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Fukao, JP

Akihito Fukao, Chino-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090063697File transfer system and method for same - A file transfer system includes transfer requesting terminals, a transfer responding terminal, and a mediating server. If a transfer responding terminal sends to the mediating server a request for session setup with the transfer responding terminal, the mediating server forwards the connection request to the transfer responding terminal irrespective of whether a session has been set up between any one of the transfer requesting terminals and the transfer responding terminal. The transfer responding terminal returns a connection acceptance response to the mediating server including location of a file transfer destination if a number of existing connections is less than its maximum number, or returns a connection refusal response if the number of connections is equal to the maximum number. The mediating server forwards the connection response to the transfer requesting terminal that originally sent the connection request. The transfer requesting terminal sends a file to the transfer destination in accordance with a data transfer protocol upon receiving the connection acceptance response.03-05-2009
20100097173Entry/Exit Managing Device and Information Communication Terminal - An entry/exit managing device for controlling entry and exit of a user, who carries a portable memory and an information communication terminal, to and from a predetermined place includes: a portable memory communication unit which reads and writes data from and to the portable memory; a user managing unit which executes user authentication on the basis of user information stored in the portable memory; and a network device use information managing unit which manages network device use information used to set a network device use setting parameter in the information communication terminal. The portable memory communication unit reads the user information from the portable memory when the user enters the predetermined place. The user managing unit executes the user authentication on the basis of the user information. The portable memory communication unit writes the network device use information in the portable memory, when the user authentication succeeds.04-22-2010

Patent applications by Akihito Fukao, Chino-Shi JP

Kazutaka Fukao, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090320636BICYCLE COMPONENT OPERATING DEVICE - A bicycle component operating device is basically provided with a base member, an operating member and an insert element. The base member includes a body member having a recess with an inner wire opening. The operating member is movably coupled with respect to the base member to operatively pull and release an inner wire. The insert element has a first channel portion and a second channel portion disposed in the recess of the body member.12-31-2009
20100288070BICYCLE COMPONENT OPERATING DEVICE - A bicycle component operating device is basically provided with a base member, an operating pawl, a positioning ratchet member, a positioning pawl, a release member and a control member. The operating pawl rotates the positioning ratchet member in a winding direction in response to a winding operation of the operating pawl. The positioning pawl prevents rotation of the positioning ratchet member in the release direction when the positioning pawl is in a holding position. The positioning pawl releases the positioning ratchet member for rotation in the release direction when the positioning pawl is moved from the holding position to a releasing position by the release member in response to the releasing operation of the operating pawl. The control member prevents the operating pawl from rotating the positioning ratchet member during the releasing operation of the operating pawl while the control member is disposed in the first position.11-18-2010
20110056319BICYCLE SHIFT CONTROL DEVICE - A bicycle shift control device is provided with a shifter housing, a gear shifting mechanism, a shift operating member, and a shift switching arrangement. The gear shifting mechanism is disposed in the shifter housing with the gear shifting mechanism having a plurality of operating positions. The shift operating member is movable with respect to the shifter housing to operate the gear shifting mechanism. The shift switching arrangement includes a restricting member movably mounted with respect to the shifter housing between a non-shift restricting position and a shift restricting position. The gear shifting mechanism moves in a first set of the operating positions when the restricting member is in the non-shift restricting position, and moves in a second set of the operating positions that are different from the first set of the operating positions when the restricting member is in the shift restricting position.03-10-2011
20110154939GEAR SHIFT OPERATING DEVICE - A bicycle gear shift operating device is a device configured to be mounted to a handlebar. The bicycle gear shift operating device includes at least one operating lever, a support member that supports the operating member and a mounting member that supports the support member on a handlebar. The mounting member has a mounting portion configured to be attached to the handlebar and a fastening portion that is configured to fasten the support member. The mounting member is configured to be selectively fasten the support member in either a first mounting orientation in which the fastening portion is offset in a first axial direction of the handlebar from the middle portion or a second mounting orientation in which the support member is offset in a second axial direction that is opposite the first axial direction.06-30-2011

Patent applications by Kazutaka Fukao, Osaka JP

Kota Fukao, Anjo-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100301248SOLENOID VALVE - A spool is constituted by an outer spool 12-02-2010

