Patents by Inventor Yuji Hirano

Yuji Hirano 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).

  • Publication number: 20240165592
    Abstract: A reverse water-gas shift catalyst that can be used at high temperatures is obtained. A reverse water-gas shift catalyst (cat1) is produced by executing an impregnation-supporting step of impregnating a carrier (cb1) containing alumina as a main component with nickel as a catalytically active component (ca1) to be supported on the carrier, and calcinating a precursor obtained in the impregnation-supporting step at a temperature of 500° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Echigo, Yuji Tsuda, Takenori Hirano
  • Publication number: 20240128440
    Abstract: This negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery is characterized by comprising a negative electrode mixture layer containing a carbon-based negative electrode active material, a Si-based negative electrode active material, and carbon nanotubes, wherein when 100 is the ratio at which the carbon nanotubes coat the surface of the Si-based negative electrode active material, the ratio at which the carbon nanotubes coat the surface of the carbon-based negative electrode active material is at least 20 but no higher than 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hirano, Yusuke Fukumoto, Masanori Sugimori, Yuji Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240112581
    Abstract: A coordination support device includes a target traffic area recognizer configured to recognize traffic participants, a predictor configured to predict futures of a plurality of the traffic participants, and a coordination support information notifier configured to notify notification targets. The predictor includes a group classifier configured to divide the plurality of traffic participants into a plurality of moving groups G1 to G9 and acquire moving group information, a first predictor configured to predict whether or not a collision will occur among the moving groups G1 to G9 on the basis of the moving group information and specifies collision sites in the moving groups that are predicted to collide, and a second predictor configured to determine two or more specific traffic participants among the plurality of traffic participants on the basis of the collision sites and predict whether or not a collision will occur among the specific traffic participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ryohei HIRANO, Tim PUPHAL, Akihito KIMATA, Yuji TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20240112582
    Abstract: A predictor 62 predicts a future of a prediction target in a monitoring area. The predictor 62 includes a movement state information acquirer 620 configured to acquire movement state information, a surrounding state information acquirer 621 configured to acquire surrounding state information regarding movement states of traffic participants around the prediction target, a confirmation state information acquirer 623 configured to acquire confirmation state information regarding a surrounding confirmation state of a driver of the prediction target, a moving speed predictor 624 configured to predict a future moving speed of the prediction target on a basis of the movement state information, the surrounding state information, and the confirmation state information, and a collision predictor 625 configured to predict whether or not a collision will occur in a future of the prediction target on the basis of the movement state information, the surrounding state information, and the future moving speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Akihito KIMATA, Tim PUPHAL, Ryohei HIRANO, Masaki OKUMOTO, Yuji TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20240105958
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid for an electrode slurry such that it is possible to inhibit a decrease in a charge-discharge cycle characteristic. A carbon nanotube dispersion liquid for an electrode slurry according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes carbon nanotubes having a diameter of 0.4 to 2 nm, a dispersant, and a dispersion medium. In a Raman spectroscopy spectrum, the carbon nanotubes have a G/D ratio, which is the ratio of the peak intensities of the G-band (1560 to 1600 cm?1) and the D-band (1310 to 1350 cm?1), within the range of 50 to 200, and in a volume-based particle size distribution via a laser diffraction method, the carbon nanotubes have 3 to 5 peaks, and if the peaks are, from the small particle diameter side, P1, P2, . . . , Pn, the greatest frequency peak is in the range pf P2 to Pn-1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Sugimori, Yusuke Fukumoto, Yuji Yokoyama, Nobuhiro Hirano
  • Publication number: 20160246205
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus prints a special color image on the top of and/or the bottom of primary colors and black images. At least one first print engine forms a first image of a first developer material selected from a group consisting of the primary colors, and black developer materials of a color model. The first print engine prints the first image on a medium. A second print engine is disposed upstream of the at least one first print engine, and forms a second image of a second developer material other than the group. A third print engine is disposed downstream of the at least one first print engine, and forms a third image of a third developer material other than the group. The first, second, and third print engines operate so that the first image is sandwiched between the second and third images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji HIRANO
  • Patent number: 9047554
