Patents by Inventor Kenji Okamoto

Kenji Okamoto 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: 20240127471
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure processes information about a position of an object moved by a mobile object, and includes an output unit configured to output the information about the position of the object. The information about the position of the object is obtained based on holding information indicating whether the object is held or not held by the mobile object and information about a position of the mobile object. The information about the position of the mobile object is obtained based on a captured image captured by an imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Toshihiro OKAMOTO, Shin AOKI, Sukehiro KIMURA, Kenji NAGASHIMA, Toshiyuki IKEOH, Soichiro YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20240119894
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: YUICHI SATO, KENJI MAEDA, SHINJI YAMAMOTO, TAKUYA OKAMOTO, FUMITAKA SEKI, MASAFUMI ITO, YOHICHI TAKAZANE
  • Publication number: 20240026637
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle, which includes a vehicle body and work equipment that is changeable in height and pitch with respect to the vehicle body, includes a controller. The controller determines a switching point by referring to target displacement data indicating a target displacement of the height of the work equipment according to a movement amount of the work vehicle from a work start position. The controller determines whether or not the work vehicle has reached the switching point based on the movement amount of the work vehicle from the work start position. The controller outputs a command to change the pitch of the work equipment upon determining that the work vehicle has reached the switching point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Tomoki ANDOU, Souichi TSUMURA, Takuto MOTOMURA, Kenji OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230411702
    Abstract: An all-solid state secondary cell comprises a positive electrode collector, a negative electrode collector, and a powder laminate disposed between the positive electrode collector and the negative electrode collector. The powder laminate has a positive electrode powder layer, a negative powder layer, a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode powder layer and the negative electrode powder layer, and an absorption layer covering an outer periphery of the positive electrode powder layer or the negative electrode powder layer. The absorption layer includes at least one of a hydrogen sulfide adsorption layer and a moisture adsorption layer. The powder laminate comprises a peripheral edge part and a center part surrounded by the peripheral edge part. A thickness of the peripheral edge part of the powder laminate is greater than a thickness of the center part of the powder laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji OKAMOTO, Hideyuki FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20230352724
    Abstract: The present invention includes an outer package and contents accommodated in the outer package. The contents include an electrode body. The outer package substantially uniformly applies pressing force to each of the front surface and the rear surface of the contents due to the elastic force of the outer package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji OKAMOTO, Tsuyoshi NISHIMURA, Hideyuki FUKUI, Yoshifumi OHKITA, Kouji OHKITA
  • Patent number: 11784353
    Abstract: The present invention provides an all-solid state secondary cell equipped with: a positive electrode collector; a negative electrode collector; and a powder laminate placed between the positive electrode collector and the negative electrode collector. The powder laminate has: a positive electrode powder layer; a negative electrode powder layer; and solid electrolyte layers that are placed between the positive electrode powder layer and the negative electrode powder layer, and also cover the outer periphery of the positive electrode powder layer and the negative electrode powder layer. The powder laminate comprises a peripheral edge part, and a center part surrounded by this peripheral edge part. The thickness of the peripheral edge part is the thickness of the center part or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Okamoto, Hideyuki Fukui
  • Publication number: 20230166370
    Abstract: A pressurizing suction-attachment table is provided with a porous body having a suction-attachment surface on which an object can be placed, an elastic member directly provided to the porous body, and a frame body supporting the porous body with the elastic member therebetween. An aspiration space is formed between the porous body and the frame body. The pressurizing suction-attachment table is provided with an aspirator capable of aspirating the aspiration space to cause the object to be suction-attached to the suction-attachment surface. The porous body includes an opposite surface positioned on a side opposite to the suction-attachment surface. The frame body includes a receiving surface for receiving the opposite surface when the elastic member is elastically deformed due to pressurization of the object placed on the suction-attachment surface onto the suction-attachment surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Kenji OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11371414
