Patents by Inventor Shinji Takahashi
Shinji Takahashi 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: 11974432Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of electrode films on a substrate, spaced from one another in a first direction. A charge storage film is provided on a side face the electrode films via a first insulating film. A semiconductor film is provided on a side face of the charge storage film via a second insulating film. The charge storage film includes a plurality of insulator regions contacting the first insulating film, a plurality of semiconductor or conductor regions provided between the insulator regions and another insulator region.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Yuta Saito, Keiichi Sawa, Kazuhiro Matsuo, Yuta Kamiya, Shinji Mori, Kota Takahashi, Junichi Kaneyama, Tomoki Ishimaru, Kenichiro Toratani, Ha Hoang, Shouji Honda, Takafumi Ochiai
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Patent number: 11972909Abstract: A capacitor disposed inside a multilayer substrate that includes a conductive pattern on a surface thereof and an anode portion having a first conductive metal member and a porous portion disposed on a surface of the first conductive metal member, a cathode portion, and a dielectric layer disposed between the anode portion and the cathode portion. Moreover, the anode portion is led out to a surface side of the multilayer substrate by a connection electrode including an alloy layer containing a metal forming the first conductive metal member and a conductive layer disposed on the alloy layer, and in which the connection electrode is connected to the conductive pattern formed on the surface of the multilayer substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazutaka Nakamura, Kohei Shimada, Takeshi Furukawa, Shinji Otani, Akitomo Takahashi
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Patent number: 11966669Abstract: A molten metal component estimation device including: an input device configured to receive measurement information about a refining facility including measurement results regarding an optical characteristic; a model database that stores model expressions and model parameters, regarding a blowing process reaction, including a model expression and model parameters representing a relation between the oxygen efficiency in decarburization and a carbon concentration in a molten metal in the refining facility; and a processor configured to: estimate component concentrations of the molten metal including the carbon concentration in the molten metal by using the measurement information, the model expressions and the model parameters; estimate the carbon concentration in the molten metal based on the measurement results; and determine the model expression and the model parameters to be used when estimating the component concentrations of the molten metal, based on the estimation result of the carbon concentration in tType: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Kase, Shinji Tomiyama, Yukio Takahashi, Shota Amano, Toshifumi Kodama
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Patent number: 11959147Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yumi Murakami, Nobuhiko Oda, Yusuke Fujii, Goro Okuyama, Shota Amano, Shinji Koseki, Shingo Sato, Yukio Takahashi, Ryo Kawabata, Naoki Kikuchi, Atsuo Yuasa
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Publication number: 20240120793Abstract: Provided are a stator for a rotary electric machine and the rotary electric machine. The stator includes a stator core, and a stator winding formed in a plurality of phases, the stator winding including a slot conductor and a crossover conductor configured to connect ends of a pair of the slot conductors, the ends placed at a same side of the pair of slot conductors.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Miku TAKAHASHI, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Yasuyuki SAITO, Noriaki HINO, Shinji YAMAZAKI, Takuya MIYAGI, Keisuke TATENO
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Publication number: 20240094661Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member and a rotatable developing member to carry developer made up of toner particles and carrier particles adhered to surfaces of the toner particles. Where a pressing force pressing the developing member against the image bearing member is F1, a total number of the carrier particles interposed between the toner particles and the image bearing member is N1, and an adhesion Ft between a carrier particle and a toner particle, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the toner particle with F1/N1 that is a pressing force per unit carrier particle, and an adhesion Fdr1 between the carrier particle and the image bearing member, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the image bearing member with F1/N1, satisfy Ft?Fdr1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Shuichi Tetsuno, Shinji Katagiri, Koji An, Hiroko Yokoyama, Wataru Takahashi, Shohei Ishio, Takayuki Tanaka, Tomonori Matsunaga
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Publication number: 20240099101Abstract: A sealing unit (200) includes a substrate unit (210) and a protruding portion (220). The protruding portion (220) protrudes from the substrate unit (210) toward a substrate (100). Further, when viewed from a thickness direction of the substrate unit (210), the protruding portion (220) has a frame shape. An outer wall (226) of the protruding portion (220) includes a recessed portion (222). The recessed portion (222) of the outer wall (226) of the protruding portion (220) is located at a corner of the frame shape of the protruding portion (220). In addition, the recessed portion (222) of the outer wall (226) of the protruding portion (220) is recessed toward an inner wall (228) of the protruding portion (220) relative to an outer edge (216) of the substrate unit (210).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Masaki TAKAHASHI, Shinji NAKAJIMA