    Abstract: Where plural rectangle drawing objects are provided in an overlapping manner in plural layers each having a different density, an intermediate code producing unit produces plural divisional objects upon dividing a region into prescribed pixel region units at each layer. The divisional object of a lower layer is set as a lower divisional object whereas the divisional object of a layer upper than the lower divisional object is set as an upper divisional object. The invented apparatus omits production of the intermediate code of the lower divisional object completely hiding under the upper divisional object and performs production of the intermediate code of the lower divisional object having a region protruding from the upper divisional object, at each of the prescribed pixel regions from the bottommost layer to the topmost layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Hirano
  • Patent number: 9023330
    Abstract: A hair treatment composition comprising components (A) to (D), wherein the mass ratio (A)/(B) between the content of the component (A) and the content of the component (B) is from 0.05 to 2.0, and the pH value of the hair treatment composition is from 2.5 to 5.0; (A): polyglycerin, in which with regard to the ratio among a total content (p) of triglycerin and tetraglycerin, a content (q) of diglycerin, and a total content (r) of pentaglycerin and higher order oligomers in the entire polyglycerin, q/p is less than 0.5 and r/p is less than 0.5; (B): alkyl glyceryl ester or alkyl glyceryl ether having an HLB of 2 to 7; (C): aromatic alcohol; and (D): cationic surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Takiguchi, Yuji Hirano, Mikako Ezure
  • Patent number: 8868054
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for restoring a transferred mobile service by a mobile transfer service. To this end, the present invention provides a method for restoring a mobile service that releases a mobile transfer state of a first mobile terminal when it is confirmed that a state where the power strength of a common pilot channel received from a second mobile terminal is a previously set threshold value or less is maintained for a previously set threshold time or more. In addition, the present invention provides a method for restoring mobile service that releases a mobile transfer state of the first mobile terminal when it is confirmed that the frequency of a period that is the power threshold value or less of the common pilot channel received from the second mobile terminal exceeds the previously set threshold frequency within the previously set time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: KT Corporation
    Inventors: Jong-Hyuk Choi, Jong-Il Park, Takeshi Tsukagoshi, Yuji Hirano, Yasuhisa Nakamura, Akiko Yano
  • Publication number: 20140290688
    Abstract: A hair treatment composition comprising components (A) to (D), wherein the mass ratio (A)/(B) between the content of the component (A) and the content of the component (B) is from 0.05 to 2.0, and the pH value of the hair treatment composition is from 2.5 to 5.0; (A): polyglycerin, in which with regard to the ratio among a total content (p) of triglycerin and tetraglycerin, a content (q) of diglycerin, and a total content (r) of pentaglycerin and higher order oligomers in the entire polyglycerin, q/p is less than 0.5 and r/p is less than 0.5; (B): alkyl glyceryl ester or alkyl glyceryl ether having an HLB of 2 to 7; (C): aromatic alcohol; and (D): cationic surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Takiguchi, Yuji Hirano, Mikako Ezure
  • Publication number: 20140290687
    Abstract: A hair cleaning composition comprising components (A), (B), and (D), wherein the content of a component (C) is suppressed to 0% to 0.05% by mass, and the pH value of the hair cleaning composition is from 2.5 to 5.0; (A): polyglycerin, in which with regard to the ratio among a total mass (p) of triglycerin and tetraglycerin, a mass (q) of diglycerin, and a total mass (r) of pentaglycerin and higher order oligomers, q/p is less than 0.5 and r/p is less than 0.5; (B): aromatic alcohol; (C): cationic surfactant; and (D): anionic surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Takiguchi, Yuji Hirano
  • Publication number: 20130286422
    Abstract: Where plural rectangle drawing objects are provided in an overlapping manner in plural layers each having a different density, an intermediate code producing unit produces plural divisional objects upon dividing a region into prescribed pixel region units at each layer. The divisional object of a lower layer is set as a lower divisional object whereas the divisional object of a layer upper than the lower divisional object is set as an upper divisional object. The invented apparatus omits production of the intermediate code of the lower divisional object completely hiding under the upper divisional object and performs production of the intermediate code of the lower divisional object having a region protruding from the upper divisional object, at each of the prescribed pixel regions from the bottommost layer to the topmost layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: OKI DATA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji HIRANO
  • Patent number: 8462396
    Abstract: A image processing device includes an image scanning unit for scanning a plurality of pages of a book and generating image data, a storage unit in which data related to direction of the image data is stored, a direction determination unit for determining a direction of a page unit of the image data, and an image rotation unit for changing a direction of a page unit of the image data based on the direction determined by the direction determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Hirano
  • Patent number: 8286443
