Patents by Inventor Yuichiro Kimura
Yuichiro Kimura 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: 20240095473Abstract: A wireless tag reading apparatus includes an antenna, a driving mechanism configured to move the antenna to multiple positions, and a controller configured to: upon receipt of a radio wave from a wireless tag via the antenna at each of the multiple positions, obtain tag information stored in the wireless tag and radio wave information related to the radio wave, determine whether the wireless tag is a reading target based on positional information indicating a position of the wireless tag that is output from a model in response to an input of the radio wave information, and issue a notification when a reliability level of the positional information output from the model is less than a predetermined threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Wataru SAKURAI, Nobuo MUROFUSHI, Shigeaki SUZUKI, Yuki SUZUKI, Masaki KIMURA, Yuichiro KAWABE, Haruka OTAKE
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Publication number: 20240095476Abstract: A wireless tag reading apparatus includes an antenna, a driving mechanism configured to move the antenna to multiple positions, and a controller configured to: upon receipt of a radio wave from a wireless tag via the antenna at each of the multiple positions, obtain tag information stored in the wireless tag and radio wave information related to the radio wave, adjust the radio wave information based on the tag information, and determine whether the wireless tag is a reading target based on information indicating a position of the wireless tag that is output from a model in response to an input of the adjusted radio wave information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Wataru SAKURAI, Nobuo MUROFUSHI, Shigeaki SUZUKI, Yuki SUZUKI, Masaki KIMURA, Yuichiro KAWABE, Haruka OTAKE
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Publication number: 20240094369Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a mechanism to move an antenna between first and second positions, and a controller configured to: (a) control the antenna to transmit radio waves to wireless tags each attached to an object when the antenna is between the first and second positions; acquire, from response waves, information registered in each tag and indicating attributes of the object and the tag, and signal values of the response waves; and calculate an estimated position of each tag and a reliability level thereof based on the values. When the level of the position of a tag is less than a threshold or when the information of a tag indicates an attribute that can affect radio communications, the controller performs step (a) again, acquires signal values of response waves received from the tag, and calculates an estimated position of the tag and a reliability level thereof based on the values.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Wataru SAKURAI, Nobuo MUROFUSHI, Shigeaki SUZUKI, Yuki SUZUKI, Masaki KIMURA, Yuichiro KAWABE, Haruka OTAKE
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Publication number: 20240095732Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires transaction information in which consumer identification information for identifying a consumer is associated with individual item identification information indicating an individual item of a commodity purchased by the consumer in a transaction; a management unit that manages, for an individual consumer, the transaction information acquired by the acquisition unit; a receipt information output unit that outputs, based on the transaction information managed by the management unit, receipt information presented as a receipt to the consumer; a reception unit that receives event information indicating contents of an event targeting a commodity; and a specifying unit that specifies the consumer identification information, corresponding to the individual item identification information of an individual item which is a target of the event information received by the reception unit, with reference to the transaction information managed byType: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Nobuo Murofushi, Shigeaki Suzuki, Wataru Sakurai, Masaki Kimura, Yuichiro Kawabe, Yuki Suzuki, Haruka Otake
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Publication number: 20240095474Abstract: A wireless tag reading apparatus for reading tag information stored in a wireless tag attached to an item, includes a stage on which the item can be placed, one or more antennas movable between first and second positions, a camera facing the stage, and a controller configured to control the camera to capture images and detect an object therein, control the antennas to transmit radio waves to a wireless tag and move the antennas, wherein the transmitting and the moving are repeated while the antennas move from the first position to the second position during a tag reading period, acquire tag information from response waves transmitted by the wireless tag in response to the radio waves, based on the captured images, determine whether the object has moved during the tag reading period, and upon determining that the object has moved during the tag reading period, issue a notification.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Wataru SAKURAI, Nobuo MUROFUSHI, Shigeaki SUZUKI, Yuki SUZUKI, Masaki KIMURA, Yuichiro KAWABE, Haruka OTAKE
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Patent number: 11738814Abstract: Disclosed is a work vehicle having a load carrier deck provided at a rear portion of a vehicle body to be vertically pivotable between an elevated discharging posture and a lowered load carrying posture. An engine section is provided under the load carrier deck. The engine section includes an engine, an exhaust muffler for the engine, and a muffler heat insulating cover for covering an outer circumference of the exhaust muffler. The muffler heat insulating cover is supported by a vehicle body frame via an anti-vibration member.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Toshiki Ono, Hiroki Bessho, Yuichiro Kimura, Rei Tokuda
