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).
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Patent number: 11643576Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOAGOSEI CO. LTD.Inventors: Michihiro Kaai, Kenichi Nakamura, Akitsugu Shibata
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Publication number: 20230138880Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Chisato Sone, Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuichi Tsubone, Shigeru Okada, Kenichi Takano, Satoshi Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20230100206Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Shinichi URATA, Kazunari YASUI, Isami SAKABA, Yuichi TSUBONE, Shigeru OKADA, Satoshi YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20230066417Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Shinichi URATA, Chisato SONE, Koichiro MATSUMURA
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Patent number: 11555304Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Takumi Tsuchitani, Kenichi Nakamura, Yoshikazu Nakano
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Publication number: 20220330547Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Tsutomu SUGINO, Atsushi HENMI, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Masakuni OKUHARA
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Patent number: 11421134Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Takeya, Kenichi Nakamura, Yusuke Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11384521Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Jing Chen
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Patent number: 11332916Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Nakamura, Shinichi Urata, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11326333Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Jing Chen, Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20220124042Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Yuta SUGIKI, Satoshi SHIMIZU, Kodai YAMAMOTO, Kenichi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20220095544Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Courtland Fowler, Rebecca Kirkpatrick, Kenichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11274428Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Urata, Jing Chen, Kenichi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20220076029Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi HAMAGUCHI, Hiroaki IMAIZUMI, Jingyu HU, Takanori NISHIMURA, Kenichi NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11236498Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Urata, Jing Chen, Kenichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11195069Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11193317Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Kenichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11102360Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenichi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20210207009Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Takeya, Kenichi Nakamura, Yusuke Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20210095453Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Jing Chen