Patents by Inventor Yuichi Kubota
Yuichi Kubota 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: 20240076043Abstract: A VTOL aircraft (moving object) includes: a first communication path allowing a cabin (passenger compartment) and a component compartment to communicate with each other; and a second communication path for opening the component compartment to the outside of a fuselage. A portion of air in the cabin flows through a first circulation path and returns to the cabin, and the remaining air in the cabin flows through the first communication path and is introduced into the component compartment. A portion of air in the component compartment flows through a second circulation path and returns to the component compartment, and the remaining air in the component compartment flows through the second communication path and is discharged to the outside of the fuselage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Takuya Kubota, Yuichi Fukuchi, Azuki Ichikawa, Hikari Hirayanagi
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Publication number: 20230419751Abstract: A vehicle display device includes: a mode setting unit provided in a vehicle for setting a mode of the vehicle to one of a first mode and a second mode; an acquisition unit provided in the vehicle for acquiring a driving diagnosis result of the vehicle; and a display unit that can display an image representing the driving diagnosis result in a first manner when the vehicle is in the first mode, and that can display the image representing the driving diagnosis result in a second manner that is more difficult for an occupant of the vehicle to recognize than in the first manner when the vehicle is in the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Kota WASHIO, Ryosuke TOSAKA, Hitoshi KUMON, Yuichi KUBOTA, Toko TAGA
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Patent number: 9926153Abstract: The present invention is to provide a sheet aligning apparatus that is capable of detecting misalignment. A control portion of a post-processing apparatus causes a front aligning member and a rear aligning member to be moved to an aligning position to align sheets conveyed to a processing tray, causes the front aligning member to be moved from the aligning position to a detecting position, and determines whether an electrostatic capacitance sensor detects misalignment (sheet shifting from a sheet bundle). When it is determined that the sensor detects misalignment, the front aligning member is moved from the detecting position to the aligning position so that sheets are realigned.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.Inventors: Yuichi Kubota, Tatsuya Ohmori, Masashi Yamashita
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Patent number: 9926162Abstract: The present invention is to provide a sheet conveying apparatus capable of preventing detection error without causing damage on a sheet. The present post-processing apparatus includes a sheet conveying path to convey a sheet as being formed between an upper guide member and a lower guide member for guiding a sheet, and a detection portion including a second sensor as an electrostatic capacitance sensor to detect a sheet being conveyed on the sheet conveying path with output of the second sensor. The second sensor is fixed on a face of an upper guide member on an opposite side to the conveying path and the second sensor and the sheet conveying path are separated by the upper guide member.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.Inventors: Tatsuya Ohmori, Masashi Yamashita, Yuichi Kubota
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Patent number: 9828203Abstract: The present invention is to provide a sheet aligning apparatus that is capable of detecting misalignment. A control portion of a post-processing apparatus causes a front aligning member and a rear aligning member to be moved to an aligning position to align sheets conveyed to a processing tray, and determines whether an electrostatic capacitance sensor detects misalignment (sheet shifting from a sheet bundle). After the control portion determines that there is no misalignment, the control portion performs detection strength adjusting for a sensor and initial value setting for detecting misalignment of a next sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.Inventors: Yuichi Kubota, Tatsuya Ohmori, Masashi Yamashita
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Publication number: 20170152119Abstract: The present invention is to provide a sheet aligning apparatus that is capable of detecting misalignment. A control portion of a post-processing apparatus causes a front aligning member and a rear aligning member to be moved to an aligning position to align sheets conveyed to a processing tray, and determines whether an electrostatic capacitance sensor detects misalignment (sheet shifting from a sheet bundle). After the control portion determines that there is no misalignment, the control portion performs detection strength adjusting for a sensor and initial value setting for detecting misalignment of a next sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi KUBOTA, Tatsuya OHMORI, Masashi YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20170152118Abstract: The present invention is to provide a sheet aligning apparatus that is capable of detecting misalignment. A control portion of a post-processing apparatus causes a front aligning member and a rear aligning member to be moved to an aligning position to align sheets conveyed to a processing tray, causes the front aligning member to be moved from the aligning position to a detecting position, and determines whether an electrostatic capacitance sensor detects misalignment (sheet shifting from a sheet bundle). When it is determined that the senor detects misalignment, the front aligning member is moved from the detecting position to the aligning position so that sheets are realigned.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi KUBOTA, Tatsuya OHMORI, Masashi YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20170121136Abstract: The present invention is to provide a sheet conveying apparatus capable of preventing detection error without causing damage on a sheet. The present post-processing apparatus includes a sheet conveying path to convey a sheet as being formed between an upper guide member and a lower guide member for guiding a sheet, and a detection portion including a second sensor as an electrostatic capacitance sensor to detect a sheet being conveyed on the sheet conveying path with output of the second sensor. The second sensor is fixed on a face of an upper guide member on an opposite side to the conveying path and the second sensor and the sheet conveying path are separated by the upper guide member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya OHMORI, Masashi YAMASHITA, Yuichi KUBOTA
