Patents by Inventor Akira Ueda

Akira Ueda 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: 20240150585
    Abstract: To further improve, even under OT bending with the use of a Zn—Al—Mg-based alloy plated steel sheet as a base sheet, corrosion resistance regarding corrosion under paint film at a OT bent portion and a periphery thereof, without causing occurrence of cracks and peeling in the paint film. A pre-coated plated steel sheet according to the present invention includes: a plating layer composed of Zn—Al—Mg-based alloy plating, the plating layer being positioned on one side or both sides of a steel sheet; a chemical treatment film layer positioned on the plating layer; and a paint film layer positioned on the chemical treatment film, in which the paint film layer includes a primer paint film layer, and an upper paint film layer positioned on the primer paint film layer, and at least any of the following is satisfied: both a condition (a-1) and a condition (a-2); a condition (b); and a condition (c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu FURUKAWA, Takashi FUJII, Fumio SHIBAO, Kohei UEDA, Akira NAKAGAWA, Yuki YAMAMURA, Naoto SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240140725
    Abstract: An article transport facility includes at least one transport vehicle, a travel path, a plurality of section control devices, and a superior control device. The travel path includes a plurality of recording points. The plurality of section control devices are each configured to (i) record a control state of the at least one transport vehicle at each recording point in a control region controlled by the section control device, as recording information associated with the each recording point, (ii) generate transmission information including a plurality of pieces of the recording information for the each recording point, and (iii) transmit the transmission information to the superior control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Toshihito Ueda, Shota Inden, Akira Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240108836
    Abstract: An auxiliary device and a method for estimating the muscle pressure of a patient being ventilated by a pulmonary ventilator is provided which comprises creating the database that correlates data on pressure, volume and flow of pulmonary ventilator respiratory cycles with muscle pressure data corresponding to the pressure, volume and flow data of the ventilator; using the database to create a training data set; training a predictive time-series algorithm with the training data set; populating the algorithm with pressure, volume and flow data from a pulmonary ventilator, in which the pressure, volume and flow data include at least a time series with pressure, volume and flow curve points; and using the algorithm to estimate the muscle pressure value for at least one of the time series points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Julio Akira UEDA, Wataru UEDA, Toru Miyagi KINJO, Tatsuo SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240102927
    Abstract: A terahertz-wave signal input unit 11 configured to input a terahertz-wave signal from a spectroscopic apparatus 200 for detecting a terahertz wave acting on a photoresist, and a terahertz-wave signal analysis unit 12 configured to analyze a terahertz-wave signal input by the terahertz-wave signal input unit 11 to acquire characteristic information of the photoresist are included, and spectroscopic processing using a terahertz wave is performed on a photoresist to acquire characteristic information of the photoresist (a characteristic value or a correlation characteristic indicating a relationship between a plurality of elements including the characteristic value).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Akira WATANABE, Tadashi OKUNO, Takeji UEDA
  • Patent number: 11934087
    Abstract: A projector includes a cooling fan, and a processor, and the processor executes, in a case in which the cooling fan is operating in a first revolution speed mode, a control of switching an operation mode of the cooling fan to a second revolution speed mode whose revolution speed is faster than that of the first revolution speed mode in a case in which an obtained temperature detection value reaches a first threshold, and executes, in a case in which the cooling fan is operating in the second revolution speed mode, a control of switching the operation mode of the cooling fan to a revolution speed mode whose revolution speed is slower than that of the second revolution speed mode in a case in which an obtained temperature detection value decreases below a second threshold which differs from the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ueda, Tetsuro Narikawa, Toshifumi Kase, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 11874019
    Abstract: There is provided a dehumidifying device for dew point temperature adjustment that adjusts a dew point temperature of air to a temperature of about ?20° C. or lower, the device including an adjusting unit that adjusts a dew point temperature by adjusting at least one driving operation that is selected from a rotational frequency of a supply fan for supplying air into the dehumidifying device for dew point temperature adjustment, a rotating speed of a dehumidifying rotor, an opening degree of a blow-out air volume adjustment damper, a rotational frequency of an exhaust fan for exhausting air, and an opening degree of an exhaust air volume adjustment damper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Masuda, Akira Ueda, Masafumi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220186010
    Abstract: Provided is a rubber composition for sealing material which contains 100 parts by mass of a rubber component, 50 to 140 parts by mass of silica, 1 to 20 parts by mass of a silane coupling agent, and 15 to 35 parts by mass of carbon black. The rubber component is preferably an ethylene-propylene-diene rubber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: VALQUA, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Ueda, Sayaka Yoshida, Ryohei Nishihara
  • Patent number: 11221072
    Abstract: An arrangement structure for a seal member includes: a first member having a first mating surface and provided with a groove portion; a second member having a second mating surface, and configured to move relatively to the first member; and an annular seal member fitted into the groove portion, providing sealing between the first member and the second member, and serving as a partition between an atmosphere-side space and a pressurized-side space. The seal member includes a plurality of first protruding portions protruding toward the second mating surface and aligned from the atmosphere-side space toward the pressurized-side space. The seal member has such a shape that, in a state of not being fitted into the groove portion, a protrusion height of the first protruding portion increases in stages from the first protruding portion arranged close to the pressurized-side space toward the first protruding portion arranged close to the atmosphere-side space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: VALQUA, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Umeda, Akira Ueda, Mitsuru Minami, Akihiro Nagano
  • Publication number: 20210381701
    Abstract: There is provided a dehumidifying device for dew point temperature adjustment that adjusts a dew point temperature of air to a temperature of about ?20° C. or lower, the device including an adjusting unit that adjusts a dew point temperature by adjusting at least one driving operation that is selected from a rotational frequency of a supply fan for supplying air into the dehumidifying device for dew point temperature adjustment, a rotating speed of a dehumidifying rotor, an opening degree of a blow-out air volume adjustment damper, a rotational frequency of an exhaust fan for exhausting air, and an opening degree of an exhaust air volume adjustment damper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Masuda, Akira Ueda, Masafumi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210381702
    Abstract: A dry room that controls a dew point temperature in a space to be managed, the room includes a plurality of exhaust units that exhaust air in the space to be managed, in which the plurality of exhaust units are disposed in different regions in the space to be managed, and individually adjust an exhaust amount of the air to be exhausted from each of the regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Masuda, Masafumi Yamaguchi, Akira Ueda
  • Publication number: 20210381703
    Abstract: A low-humidity air supply device which supplies low-humidity air into a dry room includes an intake portion that is connected to an inside of the dry room and through which air in the dry room is taken in, a cooling unit that cools the air taken in through the intake portion, a dehumidification unit that dehumidifies the air cooled by the cooling unit, and a supply unit that is connected to the inside of the dry room and through which the air dehumidified by the dehumidification unit is supplied into the dry room, in which at least one of the intake portion, the cooling unit, the dehumidification unit, and the supply unit is composed of a duct having a box shape through which the air is able to pass, and the duct is a portion of a casing that constitutes an outermost layer of the low-humidity air supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Masuda, Akira Ueda, Masafumi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11174943
    Abstract: A seal structure includes a ring-shaped seal member. The seal member is disposed in a seal groove. The case includes a low-pressure lateral face in a cross section of the seal structure, the cross section being taken along an imaginary plane in parallel with a shaft axial direction of the shaft and passing through a center line of the shaft. The seal member includes a first protruding portion. The first protruding portion protrudes from a main portion having a bottom face in contact with the low-pressure lateral face, and has a shape such that the first protruding portion extends toward the shaft as the first protruding portion extends toward the low-pressure side. The first protruding portion includes a tip. The first protruding portion includes a contact region in contact with the shaft. The tip is closer to the low-pressure side than the contact region is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: VALQUA, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamamoto, Chao Jing, Mitsuru Minami, Akira Ueda, Yuki Noriduki
  • Publication number: 20210102627