Masami Fukao, Niihama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120078014METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CYCLOHEXANONE OXIME - To produce cyclohexanone oxime stably for a long time by an ammoximation reaction of cyclohexanone. Cyclohexanone oxime is produced by performing an ammoximation reaction of cyclohexanone with hydrogen peroxide and ammonia in the presence of titanosilicate and a solid containing a silicon compound, wherein the solid containing a silicon compound is one that had been used in a Beckmann rearrangement reaction of cyclohexanone oxime as a catalyst.03-29-2012

Masashi Fukao, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110151260SILICA NANOPARTICLE STRUCTURE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF SAME - It is an object of the present invention to provide a silica nanoparticle structure and a process for producing the same, which allow silica nanoparticles to be order-controlled to thereby make it possible to extend the application field of the silica nanoparticles ever more markedly. Silica nanoparticle structure components 06-23-2011

Masato Fukao, Chigasaki-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100187094THIN FILM FORMING APPARATUS, FILM THICKNESS MEASURING METHOD AND FILM THICKNESS SENSOR - A technology which is capable of an accurate measurement of the film thickness even if an exfoliation occurs is provided. A difference frequency Δf07-29-2010
20110200741ORGANIC THIN FILM DEPOSITION DEVICE, ORGANIC EL ELEMENT MANUFACTURING DEVICE, AND ORGANIC THIN FILM DEPOSITION METHOD - An organic thin film deposition device that is compact and high in processing capability is provided. Inside a vacuum chamber, first and second substrate arrangement devices that can be in a horizontal posture and a standing posture are provided; and when in the standing posture, substrates held by the respective substrate arrangement devices and first and second organic vapor discharging devices face each other. When one of the substrate arrangement devices is in the horizontal posture, masks and the substrates are lifted up by alignment pins and transfer pins and are replaced with a substrate not yet film formed, for position adjustment. With one organic thin film deposition device, two substrates can be processed at the same time.08-18-2011

Mitsuhiro Fukao, Toyota-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100250048ENGINE FUEL DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION HAVING THE DEVICE - An engine fuel diagnosis device is disclosed that diagnoses whether an unexpected fuel is being used in an internal combustion engine. The fuel diagnosis device includes an inclination detecting section, a first estimating section, an acceleration detecting section, and a diagnosing section. The first estimating section computes a first estimated acceleration, which is a vehicle acceleration obtained when fuel injection is executed in the internal combustion engine while the vehicle is traveling uphill or downhill, based on an engine power, which is estimated based on the engine operation state on the assumption that a previously expected fuel is being used, and the inclination detected by the inclination detecting section. The diagnosing section computes a first deviation degree indicating the degree of deviation between the first estimated acceleration and the actual acceleration detected when the first estimated acceleration is computed. The diagnosing section diagnoses the usage state of the unexpected fuel based on the first deviation degree.09-30-2010

Shinji Fukao, Kyoto JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100260322X-RAY GENERATOR EMPLOYING HEMIMORPHIC CRYSTAL - An X-ray generator comprises a container (10-14-2010

Tadashi Fukao, Nara JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100061674ROLLING BEARING AND ROLLING BEARING APPARATUS - [Problem] To prevent the generation of wear associated with a relative positional offset between a closure member (a preload member) to which a fluid pressure such as an oil pressure is applied and an outer ring.03-11-2010

Tadashi Fukao, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100033046ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE - A rotating electric machine in which an adequate magnetic supporting force can be produced even when the gap length of the rotator is long. The rotating electric machine comprises a rotator (02-11-2010
20100231076BEARINGLESS MOTOR - Provided is a bearingless motor capable of stably performing magnetic levitation and rotation even when a thrust disk is not provided and gap length is wide.09-16-2010

Tadashi Fukao, Kashiba-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080273823Rolling bearing device with sensor - A first spacer, a second tubular member, and a second spacer are externally fitted and fixed to an outer peripheral surface of a nut. The second tubular member is formed by stacking a plurality of silicon steel plates without any gap, and is arranged between the first spacer and the second spacer axially. The outer diameter of an outer peripheral surface of the second tubular member is made larger than the outer diameter of an outer peripheral surface of the first spacer and the outer diameter of an outer peripheral surface of the second spacer. A detection surface of a first displacement detector is made to radially face a contact portion between the second spacer and the second tubular member, while a detection surface of a second displacement detector is made to radially face a contact portion between the first spacer and the second tubular member.11-06-2008
20080275656Rolling bearing device with sensor - A rolling bearing device with a sensor includes a rotational component estimator that extracts a rotational synchronization component included in the rotation of an inner shaft relative to an outer ring from each of a signal output by a first displacement detector and a signal output by a second displacement detector. The rotational component estimator performs rotational operation and integration operation.11-06-2008