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust system for an engine in which a fastening force of a fastener hardly decreases. An exhaust system for an engine includes: an exhaust passage component of ferrous metal; and a fastener that fastens the exhaust passage component to other parts, the exhaust passage component including a pressure receiving surface that receives a fastening force of the fastener. The oxide film of triiron tetraoxide is formed on the pressure receiving surface of the exhaust passage component. It is preferable that the oxide film of triiron tetraoxide be also formed on an outer surface other than the pressure receiving surface of the exhaust passage component. It is preferable that the oxide film of triiron tetraoxide be also formed on an inner surface of the exhaust passage component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Oso, Nobuyoshi Okada, Hideyuki Koyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Kenji Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11330995
    Abstract: The present invention images a heartbeat strength representing the strength of pulsations (beats) on a map as a new dynamics index different from the conventional waveform numerical value. A computation section according to the present invention obtains, from time-course changes of the blood flow map obtained as a result of computation of blood flow speed, a signal intensity at a fundamental frequency determined from time-series blood flow data within a predetermined region, and calculates a heartbeat strength which represents the strength of heartbeats on the basis of the signal intensity. A display section images and displays the heartbeat strength calculated by the heartbeat strength computation section. Also, the display section displays the heartbeat strength calculated by the heartbeat strength computation section by superimposing the heartbeat strength on a combined map created by averaging a plurality of blood flow maps arranged in a chronological order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SOFTCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Fujii, Kenji Okamoto, Phuong Thuy Le, Noriyoshi Takahashi, Takeshi Shirakawa, Tetsu Kuroki
  • Patent number: 11302958
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an all-solid-state battery, which is capable of preventing the occurrence of a short circuit or a charge abnormality due to the formation of a dendrite even in cases where the pressing force is decreased. In the method for producing an all-solid-state battery, a solid electrolyte layer is arranged between a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer and current collectors are connected to the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, respectively. This method for producing an all-solid-state battery is characterized by comprising: a step for forming at least one powder film for constituting the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer and/or the solid electrolyte layer, and a step for pressing a surface of the powder film by a pressing body consisting of an elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Zosen Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11213839
    Abstract: A coating device includes a rotary head, a power supply part that applies a voltage to the rotary head, and a control part that controls the power supply part. The rotary head is configured so that a coating material is electrostatically atomized. The control part is configured so as to calculate a discharge current based on a total current flowing from the power supply part to the rotary head and a leak current, and control the power supply part based on the discharge current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Trinity Industrial Corporation, Ransburg Industrial Finishing K.K.
    Inventors: Shinji Tani, Akira Numasato, Kazuki Tanaka, Takahito Kondo, Yuki Murai, Yuki Hirai, Atsushi Tomita, Kenji Okamoto, Naohiro Masuda
  • Patent number: 11135605
    Abstract: A charge remaining in an electrostatic coater when power supply to the electrostatic coater is stopped is neutralized at an early stage. A rotary atomizing head 102 receives a high voltage of negative polarity from a cascade 104. An electrostatic coater 100 further includes a second high-voltage generator 110 that generates a high voltage of positive polarity. The second high-voltage generator 110 is composed of a Cockcroft-Walton circuit. The Cockcroft-Walton circuit is composed of diodes and capacitors. A high voltage of the electrostatic coater 100 is controlled by a controller 10. Immediately after running of the electrostatic coater 100 is stopped by stopping power supply to the cascade 104, power is supplied to the second high-voltage generator 110. The high voltage of positive polarity generated by the second high-voltage generator 110 is supplied to the rotary atomizing head 102 for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Ransburg Industrial Finishing K.K.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Iwase, Naoki Ota, Kenji Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20210280843
    Abstract: Provided is an installation for manufacturing an all-solid secondary battery provided with a powder laminate including stacked powder films. The manufacturing installation includes a mixer for mixing multiple kinds of powder materials and a conveying device for conveying a powder material mixed by the mixer. The manufacturing installation also includes an electrostatic film-forming device for forming the powder films from the powder material conveyed by the conveying device, by using at least an electrostatic force. In the manufacturing installation, a process of forming the powder laminate from the multiple kinds of powder materials is a dry process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Takeshi SUGIYO, Kenji OKAMOTO, Hideyuki FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11101497
