Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Suzuki

Kazuhiro Suzuki 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: 20240142324
    Abstract: A torque detection device includes a first yoke and a first magnetic guide member. A first opposing portion of the first magnetic guide member overlaps with a first-yoke ring of the first yoke when the first-yoke ring is projected onto the first opposing portion in an axial direction. Furthermore, the first opposing portion overlaps with an inner surface of a second tubular portion when the inner surface is projected onto the first opposing portion in the axial direction. A housing distance, which is a shortest distance measured from the first opposing portion to the inner surface, is longer than a yoke distance, which is a shortest distance measured from the first opposing portion to the first-yoke ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiro SUZUKI, Michihiro MAKITA, Koichiro MATSUMOTO, Kazuhiro YOSHINO, Norihisa KOIDE, Nagisa ONODA
  • Publication number: 20240136793
    Abstract: A surface-emitting laser includes an active layer; multiple reflectors sandwiching the active layer; and an electrode pair connected to a power supply, through which a current is injected into the active layer. The surface-emitting laser emits at least one laser beam during a current injection period when the current injected into the active layer through the electrode pair during the current injection period is a first current and emits at least one laser beam during a current decrease period when the current injected into the active layer through the electrode pair during the current injection period is a second current exceeding the first current. The current decrease period is after the current injection period. The current injected into the active layer during the current decrease period is lower than the current injected into the active layer during the current injection period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Jikutani, Kazuhiro Harasaka, Ryoichiro Suzuki, Yutaka Maita, Naofumi Ueno
  • Publication number: 20240136522
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein an expansion upon intercalation of a metal ion such as a Li ion is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and the active material includes a Na element, a Si element and a M element that is a metal element with an ion radius larger than the Si element, and a proportion of the M element to a total of the Si element and the M element is 0.1 atm % or more and 5 atm % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAGUCHI, Hironori DAIKOKU, Jun YOSHIDA, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Mitsutoshi OTAKI
  • Patent number: 11967715
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate II type crystal phase, and having a composition represented by NaxSi136, wherein 1.98<x<2.54.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Otaki, Jun Yoshida, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Masanori Harata
  • Patent number: 11960232
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member, a charging member, a developing device, a transfer member, a brush, a driving source and a control portion. The control portion controls the driving source to execute an image forming process in which image formation on the recording material is executed and a non-image-forming process in which the photosensitive member is driven to rotate other than in the image forming process. The non-image-forming process between a first recording material and a second recording material, to which the image formation is executed following the first recording material, is defined as a first non-image-forming process, and the non-image-forming process between the second recording material and a third recording material is defined as a second non-image-forming process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ai Suzuki, Kensuke Umeda, Kazuhiro Funatani, Shinsuke Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240119196
    Abstract: A method for designing radio scattering bodies includes making a determination of a value of an objective function. The objective function represents a radio scattering property of a design target for a case where a radio wave is incident on the design target under a given condition. The determination of the value is made by computation using an analysis model including the design target, the analysis model being created on the basis of a set value of a parameter describing a shape of the design target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yuya MATSUZAKI, Kazuhiro FUKE, Takuya SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11951383
    Abstract: Using output of an inertial sensor, whether an operation device is in a swing state of being swung is determined. Whether the operation device is rotated in a first direction about a predetermined axis of the inertial sensor or a second direction opposite to the first direction, is determined. Whether the operation device is swung in an upward direction or a downward direction is determined. First processing is executed in at least either a case where the operation device is rotated in the first direction about the predetermined axis or a case where the operation device is swung in the upward direction, during the swing state. Second processing is executed in at least either a case where the operation device is rotated in the second direction about the predetermined axis or a case where the operation device is swung in the downward direction, during the swing state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tatsuta, Takafumi Masaoka, Kazuhiro Yoshikawa, Ryosuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11947280
    Abstract: A mechanism that enables developer replenishment by a simpler structure and a mechanism that enables more user-friendly developer replenishment are provided. An attachment port to which a developer supply bottle containing a developer stored therein is detachably attachable is disposed in an interior of an image forming apparatus. The developer supply bottle can be attached when the cover is in an open state. According to this image forming apparatus, when the developer supply bottle is attached to the attachment port, the developer inside the developer supply bottle moves into a developer housing chamber by its own weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Funatani, Masatake Tanaka, Kentaro Yamawaki, Kenichi Iida, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Kensuke Umeda, Takanori Watanabe, Ai Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240090543
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid egg-substitute composition that has fluidity close to that of a liquid egg and is capable of obtaining a gelation property, color tone, and flavor that are capable of reproducing a heat-coagulated egg when heated, and a heat-coagulated product thereof. [Solving Means] A liquid egg-substitute composition according to the present invention contains 6 mass % or more and 17 mass % or less of an extracted protein of a bean of the species white Phaseolus vulgaris or the species Vigna mungo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Takahisa SUZUKI, Kazuhiro ISOBE, Atsushi SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20240094349
    Abstract: A light detector according to one embodiment, includes a substrate. The substrate includes a first semiconductor layer, an insulating layer, and a second semiconductor layer. The insulating layer is located on the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer is located on the insulating layer. The second semiconductor layer includes a photoelectric conversion part. The photoelectric conversion part includes a first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region. The substrate includes a void and a trench. The void is positioned below the photoelectric conversion part and between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The trench surrounds the photoelectric conversion part. A lower end of the trench is positioned in the second semiconductor layer. The photoelectric conversion part is electrically connected with an upper surface side of the substrate via a portion below the trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Keita SASAKI, Mariko SHIMIZU, Kazuhiro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240092285
