Patents by Inventor Akira Hayashi

Akira 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: 20240398668
    Abstract: A medication assistance device includes a storing member, medicine dispenser, discharge/transport mechanism, pack information reader, pack information management system (PIMS), storing detector, and controller. The storing member stores medicine packs. The medicine dispenser arranges a medicine pack in a position. The discharge/transport mechanism discharges the medicine pack from the storing member to transport to a position of the medicine dispenser. The pack information reader in the discharge/transport mechanism reads medication associated information (MAI) attached to the storing member and/or medicine pack. The PIMS manages the MAI of the medicine pack. The storing detector detects attachment or detachment of the storing member to a device main body. The controller informs the PIMS and causes the pack information reader to read the MAI of the storing member based on a detection signal from the storing detector when the storing member is mounted in the device main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Youhei NIITSUMA, Hirotaka HAYASHI, Terumitsu AZUMA, Yu YAMAYA, Yoshihide SUGIYAMA, Hiroshi FUJIE, Manabu YAMANAKA, Akira KOJIMA, Takato MOCHIZUKI
  • Patent number: 12156852
    Abstract: An item storage apparatus includes a first storage to store items, a carrier to take an item from the first storage and convey the item, a first support supporting the carrier to be movable back and forth in a first horizontal direction, a second support supporting the first support to be movable back and forth in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, a vertical moving mechanism supporting the second support to be movable back and forth in a vertical direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction and the second horizontal direction, and a second storage to store the item. At least one of the first or second storage has a multi-tier structure in which a space for movement of the carrier is between tiers. The first support has a cantilever structure in which one end is secured to the second support and another end is free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kojima, Hirotaka Hayashi, Hiroshi Fujie, Takuya Morinaga, Wataru Nozaki
  • Patent number: 12109798
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a conveyance path, a double-sided conveyance path, and first and second charge eliminators. The conveyance unit conveys a recording medium having first and second surfaces in a first direction through the conveyance path to a recording area where recording is performed by a recording unit on the first surface. The recording medium then passes through the double-sided conveyance path before recording is performed on the second surface. The first charge eliminator eliminates charges from the first surface and is disposed at a position downstream of a junction between the conveyance path and the double-sided conveyance path in the first direction and upstream of the recording area in the first direction. The second charge eliminator eliminate charges from the second surface and is disposed downstream of the junction in the first direction and upstream of the recording area in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Ishida, Masakazu Tsukuda, Masaaki Matsuura, Koki Kudo, Akira Kida, Masashi Hayashi, Atsushi Arai
  • Publication number: 20240321444
    Abstract: A medical imaging control apparatus includes a hardware processor that causes a display to display a plurality of examinations of a same patient and different patients; specifies one examination from the plurality of examinations displayed on the display; causes the display to display a list of imaging order information corresponding to the specified one examination and imaging order information corresponding to another examination of the same patient as the one examination; and causes the display to display the imaging order information corresponding to the specified one examination so as to be distinguishable from the imaging order information corresponding to the other examination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Naoki HAYASHI, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Akira HIROSHIGE, Ichirou HAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240307012
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging support apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor performs notification of information on imaging equipment to be used by a photographer at a destination. The imaging equipment is determined based on examination information on a subject to be subjected to radiographic imaging by a movable radiographic imaging apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi HASEGAWA, Naoki HAYASHI, Akira HIROSHIGE, Kenichi YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20240277855
    Abstract: Polyoxyethylene derivatives represented by the following formula (1) provided by the present invention: wherein the symbols in the formula are as defined in the specification, can form conjugates with polypeptide that can be degraded over a long time under physiological conditions to release the polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, NOF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira ONODA, Takashi HAYASHI, Ken HAMURA, Akira SUZUKI, Satoshi KISHIDA
  • Patent number: 12053878