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Patent number: 11098458Abstract: A flap gate includes a door body and a flap ancillary part. When the door body is in its down position, a movable end portion of the door body is located forward of a supported end portion. The door body changes its position between the down position and a maximum up position. The flap ancillary part applies tilt-up moment to the door body only when the door body is located in a position between the down position and a first position. The flap ancillary part also applies tilt-down moment to the door body only when the door body is located in a position between the maximum up position and a second position.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro Kimura, Kunie Miyamoto, Kyoichi Nakayasu, Toshiaki Morii
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Patent number: 10787780Abstract: A flood prevention device includes a gate device constituting a passage between a flood prevention area and an outside area, and a portable flood prevention material that separates the flood prevention area and the outside area with the gate device. The gate device has a side wall corresponding to one end of the portable flood prevention material.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro Kimura, Yoshito Yamakawa, Kunie Miyamoto, Toshiaki Morii, Kyoichi Nakayasu
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Patent number: 10697144Abstract: An axis positioning mechanism serving as a rotation bearing of a flap gate includes a housing disposed at the bottom of an opening, a first rotating plate rotationally supported by the housing via a first shaft, a second rotating plate rotationally supported by the housing via a second shaft having a different axis from the first shaft, and a synchronizing rod rotationally connected to the rotating plates so as to synchronize the rotations of the rotating plates. The axis positioning mechanism further includes connecting members rotationally connecting a door base and the rotating plates with different axes. The door is laid flat with a pivot at a higher position than the axes.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Zosen CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Kimura, Kunie Miyamoto, Toshiaki Morii, Yoshito Yamakawa, Kyoichi Nakayasu
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Publication number: 20200048853Abstract: A flap gate includes a door body and a flap ancillary part. When the door body is in its down position, a movable end portion of the door body is located forward of a supported end portion. The door body changes its position between the down position and a maximum up position. The flap ancillary part applies tilt-up moment to the door body only when the door body is located in a position between the down position and a first position. The flap ancillary part also applies tilt-down moment to the door body only when the door body is located in a position between the maximum up position and a second position. This simplifies the structure of the flap gate that can speedily start to tilt up when water flows in and that can early start to tilt down when the water level has started to drop.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Yuichiro KIMURA, Kunie MIYAMOTO, Kyoichi NAKAYASU, Toshiaki MORII
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Publication number: 20190390425Abstract: A flood prevention device includes a gate device constituting a passage between a flood prevention area and an outside area, and a portable flood prevention material that separates the flood prevention area and the outside area with the gate device. The gate device has a side wall corresponding to one end of the portable flood prevention material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2017Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Yuichiro KIMURA, Yoshito YAMAKAWA, Kunie MIYAMOTO, Toshiaki MORII, Kyoichi NAKAYASU
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Publication number: 20190345684Abstract: An axis positioning mechanism serving as a rotation bearing of a flap gate includes a housing disposed at the bottom of an opening, a first rotating plate rotationally supported by the housing via a first shaft, a second rotating plate rotationally supported by the housing via a second shaft having a different axis from the first shaft, and a synchronizing rod rotationally connected to the rotating plates so as to synchronize the rotations of the rotating plates. The axis positioning mechanism further includes connecting members rotationally connecting a door base and the rotating plates with different axes. The door is laid flat with a pivot at a higher position than the axes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2017Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Yuichiro KIMURA, Kunie MIYAMOTO, Toshiaki MORII, Yoshito YAMAKAWA, Kyoichi NAKAYASU
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Publication number: 20190276103Abstract: Disclosed is a work vehicle having a load carrier deck provided at a rear portion of a vehicle body to be vertically pivotable between an elevated discharging posture and a lowered load carrying posture. An engine section is provided under the load carrier deck. The engine section includes an engine, an exhaust muffler for the engine, and a muffler heat insulating cover for covering an outer circumference of the exhaust muffler. The muffler heat insulating cover is supported by a vehicle body frame via an anti-vibration member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Toshiki Ono, Hiroki Bessho, Yuichiro Kimura, Rei Tokuda
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Patent number: 10024532Abstract: A combustion system includes a combustor having staging blocks and flashback detection units configured to detect flashbacks occurring in the staging blocks, and a combustion control device configured to stop a supply of a fuel for one of the staging blocks in which a flashback occurs based on a detection signal from one of the flashback detection units. The combustion control device includes a staging processing unit configured to instruct to supply the fuel or stop the supply of the fuel for each of the staging blocks based on a staging pattern in which an operating line is specified and a load adjustment unit configured to reduce an amount of load to a level at which the supply of the fuel for the one of the staging blocks is stopped when the detection signal is input from the one of the flashback detection units.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuichiro Kimura, Toshihiko Saito, Shinji Akamatsu
