Patents by Inventor Koji Shimizu

Koji 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).

  • Publication number: 20200060053
    Abstract: A setup support device capable of editing a setup list in accordance with a change in a production schedule or the like, thereby enabling more efficient setup of a component mounter. The setup support device includes a list editing section for performing editing to increase or decrease production jobs included in a setup list in accordance with a request from an operator who performs setup at the component mounter or a change in a production schedule, and a guidance section for issuing setup guidance for the production jobs to the operator based on the edited setup list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SHIMIZU, Hideki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190369606
    Abstract: A substrate manufacturing machine (component mounter) includes a substrate type setting section configured to set next and subsequent substrate types to be manufactured subsequently to a current substrate type currently being manufactured, a substrate type checking section configured to check whether the set next and subsequent substrate types are correct, a manufacturing condition investigation section configured to examine whether a manufacturing condition for manufacturing substrates of the next and subsequent substrate types is satisfied, and a manufacturing authorization section configured to authorize manufacturing of the substrates of the next and subsequent substrate types in a case where the next and subsequent substrate types are correct and the manufacturing condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SHIMIZU, Michihiko TAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190366494
    Abstract: A control device acquires a first two-dimensional position of a cam bolt and a locknut in a first direction based on a first actual image captured by a first camera, and based on the acquired first two-dimensional position, the control device moves an adjustment socket to a position where the adjustment socket is fittable to a head of the cam bolt and moves a tightening socket to a position where the tightening socket is fittable to the locknut. Then, the control device acquires a second two-dimensional position of the cam bolt and the locknut in a second direction based on a second actual image captured by a second camera, and corrects, based on the acquired second two-dimensional position, a position of the adjustment socket relative to the head of the cam bolt and a position of the tightening socket relative to the locknut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHINMEI INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji SHIMIZU, Yohei TANAKA, Chiaki YOSHIWARA
  • Patent number: 10473774
    Abstract: A radar device includes a transmission part that transmits a radar wave which has been frequency-modulated such that one measurement cycle has a rising section in which a frequency increases and a falling section in which a frequency decreases, a reception part that derives respective beat signals of the rising section and the falling section, and a signal processor that performs a precipitation determining process on the basis of an analysis of the beat signals. In the precipitation determining process, in the absence of objects other than precipitation objects from a transmission range of the radar wave, it is determined whether a spectral similarity of the frequency spectra of the rising and falling section with precipitation reference spectra is not less than a threshold, and if the spectral similarity is not less than the threshold as a result of the determination, it is determined that precipitation is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Takayama, Koji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20190330436
    Abstract: An extruded polystyrene foam is produced by performing extrusion-foaming with a styrenic resin, a flame retardant composition, and a foaming agent. The flame retardant composition includes a brominated styrene-butadiene polymer, a stabilizer, and a styrenic resin; the brominated styrene-butadiene polymer is contained in an amount of 30 to 80 wt % where the total weight of the flame retardant composition is 100 wt %; and the flame retardant composition has a TGA 5 wt % reduction temperature of 255 to 270° C. The extruded polystyrene foam has excellent thermal stability, excellent flame retardancy, and an excellent appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuta KUTSUMIZU, Koji SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10462948
    Abstract: In a case in which mounting deviation is occurring in a component which is mounted onto a solder surface of a board, a pad jig is pushed against the component, and the mounting deviation of the component is corrected through a friction force between the pad jig and the component by causing the pad jig to move in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10451724
    Abstract: In a radar apparatus, a determining unit compares a ratio (?Vr/Vn) of a relative velocity (Vr) to a radar-apparatus-installed vehicle velocity (Vn) with a determination value (?) that is a cosine (cos ?c) of the detection limit angle (±?c) or the cosine (cos ?c) plus a correction value including a measurement error. When a determination is made that the ratio (?Vr/Vn) exceeds the determination value (?), a target is determined to be a real target of a crossing object, such as a crossing pedestrian, or a stationary object, whereas when a determination is made that the target is not a real target, the target is determined to be a ghost of a crossing object or a stationary object. Thus, a real target of a crossing object or a stationary object can be distinguished from a ghost of the object, and hence a ghost is not falsely determined to be a real target, preventing inappropriate brake control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20190313558
