Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Okada
Yoshiyuki Okada 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: 8424990Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an inkjet head configured to perform printing on a printing sheet by use of ink. The inkjet printer includes: a heater configured to heat the ink; a thermometer configured to measure the temperature of the ink; and a controller configured to control the amount of electric power to be supplied to the heater and to control the inkjet head. In a case where the measured value of the ink temperature measured by the thermometer is in a range of a first reference temperature inclusive to a second reference temperature exclusive, the controller calculates a coverage rate of a page to be printed, and accordingly changes the amount of electric power to be supplied to the heater depending on the coverage rate thus calculated.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Riso Kagaku CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Okada, Asayo Nishimura
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Publication number: 20130076848Abstract: A printing device includes a barcode area dividing unit that divides a barcode area of a printing sheet into plural division areas along a Y direction, and a barcode area ejection amount conversion and output unit that controls an ink jet printing unit to print black bars such that an X direction is a direction in which the black bars and white bars are alternately arranged and occupancy dimensions of ink of pixels are different in the division areas divided by the barcode area dividing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Nobushima, Junichi Hakamada, Tsutomu Kurose, Takahiko Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Okada, Mitsuaki Ishitoya
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Publication number: 20120320381Abstract: A measurement apparatus obtains a reference signal from light modulated by a first frequency, obtains a measurement signal from light modulated by the first frequency and a second frequency, and measures a position of a target object by calculating a phase difference between the reference signal and the measurement signal. The apparatus includes: a demodulation unit which demodulates the measurement signal by the first frequency; a decimation filter which removes harmonic components from the signal generated by the demodulation unit; a detection unit which detects periodic error components included in the signal output from the decimation filter; a removing unit which removes the periodic error components from the signal output from the decimation filter; and a calculation unit which calculates the position of the target object based on the signal output from the removing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiyuki Okada
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Publication number: 20120314260Abstract: An image processing device includes a print image data generator and a density adjuster. The print image date generator generates print image data for each of colors to be used to print a document image from image data of the document image including a barcode image and a background image overlapped on the barcode image as a background. The density adjuster performs at least one of processing to reduce the density of the barcode image in at least any one of pieces of the print image data of colors including the barcode image and processing to reduce the density of the background image within a neighboring region that neighbors a bar of the barcode image in at least any one of pieces of the print image data of colors including the background image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi HAKAMADA, Tsutomu KUROSE, Takahiko NAKAMURA, Kouichi NOBUSHIMA, Yoshiyuki OKADA, Mitsuaki ISHITOYA
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Publication number: 20120307271Abstract: A specific gamut of colors extending a reproduction range of colors in a color space is set to make for any ink color belonging to the specific gamut a conversion from CMYK dot pattern data into numbers of ink drops to be discharged from an inkjet head, using as a lookup table an extended pattern table having a maximal drop number ‘7’. For ink colors belonging to a gamut of colors outside the specific gamut, a default pattern table having a maximal drop number ‘5’ is used as a lookup table for the conversion from CMYK dot pattern data into ink drop numbers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuaki ISHITOYA, Takashi EBISAWA, Yoshiyuki OKADA
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Patent number: 8308285Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a printing unit, a transfer route, a heating chamber, and a heater. The printing unit ejects ink onto a sheet through nozzles of the inkjet heads. The transfer route transfers the sheet as printed at the printing unit. The heating chamber accommodates at least part of the transfer route to heat the sheet as transferred in the transfer route. The heater heats inside the heating chamber. The heating chamber is sectioned into sub-chambers along the transfer route, including a first sub-chamber to be heated by the heater and a second sub-chamber to be lower in temperature than the first sub-chamber and located between the printing unit and the first sub-chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Riso Kagaku CorporationInventors: Naoki Akihiro, Tomohiko Shimoda, Yoshiyuki Okada
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Patent number: 8292244Abstract: A flat panel display device includes a stand and a cabinet. The stand has a pair of hook portions. The hook portions are symmetrically formed relative to a plane of symmetry. The cabinet has a bottom plate with a pair of attachment holes. The attachment holes are symmetrically formed relative to the plane of symmetry. Each of the attachment holes includes a first portion and a second portion that is wider than the first portion in a transverse direction of the cabinet. The first and second portions of each of the attachment holes have inner side faces, respectively. The inner side face of the first portion and the inner side face of the second portion are offset in the transverse direction of the cabinet and connected with a slanted guide face that is slanted relative to both of the inner side faces of the first and second portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiyuki Okada
