Patents by Inventor Kazuki Maeda

Kazuki Maeda 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: 20240149321
    Abstract: To provide a calculation method that enables a heating plan for approximating a plate to an intended shape to be calculated in a short period of time. A calculation method according to the present invention is a calculation method of a heating plan for deforming a plate by heating, the calculation method including: a Bayesian optimization step of performing a Bayesian optimization by inputting a training data group including a plurality of combinations of heating conditions that include a heating shape having been set at an arbitrary location of an analysis model for an original shape being a shape of the plate and a shape that has been calculated based on the heating conditions and determining a heating conditions candidate; and a finite element analysis step of converting the heating conditions candidate into strain data and performing a structural analysis based on a finite element method by inputting the strain data to output a shape candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA
    Inventors: Masakazu SHIBAHARA, Takuya KATO, Kazuki IKUSHIMA, Shintaro MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240127190
    Abstract: Provided is a work management device including an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating login to a system using a first terminal and an operation history of the first terminal occurring after login to the system, a specifying unit that specifies a non-operation period of a terminal from the operation history of the first terminal, and a calculation unit that calculates working hours including the non-operation period of the terminal according to a length of the non-operation period of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Hiroko Imai, Mitsuhiro Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20240127189
    Abstract: Provided is a work management device including an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating login to a system using a first terminal and an operation history of the first terminal occurring after login to the system, a specifying unit that specifies a non-operation period of a terminal from the operation history of the first terminal, and a calculation unit that calculates working hours including the non-operation period of the terminal according to a length of the non-operation period of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Hiroko Imai, Mitsuhiro Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20240121868
    Abstract: A microwave processing device of the present disclosure is provided with a heating chamber, a microwave generating unit, an amplifying unit, a power supply unit, a detecting unit, a control unit, and a storage unit. The microwave generating unit generates microwave having an optional frequency in a predetermined frequency band. The amplifying unit amplifies an output level of the microwave. The power supply unit radiates the microwave amplified by the amplifying unit into the heating chamber as incident electric power. The detecting unit detects reflected electric power, which returns to the power supply unit from the heating chamber, from among the incident electric power. The control unit controls the microwave generating unit and the amplifying unit. The storage unit stores a value of the reflected electric power, together with a frequency of the microwave and an elapsed time from the start of heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: DAISUKE HOSOKAWA, YOSHIHARU OOMORI, HIDEKI NAKAMURA, KAZUKI MAEDA, TAKASHI UNO
  • Publication number: 20240112146
    Abstract: Provided is a work management device including an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating login to a system using a first terminal and an operation history of the first terminal occurring after login to the system, a specifying unit that specifies a non-operation period of a terminal from the operation history of the first terminal, and a calculation unit that calculates working hours including the non-operation period of the terminal according to a length of the non-operation period of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Hiroko IMAI, Mitsuhiro NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240101021
    Abstract: A headlight determination apparatus includes a camera device, a target light recognition device, and a changing device. The camera device captures an image ahead of a vehicle at a predetermined frame rate. The target light recognition device recognizes target light from the image captured by the camera device. The changing device changes a wavelength of headlight of the vehicle by using a predetermined period slower than the predetermined frame rate. When the wavelength of the headlight is different from a wavelength of the target light and/or when a period of the wavelength of the headlight does not match a period of the wavelength of the target light, the target light recognition device recognizes that there is target light other than the headlight in front of the vehicle and controls light distribution of the headlight when there is target light other than the headlight in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihiro YASUFUKU, Kazuki KAWAMURA, Kazuki ODAGIRI, Keisuke MAEDA, Takashi MAI, Takafumi OTA
  • Publication number: 20240101572
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a PLD inhibitory activity. The present invention provides a compound of the following structural formula, and the like, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. wherein each symbol is as defined in the description.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiro YOKOTA, Tetsudo KAYA, Makoto TORIZUKA, Yasuaki NAKAYAMA, Taku IKENOGAMI, Katsuya MAEDA, Kazuki OTAKE, Kentaro SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20240101840
