Patents by Inventor Makoto Ichikawa
Makoto Ichikawa 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: 20240159549Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that includes at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: acquire a satellite image of the ground, which is captured by an artificial satellite, for a target area based on disaster information; based on the satellite image, detect an obstruction on a road which relates to passage of a vehicle; and output a road for which no obstruction is detected as a traversable road.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIK KAISHAInventors: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Yoshie SAKAKIBARA, Hirotaka NOGAMI, Makoto TAMURA, Daigo ICHIKAWA, Shintaro MATSUTANI
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Publication number: 20240108291Abstract: A ventricular pressure waveform estimation device includes a calculation unit. The calculation unit estimates a plurality of coefficients of a model equation that indicates a left ventricular pressure waveform or a right ventricular pressure waveform by using values of one or more parameters related to a heartbeat or an arterial pressure to estimate at least a part of the left ventricular pressure waveform or the right ventricular pressure waveform.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomonori HATTA, Ryo ICHIKAWA, Makoto NARITA, Tomoki UTSUGIDA, Yoshiharu EZASHI
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Publication number: 20240083705Abstract: A film-roll supply device improves replacement of a film roll in a bag-making and packaging machine. A film roll replacement device supplies a first film roll to a bag-making and packaging machine. The film roll replacement device is provided with a holding section and a first driving unit. The holding section receives the first film roll to be supplied to the bag-making and packaging machine. The first driving unit changes an orientation of the holding section between a first orientation used when receiving the first film roll and a second orientation used when supplying the first film roll to the bag-making and packaging machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Masayuki YAMANE, Makoto ICHIKAWA, Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Yuchuan TONG
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Patent number: 11912456Abstract: A bagmaking and packaging device includes a transverse sealing unit, a first tube member, and a gas flow path member. The first tube member is disposed above the transverse sealing unit and extends in an up and down direction. The first tube member allows a packaging material to become wrapped around it to thereby form the packaging material into a tubular shape. At least part of the gas flow path member is disposed inside the first tube member. The gas flow path member delivers nitrogen into the packaging material formed into the tubular shape. The first tube member includes a cutout portion that extends in the up and down direction. The cutout portion is formed so that the nitrogen can move between a space between the packaging material formed into the tubular shape and the first tube member and the inside space of the first tube member.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ISHIDA CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Yamane, Makoto Ichikawa, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ryuichi Kurosawa, Rintaro Moritani
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Publication number: 20240017948Abstract: A film roll replacement device supplies a film roll to a bag making and packaging machine. The film roll replacement device includes a holding section, a driving unit, and a controller. The holding section is at least temporarily located adjacent to a supporting shaft to support the film roll in the bag making and packaging machine, and the holding section holds a first film roll supplied to the bag making and packaging machine. The driving unit moves the holding section in an up-down direction. The controller controls an action of the driving unit to move the holding section to a position where a height position of a center of the first film roll held by the holding section is aligned with the height of a center of the supporting shaft of the bag making and packaging machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Masayuki YAMANE, Makoto ICHIKAWA, Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Yuchuan TONG, Masaki SHINKAWA
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Publication number: 20240017949Abstract: A film roll replacement device supplies a film roll to a bag making and packaging machine, which has a film-roll-supporting part to support the film roll and which manufactures bags containing articles using the film. The film roll replacement device includes a holding section, the driving unit, and a controller. The holding section is located adjacent to the bag making and packaging machine, and the holding section holds the film roll supplied to the bag making and packaging machine. The driving unit moves the holding section. The controller controls an action of the driving unit to move the holding section to move in a first direction toward the supporting part of the bag making and packaging machine and to transfer the film roll held by the holding section to the supporting part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Makoto ICHIKAWA, Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Masayuki YAMANE, Yuchuan TONG
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FORMER, BAGMAKING AND PACKAGING MACHINE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BAGMAKING AND PACKAGING MACHINE
Publication number: 20230382576Abstract: A bagmaking and packaging machine forms a packaging material in a tubular shape and packages packaging articles. The bagmaking and packaging machine includes a former, a wraparound member, and a support member. The former folds and guides the packaging material. Around the wraparound member is wrapped the packaging material folded by the former. The support member supports the former and the wraparound member. The former includes a collar member that guides the packaging material and a first tube member for forming in a tubular shape the packaging material guided by the collar member. The first tube member has one end to which the collar member is connected, and includes a first mating portion that is mated with the support member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Makoto ICHIKAWA, Rintaro MORITANI -