Takanori Fukao, Kyoto-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090292419SUSPENSION CONTROL APPARATUS - The present invention provides a suspension control apparatus capable of an excellent vibration control by a model thereof designed to incorporate nonlinearity and a time-lag element of a control damper. The present invention employs the backstepping method which is one of nonlinear control methods, and is designed so as to incorporate the nonlinearity of a damper 11-26-2009
20100057297VEHICLE STATE ESTIMATING APPARATUS, SUSPENSION CONTROL APPARATUS AND SUSPENSION SYSTEM - A first observer gain of an actual damping force estimating observer 03-04-2010

Takeshi Fukao, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090279906IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes at least one image carrier and a recording medium conveyor forming a transfer nip therebetween, a conveyance member disposed closest to the transfer nip on an upstream side of the transfer nip to convey the recording medium to the transfer nip, and a conveyance control mechanism to deactivate the conveyance member to stop providing a conveyance force to the recording medium after the leading edge of the recording medium has entered the transfer nip and before the trailing edge of the recording medium passes a point of force application and remaining in the inactive state until the recording medium passes the point of force application. The conveyance force remains unapplied to the recording medium from when the conveyance control mechanism deactivates the conveyance member to when the trailing edge of the recording medium passes the transfer nip.11-12-2009
20090317104IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism, a transfer mechanism including a first endless belt receiving a toner image formed on an image carrier and a second endless belt receiving the toner image formed on the first endless belt, a first detector to detect a speed of movement of the first endless belt or a toner image transferred at a predetermined position on the first endless belt, a belt speed adjustment unit to adjust a speed of movement of the first endless belt based on results obtained by the first detector, a second detector to detect the toner image transferred at a predetermined position on the second endless belt, and a transfer adjustment unit to adjust a speed of movement of the second endless belt based on results obtained by the second detector.12-24-2009
20100061752IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME - An image forming apparatus includes first and second belt members, at least one color image carrier, a separate image carrier, a primary transfer member, a secondary transfer mechanism, a direct transfer member, a first image detector to detect positional deviation of transferred images from reference pattern images, and a controller to transfer the reference pattern images formed on the at least one color image carrier and the separate image carrier onto the first belt member or onto the second belt member, convey the reference pattern images to the first image detector, cause the first image detector to detect the reference pattern images, and adjust one or more image forming conditions of the image forming apparatus to prevent positional deviation of the transferred images from the reference pattern images based on detection results obtained by the first image detector.03-11-2010

Patent applications by Takeshi Fukao, Yokohama-Shi JP

Takeshi Fukao, Yokohama JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110103862IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND GUIDE THEREFOR CAPABLE OF REDUCING TONER SCATTERED ON RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transferor, a fixing unit, and a guide. The image carrier carries a toner image. The transferor opposes the image carrier to form a transfer nip and transfers the toner image on the image carrier onto a recording medium at the transfer nip. The fixing unit fixes the toner image on the recording medium. The guide guides the recording medium bearing the toner image from the transferor toward the fixing unit and includes a surface portion directly contacting the recording medium. The surface portion includes a material for charging the recording medium to have a polarity opposite to the polarity of a toner forming the toner image.05-05-2011

Takeshi Fukao, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090169236LUBRICANT APPLYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a lubricant applying device, a position adjusting member adjusts relative positions of a lubricant and a rotating member. The rotating member rotates while in contact with the lubricant, receives the lubricant, and applies the lubricant to an image carrier in an image forming apparatus.07-02-2009
20120020698IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member to bear a toner image, a waste toner storage mechanism to store residual toner, and an intermediate transfer unit detachable from the image forming apparatus. The intermediate transfer unit includes an intermediate transfer member onto which the toner image is transferred, a cleaning device to remove residual toner remaining on the intermediate transfer member after the toner image is transferred to a recording medium, and a connecting mechanism to connect the cleaning device and the waste toner storage mechanism. The connecting mechanism includes a movable connecting tube and a moving device to move the connecting tube between a first position at which the connecting tube engages the cleaning device and the waste toner storage mechanism, and the second position at which the connecting tube separates the cleaning device from the waste toner storage mechanism.01-26-2012

