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).

  • Publication number: 20230347544
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya SUNAKAWA, Koichiro HAYASHI, Kensuke HIRATA, Wataru UEDA
  • Patent number: 11745969
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Suzuki, Kensuke Hirata, Yoshiyuki Wada, Hironori Yui, Itaru Dairaku
  • Patent number: 11378094
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fujiwara, Ryusuke Numakura, Kengo Matsuo, Kensuke Hirata, Yuji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11346046
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Yoshimura, Hirotsugu Chishina, Kensuke Hirata
  • Patent number: 11169748
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kensuke Hirata
  • Publication number: 20210188580
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shotaro SUZUKI, Kensuke HIRATA, Yoshiyuki WADA, Hironori YUI, Itaru DAIRAKU
  • Publication number: 20200332245
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicants: IHI CORPORATION, Public University Corporation Yokohama City University
    Inventors: Akihiko YOSHIMURA, Kousuke ISHII, Makiko SAITO, Michinori SHIDA, Kensuke HIRATA, Shin-ichi SAKAI, Yasuhiko FUKUCHI, Hideki TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200233615
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: Kensuke Hirata
  • Publication number: 20200208341
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko YOSHIMURA, Hirotsugu CHISHINA, Kensuke HIRATA
  • Patent number: 10656892
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kensuke Hirata, Kei Kitagata, Kenichi Shirai, Takahiko Nishida
  • Publication number: 20200109719
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIWARA, Ryusuke NUMAKURA, Kengo MATSUO, Kensuke HIRATA, Yuji SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10611591
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mareto Ishibashi, Yoshiyuki Wada, Kensuke Hirata, Noriaki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10572546
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kensuke Hirata
  • Patent number: 10538402
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rui Oohashi, Kensuke Hirata, Tomoo Kusumi, Mareto Ishibashi, Noriaki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10538403
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rui Oohashi, Kensuke Hirata, Tomoo Kusumi, Mareto Ishibashi, Noriaki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10496342
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kensuke Hirata
  • Patent number: 10402135
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kei Kitagata, Kenichi Shirai, Kensuke Hirata, Takahiko Nishida
  • Patent number: 10266360
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mareto Ishibashi, Yoshiyuki Wada, Kensuke Hirata, Noriaki Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20180290850
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Mareto ISHIBASHI, Yoshiyuki WADA, Kensuke HIRATA, Noriaki HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180251329
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Rui OOHASHI, Kensuke HIRATA, Tomoo KUSUMI, Mareto ISHIBASHI, Noriaki HASEGAWA