Patents by Inventor Kenji Baba
Kenji Baba 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: 20240076927Abstract: A window regulator includes: a base assembled to a vehicle; a bracket configured to support window glass; an arm member having one end side rotatably supported by the base and the other end side rotatably supported by the bracket; and a driving member configured to drive, by rotationally driving the arm member, the bracket configured to support the window glass. At least one of a rotation center axis on the one end side of the arm member and a rotation center axis on the other end side of the arm member is inclined in a vehicle front-rear direction with respect to a vehicle width direction when viewed from a vehicle upper-lower direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji YAMAMOTO, Masanao BABA, Satoshi ISAZAWA
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Publication number: 20230059324Abstract: A battery pack according to a first aspect of the present disclosure is configured to be installed in a vehicle, and includes a battery stack including a plurality of battery modules stacked in a first direction, an air supply member of which a position with respect to the battery stack is fixed, and that defines an internal space extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction along a first side face of the battery stack, and a partition member that divides the internal space of the air supply member in the first direction, into a plurality of air supply passages configured to each extend in the second direction and be connected to a blower device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotaka WATANABE, Kenji BABA, Masahiro YAMADA
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Patent number: 10891580Abstract: A service design assistance apparatus includes an input apparatus, a storage, a display, and an arithmetic apparatus. The arithmetic apparatus, in response to a specific request received via an input apparatus, placing objects for a service of a new design target in corresponding areas on the design screen, the objects representing a relevant business, a problem with the business, a value to be obtained by solving the problem, a service to provide the value, and an apparatus or technology needed for the service.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Kumagai, Toshiyuki Ono, Kenji Baba, Masaaki Tanizaki, Masataka Araki
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Patent number: 10239722Abstract: The invention provides a punching system that has a relatively simple structure to provide an apparatus reduced in overall size and having a low profile, and can produce a high-quality punched hole while conveying a sheet. The punching system includes a punching device that has a punching member moving back and forth perpendicularly to the sheet being conveyed, a frame, and a sheet conveyance mechanism. The punching device is attached to the frame by an attachment unit in such a manner that it is movable in the sheet conveyance direction. The sheet conveyance mechanism includes carry-out rollers that sandwich the downstream end of the sheet at the start of sheet punching motion of the punching member and that are installed at positions downstream from and transversely corresponding to the punching position.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: SEIKO LTD.Inventors: Kenji Baba, Chiaki Osada, Koutaro Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20180338290Abstract: A control system of an embodiment includes a plurality of communication devices capable of wirelessly communicating with each other via a plurality of communication paths, and a terminal device wirelessly communicating with the plurality of communication devices. The communication device includes a communication unit and a relay unit. The communication unit transmits and receives a packet by wireless communication with the terminal device and other communication device. The relay unit relays the packet received via the communication unit to the other communication device on the basis of a predetermined condition. The terminal device includes a terminal communication unit. The terminal communication unit transmits and receives the packet by the wireless communication with the plurality of communication devices. The terminal communication unit transmits the packet so that the packet is directly received by at least one communication device among the plurality of communication devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Taichi TASHIRO, Hiroyuki INAMURA, Kenji BABA, Atsushi SHIMADATE
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Publication number: 20180309856Abstract: The communication device of the embodiments is a communication device which, in a communication system having a management apparatus for acquiring device information on a device to be managed, transmits the device information to the management apparatus. The communication device includes a device information classifier and a unique information transmitter. The device information classifier classifies the device information into common information which is device information essential to the device related to the communication device and unique information which is device information unique to the device related to the communication device. The unique information transmitter transmits the unique information classified by the device information classifier to the management apparatus when there is a request from the management apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Taichi TASHIRO, Hiroyuki Inamura, Kenji Baba, Atsushi Shimadate
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Patent number: 10016906Abstract: A sheet cutter is operable by one hand for maintaining a sheet on a placing table and by other hand for cutting the sheet to ensure safety of finger of the one hand. The sheet cutter includes a pressing operating member adapted to be depressed from a non-pressing position to a pressing position for maintaining the sheet on the placing table against a biasing force of a spring, and a cutting operating member for travelling a cutter unit between one end and another end of the placing table, wherein the pressing operating member and the cutting operating member are arranged at different positions with a certain interval to set their operating directions orthogonal to each other. Accordingly, a sheet on the placing table can be cut by operating the cutting operating member horizontally with the other hand while operating the pressing operating member vertically with the one hand.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: SEIKO LTD.Inventors: Kenji Baba, Chiaki Osada, Hirokazu Tanaka
