Patents by Inventor Kenichi Nakamura

Kenichi Nakamura 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).

  • Patent number: 11643576
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition includes a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) and a (meth)acrylic polymer block (B), wherein the polymer block (A) contains either or both of a maleimide compound and an amide group-containing vinyl compound as a constitutional monomer thereof and has a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or higher, and the (meth)acrylic polymer block (B) contains at least one selected from compounds represented by general formula (1) as a major constitutional monomer thereof and has a glass transition temperature of 10° C. or below. CH2?CR1—C(?O)O(R2O)n—R3??(1) (wherein, R1 represents hydrogen or a methyl group; R2 represents a linear or branched C2-6 alkylene group; R3 represents hydrogen, a C1-20 alkyl group, or a C6-20 aryl group; and n represents 0 or an integer from 1 to 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOAGOSEI CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Michihiro Kaai, Kenichi Nakamura, Akitsugu Shibata
  • Publication number: 20230138880
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl part, a drainage water trap part that is connected to a bottom part of the bowl part, and a water drainage socket that is connected to the drainage water trap part and includes an upper side water drainage socket that extends downward from the drainage water trap part, a back side R part that is connected to the upper side water drainage socket and changes a flow channel so that a washing water that flows from an upper side is directed to a front side, and a horizontal pipe that extends forward from the back side R part. The back side R part and the horizontal pipe include a water storage part that stores a part of washing water. The water storage part is arranged on a lower side of a back side lower end part of the drainage water trap part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Chisato Sone, Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuichi Tsubone, Shigeru Okada, Kenichi Takano, Satoshi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230100206
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl including a waste receiving surface, a rim and a well portion; a water spouting part that spouts flush water toward the bowl; and a water discharge trap including an inlet connected to a lower part of the well portion, the water discharge trap discharging waste in the bowl, the well portion includes a bottom wall formed above and in front of the inlet of the water discharge trap, a side wall formed to surround a periphery of the bottom wall, and a joining portion that joins an outer edge of the bottom wall and a bottom edge of the side wall with a surface having a curvature, and the bottom wall of the well portion includes a concave portion formed to recess downward on left and right sides with respect to a center axis in a left-right direction in a front sectional view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Shinichi URATA, Kazunari YASUI, Isami SAKABA, Yuichi TSUBONE, Shigeru OKADA, Satoshi YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230066417
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flush toilet device (1) including: a flush toilet (2); a flush water tank (10); a discharge valve (12) that discharges the flush water stored in the flush water tank; a branching portion (33) that splits flush water supplied from a water supply source into first and second branched flow paths; a first on-off valve (19) provided in the first branched flow path and switches between spout and stop of the flush water from the upper spout port; a second on-off valve (17) provided in the second branched flow path and switches between supply and stop of the flush water into the flush water tank; and a controller (28) that controls the first and second on-off valve so that water is spouted from the upper spout port and is supplied into the flush water tank at a time by opening the first and second on-off valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Shinichi URATA, Chisato SONE, Koichiro MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 11555304
    Abstract: A flush toilet according to an embodiment includes a bowl part and a water storage part. The bowl part receives waste. The water storage part is formed on a bottom of the bowl part and is connected to a discharge channel. A first region that is connected to a discharge channel and a second region that is located on a front side of the first region are formed in the water storage part. A curvature of a curved surface of the water storage part that forms the first region in upward and downward directions is different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Tsuchitani, Kenichi Nakamura, Yoshikazu Nakano
  • Publication number: 20220330547
    Abstract: An insect repellent is suitable for an anti-tick treatment to living materials such as bedding and carpets with long-term replacement cycles in years and that also has a tick repellent effect stably lasting over a long period of time. The insect repellent contains 2,4-DHAP or xanthoxyline as an active ingredient. 2,4-DHAP and xanthoxyline can stably maintain repellency rates of at least 30-40% and about 90% respectively even if a heating treatment at 150° C. is continued for 5 minutes or longer, that is, for about 3 years in an environment of 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Tsutomu SUGINO, Atsushi HENMI, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Masakuni OKUHARA
  • Patent number: 11421134
    Abstract: An adhesive composition which contains a vinyl polymer and an acrylic adhesive polymer, and wherein: the vinyl polymer has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of from 60° C. to 200° C. (inclusive) and a number-average molecular weight of from 500 to 10,000; and the vinyl polymer is contained in an amount of from 0.5 part by mass to 60 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the acrylic adhesive polymer. If this adhesive composition is applied to a separator and then dried, thereby obtaining an adhesive layer, a first Tg that is the glass transition temperature of the entire adhesive layer is from ?80° C. to 10° C., and a second Tg that is the glass transition temperature calculated from a surface layer portion of the adhesive layer as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is 40° C. or higher, and is higher than the first Tg by 30° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Takeya, Kenichi Nakamura, Yusuke Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11384521
    Abstract: A flush toilet according to an embodiment includes a bowl part, a rim part, a water spout port, and a water storage part. The bowl part receives waste. The rim part is formed on a top of the bowl part. The water spout port spouts a washing water. The water storage part is formed on a bottom of the bowl part. A first region that is connected to a discharge channel and a second region that is located on a front side of the first region are formed in the water storage part. A main stream of the washing water that is spouted from the water spout port along the rim part swirls on the bowl part and flows into the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Jing Chen
  • Patent number: 11332916
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl part and a water storage part. The bowl part receives waste. The water storage part is formed on a bottom of the bowl part and stores a stored water. The water storage part includes a front surface part, a back surface part that is formed on a back side of the front surface part, and a pair of side surface parts that are formed between the front surface part and the back surface part. On at least one side surface part in the pair of side surface parts, a convex surface that protrudes toward another side surface part is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakamura, Shinichi Urata, Hiroshi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11326333
