Patents by Inventor Yoichi Ito

Yoichi Ito 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: 20190255765
    Abstract: A fabricating apparatus includes a heater, a discharger, and circuitry. The heater is configured to heat a first fabrication material layer formed of a fabrication material. The discharger is configured to discharge a molten fabrication material onto the first fabrication material layer heated by the heater, to stack a second fabrication material layer on the first fabrication material layer. The circuitry is configured to control a heating of the heater according to shape data so that the first fabrication material layer does not exceed a threshold temperature defined by the fabrication material when the heater heats the first fabrication material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu TAKEYAMA, Tsuyoshi ARAO, Yoichi ITO, Atsushi TAKAI, Tomomi AKIEDA
  • Publication number: 20190255766
    Abstract: A fabricating apparatus includes a heater, a discharger, and circuitry. The heater is configured to heat a first fabrication material layer formed of a fabrication material. The discharger is configured to discharge a melted fabrication material onto the first fabrication material layer heated by the heater, to stack a second fabrication material layer on the first fabrication material layer. The circuitry is configured to control a heating amount of the heater according to shape data when the heater heats the first fabrication material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu TAKEYAMA, Yoichi Ito, Atsushi Takai, Tsuyoshi Arao, Tomomi Akieda
  • Patent number: 10359683
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a portable attachment and communication system that enable a desired image to be displayed with flexibility and lower power consumption in an article worn or carried by a human. The portable attachment is an article including a display body made of an electrophoretic display, the article being carried or worn by a user. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a portable attachment, etc. Examples of the portable attachment carried by a user are a bag, a wallet, a key holder, etc. Examples of the portable attachment worn by the user are a hair accessory, a tie, a watch, clothing, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamamoto, Yoichi Ito, Yuki Sugiue, Machiko Takematsu, Masakazu Mitsugi, Hiroshi Saeki
  • Publication number: 20190211886
    Abstract: A multiplate friction clutch includes: a pressure plate having a boss portion which penetrates a clutch center; a clutch lifter plate joined to the boss portion and receiving a drive force in a axial direction at a time of disconnection between a friction plate and a clutch plate; and a spring sandwiched between the clutch lifter plate and the clutch center, and capable of generating an elastic force in a direction that the friction plate and the clutch plate are pressed to each other. A position restricting portion is provided on the clutch lifter plate, the position restricting portion being brought into contact with the boss portion from an outside in a radial direction of the clutch lifter plate so as to restrict a position of the clutch lifter plate with respect to the pressure plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Yoichi ITO, Akira TAKAHASHI, Kinya MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20190086649
    Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SATOH, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Kensuke MASUDA, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Makoto SHOHARA, Yoichi ITO, Shusaku TAKASU
  • Publication number: 20190088212
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display module which enables the display module capable of improving a design quality of a product to be applied to various types of products. The display module is provided with a flexible sheet-shaped display unit, a switch unit which switches a display pattern of the display unit, and a control unit which controls a display pattern of the display unit on the basis of a switch control signal from the switch unit. The display unit is electrically connected to the control unit, and the control unit is electrically connected to the switch unit by using a wiring cable. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a bag and the like a display pattern of which may be changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji ITOH, Yoichi ITO, Masakazu MITSUGI, Seigo YONEDA, Masatomo SHIMOYAMA, Yoshitaka TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10151905
    Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Satoh, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Makoto Shohara, Yoichi Ito, Shusaku Takasu
  • Patent number: 10092949
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a round steel billet by continuous casting includes a local cooling step where inhomogeneous forced cooling is applied to a cast product during the continuous casting, and a rolling reduction step where rolling reduction is applied to the cast product in the opposite directions of the polar opposites by reduction rolls in the course from the completion of solidification to the completion of the recuperation of the cast product so that rolling reduction r which is a reduction ratio of a distance between middle points of the polar opposites is set to a value exceeding 0% and 5% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Katsumura, Hirohide Uehara, Yoichi Ito
  • Patent number: 10065423
    Abstract: A liquid discharge device includes: a liquid discharge head; a nozzle array disposed on the head in a conveyance direction; a movement driver that moves the head to discharge liquid from the nozzle array in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction in a reciprocating manner; a discharge driver that causes the head to discharge the liquid; a conveyor that conveys an object; and a controller that acquires an amount of conveyance of the object by the conveyor over a period during which the head moves from a predetermined position to a position where the head is to discharge the liquid to a target pixel, and determines, on which reciprocating travelling of the head to discharge the liquid and from which nozzle in the nozzle array to discharge the liquid, based on the amount of conveyance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Takagi, Kaoru Sakamoto, Yoichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20180024333
    Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SATOH, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Kensuke MASUDA, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Makoto SHOHARA, Yoichi ITO, Shusaku TAKASU
  • Patent number: 9855759