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Patent number: 8235495Abstract: A print head includes an ink propelling mechanism, an ink tank supplies ink to the print head, an ink circulation route includes the print head and the ink tank therein, a pump circulates ink through the ink circulation route, a temperature sensor measures a temperature of ink flowing in a route between the print head and the ink tank in the ink circulation route, a heater is disposed in a vicinity of the ink tank to heat ink, and a controller works with a received print job, operating for temperatures of ink as measures at the temperature sensor lower than a first prescribed reference, to heat ink by the heater without starting printing, and for temperatures of ink as measures at the temperature sensor kept equal to or higher than the first reference for a prescribed time interval, to start printing.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Riso Kagaku CorporationInventor: Yoshiyuki Okada
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Patent number: 8201921Abstract: A printing apparatus is capable of forming images by overlappingly performing print processes for a plurality of colors with non-aqueous inks and an aqueous ink. When printing with the aqueous ink, it is possible to inhibit paper from being deformed and to realize a high density print process with a low see-through density. At least one of the plurality of colors is printed with a non-aqueous ink containing a water-insoluble solvent, and the remaining colors is printed with an aqueous ink containing a water-soluble solvent. The print process of the non-aqueous ink is performed in advance of the print process of the aqueous ink.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Riso Kagaku CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Okada, Masahiko Kusuhata, Teruaki Okawa
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Publication number: 20120147382Abstract: A measurement apparatus obtains a reference signal from reference light modulated at a first frequency and a measurement signal from measurement light reflected by a target object modulated at a second frequency along with movement of the target object in addition to the modulation at the first frequency, and processes the reference signal and the measurement signal to measure a position of the target object. Synchronized detection units multiply the measurement signal by a signal synchronized with the reference signal and output signals having the second frequency and harmonic components. Decimation filters filter, at a decimation frequency, the signals output from the synchronized detection units to attenuate the harmonic components.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiyuki OKADA
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Patent number: 8199313Abstract: A temperature regulating apparatus includes a heat exchanger and regulates a temperature of a first medium by performing heat exchange between the first medium and a second medium via the heat exchanger. A regulating operation unit generates a flow rate regulating signal so that the temperature of the first medium flowing out from a primary side outlet of the heat exchanger becomes equal to a target temperature. A control valve regulates a flow rate of the second medium based on the flow rate regulating signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshiyuki Okada
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Publication number: 20120133696Abstract: An adjustment drop number setting section 335 sets a number of adjustment drops with which a change in print density in an image occurs remarkably when an ink drop amount of one ink drop is changed for each kind of a print medium (print sheet) input from an operation panel 340 or sets uniformly regardless of the kind of print medium. When a density difference that requires adjustment is recognized visually between images by two neighboring ink heads on a density measurement chart printed by a chart printing execution section 333c, the ink drop amount of one drop in the set number of adjustment drops is adjusted by adjusting a drive voltage of the ink head of a head unit 110 according to an input from the operation panel 340.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki TOMITA, Yoshiyuki OKADA
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Publication number: 20120118421Abstract: An engine starting device includes a drainage member which is attached to an attachment hole provided in a machine casing of the device and drains water intruded in the device. The drainage member includes: a torso section; a neck section; a flange section and a claw section, which are integrally configured with the neck section, and in which when the neck section is fitted in the hole, the flange section comes in contact with the inside of the casing and the claw section comes in contact with the outside of the casing, at least one section of the claw section being formed on the outside of the torso section; and partition plates separated in parallel so as to be capable of being overlapped each other and easily deformed when the claw section is pressed from the outside to the inner periphery of the torso section at the claw section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo SATO, Shuichi TAKAHAMA, Yoshiyuki OKADA
