Patents by Inventor Kenji Murakami

Kenji Murakami 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).

  • CAPACITOR
    Publication number: 20160027591
    Abstract: To provide a capacitor capable of having a larger capacity than a case where only a solid electrolyte is simply used as a dielectric material of the capacitor. The capacitor (1) includes a solid electrolytic body (3) and a plurality of electrodes (5, 7) which is formed on the solid electrolytic body (3) and disposed opposite to each other with the solid electrolytic body (3) interposed therebetween, and the solid electrolytic body (3) includes an oxide-based lithium ion conductive solid electrolyte as a base material and contains oxide particles formed of a part of elements configuring the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji MURAKAMI, Motohiko SATO, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Jun OTSUKA, Takaaki TSURUMI
  • PHARMACEUTICAL INJECTION DEVICE AND STORAGE CASE THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20160015910
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical injection device, and it is an object thereof to prompt the user to replace the injection needle as needed. To achieve this object, the present invention is configured such that a needle detector switch 8 that directly or indirectly detects the mounting of an injection needle to a pharmaceutical syringe 5 is provided to a main case 2, this needle detector switch 8 is connected to a controller 21, and the controller 21 displays on a display component 19 an injection needle removal message that directly or indirectly prompts the user to remove an injection needle 6 from the pharmaceutical syringe 5 when the mounting of the injection needle 6 to the pharmaceutical syringe 5 has been detected by the needle detector switch 8 in the switching off the a power switch 16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka MUKAI, Kenji MURAKAMI
  • PHARMACEUTICAL INJECTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150328404
    Abstract: The pharmaceutical injection device of the present invention comprises a cartridge holder, a main case, a piston, a motor, an opening component, an open/closed detection switch, and a controller. The motor drives the piston in either an insertion direction in which the piston is inserted into a pharmaceutical cartridge, or a pull-out direction in which the piston is pulled out of the pharmaceutical cartridge. The opening component opens the cartridge holder in conjunction with the movement of the piston in the pull-out direction. The open/closed detection switch detects whether the cartridge holder is open or closed. When the open/closed detection switch detects that the cartridge holder is open, the controller controls the motor so as to stop the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji MURAKAMI, Masato KAGIYAMA, Tooru AOKI, Yoshihiro KATAOKA, Takahiko TANIDA, Hiroshi SUZUKI
  • PHARMACEUTICAL INJECTION DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PHARMACEUTICAL INJECTION DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20150290394
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to a pharmaceutical injection device, and it is an object thereof to optimize the mixing of pharmaceutical in a pharmaceutical cartridge. To achieve this object, a pharmaceutical injection device may comprise a main case, a piston, a drive motor, a buzzer, and a controller. The main case has a cartridge holder. The piston is inserted into a pharmaceutical cartridge mounted to the cartridge holder. The drive motor drives the piston. The buzzer emits a sound that tells the user to shake the pharmaceutical cartridge to mix or dissolve its contents. Before activating the drive motor and injecting the pharmaceutical, the control unit controls the buzzer so that a sound is emitted at specific intervals to prompt shaking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Murakami, Mitsuteru Fujimoto
  • Recording apparatus
    Patent number: 9150035
    Abstract: A support member includes first portions. At least one of upstream and downstream guides includes second portions. The first and second portions are arranged in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction. Each of the first and second portions extends in the conveyance direction and includes a support surface for supporting the recording medium. At least one of the first portions is positioned between two second portions of the second portions in the orthogonal direction. The two second portions are adjacent to each other in the orthogonal direction. Each of the first portions is at a different position from each of the second portions with respect to the orthogonal direction. Each of the first portions overlaps the second portions with respect to the conveyance direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Murakami
  • BRAKE FLUID PRESSURE CONTROL ACTUATOR
    Publication number: 20150239444
    Abstract: When a first and a second reservoirs are disposed at positions below a central axis of pumps and are offset from a center portion in a lateral direction of a housing when viewed from a front surface side, outer peripheral sides of a first and a second reservoir usually become dead spaces. Therefore, first and second wheel pressure sensors are disposed in the dead spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: FUMITOSHI KOYAMA, KIMIYOSHI ISOGAI, KENJI MURAKAMI
  • Pharmaceutical injection device
    Patent number: 9114213
