Patents by Inventor Koji Inoue

Koji Inoue 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: 20230185195
    Abstract: A material for forming an underlayer film according to the present invention is a material for forming an underlayer film which is used to form a resist underlayer film used in a multi-layer resist process, the material including a cyclic olefin polymer which has a repeating structural unit [A] represented by Formula (1) and a repeating structural unit [B] represented by Formula (2), in which a molar ratio [A]/[B] of the structural unit [A] to the structural unit [B] in the cyclic olefin polymer is greater than or equal to 5/95 and less than or equal to 95/5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Koji INOUE, Takashi ODA, Keisuke KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230152783
    Abstract: A control system includes multiple industrial devices each belonging to one or more communication domains of multiple communication domains set in the same industrial communication network such that industrial devices belonging to the same communication domain communicate with each other. One or more industrial devices of the industrial devices include processing circuitry that stores domain information indicating whether or not the one or more communication domains to which the one or more industrial devices belong is a secure domain in which secure communication is performed, performs security processing related to the secure communication when the domain information indicates the secure domain, and performs the secure communication based on the security processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Naoya TAKI, Koji INOUE
  • Patent number: 11599025
    Abstract: Provided is a resin material for forming an underlayer film which is used to form a resist underlayer film used in a multi-layer resist process, the resin material including a cyclic olefin polymer (I), in which a temperature at an intersection between a storage modulus (G?) curve and a loss modulus (G?) curve in a solid viscoelasticity of the resin material for forming an underlayer film which is as measured under conditions of a measurement temperature range of 30° C. to 300° C., a heating rate of 3° C./min, and a frequency of 1 Hz in a nitrogen atmosphere in a shear mode using a rheometer is higher than or equal to 40° C. and lower than or equal to 200°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kawashima, Takashi Oda, Koji Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220396083
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus according to the present invention includes: a conveying unit that conveys a recording medium; a pretreatment unit that performs corona treatment on a surface of the recording medium; an ink image forming unit configured to be able to form an ink image by applying an ink of at least two colors, the ink containing an anionic pigment; a brightness measuring unit that measures brightness of the ink image; and a corona treatment intensity changing unit configured to change a corona treatment intensity of the pretreatment unit based on a result of the brightness measuring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Keiichirou Takeuchi, Koji Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220396069
    Abstract: Provided is an ink jet printing method including: subjecting a printing medium to corona discharge treatment; and applying an ink containing an anionic pigment to a surface of the printing medium subjected to the corona discharge treatment, wherein the corona discharge treatment has a discharge quantity of 3,400 W·min/m2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Keiichirou Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11458902
    Abstract: An object is to expand the capacity of storage of a luggage box and thereby to increase the efficiency of component transportation. A tray for vehicle storage space is formed from a fiber board that includes a bottom portion, side portions and flat portions extended from the side portions and that has a thickness of 2 to 6 mm, a total weight of 450 to 1000 g/m2, and a tensile strength of 850 to 2150 N/25.4 mm. The fiber board has linear first cuts provided on a surface side to divide boundaries between the side portions and the flat portions, linear second cuts provided on a rear face side to divide boundaries between the bottom portion and the side portions, linear third cuts provided on the surface side to fold back the side portions, and linear third cuts provided on the rear face side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TAKEHIRO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Hisashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220274051
    Abstract: An absorption type carbon dioxide removal and concentration device can remove or concentrate a carbon dioxide throughout four seasons and can be manufactured with a relatively simple structure. The device includes a carbon dioxide removal rotor that holds a carbon dioxide absorbent. The rotor is divided into at least a treatment zone and a regeneration zone. Air to be treated is ventilated through the treatment zone, so that carbon dioxide contained in the air to be treated is absorbed by a holding absorbent of the rotor portion, so that the CO2 can be separated and removed from the air to be treated. In the regeneration zone, regeneration air is ventilated, so that the carbon dioxide absorbed by the holding absorbent in the treatment zone is desorbed with the regeneration air to regenerate the holding absorbent. A total heat exchanger recovers latent heat and sensible heat from the regeneration exhaust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: SEIBU GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji INOUE
  • Patent number: 11320852