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an all-solid state secondary battery including a plurality of provisional battery bodies, the method including: forming each of the plurality of provisional battery bodies by pressing a positive-electrode mixture, a solid electrolyte, and a negative-electrode mixture that are stacked between a pair of electrode current collectors and pressure-molding the stacked provisional battery bodies with the electrode current collectors facing each other. The electrode current collectors facing each other have rough surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Okamoto, Hideyuki Fukui, Yasushi Takano, Hirokazu Kawase
  • Patent number: 11102919
    Abstract: A management apparatus is connected to a mount substrate manufacturing line including a print apparatus, a component mounting apparatus, and a reflow apparatus, through a network. The management apparatus instructs at least one of apparatuses that are at a more upstream side than a reflow apparatus in a mount substrate manufacturing line to start production of the mount substrate, based on first data relating to the period of time necessary to complete preparation for the performing of a process by the reflow apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hachiro Nakatsuji, Kenji Okamoto, Yuji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10987654
    Abstract: A ceria-zirconia-based composite oxide oxygen storage material with a fast oxygen storage rate having an OSC ability enabling fast response to changes in exhaust gas which does not greatly fluctuate in composition, but varies at a fast rate near the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, an exhaust gas purification catalyst, and a honeycomb structure for exhaust gas purification are provided. A ceria-zirconia-based composite oxide oxygen storage material, which oxygen storage material has a molar ratio of cerium and zirconium, by cerium/(cerium+zirconium), of 0.33 to 0.90, has an ion conductivity measured by an AC impedance method of 1×10?5S/cm or more at 400° C., and contains metal ions M of one or more types of rare earth elements selected from Sm3+, Eu3+, Pr3+, Gd3+, and Dy3+ with a coordination number of over 7.0 in an amount of 0.5 mol % to 15 mol % with respect to the total amount of cations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON DENKO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tomoharu Itoh, Yusuke Hidaka, Masasuke Yamaba, Kenji Okamoto, Hiroki Uede
  • Patent number: 10923271
    Abstract: A core is provided that includes a corner part facing a winding wound on a shaft part, the corner part being chamfered into a curved surface shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Kenji Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10877345
    Abstract: A light control film to be bonded to a panel member for a vehicle includes film substrates, conductive layers, and a liquid crystal layer. The conductive layers are on surfaces of the film substrates opposed to each other, respectively. The liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between conductive layers. The light control film is switchable between a first state with a first haze percentage and a second state with a second haze percentage that is lower than the first haze percentage. Each film substrate includes at least an acrylic imide layer made of acrylic imide. Each conductive layer includes a thin silver film or a copper wire mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, RIKEN TECHNOS CORPORATION, TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Irie, Kanji Kobayashi, Kenji Okamoto, Nozomu Washio, Koji Mishima, Shouhei Harada, Kazushi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20200340388
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust system for an engine in which a fastening force of a fastener hardly decreases. An exhaust system for an engine includes: an exhaust passage component of ferrous metal; and a fastener that fastens the exhaust passage component to other parts, the exhaust passage component including a pressure receiving surface that receives a fastening force of the fastener. The oxide film of triiron tetraoxide is formed on the pressure receiving surface of the exhaust passage component. It is preferable that the oxide film of triiron tetraoxide be also formed on an outer surface other than the pressure receiving surface of the exhaust passage component. It is preferable that the oxide film of triiron tetraoxide be also formed on an inner surface of the exhaust passage component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki OSO, Nobuyoshi OKADA, Hideyuki KOYAMA, Yoshinori TANAKA, Kenji OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10780127
    Abstract: The present invention provides fermented milk having a high angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition activity, a high hypotensive activity and/or a high stroke-preventing activity. The present invention also provides a method for producing fermented milk having a high angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition activity, a high hypotensive activity and/or a high stroke-preventing activity and a method for producing Tyr-Pro, each of which is characterized by comprising fermenting milk with a mushroom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOTTORI UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIMANE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kenji Okamoto, Toru Nabika