Patent applications by Takeshi Fukao, Kanagawa JP

Takeshi Fukao, Osaka JP

Patent applications by Takeshi Fukao, Osaka JP

Teruo Fukao, Inuyama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100308763MOTOR DRIVE APPARATUS - A motor drive apparatus for driving a motor in a normal rotation direction or a reverse rotation direction in accordance with a state of operation of an operation switch has a first semiconductor switching device that switches ON/OFF state based on a normal rotation instruction provided by the operation switch, a second semiconductor switching device that switches ON/OFF state based on a reverse rotation instruction provided by the operation switch, a control circuit for controlling drive of the motor in the normal rotation direction or the reverse rotation direction, based on the ON/OFF state of the first and second semiconductor switching devices, and a wetting detection circuit for detecting wetting and controlling operation of the first and second semiconductor switching devices. The control circuit has a first terminal connected to the first semiconductor switching device, a second terminal connected to the second semiconductor switching device, a low level terminal for receiving and outputting a signal having a voltage value lower than a reference voltage value defined in advance, and a high level terminal for receiving and outputting a signal having a voltage value higher than the reference voltage value. When the wetting detection circuit detects wetting, voltage values of the first terminal and the second terminal are less than the reference voltage value. The first terminal and the second terminal are separated from the high level terminal, and are arranged in proximity to the low level terminal.12-09-2010

Tetsuhiro Fukao, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090279885CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR OPTICAL TRANSMITTER/RECEIVER - A control circuit for an optical transmitter/receiver that transmits/receives an optical signal, comprises: a memory having a digital value storage area and an area that stores limit values; a register; an analog/digital conversion circuit that receives analog signals indicating operating parameters of the optical transmitter/receiver, converts the analog signals to respective digital values, and stores the digital values in the memory; a comparison logical circuit that compares the digital values with the limit values, generates flag values, and stores the flag values in the register; and an outside interface that allows an outside host apparatus to access the memory and the register to read the flag values and monitor an operating condition of the optical transmitter/receiver from outside.11-12-2009
20100150578OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE - An optical transceiver includes an optical transmitter. The optical transmitter varies the wavelength of its output beam in accordance with the setting of a digital to analog converter. Two split beams emerging respectively from beam splitters are introduced into a photodetector and a wavelength filter, respectively. A quotient is calculated by dividing the digital value output from an analog to digital converter (ADC) by the digital value output from another ADC. A memory address m is then determined based on this quotient without making any calculation for compensating for the imperfect characteristics of the wavelength filter. A wavelength notification value is then selected from a wavelength notification table based on the determined memory address m, and sent to the system host.06-17-2010

Tetuhiro Fukao, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080205902OPTICAL TRANSMISSION CONTROL CIRCUIT - An optical transmission control circuit includes: an analog input section which receives optical transmissions states as analog values; an A/D conversion section which converts the analog values into digital values; a value storage section which stores maximum value of the digital values provided by the A/D conversion section; an output register which outputs a value to a host apparatus; and a control section which controls the maximum value storage section to store the maximum value of the digital values therein and controls the output register to output the maximum value to the host apparatus.08-28-2008

Tomohiro Fukao, Minoo-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100239974TONER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER - A toner containing a mother toner particle containing at least two kinds of resins having a polyester skeleton, and a coloring agent, and a releasing agent, wherein the mother toner particle has a core and a shell layer thereon, and no peak that derives from magnesium, calcium, or aluminum in the mother toner particle is observed in a qualitative analysis using an X-ray fluorescence measuring instrument.09-23-2010

Tomohiro Fukao, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110053063TONER, DEVELOPER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER - A toner is provided including a core particle comprising a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent, and a shell layer comprising particles of a vinyl resin. The vinyl resin comprises 80% by weight or more of a unit of an aromatic compound having a vinyl-polymerizable functional group. A method of manufacturing the above toner is also provided, including steps of dissolving or dispersing the binder resin, the colorant, and the release agent in an organic solvent to prepare an oily liquid, dispersing the oily liquid in an aqueous medium to prepare the core particles, and adhering particles of a vinyl resin to the surfaces of the core particles to form shell layers.03-03-2011
20110053071TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - To provide a toner comprising: a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner has a core shell structure, and wherein the core contains at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a hybrid resin and a polyester resin, where the hybrid resin is a resin in which a polyester resin and a vinyl resin are chemically bonded to each other, and the shell contains a resin prepared by polymerizing at least a styrene monomer and an ester monomer represented by the following General Formula (1):03-03-2011
20110053077COLORED RESIN PARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method for producing a colored resin particle, the method including: preparing an oil phase in which at least a resin and a colorant are dissolved or dispersed in an organic solvent; preparing an aqueous phase containing at least a surfactant in an aqueous medium; dispersing the oil phase in the aqueous phase to prepare a colored particle dispersion liquid so as to form core particles; causing resin fine particles to adhere to surfaces of the core particles by adding at least the resin fine particles to the colored particle dispersion liquid, in which the core particles have been formed; removing the solvent from the colored particle dispersion liquid to obtain colored resin particles, washing the colored resin particles, and drying the colored resin particles, wherein an inorganic base is dissolved in the colored particle dispersion liquid.03-03-2011
20110164901TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A toner containing core particles each containing at least a resin A having a polyester skeleton and a colorant; and vinyl resin fine particles each of which encapsulates a resin B having at least a polyester skeleton and an endothermic peak measured by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) at 40° C. to 110° C., wherein the vinyl resin fine particles are attached onto each of the core particles.07-07-2011
20110250533TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a toner for an electrostatic image developer, including: a core particle obtained by dispersing, in an aqueous medium, an oil phase prepared by dissolving or dispersing at least a binder resin, a colorant and a release agent in an organic solvent; and a shell layer formed of vinyl resin fine particles present on a surface of the core particle, wherein the shell layer has protruding portions formed of the vinyl resin fine particles, and wherein the vinyl resin fine particles contain 80% by mass or more of an aromatic compound which has a vinyl-polymerizable functional group, and a vinyl resin which forms the vinyl resin fine particles has a weight average molecular weight of 8,000 to 16,000.10-13-2011
20110287356TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic image developing toner including toner core particles each containing at least a first resin and a colorant, and fine resin particles formed of a second resin, wherein part of each of the fine resin particles is embedded in each of the toner core particles, and the remaining part of the fine resin particle is exposed on a surface of the toner core particle to form a protrusion, and wherein when a rate of the part of the fine resin particle to the fine resin particle is indicated by an embedment rate, an average of the embedment rates in the fine resin particles is 40% to 80%.11-24-2011

Yasuyoshi Fukao, Toyota JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080242150Fuse and power circuit breaker including the same - A power circuit breaker having a simple structure with a small number of components is provided. The power circuit breaker includes: a circuit receiver which receives a pair of circuit terminals connected to an end of an opened power circuit; and a plug body having a fuse to be mounted on the circuit receiver to close the power circuit. In the fuse, a pair of terminals extending from a housing, which receives a fuse element of the fuse, is bent approximately at right angles at the middle of the terminal. The bent part is provided with a notch. A cross section of the terminal exposed within the notch is pressed by a jig, which fits with the notch, so that the fuse is press-fit into the plug body.10-02-2008

Yasuyoshi Fukao, Aichi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120009447POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A power supply device, which is simply assembled and in which a cell assembly and a measuring section are freely inserted and detached, is provided. A power supply device 01-12-2012

Yasuyoshi Fukao, Toyota-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090053591POWER SOURCE DEVICE - A power source device includes a battery assembly which includes a plurality of batteries each having a positive electrode at one end and a negative electrode at the other end, a plurality of connecting members, each of which connects the positive electrode of one battery and the negative electrode of the other battery of the battery assembly, the one and the other batteries adjoining each other, and a plate to which the connecting members are attached, and the plate adapted to the battery assembly. The battery assembly and the plate include a positioning section that relatively positions the battery assembly and the plate. The battery assembly and the plate include a plate displacement section that displaces the plate so that the connecting members relatively abut against the corresponding positive electrodes and negative electrodes of the battery assembly when the plate is mounted on the battery assembly.02-26-2009