Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Suzuki
Yoshiaki Suzuki 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: 20250093152Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical apparatus includes at least two light sources, illumination opening portions, and an imaging portion. The illumination opening portions are configured to partially block light emitted from the at least two light sources, respectively, to form illumination light. The imaging portion is configured to image an object using the illumination light. The at least two light sources are disposed at positions facing each other with an optical axis of the imaging portion interposed between the at least two light sources. The illumination light from the at least two light sources is formed to spread like a fan shape toward the object respectively by the illumination opening portions. The fan shape is defined on a reference plane including the optical axis of the imaging portion and on another plane parallel to the reference plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFORMATION SYSTEMS (JAPAN) CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Hiroya Kano, Akifumi Ohno, Akio Kawasaki, Sayuri Suzuki, Yoshiaki Takagi
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Publication number: 20250070250Abstract: An electrolytic solution for a magnesium battery includes a solvent, an electrolyte salt, and an additive. The electrolyte salt includes a magnesium salt represented by Formula (1). The additive includes at least one of a first magnesium compound represented by Formula (2), a second magnesium compound represented by Formula (3), or a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. Mg[B(OC(R1)3)4]2 ??(1) where: each of 24 R1's is any one of hydrogen (H), fluorine (F), an alkyl group, or a fluorinated alkyl group; and at least one of 24 R1's is either fluorine or the fluorinated alkyl group. Mg[(N(Si(R2)3)2]2 ??(2) where each of 12 R2's is either hydrogen or an alkyl group. MG(R3)2 ??(3) where each of two R3's is either hydrogen or boron hydride (BH4).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Yoshiaki SUZUKI, Daisuke MORI, Yuri NAKAYAMA, Hideki KAWASAKI
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Publication number: 20250065542Abstract: Disclosed is a laminating apparatus capable of suppressing the generation of voids in a resulting laminate and manufacturing a laminate with improved flatness, including a vacuum laminating device and a first flat press laminating device. The vacuum laminating device includes a pair of plate blocks, and a base material and resin are pressed between the plate blocks. The plate block which is movable forwardly and backwardly includes an elastic pressing plate and a buffer material, and the buffer material has a multi-layer structure comprised of not less than three layers including a fiber layer and a rubber layer. A pressing force against the base material and the resin between the pair of plate blocks is set in the range of 2.5 to 3.97 MPa per 500 mm square area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2023Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Nikko-Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiaki HONMA, Akiyuki NAKAYAMA, Tomomi SUZUKI, Takeshi YAMAGUCHI, Taihei MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 12220909Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a printing unit, a platen section facing the printing unit, a regulation unit arranged on a downstream side of the printing unit in the conveyance direction and configured to regulate a height position of the print medium, and a guide section arranged on a downstream side of the platen section. The guide section includes a first declined section, a second declined section arranged on the downstream side of the first declined section in the conveyance direction, and an inclined section inclined from the second declined section to the downstream side in the conveyance direction. A declination of the second declined section is more moderate than that of the first declined section, and the regulation unit faces the guide section.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kohei Fukui, Kota Uchida, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Takakazu Ohashi, Kengo Nieda
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Patent number: 12216309Abstract: An optical fiber is formed from silica-based glass. The optical fiber includes a core including a central axis and a cladding surrounding the core. A refractive index of the core is greater than a refractive index of the cladding. The core contains chlorine, and one or more kinds of elements selected from an element group consisting of alkali metal elements and alkaline earth metal elements. A relative refractive index difference of the core based on a refractive index of pure silica is 0.00% or greater and 0.15% or less. An average concentration of fluorine in the cladding is 1.2% or less in a mass fraction.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Sakuma, Yoshiaki Tamura, Yuki Kawaguchi, Masato Suzuki
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Publication number: 20250011123Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a stacking portion on which a print medium printed by a printing unit configured to perform printing is stacked, a discharge unit configured to convey the print medium printed by the printing unit to the stacking portion, a passage forming portion arranged above the stacking portion so as to face the stacking portion and configured to form a discharge passage of the print medium together with the stacking portion, and an outlet port located at a downstream end of the discharge passage in a conveying direction of the print medium. In the outlet port, the passage forming portion extends to the downstream side of the stacking portion in the conveying direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Ryosuke Araki, Tsutomu Obata, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Kenji Shimamura, Ryoya Shinjo