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a component management system or the like that can accurately predict component exhaustion in a component mounting device that performs work at a line. Specifying section updates the time table based on the arrival time point or the unloading time point in each of component mounting devices. Arrival predicting section predicts the arrival time point in each component mounting device based on the time table and updates a prediction table. Since component-exhaustion predicting section acquires the arrival time point of a circuit board for which a component will be exhausted from the prediction table and calculates a component exhaustion time point, it is possible to predict the component exhaustion time point with high accuracy. An operator can perform a replenishment work based on the component exhaustion time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10435877
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet bowl part, flush water conduits that guides flush water toward the toilet bowl part, a bubble passage provided separately from the flush water conduits, the bubble passage that guides bubbles toward the toilet bowl part, and a bubble generator provided in the bubble passage, the bubble generator that generates bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Fukuya, Hirokazu Shimasaki, Masato Wakabayashi, Shuhei Haida, Koji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10435876
    Abstract: A bubble generator includes an ejector including a flow passage, a water supplier that supplies water into the flow passage, an air supplier that supplies air into the flow passage, a cleaner supplier that supplies a cleaner into the flow passage, and a bubble discharger that discharges bubbles generated by mixing the water, the air, and the cleaner; a water supply device that supplies water to the flow passage via the water supplier, and a cleaner supply device that supplies the cleaner to the flow passage via the cleaner supplier. The cleaner supplier is formed on a lower surface of the flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Shimasaki, Kouji Fukuya, Masato Wakabayashi, Shuhei Haida, Koji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20190296363
    Abstract: Provided are (i) a catalyst that has a core-shell structure and is highly active in an oxygen reduction reaction, which is a cathode reaction of a fuel cell, and (ii) a reaction acceleration method in which the catalyst is used. A core-shell catalyst for accelerating an oxygen reduction reaction, contains: silver or palladium as a core material; and platinum as a shell material, the core-shell catalyst having, on a surface thereof, a (110) surface of a face centered cubic lattice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Koichi MATSUTANI, Takeshi KAIEDA, Yasushi MASAHIRO, Hideaki KASAI, Hiroshi NAKANISHI, Koji SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10416285
    Abstract: The object detection apparatus is provided with a signal processing unit and an object detection unit. The signal processing unit performs a frequency analysis of a beat signal obtained by transmitting and receiving continuous waves and estimates an incoming direction of reception waves, the object detection unit executes, based on a processing result of the signal processing unit, at least an extracting process of an object candidate, a tracking process for an object and the object candidate, and an object recognition process that recognizes the object candidate to be the object. The object detection unit is characterized in that the unit executes, individually for each type of object to be detected, the extracting process, the tracking process and the object recognition process, and changes content of processes depending on a feature of the object to be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20190281737
    Abstract: A setup support device that improves the efficiency of setup of a component mounter by guiding supplying of feeders to a component supply device as preparation for setting of the feeders. The support setup device includes: a preparation cart on which are loaded multiple of the feeders used to perform multiple production jobs; and a feeder identifying section configured to identify multiple of the feeders to be set on a component supply device among the multiple feeders loaded on the preparation cart. The preparation cart includes a guidance section configured to issue guidance all at once for the identified multiple feeders to an operator performing the setup so as to supply the identified multiple feeders to the component supply device as preparation for setting the identified multiple feeders on the component supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki HAYASHI, Hiroyuki HANEDA, Koji SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20190229103
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first switching element that is provided on a high side; a first diode element that is connected in parallel to the first switching element; a second switching element that is provide on a low side and connected in series to the first switching element; and a second diode element that is connected in parallel to the second switching element, wherein the first switching element and one of the first diode element and the second diode element are stacked adjacently to each other in a vertical direction of respective electrode surfaces thereof via a conductive electrode, the second switching element and the other of the first diode element and the second diode element that is different from the diode element adjacent to the first switching element are stacked adjacently to each other in a vertical direction of respective electrode surfaces thereof via a conductive electrode, and the first switching element and the second switching element are not adjacent in a vertical direction
