasei Kogyo Company Limited
    Inventors: Kazutake Hagiya, Yasuhiro Sato, Kiyoto Koguro, Sunao Mitsui
  • Patent number: 7283034
    Abstract: A sensor for detecting a specific object (such as a hand) excellent in operation reliability and response, further excellent in mountability (dominance such as in size and design) on a vehicle, and much less in power consumption than conventional impulse radars. The object sensor comprises detecting wave transmitting means and reflected wave receiving means of an impulse radar and a judging circuit part (40) for turning on the detection output when the amplitude level of a signal component, in a frequency range corresponding to the moving speed range of a specific object, of a signal received by the reflected wave receiving means lies in a predetermined range corresponding to the reflection characteristics of the specific object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nakamura, Tetsuo Nishidai, Yasuhiro Sato, Tadao Nishiguchi, Naoyuki Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20070183724
    Abstract: An optical connector includes an optical fiber and a connector. The latter includes: (i) an optical fiber insertion hole that an end portion of the optical fiber is inserted into; (ii) a front face that an end surface of the optical fiber inserted into the optical fiber insertion hole appears; and (iii) a window that allows light input and output and is positioned below the front face. The end surface of the optical fiber is formed as a reflection surface that is flush with the front face and reflects an optical signal coming via one of a light transmission route extending through the optical fiber insertion hole and a light transmission route perpendicular to the direction that the optical fiber insertion hole extends, toward the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20070171088
    Abstract: A data communications apparatus for communicating with another apparatus is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Yasuhiro SATO
  • Patent number: 7247365
    Abstract: To provide a thermally transferable protective sheet which, upon forming a protective layer on a image-receiving member, can provide the protective layer without causing rainbow unevenness. A thermally transferable protective sheet which has a protective layer that comprises a peeling layer and an adhesive layer on at least one portion of one face of a substrate sheet, and is thermally transferable, and the peeling layer and the adhesive layer are respectively constituted by resins that have different upper and lower values of refractive indexes, with a refractive index of 1.5 serving as its border.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 7245836
    Abstract: Incident signal beam pulses are transmitted by an on-state region, and an optical path for the signal beam pulses is spatially switched in an optical switch. Signal beam pulses transmitted by the on-state region of the optical switch are detected at a pixel corresponding to a transmitting region of a photo-detector equipped with a plurality of pixels. A timing computation unit acquires position information of a pixel at which a predetermined signal beam pulse has been detected, on the basis of a result of the detection conducted by the photo-detector, and computes timing of arrival of a predetermined signal beam pulse at the optical switch on the basis of the position information of the pixel and time when a region corresponding to the pixel is brought to an on-state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignees: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mitsu, Makoto Furuki, Izumi Iwasa, Yasuhiro Sato, Satoshi Tatsuura, Minquan Tian, Makoto Naruse
  • Publication number: 20070144303
    Abstract: An operating lever system not requiring packing for preventing noise and any special function portion which reduces the number of parts and number of assembly steps and reduces the costs, that is, an operating lever system wherein the cam groove is formed in it middle portion with sharp bends where the curvature sharply changes, a front end of a pin is provided with a slit extending substantially in parallel to the two side walls of the cam groove and having a predetermined depth from the front end of the pin, at least part of the portion of the pin circumference substantially corresponding to a predetermined depth of the slit contacts the side walls without clearance, and the other portion of the pin circumference has a clearance from the side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sato, Kazushi Shikata, Masasi Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20070137402
    Abstract: A rotor and a seat mounted on a first shell is disposed between an annular first shell and an annular second shell both constituting a damper case, thereby forming a rotary damper device. A damper lever on which the rotor is mounted is hooked on a fixing pin fixed to a body. Viscous fluid such as highly viscous oil is charged into a damper chamber formed between the rotor and the seat, and a viscous resistance is applied to the rotor and the seat. In a state in which a rotation center of the rotary damper device is deviated from a rotation center of the shaft which is rotated by the operating lever, the damper case is fixed to a flange portion of the shaft, the rotor and the seat are allowed to rotate relatively to each other by an inclining operation of the operating lever, and a resistance force from the rotary damper device is applied to the operating lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Masayoshi Mototani, Shuuji Hori, Daisuke Kozuka, Yasuhiro Sato, Koichi Miyake
  • Patent number: 7217449
    Abstract: To provide a protective-layer thermal transferring film that can provide a protective layer having a superior sorting property. A protective-layer thermal transferring film which has a protective layer that comprises at least a peeling layer and a heat seal layer on at least one portion of one face of a substrate film, and can be thermally transferred, and when the protective layer is thermally transferred on an image-receiving member, the image-receiving member is allowed to have a surface coefficient of friction of 0.4 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato