Patents by Inventor Akira Noguchi

Akira Noguchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240141314
    Abstract: The information processing device includes: a cultivation information acquisition unit configured to acquire cultivation information of a cell; and a recommended condition setting unit configured to set a recommended condition for detaching the cell from a to be-processed vessel in which the cell is cultured, the cultivation information including information about the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition being a condition for detaching the cell by applying vibration to the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition setting unit being configured to set the recommended condition based on the cultivation information, with use of information concerning an association relationship between information about a cultivation condition and information about a detachment condition, the information about the cultivation condition including information about a culture vessel, the information about the detachment condition including information about a condition for applying vibration to the culture vess
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: KENJIRO TAKEMURA, YUTA KURASHINA, CHIKAHIRO IMASHIRO, KAZUNORI NOGUCHI, MASASHI HIROSE, KATSUHISA YAMAZAKI, KEIICHIRO TSUBAKI, SUGURU WATANABE, AKIRA SUGIYAMA, KENICHI KAKU, RYUICHI OTSU, YUKARI NAKASHOJI, TAKAAKI FURUI, TATSUO FURUTA, HITOMI TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20240141281
    Abstract: The information processing device includes: a cultivation information acquisition unit configured to acquire cultivation information of a cell; and a recommended condition generation unit configured to generate a recommended condition for detaching the cell from a to-be-processed vessel in which the cell is cultured, the cultivation information including information about the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition being a condition for detaching the cell by applying vibration to the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition generation unit being configured to generate the recommended condition based on the cultivation information, with use of a learned model, the learned model being learned with use of information about a cultivation condition and information about a detachment condition, the information about the cultivation condition including information about a culture vessel, the information about the detachment condition including information about a condition for applying vibration t
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: KENJIRO TAKEMURA, YUTA KURASHINA, CHIKAHIRO IMASHIRO, KAZUNORI NOGUCHI, KATSUHISA YAMAZAKI, MASASHI HIROSE, KEIICHIRO TSUBAKI, SUGURU WATANABE, AKIRA SUGIYAMA, KENICHI KAKU, TAKAAKI FURUI, TATSUO FURUTA, HITOMI TOKUTAKE, RYUICHI OTSU, YUKARI NAKASHOJI
  • Patent number: 11960225
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes, an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a sheet using printing toner and apply powder adhesive on the sheet, a fixing portion configured to heat the toner image formed on the sheet and the powder adhesive applied on the sheet by the image forming portion and fix the toner image and the powder adhesive to the sheet, and a bonding portion configured to bond the sheet with the powder adhesive by reheating the sheet having been heated by the fixing portion. The bonding portion is arranged above the image forming portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Kohei Matsuda, Hiroki Ogino, Yasushi Katsuta, Kaori Noguchi, Junko Hirata, Akira Kuroda, Yuki Nishizawa, Tsutomu Shimano, Toru Oguma
  • Publication number: 20240106465
    Abstract: A first receiving band and a first transmission band in band A and a second transmission band and a second receiving band in band B are listed in frequency order. A radio frequency module includes: first and second boards; a first filter having a passband that is the first transmission band; second and sixth filters each having a passband that is the first receiving band; third and fifth filters each having a passband that is the second receiving band; a first power amplifier connected to the first filter; a fourth filter having a passband that is the second transmission band; and a second power amplifier connected to the fourth filter. The first to third filters and the first power amplifier are disposed on the first board, and the fourth to sixth filters and the second power amplifier are disposed on the second board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi ONO, Hirotsugu MORI, Yoshiki YAGURA, Kiwamu SAKANO, Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240088872
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a first filter circuit with a predetermined frequency band as a pass band and provided on a first path connecting first and second signal terminals, and an additional resonant circuit connected in parallel with at least a portion of the first filter circuit. The additional resonant circuit includes an IDT electrode group including IDT electrodes positioned along an acoustic wave propagation direction. At least one resonant frequency of one or more resonant frequencies of the additional resonant circuit is included within the pass band of the first filter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230402992