    Abstract: A flush toilet according to an embodiment includes a bowl part, a rim part, a water spout port, and a water storage part. The bowl part receives waste. The rim part is formed on a top of the bowl part. The water spout port spouts a washing water from one side of the bowl part in leftward and rightward directions. The water storage part is formed on a bottom of the bowl part. The bowl part includes a guide part that causes the washing water to swirl from the one side to another side that is opposite to the one side and causes the washing water that swirls to the another side to flow into a back side of the water storage part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Chen, Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20220124042
    Abstract: When congestion occurs, the ENUM/DNS server can identify a priority packet without relaying on origin terminal information. An ENUM/DNS packet priority control system 100 includes a call control server 10 that, upon receiving a connection request from a terminal, determines whether or not the connection request is to be subjected to priority processing based on predetermined determination logic, and generates an ENUM/DNS packet that has a priority flag upon determining that the connection request is to be subjected to priority processing. The ENUM/DNS packet priority control system 100 also includes an ENUM/DNS server 20 that, upon receiving an ENUM/DNS packet that has the priority flag, determines that the packet is to be subjected to priority processing, and transmits, to the call control server 10, connection destination information that corresponds to the call destination terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Yuta SUGIKI, Satoshi SHIMIZU, Kodai YAMAMOTO, Kenichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220095544
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and systems for monitoring plants. A QR code can be associated with a plant, wherein a static QR code can be associated with a plant. The static QR code can be dynamically scanned and encoded with data that identifies the plant and contains information about the plant. The information may include geolocation information and/or image files that monitor the developmental stages of the plant. The encoded data may then be transmitted over a network to retrievable storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Courtland Fowler, Rebecca Kirkpatrick, Kenichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11274428
    Abstract: A flush toilet according to an embodiment includes a bowl part, a rim part, and a water spout port. The bowl part receives waste. The rim part is formed on a top of the bowl part. The water spout port spouts a washing water along the rim part. A height of a bottom surface wall that forms a passing water channel where the washing water flows along the rim part increases from an end part on a side of the water spout port toward a front end of the bowl part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Urata, Jing Chen, Kenichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220076029
    Abstract: Provided are an image capturing device for capturing an image in a target area, transmission parts through which an outside can be visually observed from inside of the target area and polarizing filters on an light path from the transmission parts to the image capturing device. The front- and depth-side polarizing filters relative to the image capturing device are arranged so as to have polarizing directions crossing each other. A foreign matter in the target area is detected on the basis of the image acquired by the image capturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi HAMAGUCHI, Hiroaki IMAIZUMI, Jingyu HU, Takanori NISHIMURA, Kenichi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11236498
    Abstract: A flush toilet according to an embodiment includes a bowl part, a rim part, and a water spout port. The bowl part receives waste. The rim part is formed on a top of the bowl part. The water spout port spouts a washing water along the rim part. A height of a bottom surface wall that forms a passing water channel where the washing water flows along the rim part increases from an end part on a side of the water spout port toward a front end of the bowl part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Urata, Jing Chen, Kenichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11195069
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for an information processing apparatus contains instructions which cause, when executed by a controller, the information processing apparatus to perform identifying a sheet size of a sheet which is used for printing based on identifying data, the identifying data being received through the input interface and identifying the sheet size based on the received identifying data, receiving image data which is output by the application, when the received image data represents an image in which a first object is arranged, when the size of the image is a first size, and when the identified sheet size is a second size, extracting object image data representing the first object from the image data received in the receiving process, generating printing data, and outputting the generated printing data to be transmitted to the printer through the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11193317
    Abstract: A mounting position adjustment mechanism for a rotating door that is mounted to be rotatable around a shaft includes a base member, a support member, an adjuster, and a fixing member. The base member is configured to be fixed to a door body of the rotating door. The support member is coupled to the base member at one end side of the shaft to be movable along a door surface of the rotation door in a direction orthogonal to the shaft. The adjuster is configured to adjust a position of the support member with respect to the base member in the direction orthogonal to the shaft. The fixing member is configured to fix the support member to the base member at two or more positions on the one end side of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11102360
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to receive image data representing a first size image, the first size being a size within which a first number of first objects can be printed, extract second image data included in the first image data, the second image data representing the first object, create first print data used to print the second number of first objects on the second size sheet in an arranged manner based on the extracted second image data, the second number being less than the first number, the first size being a size of a sheet on which the first number of first objects can be arranged, the second size being a size of a sheet on which the first number of first objects cannot be arranged but the second number of first objects can be arranged, the first print data being transmitted to a printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210207009
    Abstract: This adhesive composition for bonding fiber fabrics contains a vinyl polymer (A) and an acrylic adhesive polymer (B). The vinyl polymer (A) has a glass transition temperature TgA of 30° C. to 200° C. inclusive and a number average molecular weight of 500 to 10,000 inclusive. The adhesive composition has a glass transition temperature Tg1 of ?80° C. to 10° C. inclusive. The storage elastic modulus of an adhesive layer formed using the adhesive composition is 1.0 MPa or less at 23° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Takeya, Kenichi Nakamura, Yusuke Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20210095453
    Abstract: A flush toilet according to an embodiment includes a bowl part, a rim part, a water spout port, and a water storage part. The bowl part receives waste. The rim part is formed on a top of the bowl part. The water spout port spouts a washing water. The water storage part is formed on a bottom of the bowl part. A first region that is connected to a discharge channel and a second region that is located on a front side of the first region are formed in the water storage part. A main stream of the washing water that is spouted from the water spout port along the rim part swirls on the bowl part and flows into the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Jing Chen