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Patent number: 8172352Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided with a line-type ink jet head having a plurality of blocks on each of which a set of ink ejection elements are arranged. A drive signal generating unit is configured to generate a drive voltage signal including a prepulse to be applied to the set of the ink ejection elements for each block, based on data indicating a number of times of ejecting ink to each pixel; and a first storage unit is configured to store a drive signal adjustment value to adjust a set of a voltage value of the drive voltage signal and a width of the prepulse for each block. The drive signal generating unit generates the drive voltage signal for each block, based on the drive signal adjustment value for each block read out from the first storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Riso Kagaku CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Okada, Asayo Nishimura
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Patent number: 8164735Abstract: The present invention is a regulating device configured to regulate a temperature T2 of a first medium in accordance with a target temperature. The regulating device comprises a heat exchanger 16, a control valve 14, temperature sensors 2 and 4, temperature sensors 6 and 8, and a heat quantity control unit 30 and a temperature control unit 50 configured to calculate a target exchange heat quantity in the heat exchanger 16, calculate an exchange heat quantity in the heat exchanger 16, add a signal dependent upon a difference between the target exchange heat quantity and the exchange heat quantity to a signal dependent upon a difference between an output of the temperature sensor 4 and the target temperature, and control the control valve 14 so that a difference between the output of the temperature sensor 4 and the target temperature is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshiyuki Okada
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Patent number: 8131404Abstract: A temperature regulating apparatus which regulates temperature includes a heater, a temperature detector configured to detect temperature, a calculator configured to calculate a manipulated value based on an error between a target temperature and the temperature detected by the temperature detector, and a power controller configured to supply power, having one of a voltage and current controlled in accordance with the manipulated value, to the heater. The calculator includes a first calculator having at least a proportional element of the proportional element, an integral element, and a derivative element, and a second calculator configured to calculate a square root. The first calculator and the second calculator are coupled in series with each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiyuki Okada, Tomohiko Yoshida, Takafumi Ota, Yuuhei Matsumura
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Patent number: 8128190Abstract: An ink circulation type inkjet printer includes a maintenance controller configured to: (1) allow a maintenance mechanism to execute maintenance processing for a plurality of inkjet heads before a present printing job under three conditions that: (c1) an elapsed time from a last printing job to a present printing job is less than a first reference time; (c2) the present printing job requests for ejecting ink from unused nozzles of multiple nozzles of the plurality of inkjet heads in the last printing job; (c3) the elapsed time is more than a second reference time; (2) allow the ink circulation type inkjet printer to perform the present printing job without the maintenance processing for the plurality of inkjet heads when the elapsed time is less than the predetermined second reference time.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: National University Corporation Hokkaido UniversityInventors: Asayo Nishimura, Yoshiyuki Okada
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Patent number: 8040335Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a system comprises a display having a display area for displaying an image corresponding to image data signals applied thereto, the display being capable of maintaining the image to be displayed after termination of application of the image data signals, an area designation unit for designating a part of the display area and a controller unit for receiving image data and generating image data signals to be applied to the display, the controller unit being configured to inhibit application of image data signals to the part of the display area when designated while applying new image data signals to the display.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2008Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kohei Terazono, Satoshi Iwata, Yoshiyuki Okada
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Patent number: 7966044Abstract: A medium storing a program for display control. When the program is executed by a computer realized in a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal operates as follows. An area-information storing unit stores information on a first display area of an external display device and a second display area of a built-in display. A screen-data production unit acquires content to be displayed, and produces screen data corresponding to the first display area. An entire-image display unit divides the screen data into partial areas each corresponding to the second display area, adds to the entire screen data area-display data indicating the extent of each partial area and a corresponding identifier, and displays the screen data on the external display device. On receipt of an identifier, a partial-image display unit extracts a portion of the screen data for a partial area corresponding to the identifier, and displays the portion on the built-in display.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Frontech LimitedInventors: Fumiyuki Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Okada, Yoshiaki Kageyama, Shinobu Tamura, Rumiko Matsuda, Koji Sato, Shigenori Sasaki
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Patent number: 7963625Abstract: An inkjet printer performs printing by circulating cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks in their respective passages. The printer includes a heat exchanger which the passages enter together, and which is configured to promote the temperatures of the inks to be equal to each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Riso Kagaku CorporationInventor: Yoshiyuki Okada