Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Otani
Yoshinori Otani 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: 20240060004Abstract: The present invention is a friction reducing agent for fibers containing the following components (a) and (b), and further, a detergent composition for fibers containing the following components (a) and (b), wherein a proportion of a content of component (b) to a total content of components (a) and (b) is 20 mass % or more and less than 100 mass %, component (a): an internal olefin sulfonate with 17 or more and 24 or less carbons, and component (b): a sulfosuccinic acid ester or a salt thereof having a hydrocarbon group with 5 or more and 18 or less carbons.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Ayako KITA, Yoshinori OTANI, Hiroki TAKUMI
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Publication number: 20240060005Abstract: A method for treating a textile product including, treating the textile product with a treatment liquid and thereafter rinsing the textile product with water, the treatment liquid being obtained by mixing the following components (a) and (b) with water containing a hardness component, provided that the treatment liquid does not include a total of 100 ppm or more of a dicarboxylic acid with 14 or more and 16 or less carbons and a salt thereof, component (a): a sulfosuccinic acid ester having a hydrocarbon group with a predetermined number of carbons or a salt thereof, and component (b): one or more surfactants selected from the following components (b1) and (b2), component (b1): an anionic surfactant (excluding component (a)), and component (b2): a predetermined nonionic surfactant, wherein the treatment liquid satisfies any of the following requirements (1) and (2), requirement (1): content proportion (a)/[(a)+(b1)] is more than 0 mass % and 50 mass % or less, and requirement (2): content proportion (a)/[(Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Ayako KITA, Yoshinori OTANI, Yuna MUNEYUKI
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Publication number: 20240052261Abstract: The present invention is a detergent composition for fibers that contains components (a) and (b) described below and satisfies at least one requirement of the following: requirement (1) a proportion of a content of component (a) to a total content of components (a) and (b1) is 35 mass % or more and 80 mass % or less; and requirement (2) a proportion of the content of component (a) to a total content of components (a) and (b2) is 50 mass % or more and 80 mass % or less. Component (a) is a sulfosuccinic acid ester or a salt thereof having a branched hydrocarbon group with 5 or more and 18 or less carbons, and component (b) is one or more surfactants selected from the following components (b1) and (b2): component (b1) an anionic surfactant (excluding component (a)); and component (b2) one or more nonionic surfactants selected from an aliphatic alcohol alkoxylate and an ester alkoxylate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Ayako KITA, Yoshinori OTANI, Hiroki TAKUMI
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Patent number: 9916614Abstract: To guide other products related to a product which is taken out in hand by a customer. The present product display rack system carries out a first step for detecting an RFID number of a product taken by a customer from desired display racks 11 to 14 based upon the detection result of the RFID reader; a second step for acquiring RFID numbers of related products having related product types and functional types relative to the product type of the RFID number from the product related information data base 260 by using the detected RFID number as a key; a third step for acquiring the product display coordinates of the product type from the product coordinate data base 250 by using the acquired RFID number of the related product as a key; and a fourth step for lighting or flickering the lamp of the lamp guiding units 30 to 33 at a position close to the acquired product display coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Noriho Tanaka, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
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Publication number: 20160055566Abstract: To guide other products related to a product which is taken out in hand by a customer. The present product display rack system carries out a first step for detecting an RFID number of a product taken by a customer from desired display racks 11 to 14 based upon the detection result of the RFID reader; a second step for acquiring RFID numbers of related products having related product types and functional types relative to the product type of the RFID number from the product related information data base 260 by using the detected RFID number as a key; a third step for acquiring the product display coordinates of the product type from the product coordinate data base 250 by using the acquired RFID number of the related product as a key; and a fourth step for lighting or flickering the lamp of the lamp guiding units 30 to 33 at a position close to the acquired product display coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Noriho Tanaka, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
