Patents by Inventor Makoto Kikuchi
Makoto Kikuchi 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: 11761070Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member capable of suppressing deterioration in ductility thereof. In the method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member, an aluminum alloy casting material that contains 2.0 to 5.5 mass % of Cu, and 4.0 to 7.0 mass % of Si in which a content of Mg is 0.5 mass % or less, a content of Zn is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Fe is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Mn is 0.5 mass % or less and the balance is made of Al and inevitable impurities is used. The method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member includes a heating and holding step of heating and holding the aluminum alloy casting material within a solid-liquid coexisting temperature region; and a quenching step of rapidly cooling the aluminum alloy casting material after performing the heating and holding step.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Yokota, Hirotsune Watanabe, Makoto Kikuchi, Hiroshi Kawahara, Yasushi Iwata, Jun Yaokawa, Kazuma Hibi
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Publication number: 20230030565Abstract: There is provided a supporting body that is able to select a form of support to a display unit in accordance with a user's purpose or preference, an installation environment, or the like. The supporting body supports the display unit, and includes a first supporting unit and a second supporting unit that are detachably provided on the display unit, and a first form and a second form are configured to be selectable. In the first form, the first supporting unit is mounted at a first position of the display unit and the second supporting unit is mounted at a second position of the display unit. In the second form, the second supporting unit is mounted at the first position or a third position of the display unit, and the first supporting unit is mounted at the second position or a fourth position of the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: HIROKI MATSUOKA, MASAKI FUKANO, TOSHIAKI TAKAHASHI, HIROYUKI TAKAYAMA, MAKOTO KIKUCHI, TSUYOSHI IWATSUKI, HIROAKI YOKOTA, SHIGEYA KUWAO, HIROYUKI SUZUKAWA
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Publication number: 20230022864Abstract: A computer system controls a start of a gathering event that gathers a user character of a participating user at a given gathering place in a virtual space upon acceptance of a gathering request operation from a terminal of a directing user. The computer system controls a display of a map image displaying the gathering place in the virtual space in an identifiable display mode on the terminals of the directing user and the participating user. The computer system determines a success/failure of the gathering event using a position of the user character operated by the participating user. The computer system gives a given reward to the directing user and/or the participating user when the gathering event is determined to be a success in the event success/failure determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Makoto KIKUCHI, Kentaro HOMMA, Ayami YASUMOTO, Matthew DATUM, Akio ONDA
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Publication number: 20220106673Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member capable of suppressing deterioration in ductility thereof. In the method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member, an aluminum alloy casting material that contains 2.0 to 5.5 mass % of Cu, and 4.0 to 7.0 mass % of Si in which a content of Mg is 0.5 mass % or less, a content of Zn is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Fe is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Mn is 0.5 mass % or less and the balance is made of Al and inevitable impurities is used. The method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member includes a heating and holding step of heating and holding the aluminum alloy casting material within a solid-liquid coexisting temperature region; and a quenching step of rapidly cooling the aluminum alloy casting material after performing the heating and holding step.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke YOKOTA, Hirotsune WATANABE, Makoto KIKUCHI, Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Yasushi IWATA, Jun YAOKAWA, Kazuma HIBI
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Patent number: 11216836Abstract: A computer system performs display control to display a reward advertisement at a given screen switching timing, a screen switching timing due to start or end of a game progress unit, or a timing at which a game progression satisfies a given change condition. The computer system gives a reward for watching the advertisement to a player. The reward is set based on user data and/or play data of the player related to the game.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akio Onda, Daisuke Omori, Makoto Kikuchi, Yuki Matsuba, Masayuki Oda, Tatsuya Shioiri
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Patent number: 11214857Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member capable of suppressing deterioration in ductility thereof. In the method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member, an aluminum alloy casting material that contains 2.0 to 5.5 mass % of Cu, and 4.0 to 7.0 mass % of Si in which a content of Mg is 0.5 mass % or less, a content of Zn is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Fe is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Mn is 0.5 mass % or less and the balance is made of Al and inevitable impurities is used. The method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member includes a heating and holding step of heating and holding the aluminum alloy casting material within a solid-liquid coexisting temperature region; and a quenching step of rapidly cooling the aluminum ally casting material after performing the heating and holding step.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Yokota, Hirotsune Watanabe, Makoto Kikuchi, Hiroshi Kawahara, Yasushi Iwata, Jun Yaokawa, Kazuma Hibi
