Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Hori
Hiroshi Hori 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: 20170105689Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray computed tomography imaging apparatus includes a gantry, and a column. The gantry includes a first gantry intake port, and a second gantry intake port. The first gantry intake port configured to draw air in the first state. The second gantry intake port configured to draw air in the second state. the column includes a first column exhaust port, and a second column exhaust port. The first column exhaust port capable of communicating with the first gantry intake port in the first state. The second column exhaust port capable of communicating with the second gantry intake port in the second state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventor: Hiroshi HORI
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Patent number: 9622952Abstract: Provided are an internal olefin sulfonate composition which is capable of sufficiently enhancing foamability, light foam quality, and instantaneous foam dissipation property, and a cleansing composition containing the internal olefin sulfonate composition. The internal olefin sulfonate composition comprises (A) an internal olefin sulfonate having 12 carbon atoms and (B) an internal olefin sulfonate having 14 carbon atoms, wherein a content mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (B), (A/B), is from 10/90 to 90/10, and a total content of the component (A) and the component (B) in the internal olefin sulfonate is from 60 to 100% by mass.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Yoshikawa, Yoshinori Mitsuda, Hiroshi Hori, Yasuhiro Doi
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Publication number: 20160332961Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a high-quality internal olefin sulfonate in which the content of any internal olefin and inorganic substance is small. This method for producing an internal olefin sulfonate, comprising: a sulfonating step of causing an internal olefin to react with sulfur trioxide to yield a sulfonated internal olefin; a neutralizing step of mixing the resultant sulfonated internal olefin with an aqueous alkaline solution at 40° C. or lower to yield a mixture, and applying shearing force to the mixture until the particle diameter of oil droplets of an oily product of the mixture turns to 10 ?m or less to yield a neutralized product; and a hydrolyzing step of hydrolyzing the resultant neutralized product.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2014Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi HORI, Yohei YOSHIKAWA, Yoshinori MITSUDA, Toku FUJIOKA, Yoshifumi NISHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20160000678Abstract: Provided are an internal olefin sulfonate composition which is capable of sufficiently enhancing foamability, foam dissipation property free from a slimy feeling during rinsing, and a feel after cleansing and subsequent drying, and a cleansing composition containing the same. The internal olefin sulfonate composition comprises (A) an internal olefin sulfonate having 16 carbon atoms and (B) an internal olefin sulfonate having 12 carbon atoms, in which a content mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (B), (A/B), is from 10/90 to 90/10.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei YOSHIKAWA, Yoshinori MITSUDA, Hiroshi HORI, Yasuhiro DOI
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Publication number: 20150366774Abstract: Provided are an internal olefin sulfonate composition which is capable of sufficiently enhancing foamability, foam lubricity and volume of foam, and a cleansing composition containing the same. The internal olefin sulfonate composition comprises (A) an internal olefin sulfonate having 16 carbon atoms and (B) an internal olefin sulfonate having 14 carbon atoms, in which a content mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (B), (A/B), is from 80/20 to 90/10.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei YOSHIKAWA, Yoshinori MITSUDA, Hiroshi HORI, Yasuhiro DOI
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Publication number: 20150366775Abstract: Provided are an internal olefin sulfonate composition which is capable of sufficiently enhancing foamability, light foam quality, and instantaneous foam dissipation property, and a cleansing composition containing the internal olefin sulfonate composition. The internal olefin sulfonate composition comprises (A) an internal olefin sulfonate having 12 carbon atoms and (B) an internal olefin sulfonate having 14 carbon atoms, wherein a content mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (B), (A/B), is from 10/90 to 90/10, and a total content of the component (A) and the component (B) in the internal olefin sulfonate is from 60 to 100% by mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei YOSHIKAWA, Yoshinori MITSUDA, Hiroshi HORI, Yasuhiro DOI
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Publication number: 20150359719Abstract: Provided are an internal olefin sulfonate composition which is capable of sufficiently enhancing foamability, foam spreadability, and foam dissipation property, and a cleansing composition containing the same. The internal olefin sulfonate composition comprises (A) an internal olefin sulfonate having 16 carbon atoms and (B) an internal olefin sulfonate having 14 carbon atoms, wherein a content mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (B), (A/B), is from 10/90 to 70/30, and a content of the internal olefin sulfonate having 18 or more carbon atoms is 5% by mass or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei YOSHIKAWA, Yoshinori MITSUDA, Hiroshi HORI, Yasuhiro DOI
