Patents by Inventor Tadashi Kurihara
Tadashi Kurihara 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: 20240083783Abstract: An ion removal apparatus according to this disclosure performs a desalination treatment on a liquid and includes: a first electrode guide having an inlet allowing the liquid to flow in, a first electrode holder holding a first electrode that adsorbs an ion in the liquid, and an inflow passage serving as a flow passage connecting the inlet and the first electrode holder to one another; and a second electrode guide having an outlet allowing the liquid to flow out, a second electrode holder allowing the liquid passing through the first electrode holder to flow in and holding a second electrode that adsorbs the ion in the liquid, and an outflow passage serving as a flow passage connecting the outlet and the second electrode holder to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro NAKAYAMA, Tadashi SAITO, Kota KURIHARA, Seiji NODA, Ryuki YOSHIDA, Masaru TAKADA
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Patent number: 11605141Abstract: A highly reliable facility evaluation information (rating information) that is free of arbitrary ratings. A server system includes a facility rating information creation and updating unit that grants a rating with regard to a facility to be rated on the basis of parking information. The parking information is obtained by assessing whether the present position of a mobile body, which is being carried together with a vehicle, has been parked in the area of the facility to be rated whereat parking is possible. A facility rating provision unit that outputs the rating regarding to the facility to be rated, which has been granted by the facility rating information creation and updating unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Hiroshi Inoue, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Satoru Minowa, Minoru Fukumori
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Patent number: 11402896Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display which performs digital display; a sensor which detects use of the display apparatus by a user; and at least one processor. The processor controls the display to set a digital display to be in a burn-in prevention state in a first time period. When the sensor detects use in a second time period including the first time period, the processor stops the burn-in prevention state and changes data regarding setting of the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Tadashi Kurihara
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Patent number: 11257376Abstract: Forecasting a mobile body distribution situation after a prescribed time by forecasting an excursion action of a mobile body on the basis of an inter-facility movement correlation of the mobile body. A server system includes an inter-facility movement computation part for computing a facility staying time estimate, an inter-facility movement time estimate, and an inter-facility movement correlation on the basis of a trend in past position information from the mobile body, a plurality of pieces of facility information, and map information wherein a road map is included; a receiving part for receiving present position information of a plurality of the mobile bodies; and a mobile body distribution situation forecast part for forecasting the distribution situation of the mobile bodies after a prescribed time on the basis of the inter-facility movement correlation and the present position information of the plurality of mobile bodies.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Tadashi Kurihara
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Patent number: 11227491Abstract: An information analysis device is provided with: a visit information database update unit that receives position information pertaining to a plurality of vehicles; a storage unit that stores map information including the position of a facility that the plurality of vehicles can visit, and a route on which the plurality of vehicles can travel; and a visit rate calculation unit that specifies information pertaining to a visit to the facility by the moving body and a number of moving bodies passing through a region that corresponds to the facility on the basis of the position information and the map information, and calculates the rate at which the moving body visits the facility on the basis of the result of specification.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori
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Patent number: 11105647Abstract: To statistically analyze information on the path of ra movement of a moving body. An information analysis device includes a communication unit that receives position information for a vehicle, a memory unit that stores map information pertaining to roads over which the vehicle can travel and position information concerning facilities, a visit frequency calculator that calculates the frequency at which the vehicle visits a facility on the basis of facility information concerning the facility, and a travel path specification unit that specifies the vehicle that has made a plurality of visits to the facility on the basis of the results of calculations made by the visit frequency calculator and specifies the travel path to the facility for the specified vehicle from the position information and the map information pertaining to the roads.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru Fukumori, Shunsuke Kawasaki, Tadashi Kurihara, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 11081003Abstract: A map-providing server includes: a travel information database creation unit that receives position information of a vehicle and vehicle brake application information; a place of residence estimation unit that estimates the position of the place of residence of a vehicle; a sudden braking location identification unit that identifies a location of the occurrence of vehicle sudden braking from information from the travel information database creation unit; a unit for determining the cause of sudden braking, which determines whether the location where sudden braking has occurred locally, at a position within a predetermined range from the position of the place of residence of the user of the vehicle; and a unit for recording sudden braking information that records, on map information, the location where sudden braking has occurred, in association with information indicating whether the vehicle user is a local resident.