Patents by Inventor Yugo Mochizuki
Yugo Mochizuki 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: 20240140186Abstract: A power storage device is a power storage device provided on a lower surface of a floor panel of a vehicle, the power storage device including: a housing case; a power storage module housed in the housing case; and a cooler housed in the housing case to cool the power storage module, wherein the housing case includes a bottom plate, a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant flows is formed in a portion of the housing case, the portion being located above the bottom plate, and the refrigerant passage is connected to the cooler.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaroh Gotoh, Yukinari Tanabe, Yugo Mochizuki
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Patent number: 11897322Abstract: A power storage device is a power storage device provided on a lower surface of a floor panel of a vehicle, the power storage device including: a housing case; a power storage module housed in the housing case; and a cooler housed in the housing case to cool the power storage module, wherein the housing case includes a bottom plate, a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant flows is formed in a portion of the housing case, the portion being located above the bottom plate, and the refrigerant passage is connected to the cooler.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaroh Gotoh, Yukinari Tanabe, Yugo Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20240039097Abstract: The battery pack includes a cell stack and a battery case. The cell stack is formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. The battery case is formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and accommodates the cell stack. The battery case includes a first protrusion protruding from an outer surface of the battery case to an outside of the battery case at a position of a gap between adjacent battery cells in a stacking direction of the cell stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yugo MOCHIZUKI, Yutaroh Gotoh, Masataka Ogushi, Junki Sugimoto, Mitsuharu Goto
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Patent number: 11858370Abstract: A vehicle includes: a battery that is chargeable with electric power supplied from a charger provided outside the vehicle; and an air-conditioning and cooling system that cools the battery. An ECU controls a charging operation for the battery such that the battery is charged under a charging condition of a constant current which is constant over a charging period from start of charging to satisfaction of a completion condition. The ECU sets the charging condition such that a battery temperature when the completion condition is satisfied becomes an upper limit temperature, based on an amount of heat generation in the battery caused by charging and an amount of cooling of the battery by the air-conditioning and cooling system.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshio Matsuyama, Yugo Mochizuki, Yoshiaki Kawakami, Masataka Ogushi
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Publication number: 20230286288Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises: a printing unit configured to print an image by applying, onto a printing medium, a first ink containing a fluorescent color material and a second ink containing not fluorescent color material but a resin; a decision unit configured to decide an amount of the second ink applied to a unit area on the printing medium based on an amount of the first ink applied to the unit area and luminescence information representing a luminescence intensity; and a control unit configured to control an application operation of the first ink and the second ink by the printing unit based on the amount of the first ink and the amount of the second ink applied to the unit area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: YUGO MOCHIZUKI, KOUTA MURASAWA, HIROMITSU YAMAGUCHI, HIDEKI KUBO
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Publication number: 20230017895Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an ink application unit, a reactant application unit, a control unit configured to control an application amount of the reactant to be applied by the reactant application unit, and an identification unit configured to identify a pixel included in a line portion based on image data indicating an image to be formed on the print medium. The control unit controls the application amount of the reactant so that an amount per unit area of the reactant to be applied to a region in which the line portion to be formed on the print medium with the pixel identified by the identification unit is to be printed is less than the amount per unit area of the reactant to be applied to a region in which an image including a pixel not identified by the identification unit is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventor: Yugo Mochizuki
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Patent number: 11412107Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs predetermined image processing for read data obtained by reading an image on a document by first and second reading sensors arranged so as to have an overlapping area. The predetermined image processing includes color correction processing of converting color signals detected by light receiving elements of the reading sensors into color signals with respect to each of pixels forming read data. Color correction processing for first read data obtained from light receiving elements of the first reading sensor not included in the overlapping area and color correction processing for second read data obtained from light receiving elements of the second reading sensor not included in the overlapping area are performed in accordance with different correction characteristics. By doing this, an image in which image unevenness caused by individual differences of the short reading sensors is reduced can be output.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20220032759Abstract: A power storage device is a power storage device provided on a lower surface of a floor panel of a vehicle, the power storage device including: a housing case; a power storage module housed in the housing case; and a cooler housed in the housing case to cool the power storage module, wherein the housing case includes a bottom plate, a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant flows is formed in a portion of the housing case, the portion being located above the bottom plate, and the refrigerant passage is connected to the cooler.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Yutaroh Gotoh, Yukinari Tanabe, Yugo Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20210218865Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs predetermined image processing for read data obtained by reading an image on a document by first and second reading sensors arranged so as to have an overlapping area. The predetermined image processing includes color correction processing of converting color signals detected by light receiving elements of the reading sensors into color signals with respect to each of pixels forming read data. Color correction processing for first read data obtained from light receiving elements of the first reading sensor not included in the overlapping area and color correction processing for second read data obtained from light receiving elements of the second reading sensor not included in the overlapping area are performed in accordance with different correction characteristics. By doing this, an image in which image unevenness caused by individual differences of the short reading sensors is reduced can be output.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Okinori TSUCHIYA, Kouta MURASAWA, Kazuya OGASAWARA, Tatsuhiro YAMAGATA, Yugo MOCHIZUKI, Toshiki MIYAZAKI, Masao KATO
