Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Maeda
Yoshitaka Maeda 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: 20240068470Abstract: An electric compressor includes: a compression part; an electric motor; an inverter; a housing including a plurality of housing forming members made of metal; a seal member that has an insulation property and is provided between the housing forming members adjacent to each other; and a potential equalization member that is made of metal and is in contact with both the adjacent housing forming members to equalize potentials of the adjacent housing forming members. The adjacent housing forming members include mating surfaces, respectively. An insertion hole is formed in one of the mating surfaces of the adjacent housing forming members, at a position in which the seal member is not provided. The potential equalization member includes an insertion portion inserted into the insertion hole, and a contact portion that is a plate portion extending in a gap between the mating surfaces and is in contact with both the mating surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Ken NAMIKI, Takuro Yamashita, Takumi Maeda, Akinori Tanabe, Takafumi Konishi, Takahiro Suzuki, Yoshitaka Saito
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Patent number: 11829025Abstract: The present invention provides a composition to form an optically anisotropic film exhibiting excellent reverse wavelength dispersibility, an optically anisotropic film, a circularly polarizing plate; a display device; and a near-infrared absorbing coloring agent. The composition includes a liquid crystal compound or a polymer, and a near-infrared absorbing coloring agent having a structural moiety including a coloring agent skeleton and a mesogenic group that is bonded to the coloring agent skeleton, in which the near-infrared absorbing coloring agent satisfies Condition 1 where an absolute value ?1 of a square root of a first eigenvalue and an absolute value ?2 of a square root of a second eigenvalue satisfy a relationship of Formula (A) ?2/?1?0.60; and Condition 2: An angle between a direction of a transition moment of absorption of the infrared absorbing coloring agent and a direction of an eigenvector of the first eigenvalue is 75.0° or more.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Ryoji Goto, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Yoshitaka Maeda
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Patent number: 11530672Abstract: The present disclosure is intended to provide an internal combustion engine that can inhibit fuel from adhering to a piston and can reduce generation of soot. An internal combustion engine includes a piston, a cylinder accommodating the piston, and an injector including a nozzle that has a plurality of nozzle holes configured to inject fuel into the cylinder from above the cylinder. Among the plurality of nozzle holes, a sixth nozzle hole an axial direction of which is the most deflected toward the piston has a nozzle hole diameter larger than nozzle hole diameters of the other nozzle holes, and the nozzle hole diameter of the sixth nozzle hole corresponds to at least 20% of the total of the nozzle hole diameters of the other nozzle holes.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Maeda, Suguru Fukuda
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Patent number: 11398032Abstract: [Problem] To evaluate objective cell groups by estimating a mixing ratio of objective cell group without affecting treatment itself and its production process when the objective cell groups include plural kinds of cell groups having different attributes, and to provide an image analysis system and a culture management system capable of accurately perform a quality control and a production control with low cost. [Solution] The cell quality evaluation system 1 detects a feature amount in each cell easily analyzable from images, and estimates a mixing ratio of each of plural kinds of cell groups included in the objective cell groups based on a distribution of the detected feature amount and pre-recorded information of the feature amount. As the feature amount, the embodiment uses a migration speed of each cell, easily distinguishable by analyzing tracking of each cell from plural images in time series.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignees: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD., TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoma Bise, Yoshitaka Maeda, Masatoshi Kuroda, Kazumasa Yamaki, Ryohei Takeuchi, Fumiya Ohashi, Kouichirou Yori
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Publication number: 20220228545Abstract: The present disclosure is intended to provide an internal combustion engine that can inhibit fuel from adhering to a piston and can reduce generation of soot. An internal combustion engine includes a piston, a cylinder accommodating the piston, and an injector including a nozzle that has a plurality of nozzle holes configured to inject fuel into the cylinder from above the cylinder. Among the plurality of nozzle holes, a sixth nozzle hole an axial direction of which is the most deflected toward the piston has a nozzle hole diameter larger than nozzle hole diameters of the other nozzle holes, and the nozzle hole diameter of the sixth nozzle hole corresponds to at least 20% of the total of the nozzle hole diameters of the other nozzle holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Yoshitaka MAEDA, Suguru FUKUDA
