Patents by Inventor Osamu Kikuchi
Osamu 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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Publication number: 20240152081Abstract: A heater is to face a pressure element via a belt and is to heat the belt. The pressure element sandwiches and conveys a sheet together with the belt. The heater includes a substrate, a heat generating element, a couple of electrodes, and a protective layer. there are the electrodes on both sides of the heat generating element in a conveyance direction of the sheet. Both sides of the heat generating element in the conveyance direction are connected to adjacent electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Kazuhiko KIKUCHI, Osamu TAKAGI, Chie MIYAUCHI
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Publication number: 20240109473Abstract: A left vehicle lamp (2L) includes a lamp housing (14), a lamp cover (12) that covers an opening of the lamp housing (14), an illumination unit (3, 4) that is disposed inside a lamp chamber (S) formed by the lamp housing (14) and the lamp power bar (12), a radar (5) configured to acquire a radar data indicating a surrounding environment of a vehicle by emitting radio waves toward the outside of the vehicle, and a light guide member (6) that is disposed in a manner of facing the radar (5) so as to hide at least a part of the radar (5) from the outside of the vehicle and is configured to transmit radio waves emitted from the radar (5). The radar (5) is disposed outside the housing (S). The light guide member (6) is configured to emit light toward the outside of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Katsurada, Yuta Maruyama, Osamu Kuboyama, Akihito Horikawa, Kosei Kikuchi, Yuichi Watano
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Patent number: 11910067Abstract: A content providing system is provided that includes a client terminal and a server, and provides content based on a use state of the client terminal. The client terminal includes a client control unit and a display unit. The server includes a client terminal management unit, a content recording unit, a content management unit, a content distribution control unit, and a distribution condition management unit. The client control unit secures a content frame based on a distribution condition notified from the distribution condition management unit, and transmits a distribution request of the content to the content distribution control unit. The content distribution control unit extracts and distributes the content from the content recording unit, and the client control unit displays the content distributed by the content distribution control unit on the display unit within the content frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NEC NETWORKS & SYSTEM INTEGRATION CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Kikuchi, Yasuaki Tsunemi, Yukiko Einaga, Tomonori Kaizaki, Makoto Kawamura, Satoshi Kobayashi, Tomomi Abe, Xuan Han, Ryuki Kitagawa
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Publication number: 20230266520Abstract: A fiber connected body includes: a first multi-core fiber including a first cladding, first cores disposed in the first cladding, and a first marker disposed in the first cladding; and a second multi-core fiber including a second cladding, second cores disposed in the second cladding, and a second marker disposed in the second cladding. One end surface of the second multi-core fiber is connected to one end surface of the first multi-core fiber. Each of the second cores is connected to any one of the first cores, or each of the first cores is connected to any one of the second cores.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Takuya Oda, Osamu Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11635382Abstract: A blood analyzer according to one or more embodiments may include: a specimen preparation part that prepares a measurement specimen by mixing a reagent into a blood preparation; a measurement part that measures the measurement specimen; a measurement mode selection unit that receives an input of a type of blood preparation as a measurement target selected from a plurality of types of blood preparations; and a controller. The controller may cause the specimen preparation part to prepare the measurement specimen depending on the selected type of blood preparation.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Kikuchi, Takahito Mihara, Yuji Masuda, Atsushi Shirakami, Takuma Watanabe, Daigo Fukuma, Masaharu Shibata
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Publication number: 20230089109Abstract: A blood analyzer according to one or more embodiments may include: a specimen preparation part that prepares a measurement specimen by mixing a reagent into a blood preparation; a measurement part that measures the measurement specimen; a measurement mode selection unit that receives an input of a type of blood preparation as a measurement target selected from a plurality of types of blood preparations; and a controller. The controller may cause the specimen preparation part to prepare the measurement specimen depending on the selected type of blood preparation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu KIKUCHI, Takahito MIHARA, Yuji MASUDA, Atsushi SHIRAKAMI, Takuma WATANABE, Daigo FUKUMA, Masaharu SHIBATA
