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: 20200264511
    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: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Koji INOUE, Takashi ODA, Keisuke KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200241419
    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: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke KAWASHIMA, Takashi ODA, Koji INOUE
  • Patent number: 10702825
    Abstract: Outside air is cooled and dehumidified by a pre-cooler to pass through an adsorption zone of a carbon dioxide adsorbing rotor, producing air having a low carbon dioxide concentration which is cooled by an intercooler. The air that has passed through the intercooler is passed through an adsorption zone of a moisture adsorption rotor and then supplied to a low humidity working chamber. Return air from the low humidity working chamber may be mixed with the air leaving the pre-cooler. A part of the air which passed through the intercooler is branched to pass through a purge zone of the moisture adsorption rotor before being sent to a regeneration zone of the humidity adsorption rotor. Air that passed through the regeneration zone of the humidity adsorption rotor is mixed with outside air and then passed through a regeneration zone of the carbon dioxide adsorption rotor before being exhausted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SEIBU GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weili Jin, Koji Inoue, Ayako Kuroda, Hitomi Nishikokubaru, Kazuyuki Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20200148124
    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: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Koji INOUE, Hisashi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10632765
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes: an image forming unit for forming an ink image containing a liquid component and a coloring material on a moving ink receiving medium; and a liquid absorbing unit having a liquid absorbing member which absorbs at least a part of the liquid component from the ink image by coming into contact with the ink image on the ink receiving medium, in which, in a moving direction of the ink receiving medium, a curvature radius R1 of the ink receiving medium at a contact start position between the liquid absorbing member and the ink image and a curvature radius R2 of the liquid absorbing member at the contact start position satisfy a relationship in which R1>0, R2<0, and |R1|?|R2|.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiichirou Takeuchi, Koji Inoue, Akihiro Mouri, Toru Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20200114675
    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: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yoichi Takada, Koji Inoue, Toru Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20200070086
    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: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: SEIBU GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji INOUE, Keimei FURUKI, Ayako KURODA
  • Patent number: 10580639
    Abstract: The invention provides a sealing composition including: polymer (A) containing a cationic functional group and having a weight average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 1,000,000; and a benzotriazole compound; in which the content of the polymer (A) is from 0.05 parts by mass to 0.20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the sealing composition; in which the content of the benzotriazole compound in the sealing composition is from 3 ppm by mass to 200 ppm by mass; and in which the sealing composition has a pH of from 3.0 to 6.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Kayaba, Hirofumi Tanaka, Shoko Ono, Koji Inoue, Hiroko Wachi, Tsuneji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10549526
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer body is efficiently heated, and thus, transfer properties of an image and durability of the intermediate transfer body are ensured. A heating unit heats the intermediate transfer body by using a plurality of heating sources which are positioned by being shifted, with respect to a rotation direction of the intermediate transfer body. The plurality of heating sources includes a first heating source and a second heating source. A degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the second heating source is greater than a degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the first heating source. The second heating source is positioned on an upstream side, with respect to the rotation direction of the intermediate transfer body, from the first heating source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Jun Yasutani, Nobuhiro Kitabatake, Yoichi Takada
  • Patent number: 10513119
    Abstract: An inkjet recording method includes applying an aqueous ink and a reaction liquid for increasing the viscosity of the ink to an ejection target medium to form an ink image thereon. The ink image is then subjected to a liquid absorbing treatment using a porous body having a liquid absorbing surface. In the liquid absorption treatment, the liquid absorbing surface is brought into contact with the ink image to absorb at least a part of the liquid component from the ink image by the porous body and the porous body is used repeatedly while it is sometimes carried out from the liquid absorption treatment region for cleaning. Contact information of the porous body including the number of contact times and a contact pressure in each contact is stored and the gas permeability state of the porous body is evaluated by using such contact information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Noboru Toyama, Akihiro Mouri, Toru Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 10457076
    Abstract: An ink jet printing method includes an ink image forming step of forming an ink image onto an ink receiving medium, a liquid absorbing step of performing liquid absorption treatment in which an aqueous liquid component is at least partially absorbed by a porous body from the ink image, by contacting a liquid absorbing surface of the porous body of a liquid absorbing member with the ink image in a liquid absorption treatment region, and a conveying step of conveying the porous body conveyed from the liquid absorption treatment region to the liquid absorption treatment region again. The method also includes a porous body checking step of forming a test pattern for testing an image quality, detecting the image quality of the test pattern, subjected to the liquid absorbing step, by an image quality detecting device, and determining a state of the porous body from obtained detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Noboru Toyama, Akihiro Mouri, Toru Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20190300339