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Patent number: 11202962Abstract: An advertisement that has been watched by a friend but has not been watched by a target player is controlled to be displayed at a timing satisfying a timing condition defining a timing at which the advertisement is displayed, in a game played by the target player. At that time, information indicating that the advertisement has been watched by the friend is also controlled to be displayed. A reward for watching the advertisement is given to the target player. The reward changes in accordance with the number of the friends who have watched the advertisement and a friendship level of the friend. The target player is further notified that the advertisement has been watched by the friend, and thus the reward has changed.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akio Onda, Daisuke Omori, Makoto Kikuchi, Yuki Matsuba, Masayuki Oda, Tatsuya Shioiri
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Patent number: 11188942Abstract: When a player sets an acquisition target item to be an item he or she wants at a timing of creating a plan, actually required points that are required for acquiring the acquisition target item is determined. Then, options of the advertisement plan in which one or a plurality of advertisements are listed so that watching points reaching the actually required points can be acquired, from options of advertisements that can be watched in exchange for the watching points. When any of the plans is selected and confirmed, an advertisement is displayed based on the plan, and the watching points are given to the player. When the sum of the watching points given reaches the actually required points, the acquisition target item in the plan is given to the player.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Omori, Makoto Kikuchi, Yuki Matsuba, Masayuki Oda, Akio Onda, Tatsuya Shioiri
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Patent number: 11107885Abstract: A semiconductor film includes a cluster of semiconductor quantum dots each having a metal atom and ligands coordinating to respective semiconductor quantum dots, and the semiconductor quantum dots have an average shortest inter-dot distance of less than 0.45 nm. A solar cell, a light-emitting diode, a thin film transistor, and an electronic device include the semiconductor film.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masashi Ono, Makoto Kikuchi, Atsushi Tanaka, Masayuki Suzuki, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu
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Patent number: 10886421Abstract: A semiconductor film, including: an assembly of semiconductor quantum dots containing a metal atom; and a ligand that is coordinated to the semiconductor quantum dots and that is represented by the following Formula (A): wherein, in Formula (A), X1 represents NH, S, or O; each of X2 and X3 independently represents NH2, SH, or OH; and each of n and m independently represents an integer from 1 to 3.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masashi Ono, Makoto Kikuchi, Atsushi Tanaka, Masayuki Suzuki, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu
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Publication number: 20200394670Abstract: A computer system performs display control to display a reward advertisement at a given screen switching timing, a screen switching timing due to start or end of a game progress unit, or a timing at which a game progression satisfies a given change condition. The computer system gives a reward for watching the advertisement to a player. The reward is set based on user data and/or play data of the player related to the game.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Akio ONDA, Daisuke OMORI, Makoto KIKUCHI, Yuki MATSUBA, Masayuki ODA, Tatsuya SHIOIRI
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Patent number: 10773300Abstract: A casting apparatus includes: a mold including a first mold segment and a second mold segment; and a transfer device that is configured to transfer a core to the first mold segment and place the core in the first mold segment, and to receive and transfer a casting. The transfer device includes a support part, a robot arm, a core grasping mechanism being provided on the support part, and a casting receiving part being provided on the support part. The transfer device is configured such that the robot arm moves the core grasping mechanism so as to place the core in the first mold segment, and moves the casting receiving part so as to receive the casting by the casting receiving part.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Tomita, Tadashi Nakahashi, Makoto Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20190284669Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member capable of suppressing deterioration in ductility thereof. In the method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member, an aluminum alloy casting material that contains 2.0 to 5.5 mass % of Cu, and 4.0 to 7.0 mass % of Si in which a content of Mg is 0.5 mass % or less, a content of Zn is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Fe is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Mn is 0.5 mass % or less and the balance is made of Al and inevitable impurities is used. The method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member includes a heating and holding step of heating and holding the aluminum alloy casting material within a solid-liquid coexisting temperature region; and a quenching step of rapidly cooling the aluminum ally casting material after performing the heating and holding step.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke YOKOTA, Hirotsune WATANABE, Makoto KIKUCHI, Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Yasushi IWATA, Jun YAOKAWA, Kazuma HIBI