    Abstract: A protector includes a case main body and a cover member. The cover member includes the cover main body part, the first cover part, and the second cover part. The first cover part and the second cover part are at the positions overlapping with each other in the longitudinal direction when viewed from the lateral direction of the cover main body part, and form an insertion space for passing a third extension part of a wiring material WH through in the lateral direction when viewed from the orthogonal direction of the cover main body part. The first cover part includes a movable part that is movable in the orthogonal direction with respect to the cover main body part when viewed from the lateral direction of the cover main body part, and a hinge part that rotatably connects the cover main body part and the movable part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Shinji Kato, Kazuhiro Tsutida, Suginobu Iguchi, Takumasa Suzuki, Rikuya Saitou, Tomohiro Shibata
  • Patent number: 11932908
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for diagnosis or treatment of epilepsy disease with EFHC1, EFHC1 agonists, or EFHC1 analogs are provided. Compositions and methods for diagnosis or treatment of epilepsy disease with EFHC1a, EFHC1a agonists, or EFHC1a analogs are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta, Kazuhiro Yamakawa, Toshimitsu Suzuki, Marco Tulio Medina-Hernandez, Maria Elisa Alonso Vilatela
  • Publication number: 20240077823
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus to and from which a replenishment container accommodating toner is attachable and detachable includes a replenishment port to allow replenishment of toner from the replenishment container, an opening/closing portion to open the replenishment port in an open position and close the replenishment port in a closed position, a locking member to move between a restricting position in which the locking member restricts movement of the opening/closing portion from the closed position to the open position, and an allowing position in which the movement of the opening/closing portion from the closed position to the open position is allowed. A developer container accepts more toner for replenishment in a case where a second display is in a second state than in a first state, and a first display more accurately displays information related to the toner accommodated in the developer container than the second display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Kensuke Umeda, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Funatani, Takanori Watanabe, Ai Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240068380
    Abstract: There is provided a pit initiation evaluation system or the like capable of predicting pit initiation effectively and at low cost. In a pit initiation evaluation system of an embodiment, a pit initiation evaluation unit creates and retains, based on a dry-wet alternate time data, a deposit impurity concentration data, and a pit initiation data on pitting corrosion initiated in each of a plurality of turbine stages when an operation is actually performed in the steam turbine, a pit initiation evaluation table presenting a relationship between a dry-wet alternate time, a deposit impurity concentration, and pit initiation. Further, the pit initiation evaluation unit is configured to evaluate, by using the pit initiation evaluation table, pitting corrosion to be initiated in each of the plurality of turbine stages in an operation planned for the steam turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuka TSUKADA, Kazuhiro SAITO, Yusuke SUZUKI, Yoshikazu NINOMIYA, Osamu TANAKA, Yasuteru KAWAI, Shinichi TERADA, Makoto SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240069839
    Abstract: An output system includes a terminal device, an image-forming apparatus, and a server device. The terminal device includes an acquirer that acquires content from the server device, a generator that generates job data including a setting for outputting the content based on the acquired content, a transmitter that transmits the job data to the image-forming apparatus, and a reception slip outputter that outputs a reception slip including a reception number corresponding to the generated job data. The image-forming apparatus includes a receiver that receives the job data from the terminal device, and an outputter that outputs the content after executing a job based on the job data corresponding to the reception number when the reception number is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: YASUTOMO HAYANO, KOHICHI MURAKAMI, YASUHIRO NAKAI, Masaya ISHIHARA, Kazuhiro YOSHIMOTO, MASAO SAEDA, Tetsuji NISHIJIMA, Kazuma OHWAKI, Akira OKUYAMA, Noriyuki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240072191
    Abstract: A light detector includes a semiconductor layer and a light-receiving element. The semiconductor layer is of a first conductivity type. The light-receiving element includes a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region, and a fourth semiconductor region. The first semiconductor region is of a second conductivity type. The second semiconductor region is located between the first semiconductor region and the semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor region is of the first conductivity type and contacts the first semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region is located between the second semiconductor region and the semiconductor layer. The third semiconductor region is of the second conductivity type. The fourth semiconductor region is located between the third semiconductor region and the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Mariko SHIMIZU, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Ikuo FUJIWARA, Ryoma KANEKO, Keita SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11901556
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein an expansion upon intercalation of a metal ion such as a Li ion is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and the active material includes a Na element, a Si element and a M element that is a metal element with an ion radius larger than the Si element, and a proportion of the M element to a total of the Si element and the M element is 0.1 atm % or more and 5 atm % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Hironori Daikoku, Jun Yoshida, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Mitsutoshi Otaki
  • Patent number: 11894551
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising at least Si and Al, including a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and a proportion of the Al to a total of the Si and the Al is 0.1 atm % or more and 1 atm % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Suzuki, Jun Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240014389
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate II type crystal phase, including a void inside a primary particle, and a void amount of the void with a fine pore diameter of 100 nm or less is 0.05 cc/g or more and 0.15 cc/g or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi OTAKI, Jun YOSHIDA, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Masanori HARATA
  • Publication number: 20230372824
    Abstract: A first recording section 152 records chat data that is voice data, in association with time information. A second recording section 154 records metadata including information indicating a person who has made an utterance, in association with time information. An input image generating section 124 generates an input image for a user to create a report. A report creating section 170 receives information input by the user and creates a report relating to a chat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Takato YOROZUYA, Takuma OIWA