    Abstract: Provided is a sensing device to be applied to an actuator including a shaft that is movable in an axial direction, the shaft including a hollow part formed on at least a tip side of the shaft such that an interior of the shaft is hollow, the actuator being configured to generate a negative pressure in the hollow part to suction a workpiece to a tip of the shaft, thereby picking up the workpiece. The sensing device includes a flow sensor provided in a middle of an air passage to detect a flow rate of air flowing through the air passage, the air passage being a passage through which air sucked out from the hollow part flows when the negative pressure is applied to the hollow part, and a pressure sensor provided in a middle of the air passage, to detect a pressure in the air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Fukushima, Masashi Ishii, Hiroki Niwa, Shigeki Hayashi, Akira Suzuki, Kazuto Oga, Shogo Wakuta, Satoshi Hara, Tomofumi Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12036666
    Abstract: The present invention reduces tact time for a pick-and-place operation by an actuator. In a housing of the actuator, an air passage being a passage of air when sucking air from a hollow part of a shaft is provided. Furthermore, a sucking valve that sucks air from the hollow part of the shaft through the air passage and a suction detecting sensor to detect that a workpiece is suctioned onto a tip of the shaft are provided in the air passage. Then, in the housing, the air passage is disposed at a position on a side opposite to a linear motion motor that moves the shaft in an axial direction of the shaft, via the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Fukushima, Masashi Ishii, Hiroki Niwa, Shigeki Hayashi, Akira Suzuki, Kazuto Oga, Shogo Wakuta, Satoshi Hara, Tomofumi Mizuno, Satoru Nagai
  • Patent number: 12036795
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a print head, a recovery unit, a type obtaining unit, a threshold obtaining unit, and a calculation unit. The print head forms an image by applying a recording material to a recording medium. The recovery unit performs a recovery operation for recovering an ejection state of the print head. The type obtaining unit obtains a type of the recording medium on which the image is to be recorded. The threshold obtaining unit obtains a threshold for performing the recovery operation corresponding to the obtained type of the recording medium. The calculation unit calculates a count-up value by adding, in response to recording on the recording medium, an addition value set for each of types of recording media. The recovery operation is performed in a case where the count-up value calculated by the calculation unit exceeds the threshold obtained by the threshold obtaining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Hayashi, Atsushi Arai, Takaaki Ishida, Akira Kida, Masakazu Tsukuda, Masaaki Matsuura, Koki Kudo
  • Publication number: 20230000915
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for providing a T cell product, including a T cell master cell bank and/or a T cell working cell bank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: Kyoto University, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Shin KANEKO, Suguru ARIMA, Maiko TAKIGUCHI, Yoshiaki KASSAI, Akira HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11331934
    Abstract: A printer includes a head which includes a nozzle face which ejects ink toward a top of a surface of a nail of a finger, a driving mechanism which moves the head in a predetermined direction, an image capturer which generates a nail side image showing a side of the nail of the finger by capturing an image of the nail of the finger, and a display controller which performs image processing on the nail side image from the image capturer, causing a display to display an image for height position adjustment including a target height position indicator added to the nail side image, the target height position indicator indicating a target height position of the nail of the finger spaced from the nozzle face by a predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Takagi, Akira Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220089672
    Abstract: The present invention provides a variant of a T-cell receptor containing a combination of two polypeptides containing a constant region of a T cell receptor chain selected from the group consisting of ? chain, ? chain, ? chain and ? chain, wherein the polypeptide does not contain a complementarity determining region (CDR) of the T cell receptor chain, a complementarity determining region (CDR) of the ? chain, and a complementarity determining region (CDR) of the ? chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicants: Kyoto University, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Shin KANEKO, Yoshiaki KASSAI, Akira HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210381006
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for activating/proliferating T cells, including a step of contacting a cell population containing T cells with a nucleic acid delivery carrier having at least one kind of T cell activating ligand added to its surface, and a method for delivering a nucleic acid into T cells, the methods including a step of contacting a cell population containing T cells simultaneously with (a) a nucleic acid delivery carrier having at least one kind of T cell activating ligand added to its surface and containing a nucleic acid inside, or (b) at least one kind of T cell activating ligand, and a nucleic acid delivery carrier containing a nucleic acid inside and free of a T cell activating ligand added to its surface, a method for producing a medicament containing T cells and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Shinobu KUWAE, Satoru MATSUMOTO, Akira HAYASHI, Yoshiaki KASSAI, Kazuhide NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210301260