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Publication number: 20170298862Abstract: A piston pin is provided that includes a pin oil channel to which oil is supplied from the connecting rod. A piston is provided that includes a pin boss, an oil groove formed in a pin bore surface, and a communication oil channel that connects a cooling channel that is provided closer to a combustion chamber than the piston pin and the oil groove to each other. The pin oil channel opens in the outer surface of the piston pin at a point corresponding to the oil groove. In the view of the piston from the direction of the piston pin axis, the oil groove is formed in the pin bore surface at a position closer to a crankcase than a second straight line and is not formed in a part of the pin bore surface that is closer to the combustion chamber than the second straight line.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuichiro KIMURA
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Publication number: 20160153656Abstract: A combustion system (1) includes a combustor (2) having a plurality of staging blocks and flashback detection units (40, 41, . . . ) configured to detect flashbacks occurring in the staging blocks, and a combustion control device (10) configured to stop a fuel for a staging block in which the flashback occurs based on a detection signal from the flashback detection units (40, 41, . . . ). The combustion control device (10) includes a staging processing unit (100) configured to instruct to supply the fuel or stop the fuel supply for each of the staging blocks based on a staging pattern in which an operating line is specified and a load adjustment unit (101) configured to reduce an amount of load to a level at which the fuel supply for the staging block corresponding to the flashback detection unit (40, 41, . . . ) is stopped when the detection signal is input from the flashback detection unit (40, 41, . . . ).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: Yuichiro KIMURA, Toshihiko SAITO, Shinji AKAMATSU
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Patent number: 9249977Abstract: A combustor includes a combustion chamber and an acoustic liner, wherein through-holes through are formed in a wall of the combustion chamber, a plurality of rows of the through-holes is arranged in a lengthwise direction of the combustor, the through-holes of a first through-hole row are shifted with respect to the through-holes of a second through-hole row so that centers of the through-holes of the first and second through-hole rows adjacent each other are staggered in the circumferential direction, cooling grooves are formed so as to avoid the through-holes inside that is sandwiched between the outer peripheral surface and the inner peripheral surface of the combustion chamber, and the cooling grooves include transverse cooling grooves extending in the circumferential direction between rows of the through-holes, and longitudinal cooling grooves extending in the lengthwise direction between the through-holes and connecting the transverse cooling grooves adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yuichiro Kimura, Satoshi Takiguchi, Keisuke Matsuyama, Satoshi Mizukami, Shinji Akamatsu, Kenji Sato, Hikaru Katano, Shigemi Mandai
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Patent number: 8979378Abstract: A sliding bearing 2 has a sliding surface 2a in sliding contact with an outer peripheral surface of a crankshaft 1 (rotating shaft) and a relief portion 4 formed along a circumferential direction on both axial end portions of the sliding surface 2a and retreated outward in a radial direction from the sliding surface 2a.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignees: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Hikita, Shinichi Kato, Yuichiro Kimura, Motoichi Murakami
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Publication number: 20140248012Abstract: A sliding bearing 2 has a sliding surface 2a in sliding contact with an outer peripheral surface of a crankshaft 1 (rotating shaft) and a relief portion 4 formed along a circumferential direction on both axial end portions of the sliding surface 2a and retreated outward in a radial direction from the sliding surface 2a. The relief portion 4 is provided with a flat portion 4a formed on the axial end portion and a tapered portion 4b formed so as to become gradually deeper from the flat portion 4a toward a boundary portion between the relief portion 4 and the sliding surface 2a. A lubricant forms a disturbance or a swirl inside the tapered portion 4b and then, flows along the tapered portion 4b so as to form a high-pressure region W by a flow of the lubricant at a position of the flat portion 4a. A temperature of the lubricant can be rapidly raised and also, leakage of the lubricant can be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: September 4, 2014Inventors: Yasuhiro Hikita, Shinichi Kato, Yuichiro Kimura, Motoichi Murakami
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Patent number: 8704735Abstract: A display method of a plasma display apparatus to which primary color video signals are inputted and which carries out color display by letting phosphors for primary colors emit light is provided. The display method displays the primary color video signals by changing a gray level of an output primary color video signal in accordance with a gray level of an input primary color video signal. When each gray level of the inputted primary color video signals changes from a first value to a second value which is larger than the first value, a gray level of a primary color video signal for a phosphor having the largest influence of luminance saturation properties among the phosphors is increased relative to a gray level of the other primary color video signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Ken Kumakura, Hideaki Ohki, Yuichiro Kimura, Yasuji Noguchi, Takayuki Ooe