    Abstract: Provided is a dispenser in which a wash water discharge opening provided to a drain pan is connected to an external tap water system via a wash water supply path. The wash water supply path is provided with a wash water supply valve for controlling whether or not to supply wash water to the drain pan. A wash control section in a controller performs timing separately from control of a generation/delivery control section for performing generation and delivery of ice chips, and also performs a wash action at predetermined time intervals by opening the wash water supply valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Hiroshi Nagai, Kouichi Itou, Yuji Hirano, Motohiro Kawachi, Seiki Hosaka
  • Patent number: 8286444
    Abstract: Provided is a dispenser in which a wash water discharge opening provided to a drain pan is connected to an external tap water system via a wash water supply path. The wash water supply path is provided with a wash water supply valve for controlling whether or not to supply wash water to the drain pan. Based on delivery information output from a delivery control section for controlling delivery of ice chips, a wash control section in a controller judges whether or not a delivery count of the ice chips has reached a predetermined set count, and, when it is judged that the delivery count has reached the set count, opens the wash water supply valve to perform a wash action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Kouichi Itou, Yuji Hirano, Motohiro Kawachi, Hiroshi Nagai
  • Publication number: 20110230177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for restoring a transferred mobile service by a mobile transfer service. To this end, the present invention provides a method for restoring a mobile service that releases a mobile transfer state of a first mobile terminal when it is confirmed that a state where the power strength of a common pilot channel received from a second mobile terminal is a previously set threshold value or less is maintained for a previously set threshold time or more. In addition, the present invention provides a method for restoring mobile service that releases a mobile transfer state of the first mobile terminal when it is confirmed that the frequency of a period that is the power threshold value or less of the common pilot channel received from the second mobile terminal exceeds the previously set threshold frequency within the previously set time unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jong-Hyuk Choi, Jong-Il Park, Takeshi Tsukagoshi, Yuji Hirano, Yasuhisa Nakamura, Akiko Yano
  • Patent number: 7845550
    Abstract: A communication terminal device is connected to an information processing apparatus that controls history information of a medium in which identification information is stored. The communication terminal device includes a reading unit for reading the identification information stored in the medium; a communication unit for transmitting the identification information thus read to the information processing apparatus and receiving the history information corresponding to the identification information from the information processing apparatus; a display unit for displaying the history information; a history selection unit for selecting specific history information from the history information; a format storage unit for storing a plurality of print formats; a format selection unit for selecting a specific print format from the print formats; and a printing unit for merging the specific history information thus selected with the specific print format thus selected to be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Hirano
  • Publication number: 20100140296
    Abstract: Provided is a dispenser in which a wash water discharge opening provided to a drain pan is connected to an external tap water system via a wash water supply path. The wash water supply path is provided with a wash water supply valve for controlling whether or not to supply wash water to the drain pan. Based on delivery information output from a delivery control section for controlling delivery of ice chips, a wash control section in a controller judges whether or not a delivery count of the ice chips has reached a predetermined set count, and, when it is judged that the delivery count has reached the set count, opens the wash water supply valve to perform a wash action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Makoto SASAKI, Kouichi ITOU, Yuji HIRANO, Motohiro KAWACHI, Hiroshi NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20100079821
    Abstract: A image processing device includes an image scanning unit for scanning a plurality of pages of a book and generating image data, a storage unit in which data related to direction of the image data is stored, a direction determination unit for determining a direction of a page unit of the image data, and an image rotation unit for changing a direction of a page unit of the image data based on the direction determined by the direction determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Hirano
  • Publication number: 20100072225
    Abstract: Provided is a dispenser in which a wash water discharge opening provided to a drain pan is connected to an external tap water system via a wash water supply path. The wash water supply path is provided with a wash water supply valve for controlling whether or not to supply wash water to the drain pan. A wash control section in a controller performs timing separately from control of a generation/delivery control section for performing generation and delivery of ice chips, and also performs a wash action at predetermined time intervals by opening the wash water supply valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Makoto SASAKI, Hiroshi NAGAI, Kouichi ITOU, Yuji HIRANO, Motohiro KAWACHI, Seiki HOSAKA