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Patent number: 9866031Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power control apparatus includes a receiving unit, an environment-data acquiring unit, and a calculation unit. The receiving unit receives, from a power supplying side, a power-consumption reduction request for reducing power consumption at a power demanding side. The environmental data acquiring unit acquires, from the power demanding side, environmental data representing environmental state of the power demanding side. The calculating unit calculates a power-reduction value based on the environmental data, in response to the power-consumption reduction request.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenji Baba, Takaaki Enohara, Nobutaka Nishimura, Kazumi Nagata, Shuhei Noda
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Patent number: 9829955Abstract: An information processing apparatus is communicatively connected to a plurality of image sensors that capture images of surroundings of a control target device which is to be a target of power controlling. The information processing apparatus includes an attribute information generation unit and a management unit. The attribute information generation unit generates, by using the images captured by each of the image sensors, attribute information of the control target device which is under jurisdiction of at least one of the image sensors. The management unit manages the attribute information of the control target device generated by the attribute information generation unit in association with the control target device and the at least one of the image sensors having jurisdiction over the control target device.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takaaki Enohara, Kazumi Nagata, Shuhei Noda, Kenji Baba, Nobutaka Nishimura
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Publication number: 20170308838Abstract: A service design assistance apparatus includes an input apparatus, a storage, a display, and an arithmetic apparatus. The arithmetic apparatus, in response to a specific request received via an input apparatus, placing objects for a service of a new design target in corresponding areas on the design screen, the objects representing a relevant business, a problem with the business, a value to be obtained by solving the problem, a service to provide the value, and an apparatus or technology needed for the service.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Kiyoshi KUMAGAI, Toshiyuki ONO, Kenji BABA, Masaaki TANIZAKI, Masataka ARAKI
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Patent number: 9753682Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire input data used to generate an image, a conversion unit configured to generate intermediate data by performing data conversion on the input data with a first data conversion filter activated as a first process, and to generate image data by performing data conversion on the intermediate data with a second data conversion filter activated as a second process different from the first process, and an output unit configured to output the image data.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yosuke Ito, Kenji Baba, Wataru Tamaki
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Patent number: 9633320Abstract: An energy demand prediction apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image analysis unit and a prediction unit. The image analysis unit generates analysis data including at least one of human information and environment information of a prediction target area based on image data acquired by an image sensor. The prediction unit generates prediction data by executing an energy demand prediction based on the analysis data and an energy demand prediction model generated using previous data corresponding to the analysis data.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazumi Nagata, Kenji Baba, Takaaki Enohara, Yasuo Takagi, Nobutaka Nishimura, Shuhei Noda
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Publication number: 20170107073Abstract: The invention provides a punching system that has a relatively simple structure to provide an apparatus reduced in overall size and having a low profile, and can produce a high-quality punched hole while conveying a sheet. The punching system includes a punching device that has a punching member moving back and forth perpendicularly to the sheet being conveyed, a frame, and a sheet conveyance mechanism. The punching device is attached to the frame by an attachment unit in such a manner that it is movable in the sheet conveyance direction. The sheet conveyance mechanism includes carry-out rollers that sandwich the downstream end of the sheet at the start of sheet punching motion of the punching member and that are installed at positions downstream from and transversely corresponding to the punching position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Kenji BABA, Chiaki OSADA, Koutaro YAMANAKA
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Patent number: 9511503Abstract: A trimming apparatus, which carries out trimming with cutter blades running from one end of a material to be cut to the other end thereof, includes an apparatus frame, a bed surface having a bed plate for the material to be cut, a first and a second guide plates disposed in parallel above and under and holding the bed surface therebetween, a first holder member slidably supported by the first guide member and holding the first cutter blade, a second holder member slidably supported by the second guide member and holding the second cutter blade, a connector which connects one of the second cutter blade and the second holder member to the first cutter blade, and a drive device which makes at least one of the first holder member and the second holder member run from one end of the material to be cut to the other end.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: SEIKO LTD.Inventors: Kenji Baba, Chiaki Osada, Hirokazu Tanaka
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Patent number: D791869Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Ono, Kiyoshi Kumagai, Kenji Baba, Kenichi Funaki, Yuichi Yagawa, Keiji Kojima
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Patent number: D797130Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Ono, Kiyoshi Kumagai, Kenji Baba, Kenichi Funaki, Yuichi Yagawa, Keiji Kojima
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Patent number: D896296Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Makoto Imamizu, Kenji Baba
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Patent number: D905783Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Kenji Baba, Yutaka Nikaido, Makoto Imamizu, Shota Nikaido
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Patent number: D908777Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Makoto Imamizu, Kenji Baba, Yutaka Nikaido
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Patent number: D925639Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Asano, Makoto Imamizu, Kenji Baba