Patents by Inventor Kensuke Hirata
Kensuke Hirata 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: 20230347544Abstract: Provided is a workpiece cutting device capable of reliably cutting a workpiece in a short period of time without damaging portions other than seams and without leading to an increase in size of the device in a case where the device is used to cut a workpiece formed into a sheet shape by partially coupling a plurality of small pieces to each other, for example. A workpiece cutting device that cuts a sheet-shaped or thin plate-shaped workpiece into a first-side workpiece and a second-side workpiece includes a securing mechanism that secures the first-side workpiece, a gripping and turning mechanism that grips the second-side workpiece and turns the second-side workpiece about a seam with the first-side workpiece as an axis, and a separating piece insertion mechanism that separates the first-side workpiece and the second-side workpiece at a vulnerable portion formed at the seam through a turning operation of the second-side workpiece performed by the gripping and turning mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya SUNAKAWA, Koichiro HAYASHI, Kensuke HIRATA, Wataru UEDA
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Patent number: 11745969Abstract: A sheet space-detecting device detects a space between a rear end of a preceding first fiber reinforced plastic sheet and a front end of a following second fiber reinforced plastic sheet in a conveyance path for fiber reinforced plastic sheets and includes: a light-detecting sensor that projects detection light on an area including the rear end of the first fiber reinforced plastic sheet, the front end of the second fiber reinforced plastic sheet, and a reference surface exposed from the space and receives reflected light thereof; and a spacer that supports the rear end of the first fiber reinforced plastic sheet and the front end of the second fiber reinforced plastic sheet in a state where the rear end and the front end are separated from the reference surface, in an area including at least a light-projected area on which the detection light is projected.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Shotaro Suzuki, Kensuke Hirata, Yoshiyuki Wada, Hironori Yui, Itaru Dairaku
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Patent number: 11378094Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: an impeller; a main flow passage which receives the impeller and extends in a rotation axis direction of the impeller; an auxiliary flow passage which includes an upstream communication portion communicating to the main flow passage and a downstream communication portion communicating to the main flow passage at closer to the impeller than the upstream communication portion, and extends in a rotation direction of the impeller; a plurality of opening/closing portions which each have an opening portion and are arranged in the auxiliary flow passage; and a drive unit configured to move at least one of the plurality of opening/closing portions in the rotation direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Takashi Fujiwara, Ryusuke Numakura, Kengo Matsuo, Kensuke Hirata, Yuji Sasaki
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Patent number: 11346046Abstract: A carbon fiber complex material for a carbon fiber reinforced plastic composite material includes a carbon fiber material formed from a continuous carbon fiber, and carbon nanowalls formed on a surface of the continuous carbon fiber.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Akihiko Yoshimura, Hirotsugu Chishina, Kensuke Hirata
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Patent number: 11169748Abstract: An estimation unit provides an estimation result using a trained model generated by machine learning which is trained using training data that includes input data representing document data about documents read from a plurality of MFPs and teaching data representing collected setting data about each of the documents read from the plurality of MFPs. A setting unit transmits, for a particular document read by the MFP, an estimation request to the estimation apparatus along with document data about the document read by the MFP, and receives the estimation result, and sets an output setting of the document based on the received estimation result.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kensuke Hirata
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Publication number: 20210188580Abstract: A sheet space-detecting device detects a space between a rear end of a preceding first fiber reinforced plastic sheet and a front end of a following second fiber reinforced plastic sheet in a conveyance path for fiber reinforced plastic sheets and includes: a light-detecting sensor that projects detection light on an area including the rear end of the first fiber reinforced plastic sheet, the front end of the second fiber reinforced plastic sheet, and a reference surface exposed from the space and receives reflected light thereof; and a spacer that supports the rear end of the first fiber reinforced plastic sheet and the front end of the second fiber reinforced plastic sheet in a state where the rear end and the front end are separated from the reference surface, in an area including at least a light-projected area on which the detection light is projected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Shotaro SUZUKI, Kensuke HIRATA, Yoshiyuki WADA, Hironori YUI, Itaru DAIRAKU