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Publication number: 20150202134Abstract: Provided is an internal olefin sulfonate composition which is capable of exerting good foamability together with good volume of foam, foaming speed, foam dissipation property, foam quality, foam durability in the presence of sebum, and volume of foam in the presence of sebum at high levels, and a cleansing composition containing the same. The internal olefin sulfonate composition of the present invention comprises (A) an internal olefin sulfonate having 16 carbon atoms and (B) an internal olefin sulfonate having 18 carbon atoms, wherein a mass content ratio (A/B) of component (A) to component (B) is from 75/25 to 90/10, and wherein a mass ratio (hydroxy form/olefin form) of a content of a hydroxy form in the internal olefin sulfonate of the component (A) and the component (B) to a content of an olefin form in the internal olefin sulfonate of the component (A) and the component (B) is from 75/25 to 100/0.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2013Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Yoshikawa, Yoshinori Mitsuda, Hiroshi Hori, Yoshifumi Nishimoto, Yasuhiro Doi
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Publication number: 20150168581Abstract: A method of quantitative cement evaluation is provided. The method includes deploying a logging-while-drilling downhole sonic tool into a wellbore inside a casing, measuring acoustic signals propagating through the casing with the logging-while-drilling downhole sonic tool, and performing quantitative cement evaluation with respect to cement bonding around the casing by using waveform data of the acoustic signals measured with the logging-while-drilling downhole sonic tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Wataru Izuhara, Hiroshi Hori, Vivian Pistre, Toshihiro Kinoshita
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Patent number: 8903038Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, an X-ray CT device includes: a front dome cover and rear dome cover that include a fixed cover and a plurality of segmented movable covers; a slide mechanism that enables the movable covers to slide relative to the fixed cover; and a dome-diameter driving unit that controls the slide mechanism to change a dome diameter of a gantry dome.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Yohei Matsuzawa, Tomiya Sasaki, Hiroshi Hori
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Publication number: 20140080751Abstract: Provided is an internal olefin sulfonate composition which is capable of exerting good foamability at the same time with foam quality, foam dissipation property, and less irritation to the skin at high levels, and a cleansing composition containing the same. The internal olefin sulfonate composition of the present invention comprises (A) an internal olefin sulfonate having 16 carbon atoms and (B) an internal olefin sulfonate having 18 carbon atoms, wherein a mass content ratio (A/B) of component (A) to component (B) is from 75/25 to 90/10.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei YOSHIKAWA, Yoshinori MITSUDA, Hiroshi HORI, Yoshifumi NISHIMOTO, Yasuhiro DOI
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Publication number: 20140051964Abstract: A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus according to an embodiment comprises: a bed device on which an examinee lies down; a gantry having a tunnel-shaped inner portion into which the bed device moves and inserts a table with which the examinee is in direct contact, and being configured to obtain information on an interior of the examinee by imaging the examinee located in the inner portion; and a control device configured to control drive of the bed device and the gantry. The medical diagnostic imaging apparatus further comprises a multi-degree-of-freedom support mechanism mounted at a position facing the bed device with the gantry interposed in between and configured to support the table based on a control by the control device in accordance with movement of the table.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Inventor: Hiroshi HORI
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Publication number: 20120230465Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, an X-ray CT device includes: a front dome cover and rear dome cover that include a fixed cover and a plurality of segmented movable covers; a slide mechanism that enables the movable covers to slide relative to the fixed cover; and a dome-diameter driving unit that controls the slide mechanism to change a dome diameter of a gantry dome.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yohei Matsuzawa, Tomiya Sasaki, Hiroshi Hori
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Publication number: 20120218862Abstract: Apparatus for acoustic measurement in a downhole environment to enable high quality measurements to be obtained in difficult logging conditions are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a downhole tool having a body with a plurality of transmitters located on the body. A receiver is located on the body a distance from the transmitters and an attenuator section is integrally formed on the body between at least one transmitter and the receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2010Publication date: August 30, 2012Inventors: Hiroshi Nakajima, Toshihiro Kinoshita, Hiroshi Hori, Alain Dumont, Hiroshi Nomura