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicants: WASEDA UNIVERSITY, MITSUI HIGH-TEC., INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei TATSUMI, Kazuhito KAMEI, Rikiya Kamimura, Koji SHIMIZU, Kazutoshi UEDA, Nobuaki SATO, Keiji TODA, Masayuki HIKITA, Akihiro IMAKIIRE
  • Patent number: 10353050
    Abstract: A radar apparatus generates a spectrum distribution where frequencies in a beat signal are associated with intensities of respective frequency components. Based on a plurality of spectrum distributions generated over a predetermined number of measurement cycles prescribed in advance, the radar apparatus generates a reflection intensity distribution where frequencies are associated with road surface reflection intensities of the radar wave from a road surface at each frequency. In the reflection intensity distribution, the radar apparatus detects an intensity peak indicating a frequency that maximizes the road surface reflection intensity. Based on the detected intensity peak, the radar apparatus determines at least whether or not the radar apparatus is in an axis deviation state that is taken as a state where a reference axis of the radar apparatus has an inclination of not less than a prescribed angle in a vehicle height direction relative to a horizontal axis prescribed to a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Nakatani, Koji Shimizu, Chiharu Yamano
  • Publication number: 20190136003
    Abstract: An extruded styrenic resin foam may include 100 parts by weight of a styrenic resin; 0.5 to 8.0 parts by weight of a flame retardant; 1.0 to 5.0 parts by weight of graphite; a saturated hydrocarbon having 3 to 5 carbon atoms; and a hydrofluoroolefin. 1 kg of the extruded styrenic resin foam includes the hydrofluoroolefin in an amount of 0.05 to 0.40 mol, and the saturated hydrocarbon in an amount of 0.10 to 0.40 mol, a total amount of the saturated hydrocarbon and the hydrofluoroolefin being 0.30 to 0.50 mol relative to 1 kg of the extruded styrenic resin foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takenori Kikuchi, Shunji Kurihara, Koji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20190118542
    Abstract: In a printer, an upstream side transport path for transporting a paper sheet to a recording region in which recording is performed by a recording head from a tube for supplying ink to a recording head from a liquid accommodation body stored in the liquid storage unit and a medium accommodation unit in a state where a recording unit, the liquid storage unit, and a medium accommodation unit are stacked, is configured, and the liquid storage unit includes a liquid storage unit inner transport path including a supply connection section which connects the liquid accommodation body and the tube to each other, and a first transport section which forms a part of the upstream side transport path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Masaki SHIMOMURA, Koji SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20190103341
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an electrode connection structure and the like in which a plurality of elongated leads are arranged in parallel and a longitudinal side surface of each lead is connected to an electrode by plating treatment with high quality. [Solution] An electrode connection structure in which a semiconductor chip 12 electrode and/or a substrate electrode is connected to a plurality of elongated leads 11 of a lead frame 10 by plating. The plurality of elongated leads 11 of the lead frame 10 are arranged in parallel, and a longitudinal side surface of each lead 11 is connected to the semiconductor chip 12 electrode and/or the substrate electrode by plating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Kohei Tatsumi, Kazutoshi Ueda, Nobuaki Sato, Koji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20180291607
    Abstract: A bubble generator includes an ejector including a flow passage, a water supplier that supplies water into the flow passage, an air supplier that supplies air into the flow passage, a cleaner supplier that supplies a cleaner into the flow passage, and a bubble discharger that discharges bubbles generated by mixing the water, the air, and the cleaner; a water supply device that supplies water to the flow passage via the water supplier, and a cleaner supply device that supplies the cleaner to the flow passage via the cleaner supplier. The cleaner supplier is formed on a lower surface of the flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu SHIMASAKI, Kouji FUKUYA, Masato WAKABAYASHI, Shuhei HAIDA, Koji SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20180265661
    Abstract: A styrene resin extruded foam includes a styrene resin, a flame retarder, a hydrofluoroolefin, an alcohol, and at least one selected from the group consisting of a saturated hydrocarbon having 3 to 5 carbon atoms, dimethyl ether, and alkyl chloride. An amount of the flame retarder is 0.5 to 8.0 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the styrene resin. The styrene resin extruded foam has an apparent density of 20 to 45 kg/m3 and a closed cell ratio of not less than 90%. An amount of the hydrofluoroolefin added is 65 to 90 mol % relative to 100 mol % in total of the hydrofluoroolefin and the alcohol which are added. An amount of the alcohol added is 10 to 35 mol % relative to 100 mol % in total of the hydrofluoroolefin and the alcohol which are added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Takenori Kikuchi, Shunji Kurihara, Koji Shimizu