    Abstract: A force sense imparting operation device that imparts a force sense in accordance with a load acting on an actuation device. The device includes an operation member, a displacement detector, a load detector, a force sense generator that imparts a force sense to an operator who operates the operation member, a current controller that performs an actual control and a preliminary control, the actual control increasing the force sense imparted by the force sense generator by increasing an excitation current in response to an increase in the load, the preliminary control supplying the excitation current to an excitation coil prior to the actual control, the excitation current supplied by the preliminary control being set to a preliminary current value lower than the excitation current supplied to the excitation coil under the actual control, and a current supplying portion that supplies the excitation current to the excitation coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Hiroshi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11318704
    Abstract: A vehicle interior material that is manufactured at by bonding a base member and a surface member with each other without using an adhesive agent or an adhesive film, that is light in weight and that has adhesive strength and abrasion resistance. The base member includes a natural fiber or a glass fiber and a first thermoplastic resin fiber and has a density of 0.2 to 0.7 g/cm3 The surface member includes a second thermoplastic resin fiber and a low melting point resin fiber and that has a weight per unit area of 50 to 500 g/m2. The surface member is laid on a surface of the base member. An entangled layer where the second thermoplastic resin fiber enters texture of the base member to be entangled with the first thermoplastic resin fiber is provided at an interface between the base member and the surface member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: TAKEHIRO CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Seiji Sugiura, Madoka Doi, Hideki Kawashiri, Tokuyoshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220050379
    Abstract: A material for forming an underlayer film used in a multi-layer resist process satisfies: (i) an elemental composition ratio Re defined by the following mathematical formula (1) is 1.5 to 2.8; (ii) a glass transition temperature is 30° C. to 250° C.; and (iii) the material contains at least one (preferably two or more) resin having a specific structural unit. In the mathematical formula (1), NH is the number of hydrogen atoms in the solid content of the material for forming an underlayer film, NC is the number of carbon atoms in the solid content of the material for forming an underlayer film, and NO is the number of oxygen atoms in the solid content of the material for forming an underlayer film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Koji INOUE, Keisuke KAWASHIMA, Kenichi FUJII, Takashi ODA
  • Patent number: 11192396
    Abstract: There is provided a transfer type ink jet recording apparatus including: an image forming section forming an image by applying, onto a transfer body, a reaction liquid for increasing a viscosity of ink and ink containing an aqueous liquid medium and a coloring material; a liquid absorbing section having a porous body that absorbs at least a part of a liquid component from the formed image; a heating section heating the image treated by the porous body; a transfer section that transfers the heated image onto a recording medium; and a deterioration prevention treatment section including a deterioration preventing agent applying device that applies, onto the porous body provided in the liquid absorbing section, a deterioration preventing agent that prevents deterioration of the transfer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Takada, Koji Inoue, Toru Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 11179669
    Abstract: A dehumidification air conditioner reduces carbon dioxide levels in a low humidity workroom. Cooling dehumidification is performed on outdoor air in a pre-air-cooler to produce pre-cooled air, which is branched such that a first part passes through a processing zone of an adsorption rotor which can remove carbon dioxide and humidity simultaneously, and a second part passes through a purge zone of the adsorption rotor. Air which passed through the processing zone is supplied to a low humidity workroom. Air which passed though the purge zone of the adsorption rotor is mixed with outdoor air and then heated with a reproduction heater to produce heated air. The heated air is sent to a reproduction zone of the adsorption rotor, to simultaneously remove carbon dioxide and humidity from the adsorption rotor and produce an exhaust stream which exhausted out of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SEIBU GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Keimei Furuki, Ayako Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11001481
    Abstract: An output-torque estimation unit obtains a value of a current input to a motor, from a power converter, and calculates an estimated output torque value which is an estimated value of output torque of the motor, from the obtained value of the current. A load estimation unit estimates a load value of a hanging cargo based on the estimated output torque value which is calculated by the output-torque estimation unit, a speed reduction ratio of a speed reducer, an effective radius of a winch drum, and the winding number which is set by the number setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kawai, Takashi Hiekata, Koji Inoue, Takashi Tokuyama, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Toshiaki Shimoda, Shintaroh Sasai, Tetsuya Ogawa, Toshiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10962450