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Publication number: 20220295157Abstract: A content providing system is provided that includes a client terminal and a server, and provides content based on a use state of the client terminal. The client terminal includes a client control unit and a display unit. The server includes a client terminal management unit, a content recording unit, a content management unit, a content distribution control unit, and a distribution condition management unit. The client control unit secures a content frame based on a distribution condition notified from the distribution condition management unit, and transmits a distribution request of the content to the content distribution control unit. The content distribution control unit extracts and distributes the content from the content recording unit, and the client control unit displays the content distributed by the content distribution control unit on the display unit within the content frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2019Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Osamu KIKUCHI, Yasuaki TSUNEMI, Yukiko EINAGA, Tomonori KAIZAKI, Makoto KAWAMURA, Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Tomomi ABE, Xuan HAN, Ryuki KITAGAWA
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Publication number: 20220283124Abstract: Provided is an ultrasonic testing device with which it is possible to suitably detect internal defects in an article to be tested. For this purpose, the ultrasonic testing device comprises: an ultrasonic probe that generates ultrasonic waves and transmits the same to the article to be tested, and that receives reflected waves reflected from the article to be tested; and a computation processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Kaoru SAKAI, Masayuki KOBAYASHI, Osamu KIKUCHI, Shigeru OONO, Kotaro KIKUKAWA
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Patent number: 11373286Abstract: The present invention is provided with an information acquisition unit for acquiring at least one piece of physical information regarding an object including a target built therein, a status of the target being unable to be directly checked from outside, the at least one piece of physical information being manifested outside the object, and a status determination unit for determining the status of the target based on the acquired at least one piece of physical information.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Inoue
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Publication number: 20200326698Abstract: A failure prediction device includes: a plurality of failure prediction model units that output a failure prediction result according to a value input to calculation models generated for different failure details based on operation information on operation up to the occurrence of the respective failures from operation history of a predetermined device; and an operation information input unit that inputs operation information acquired from a device subjected to failure prediction to the plurality of failure prediction model units.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Osamu KIKUCHI, Hiroyuki INOUE
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Patent number: 10696326Abstract: The steering angles of front wheels 3f and rear wheels 3r of a vehicle 1 can be respectively controlled by a front wheel steering angle control actuator 35 and a rear wheel steering angle control actuator 44. If a steering wheel 20 is operated in a turning direction of the vehicle 1 while the vehicle 1 is traveling in a straight line, then a controller 60 changes the steering angle of the front wheels 3f to approach to a steering angle specified on the basis of an operation amount after the steering wheel 20 is operated, and also controls the front wheel steering angle control actuator 35 and the rear wheel steering angle control actuator 44 to change the steering angles of the rear wheels 3r to the opposite direction of the turning direction of the vehicle 1 immediately after the steering wheel 20 is operated.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Takenaka, Hiroshi Gomi, Yoshinao Sodeyama, Kazushi Akimoto, Osamu Kikuchi, Takashi Kudo
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Publication number: 20200159784Abstract: An infringement detection apparatus is an information processing apparatus. The infringement detection apparatus stores, in a storage unit, a similarity/dissimilarity determination model produced through machine learning based on a plurality of cases showing determination on similarity/dissimilarity of marks. The infringement detection apparatus acknowledges an input of a second mark that should be compared with a first mark that is a subject of determination. The infringement detection apparatus determines similarity/dissimilarity between the first mark and the second mark by using the similarity/dissimilarity determination model stored in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Osamu KIKUCHI, Hiroyuki INOUE
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Patent number: 10529068Abstract: In an ultrasonic inspection performed on an inspection object including a fine and multi-layer structure such as a semiconductor wafer and a MEMS wafer, a defect is detected by: separating a defect present inside from a normal pattern; obtaining an image of the inspection object by imaging the inspection object having a pattern formed thereon to enable a highly sensitive detection; generating a reference image that does not include a defect from the obtained image of the inspection object; generating a multi-value mask for masking a non-defective pixel from the obtained image of the inspection object; calculating a defect accuracy by matching the brightness of the image of the inspection object and the reference image; and comparing the calculated defect accuracy with the generated multi-value mask.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaoru Sakai, Osamu Kikuchi, Kenji Sahara