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Patent number: 9603784Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating sol-gel capsules comprising a cosmetic or pharmaceutical active material with an inorganic material, as well as sol-gel capsules produced by a process according to the present invention and formulations comprising such sol-gel capsules.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2011Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Kaiman Shimizu, Yukitaka Watanabe, Yuichi Kubota, Fumiko Sasaki, Keisuke Kawagoe, Gabriele Witte, Frank Pfluecker
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Patent number: 9085437Abstract: To enable a sheet to be folded in an accurate position with a simplified folding mechanism in performing folding processing on the sheet with a pair of folding rollers, a second transport path is disposed in a direction for crossing a first transport path for guiding a sheet from a carry-in portion to a carrying-out portion, and in the cross portion are disposed a folding roller pair for performing folding processing on a sheet, and a folding deflecting member for inserting a fold of the sheet in the nip portion. Then, the folding deflecting member is comprised of a driven roller that comes into press-contact with a roller periphery of the folding roller pair, and a shift member for shifting the driven roller from a waiting position to an actuation position, and by the operation of shifting the driven roller from the waiting position outside the path to the actuation position, the sheet front end portion is fed to the nip portion from an upstream-side guide path formed in the second transport path.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Mizuho Shirakura, Hiroki Imazu, Shinichi Ito, Toshiaki Kagami, Mitsunori Tomono, Yuichi Kubota
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Patent number: 8542128Abstract: A parking assisting apparatus that can reduce a burden of a driver at a preliminary stage of parking. The parking assisting apparatus assists parking of a vehicle and includes an obstacle detector that detects an obstacle near the vehicle and an information outputting mechanism that informs the driver of a parking space adjacent to the obstacle detected by the obstacle detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukiko Kawabata, Yasushi Makino, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Takuya Itou
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Publication number: 20130156834Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating sol-gel capsules comprising a cosmetic or pharmaceutical active material with an inorganic material, as well as sol-gel capsules produced by a process according to the present invention and formulations comprising such sol-gel capsules.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Kaiman Shimizu, Yukitaka Watanabe, Yuichi Kubota, Fumiko Sasaki, Keisuke Kawagoe, Gabriele Witte, Frank Pfluecker
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Patent number: 8292283Abstract: To provide a post-processing apparatus for enabling a bunch of sheets and a single sheet to be folded in simplified structure, and further enabling the folded sheet and sheets that are not folded to be mixed and bound, the post-processing apparatus has a processing tray to collate and collect sheets to perform binding processing, and a folding processing path having a folding processing section, and a folded sheet carrying-out path for carrying out a folded sheet is provided on the downstream side of the folding processing path. Then, the folded sheet carrying-out path is comprised of a circulating path for guiding the folded sheet again to the folding processing section, a post-processing path for guiding the folded sheet to the processing tray to perform post-processing, and a sheet discharge path for guiding the folded sheet to a storage stacker.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Nisca CorporationInventors: Kenichi Matsuno, Satoru Matsuki, Komei Mohara, Hidetoshi Kinoshita, Yoshio Kobayashi, Yuichi Kubota, Koji Kurakano, Mamoru Kubo
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Patent number: 8285479Abstract: A parking assist apparatus for guiding a vehicle to a target parking position includes an initial position guiding unit configured to generate an initial position guiding path at a predetermined timing, the initial position guiding path leading from a current position of the vehicle to an initial position where vehicle guidance to the target parking position is started. The initial position guiding unit is also configured to guide the vehicle along the initial position guiding path to the initial position. The apparatus also includes an obstacle detecting unit configured to detect an obstacle around the vehicle. When the obstacle detected by the obstacle detecting unit is located along the initial position guiding path, the initial position guiding unit generates the initial position guiding path such that the obstacle detected by the obstacle detecting unit can be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukiko Kawabata, Yasushi Makino, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Miyuki Omori, Takuya Ito, Daisuke Suzuki, Takashi Nitta