    Abstract: This specimen collection device has a channel through which a specimen can be drawn by capillarity. The channel has two channel sections that extend from the tip side to the base side and are connected at the tip side. One of the channel sections is connected to a base side specimen intake port, and the other terminates at a location prior to reaching the base end. An air hole is provided at this terminating location. The specimen collection device is equipped with an extraction unit for collecting a prescribed amount of the specimen. The extraction unit includes the two channel sections on the tip side of the air hole, and can be severed from the other sections of the device body of the specimen collection device via a severable section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ippei Takeuchi, Yoichi Fujiyama, Shinobu Kudoh, Koji Inoue
  • Patent number: 10950532
    Abstract: A substrate intermediary body includes: a substrate having a hole in a thickness direction, and a conductor being disposed in the hole; and an adhesion layer formed on a wall surface of the hole. The adhesion layer contains a reaction product of a polymer (A) having a cationic functional group and having a weight-average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 1,000,000 and a polyvalent carboxylic acid compound (B) having two or more carboxyl groups per molecule or a derivative thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Kayaba, Shoko Ono, Hirofumi Tanaka, Koji Inoue, Hiroko Wachi
  • Publication number: 20210026393
    Abstract: A force sense imparting operation device that imparts a force sense in accordance with a load acting on an actuation device. The device includes an operation member, a displacement detector, a load detector, a force sense generator that imparts a force sense to an operator who operates the operation member, a current controller that performs an actual control and a preliminary control, the actual control increasing the force sense imparted by the force sense generator by increasing an excitation current in response to an increase in the load, the preliminary control supplying the excitation current to an excitation coil prior to the actual control, the excitation current supplied by the preliminary control being set to a preliminary current value lower than the excitation current supplied to the excitation coil under the actual control, and a current supplying portion that supplies the excitation current to the excitation coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji INOUE, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10893210
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus including: a plurality of pixels; a scan unit configured to perform a first scan that outputs, from a first pixel of the plurality of pixel, a first signal based on a light flux that has passed through a first region of an exit pupil of imaging optics and a second scan that outputs, from a second pixel of the plurality of pixels, a second signal based on a light flux that has passed through a second region that is a part of the first region; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to set a second exposure time of the second pixel to be shorter than a first exposure time of the first pixel; and an exposure time setting unit configured to set the first exposure time and the second exposure time based on a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakaguchi, Koji Inoue
  • Publication number: 20200347265
    Abstract: Provided is a composition for forming a film for semiconductor devices, including: a compound (A) including a Si—O bond and a cationic functional group containing at least one of a primary nitrogen atom or a secondary nitrogen atom; a crosslinking agent (B) which includes three or more —C(?O)OX groups (X is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms) in the molecule, in which from one to six of three or more —C(?O)OX groups are —C(?O)OH groups, and which has a weight average molecular weight of from 200 to 600; and a polar solvent (D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa KAYABA, Hirofumi TANAKA, Koji INOUE
  • Patent number: 10773932
    Abstract: Provided is an electric winch apparatus capable of preventing irregular winding of a wire rope caused by landing of a hoisted-down suspended load. The electric winch apparatus includes a winch drum (5) around which a wire rope (2) is wound, an electric motor (8) which rotates the winch drum (5), an operation lever (13a), a measurement unit (18) which measures a tension index value corresponding to a tension in the wire rope (2), and a controller (12) which controls motion of the electric motor (8). The controller (12) stops motion of the electric motor (8) when an operation in a lowering operation direction is applied the operation lever (13a) and a tension average value as an average value of a tension in the wire rope (2) becomes less than or equal to a predetermined tension reference value, the average value of the tension corresponding to an average value of the tension index value in a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ogawa, Shintaroh Sasai, Koji Inoue, Takashi Hiekata
  • Patent number: 10752805
    Abstract: Provided is a composition for forming a film for semiconductor devices, including: a compound (A) including a Si—O bond and a cationic functional group containing at least one of a primary nitrogen atom or a secondary nitrogen atom; a crosslinking agent (B) which includes three or more —C(?O)OX groups (X is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms) in the molecule, in which from one to six of three or more —C(?O)OX groups are —C(?O)OH groups, and which has a weight average molecular weight of from 200 to 600; and a polar solvent (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Kayaba, Hirofumi Tanaka, Koji Inoue