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Publication number: 20210382349Abstract: The present invention provides a composition to form an optically anisotropic film exhibiting excellent reverse wavelength dispersibility, an optically anisotropic film, a circularly polarizing plate; a display device; and a near-infrared absorbing coloring agent. The composition includes a liquid crystal compound or a polymer, and a near-infrared absorbing coloring agent having a structural moiety including a coloring agent skeleton and a mesogenic group that is bonded to the coloring agent skeleton, in which the near-infrared absorbing coloring agent satisfies Condition 1 where an absolute value ?1 of a square root of a first eigenvalue and an absolute value ?2 of a square root of a second eigenvalue satisfy a relationship of Formula (A) ?2/?1?0.60; and Condition 2: An angle between a direction of a transition moment of absorption of the infrared absorbing coloring agent and a direction of an eigenvector of the first eigenvalue is 75.0° or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Ryoji GOTO, Kiyoshi TAKEUCHI, Yoshitaka MAEDA
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Patent number: 10944301Abstract: Provided is a laminate having a reduced loss ratio while maintaining a high space factor. The present disclosure relates to a laminate for use in a core, comprising: a strip laminate composed of soft magnetic metal strips; and an insulating layer provided on a surface of the strip laminate, wherein each one layer of the soft magnetic metal strips has a thickness of 100 ?m or less, each one layer of the soft magnetic metal strips has an oxide film on their surfaces, the strip laminate is composed of at least two layers of the soft magnetic metal strip, and the strip laminate and the insulating layer are alternately disposed.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kensuke Komori, Shingo Fubuki, Shinya Urata, Yoshitaka Maeda
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Publication number: 20200153321Abstract: A motor core that ensures reduction of eddy-current loss and improvement of a space factor at the same time is provided. The motor core according to the present disclosure includes a laminated body where a plurality of metal plates are laminated; a fixing member that fixes the plurality of metal plates to each other at a fixing position in a peripheral edge side of the laminated body; and an insulation film disposed between the metal plates in a peripheral edge portion of the laminated body including the fixing position. In a center portion of the laminated body, no insulation film is disposed between the metal plates, or an insulation film thinner than the insulation film in the peripheral edge portion is disposed between the metal plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Hideki MANABE, Shinya URATA, Yoshitaka MAEDA
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Publication number: 20190379246Abstract: Provided is a laminate having a reduced loss ratio while maintaining a high space factor. The present disclosure relates to a laminate for use in a core, comprising: a strip laminate composed of soft magnetic metal strips; and an insulating layer provided on a surface of the strip laminate, wherein each one layer of the soft magnetic metal strips has a thickness of 100 ?m or less, each one layer of the soft magnetic metal strips has an oxide film on their surfaces, the strip laminate is composed of at least two layers of the soft magnetic metal strip, and the strip laminate and the insulating layer are alternately disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kensuke KOMORI, Shingo FUBUKI, Shinya URATA, Yoshitaka MAEDA
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Publication number: 20190236784Abstract: [Problem] To evaluate objective cell groups by estimating a mixing ratio of objective cell group without affecting treatment itself and its production process when the objective cell groups include plural kinds of cell groups having different attributes, and to provide an image analysis system and a culture management system capable of accurately perform a quality control and a production control with low cost. [Solution] The cell quality evaluation system 1 detects a feature amount in each cell easily analyzable from images, and estimates a mixing ratio of each of plural kinds of cell groups included in the objective cell groups based on a distribution of the detected feature amount and pre-recorded information of the feature amount. As the feature amount, the embodiment uses a migration speed of each cell, easily distinguishable by analyzing tracking of each cell from plural images in time series.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Ryoma BISE, Yoshitaka MAEDA, Masatoshi KURODA, Kazumasa YAMAKI, Ryohei TAKEUCHI, Fumiya OHASHI, Kouichirou YORI
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Patent number: 10338290Abstract: A cellulose ester film contains a compound having a structural unit denoted by —NR—(C?O)— in which R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, a surface having knoop hardness of greater than or equal to 210 N/mm2 is provided, and loss tangent tan ? at 25° C. is greater than or equal to 0.03.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasukazu Kuwayama, Hiroshi Inada, Aiko Yoshida, Yoshitaka Maeda, Yusuke Ino, Shuuji Kanayama, Nobutaka Fukagawa
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Patent number: 10113040Abstract: The polymer film comprises a carbonyl bond-containing polymer and a compound having ?h of equal to or higher than 11.0 and ?? of equal to or lower than 1.50, wherein the ?h is a value of hydrogen-bonding capacity calculated by Hoy method and the ?? is a value calculated by equation 1: ??=|x?13.3|??Equation 1 wherein, in equation 1, ? represents an interatomic distance in the polymer film between atoms most distant from each other among molecules in the compound, excluding a hydrogen atom, calculated by molecular dynamics calculation.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Yasukazu Kuwayama, Nobutaka Fukagawa, Hiroshi Inada, Masaki Noro, Yoshitaka Maeda, Naozumi Shiraiwa, Yu Naito
