Patents by Inventor Kotaro Maeda
Kotaro Maeda 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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Patent number: 11973159Abstract: Provided is a photodetector which can be manufactured in a standard process of a mass-produced CMOS foundry. The photodetector includes a silicon (Si) substrate; a lower clad layer; a core layer including a waveguide layer configured to guide signal light, and including a first Si slab doped with first conductive impurity ions and a second Si slab doped with second conductive impurity ions; a germanium (Ge) layer configured to absorb light and including a Ge region doped with the first conductive impurity ions; an upper clad layer; and electrodes respectively connected to the first and second Si slabs and the Ge region. A region of the core layer sandwiched between the first Si slab and the second Si slab operates as an amplification layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kotaro Takeda, Kiyofumi Kikuchi, Yoshiho Maeda, Tatsuro Hiraki
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Patent number: 11972898Abstract: A superconducting magnet according to one embodiment includes: a coil including a superconducting layer having a first portion and a second portion, and a joining portion; and a cryostat in which the coil is stored. The first portion and the second portion are located in a termination portion. The superconducting layer forms a closed loop by superconducting joining of the first portion and the second portion at the joining portion. The superconducting layer is made of a high-temperature superconductor. A current flows through the joining portion in a superconducting state when a magnetic field equal to or greater than 1.0 tesla and equal to or less than 5.0 tesla is applied to the joining portion at 77 kelvin. The cryostat is configured such that a temperature inside the cryostat is equal to or greater than 2.0 kelvin and equal to or less than 77 kelvin.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: RIKEN, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Maeda, Yoshinori Yanagisawa, Kotaro Ohki, Tatsuoki Nagaishi
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Patent number: 11962480Abstract: An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hideki Matsushima, Motoji Ohmori, Natsume Matsuzaki, Yuichi Futa, Toshihisa Nakano, Manabu Maeda, Yuji Unagami, Hiroshi Amano, Kotaro Hakoda
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Publication number: 20230313772Abstract: A starting system of an engine mounted on a vehicle includes an air reservoir; an air motor driven by compressed air supplied from the air reservoir; a battery; an electric motor driven by electric power from the battery; and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit performs the step of controlling the air motor and/or the electric motor so that the engine is started by at least one, determined in accordance with an air pressure in the air reservoir, of an output of the air motor and an output of the electric motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventor: Kotaro MAEDA
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Publication number: 20230220230Abstract: Provided is a conductive laminate including a base material and a conductive ink film provided on the base material, in which a region that extends from a position being away from a first main surface toward a second main surface by a distance equivalent to 50% of a thickness of the conductive ink film to the second main surface has a first void ratio of 15% to 50%, and a second void ratio in a region that extends from the first main surface toward the second main surface to a position being away from the first main surface by a distance equivalent to 10% of the thickness of the conductive ink film has a second void ratio which is smaller than the first void ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kotaro MAEDA, Norihide Shimohara
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Publication number: 20230212413Abstract: Provided is a conductive laminate including a base material and a conductive ink film provided on the base material, in which a region that extends from a first main surface toward a second main surface to a position being away from the first main surface by a distance equivalent to 50% of a thickness of the conductive ink film has a first void ratio of 15% to 50%, a region that extends from a position being away from the second main surface toward the first main surface by a distance equivalent to 10% of the thickness of the conductive ink film to the second main surface has a second void ratio which is smaller than the first void ratio, and the conductive ink film comprises at least one metal selected from the group consisting of silver, gold, platinum, nickel, palladium, and copper.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kotaro MAEDA, Norihide SHIMOHARA
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Publication number: 20190153969Abstract: A method for modelling engine emissions output is provided. The method includes determining a stoichiometric engine output emission value based on a dynamic data-based model and parameters associated with at least one engine operating state, wherein the at least one engine operating state is calculated at a substantially stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, selecting a target air-fuel ratio based on the at least one engine operating state and a desired engine performance, applying a predetermined static model to determine a correction factor to the stoichiometric engine output emission value, based on the target air-fuel ratio, and applying the correction factor to the determined stoichiometric engine output emission value to yield an air-fuel-ratio-corrected emission output value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPEInventors: Julie LE LOUVETEL-POILLY, Julien BOUILLY, Kotaro MAEDA, Francois LAFOSSAS
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Patent number: 10259219Abstract: A liquid droplet ejection head includes: a main body member that includes a nozzle that ejects a liquid droplet, a first pressure chamber that is linked to the nozzle, and a second pressure chamber that is linked to the nozzle; a first piezoelectric element that pressurizes the first pressure chamber by applying a first voltage, and causes the liquid droplet to be ejected from the nozzle; and a second piezoelectric element that pressurizes the second pressure chamber by applying a second voltage which is equal to or higher than the first voltage, and deflects the direction of the liquid droplets ejected from the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Seto, Kotaro Maeda
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Patent number: 10118403Abstract: A droplet ejecting apparatus includes: an ejecting section having a plurality of nozzles arranged along an intersecting direction with a transport direction of a recording medium. Each nozzle ejects a main droplet and a sub-droplet smaller than the main droplet consecutively. Each nozzle can change a deflection amount in an ejecting direction of the main droplet along the intersecting direction. A control section performs, in a case where a defective nozzle exists in the nozzles, a control of deflecting the ejecting directions of the main droplets ejected from a nozzle positioned within a predetermined distance from the defective nozzle toward a landing position of a main droplet that should have ejected from the defective nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kotaro Maeda, Shinji Seto