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Patent number: 8245834Abstract: A transport system of this disclosure includes a transporter for forming a plurality of transport paths from a transport source to a transport destination and transporting a work via a transport path selected from the plurality of transport paths, a controller for controlling the transport, and a reader for, when the work has arrived at a branch point in the transport path, reading out, from a storage medium, transport path information representing a transport direction of the work at the branch point in the transport path, the storage medium being provided on the work and storing the transport path information. The controller controls the transport to transport the work in the transport direction of the work at the branch point represented by the transport path information read out by the reader.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Hirata CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Okubo, Hirofumi Kinoshita, Hiroshi Hori, Tsugumitsu Kandabashi
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Publication number: 20120191681Abstract: The present invention proposes a system for resending a process to a backup server farm from a client without waiting for the failure-detection, if no reply is received for a certain time. The transaction processing mechanism of the present invention has a transaction start processing mechanism in which an exclusive control using a valid processing authority token and data consistency are combined, and a commit processing mechanism in which determination on whether a commit is available or not based on a distributed agreement and replication of updated data. With the mechanisms, a system for shortening a service halt time when a failure occurs to a time as such it appears to a client that the service does not stop is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Guku Yamamoto, Hideki Tai, Hiroshi Hori
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Patent number: 8166007Abstract: The present invention proposes a system for resending a process to a backup server farm from a client without waiting for the failure-detection, if no reply is received for a certain time. The transaction processing mechanism of the present invention has a transaction start processing mechanism in which an exclusive control using a valid processing authority token and data consistency are combined, and a commit processing mechanism in which determination on whether a commit is available or not based on a distributed agreement and replication of updated data. With the mechanisms, a system for shortening a service halt time when a failure occurs to a time as such it appears to a client that the service does not stop is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Guku Yamamoto, Hideki Tai, Hiroshi Hori
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Publication number: 20090183969Abstract: A transport system of this invention includes a transport means for forming a plurality of transport paths from a transport source to a transport destination and transporting a work via a transport path selected from the plurality of transport paths, a control means for controlling the transport means, and a read means for, when the work has arrived at a branch point in the transport path, reading out, from a storage medium, transport path information representing a transport direction of the work at the branch point in the transport path, the storage medium being provided on the work and storing the transport path information. The control means controls the transport means to transport the work in the transport direction of the work at the branch point represented by the transport path information read out by the read means.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2007Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicants: Hirata Corporation, Hirata Software Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Okubo, Hirofumi Kinoshita, Hiroshi Hori, Tsugumitsu Kandabashi
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Publication number: 20090157757Abstract: The present invention proposes a system for resending a process to a backup server farm from a client without waiting for the failure-detection, if no reply is received for a certain time. The transaction processing mechanism of the present invention has a transaction start processing mechanism in which an exclusive control using a valid processing authority token and data consistency are combined, and a commit processing mechanism in which determination on whether a commit is available or not based on a distributed agreement and replication of updated data. With the mechanisms, a system for shortening a service halt time when a failure occurs to a time as such it appears to a client that the service does not stop is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Guku Yamamoto, Hideki Tai, Hiroshi Hori
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Patent number: 7334661Abstract: An acoustic logging tool sleeve with a preferably discontinuous, alternating structure that is acoustically opaque in some zones, and acoustically transparent in others. The sleeve may be modular, with several stages connected together. The multiple stages provide a sleeve that may be useful with a variety of borehole logging tools to reduce or eliminate the transmission of noise to the receiving elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2004Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Jahir Pabon, Chung Chang, David L. Johnson, Vivian Pistre, Tarek Habashy, Smaine Zeroug, Toshihiro Kinoshita, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Hiroshi Hori, Atsushi Saito