    Abstract: An object is to obtain a white ink which is easy to redisperse and is redispersible by being shaken several tens of times with weak force at most, or alternatively, without being shaken. As a solution, a white ink composition is provided which contains 5.0 to 20.0% by mass of a titanium oxide in an ink composition; 3.0 to 60.0 parts by mass of a solid content of alkali-soluble resin relative to 100 parts by mass of a pigment or pigments in the ink composition, wherein building blocks of the alkali-soluble resin are styrene; stearyl acrylate and/or lauryl acrylate; and acrylic acid, and the alkali-soluble resin has a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000 or more, an acid value of 100 mgKOH/g or more, and a glass transition temperature of 50° C. or more; and a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hirohito MAEDA, Kazuki MORIYASU, Eri UEDA, Takaaki SANO, Choiwing CHAU
  • Publication number: 20240055783
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a terminal cover mounted in a terminal base. The terminal cover includes a base portion attached to the terminal base, cover the terminal base, and have an opening exposing a terminal bolt; and a cover portion attached to the base portion and covering at least the opening. The base portion has a first wall and a second wall protruding in a second direction from the base portion and facing each other with a wiring sandwiched therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuro AONUMA, Hiromi UEDA, Shigeru FUKUDA, Kazuki MAEDA, Naoto MORISAKU
  • Patent number: 11864314
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a patterned fiber substrate comprising: a fiber substrate; and a pattern consisting of a functional material and formed on the fiber substrate, wherein at least a part of the functional material that constitutes the pattern is present in inside of the fiber substrate, the fiber substrate has a contact angle of 100 to 170° with pure water on its surface, and the pattern has a narrowest line width of 1 to 3000 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: KURARAY CO., LTD., OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kohei Hayashi, Soichi Obata, Yasuhiro Shirotani, Masashi Nitani, Mayumi Uno, Kazuki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20230210116
    Abstract: An object is to provide a honeybee repellent for the prevention, in the use of pesticides applied on agricultural crops as well as controlling agents for exterminating carnivorous bees such as hornets and paper wasps, of damage inflicted on honeybees, the extermination of which is not intended by these agents. As a solution, a honeybee repellent is provided whose active ingredient comprises one or more types selected from tetradecane, furfuryl alcohol, cinnamyl alcohol, cinnamaldehyde, 3-methyl-2-butenal, methyl cinnamate, geranyl formate, allyl cyclohexanepropionate, isoquinoline, borneol, carvacrol, ?-dodecalactone, ß-ionone, quinoline, butylamine, and citronella oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Ren ABE
  • Publication number: 20230199923
    Abstract: A microwave treatment device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a heating chamber, a microwave generator, an amplifier, a feeder, a detector, a controller, and a storage. The microwave generator generates a microwave having an arbitrary frequency in a predetermined frequency band. The amplifier amplifies the microwave and outputs the amplified microwave as incident microwave power. The feeder supplies the incident microwave power to the heating chamber. The detector detects the incident microwave power and reflected microwave power that returns from the heating chamber to the feeder. The storage stores the incident microwave power and the reflected microwave power in association with the frequency of the microwave and time elapsed since the start of heating. The controller causes the microwave generator to execute a frequency sweep over the predetermined frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: DAISUKE HOSOKAWA, CHIKAKO HOSOKAWA, YOSHIHARU OOMORI, HIDEKI NAKAMURA, KAZUKI MAEDA, TAKASHI UNO
  • Publication number: 20230047831
    Abstract: This high-frequency treatment device includes: a heating chamber configured to accommodate a heating target; a high-frequency power generator; a feeder; a detector; a controller; and a storage. The high-frequency power generator generates high-frequency power having a frequency in a predetermined frequency band. The feeder supplies incident microwave power corresponding to the high-frequency power to the heating chamber. The detector detects at least one of the incident microwave power and reflected microwave power that is included in the incident microwave power and returns from the heating chamber to the feeder. The controller controls heating of the heating target by controlling the high-frequency power generator. The storage stores, together with time elapsed from the start of heating, information detected by the detector. The controller causes the high-frequency power generator to repeatedly generate, on a per frequency basis, the high-frequency power having a plurality of frequencies for the heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: HIDEKI NAKAMURA, DAISUKE HOSOKAWA, YOSHIHARU OOMORI, KAZUKI MAEDA, TAKASHI UNO
  • Publication number: 20230052961