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Patent number: 9969724Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of benzamide compounds represented by Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, or pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, and methods for using said compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof for treating or preventing a thromboses, embolisms, hypercoagulability or fibrotic changes.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isao Sakurada, Tomokazu Hirabayashi, Yoshitaka Maeda, Hiroshi Nagasue, Takashi Mizuno, Jiayi Xu, Ting Zhang, Cameron Smith, Dann Parker
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Patent number: 9808445Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of benzamide compounds represented by Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, or pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, and methods for using said compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof for treating or preventing a thromboses, embolisms, hypercoagulability or fibrotic changes.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isao Sakurada, Tomokazu Hirabayashi, Yoshitaka Maeda, Hiroshi Nagasue, Takashi Mizuno, Jiayi Xu, Ting Zhang, Cameron Smith, Dann Parker
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Publication number: 20170129880Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of benzamide compounds represented by Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, or pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, and methods for using said compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof for treating or preventing a thromboses, embolisms, hypercoagulability or fibrotic changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Isao Sakurada, Tomokazu Hirabayashi, Yoshitaka Maeda, Hiroshi Nagasue, Takashi Mizuno, Jiayi Xu, Ting Zhang, Cameron Smith, Dann Parker
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Publication number: 20170027916Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of benzamide compounds represented by Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, or pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, and methods for using said compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof for treating or preventing a thromboses, embolisms, hypercoagulability or fibrotic changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isao Sakurada, Tomokazu Hirabayashi, Yoshitaka Maeda, Hiroshi Nagasue, Takashi Mizuno, Jiayi Xu, Ting Zhang, Cameron Smith, Dann Parker
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Publication number: 20160370522Abstract: A cellulose ester film contains a compound having a structural unit denoted by —NR—(C?O)— in which R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, a surface having knoop hardness of greater than or equal to 210 N/mm2 is provided, and loss tangent tan ? at 25° C. is greater than or equal to 0.03.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasukazu KUWAYAMA, Hiroshi INADA, Aiko YOSHIDA, Yoshitaka MAEDA, Yusuke INO, Shuuji KANAYAMA, Nobutaka FUKAGAWA
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Patent number: 9459490Abstract: A polarizing plate includes: a polymer film; a polarizer; and a stress relaxation layer disposed between the polymer film and the polarizer, wherein a relationship of the following Expression (1) is satisfied, a thickness of the polymer film is equal to or greater than 10 ?m, a distance(Ds) from the surface of the polarizing plate on the side of the polymer film to the interface between the polymer film and the stress relaxation layer is equal to or greater than 15 ?m, a difference between the distance(Ds) and a thickness(C) of the polymer film is less than 15 ?m, and a total thickness of the polymer film and the stress relaxation layer is equal to or less than 80 ?m, 0.01<B/A<0.9 . . . (1), in Expression (1), A represents the elastic modulus of the polymer film, and B represents the elastic modulus of the stress relaxation layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Oba, Yoshitaka Maeda, Xiao Ling, Shun Inoue, Takahiro Ohno, Yohei Takahashi, Megumi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 9453952Abstract: A polarizing plate includes an outer protective film and a polarizer. The sum S of the product of the modulus of elasticity and the cube of the thickness in each layer is up to 150,000 Pa·mm3, and the value obtained by dividing the sum S by the Knoop hardness k of the outer protective film is 200 or more but up to 450. The polarizing plate is excellent in surface pencil hardness even when its thickness is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Ohno, Tatsuya Oba, Yoshitaka Maeda, Xiao Ling, Shun Inoue, Megumi Sekiguchi, Yohei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20160060405Abstract: The polymer film comprises a carbonyl bond-containing polymer and a compound having ?h of equal to or higher than 11.0 and ?? of equal to or lower than 1.50, wherein the ?h is a value of hydrogen-bonding capacity calculated by Hoy method and the ?? is a value calculated by equation 1: ??=|x?13.3|??Equation 1 wherein, in equation 1, ? represents an interatomic distance in the polymer film between atoms most distant from each other among molecules in the compound, excluding a hydrogen atom, calculated by molecular dynamics calculation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: March 3, 2016Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Yasukazu KUWAYAMA, Nobutaka FUKAGAWA, Hiroshi INADA, Masaki NORO, Yoshitaka MAEDA, Naozumi SHIRAIWA, Yu NAITO