Patent number: 11760522Abstract: A bag-making and packaging machine includes sealing jaws, a horizontal moving device, a vertical moving device, and a control unit. The sealing jaws perform a transverse sealing operation. The vertical moving device moves the sealing jaws in a vertical direction. The vertical moving device includes a rotating shaft, a motor, and a link mechanism. The link mechanism transmits rotational force of the rotating shaft to the sealing jaws. The control unit performs first control or second control. The first control forwardly rotates and reversely rotates the rotating shaft during a period of time from a start of the transverse sealing operation to a start of a subsequent transverse sealing operation. The second control performs one of the transverse sealing operation and the subsequent transverse sealing operation with a forward rotation of the rotating shaft and the other with a reverse rotation of the rotating shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: ISHIDA CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryo Sasaki, Makoto Ichikawa, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ryota Nagashima, Hiroki Fujihara
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Patent number: 11588167Abstract: A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly of a flat plate shape including an electrolyte membrane and an electrode catalyst layer, the membrane electrode assembly having a first side intersecting a flow pathway of a reactive gas on a surface of the fuel cell and a second side differing from the first side; a frame member of a flat plate shape including an opening part for arrangement of the membrane electrode assembly, the opening part having a first frame side corresponding to the first side and a second frame side corresponding to the second side; and an adhesive member for bonding between an outer periphery of the membrane electrode assembly and an inner periphery of the frame member. The thickness of the adhesive member in an area from an inner peripheral edge at the second frame side toward a center of the frame member may be greater than the thickness of the adhesive member in an area from an inner peripheral edge at the first frame side toward the center of the frame member.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Adachi, Makoto Ichikawa, Shogo Ohmori, Hiroshi Harada, Yu Ashitaka, Tsutomu Ochi
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Publication number: 20230047521Abstract: In a weighing and packaging system 1, an analysis unit 714 ascertains a fluctuation tendency in a time series for a measured value of information pertaining to a time in which a group of articles C passes between a light-projecting unit 27a and a light-receiving unit 27b of a detection sensor 27 of a bag-making and packaging unit 3, and adjusts a transverse seal timing or a cycle time in accordance with the fluctuation tendency. As a result, articles can be prevented in advance from being bitten during transverse sealing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Makoto ICHIKAWA, Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Takafumi OHTANI, Yuchuan TONG, Ryo SASAKI
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Publication number: 20220289411Abstract: A bagmaking and packaging device includes a transverse sealing unit, a first tube member, and a gas flow path member. The first tube member is disposed above the transverse sealing unit and extends in an up and down direction. The first tube member allows a packaging material to become wrapped around it to thereby form the packaging material into a tubular shape. At least part of the gas flow path member is disposed inside the first tube member. The gas flow path member delivers nitrogen into the packaging material formed into the tubular shape. The first tube member includes a cutout portion that extends in the up and down direction. The cutout portion is formed so that the nitrogen can move between a space between the packaging material formed into the tubular shape and the first tube member and the inside space of the first tube member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Masayuki YAMANE, Makoto ICHIKAWA, Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Ryuichi KUROSAWA, Rintaro MORITANI
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Patent number: 11370568Abstract: A form-fill-seal machine forms a bag by filling and sealing a packing object in a wrapping material. The form-fill-seal machine includes a thickness adjustment unit which adjusts a thickness of the bag and a control unit which controls an operation of the thickness adjustment unit. The control unit acquires thickness information obtained in a rear stage of the form-fill-seal machine and relating to a thickness of the bag and controls the operation of the thickness adjustment unit on the basis of a result obtained by performing statistical processing on the thickness information.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: ISHIDA CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Koike, Makoto Ichikawa, Yuchuan Tong, Motoki Takayama, Ryo Sasaki
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Publication number: 20220169410Abstract: An article processing apparatus (1) according to an embodiment discharges an article to a downstream apparatus (2) disposed downstream. The article processing apparatus includes: a display (110); a capturing unit (100) that captures a picture including at least part of the downstream apparatus; and a controller (30) that displays, in a case where a processing operation of the article remains stopped in the article processing apparatus, on the display, the picture captured by the capturing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: Ishida Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideshi MIYAMOTO, Makoto ICHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220091598Abstract: The present invention reduces the possibility that poor-quality products are distributed to market. The bag-making and packaging apparatus is a production processing device used in quality management of foodstuffs. The bag-making and packaging apparatus includes a control part, a storage part, and an acquisition part. The control part changes an action performed by the individual parts. The storage part stores an inspection item pertaining to quality management of the foodstuffs. The acquisition part acquires an inspection result pertaining to the inspection item. The control part determines at least one of the following: whether or not the inspection result has been inputted to the acquisition part, whether the input of the inspection results inputted to the acquisition part is normal or not, and whether the inspection result acquired by the acquisition part is good or not. The control part changes the action based on the result of the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Makoto ICHIKAWA, Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Masayuki YAMANE, Tomoko KOIKE