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Patent number: 11916531Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided over the support substrate, comb-shaped electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric layer, each of the comb-shaped electrodes including electrode fingers exciting an acoustic wave, a temperature compensation film interposed between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer and having a temperature coefficient of an elastic constant opposite in sign to that of the piezoelectric layer, a boundary layer interposed between the support substrate and the temperature compensation film, an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the boundary layer being higher than an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the temperature compensation film and being lower than an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the support substrate, and an intermediate layer interposed between the support substrate and the boundary layer and having a Q factor less than a Q factor of the boundary layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiharu Nakazato, Shinji Yamamoto, Ryouta Iwabuchi, Naoki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20220366570Abstract: An object tracking device stores, for each site of an object, information indicating an area image of the object in a first frame image of frame images included in a moving image, and stores a conspicuous site of the object. In response to the object being lost, for each maximum value position in a conspicuity map for a second frame image with the lost object, a recovery unit in the object tracking device (1) estimates an area with each site of the object when the conspicuous site is hypothetically at the maximum value position and (2) calculates a similarity score based on a similarity between the area image of each site in the first frame image and the area image of each site in the second frame image, and determines that the object is at a maximum value position in the second frame image with a maximum similarity score.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventor: Shinji TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11249502Abstract: Provided are a power control device and control method employed therein. The power control device is provided with: a storage battery connected between the solar cell and the power conditioner; a converter, which is disposed between the storage battery and the solar cell, and which charges the storage battery with output power of the solar cell; and a control unit which controls the converter such that the converter charges the storage battery with differential power between the output power of the solar cell and the output power of the power conditioner in the cases where it is determined that the output of the solar cell will be larger than the outputtable power of the power conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignees: IKS CO., LTD., JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Takahashi, Go Iritani, Takashi Imai
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Patent number: 11165600Abstract: A transmitting station includes a common memory, a receiver, a state-change information memory, a state-change table storage, and a state-change detection controller. The common memory includes a plurality of blocks storing therein data that is periodically broadcast by scan transmission among other transmitting stations. The state-change detection controller, when receiving the data from the other transmitting station, reads out from the state-change table storage a state detection word of the block corresponding to the other transmitting station of a transmission source of the relevant received data, and detects a state change of a word that is indicated by the common memory address stored in the state-change information memory in association with a target pointer that is an address pointer of the read-out state detection word.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Atsushi Inoue, Motohiko Okabe, Shinji Takahashi
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Publication number: 20210197723Abstract: A configuration is implemented in which a user who is away from a vehicle can easily check a vehicle parking position. Included is an image processing unit that inputs an image captured by a camera, and generates transmission data to be transmitted to an external device, the camera being configured to capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle. The image processing unit generates transmission data by using a moving image captured at the time of parking the vehicle and stored in a storage unit, and transmits the generated transmission data to an external device such as a user terminal via a communication unit. The image processing unit generates a surround-view image on the basis of images captured by a plurality of cameras provided on the front, back, left, and right of the vehicle, and transmits the generated surround-view image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventor: SHINJI TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20200405518Abstract: A drug supply device includes: a tube body; a first expansion member configured to be expanded to a first outer diameter and a second expansion member configured to be expanded to a second outer diameter that is greater than the first outer diameter, the first expansion member and the second expansion member being positioned on a distal-end side of the tube body; and a masking member that extends between the expansion members and that is connected to outer surfaces of the expansion members at two ends thereof. The tube body includes an outlet that opens between the expansion members and a channel that is in communication with the outlet, the masking member is formed in an arc shape in a lateral cross-section that is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, and the masking member stretches between the expansion members in a state in which the expansion members are expanded.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya OKUMURA, Shunsuke MOTOSUGI, Shinji TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki MORISHITA