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Patent number: 8651032Abstract: To provide a classification device in which product fine powder little in mixture ratio of coarse particles can be obtained. A classification device characterized in that a setting pitch P between stationary fins 13 and a width L of each stationary fin 13 are combined so that a value of P/L is in a range between 0.042×(??50)+0.64 and 0.019×(??50)+0.22 in 50°???70° when ? is an inclination angle of each stationary fin 13, P is the setting pitch, and L is the width in a direction of circulation of particles.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Otani, Hiroaki Kanemoto, Shinichiro Nomura, Hideo Mitsui, Yutaka Takeno
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Patent number: 7881988Abstract: A system with an intelligent shelf (100) has product display shelves (110 to 130) displaying products having RFID tags R. The system includes antennas (112a to 112c) each having unique antenna numbers and detecting a tag serial number from an RFID tag on a product, human body sensors S disposed on each end of the product display shelf 120, a tag-product ID registration table storing the tag serial numbers of the RFID tags and the product IDs of the products and a control computer (200) detecting that a particular product is picked up from and/or returned to a particular product display shelf by combining the input tag serial number and the antenna number of the antenna detecting the tag serial number and analyzing which direction the detected human body has moved based on the difference of the detection times of the human body sensors.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignees: Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd., Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Tana-X-Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Tohru Kaneko, Katsumasa Kishida, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
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Publication number: 20100236458Abstract: [Problem] To provide a classification device in which product fine powder little in mixture ratio of coarse particles can be obtained. [Means] for Resolution A classification device characterized in that a setting pitch P between stationary fins 13 and a width L of each stationary fin 13 are combined so that a value of P/L is in a range between 0.042×(??50)+0.64 and 0.019×(??50)+0.22 in 50°???70° when ? is an inclination angle of each stationary fin 13, P is the setting pitch, and L is the width in a direction of circulation of particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2008Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: Babock-Hitachi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Otani, Hiroaki Kanemoto, Shinichiro Nomura, Hideo Mitsui, Yutaka Takeno
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Publication number: 20090153328Abstract: [OBJECT] To provide system and program for obtaining customers' purchase behavior information for products. [MEANS FOR ACHIEVING OBJECT] A system comprising an intelligent shelf (100) having product display shelves (110 to 130) on which the products A to C applied with RFID tags R are displayed, a plurality of antennas (112a to 112c) each having unique antenna numbers and detecting a tag serial number from an RFID tag on a product, a pair of human body sensors S disposed on each end of the product display shelf 120, a tag-product ID registration table storing the tag serial numbers of the RFID tags and the product IDs of the products uniquely given to each kind of product and a control.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2006Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Tohru Kaneko, Katsumasa Kishida, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
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Patent number: 5654265Abstract: A nonionic powdery detergent composition which is free from bleeding of a nonionic surfactant, does not exhibit any deterioration in its solubility even after the passage of time and has an excellent detergency against a fatty acid soil, which comprises 12 to 50% by weight of (a) a nonionic surfactant having a melting point of 40.degree. C. or below, 3 to 60% by weight of (b) a specified crystalline layer silicate, and 5 to 30% by weight of (c) a porous oil-absorbent carrier having an oil absorbability of 80 ml/100 g or more, and a process for producing the nonionic powdery detergent composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1995Date of Patent: August 5, 1997Assignee: KAO CorporationInventors: Mutsumi Kuroda, Yuichi Sakamato, Yoshinori Otani
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Patent number: 5529715Abstract: A nonionic powdery detergent composition which does not cause any deterioration in the solubility even after storage for a long period of time, comprising (a) 12 to 35% by weight of a nonionic surfactant having specified properties, (b) 5 to 60% by weight of a water-soluble chelating agent, (c) 5 to 20% by weight of an oil-absorbent carrier having specified properties and (d) 2 to 40% by weight of an alkali metal carbonate, and having a water-soluble alkali metal silicate content of less than 5% by weight.This nonionic powdery detergent composition is produced by adding the nonionic surfactant (a) to a mixture comprising the components (b), (c) and (d).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1994Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Mutsumi Kuroda, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Shinichi Yabe, Yoshinori Otani