    Abstract: The high-frequency treatment device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a heating chamber that accommodates a heating target; an oscillator; at least one feeder; a detector; and a controller. The oscillator generates high-frequency power having an arbitrary frequency in a predetermined frequency band. At least one feeder supplies incident microwave power based on the high-frequency power to the heating chamber. The detector detects the incident microwave power and reflected microwave power returning from the heating chamber to at least one feeder. The controller causes the oscillator to execute a frequency sweep and measures a reflection characteristic based on the incident microwave power and the reflected microwave power for each heating condition including a frequency. The controller determines, based on a reflection variation range indicating a change in the reflection characteristic for each heating condition, a heating condition to be used next.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: YOSHIHARU OOMORI, DAISUKE HOSOKAWA, HIDEKI NAKAMURA, KAZUKI MAEDA, TAKASHI UNO
  • Publication number: 20220353960
    Abstract: A microwave treatment device comprises: a heating chamber that accommodates a heating target, a microwave generator that generates a microwave; a feeding unit that supplies the microwave to the heating chamber; a reflected microwave power detector that detects a reflected microwave power returned to the microwave generator; a controller that controls the microwave generator; and a storage unit. The storage unit stores a level of the reflected microwave power detected by the reflected microwave power detector together with a frequency of the microwave supplied to the heating chamber and an elapsed time after a start of heating the heating target. The controller causes the microwave generator to execute a frequency sweep over a specified frequency band and determines that the heating target is in a boiling state based on a temporal change in a value that is obtained based on the reflected microwave power at each frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: DAISUKE HOSOKAWA, KAZUKI MAEDA, YOSHIHARU OOMORI, KOJI YOSHINO, TAKASHI UNO, FUMITAKA OGASAWARA
  • Publication number: 20220272958
    Abstract: An object is to provide a method for facilitating the delivery of a poison bait to a wasp nest and a method for destroying the wasp nest early. As a solution, a method for facilitating the delivery of a poison bait to a nest by a wasp, in which the poison bait has a sugar content (Brix) of 40 or more and less than 83, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HONDA, Kazuki MAEDA, Ren ABE
  • Publication number: 20220210877
    Abstract: A microwave treatment device comprises: a heating chamber that accommodates an object to be heated; a microwave generator that generates a microwave in a specified frequency band; an amplifier that amplifies the microwave; a feeding unit that supplies the amplified microwave to the heating chamber; a detector that detects a reflected microwave power; and a controller. The controller selects one of plural frequencies in the specified frequency band and causes the microwave generator to generate the microwave with the selected frequency. The controller causes the amplifier to change an output power of the microwave so that the microwave supplied to the heating chamber has one of plural output powers. The controller measures a reflected microwave frequency characteristic based on reflected microwave powers detected under each of a condition that the microwave has a first output power and a condition that the microwave has a second output power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: YOSHIHARU OOMORI, DAISUKE HOSOKAWA, KOJI YOSHINO, KAZUKI MAEDA, TAKASHI UNO, MASAYOSHI HIRAMOTO, FUMITAKA OGASAWARA
  • Publication number: 20220201813
    Abstract: A microwave treatment device of the present disclosure includes heating chamber (1) for accommodating object (2) to be heated, microwave generator (3), heater (7), power feeder (4), detector (5), and controller (6). Microwave generator (3) generates microwaves. Heater (7) includes a heat source other than the microwaves and heats an inside of heating chamber (1). Power feeder (4) supplies the heating chamber with the microwaves. Detector (5) detects reflected power from power feeder (4). Controller (6) controls heater (7) and microwave generator (3). When heater (7) carries out heating, Controller (6) causes microwave generator (3) to generate the microwaves in heating by heater (7). The microwaves have output power such that the reflected power at a level detectable by detector (5) returns. By present disclosure, by understanding progress of cooking, a heating target can be appropriately cooked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: KAZUKI MAEDA, DAISUKE HOSOKAWA, YOSHIHARU OOMORI, KOJI YOSHINO, FUMITAKA OGASAWARA, TAKASHI UNO
  • Publication number: 20220151227
    Abstract: An object is to provide a chemical agent that, when used on carnivorous wasps such as those belonging to the Vespidae family, instantly stops them from behaving normally, to prevent injuries caused by stings and bites. As a solution, a carnivorous wasp control agent is provided, which is characterized in that it contains, as an active ingredient, at least one type of compound selected from the group that consists of (a) cyclic monoterpene-based compounds, (b) chain monoterpene-based aldehyde compounds, (c) chain sesquiterpene-based compounds, (d) benzoic acid alkyl esters, (e) lactic acid alkyl esters, (f) octanols, and (g) phenylacetic acid esters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Ren ABE, Kazuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220117083
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a patterned fiber substrate comprising: a fiber substrate; and a pattern consisting of a functional material and formed on the fiber substrate, wherein at least a part of the functional material that constitutes the pattern is present in inside of the fiber substrate, the fiber substrate has a contact angle of 100 to 170° with pure water on its surface, and the pattern has a narrowest line width of 1 to 3000 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicants: KURARAY CO., LTD., OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kohei HAYASHI, Soichi OBATA, Yasuhiro SHIROTANI, Masashi NITANI, Mayumi UNO, Kazuki MAEDA