    Abstract: The pharmaceutical injection device comprises a syringe mounting portion configured to mount thereon a syringe containing a drug, the syringe including at a front end side thereof an injection needle mounting portion on which an injection needle is mounted and a gasket at a rear end side thereof, a plunger operable to press the gasket in the syringe mounted on the syringe mounting portion toward the injection needle mounting portion, a motor operable to drive the plunger, an encoder operable to detect a rotation amount of the motor, and a controller connected to the encoder and operable to control a driving of the motor. The controller is operable to obtain a motor rotation amount that corresponds to a deformation amount of the gasket deformed by the plunger, and control a rotation of the motor at a time of injection of the drug in accordance with the motor rotation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Murakami, Mitsuteru Fujimoto, Toshiaki Iio
  • PHARMACEUTICAL INJECTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150165121
    Abstract: This pharmaceutical injection device may be provided with a main body case, a pharmaceutical syringe mounting portion, a piston, a piston feed screw or the like, and a cover. At a first end, the main body case may have an injection needle mounting portion to which an injection needle is mounted. The pharmaceutical syringe mounting portion may be provided inside the main body case, and a pharmaceutical syringe may be mounted thereto. The piston may be provided movably with respect to the pharmaceutical syringe that is mounted to the pharmaceutical syringe mounting portion. The piston feed screw or the like drives the piston. The cover may be provided on the first end side of the main body case and operates to open and close the injection needle mounting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji Murakami, Mitsuteru Fujimoto
  • Multi-shaft drive device
    Patent number: 9027442
    Abstract: Output gears are disposed so as to be movable toward and counter to plural second input gears to which rotation of the motor is transmitted, and so as to be biased toward the plural second input gears. A cam, which has plural recesses provided at the periphery thereof, is disposed at the inside of the output gear. The cam is rotated, and a pin of the output gear enters the recess, so that the output gear is moved toward the second input gear, and the output gear is engaged with the second input gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei Shigematsu, Kiyoshi Nakajima, Kenji Murakami, Takahiro Fujii, Shinji Iino, Hiroshi Yagame
  • Recording apparatus
    Patent number: 9016851
    Abstract: A first guide includes a guiding face to support a recording medium on an upstream of a head in a conveyance direction, a recess formed on the upstream of the head in the conveyance direction, and a protrusion to protrude from the guiding face through the recess. The protrusion includes a first slope upwardly inclined from an upstream end of the protrusion toward the downstream. Atop of the protrusion is positioned on the same level as or an upper level than an upstream end of a supporter, when the supporter is at an opposing position and the protrusion protrudes from the guiding face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Murakami
  • ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS, AND ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT METHOD
    Publication number: 20150063058
    Abstract: Provided are an ultrasonic measurement apparatus, an ultrasonic imaging apparatus and an ultrasonic measurement method that achieve an increase in processing speed together with an increase in resolution and are user friendly. An image is generated by adding together, with a weight having a fixed value, reception signals obtained by ultrasonic echoes being received by an ultrasonic element array, and an area of interest is set within the area in which the generated image is to be displayed. When an area of interest is acquired, the reception signals received by the ultrasonic element array are added together with weights that depend on the reception signals, with respect to data forming the basis of the image to be displayed in the area of interest, and image generation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Ryoki WATANABE, Masaki HAYASHI, Kazuyuki KANO, Kenji MURAKAMI
  • PROMOTER DERIVED FROM HUMAN GENE
    Publication number: 20140342401
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transfected mammalian host cell whose ability to secrete a foreign protein has been enhanced by using a foreign gene expression vector having a promoter derived from a human gene, and a method for producing the foreign protein using the host cell. A method for enhancing the production of a foreign protein to be used in a pharmaceutical protein product in a host cell such as a cultured mammalian cell is provided. A promoter derived from a human gene having a promoter activity higher than that of a cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter in a host cell such as a cultured mammalian cell is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Kenji Murakami
  • PHARMACEUTICAL INJECTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140330199
    Abstract: The pharmaceutical injection device comprises a syringe mounting portion configured to mount thereon a syringe containing a drug, the syringe including at a front end side thereof an injection needle mounting portion on which an injection needle is mounted and a gasket at a rear end side thereof, a plunger operable to press the gasket in the syringe mounted on the syringe mounting portion toward the injection needle mounting portion, a motor operable to drive the plunger, an encoder operable to detect a rotation amount of the motor, and a controller connected to the encoder and operable to control a driving of the motor. The controller is operable to obtain a motor rotation amount that corresponds to a deformation amount of the gasket deformed by the plunger, and control a rotation of the motor at a time of injection of the drug in accordance with the motor rotation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Kenji Murakami, Mitsuteru Fujimoto, Toshiaki Iio
  • IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140314278
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a region-of-interest decision unit that identifies an interest space region in which an object to be analyzed is likely to be present based on a distance image, which is shape information of an object space corresponding to a captured image to be analyzed acquired by a distance image sensor, to identify a region of interest in the captured image corresponding to the interest space region and an image analysis unit that performs different image analyses for the region of interest and other image regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Tatsuzawa, Shunsuke Ichihara, Makoto Masuda, Hiroyuki Hota, Kouhei Endou, Kenji Murakami
  • RECORDING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140210905
    Abstract: A support member includes first portions. At least one of upstream and downstream guides includes second portions. The first and second portions are arranged in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction. Each of the first and second portions extends in the conveyance direction and includes a support surface for supporting the recording medium. At least one of the first portions is positioned between two second portions of the second portions in the orthogonal direction. The two second portions are adjacent to each other in the orthogonal direction. Each of the first portions is at a different position from each of the second portions with respect to the orthogonal direction. Each of the first portions overlaps the second portions with respect to the conveyance direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji MURAKAMI
  • Recording apparatus having conveying belt and sensor detecting position of conveying belt
    Patent number: 8770879
    Abstract: A recording section is configured to record an image on a recording medium. An endless conveying belt has a surface disposed in confrontation with the recording section and is configured to move in a conveying direction with the recording medium supported by the surface, thereby conveying the recording medium in the conveying direction. A measuring section has a detecting region and configured to measure a position of the conveying belt with respect to a perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to the conveying direction. The measuring section includes an optical sensor that is configured to detect the position of the conveying belt with respect to the perpendicular direction. A sensor moving section is configured to move the sensor based on a measurement result of the measuring section, such that the conveying belt is detected in the detecting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Murakami
  • RECORDING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140184713
    Abstract: A first guide includes a guiding face to support a recording medium on an upstream of a head in a conveyance direction, a recess formed on the upstream of the head in the conveyance direction, and a protrusion to protrude from the guiding face through the recess. The protrusion includes a first slope upwardly inclined from an upstream end of the protrusion toward the downstream. Atop of the protrusion is positioned on the same level as or an upper level than an upstream end of a supporter, when the supporter is at an opposing position and the protrusion protrudes from the guiding face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji MURAKAMI
  • Capacitor to be incorporated in wiring substrate, method for manufacturing the capacitor, and wiring substrate
    Patent number: 8697534
    Abstract: A wiring substrate in which a capacitor is provided, the capacitor comprising a capacitor body including a plurality of dielectric layers and internal electrode layers provided between the different dielectric layers, wherein said capacitor body has, in at least one side face of said capacitor body, recesses extending in a thickness direction of said capacitor body from at least one of a first principal face of said capacitor body and a second principal face positioned on the side opposite to the first principal face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiko Sato, Kazuhiro Hayashi, Kenji Murakami, Motonobu Kurahashi, Yusuke Kaieda, Jun Otsuka, Manabu Sato
  • CAULKING JOINT METHOD AND CAULKING JOINT STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20130263429
    Abstract: A part of a bottom of a flange insertion hole that faces a flange part has a form in which an outer circumference side is nearer to the flange part than an inner circumference side. According to this, since a rounded surface of a perimeter edge of the flange part can easily contact to the bottom of the flange insertion hole, an area that receives caulking load is larger as compared with a case where only a flat surface of the flange part contacts the bottom of the flange insertion hole as before, therefore, the bottom of the flange insertion holes can be prevented from buckling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumitoshi Koyama, Kenji Murakami
  • Cellular phone holder
    Patent number: D759005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventor: Kenji Murakami