Patents by Inventor Akira Abe

Akira Abe 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: 20250116331
    Abstract: An outer circumferential surface of a piston ring has a cut surface forming a notched portion between an outer circumferential end surface and a lower surface, the cut surface including a first surface between the outer circumferential end surface and a bottom portion, and a second surface between the bottom portion and the lower surface. The second surface is inclined away from a central axis of the piston ring as it extends toward a crank chamber side, an angle of inclination of the second surface with respect to the bottom portion being greater than or equal to 50° and less than or equal to 85°. When an axial width of the piston ring is h1 and a distance in an axial direction between a connecting portion between the cut surface and the outer circumferential end surface and a connecting portion between the cut surface and the lower surface is H, H/h1 is greater than or equal to 0.2 and less than or equal to 0.4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Yushi Abe, Naoki Umeda, Masayuki Ohira, Akira Hikone
  • Publication number: 20250111692
    Abstract: Images of a livestock are taken, identifiers of the livestock are acquired, and the identifiers acquired and the images taken are stored in association with one another in a storage part. The images of the livestock identified by the same identifier, which had taken at different time points, are compared. Replacement of the livestock identified by the same identifier is reported when a change in the livestock that cannot occur during a predetermined time span is detected as a result of comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systerns, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihiko KAMATA, Masakazu Kaneda, Kenichi ABE, Akira MATSUMOTO, Satoki UENO, Tetsuya ITO, Chikashi ITO, Momo SUTO
  • Patent number: 12257933
    Abstract: A rotating device for a vehicle interior item is provided with latching means that is provided on a side of a base member having a rotation support part, and engagement means that is provided on a side of a rotating member supporting a vehicle interior item and being rotatably supported by the rotation support part, and can be switched between a state in which the engagement means engages with the latching means so as to suppress detachment of the rotating member from the base member and a state in which the engagement with the latching means is released when the rotating member attains the rotatable state, wherein the latching means and the engagement means are disposed further outside than the rotating member in plan view at least when the rotating member is in the non-rotating state. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress an increase in the height while suppressing detachment when the vehicle interior item is not rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruki Mochizuki, Akira Miyoshi, Takuji Kaneda, Hirohisa Abe
  • Publication number: 20250091205
    Abstract: A robot system includes a robot, and a moving stand including a plurality of legs configured to contact a floor or a ground, and an installation portion on which the robot is installed. At least one of the plurality of legs includes a holding-force changing portion configured to change fixing holding-force between the at least one of the plurality of legs and the floor or the ground in accordance with state of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: TOMOTAKA ABE, AKIRA YAJIMA, RYOTA OKAZAKI, MASAKAZU TAKAHASHI, KENJI SHINO, YUSAKU MOTONAGA
  • Publication number: 20250051442
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a humanized anti-DNAM-1 antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, including: a heavy chain variable region containing an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 as HCDR1, an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 as HCDR2, and an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 as HCDR3; and a light chain variable region containing an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 as LCDR1, an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 as LCDR2, and an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 as LCDR3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Akira Shibuya, Kazuko Shibuya, Yumi Kanemaru, Fumie Abe
  • Publication number: 20250051439
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a humanized anti-DNAM-1 antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, including: a heavy chain variable region containing an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 as HCDR1, an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 as HCDR2, and an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 as HCDR3; and a light chain variable region containing an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 as LCDR1, an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 as LCDR2, and an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 as LCDR3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Akira Shibuya, Kazuko Shibuya, Yumi Kanemaru, Fumie Abe
  • Patent number: 12222293
    Abstract: A detection device (20) according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit (11) that acquires point cloud data indicating a distance to an object and luminance information obtained from reflected light of a beam emitted when the point cloud data is measured, an edge detection unit (12) that performs edge detection based on the luminance information, a classification unit (21) that classifies, based on distribution of points contained in a crack candidate being a set of points detected as an edge, a plurality of the crack candidates into one of groups, and a label assignment unit (23) that accepts input of a label regarding the group from a user having visually recognized a shape of the crack candidate belonging to the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tsuji, Junichi Abe, Taisuke Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20250040518
    Abstract: There is provided a health condition determination apparatus including: a behavior data acquisition part that acquires behavior data indicating a behavior of an animal acquired by executing at least one of monitoring and sensing on the animal; a behavior data accumulation part that accumulates the behavior data; and a health condition estimation part that estimates a health condition of the animal by using the behavior data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu KANEDA, Kenichi ABE, Momo SUTO, Chikashi ITO, Tetsuya ITO, Akira MATSUMOTO, Norihiko KAMATA, Satoki UENO
  • Patent number: 12217482
    Abstract: A processing apparatus (10) includes classification means (12) for classifying three-dimensional point group data acquired based on a reflected light from a structure to be inspected illuminated by light into clusters, which are units of a shape that corresponds to the structure to be inspected, based on positional information at each point of the data; and cluster association means (13) for determining whether a first cluster and a second cluster included in the classified clusters correspond to one structure to be inspected based on a positional relation between the classified clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Ono, Akira Tsuji, Junichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20250029812