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Patent number: 11057528Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs processing for putting a width of a line in an output in a case where printing is performed by a first printing apparatus based on print data including a line close to a width of a line in an output in a case where printing is performed by a second printing apparatus based on the print data. A first acquisition unit is configured to acquire first information relating to an output in a case where printed matter including a plurality of line width detection images is printed by the second printing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kouta Murasawa, Okinori Tsuchiya, Yugo Mochizuki, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 11017276Abstract: An information processing apparatus processes image information printed by a printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a data obtaining unit to obtain print data for printing a line-width detection image including first multiple patches. Each of the first multiple patches includes multiple lines at substantially equal intervals in a first direction, each line having a first width in the first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting the first. The first multiple patches include first and second patches. A first substantially equal interval between a first plurality of lines in the first patch differs from a second substantially equal interval between a second plurality of lines in the second. An information obtaining unit obtains information on a print result of the printed line-width detection image. A correction unit corrects widths of lines in the first direction included in an image to be printed based on the obtained information.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yugo Mochizuki, Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 11017277Abstract: An object is to reduce a difference between a target line width and a width of a line that is printed by a printing apparatus by correcting the line width in accordance with color information indicating a color of the line in a case where an image is printed by the printing apparatus based on image data including the line based on print data. The present disclosure is an image processing apparatus having an acquisition unit configured to acquire a drawing command in which a color and a line width of a line are specified, a determination unit configured to determine a correction amount for correcting the line width specified in the drawing command based on the color of the line specified in the drawing command, and a correction unit configured to correct the line width specified in the drawing command in accordance with the correction amount.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Okinori Tsuchiya, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 10944890Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit to acquire a first color reproduction characteristic indicating first color reproduction color values that indicate a color obtained by reproducing color values by a first printing apparatus, a second acquisition unit to acquire a second color reproduction characteristic indicating second reproduction color values that indicate a color obtained by reproducing color values by a second printing apparatus, a first generation unit to generate color matching information when color matching is performed between the first and second printing apparatuses based on the first and the second color reproduction characteristics, a third acquisition unit to acquire a first line width characteristic of the first printing apparatus, a fourth acquisition unit to acquire a second line width characteristic of the second printing apparatus, and a second generation unit to generate line width correction for correcting an input line width for the second printingType: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Kouta Murasawa, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 10872279Abstract: A width in a first direction of a line in image data corresponding to an image to be printed by a printing apparatus is corrected, based on information on a print result of line-width detection images printed based on line-width detection image data in a raster format that is generated by performing rasterization processing on line-width detection image data in a vector format. In the line-width detection image data in the vector format, a distance between centers of the widths in the first direction of two lines adjacent in the first direction in each line-width detection image is an integral multiple of a rasterization resolution in the rasterization processing.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20200231060Abstract: A vehicle includes: a battery that is chargeable with electric power supplied from a charger provided outside the vehicle; and an air-conditioning and cooling system that cools the battery. An ECU controls a charging operation for the battery such that the battery is charged under a charging condition of a constant current which is constant over a charging period from start of charging to satisfaction of a completion condition. The ECU sets the charging condition such that a battery temperature when the completion condition is satisfied becomes an upper limit temperature, based on an amount of heat generation in the battery caused by charging and an amount of cooling of the battery by the air-conditioning and cooling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshio MATSUYAMA, Yugo MOCHIZUKI, Yoshiaki KAWAKAMI, Masataka OGUSHI
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Patent number: 10686952Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, image processing method, and display apparatus capable of processing a printed image including a color metallic area to be printed by applying color ink containing coloring material and metallic ink containing metal particles on top of each other, into an image displayable on the display apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit that generates preview image data for displaying a preview image on a display apparatus, based on image data for printing a color metallic image including the color metallic area; and a control unit that controls the display apparatus such that the preview image is displayed based on the preview image data generated by the generation unit. A color that expresses the color metallic area in the preview image data is different from a color forming the color metallic area in the image data.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kouta Murasawa, Yugo Mochizuki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20200101728Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable a user to easily set a line width adjustment value in a case where line widths are matched between different printing apparatuses. One embodiment of the present invention is an information processing apparatus that performs processing for putting a width of a line in an output in a case where printing is performed by a first printing apparatus based on print data including a line close to a width of a line in an output in a case where printing is performed by a second printing apparatus based on the print data and has: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first information relating to an output in a case where printed matter including a plurality of line width detection images is printed by the second printing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Kouta Murasawa, Okinori Tsuchiya, Yugo Mochizuki, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20200104654Abstract: Print data for a printing apparatus to print a line-width detection image including first multiple patches is obtained. Each of the first multiple patches includes multiple lines arranged side by side in a first direction, each line having a first width in the first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The distance between the centers in the first direction of two lines adjacent in the first direction of the multiple lines is different from one another. The widths of lines included in an image to be printed by the printing apparatus are corrected based on information on print result of the line-width detection image by the printing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Yugo Mochizuki, Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20200106927Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to highly accurately match both colors and line widths between different printing apparatuses. One embodiment of the present invention is an information processing apparatus including: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a color developing characteristic in image printing by a first printing apparatus; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a color developing characteristic in image printing by a second printing apparatus; a table generation unit configured to generate a color matching table used in a case where color matching is performed between the first printing apparatus and the second printing apparatus based on the acquired color developing characteristic of the first printing apparatus and the acquired color developing characteristic of the second printing apparatus; a third acquisition unit configured to acquire a line width characteristic of the first printing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Kouta Murasawa, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20200104658Abstract: A width in a first direction of a line in image data corresponding to an image to be printed by a printing apparatus is corrected, based on information on print result of line-width detection images printed based on line-width detection image data in a raster format which is generated by performing rasterization processing on line-width detection image data in a vector format. In the line-width detection image data in the vector format, a distance between centers of the widths in the first direction of two lines adjacent in the first direction in each line-width detection image is an integral multiple of a rasterization resolution in the rasterization processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato