Patents by Inventor Atsushi Sakuma
Atsushi Sakuma 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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Patent number: 11535735Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a propylene-based block copolymer, the deposition thereof on the inner wall of the polymerization vessel having been sufficiently inhibited. The propylene-based block copolymer of the present invention has a flowability evaluation value of 40% or less, the value being calculated with the following equation wherein X (sec) is the number of seconds over which 100 g of the copolymer having ordinary temperature falls from a stainless-steel funnel having an inner diameter of 11.9 mm and Y (sec) is the number of seconds over which 100 g of the copolymer which has been held at 80° C. for 24 hours under a load of 10 kg falls from the funnel having an inner diameter of 11.9 mm. Flowability evaluation value (%)={(Y/X)?1}×100.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Atsushi Sakuma, Kazutaka Tsuru, Kenichiro Okamura
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Patent number: 11288886Abstract: The disclosure provides a people-gathering analysis device including: a position information acquisition unit (112) that acquires position information of a moving body (150); a moving-body outside information acquisition unit (111) that acquires information about the area outside the moving body (150); and a people-gathering information calculation unit (113) that calculates people-gathering information indicating the gathering of people by referring to the position information of the moving body (150) acquired by the position information acquisition unit (112), and the information about the area outside the moving body (150) acquired by the moving-body outside information acquisition unit (111).Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuki Kasai, Koichi Aida, Tomonari Imabayashi, Eizo Kitamura, Hideto Ohmae, Atsushi Sakuma, Minoru Fujino
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Publication number: 20200399454Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a propylene-based block copolymer, the deposition thereof on the inner wall of the polymerization vessel having been sufficiently inhibited. The propylene-based block copolymer of the present invention has a flowability evaluation value of 40% or less, the value being calculated with the following equation wherein X (sec) is the number of seconds over which 100 g of the copolymer having ordinary temperature falls from a stainless-steel funnel having an inner diameter of 11.9 mm and Y (sec) is the number of seconds over which 100 g of the copolymer which has been held at 80° C. for 24 hours under a load of 10 kg falls from the funnel having an inner diameter of 11.9 mm. Flowability evaluation value (%)={(Y/X)?1}×100.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Atsushi SAKUMA, Kazutaka TSURU, Kenichiro OKAMURA
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Publication number: 20200342239Abstract: The disclosure provides a people-gathering analysis device including: a position information acquisition unit (112) that acquires position information of a moving body (150); a moving-body outside information acquisition unit (111) that acquires information about the area outside the moving body (150); and a people-gathering information calculation unit (113) that calculates people-gathering information indicating the gathering of people by referring to the position information of the moving body (150) acquired by the position information acquisition unit (112), and the information about the area outside the moving body (150) acquired by the moving-body outside information acquisition unit (111).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuki KASAI, Koichi AIDA, Tomonari IMABAYASHI, Eizo KITAMURA, Hideto OHMAE, Atsushi SAKUMA, Minoru FUJINO
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Publication number: 20200342503Abstract: In order to realize a technology with which it is possible to evaluate a service provider from which a service user can receive a service with ease, an evaluation device is characterized by being equipped with: an information analysis unit for calculating degree-of-ease information indicating a degree of ease of a service user from the service user's countenance; and a service provider evaluation unit for calculating an evaluation of a service provider from the degree-of-ease information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuki KASAI, Koichi AIDA, Tomonari IMABAYASHI, Eizo KITAMURA, Hideto OHMAE, Atsushi SAKUMA, Minoru FUJINO
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Patent number: 10336838Abstract: [Problem to be solved] There is provided a process for producing an olefin polymer that is capable of producing an olefin polymer having high heat resistance and high molecular weight with excellent catalytic activity. [Solution to problem] The process for producing an olefin polymer includes a step of polymerizing at least one olefin selected from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst containing a transition metal compound represented by the general formula [I], the olefin polymer including constituent units derived from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in a total amount between more than 50 mol % and not more than 100 mol %, [in the formula [I], R1, R3 and R5 to R16 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or the like; R2 is a hydrocarbon group or the like; R4 is a hydrogen atom; M is a transition metal of Group IV; Q is a halogen atom or the like; and j is an integer of 1 to 4].Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Munehito Funaya, Atsushi Sakuma, Ikuko Ebisawa, Shinsuke Kinoshita, Akiko Matsumoto, Hirokazu Tanaka, Shinya Tanaka
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Patent number: 10336837Abstract: [Problem to be solved] There is provided a process for producing an olefin polymer that is capable of producing an olefin polymer having high heat resistance and high molecular weight with excellent catalytic activity. [Solution to problem] The process for producing an olefin polymer includes a step of polymerizing at least one olefin selected from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst containing a transition metal compound represented by the general formula [I], the olefin polymer including constituent units derived from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in a total amount between more than 50 mol % and not more than 100 mol %, [in the formula [I], R1, R3 and R5 to R16 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or the like; R2 is a hydrocarbon group or the like; R4 is a hydrogen atom; M is a transition metal of Group IV; Q is a halogen atom or the like; and j is an integer of 1 to 4].Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Munehito Funaya, Atsushi Sakuma, Ikuko Ebisawa, Shinsuke Kinoshita, Akiko Matsumoto, Hirokazu Tanaka, Shinya Tanaka
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Publication number: 20190064043Abstract: An indentation testing device that pushes an indenter into a sample, includes: an enclosure having a pressing surface to be pressed against the sample; the indenter, which is disposed so as to protrude from the pressing surface by a predetermined amount and is pushed into the sample; a load cell that is disposed between the enclosure and the indenter and that measures at least a force parallel to the indentation direction and acting on the indenter; and a Young's modulus display unit that calculates and displays the Young's modulus of the sample on the basis of the force acting on the indenter when the pressing surface comes into contact with the sample, as measured with the load cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Kazumi KOUKETSU, Atsushi SAKUMA
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Patent number: 10184865Abstract: A viscosity coefficient calculation device includes a resistivity acquiring part that acquires, for each plurality of periods of time until a specific strains is generated when a load is applied to a sample, a value of deformation resistivity corresponding to an apparent modulus of elasticity when modulus of elasticity considered to be in accordance with Hook's law, and an output part that outputs a value of a viscosity coefficient of the sample from the value of the deformation resistivity for the each plurality of periods of time acquired by the resistivity acquiring part using a relational expression associating the deformation resistivity with the viscosity coefficient, the relational expression being a fractional function for periods of time, the relational expression analytically obtained by substituting the deformation resistivity into a first order differential equation for a stress and a strain obtained from a configuration expression of a viscoelasticity model.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNInventors: Atsushi Sakuma, Yuma Sango
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Patent number: 9896526Abstract: [Problem to be solved] There is provided a process for producing an olefin polymer that is capable of producing an olefin polymer having high heat resistance and high molecular weight with excellent catalytic activity. [Solution to problem] The process for producing an olefin polymer includes a step of polymerizing at least one olefin selected from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst containing a transition metal compound represented by the general formula [I], the olefin polymer including constituent units derived from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in a total amount between more than 50 mol % and not more than 100 mol %, [in the formula [I], R1, R3 and R5 to R16 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or the like; R2 is a hydrocarbon group or the like; R4 is a hydrogen atom; M is a transition metal of Group IV; Q is a halogen atom or the like; and j is an integer of 1 to 4].Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Munehito Funaya, Atsushi Sakuma, Ikuko Ebisawa, Shinsuke Kinoshita, Akiko Matsumoto, Hirokazu Tanaka, Shinya Tanaka
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Publication number: 20170327611Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] There is provided a process for producing an olefin polymer that is capable of producing an olefin polymer having high heat resistance and high molecular weight with excellent catalytic activity. [Solution to Problem] The process for producing an olefin polymer includes a step of polymerizing at least one olefin selected from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst containing a transition metal compound represented by the general formula [I], the olefin polymer including constituent units derived from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in a total amount between more than 50 mol % and not more than 100 mol %, [in the formula [I], R1, R3 and R5 to R16 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or the like; R2 is a hydrocarbon group or the like; R4 is a hydrogen atom; M is a transition metal of Group IV; Q is a halogen atom or the like; and j is an integer of 1 to 4].Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Munehito FUNAYA, Atsushi SAKUMA, Ikuko EBISAWA, Shinsuke KINOSHITA, Akiko MATSUMOTO, Hirokazu TANAKA, Shinya TANAKA
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Publication number: 20170327610Abstract: [Problem to be solved] There is provided a process for producing an olefin polymer that is capable of producing an olefin polymer having high heat resistance and high molecular weight with excellent catalytic activity. [Solution to problem] The process for producing an olefin polymer includes a step of polymerizing at least one olefin selected from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst containing a transition metal compound represented by the general formula [I], the olefin polymer including constituent units derived from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in a total amount between more than 50 mol % and not more than 100 mol %, [in the formula [I], R1, R3 and R5 to R16 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or the like; R2 is a hydrocarbon group or the like; R4 is a hydrogen atom; M is a transition metal of Group IV; Q is a halogen atom or the like; and j is an integer of 1 to 4].Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Munehito FUNAYA, Atsushi SAKUMA, Ikuko EBISAWA, Shinsuke KINOSHITA, Akiko MATSUMOTO, Hirokazu TANAKA, Shinya TANAKA
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Patent number: 9682602Abstract: A control apparatus for a damping force varying damper includes a target current determining section, an upper limit setting section, and a supplied current determining section. The target current determining section determines a target current supplied to a solenoid valve that controls a damping force. The upper limit setting section sets an upper limit value for a current supplied to the solenoid valve. The supplied current determining section determines a supplied current, from the target current and the upper limit value. The upper limit setting section determines a coefficient that increases or reduces the upper limit value based on an already determined supplied current and then determines the upper limit value from the coefficient. The upper limit setting section determines a coefficient that increases or reduces the upper limit value based on an already determined supplied current and then determines the upper limit value from the coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Morita, Atsushi Sakuma, Masaki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20160376385Abstract: [Problem to be solved] There is provided a process for producing an olefin polymer that is capable of producing an olefin polymer having high heat resistance and high molecular weight with excellent catalytic activity. Solution to problem The process for producing an olefin polymer includes a step of polymerizing at least one olefin selected from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst containing a transition metal compound represented by the general formula [I], the olefin polymer including constituent units derived from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in a total amount between more than 50 mol % and not more than 100 mol %, [in the formula [I], R1, R3 and R5 to R16 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or the like; R2 is a hydrocarbon group or the like; R4 is a hydrogen atom; M is a transition metal of Group IV; Q is a halogen atom or the like; and j is an integer of 1 to 4].Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Munehito FUNAYA, Atsushi SAKUMA, Ikuko EBISAWA, Shinsuke KINOSHITA, Akiko MATSUMOTO, Hirokazu TANAKA, Shinya TANAKA
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Patent number: 9458257Abstract: There is provided a process for producing an olefin polymer that is capable of producing an olefin polymer having high heat resistance and high molecular weight with excellent catalytic activity. The process for producing an olefin polymer includes a step of polymerizing at least one olefin selected from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst containing a transition metal compound represented by the general formula [I], the olefin polymer including constituent units derived from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in a total amount between more than 50 mol % and not more than 100 mol %, [in the formula [I], R1, R3 and R5 to R16 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or the like; R2 is a hydrocarbon group or the like; R4 is a hydrogen atom; M is a transition metal of Group IV; Q is a halogen atom or the like; and j is an integer of 1 to 4].Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Munehito Funaya, Atsushi Sakuma, Ikuko Ebisawa, Shinsuke Kinoshita, Akiko Matsumoto, Hirokazu Tanaka, Shinya Tanaka
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Publication number: 20160274012Abstract: A viscosity coefficient calculation device comprising a resistivity acquiring part that acquires, for each plurality of periods of time until a specific strains is generated when a load is applied to a sample, a value of deformation resistivity corresponding to an apparent modulus of elasticity when modulus of elasticity considered to be in accordance with Hook's law, and an output part that outputs a value of a viscosity coefficient of the sample from the value of the deformation resistivity for the each plurality of periods of time acquired by the resistivity acquiring part using a relational expression associating the deformation resistivity with the viscosity coefficient, the relational expression being a fractional function for periods of time, the relational expression analytically obtained by substituting the deformation resistivity into a first order differential equation for a stress and a strain obtained from a configuration expression of a viscoelasticity model.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Atsushi SAKUMA, Yuma SANGO
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Publication number: 20160214454Abstract: A control apparatus for a damping force varying damper includes a target current determining section, an upper limit setting section, and a supplied current determining section. The target current determining section determines a target current supplied to a solenoid valve that controls a damping force. The upper limit setting section sets an upper limit value for a current supplied to the solenoid valve. The supplied current determining section determines a supplied current, from the target current and the upper limit value. The upper limit setting section determines a coefficient that increases or reduces the upper limit value based on an already determined supplied current and then determines the upper limit value from the coefficient. The upper limit setting section determines a coefficient that increases or reduces the upper limit value based on an already determined supplied current and then determines the upper limit value from the coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: Showa CorporationInventors: Takumi MORITA, Atsushi SAKUMA, Masaki SUGIMOTO
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Patent number: 9297730Abstract: A novel indentation test apparatus is provided. The indentation test apparatus is an apparatus for indenting a specimen with a spherical indenter. The indentation test apparatus includes a specimen thickness identifier) that identifies the thickness of the specimen, an equivalent indentation strain calculator that calculates equivalent indentation strain of the specimen by using the thickness of the specimen, and a Young's modulus calculator that calculates Young's modulus of the specimen by using the equivalent indentation strain. Young's modulus E of the specimen preferably ranges from 100 Pa to 100 MPa. The diameter of the spherical indenter preferably ranges from 1×10?8 to 1 m.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Atsushi Sakuma, Mitsuhiro Tani
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Patent number: 9194781Abstract: A viscoelasticity measuring apparatus that measures viscoelasticity of a measurement target with high precision is provided. The measuring apparatus includes: a casing; a surface contact part provided in the casing and brought into surface contact with skin; a ball indenter that moves toward the skin more than the surface contact part and is pushed into the skin; a driving unit that supports the ball indenter and moves the ball indenter toward the skin; a load cell whose right end side is fixed to the casing and left end side supports the driving unit, the load cell detecting a pushing load that pushes the ball indenter into the skin; and a control unit that obtains displacement of the ball indenter.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignees: TANITA CORPORATION, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kazuma Inoue, Atsushi Sakuma
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Publication number: 20150239996Abstract: [Problem to be solved] There is provided a process for producing an olefin polymer that is capable of producing an olefin polymer having high heat resistance and high molecular weight with excellent catalytic activity. [Solution to problem] The process for producing an olefin polymer includes a step of polymerizing at least one olefin selected from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst containing a transition metal compound represented by the general formula [I], the olefin polymer including constituent units derived from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in a total amount between more than 50 mol % and not more than 100 mol %, [in the formula [I], R1, R3 and R5 to R16 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or the like; R2 is a hydrocarbon group or the like; R4 is a hydrogen atom; M is a transition metal of Group IV; Q is a halogen atom or the like; and j is an integer of 1 to 4].Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Munehito Funaya, Atsushi Sakuma, Ikuko Ebisawa, Shinsuke Kinoshita, Akiko Matsumoto, Hirokazu Tanaka, Shinya Tanaka