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Publication number: 20180201019Abstract: A liquid droplet ejection head includes: a main body member that includes a nozzle that ejects a liquid droplet, a first pressure chamber that is linked to the nozzle, and a second pressure chamber that is linked to the nozzle; a first piezoelectric element that pressurizes the first pressure chamber by applying a first voltage, and, causes the liquid droplet to be ejected from the nozzle; and a second piezoelectric element that pressurizes the second pressure chamber by applying a second voltage which is equal to or higher than the first voltage, and deflects the direction of the liquid droplets ejected from the nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Shinji Seto, Kotaro Maeda
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Patent number: 9953736Abstract: An aluminum electric wire includes an annealing conductor that is made up of elemental wires made of an aluminum alloy containing 0.90-1.20 mass % Fe, 0.10-0.25 mass % Mg, 0.01-0.05 mass % Ti, 0.0005-0.0025 mass % B, and the balance being Al and has a tensile strength of 110 MPa or more, a breaking elongation of 15% or more, and an electric conductivity of 58% IACS or more, and an insulating material covering the conductor. The wire is produced by casting an aluminum alloy prepared by rapidly solidifying a molten aluminum alloy having the above composition, producing the wires by subjecting the alloy to plasticity processing, producing the conductor by bunching the wires, subjecting the wires or the conductor to annealing at 250° C. or higher, and then covering the conductor with the insulator.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC TOYAMA CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Otsuka, Masanobu Yoshimura, Kotaro Maeda, Jun Yoshimoto, Masashi Kimura, Taichirou Nishikawa, Misato Kusakari, Shinichi Kitamura, Hiroaki Takai
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Publication number: 20180104962Abstract: A droplet ejecting apparatus includes: an ejecting section having a plurality of nozzles arranged along an intersecting direction with a transport direction of a recording medium. Each nozzle ejects a main droplet and a sub-droplet smaller than the main droplet consecutively. Each nozzle can change a deflection amount in an ejecting direction of the main droplet along the intersecting direction. A control section performs, in a case where a defective nozzle exists in the nozzles, a control of deflecting the ejecting directions of the main droplets ejected from a nozzle positioned within a predetermined distance from the defective nozzle toward a landing position of a main droplet that should have ejected from the defective nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: Kotaro Maeda, Shinji Seto
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Publication number: 20130255840Abstract: An aluminum electric wire includes an annealing conductor that is made up of elemental wires made of an aluminum alloy containing 0.90-1.20 mass % Fe, 0.10-0.25 mass % Mg, 0.01-0.05 mass % Ti, 0.0005-0.0025 mass % B, and the balance being Al and has a tensile strength of 110 MPa or more, a breaking elongation of 15% or more, and an electric conductivity of 58% IACS or more, and an insulating material covering the conductor. The wire is produced by casting an aluminum alloy prepared by rapidly solidifying a molten aluminum alloy having the above composition, producing the wires by subjecting the alloy to plasticity processing, producing the conductor by bunching the wires, subjecting the wires or the conductor to annealing at 250° C. or higher, and then covering the conductor with the insulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC TOYAMA CO., LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki OTSUKA, Masanobu YOSHIMURA, Kotaro MAEDA, Jun YOSHIMOTO, Masashi KIMURA, Taichirou NISHIKAWA, Misato KUSAKARI, Shinichi KITAMURA, Hiroaki TAKAI
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Patent number: 8476529Abstract: An aluminum electric wire includes an annealing conductor that is made up of elemental wires made of an aluminum alloy containing 0.90-1.20 mass % Fe, 0.10-0.25 mass % Mg, 0.01-0.05 mass % Ti, 0.0005-0.0025 mass % B, and the balance being Al and has a tensile strength of 110 MPa or more, a breaking elongation of 15% or more, and an electric conductivity of 58% IACS or more, and an insulating material covering the conductor. The wire is produced by casting an aluminum alloy prepared by rapidly solidifying a molten aluminum alloy having the above composition, producing the wires by subjecting the alloy to plasticity processing, producing the conductor by bunching the wires, subjecting the wires or the conductor to annealing at 250° C. or higher, and then covering the conductor with the insulator.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2008Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Toyama Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Otsuka, Masanobu Yoshimura, Kotaro Maeda, Jun Yoshimoto, Masashi Kimura, Taichirou Nishikawa, Misato Kusakari, Shinichi Kitamura, Hiroaki Takai
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Patent number: 8421449Abstract: An eddy-current flaw detection device comprises a magnetic element group of which a specified number of magnetic elements are evenly spaced in each of at least two rows around the surface of a column shaped casing that can be inserted into a conductive pipe, with one row being located at a different position from the other row by ½ the even spacing in the row direction, and switching circuits for switching the magnetic elements in the respective row at time-division. The elements of one row function as magnetic field excitation elements, the elements of the other row function as magnetic field detection elements, and the eddy-current flaw detection device performs eddy-current flaw detection of the conductive pipe by detecting magnetic field excited by magnetic field excitation element by two magnetic field detection elements located at different positions from the magnetic field excitation elements by 3/2 the even spacing.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Nuclear Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Harada, Junri Shimone, Kotaro Maeda
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Publication number: 20100231210Abstract: An eddy-current flaw detection device comprises a magnetic element group of which a specified number of magnetic elements are evenly spaced in each of at least two rows around the surface of a column shaped casing that can be inserted into a conductive pipe, with one row being located at a different position from the other row by ½ the even spacing in the row direction, and switching circuits for switching the magnetic elements in the respective row at time-division. The elements of one row function as magnetic field excitation elements, the elements of the other row function as magnetic field detection elements, and the eddy-current flaw detection device performs eddy-current flaw detection of the conductive pipe by detecting magnetic field excited by magnetic field excitation element by two magnetic field detection elements located at different positions from the magnetic field excitation elements by 3/2 the even spacing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Yutaka Harada, Junri Shimone, Kotaro Maeda
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Patent number: D949808Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: SANSHA ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Kotaro Maeda