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Publication number: 20200332245Abstract: A cell culture device includes an isolator and an incubator. A connection unit is used to connect the isolator and the incubator, and is provided with: a flexible cell supply tube extending from the incubator to the isolator; and a tube support unit having a holding part holding the cell supply tube and a connection end part attached to the incubator. The tube support unit can be switched between a first configuration in which the tube support unit supports the cell supply tube such that the cell supply tube extends in a first direction and a second configuration in which the tube support unit holds the cell supply tube such that the cell supply tube extends in a second direction. The second configuration is switched to the first configuration by means of the restoring force of the tube support unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicants: IHI CORPORATION, Public University Corporation Yokohama City UniversityInventors: Akihiko YOSHIMURA, Kousuke ISHII, Makiko SAITO, Michinori SHIDA, Kensuke HIRATA, Shin-ichi SAKAI, Yasuhiko FUKUCHI, Hideki TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200233615Abstract: An estimation unit provides an estimation result using a trained model generated by machine learning which is trained using training data that includes input data representing document data about documents read from a plurality of MFPs and teaching data representing collected setting data about each of the documents read from the plurality of MFPs. A setting unit transmits, for a particular document read by the MFP, an estimation request to the estimation apparatus along with document data about the document read by the MFP, and receives the estimation result, and sets an output setting of the document based on the received estimation result.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventor: Kensuke Hirata
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Publication number: 20200208341Abstract: A carbon fiber complex material for a carbon fiber reinforced plastic composite material includes a carbon fiber material formed from a continuous carbon fiber, and carbon nanowalls formed on a surface of the continuous carbon fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Akihiko YOSHIMURA, Hirotsugu CHISHINA, Kensuke HIRATA
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Patent number: 10656892Abstract: When virtual printers are collectively registered with a plurality of print services through one operation, a virtual printer may be registered also with print services not utilized. In the present invention, by acquiring information regarding print services, provided by a plurality of print services, and information regarding virtual printers registered with the print services, it is determined, on a basis of the information regarding the virtual printers and a printer ID of the local printer, whether or not the local printer has been registered as a virtual printer with the print services. Information regarding the print service with which the local printer is determined not to have been registered is displayed, and when instructed by a user to register the local printer with the displayed print service as a virtual printer, the local printer is registered as the virtual printer with the instructed print service.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kensuke Hirata, Kei Kitagata, Kenichi Shirai, Takahiko Nishida
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Publication number: 20200109719Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: an impeller; a main flow passage which receives the impeller and extends in a rotation axis direction of the impeller; an auxiliary flow passage which includes an upstream communication portion communicating to the main flow passage and a downstream communication portion communicating to the main flow passage at closer to the impeller than the upstream communication portion, and extends in a rotation direction of the impeller; a plurality of opening/closing portions which each have an opening portion and are arranged in the auxiliary flow passage; and a drive unit configured to move at least one of the plurality of opening/closing portions in the rotation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Takashi FUJIWARA, Ryusuke NUMAKURA, Kengo MATSUO, Kensuke HIRATA, Yuji SASAKI
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Patent number: 10611591Abstract: The present disclosure is a conveyor device which feeds a thin workpiece from an unwinding roll and conveys the thin workpiece on a conveyance path. The conveyor device includes first movable holding members, fixed holding members, a cutting device, second movable holding members, a first position sensor, and a first correction mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Mareto Ishibashi, Yoshiyuki Wada, Kensuke Hirata, Noriaki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10572546Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided that is connected to a server that archives document data hierarchically formed by a plurality of files and stores the document data as a single file, comprising: a downloading unit configured to download the archived document data from the server, decompressing the archived document data, and storing a file forming a lower layer of the document data in a storage unit; a browser unit configured to access an access destination of the file forming the lower layer which is described in an upper layer file of the document data; and a readout unit configured to read out the file forming the lower layer by hooking the access and returning the read out file to the browser unit instead of the server, wherein the browser unit displays the document data based on the read out file.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kensuke Hirata
