Patents by Inventor Kohei Shimizu
Kohei Shimizu 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: 20240157960Abstract: An alert apparatus starts alerting a driver of a host vehicle, when an oncoming vehicle, that is an other vehicle traveling in an oncoming lane with respect to a traveling lane in which the host vehicle is traveling so as to approach the host vehicle and that is predicted to pass through on a specific direction side with respect to a current position of the host vehicle, is present, a turn signal indicator of the host vehicle corresponding to the specific direction side is being operated, and it is likely that the host vehicle starts turning to the specific direction side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mafune KAKESHITA, Chen XI, Kohei MOROTOMI, Yuto SHIMBO, Tasuku USUI, Kenichi SHIMIZU, Wataru IKE, Tsunekazu YASOSHIMA
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Publication number: 20240077810Abstract: A developer includes a toner containing toner particles and a carrier containing carrier particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and external additive particles attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive particles include first silica particles and spacer particles. The first silica particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 10 nm and no greater than 30 nm. The spacer particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 32 nm and no greater than 145 nm. The spacer particles in the toner particles have a coverage ratio of at least 2.0% by area and no greater than 40.0% by area. The carrier particles each include a carrier mother particle and strontium titanate particles attached to a surface of the carrier mother particle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tamotsu SHIMIZU, Kohei TERASAKI, Akira MATAYOSHI, Yuji TOYOTA
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Patent number: 11923154Abstract: A trigger switch according to one or more embodiments may include a first conductive plate (movable electrode) movable in response to movement of a trigger receiving a depressing operation, and a second fixed electrode (fixed electrode) located adjacent to a movable range of the first conductive plate with a space in between. The second fixed electrode forms a capacitor together with the first conductive plate. The capacitor formed by the first conductive plate and the second fixed electrode has a capacitance that changes as the first conductive plate moves.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takumi Fujihara, Ryoji Shimizu, Kohei Fujio, Akihiro Ishii, Taiki Koyama, Kazushi Maeta
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Patent number: 11919533Abstract: An alert apparatus starts alerting a driver of a host vehicle, when an oncoming vehicle, that is an other vehicle traveling in an oncoming lane with respect to a traveling lane in which the host vehicle is traveling so as to approach the host vehicle and that is predicted to pass through on a specific direction side with respect to a current position of the host vehicle, is present, a turn signal indicator of the host vehicle corresponding to the specific direction side is being operated, and it is likely that the host vehicle starts turning to the specific direction side.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mafune Kakeshita, Chen Xi, Kohei Morotomi, Yuto Shimbo, Tasuku Usui, Kenichi Shimizu, Wataru Ike, Tsunekazu Yasoshima
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Publication number: 20230059191Abstract: To provide a flame retardant resin composition having excellent flame retardancy and excellent resin physical properties. There is provided a flame retardant resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin; an inorganic filler; a phosphate ester flame retardant; an organic sulfonic acid flame retardant; a drip preventing agent; and a polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer, in which a content of the aromatic polycarbonate resin is 40 to 95 pts·mass to 5 to 60 pts·mass of the inorganic filler, and a content of the phosphate ester flame retardant, a content of the organic sulfonic acid flame retardant, a content of the drip preventing agent, and a content of the polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer are respectively 1 to 30 pts·mass, 0.01 to 2.5 pts·mass, 0.05 to 1.5 pts·mass, and 0 to 10 pts·mass to the total 100 pts·mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin and the inorganic filler.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Takahiro Ohe, Yasuhito Inagaki, Akito Kuriyama, Kenji Ueda, Kohei Shimizu
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Publication number: 20220403161Abstract: To provide a transparent resin composition having excellent optical characteristics, particularly, excellent optical characteristics under high temperature and high humidity. There is provided a transparent resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin; and a water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or a metal salt thereof, in which a content of the water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or the metal salt thereof is 0.01 to 3.0 pts·mass to 100 pts·mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin, and a dissolved amount of the water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or the metal salt thereof is not more than 0.5 g to 100 g of pure water.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Akito Kuriyama, Yasuhito Inagaki, Takahiro Ohe, Kenji Ueda, Kohei Shimizu