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20210125196Abstract: An information analysis device, provided with: a communication unit for receiving position information for a plurality of vehicles; a storage unit for storing map information including the positions of a plurality of facilities and customer visit data for customer visits to at least one or more facilities from among the plurality of facilities; a moving body visit determining unit for storing moving body visit data for visits by the plurality of vehicles to the facility, on the basis of the map information and the position information for the plurality of vehicles; a moving body visit ratio calculation unit for calculating the moving body visit ratio, which is the ratio between the number of moving body visits and the number of customer visits, for the facility; and a customer visit number calculation unit for calculating a hypothetical number of customer visits to the designated facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori
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Publication number: 20210118297Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to set a more suitable region to carry out an analysis. Provided is an information analysis device including a communication unit, which receives position information of a plurality of vehicles, a storage unit, which stores map information that includes facility positions relating to a plurality of facilities, and segment line information, which has been created using identification factors that are included in the map information, and an analysis information generation unit, which, on the basis of the received position information, identifies, for each vehicle that has visited any of the plurality of facilities, the start position in the outbound route and/or the parking position in the return route when the facility in question has been visited, and generates analysis information for displaying the identified position overlaid with the map information for each region as segmented by the segment line information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Shunsuke Kawasaki, Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20210081030Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display which performs digital display; a sensor which detects use of the display apparatus by a user; and at least one processor. The processor controls the display to set a digital display to be in a burn-in prevention state in a first time period. When the sensor detects use in a second time period including the first time period, the processor stops the burn-in prevention state and changes data regarding setting of the first time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventor: Tadashi KURIHARA
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Publication number: 20210027618Abstract: An information analysis device is provided with: a visit information database update unit that receives position information pertaining to a plurality of vehicles; a storage unit that stores map information including the position of a facility that the plurality of vehicles can visit, and a route on which the plurality of vehicles can travel; and a visit rate calculation unit that specifies information pertaining to a visit to the facility by the moving body and a number of moving bodies passing through a region that corresponds to the facility on the basis of the position information and the map information, and calculates the rate at which the moving body visits the facility on the basis of the result of specification.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori
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Publication number: 20200410859Abstract: A map-providing server includes: a travel information database creation unit that receives position information of a vehicle and vehicle brake application information; a place of residence estimation unit that estimates the position of the place of residence of a vehicle; a sudden braking location identification unit that identifies a location of the occurrence of vehicle sudden braking from information from the travel information database creation unit; a unit for determining the cause of sudden braking, which determines whether the location where sudden braking has occurred locally, at a position within a predetermined range from the position of the place of residence of the user of the vehicle; and a unit for recording sudden braking information that records, on map information, the location where sudden braking has occurred, in association with information indicating whether the vehicle user is a local resident.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20200342336Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to recommend a facility to visit, without requiring installation of special equipment in facilities. A visiting-facility recommending device is provided with: a communication unit that receives the current positions of a plurality of mobile bodies; a storage unit in which road map information and information about a plurality of facilities are saved; a staying-facility estimating unit that estimates a staying facility at which a target mobile body, which is a mobile body chosen as an estimation target, is staying; a movement-correlation calculating unit that calculates movement correlations among the plurality of facilities from past movement histories of the plurality of mobile bodies among the facilities; and a facility recommending unit that selects a facility recommended to be visited next on the basis of the estimated staying facility and the calculated movement correlations among the facilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Yoshiaki SUGIMOTO, Tadashi KURIHARA, Minoru FUKUMORI