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Patent number: 10853679Abstract: In a watching assistance system that assists watching over a subject on a bed, a region setting unit performs processing of receiving a region setting image captured by an imaging device, specifying an approximate position of the bed from the region setting image by object detection, and specifying a bed region by extracting a contour of the bed from a local range including the approximate position.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Kiyoaki Tanaka, Jumpei Matsunaga, Shinji Takahashi, Tatsuya Murakami
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Patent number: 10822471Abstract: A friction drive belt (B) includes a belt body (10) that is wrapped around pulleys in contact therewith to transmit power. At least a pulley contact portion (15) of the belt main body (10) is made of a rubber composition containing 30-80 parts by mass of at least one layered silicate selected from a smectite group and a vermiculite group, per 100 parts by mass of raw rubber containing an ethylene-?-olefin elastomer.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2010Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shinji Takahashi, Kenichiro Furuta, Hiroyuki Shiriike, Tomoyuki Yamada, Hiroyuki Tachibana
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Patent number: 10786183Abstract: A watching assistance system that assists watching over a subject on a bed includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging device, a criterion storage in which a criterion for determining a dangerous state are previously set for each of a plurality of determination regions set based on a region of the bed in the image, a detector configured to detect the subject from the image acquired by the image acquisition unit, a state recognition unit configured to recognize a state of the subject detected by the detector, a determination unit configured to determine a danger degree of the state of the subject recognized by the state recognition unit using the criterion for the determination region corresponding to a position at which the subject is detected by the detector, and an output unit configured to provide notification according to the danger degree determined by the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Jumpei Matsunaga, Kiyoaki Tanaka, Shinji Takahashi, Tatsuya Murakami
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Publication number: 20200301461Abstract: Provided are a power control device and control method employed therein. The power control device is provided with: a storage battery connected between the solar cell and the power conditioner; a converter, which is disposed between the storage battery and the solar cell, and which charges the storage battery with output power of the solar cell; and a control unit which controls the converter such that the converter charges the storage battery with differential power between the output power of the solar cell and the output power of the power conditioner in the cases where it is determined that the output of the solar cell will be larger than the outputtable power of the power conditioner.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2016Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicants: IKS CO., LTD., JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji TAKAHASHI, Go IRITANI, Takashi IMAI
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Patent number: 10762761Abstract: A watching assistance system that assists watching over a subject on a bed, the watching assistance system includes: a detector configured to detect a position of a predetermined region of the subject from the image captured by an imaging device; a determination unit configured to determine whether the subject raises oneself up based on the position at which the predetermined region of the subject is detected; and an output unit configured to provide notification when the determination unit determines that the subject raises oneself up. Based on a bed region in the image, a lying region is set to an existing range of a predetermined region at a lying time, and a raising-up region is set to an existing range of the predetermined region at a raising-up time. The lying region and the raising-up region are disposed at an interval.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Kiyoaki Tanaka, Jumpei Matsunaga, Shinji Takahashi, Tatsuya Murakami
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Publication number: 20200271742Abstract: Automatically performing a serial examination flow including, for example, positioning, imaging, and post processing enables reducing a burden placed on the user by a manual operation and improving examination efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenta SAKURAGI, Shinji TAKAHASHI, Kentaroh SUNAGA, Chikako MORIWAKE, Hisako NAGAO
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Patent number: 10744455Abstract: Provided are a non-hydrocarbon gas separation device and the like capable of increasing a discharge pressure of a non-hydrocarbon gas to a downstream side while preventing an increase in size of equipment. In the non-hydrocarbon gas separation device, a first separation module (2a) and a second separation module (2b) connected to each other in series are each configured to separate a non-hydrocarbon from a natural gas through use of a separation membrane (20). The non-hydrocarbon gas having been separated from the natural gas is discharged to each of discharge lines (202) and (204). At this time, a pressure of the first separation module (2a) on a discharge line (202) side is higher than a pressure of the second separation module (2b) on a discharge line (204) or (202) side.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: JGC CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Hasegawa, Hiroshi Umino, Yasushi Fujimura, Aiko Matsuyama, Syuichi Oguro, Keiichi Nishida, Shinji Takahashi