    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: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (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: 10399828
    Abstract: An electrically driven winch device includes a winch drum, a plurality of axial-gap electric motors, and a drive shaft. The winch drum rotates around a drum axis in order to wind or unwind a work rope. The plurality of electric motors are electric motors configured to drive the winch drum to rotate, and are each provided with a stator, and rotors which rotate around a rotation axis and are disposed at an axial distance from the stator. The drive shaft is disposed coaxially with the drum axis and serially connects the rotors of the plurality of electric motors on the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hiekata, Koji Inoue, Hiroaki Kawai, Shintaroh Sasai, Tetsuya Ogawa, Toshiro Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20190256328
    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: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicants: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Tetsuya OGAWA, Shintaroh SASAI, Koji INOUE, Takashi HIEKATA
  • Patent number: 10386883
    Abstract: A force-sense-imparting operation device including a stationary section, a rotating section, and an operation member. One of the stationary section and the rotating section includes an excitation coil and a first magnetic pole section, and the other includes a second magnetic pole section capable of opposition to the first magnetic pole section in a specific opposing direction. The first magnetic pole section forms a magnetic circuit with the first magnetic pole section due to the second magnetic pole section being excited in a state that the second magnetic pole section opposes the first magnetic pole section. The magnetic circuit encircles a periphery of the excitation coil on the cross section, the second magnetic pole section being arranged to separate from the first magnetic pole section with rotation of the rotating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO CRANES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Takashi Hiekata, Tatsurou Asano
  • Patent number: 10381890
    Abstract: An axial gap type dynamo-electric machine (1) comprises: a stator (2) provided with a magnetic core (21) and an exciting coil (22); a rotor (3) provided with a plurality of permanent magnets (4) circumferentially arranged around a rotation center axis (AX), the rotor (3) being also provided with a disk-shaped base material (31) for supporting the permanent magnets, the rotor (3) being disposed at an axial distance from the stator (2); and affixation members (5) for affixing the permanent magnets (4) to the base material (31). The permanent magnets (4) are provided with front surfaces facing the stator (2), rear surfaces facing the base material, and engagement-receiving sections (412, 422, 432) formed at peripheral edges of the permanent magnets (4). The affixation members (5) include: engagement sections (512) engaging the engagement-receiving sections; and affixation sections (511) forming mechanical affixation structures relative to the base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Takashi Hiekata, Hiroaki Kawai, Shintaro Sasai, Tetsuya Ogawa, Toshiro Yamashita, Shingo Kasai, Shumpei Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190232607
    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: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Koji INOUE, Seiji SUGIURA, Madoka DOI, Hideki KAWASHIRI, Tokuyoshi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10355570
    Abstract: In the outer rotor-type axial gap brushless motor of the present invention, each of a plurality of coils provided to a stator is constituted by winding a band-shaped conductor member via an insulating member such that the width direction of the conductor member runs along the axial direction of the coil, and each coil has a through passage which penetrates in the axial direction of the coil and which is included between prescribed turns in a portion of the coil that corresponds to the outer side in the radial direction of the stator relative to a core portion of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Inoue, Hiroaki Kawai, Koji Inoue, Takashi Hiekata, Kazuhide Sekiyama
  • Patent number: 10350883
    Abstract: liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head including a plurality of electrodes arranged in parallel, a common electrode positioned to face the liquid discharge head, and a control unit configured to control a voltage to be applied to each of the plurality of electrodes to control the plurality of electrodes as a discharging electrode, which is to discharge a liquid, or as a non-discharging electrode, which is to discharge no liquid, wherein the control unit adjusts a value of the voltage to be applied to the electrode that is to be driven as the non-discharging electrode, based on the voltage to be applied to the electrode adjacent to the electrode that is to be driven as the non-discharging electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuji Yamamoto, Hideaki Okamoto, Junji Yasuda, Koji Inoue
  • Patent number: 10287137
    Abstract: Disclosed is a winch control apparatus for a crane, which comprises: a first compensation torque value calculation section which calculates, when a hoisting manipulation being input, based on a difference speed between a detected rotational speed and a target speed according to a manipulation amount of the hoisting manipulation, a first compensation torque value for enabling an electric motor to generate a reverse-rotation-preventing torque which is a torque in a hoisting direction and corresponding to the difference speed; and a second compensation torque value calculation section which calculates, when the hoisting manipulation being input, based on a detected load value, a second compensation torque value for enabling the electric motor to generate a load bearing torque which is a torque in the hoisting direction and necessary for bearing a load of the load value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kawai, Takashi Tokuyama, Toshiaki Shimoda, Koji Inoue, Tetsuya Ogawa, Shintaroh Sasai