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Publication number: 20200342765Abstract: Forecasting a mobile body distribution situation after a prescribed time by forecasting an excursion action of a mobile body on the basis of an inter-facility movement correlation of the mobile body. A server system includes an inter-facility movement computation part for computing a facility staying time estimate, an inter-facility movement time estimate, and an inter-facility movement correlation on the basis of a trend in past position information from the mobile body, a plurality of pieces of facility information, and map information wherein a road map is included; a receiving part for receiving present position information of a plurality of the mobile bodies; and a mobile body distribution situation forecast part for forecasting the distribution situation of the mobile bodies after a prescribed time on the basis of the inter-facility movement correlation and the present position information of the plurality of mobile bodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Tadashi Kurihara
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Patent number: 10764711Abstract: A content distribution server is provided with: a storage unit, which stores a plurality of pieces of content related to a facility; an acquisition unit, which acquires, from an in-vehicle navigation device of the vehicle, any one or both of starting information on a vehicle and location information on the vehicle, as information for determination; and a content distribution unit, which distributes content stored in the storage unit to a mobile terminal. The content distribution unit determines, on the basis of the information for determination acquired by the acquisition unit, whether a user can visit the facility by the vehicle, and determines, on the basis of the determination result, which content in the plurality of pieces of content stored in the storage unit is distributed to the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Minoru Fukumori, Shunsuke Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20200132493Abstract: To statistically analyze information on the path of ra movement of a moving body. An information analysis device includes a communication unit that receives position information for a vehicle, a memory unit that stores map information pertaining to roads over which the vehicle can travel and position information concerning facilities, a visit frequency calculator that calculates the frequency at which the vehicle visits a facility on the basis of facility information concerning the facility, and a travel path specification unit that specifies the vehicle that has made a plurality of visits to the facility on the basis of the results of calculations made by the visit frequency calculator and specifies the travel path to the facility for the specified vehicle from the position information and the map information pertaining to the roads.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Minoru Fukumori, Shunsuke Kawasaki, Tadashi Kurihara, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20200092673Abstract: A content distribution server is provided with: a storage unit, which stores a plurality of pieces of content related to a facility; an acquisition unit, which acquires, from an in-vehicle navigation device of the vehicle, any one or both of starting information on a vehicle and location information on the vehicle, as information for determination; and a content distribution unit, which distributes content stored in the storage unit to a mobile terminal. The content distribution unit determines, on the basis of the information for determination acquired by the acquisition unit, whether a user can visit the facility by the vehicle, and determines, on the basis of the determination result, which content in the plurality of pieces of content stored in the storage unit is distributed to the mobile terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Minoru Fukumori, Shunsuke Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20200065917Abstract: A highly reliable facility evaluation information (rating information) that is free of arbitrary ratings. A server system includes a facility rating information creation and updating unit that grants a rating with regard to a facility to be rated on the basis of parking information. The parking information is obtained by assessing whether the present position of a mobile body, which is being carried together with a vehicle, has been parked in the area of the facility to be rated whereat parking is possible. A facility rating provision unit that outputs the rating regarding to the facility to be rated, which has been granted by the facility rating information creation and updating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Hiroshi Inoue, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Satoru Minowa, Minoru Fukumori
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Publication number: 20180283893Abstract: Analysis information capable of informing an accurate analysis result is generated while individual information is protected. An information analysis device 30 includes a communication unit 33 receiving position information of a plurality of vehicles 60; a storage unit 32 storing map information 321 including a facility position relevant to a facility; and a control unit 31 generating analysis information for displaying the position information of the vehicle 60 visiting to the facility, which is time-discretely changed, to be superimposed on the map information 321 at a predetermined transmissivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Minoru Fukumori, Shunsuke Kawasaki
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Patent number: 7555890Abstract: A combined cycle power plant of the present invention is configured of a compressor; a combustor for combusting compressed air compressed by the compressor together with supplied fuel; a gas turbine driven by a combustion gas exhausted from the combustor; a heat recovery steam generator for recovering high temperature exhaust heat exhausted from the gas turbine; a steam turbine driven by steam obtained from the heat recovery steam generator; and an exhaust gas duct having an HRSG inlet duct that is provided between the gas turbine and the heat recovery steam generator and introduces an exhaust passage into the heat recovery steam generator, and a bypass stack that leads the exhaust gas outside, wherein the exhaust duct is configured of a damper, a damper drive for changing any of angle and opening of the damper, and a guide mechanism for preventing a vibration of the damper.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2005Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated, Babcock-Hitachi K.K.Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Toshinori Shigenaka, Kazuhiro Takenaga, Shoji Nagai, Shinichi Taniguchi