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Patent number: 11492486Abstract: To provide a flame retardant resin composition having excellent flame retardancy and excellent resin physical properties. There is provided a flame retardant resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin; an inorganic filler; a phosphate ester flame retardant; an organic sulfonic acid flame retardant; a drip preventing agent; and a polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer, in which a content of the aromatic polycarbonate resin is 40 to 95 pts.mass to 5 to 60 pts.mass of the inorganic filler, and a content of the phosphate ester flame retardant, a content of the organic sulfonic acid flame retardant, a content of the drip preventing agent, and a content of the polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer are respectively 1 to 30 pts.mass, 0.01 to 2.5 pts.mass, 0.05 to 1.5 pts.mass, and 0 to 10 pts.mass to the total 100 pts.mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin and the inorganic filler.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takahiro Ohe, Yasuhito Inagaki, Akito Kuriyama, Kenji Ueda, Kohei Shimizu
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Patent number: 11434364Abstract: To provide a transparent resin composition having excellent optical characteristics, particularly, excellent optical characteristics under high temperature and high humidity. There is provided a transparent resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin; and a water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or a metal salt thereof, in which a content of the water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or the metal salt thereof is 0.01 to 3.0 pts·mass to 100 pts·mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin, and a dissolved amount of the water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or the metal salt thereof is not more than 0.5 g to 100 g of pure water.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akito Kuriyama, Yasuhito Inagaki, Takahiro Ohe, Kenji Ueda, Kohei Shimizu
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Publication number: 20210130609Abstract: To provide a resin composition having excellent resin properties. Provided is a resin composition including: at least one thermoplastic resin (A); and a hydroxyl fatty acid ester (B) that are at least blended, in which when the weight-average molecular weight of the at least one thermoplastic resin (A) in terms of polystyrene is set to MW0 and the weight-average molecular weight of at least one thermoplastic resin (C) which has been produced after the blending in terms of polystyrene is set to MW1, the MW1 is decreased by 5 or more from the MW0.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Akito KURIYAMA, Yasuhito INAGAKI, Kenji UEDA, Kohei SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20200032050Abstract: To provide a flame retardant resin composition having excellent flame retardancy and excellent resin physical properties. There is provided a flame retardant resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin; an inorganic filler; a phosphate ester flame retardant; an organic sulfonic acid flame retardant; a drip preventing agent; and a polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer, in which a content of the aromatic polycarbonate resin is 40 to 95 pts.mass to 5 to 60 pts.mass of the inorganic filler, and a content of the phosphate ester flame retardant, a content of the organic sulfonic acid flame retardant, a content of the drip preventing agent, and a content of the polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer are respectively 1 to 30 pts.mass, 0.01 to 2.5 pts.mass, 0.05 to 1.5 pts.mass, and 0 to 10 pts.mass to the total 100 pts.mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin and the inorganic filler.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takahiro Ohe, Yasuhito Inagaki, Akito Kuriyama, Kenji Ueda, Kohei Shimizu
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Publication number: 20200024444Abstract: To provide a transparent resin composition having excellent optical characteristics, particularly, excellent optical characteristics under high temperature and high humidity. There is provided a transparent resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin; and a water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or a metal salt thereof, in which a content of the water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or the metal salt thereof is 0.01 to 3.0 pts·mass to 100 pts·mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin, and a dissolved amount of the water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or the metal salt thereof is not more than 0.5 g to 100 g of pure water.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2017Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Akito Kuriyama, Yasuhito Inagaki, Takahiro Ohe, Kenji Ueda, Kohei Shimizu
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Patent number: 9947214Abstract: An authentication apparatus includes an authentication unit configured to perform authentication processing according to power generation information from a power generation unit configured to generate electric power from ambient energy.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Kohei Shimizu, Hideo Niikura, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Hidetoshi Kabasawa, Masakazu Yajima, Shinichi Honda
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Patent number: 9611157Abstract: Disclosed are a plant-derived flocculant and a flocculant mixture having a higher flocculation capacity. The plant-derived flocculant comprises at least one of a dried matter of Corchorus olitorius, a dried matter of Begonia fimbristipula, a dried matter of bananas, and a dried matter of Corchorus capsularis; the plant-derived flocculant has a colloid equivalent of ?1.5 mEq/g to ?0.20 mEq/g, and the 2 weight % aqueous solution of the plant-derived flocculant has a viscosity of at least 6.0×10?3 Pa·s (6.0 cP). The flocculant mixture of the invention comprises the plant-derived flocculant described above and a synthetic polymer flocculant having a colloid equivalent of ?4.5 mEq/g to ?1.2 mEq/g, whose 0.2 weight % aqueous solution has a viscosity of 1.3×10?1Pa·s to 4×10?1 Pa·s (130 cP to 400 cP).Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhito Inagaki, Kohei Shimizu, Masato Hasegawa