    Abstract: A liquid container includes a first chamber and a second chamber to contain liquid to be supplied to a head and a liquid path to connect the first chamber and the second chamber so that liquid communicates between the first chamber and the second chamber. Each of the first chamber and the second chamber has a flexible wall. The first chamber includes a first spring inside the first chamber to press the flexible wall of the first chamber outward. The second chamber includes a second spring inside the second chamber to press the flexible wall of the second chamber outward. A pressing force of the first spring is greater than a pressing force of the second spring. A first feeler disposed outside the first chamber and in contact with the flexible wall of the first chamber, and the first feeler is displaced according to a movement of the flexible wall of the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeyuki Kobayashi, Tomomi Katoh, Ryoh Idehara, Yoichi Ito, Yoshinori Uchino
  • Publication number: 20170333983
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a round steel billet by continuous casting includes a local cooling step where inhomogeneous forced cooling is applied to a cast product during the continuous casting, and a rolling reduction step where rolling reduction is applied to the cast product in the opposite directions of the polar opposites by reduction rolls in the course from the completion of solidification to the completion of the recuperation of the cast product so that rolling reduction r which is a reduction ratio of a distance between middle points of the polar opposites is set to a value exceeding 0% and 5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Katsumura, Hirohide Uehara, Yoichi Ito
  • Patent number: 9798117
    Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Satoh, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Makoto Shohara, Yoichi Ito, Shusaku Takasu
  • Patent number: 9756243
    Abstract: An imaging controller includes an index calculator to calculate an index value for each of divided areas of images captured by a plurality of imaging units, the index value for evaluating a photographic state of each of the divided areas, an evaluation value calculator to evaluate the images and an overlapping area between the images on the basis of the index value of each divided area calculated by the index calculator and calculate an overall evaluation value, and a condition determiner to determine an imaging condition for each of the imaging units on the basis of the overall evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Shohara, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Yoichi Ito, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh
  • Publication number: 20170243385
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for displaying information, a program, and a communication system, which enable the provision of an apparatus making use of a display device excellent in flexibility. An information display apparatus includes a display unit including a time information presenting section for presenting at least time information and a band section to be worn on an arm, and a display control unit for changing a display of the display unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, the information display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Mitsugi, Yuki Sugiue, Hiroshi Saeki, Machiko Takematsu, Masaaki Yamamoto, Yoichi Ito, Kenji Itoh
  • Publication number: 20170173952
    Abstract: A liquid discharge device includes: a liquid discharge head; a nozzle array disposed on the head in a conveyance direction; a movement driver that moves the head to discharge liquid from the nozzle array in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction in a reciprocating manner; a discharge driver that causes the head to discharge the liquid; a conveyor that conveys an object; and a controller that acquires an amount of conveyance of the object by the conveyor over a period during which the head moves from a predetermined position to a position where the head is to discharge the liquid to a target pixel, and determines, on which reciprocating travelling of the head to discharge the liquid and from which nozzle in the nozzle array to discharge the liquid, based on the amount of conveyance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunobu TAKAGI, Kaoru SAKAMOTO, Yoichi ITO
  • Publication number: 20170136778
    Abstract: A liquid container includes a first chamber and a second chamber to contain liquid to be supplied to a head and a liquid path to connect the first chamber and the second chamber so that liquid communicates between the first chamber and the second chamber. Each of the first chamber and the second chamber has a flexible wall. The first chamber includes a first spring inside the first chamber to press the flexible wall of the first chamber outward. The second chamber includes a second spring inside the second chamber to press the flexible wall of the second chamber outward. A pressing force of the first spring is greater than a pressing force of the second spring. A first feeler disposed outside the first chamber and in contact with the flexible wall of the first chamber, and the first feeler is displaced according to a movement of the flexible wall of the first chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Takeyuki KOBAYASHI, Tomomi KATOH, Ryoh IDEHARA, Yoichi ITO, Yoshinori UCHINO
  • Publication number: 20170116704
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a tilt detection unit that detects a tilt in the vertical direction, conversion data used for transforming plane coordinates into spherical coordinates, a correction unit that corrects the conversion data according to the tilt, a plurality of image capturing units, a coordinate transformation unit that transforms plane coordinates of a plurality of pixels included in images captured by the image capturing units into spherical coordinates according to the conversion data corrected by the correction unit, and a combining unit that combines the images including the pixels transformed into spherical coordinates by the coordinate transformation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: HIROKAZU TAKENAKA, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Kensuke MASUDA, Yoichi ITO, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Hiroyuki SATOH, Makoto SHOHARA, Noriyuki TERAO, Toru HARADA
  • Patent number: D794012
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Mitsugi, Yuki Sugiue, Yoichi Ito, Masaaki Yamamoto, Machiko Takematsu, Hiroshi Saeki
  • Patent number: D810739
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Mitsugi, Yuki Sugiue, Yoichi Ito, Masaaki Yamamoto, Michiko Takematsu, Hiroshi Saeki