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a filter circuit and an additional circuit that includes IDTs and reflectors. The IDTs each include comb-shaped electrode fingers. The reflectors each include reflector electrode fingers. A relationship of about 0.60+n?G/(Pi+Pr)?0.93+n is satisfied, where n is an integer of 0 or more, Pi is an array pitch of the comb-shaped electrode fingers arranged along a second direction, Pr is an array pitch of the reflector electrode fingers arranged along the second direction, and G denotes, in boundary regions between the IDTs and the reflectors, an IDT-reflector gap, which is a center-to-center distance between a comb-shaped electrode finger closest to the reflectors and a reflector electrode finger closest to the IDTs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Akira NOGUCHI, Yasunori KISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230387886
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a filter circuit connected to input-and-output terminals, and a canceling circuit connected in parallel to at least a portion of a first path connecting the input-and-output terminals. The filter circuit includes one or more series-arm resonators on the first path, and one or more parallel-arm resonators between the first path and a ground. The canceling circuit includes acoustic wave resonators in parallel or substantially in parallel in a propagation direction of an acoustic wave. At least one of the acoustic wave resonators is connected to the ground, and an anti-resonant frequency of the at least one of the acoustic wave resonators is in a pass band of the filter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230246628
    Abstract: A longitudinally coupled resonator acoustic wave filter includes first and second IDT electrodes on a piezoelectric substrate. A direction in which electrode fingers of the IDT electrodes extend is a first direction, a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first direction is a second direction, a ground-side busbar of the first IDT electrode and a hot-side busbar of the second IDT electrode face each other in the second direction, and the longitudinally coupled resonator acoustic wave filter includes a projecting portion, connected to the ground-side busbar of the first IDT electrode, that extends in the second direction toward the second IDT electrode beyond an interdigitated region of the first IDT electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230223921
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric substrate, and a first reflector and a second reflector. The first interdigital transducer electrode, the first reflector, and the second reflector each include a plurality of electrode fingers. At least one of the first interdigital transducer electrode, the first reflector, and the second reflector has a nonuniform duty ratio area where three successive electrode fingers in an acoustic wave propagation direction all have different duty ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230198502
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a first filter circuit on a first path and an additional circuit connected to the first path. The first filter circuit includes a series arm resonator and a longitudinally coupled resonator. The longitudinally coupled resonator includes a first acoustic wave resonator and a first reflector. The additional circuit includes a second acoustic wave resonator on the opposite side of the first acoustic wave resonator with respect to the first reflector. The second acoustic wave resonator includes a first end connected to the first path through a second path and a second end connected to ground. The series arm resonator is connected to a portion of the first path between a connection node at which the second acoustic wave resonator is connected to the first path and the longitudinally coupled resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11558028
    Abstract: A filter module includes an inductor, a filter including first wiring, and second wiring between the inductor and the first wiring and being a direct-current floating potential. The inductor and the first wiring are magnetically coupled, the inductor and the second wiring are magnetically coupled, and the first wiring and the second wiring are capacitively coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220416762
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave resonator includes one IDT electrode and reflectors. When a distance between an electrode finger Fe(k) and an electrode finger Fe(k+1) is defined as a k-th electrode finger pitch, in an electrode finger Fe(k?1), the electrode finger Fe(k), and the electrode finger Fe(k+1), a value obtained by dividing a difference between the electrode finger pitch and a section average electrode finger pitch, which is an average of the electrode finger pitch and the electrode finger pitch, by an overall average electrode finger pitch is defined as a pitch deviation ratio, and a distribution obtained by calculating the pitch deviation ratio for all electrode fingers of the IDT electrode or the reflectors is defined as a histogram of the pitch deviation ratio, the IDT electrode or the reflectors have a standard deviation of the pitch deviation ratio in the histogram larger than or equal to about 0.2%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220140809
