Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Ueno

Yoshihiro Ueno 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).

  • Patent number: 11802377
    Abstract: A fibrous body manufacturing method includes: a first supplying step of supplying a first raw material containing a first fiber group; a second supplying step of supplying a second raw material containing a second fiber group and a binder, the second fiber group having a length-average fiber length not less than a length-average fiber length of the first fiber group, the binder being configured to bond fibers together; a forming step of forming a first deposited material by depositing a first mixed material containing the first raw material and the second raw material; and a bonding step of bonding first fibers of the first fiber group and second fibers of the second fiber group that are contained in the first deposited material together using the binder to form a first fibrous body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Nakazawa, Shigemi Wakabayashi, Yoshihiro Ueno, Naotaka Higuchi, Hiroki Kurata, Shunichi Seki
  • Patent number: 11766610
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a game program is provided. The game program is to be executed by a server device in a game system. The game system includes user terminals operated by respective users. The server device is capable of being connected to the user terminals through communication. The program causes the server device to set one or more kinds of game media to be in a state of being capable of being given to users. A predetermined upper limit is set to a number of game media capable of being given to the users. The program further causes the server device to give a user a game medium that the user desires to be given among the game media which are set by the server device in a range not exceeding the predetermined upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensei Fujinaga, Daisuke Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Ueno
  • Patent number: 11581172
    Abstract: In order to suppress a charge-up in an ion source configured to ionize a component contained in a sample gas, a mass spectrometer according to the present invention is provided with an ion source (3) including: an ionization chamber (30) having an ion ejection opening (301) and internally having a space substantially separated from an outside area; a repeller electrode (31), located within the ionization chamber, for creating an expelling electric field which acts on an ion generated within the ionization chamber to expel the ion through the ion ejection opening to the outside area; and a voltage generator (7) configured to selectively apply, to the repeller electrode, a first voltage for creating the expelling electric field and a second voltage for creating a charge-up-removing electric field, where the second voltage is a positive voltage having a larger absolute value than the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Ueno
  • Patent number: 11566372
    Abstract: A method for defibrating a fiber body includes: a supply step of supplying a liquid to a fiber body containing fibers; and a defibrating step of defibrating the fiber body to which the liquid is supplied, and in the supply step, the liquid is supplied to the fiber body so that a rate in tensile strength of the fiber body immediately before defibrated in the defibrating step to the fiber body before the liquid is supplied thereto is 60.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Aoyama, Shinichi Kato, Shigemi Wakabayashi, Yoshihiro Ueno, Shunichi Seki, Takumi Sago, Hiroki Kurata
  • Patent number: 11518062
    Abstract: A sheet manufacturing method includes a mixing step of mixing a fiber and a resin powder in air, and a sheet forming step of accumulating and heating a mixture mixed in the mixing step to form a sheet. The resin powder has a volume average particle diameter of equal to or less than 50 ?m, and an absolute value of an average charging amount in a range of 5 (?C/g) to 40 (?C/g).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Ueno
  • Patent number: 11465387
    Abstract: A sheet forming binder includes a first powder and a second powder having a larger volume average particle size than the first powder. The proportion of the first powder is 10.0% by mass or more relative to the total mass of the first powder and the second powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Kurata, Yoshihiro Ueno, Takumi Sago
  • Patent number: 11459703
    Abstract: The sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a fibrillating unit that fibrillates a raw material including fibers in a gas, an additive supply unit that supplies an additive, a mixing unit including a first rotating unit that mixes a fibrillated matter fibrillated by the fibrillating unit and the additive supplied by the additive supply unit, a depositing unit that deposits a mixture mixed by the mixing unit, a web forming unit including a mesh belt that transports a deposited material deposited by the depositing unit and a suction mechanism that sucks the deposited material to the mesh belt, and a control unit that changes granularity of a surface of the sheet by controlling at least one of a supply amount per unit time from the additive supply unit, a rotation velocity of the first rotating unit of the mixing unit, and a suction force of the suction mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naotaka Higuchi, Yoshihiro Ueno, Kiyoshi Tsujino
  • Publication number: 20220289966
    Abstract: The complex of the present disclosure includes a thermoplastic particle constituted of a thermoplastic material and an inorganic particle surface-treated with at least one surface treatment agent selected from the group consisting of fluorine-containing compounds and silicon-containing compounds and further includes a composite particle composed of the thermoplastic particle and the inorganic particle adhered to the thermoplastic particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Takumi SAGO, Yoshihiro UENO, Hiroki KURATA
  • Publication number: 20220285143
    Abstract: An MT-TOFMS which is one mode of the present invention includes: a linear ion trap (2) configured to temporarily hold ions to be analyzed, and to eject the ions through an ion ejection opening (211) having a shape elongated in one direction; a loop flight section (3) configured to form a loop path (P) capable of making ions repeatedly fly; and a slit part (5) located on an ion path in which the ions ejected from the linear ion trap (2) travel until the ions are introduced into the loop path, the slit part configured to block a portion of the ions in a longitudinal direction of the ion ejection opening (211).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro UENO, Ryugo MAEDA, Yusuke TATEISHI, Hiroyuki MIURA
  • Publication number: 20220172938
    Abstract: In order to suppress a charge-up in an ion source configured to ionize a component contained in a sample gas, a mass spectrometer according to the present invention is provided with an ion source (3) including: an ionization chamber (30) having an ion ejection opening (301) and internally having a space substantially separated from an outside area; a repeller electrode (31), located within the ionization chamber, for creating an expelling electric field which acts on an ion generated within the ionization chamber to expel the ion through the ion ejection opening to the outside area; and a voltage generator (7) configured to selectively apply, to the repeller electrode, a first voltage for creating the expelling electric field and a second voltage for creating a charge-up-removing electric field, where the second voltage is a positive voltage having a larger absolute value than the first voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro UENO