    Abstract: A seal member is disposed in a seal groove at a sliding gap between a shaft and a case. The seal member includes an outer periphery, a curved inner periphery, a mounting face, and an upper face. The mounting face is recessed toward the upper face. The upper face is recessed toward the mounting face. The relation of 0.755?h/H?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro YAMAMOTO, Chao JING, Mitsuru MINAMI, Akira UEDA, Yuki NORIDUKI
  • Publication number: 20210095874
    Abstract: A booth including an ejecting unit that ejects air into an opening portion leading to an internal space partitioned from an external space. The ejecting unit forms a first airflow that suppresses introduction of a disturbance from the external space into the internal space and a second airflow that suppresses introduction of the first airflow into the internal space inside the first airflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Akira Ueda, Katsuhiro Masuda, Masafumi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10907736
    Abstract: A split seal ring includes: an annular main body seal split partially in a circumferential direction; and abutment surfaces provided on split surfaces of the main body seal so as to be joined to each other. Each of the abutment surfaces includes: a first inclined surface extending in a direction intersecting with the circumferential direction; a first horizontal surface extending from one end side of the first inclined surface along the circumferential direction; and a second inclined surface extending from an end of the first horizontal surface opposite to the first inclined surface in the direction intersecting with the circumferential direction. With this configuration, there can be provided a split seal ring having a structure that can improve the sealing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: VALQUA, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Minami, Akira Ueda, Jyunichi Yamashita, Akihiro Nagano, Katsuhisa Umeda
  • Patent number: 10839127
    Abstract: A temperature calculation method for a substrate, the temperature calculation method includes: calculating, by a computer performing a circuit simulation based on a resistance equivalent to a component that joins two substrates included in a target model of an analysis, a value of a current that flows through the component or voltage values in respective end portions of the component; setting, based on model information for expressing the target model, the current value or the voltage values in a first surface and a second surface that are included in surfaces of an outer shape of the component and that are in contact with the respective substrates; and calculating a first current density distribution of the component by performing a first electrical analysis according to the setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Kubota, Akira Ueda, Hideharu Matsushita, akihiro otsuka, Yasuhiro Ite, Takamasa Shinde, Kazuhisa Inagaki, Akira Sakai
  • Publication number: 20200072354
    Abstract: An arrangement structure for a seal member includes: a first member having a first mating surface and provided with a groove portion; a second member having a second mating surface, and configured to move relatively to the first member; and an annular seal member fitted into the groove portion, providing sealing between the first member and the second member, and serving as a partition between an atmosphere-side space and a pressurized-side space. The seal member includes a plurality of first protruding portions protruding toward the second mating surface and aligned from the atmosphere-side space toward the pressurized-side space. The seal member has such a shape that, in a state of not being fitted into the groove portion, a protrusion height of the first protruding portion increases in stages from the first protruding portion arranged close to the pressurized-side space toward the first protruding portion arranged close to the atmosphere-side space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuhisa UMEDA, Akira UEDA, Mitsuru MINAMI, Akihiro NAGANO
  • Publication number: 20200063870
    Abstract: A seal structure includes a ring-shaped seal member. The seal member is disposed in a seal groove. The case includes a low-pressure lateral face in a cross section of the seal structure, the cross section being taken along an imaginary plane in parallel with a shaft axial direction of the shaft and passing through a center line of the shaft. The seal member includes a first protruding portion. The first protruding portion protrudes from a main portion having a bottom face in contact with the low-pressure lateral face, and has a shape such that the first protruding portion extends toward the shaft as the first protruding portion extends toward the low-pressure side. The first protruding portion includes a tip. The first protruding portion includes a contact region in contact with the shaft. The tip is closer to the low-pressure side than the contact region is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Takahiro YAMAMOTO, Chao JING, Mitsuru MINAMI, Akira UEDA, Yuki NORIDUKI
  • Patent number: D968249
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: VALQUA, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Ueda, Akihiro Nagano
  • Patent number: D993794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: VALQUA, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Ueda, Akihiro Nagano