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Patent number: 10189132Abstract: A core grasping apparatus according to the present disclosure grasps a core including a core main body and a core print provided at one end of the core main body. The core grasping apparatus includes: a first holding device and a second holding device respectively including expandable and contractible first and second holding parts; and a turning suppression part configured to suppress the core from turning upon the core print being grasped by the first holding device and the second holding device. The first holding device and the second holding device grasp the core print by respectively expanding the first holding part and the second holding part, and the turning suppression part applies a force that suppresses a turning moment acting on the core to the core print.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshitaka Tanaka, Makoto Kikuchi, Tsubasa Ito, Tadashi Nakahashi, Masaki Kobune
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Patent number: 10059572Abstract: Provided is a core grasping method of grasping a core using a core grasping apparatus. The core grasping apparatus includes grasping devices respectively having expandable and contractible grasping parts. The core includes holes, and at least one of the holes has an inside diameter that decreases in the opposite direction from a direction of a turning moment occurring on the core. The core grasping method involves, when grasping the core, expanding the grasping parts inserted in the holes so as to bring the grasping parts into contact with inner walls of the holes of the core, and grasping the core and applying a force that suppresses the turning moment to the core.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshitaka Tanaka, Makoto Kikuchi, Tsubasa Ito, Mitsuhiro Ishikura, Masaki Kobune
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Patent number: 10046924Abstract: A core conveying device includes a plurality of holding devices, a support section, a moving device, and a mounting table. The support section has a hole formed at a position corresponding to a positioning pin and is connected so as to slide in a horizontal direction with respect to the moving device. A size of a lower end opening of the hole is larger than a size of an upper end of the positioning pin. The support section is configured such that, when the support section is moved downward so as to grip the core, as the positioning pin abuts against an inner surface of the hole and the support section slides in the horizontal direction with respect to the moving device, a position of the support section in the horizontal direction with respect to the core is determined.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Kikuchi, Tsubasa Ito, Yoshitaka Tanaka, Tadashi Nakahashi
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Patent number: 10050161Abstract: A semiconductor film, including: an assembly of semiconductor quantum dots containing a metal atom; and at least one ligand that is coordinated to the semiconductor quantum dots and that is selected from a ligand represented by Formula (A), a ligand represented by Formula (B), and a ligand represented by Formula (C): wherein, in Formula (A), X1 represents —SH, —NH2, or —OH; and each of A1 and B1 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent having from 1 to 10 atoms; provided that when A1 and B1 are both hydrogen atoms, X1 represents —SH or —OH; in Formula (B), X2 represents —SH, —NH2, or —OH; and each of A2 and B2 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent having from 1 to 10 atoms; and in Formula (C), A3 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent having from 1 to 10 atoms.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masashi Ono, Makoto Kikuchi, Atsushi Tanaka, Masayuki Suzuki, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu
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Publication number: 20180214942Abstract: A casting apparatus includes: a mold including a first mold segment and a second mold segment; and a transfer device that is configured to transfer a core to the first mold segment and place the core in the first mold segment, and to receive and transfer a casting. The transfer device includes a support part, a robot arm, a core grasping mechanism being provided on the support part, and a casting receiving part being provided on the support part. The transfer device is configured such that the robot arm moves the core grasping mechanism so as to place the core in the first mold segment, and moves the casting receiving part so as to receive the casting by the casting receiving part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi TOMITA, Tadashi NAKAHASHI, Makoto KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20180178128Abstract: An advertisement that has been watched by a friend but has not been watched by a target player is controlled to be displayed at a timing satisfying a timing condition defining a timing at which the advertisement is displayed, in a game played by the target player. At that time, information indicating that the advertisement has been watched by the friend is also controlled to be displayed. A reward for watching the advertisement is given to the target player. The reward changes in accordance with the number of the friends who have watched the advertisement and a friendship level of the friend. The target player is further notified that the advertisement has been watched by the friend, and thus the reward has changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Akio ONDA, Daisuke Omori, Makoto Kikuchi, Yuki Matsuba, Masayuki Oda, Tatsuya Shioiri
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Publication number: 20180181987Abstract: When a player sets an acquisition target item to be an item he or she wants at a timing of creating a plan, actually required points that are required for acquiring the acquisition target item is determined. Then, options of the advertisement plan in which one or a plurality of advertisements are listed so that watching points reaching the actually required points can be acquired, from options of advertisements that can be watched in exchange for the watching points. When any of the plans is selected and confirmed, an advertisement is displayed based on the plan, and the watching points are given to the player. When the sum of the watching points given reaches the actually required points, the acquisition target item in the plan is given to the player.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Daisuke OMORI, Makoto KIKUCHI, Yuki MATSUBA, Masayuki ODA, Akio ONDA, Tatsuya SHIOIRI