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Publication number: 20220037681Abstract: To provide a fuel cell production method configured to suppress the formation of a blister in a thermoplastic sheet. The production method is a method for producing a fuel cell, wherein the method comprises: a first attaching step, a disposing step and a second attaching step in which, after the disposing step, the membrane electrode assembly and the resin frame are attached via the thermoplastic sheet, and the membrane electrode assembly and the gas diffusion layer are attached via the thermoplastic sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Makoto ICHIKAWA, Naohiro MITANI, Makoto ADACHI
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Publication number: 20220024623Abstract: A bag-making and packaging machine includes sealing jaws, a horizontal moving device, a vertical moving device, and a control unit. The sealing jaws perform a transverse sealing operation. The vertical moving device moves the sealing jaws in a vertical direction. The vertical moving device includes a rotating shaft, a motor, and a link mechanism. The link mechanism transmits rotational force of the rotating shaft to the sealing jaws. The control unit performs first control or second control. The first control forwardly rotates and reversely rotates the rotating shaft during a period of time from a start of the transverse sealing operation to a start of a subsequent transverse sealing operation. The second control performs one of the transverse sealing operation and the subsequent transverse sealing operation with a forward rotation of the rotating shaft and the other with a reverse rotation of the rotating shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Ryo SASAKI, Makoto ICHIKAWA, Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Ryota NAGASHIMA, Hiroki FUJIHARA
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Patent number: 11208222Abstract: A bag-making and packaging machine has a film supply unit that supplies film to a bag-making and packaging unit. The film supply unit has holding mechanisms each having a shaft that holds a film roll, a holding mechanism support frame supporting the holding mechanisms, a moving mechanism that rotates the holding mechanism support frame to move each holding mechanism between a film roll setting position and a film supply position, a splicing mechanism splicing a trailing end portion of the film of the roll of one of the holding mechanisms and a leading end portion of the film of the roll of another one of the holding mechanisms, and a film drawing mechanism that rotates the shafts of the holding mechanisms to draw the film independently from the film rolls attached to the shafts of the holding mechanisms and changes the drawing speed of the film during bag-making and packaging.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ISHIDA CO., LTD.Inventors: Takafumi Shimoda, Masaki Shinkawa, Ryota Nagashima, Satoshi Hashimoto, Makoto Ichikawa, Yuchuan Tong
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Patent number: 11186388Abstract: A weighing and packaging system includes a plurality of weighing machines, a plurality of packaging machines, and a control unit. The plurality of weighing machines are configured to weigh articles supplied thereto. The plurality of packaging machines, each of which forms a weighing and packaging unit with a corresponding weighing machine among the plurality of weighing machines, are configured to receive a supply of the articles weighed and discharged by the corresponding weighing machine, and package the articles supplied thereto. The control unit is configured to, in a case where a problem occurs in at least one of weighing by the weighing machine and packaging by the packaging machine in any of the weighing and packaging units, change processing capacities of the weighing machine and the packaging machine of at least some of the weighing and packaging units other than the weighing and packaging units in which the problem occurs.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: ISHIDA CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiji Taga, Ryuichi Kurosawa, Makoto Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20210292026Abstract: A bag-making and packaging apparatus, for forming a bag containing a packaged article from a conveyed packaging material, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a printing part, first and second receiving parts, and a retaining part. The printing part prints information on the packaging material. The first receiving part is used in a first mode to print on the packaging material during conveyance without stopping conveyance. The second receiving part is used in a second mode to print on the packaging material at a timing when conveyance of the packaging material is stopped. The retaining part retains the first receiving part or the second receiving part so that the first receiving part and the printing part face each other with the packaging material disposed therebetween in the first mode, and the second receiving part and the printing part face each other with the packaging material disposed therebetween in the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Makoto ICHIKAWA, Toru MORIHIRA, Tatsuo ITO, Ryoichi SATO, Kazuaki TAKAMORI
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Patent number: D931351Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Watanabe, Kenta Itokazu, Makoto Ichikawa