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a longitudinally coupled resonator including IDT electrodes and a reflector. A standard deviation of a pitch deviation rate of at least one of the reflector and the IDT electrodes is greater than or equal to about 1.4%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210067128
    Abstract: A filter module includes an inductor, a filter including first wiring, and second wiring between the inductor and the first wiring and being a direct-current floating potential. The inductor and the first wiring are magnetically coupled, the inductor and the second wiring are magnetically coupled, and the first wiring and the second wiring are capacitively coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10563749
    Abstract: A power transmission device that includes a differential ring gear that meshes with a drive pinion gear to which power from a transmission is transmitted; a differential gear including a differential case coupled to the differential ring gear; a case that houses the differential ring gear and the differential gear; and a resinous partition that partitions an inside of the case into a differential chamber where the differential ring gear and the differential gear are placed and a working oil reservoir chamber to reserve working oil, wherein the partition includes a magnetic plate fixed to a lower part of a side surface thereof that faces the working oil reservoir chamber, and a magnet magnetically attracted and attached to the magnetic plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Noguchi, Tomoki Nishikubo, Ren Agatsuma
  • Patent number: 10284175
    Abstract: An elastic wave apparatus includes first and second bandpass filters and the first bandpass filter is a ladder elastic wave filter. The mounting substrate includes an inductor which is connected between at least one of parallel arm resonators and a ground potential, a signal wiring at a hot side, which is connected to the first bandpass filter, and a ground wiring. When the mounting substrate is viewed from a side of a surface on which the elastic wave filter chip is mounted, a portion of the inductor overlaps with a portion of the signal wiring and a slit defining a wiring missing portion in which the ground wiring is absent in the ground wiring is provided in the overlapped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20180163843
    Abstract: A power transmission device that includes a differential ring gear that meshes with a drive pinion gear to which power from a transmission is transmitted; a differential gear including a differential case coupled to the differential ring gear; a case that houses the differential ring gear and the differential gear; and a resinous partition that partitions an inside of the case into a differential chamber where the differential ring gear and the differential gear are placed and a working oil reservoir chamber to reserve working oil, wherein the partition includes a magnetic plate fixed to a lower part of a side surface thereof that faces the working oil reservoir chamber, and a magnet magnetically attracted and attached to the magnetic plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira NOGUCHI, Tomoki NISHIKUBO, Ren AGATSUMA
  • Publication number: 20180083600
    Abstract: An elastic wave apparatus includes first and second bandpass filters and the first bandpass filter is a ladder elastic wave filter. The mounting substrate includes an inductor which is connected between at least one of parallel arm resonators and a ground potential, a signal wiring at a hot side, which is connected to the first bandpass filter, and a ground wiring. When the mounting substrate is viewed from a side of a surface on which the elastic wave filter chip is mounted, a portion of the inductor overlaps with a portion of the signal wiring and a slit defining a wiring missing portion in which the ground wiring is absent in the ground wiring is provided in the overlapped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9677645
    Abstract: A power transmission system that includes a torque converter; a transmission having a planetary gear; a case configured to accommodate the torque converter and the transmission; a support having a wall that is fixed to the case between the torque converter and the transmission and a tube that extends in an axial direction from an inner circumferential portion of the wall; a stator shaft that is connected to a stator of the torque converter via a one-way clutch; and a tubular connector that connects the support and a stationary element of the planetary gear together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobukazu Ike, Masashi Kito, Akira Noguchi, Yuichi Seki, Osamu Murai
  • Publication number: 20160341288
    Abstract: A power transmission system that includes a torque converter; a transmission having a planetary gear; a case configured to accommodate the torque converter and the transmission; a support having a wall that is fixed to the case between the torque converter and the transmission and a tube that extends in an axial direction from an inner circumferential portion of the wall; a stator shaft that is connected to a stator of the torque converter via a one-way clutch; and a tubular connector that connects the support and a stationary element of the planetary gear together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobukazu IKE, Masashi KITO, Akira NOGUCHI, Yuichi SEKI, Osamu MURAI