Patents by Inventor Akihiro Hayashi

Akihiro Hayashi 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: 20220131304
    Abstract: A vehicle-side connector 1 includes a plurality of vehicle-side terminals 50, a connector housing 10 for holding the vehicle-side terminals 50 and heat storage materials 60 accommodated in the connector housing 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki HASHIMOTO, Katsuhiko AIZAWA, Akihiro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220088539
    Abstract: A separation membrane module includes a case and a separation membrane built in the case, wherein the separation membrane module satisfies the following requirements (1) to (3): (1) the separation membrane contains a hydrophobic polymer, a hydrophilic polymer, and a biocompatible copolymer, the hydrophilic polymer containing a hydrophilic polymer having mobility, (2) the separation membrane contains the hydrophilic polymer having mobility in a range of 1.0 to 1.7% by mass, and (3) a water content per self-weight of the separation membrane is in a range of 0 to 10% by mass. The separation membrane module is provided in which fouling of a membrane is suppressed and the amount of eluted substance is small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Suguru USHIRO, Akihiro HAYASHI, Hirokazu SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220080888
    Abstract: An information presentation apparatus includes an out-of-vehicle risk detection section that is configured to detect an out-of-vehicle risk object, a gaze detection section that is configured to detect a gaze direction of a driver of the vehicle, a recognition determination section that is configured to determine whether the out-of-vehicle risk object is recognized by the driver based on a detection result by the out-of-vehicle risk detection section and a detection result by the gaze detection section, and an information presentation section that is configured to present, to the driver, out-of-vehicle risk information regarding the out-of-vehicle risk object in a presentation mode. The information presentation section is further configured to change the presentation mode depending on whether the out-of-vehicle risk object is recognized by the driver based on a determination result by the recognition determination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiro HAYASHI, Kunihiko CHIBA, Takeshi HATOH, Yasushi SAKUMA, Iichirou TERAO
  • Publication number: 20220069508
    Abstract: A vehicle-side connector 1 includes a connector housing 10, a plurality of vehicle-side terminals 50 and heat storage bodies 70. The heat storage body 70 includes a case 71 accommodated in the connector housing 10 and heat storage materials 76 accommodated in the case 71.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki HASHIMOTO, Katsuhiko AIZAWA, Akihiro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210388887
    Abstract: A parallel link mechanism includes a proximal end member and three or more link mechanisms. Three or more link mechanisms connect the proximal end member to a distal end member. In three or more link mechanisms, a first center axis of a first revolute pair unit and a second center axis of a second revolute pair unit intersect at a spherical link center point. Fifth center axes of respective fifth revolute pair units of three or more link mechanisms overlap each other and intersect with the spherical link center point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiro HAYASHI, Hirofumi FUKUMARU, Taiga OKAMOTO, Kenzou NOSE, Hideki MATSUZAWA, Hiroshi ISOBE, Seigo SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20210371223
    Abstract: A recording medium conveyance device includes a storage, a conveyer that conveys a conveyed object, an ultrasonic sensor that outputs a value indicating an attenuation amount of an ultrasonic wave caused by the conveyed object, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes a type detection process of detecting a type of the conveyed object based on output of the ultrasonic sensor and storing the type in the storage and an overlay detection process of detecting whether the conveyed object is in an overlay state in which a gap is present based on output of the ultrasonic sensor, and switches to either one of the type detection process and the overlay detection process. The hardware processor executes the type detection process when the type is not stored in the storage and executes the overlay detection process when the type is stored in the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Ikuta, Hiroaki Takatsu, Takeshi Tamada, Takahiro Tsujimoto, Akihiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210288453
    Abstract: A service plug (1) is provided with a female connector housing (20) including a plurality of female terminals (30), and a male plug (10) detachably mountable into the female connector housing (20) along an insertion direction. The male plug (10) includes one male terminal (11) that is long in the insertion direction. Each female terminal (30) includes a female body (31) dimensioned to receive the male terminal (11) therein. The female bodies (31) are aligned coaxially with the inserting direction. The one male terminal (11) is inserted into the coaxially aligned female bodies (31) so that the female terminals (30) and the one male terminal (11) are connected electrically by mounting the male plug (10) into the female connector housing (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Yuya Tsukamoto, Akihiro Hayashi, Noriyuki Uematu