    Abstract: To enable stable supply of differentiated T cells, the present invention provides a method for producing, or a method for expansion culture, or a kit for expansion culture of a CD3-positive cell in which T cell marker CD3 is expressed on the cell membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shin Kaneko, Yohei Kawai, Suguru Arima, Maiko Takiguchi, Kazuhide Nakayama, Yoshiaki Kassai, Akira Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210229464
    Abstract: A printer includes a head which includes a nozzle face which ejects ink toward a top of a surface of a nail of a finger, a driving mechanism which moves the head in a predetermined direction, an image capturer which generates a nail side image showing a side of the nail of the finger by capturing an image of the nail of the finger, and a display controller which performs image processing on the nail side image from the image capturer, causing a display to display an image for height position adjustment including a target height position indicator added to the nail side image, the target height position indicator indicating a target height position of the nail of the finger spaced from the nozzle face by a predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Masaaki TAKAGI, Akira HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11007777
    Abstract: A printer is provided to includes an ink head; a placement unit; a positional reference arranged near the placement unit as a reference for performing position adjustment in the up-down direction; and a first reflection member configured to be disposed at a lateral position separated from the placement unit toward a lateral side so that a position of the first reflection member in the up-down direction overlaps the positional reference and the printing target in a lateral view, wherein the first reflection member reflects light arriving from a lateral surface of the printing target and the positional reference, and an upper end of a reflective surface which reflects light is positioned above the positional reference and a lower end is positioned below the positional reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayashi, Masaaki Takagi
  • Patent number: 11002462
    Abstract: A heat-exchanging ventilation device performs ventilation while exchanging heat between a supply airflow and a discharge airflow. The heat-exchanging ventilation device includes: a casing; a heat exchanger having a prism shape and accommodated in the casing to be insertable into and removable from the casing; a plurality of support members to support the heat exchanger in the casing; and a rotational force applying unit to apply a rotational force to the heat exchanger and rotate the heat exchanger. When a rotational force is applied to the heat exchanger in one direction by the rotational force applying unit, the heat exchanger is pressed against the support members, and when application of a rotational force in the one direction by the rotational force applying unit is stopped, the heat exchanger becomes rotatable in another direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keishi Tsuda, Masaru Takada, Ippei Momose, Akira Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210130777
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a ??T cell from an induced pluripotent stem cell, wherein the induced pluripotent stem cell is derived from a cell other than an ??T cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Shin Kaneko, Shoichi Iriguchi, Tatsuki Ueda, Yoshiaki Kassai, Akira Hayashi, Kazuhide Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20210102167
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a CD4/CD8 double positive cell, including the following steps: step 1: separating, from a cell population containing a hematopoietic progenitor cell, a cell expressing one or more kinds of molecules selected from the first group consisting of CD24, CD62L, CD90, CD143, CD263, Notch3, CD32, CD39, CD49a, CD164, CD317, CD200, CD218a, CD7, CD144, CD56, CD226, CD262 and CD325, and/or a cell not expressing one or more kinds of molecules selected from the second group consisting of CD49f, CD51, CD102, CD42b, CD61, CD62P, CD69, CD102 and CD156c, and step 2: differentiating the cell separated in step 1 into a CD4/CD8 double positive cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Shin Kaneko, Shoichi Iriguchi, Yuta Mishima, Yoshiaki Kassai, Akira Hayashi, Suguru Arima
  • Publication number: 20200207080
    Abstract: A printer is provided to includes an ink head; a placement unit; a positional reference arranged near the placement unit as a reference for performing position adjustment in the up-down direction; and a first reflection member configured to be disposed at a lateral position separated from the placement unit toward a lateral side so that a position of the first reflection member in the up-down direction overlaps the positional reference and the printing target in a lateral view, wherein the first reflection member reflects light arriving from a lateral surface of the printing target and the positional reference, and an upper end of a reflective surface which reflects light is positioned above the positional reference and a lower end is positioned below the positional reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayashi, Masaaki Takagi