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Patent number: 10538402Abstract: A belt-form body conveyor that conveys a belt-form body includes a plurality of non-contact guide portions over which portions of the belt-form body are wound, and that support the belt-form body in a non-contact manner, a drive unit that moves at least one non-contact guide portion out of the plurality of non-contact guide portions, and a control unit that causes the non-contact guide portion to be moved by the drive unit such that a length of a path in which a first edge in a width direction of the belt-form body travels is different from a length of a path in which a second edge which is opposite to the first edge in the width direction of the belt-form body travels.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Rui Oohashi, Kensuke Hirata, Tomoo Kusumi, Mareto Ishibashi, Noriaki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10538403Abstract: A belt-form body conveyor that conveys a belt-form body includes a plurality of non-contact guide portions over which portions of the belt-form body are wound, and that support the belt-form body in a non-contact manner, and a drive unit that, when viewed in a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of the belt-form body before the belt-form body is supplied to the plurality of non-contact guide portions, causes at least two non-contact guide portions out of the plurality of non-contact guide portions to rotate in the same direction and by the same angle.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Rui Oohashi, Kensuke Hirata, Tomoo Kusumi, Mareto Ishibashi, Noriaki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10496342Abstract: In the coordination of a data conversion server and a storage server which belong to different security domains, a client terminal is able to replace an authorization token for accessing the data conversion server with a temporary URL on the storage server, the client terminal, which is located outside the data exchange server, will be able to issue a temporary URL without authorization, resulting in a file operation which is not intended by the data conversion server being performed. Scopes for allowing a client terminal to access the data conversion server and scopes necessary for the issuance of a temporary URL are separated from each other, and a limitation is imposed so that the scopes for the issuance of a temporary URL can be used only by the data conversion server, thereby enabling secure provision of a temporary URL to an external client terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kensuke Hirata
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Patent number: 10402135Abstract: In the case of displaying, as a list, information pieces on virtual printers registered in multiple respective printing services, the user may become confused when choosing a printer if virtual printers that correspond to a printer are displayed as different printers, consequently reducing user convenience. The present invention relates to searching for virtual printers registered in multiple respective printing services and generating a printer list that displays, as a group, virtual printers corresponding to a printer among the virtual printers thus found, on the basis of printer identifiers of the virtual printers.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kei Kitagata, Kenichi Shirai, Kensuke Hirata, Takahiko Nishida
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Patent number: 10266360Abstract: The present disclosure is a conveyor device which feeds a thin workpiece from an unwinding roll and conveys the thin workpiece on a conveyance path. The conveyor device includes first movable holding members, fixed holding members, a cutting device, second movable holding members, a first position sensor, and a first correction mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Mareto Ishibashi, Yoshiyuki Wada, Kensuke Hirata, Noriaki Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20180290850Abstract: The present disclosure is a conveyor device which feeds a thin workpiece from an unwinding roll and conveys the thin workpiece on a conveyance path. The conveyor device includes first movable holding members, fixed holding members, a cutting device, second movable holding members, a first position sensor, and a first correction mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Mareto ISHIBASHI, Yoshiyuki WADA, Kensuke HIRATA, Noriaki HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20180251329Abstract: A belt-form body conveyor that conveys a belt-form body includes a plurality of non-contact guide portions over which portions of the belt-form body are wound, and that support the belt-form body in a non-contact manner, and a drive unit that, when viewed in a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of the belt-form body before the belt-form body is supplied to the plurality of non-contact guide portions, causes at least two non-contact guide portions out of the plurality of non-contact guide portions to rotate in the same direction and by the same angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Rui OOHASHI, Kensuke HIRATA, Tomoo KUSUMI, Mareto ISHIBASHI, Noriaki HASEGAWA