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Patent number: 10354372Abstract: In an ultrasonic inspection performed on an inspection object including a fine and multi-layer structure such as a semiconductor wafer and a MEMS wafer, a defect is detected by: separating a defect present inside from a normal pattern; obtaining an image of the inspection object by imaging the inspection object having a pattern formed thereon to enable a highly sensitive detection; generating a reference image that does not include a defect from the obtained image of the inspection object; generating a multi-value mask for masking a non-defective pixel from the obtained image of the inspection object; calculating a defect accuracy by matching the brightness of the image of the inspection object and the reference image; and comparing the calculated defect accuracy with the generated multi-value mask.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaoru Sakai, Osamu Kikuchi, Kenji Sahara
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Patent number: 10341608Abstract: A communication system induces communication between different base sites, which includes a video display unit disposed by corresponding to a flow line set on a floor face of a first base site out of the different base sites, and an imaging device which captures a state of a second base site out of the different base sites. The flow line is a route along which persons go back and forth on the floor face of the base site and the video display unit displays the video captured by the imaging device to transmit the state within the second base site as video information toward the corresponding flow line side of the first base site.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: NEC NETWORKS & SYSTEM INTEGRATION CORPORATIONInventors: Akifumi Yue, Norihiko Fujioka, Osamu Kikuchi, Yukiko Einaga, Tomonori Kaizaki, Ken Mitsudo, Yumi Sugiura, Tsukasa Nagase, Satoshi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20190197680Abstract: In an ultrasonic inspection performed on an inspection object including a fine and multi-layer structure such as a semiconductor wafer and a MEMS wafer, a defect is detected by: separating a defect present inside from a normal pattern; obtaining an image of the inspection object by imaging the inspection object having a pattern formed thereon to enable a highly sensitive detection; generating a reference image that does not include a defect from the obtained image of the inspection object; generating a multi-value mask for masking a non-defective pixel from the obtained image of the inspection object; calculating a defect accuracy by matching the brightness of the image of the inspection object and the reference image; and comparing the calculated defect accuracy with the generated multi-value mask.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Kaoru SAKAI, Osamu KIKUCHI, Kenji SAHARA
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Publication number: 20190049383Abstract: A blood analyzer according to one or more embodiments may include: a specimen preparation part that prepares a measurement specimen by mixing a reagent into a blood preparation; a measurement part that measures the measurement specimen; a measurement mode selection unit that receives an input of a type of blood preparation as a measurement target selected from a plurality of types of blood preparations; and a controller. The controller may cause the specimen preparation part to prepare the measurement specimen depending on the selected type of blood preparation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu KIKUCHI, Takahito MIHARA, Yuji MASUDA, Atsushi SHIRAKAMI, Takuma WATANABE, Daigo FUKUMA, Masaharu SHIBATA
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Publication number: 20190050978Abstract: In an ultrasonic inspection performed on an inspection object including a fine and multi-layer structure such as a semiconductor wafer and a MEMS wafer, a defect is detected by: separating a defect present inside from a normal pattern; obtaining an image of the inspection object by imaging the inspection object having a pattern formed thereon to enable a highly sensitive detection; generating a reference image that does not include a defect from the obtained image of the inspection object; generating a multi-value mask for masking a non-defective pixel from the obtained image of the inspection object; calculating a defect accuracy by matching the brightness of the image of the inspection object and the reference image; and comparing the calculated defect accuracy with the generated multi-value mask.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2016Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Kaoru SAKAI, Osamu KIKUCHI, Kenji SAHARA
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Patent number: 10122469Abstract: A connector which serves as an optical transmitter in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a transmitting circuit configured to convert a data signal into an electric current signal, the data signal being a three-valued; and an LD configured to convert the electric current signal into an optical signal. The transmitting circuit detects, as an IDLE interval, an interval during which the data signal falls within a predetermined range that is between a high level and a low level. The transmitting circuit controls, during the IDLE interval, the electric current signal to be not greater than a threshold electric current of the LD.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Kubo, Osamu Kikuchi, Takayuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 10097278Abstract: A connector which serves as an optical transmitter in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a transmitting circuit configured to convert a data signal into an electric current signal, the data signal being a three-valued; and an LD configured to convert the electric current signal into an optical signal. The transmitting circuit detects, as an IDLE interval, an interval during which the data signal falls within a predetermined range that is between a high level and a low level. The transmitting circuit controls, during the IDLE interval, the electric current signal to be not greater than a threshold electric current of the LD.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Kubo, Osamu Kikuchi, Takayuki Tanaka