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Patent number: 9167140Abstract: An imaging device includes a welded part on a lens barrel side that is hardened after a contact portion of a lens barrel or a contact part on the lens barrel side is softened, where the contact portion of the lens barrel and the contact part on the lens barrel side are fixed, and a welded part on a light-receiving circuit side that is hardened after a contact portion of the light-receiving circuit or a contact part on a light-receiving circuit side is softened, where the contact portion of the light-receiving circuit and the contact part on the light-receiving circuit side are fixed.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuru Nakajima, Tetsuya Ogata, Kenichi Yoshimura, Kohei Shimizu, Chihiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 8908036Abstract: An image-capturing device including: an imaging optical system which is configured to capture an optical image of a subject; an imaging optical system retaining member which retains the imaging optical system; an imaging element which is configured to convert the optical image into an electrical signal; a substrate which is arranged on a back side of the imaging optical system retaining member and retains the imaging element; and a plurality of substrate joint pieces each of which extends from the imaging optical system retaining member toward the substrate, wherein tip parts of the plurality of substrate joint pieces on a substrate side and the substrate are joined by an indirect bond structure using at least one joint intermediate member which is adhered to at least one of the tip parts of the plurality of substrate joint pieces and the substrate with an adhesive, and a fixation structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Chihiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Takemoto, Mitsuru Nakajima, Shinobu Kanatani, Kohei Shimizu, Norihiko Sasaki
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Publication number: 20140146214Abstract: An imaging device includes a welded part on a lens barrel side that is hardened after a contact portion of a lens barrel or a contact part on the lens barrel side is softened, where the contact portion of the lens barrel and the contact part on the lens barrel side are fixed, and a welded part on a light-receiving circuit side that is hardened after a contact portion of the light-receiving circuit or a contact part on a light-receiving circuit side is softened, where the contact portion of the light-receiving circuit and the contact part on the light-receiving circuit side are fixed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuru Nakajima, Tetsuya Ogata, Kenichi Yoshimura, Kohei Shimizu, Chihiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 8717656Abstract: The optical scanning device scans an object with plural laser beams, and includes a light source, which emits plural parallel laser beams in a predetermined direction and which has a stem portion having a first notch; and a support having an opening, with which the light source is engaged so as to be rotatable on an axis parallel to the plural light beams, and a second notch located on a part of the opening so as to overlap with the first notch when the light source is engaged with the opening. By inserting a slotted screwdriver, etc., into the space formed by the two notches and rotating the screwdriver, the angle of the light source can be adjusted and thereby the pitches of the laser beams can be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kohei Shimizu, Mitsuru Nakajima
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Patent number: 8675127Abstract: An imaging device includes a welded part on a lens barrel side that is hardened after a contact portion of a lens barrel or a contact part on the lens barrel side is softened, where the contact portion of the lens barrel and the contact part on the lens barrel side are fixed, and a welded part on a light-receiving circuit side that is hardened after a contact portion of the light-receiving circuit or a contact part on a light-receiving circuit side is softened, where the contact portion of the light-receiving circuit and the contact part on the light-receiving circuit side are fixed.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Nakajima, Tetsuya Ogata, Kenichi Yoshimura, Kohei Shimizu, Chihiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20130299433Abstract: Disclosed are a plant-derived flocculant and a flocculant mixture having a higher flocculation capacity. The plant-derived flocculant comprises at least one of a dried matter of Corchorus olitorius, a dried matter of Begonia fimbristipula, a dried matter of bananas, and a dried matter of Corchorus capsularis; the plant-derived flocculant has a colloid equivalent of ?1.5 mEq/g to ?0.20 mEq/g, and the 2 weight % aqueous solution of the plant-derived flocculant has a viscosity of at least 6.0×10?3 Pa·s (6.0 cP). The flocculant mixture of the invention comprises the plant-derived flocculant described above and a synthetic polymer flocculant having a colloid equivalent of ?4.5 mEq/g to ?1.2 mEq/g, whose 0.2 weight % aqueous solution has a viscosity of 1.3×10?1Pa·s to 4×10?1 Pa·s (130 cP to 400 cP).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuhito Inagaki, Kohei Shimizu, Masato Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20130241692Abstract: An authentication apparatus includes an authentication unit configured to perform authentication processing according to power generation information from a power generation unit configured to generate electric power from ambient energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicants: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC., SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Shimizu, Hideo Niikura, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Hidetoshi Kabasawa, Masakazu Yajima, Shinichi Honda