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Patent number: 12162710Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a stacking portion on which a print medium printed by a printing unit configured to perform printing is stacked, a discharge unit configured to discharge the print medium printed by the printing unit to the stacking portion, a passage forming portion arranged facing the stacking portion and configured to form a discharge passage of the print medium together with the stacking portion, and an outlet port located at a downstream end of the stacking portion and a downstream end of the passage forming portion in a conveying direction of the print medium. The passage forming portion includes an opening/closing portion which is displaceable between a closed position for forming the discharge passage and an open position for opening access to the stacking portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Obata, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Kenji Shimamura, Ryoya Shinjo, Ryosuke Araki
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Publication number: 20240367445Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to be able to convey a roll sheet that is wound in a rolled shape and a cut sheet that is not wound in a rolled shape to a printing unit configured to print an image; a receiving unit detachably attached to the apparatus, the receiving unit being configured to receive the cut sheet onto which printing has been performed by the printing unit; a detection unit configured to detect whether the receiving unit is attached to the apparatus; and a holding unit configured to, in a case where the detection unit detects that the receiving unit is not attached to the apparatus, nip to hold the cut sheet onto which printing has been performed by the printing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: Itaru Wada, Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 12122629Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a stacking portion on which a print medium printed by a printing unit configured to perform printing is stacked, a discharge unit configured to convey the print medium printed by the printing unit to the stacking portion, a passage forming portion arranged above the stacking portion so as to face the stacking portion and configured to form a discharge passage of the print medium together with the stacking portion, and an outlet port located at a downstream end of the discharge passage in a conveying direction of the print medium. In the outlet port, the passage forming portion extends to the downstream side of the stacking portion in the conveying direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryosuke Araki, Tsutomu Obata, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Kenji Shimamura, Ryoya Shinjo
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Patent number: 12115781Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus. A printing unit prints an image on a printing medium and is able to move. A cutter unit is able to connect with or separate from the printing unit, and, by following a movement of the printing unit, cuts the printing medium. A setting unit sets, in accordance with a size of the printing medium, a standby position of the cutter unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 12064959Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to be able to convey a roll sheet that is wound in a rolled shape and a cut sheet that is not wound in a rolled shape to a printing unit configured to print an image, a receiving unit detachably attached to the apparatus, the receiving unit being configured to receive the cut sheet onto which printing has been performed by the printing unit; a detection unit configured to detect whether the receiving unit is attached to the apparatus; and a holding unit configured to, in a case where the detection unit detects that the receiving unit is not attached to the apparatus, nip to hold the cut sheet onto which printing has been performed by the printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Itaru Wada, Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Publication number: 20240269996Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus comprises a holding unit configured to hold a roll sheet. The printing apparatus performs: supplying the sheet by rotating the roll sheet held by the holding unit; nipping and conveying the supplied sheet; performing printing on the conveyed sheet; detecting occurrence of a print medium jam of the sheet; and, if the printing apparatus has detected a print medium jam of the sheet, performing a control process of supplying the sheet in a state in which the conveying is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Yoshiaki Suzuki, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki, Yasuyuki Asai
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Patent number: 11993073Abstract: A printing apparatus that includes a holding unit configured to hold a roll sheet performs supplying the sheet by rotating the roll sheet held by the holding unit; nipping and conveying the supplied sheet; performing printing on the conveyed sheet; detecting occurrence of a print medium jam of the sheet; and, if the printing apparatus has detected a print medium jam of the sheet, performing a control process of supplying the sheet in a state in which the conveying is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiaki Suzuki, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Tomohito Abe, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki, Yasuyuki Asai