  • Publication number: 20220056642
    Abstract: A fibrous body manufacturing method includes: a first supplying step of supplying a first raw material containing a first fiber group; a second supplying step of supplying a second raw material containing a second fiber group and a binder, the second fiber group having a length-average fiber length not less than a length-average fiber length of the first fiber group, the binder being configured to bond fibers together; a forming step of forming a first deposited material by depositing a first mixed material containing the first raw material and the second raw material; and a bonding step of bonding first fibers of the first fiber group and second fibers of the second fiber group that are contained in the first deposited material together using the binder to form a first fibrous body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiko NAKAZAWA, Shigemi WAKABAYASHI, Yoshihiro UENO, Naotaka HIGUCHI, Hiroki KURATA, Shunichi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20220010081
    Abstract: A binder that is used for forming fiber-based items and that binds fibers contains a polyester and an aggregation inhibitor. The polyester contains a structural unit derived from polyethylene terephthalate, a structural unit derived from at least one polyvalent carboxylic acid, and a structural unit derived from at least one polyhydric alcohol including trimethylolpropane. The binder exhibits a viscosity coefficient higher than 3500 P at 150° C. in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Takumi SAGO, Masahiko NAKAZAWA, Yoshihiro UENO
  • Publication number: 20210363700
    Abstract: A starch composite for binding fibers includes starch particles which are first particles and second particles containing a hydrophobic material having an affinity for the starch particles, which are the first particles. The weight-average size of the second particles is less than the weight-average size of the first particles and the outer surfaces of the first particles are covered by the second particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Satomi YOSHIOKA, Hideki TANAKA, Toshiaki YAMAGAMI, Shunichi SEKI, Yoshihiro UENO, Kaneo YODA, Nobutaka URANO
  • Publication number: 20210301469
    Abstract: A fiber-formed body producing raw material contains fibers and a binder for binding the fibers, wherein the fiber-formed body producing raw material is nongranular, and 1.0?A/B?9.0, wherein A is a weight of the fibers in the fiber-formed body producing raw material and B is a weight of the binder in the fiber-formed body producing raw material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shigemi WAKABAYASHI, Masahiko NAKAZAWA, Hiroki KURATA, Naotaka HIGUCHI, Yoshihiro UENO, Shunichi SEKI, Nobutaka URANO, Takehiko UEHARA
  • Patent number: 11130156
    Abstract: A vibrating sieve machine for applying vibrations on powder to be classified that is placed on a mesh member through a sieve frame including a plurality of separable sieve frames for sieving and classification, wherein the mesh member includes a circular annular mesh member frame having an outer peripheral surface and configured to be sandwiched by the separable sieve frames with the outer peripheral surface exposed outward in a radial direction of the separable sieve frames, a reinforcement mesh stretching across the mesh member frame, a sieve mesh configured to cover the reinforcement mesh, hanging down over an outer peripheral surface of the mesh member frame, and a fastening band configured to be attached to the outer peripheral surface of the mesh member frame so as to sandwich the sieve mesh between the fastening band and the outer peripheral surface of the mesh member frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: FUJINO INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsunori Tatsumoto, Tetsuji Tanaka, Yoshihiro Ueno, Kiyosei Inaba
  • Publication number: 20210296108
    Abstract: An ion guide (222) is for use in transport of an ion incident from an upstream side toward a downstream side. The ion guide includes 2n rod electrodes (n is an integral number greater than or equal to 2) equally spaced and surrounding an ion optical axis (C) that is a central axis of a flight path of the ion, a voltage applying unit (30) that applies a radio-frequency voltage to the 2n rod electrodes, and a controller (43) that controls the voltage applying unit (30). The controller (43) prompts the voltage applying unit (30) to apply a radio-frequency voltage that generates, in a space surrounded by the 2n rod electrodes, an electric field which is a 2n-multipole electric field superimposed by a higher-order electric field component than the 2n-multipole electric field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke TATEISHI, Yoshihiro UENO, Shinji MIYAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210222336
    Abstract: A sheet manufacturing method includes a step of mixing fibers and a composite integrally including a resin and a coagulation inhibitor and a step of bonding the fibers and the composite. The composite is a powder whose volume average particle diameter is 1 ?m or more to 100 ?m or less, and at least a portion of the coagulation inhibitor is arranged in a surface of the composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihiro UENO, Shunichi SEKI
  • Patent number: 11041259
    Abstract: A sheet fabrication apparatus includes: a fiber separation unit that micronizes an ingredient; a first sensor unit that measures a temperature in a first space including the fiber separation unit; a first air conditioning unit that adjusts the temperature in the first space; a fabrication unit that works the fiber separated articles obtained by micronizing the ingredient by the fiber separation unit; a second sensor unit that measures at least either a temperature or a humidity at a mounting position of the fabrication unit; and a control unit that controls the first air conditioning unit on the basis of at least any of measurement results of the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventors: Kaneo Yoda, Yoshihiro Ueno, Shunichi Seki, Seiichi Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20210178631
    Abstract: A sheet manufacturing method includes a mixing step of mixing a fiber and a resin powder in air, and a sheet forming step of accumulating and heating a mixture mixed in the mixing step to form a sheet. The resin powder has a volume average particle diameter of equal to or less than 50 ?m, and an absolute value of an average charging amount in a range of 5 (?C/g) to 40 (?C/g).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Ueno
  • Patent number: 11001949
    Abstract: A composite integrally includes a resin and a coagulation inhibitor, and is used to be mixed with fibers. The composite is a powder whose volume average particle diameter is 1 ?m or more to 100 ?m or less, and at least a portion of the coagulation inhibitor is arranged in a surface of the composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ueno, Shunichi Seki