    Abstract: During an ascending process of a specimen unit, a camera image including a height guide is displayed. A display magnification controller increases a display magnification of the camera image in response to a representative height of the specimen unit having reached a magnification changing height. A protrusion amount computing unit computes a protrusion amount of a specimen from a specimen holder based on a height of the specimen holder at the time of accepting registration operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Akira Abe, Taku Hattori, Takenori Miyahara
  • Patent number: 12203793
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to obtain a flow rate measurement device capable of reducing variations in the flow rate detection accuracy by suppressing the inclination of a chip package relative to a circuit board. A flow rate measurement device 20 of the present invention includes a chip package 310 having a flow rate sensor 311 and a passage wall 314 formed therein, and a circuit board 300 on which the chip package 310 is mounted, in which the chip package 310 is mounted such that the flow rate sensor 311 faces a portion of the circuit board 300 and a portion of the passage wall 314 as a resin portion of the chip package 310 contacts the circuit board 300.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yogo, Binti Haridan Fatin Farhanah, Akira Uenodan, Hiroyuki Abe, Mizuki Ijuin
  • Publication number: 20250021917
    Abstract: An evaluation apparatus includes: an evaluation method acquisition part configured to acquire evaluation method data from an evaluation method provision apparatus; an evaluation criteria creation part configured to create evaluation criteria information for evaluating collected information that integrates data collected from a field management system that manages field information based on the evaluation method data; an evaluation processing part configured to evaluate the collected information based on the evaluation criteria information and create an evaluation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira MATSUMOTO, Momo Suto, Kenichi Abe, Chikashi Ito, Tetsuya Ito, Norihiko Kamata, Masakazu Kaneda, Satoki Ueno
  • Patent number: 11404239
    Abstract: A first spring array and a second spring array are provided in a holder body. Three sample plates can be mounted in the holder body. On each sample plate, pressing-up forces from the first spring array and the second spring array are applied, but upward movement of each sample plate is restricted by an inner surface of a cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Abe, Yuta Murakami, Shuhei Abe
  • Patent number: 11217422
    Abstract: First shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a sample unit including a sample is generated based on a result of three-dimensional shape measurement of the sample. Second shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a structure which exists in a sample chamber is generated. Movement of the sample unit is controlled based on the first shape data and the second shape data such that collision of the sample unit with the structure does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Nemoto, Yuta Murakami, Takakuni Maeda, Akira Abe, Masatsugu Kawamoto, Hiroki Mezaki
  • Patent number: 10964510
    Abstract: A scanning electron microscope includes a first detector for detecting electrons, a second detector for detecting X-rays, and an image processor section for causing first markers indicative of imaging positions and second markers indicative of analysis positions to be displayed on a display device such that the first and second markers are placed on a whole image of a sample. The image processor section alters the magnification of the whole image based on instructions for altering the magnification of the whole image displayed on the display device. The image processor section displays new first markers of the same size as the first markers placed on the unaltered magnification whole image such that the new first markers are placed on the altered magnification whole image. The image processor section causes new second markers of the same size as the second markers placed on the unaltered magnification whole image to be placed on the altered magnification whole image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Publication number: 20210074507
    Abstract: A first spring array and a second spring array are provided in a holder body. Three sample plates can be mounted in the holder body. On each sample plate, pressing-up forces from the first spring array and the second spring array are applied, but upward movement of each sample plate is restricted by an inner surface of a cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Akira Abe, Yuta Murakami, Shuhei Abe
  • Patent number: 10875294
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes a comparator that compares a voltage of an original driving signal with a voltage of a feedback signal of a driving signal, transistors, and a control signal generating circuit that generates a gate signal to the transistor and a gate signal to the transistor. The control signal generating circuit controls to alternately switch on the transistors. Driving abilities of the transistors are switched to be lowered by insertion of capacitors by an adjustment circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Patent number: 10821727
    Abstract: Provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a head that includes a piezoelectric element which is displaced by application of a drive signal; a transistor pair that includes a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor and outputs the drive signal; and a control signal generation circuit which generates a first control signal that controls switching operation of the high-side transistor and a second control signal that controls switching operation of the low-side transistor, in which the high-side transistor is set to be on and thus a voltage of the drive signal rises, and the low-side transistor is set to be on and thus the voltage of the drive signal drops, and in which the control signal generation circuit generates the first control signal and the second control signal in such a manner that the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor are alternately set to be on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Patent number: 10741359
    Abstract: An electron microscope includes: a display control unit which sequentially acquires electron microscope images of a sample and causes a display unit to display the electron microscope images as a live image; an analysis area setting unit which sets an analysis area on the sample based on a designated position on the live image designated by pointing means; and an analysis control unit which performs control for executing elemental analysis of the set analysis area. The analysis area setting unit sets, as the analysis area, an area on the sample which corresponds to a continuous area including the designated position and having brightness comparable to brightness of the designated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Abe
  • Publication number: 20200251302
    Abstract: First shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a sample unit including a sample is generated based on a result of three-dimensional shape measurement of the sample. Second shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a structure which exists in a sample chamber is generated. Movement of the sample unit is controlled based on the first shape data and the second shape data such that collision of the sample unit with the structure does not occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Nemoto, Yuta Murakami, Takakuni Maeda, Akira Abe, Masatsugu Kawamoto, Hiroki Mezaki