  • Publication number: 20210213394
    Abstract: Disclosed is a porous hollow fiber membrane containing a polysulfone-based polymer as a main component, which has an asymmetric structure in which the inner surface side is dense and the outer surface side is coarse, wherein an average of a minor axis diameter of pores of an inner surface is 20 nm or more and 40 nm or less, an open porosity of the inner surface is 10% or more and 30% or less, and a polymer including a monocarboxylic acid vinyl ester unit is supported on at least one of the outer surface and the inner surface. The present invention provides a hollow fiber membrane which has excellent removing performance of substances to be separated such as viruses, and can be used as a separation membrane having high permeability even in a treatment under low pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro HAYASHI, Kaori AKAIKE, Suguru USHIRO, Yoshiyuki UENO
  • Patent number: 11055045
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions that are executable by a processor coupled with an information processing device. The information processing device includes a physical communication interface including a first logical interface and a second logical interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutaka Yamada, Akihiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210197141
    Abstract: A separation membrane module includes a separation membrane including a hydrophobic polymer, a hydrophilic polymer, and polymer A, wherein the polymer A includes a hydrophilic unit and a hydrophobic unit, and is a copolymer having an alkyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms at a side-chain terminal of the hydrophobic unit, the separation membrane module having a retention rate of an albumin sieving coefficient of 86% or more at 60 minutes after circulation start relative to an albumin sieving coefficient at 10 minutes after circulation start when 2 L of bovine blood containing 50 U/ml of heparin, and having a hematocrit of 30% by volume and a total protein concentration of 6 to 7 g/dl is circulated at a flow rate of 100 ml/min at 37° C. and a filtration flow rate of 10 ml/(min·m2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Suguru Ushiro, Akihiro Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 11000636
    Abstract: A copolymer is capable of being immobilized on a base material while maintaining a high antithrombotic property persistently without having to introduce heparin or an anticoagulant drug to the surface thereof. The copolymer includes monomer unit A, monomer unit B, and monomer unit C, wherein monomer unit C has a mole fraction of 0.5-40% with respect to the total amount of all constituent monomer units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Suguru Ushiro, Akihiro Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 10994248
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hollow fiber membrane module including a case and a hollow fiber membrane built in the case, wherein the hollow fiber membrane contains a polysulfone-based polymer and a hydrophilic polymer, and satisfies the following (A) and (B), and an amount of an eluted substance contained in a liquid obtained by circulating ultrapure water heated at 37° C. through a passage of an inner surface side of the hollow fiber membrane for 4 hours at 200 mL/min is 1.0 mg/m2 or less: (A) an insoluble component accounts for less than 3% by mass of the total mass of the hollow fiber membrane when the hollow fiber membrane is dissolved in N,N-dimethylacetamide; and (B) a flexible layer exists on a surface of a functional layer in a wet state and the flexible layer has a thickness of 7 nm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES
    Inventors: Akihiro Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Ueno
  • Publication number: 20210126390
    Abstract: A terminal fitting to be connected to a mating terminal in a form of a flat plate, the terminal fitting including: a body including a pair of side walls arranged to face each other and a coupling wall coupling the pair of side walls and capable of accommodating the mating terminal inside; and an obliquely wound coil spring arranged along the coupling wall inside the body, electrically connected to the body and configured to resiliently contact the mating terminal accommodated inside the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko AIZAWA, Akihiro HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10953142
    Abstract: A biological component adhesion-suppressing material includes a substrate provided with a functional layer having, fixed on a surface thereof that comes into contact with a biological component, a polymer including a saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid vinyl ester unit, wherein: when compositional analysis is performed on the surface of the functional layer using a TOF-SIMS device, the number of carbon atoms in an aliphatic chain representing an ion signal detected for saturated aliphatic carboxylic acid is 2-20; and an XPS measurement taken of the surface of the functional layer shows a peak derived from an ester group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Suguru Ushiro, Akihiro Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Ueno