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Patent number: 8232893Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking assisting apparatus which can selectively determine an appropriate target parking position, which can be used for parking assisting, with an appropriate priority, by appropriately using obstacle detecting means and parking space detecting means in a coordinated fashion. The present invention is a parking assisting apparatus for assisting parking a vehicle, comprising the obstacle detecting means for detecting an obstacle near the vehicle; and parking section line detecting means for detecting a parking section line painted on the ground; wherein if the parking section line is detected by the parking section line detecting means, the apparatus calculates the target parking position based on the detected parking section line.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiko Endo, Yasushi Makino, Yuichi Kubota, Yukiko Kawabata
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Patent number: 8154426Abstract: The present invention is aimed at setting an efficient target track of a vehicle and thus improving convenience of the parking assist. According to the present invention, a parking assisting apparatus for assisting parking a vehicle is provided. The parking assisting apparatus comprises detecting means for detecting a positional relationship between an obstacle near the vehicle and a parking section line painted on the ground. The parking assisting apparatus is configured to vary a target track of the vehicle toward a target parking position based on the detected positional relationship between the obstacle and the parking section line.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiko Endo, Yasushi Makino, Yuichi Kubota, Yukiko Kawabata, Takuya Itou
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Patent number: 8144031Abstract: A parking assisting device includes an ambient area detecting unit that detects an obstacle or a parking frame in an ambient area surrounding a vehicle, and a guiding unit guides the vehicle to a parking initial position from which parking of the vehicle to a parking space, adjacent to the detected obstacle, or the detected parking frame is permissible. In the parking assisting device, a guidance mode in which the guiding unit guides the vehicle to the parking initial position is set up based on a distance between the vehicle and the detected obstacle or the detected parking frame in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukiko Kawabata, Yasushi Makino, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Miyuki Omori, Takuya Ito, Atsuko Nakanishi
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Patent number: 8130120Abstract: A parking assistance device includes a guiding unit to perform guidance of a vehicle to a parking initial position from which the vehicle can be parked into a parking space located adjacent to and on a far side of an object existing around the vehicle with respect to a running direction of the vehicle; an obstacle detecting unit to detect an obstacle around the vehicle in response to a reflected wave of a wave emitted from the vehicle in a predetermined direction; and a timing setting unit configured to set a timing to start the guidance in response to a detection result of the obstacle detecting unit, which is related to an obstacle existing in a predetermined distance from the object in the parking space.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukiko Kawabata, Yasushi Makino, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Miyuki Omori, Takuya Ito, Atsuko Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20120004086Abstract: To enable a sheet to be folded in an accurate position with a simplified folding mechanism in performing folding processing on the sheet with a pair of folding rollers, a second transport path is disposed in a direction for crossing a first transport path for guiding a sheet from a carry-in portion to a carrying-out portion, and in the cross portion are disposed a folding roller pair for performing folding processing on a sheet, and a folding deflecting member for inserting a fold of the sheet in the nip portion. Then, the folding deflecting member is comprised of a driven roller that comes into press-contact with a roller periphery of the folding roller pair, and a shift member for shifting the driven roller from a waiting position to an actuation position, and by the operation of shifting the driven roller from the waiting position outside the path to the actuation position, the sheet front end portion is fed to the nip portion from an upstream-side guide path formed in the second transport path.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Mizuho SHIRAKURA, Hiroki IMAZU, Shinichi ITO, Toshiaki KAGAMI, Mitsunori TOMONO, Yuichi KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20110316215Abstract: To provide a post-processing apparatus for enabling a bunch of sheets and a single sheet to be folded in simplified structure, and further enabling the folded sheet and sheets that are not folded to be mixed and bound, the post-processing apparatus has a processing tray to collate and collect sheets to perform binding processing, and a folding processing path having a folding processing section, and a folded sheet carrying-out path for carrying out a folded sheet is provided on the downstream side of the folding processing path. Then, the folded sheet carrying-out path is comprised of a circulating path for guiding the folded sheet again to the folding processing section, a post-processing path for guiding the folded sheet to the processing tray to perform post-processing, and a sheet discharge path for guiding the folded sheet to a storage stacker.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Matsuno, Satoru Matsuki, Komei Mohara, Hidetoshi Kinoshita, Yoshio Kobayashi, Yuichi Kubota, Koji Kurakano, Mamoru Kubo