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Patent number: 11945379Abstract: A sound-absorbing material for vehicles that is mounted to a vehicle interior and that is provided with a main body in which at least a fibrous material and a skin material are integrally molded. The sound-absorbing material for vehicles is characterized in that a sound-absorbing section provided to at least part of the main body is formed so as to be mounted to the vehicle interior within a range in which the vertical distance Elh from the lower surface of the head rests of the front seats downward is 0.1-0.4 m, and in that the air flow resistance AFR (Ns/m3) and the vertical distance Elh (m) satisfy 210<AFR+10/Elh<3020.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KOTOBUKIYA FRONTE CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki Hagio, Morio Suzuki, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Satoshi Shimada
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Publication number: 20230395862Abstract: An electrolyte solution for a secondary battery is provided and includes an electrolyte and a solvent, in which the electrolyte contains a sulfonyl group-containing lithium salt and lithium nitrate, a total content of the sulfonyl group-containing lithium salt and the lithium nitrate is 0.8 mol/L or more and 2.0 mol/L or less, and the solvent contains a straight-chain ether and a fluorinated ether.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Yoshiaki SUZUKI, Daisuke MORI, Ryuhei MATSUMOTO, Yuri NAKAYAMA
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Patent number: 11834290Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a stacking portion on which a print medium printed by a printing unit configured to perform printing is stacked, a discharge unit configured to discharge the print medium printed by the printing unit to the stacking portion, a passage forming portion arranged facing the stacking portion and configured to form a discharge passage of the print medium together with the stacking portion, and an outlet port located at a downstream end of the stacking portion and a downstream end of the passage forming portion in a conveying direction of the print medium. The passage forming portion includes a take-out port through which a user can take out, from the stacking portion, the print medium printed by the printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tsutomu Obata, Kenji Shimamura, Ryoya Shinjo, Ryosuke Araki
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Patent number: 11827487Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet stacked on a stacking unit, a conveyance roller configured to convey the printing sheet fed by the feeding roller, a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller, a conveyance control unit configured to control conveyance of printing sheets so that the trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from the stacking unit and the leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other, and a determination unit configured to determine whether to convey the succeeding sheet to a position facing the printing unit while keeping an overlap state between the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomofumi Nishida, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Asai, Motoyuki Taguchi, Tetsuya Saito, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Syunichi Kunihiro
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Patent number: 11828750Abstract: A screening system provided with a potential-dependent Na ion channel that extends the duration of the action potential associated with depolarization, and a K ion channel that deepens the resting membrane potential in the negative direction, said screening system furthermore including cells provided with ion channels that contribute to deepening the resting membrane potential in the negative direction and/or shortening the duration of the action potential as target ion channels. By such cells, the action of a test compound on the target ion channel can be easily evaluated by providing an inhibitor for the K ion channel to control the probability of cell death.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY, CHANNELOSEARCH TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yuji Imaizumi, Hisao Yamamura, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Keisuke Kawasaki, Hiroshi Narita
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Publication number: 20230331504Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a stacking portion on which a print medium printed by a printing unit configured to perform printing is stacked, a discharge unit configured to discharge the print medium printed by the printing unit to the stacking portion, a passage forming portion arranged facing the stacking portion and configured to form a discharge passage of the print medium together with the stacking portion, and an outlet port located in a downstream end of the stacking portion and a downstream end of the passage forming portion in a conveying direction of the print medium. The passage forming portion includes an opening/closing portion which is displaceable between a closed position for forming the discharge passage and an open position for opening the stacking portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Tsutomu Obata, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Kenji Shimamura, Ryoya Shinjo, Ryosuke Araki
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Patent number: 11766881Abstract: To provide a printing apparatus and a conveyance apparatus that are capable of preventing a cut position to be cut by a cutting unit from deviating, in a printing apparatus in which printing is performed by a printing unit on a printing medium that is conveyed by a conveyance unit and the printing medium is cut by a cutting unit while being conveyed by the conveyance unit and a conveying force apply unit, the conveying force apply unit is arranged on an outer side relative to the cutting unit and is configured to apply a conveying force to the printing medium in a direction outward in a width direction from an upstream side to a downstream side in a conveyance direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryo Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tsutomu Obata