  • Publication number: 20210061577
    Abstract: A processing system includes a conveyance path including a plurality of conveyance modules configured to convey a carriage, the plurality of conveyance modules being disposed to convey the carriage to a plurality of positions, a processing apparatus configured to perform processing on a work mounted on the carriage, and a control unit configured to control the plurality of conveyance modules and the processing apparatus, wherein the control unit is configured to, in performing the processing on the work at the plurality of positions by the processing apparatus, move the work to the plurality of positions by moving the carriage using the conveyance modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Ryota Okazaki, Satoshi Shioda, Akihiro Hayashi, Takeshi Akehi
  • Publication number: 20210058529
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, includes: a media sensor that detects a sheet type; a fixer that fixes the image on a sheet; a storage that stores a fixing temperature for each sheet type; and a hardware processor that controls power supplied to the fixer by pulse-width modulation (PWM) control and controls a temperature of the fixer to the fixing temperature corresponding to the sheet type detected by the media sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro TSUJIMOTO, Takeshi TAMADA, Tianhua XU, Hiroaki TAKATSU, Katsuyuki IKUTA, Akihiro HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10929161
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) obtaining, during runtime, from a compiler, two versions of a data parallel loop for an operation. The host computing system comprises includes a CPU and a GPU is accessible to the host. The processor(s) online profiles the two versions by asynchronously executing the first version, in a profile mode, with the GPU and executing the second version, in the profile mode, with the CPU. The processor(s) generates execution times for the first version and the second version. The processor(s) stores the executions times and performance data in a storage, where the performance data comprises a size of the data parallel loop for the operation. The processor(s) update a regression model(s) to predict performance numbers for a process of an unknown loop size. The processor(s) execute the operation with the CPU or the GPU based on the performance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gita Koblents, Alon Shalev Housfater, Kazuaki Ishizaki, Akihiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10912868
    Abstract: A medical material is capable of suppressing adhesion of platelets and proteins even when in contact with biological components such as blood for an extended period of time. The medical material is a copolymer including hydrophobic units and hydrophilic units in which the hydrophobic units have a C2-20 terminal alkyl group in a side chain, the static contact angle of water in the copolymer is at least 30° and less than 70°, and the glass transition temperature of the copolymer exists at only one point in the range from 45° C. to less than 90° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Suguru Ushiro, Akihiro Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 10774942
    Abstract: [Object] An electric valve control device capable of preventing a start delay of an electric valve control (an opening degree control) by shortening a waiting period of a system control device and an electric valve device including the same are provided. [Solving Means] An electric valve control device 11 outputs a signal indicating an end or an interruption of an initialization operation to an air conditioner ECU 16 after the initialization operation of the electric valve 9 ends or is interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIKOKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio Ogawa, Kiyoharu Satou, Akihiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10768562
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet, and includes: a rotator used to form the image; a motor that drives the rotator rotationally; a current measurer that measures motor current flowing through a current-carrying path including a winding of the motor, at measurement timing that is timing after the motor starts up; a torque acquirer that acquires a torque value of the motor based on a measured value of the motor current; and a corrector that performs correction for cancellation of an amount of error based on one or both of a variation in characteristic corresponding to motor speed of the motor and a variation in characteristic corresponding to the motor current at the measurement timing, at the acquisition of the torque value by the torque acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Katsuhide Sakai, Yasuhiro Koide, Toshiaki Tanaka, Akihiro Hayashi