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: 20240151475
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: first plates; second plates disposed at intervals with each between a pair of the first plates adjacent to each to alternately form first flow paths and second flow paths; and a heat exchange promoting member in the first flow paths. At least one of the first plates and each second plate includes a plurality of protruding portions each of which is formed in a V shape in a plan view such that the protruding portion recesses in a corresponding one of the first flow paths and projects in a corresponding one of the second flow paths. Each protruding portion has a tip end portion and an opening portion arranged in a flow direction in the second flow path, and one of a pair of free end portions is positioned on a first inflow port side and the other is positioned on a first outflow port side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yuu Suguro, Toshihiro Shimbayashi, Akira Ooura, Mitsuru Iwasaki, Eiki Hayashi, Mayumi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11969712
    Abstract: A catalyst for purification of exhaust gas in which Pd-based nanoparticles and ceria nanoparticles are supported on a composite metal oxide support containing alumina, ceria, and zirconia, wherein a molar ratio (Ce/Pd) of Ce and Pd supported on the support is 1 to 8, a proximity ? between Pd and Ce is 0.15 to 0.50, wherein the proximity ? is determined, based on Pd and Ce distribution maps in an element mapping image of energy dispersive X-ray analysis, by the following formula (1): ? = ? j = 0 N - 1 ? ? i = 0 M - 1 ? ( ( I ? ( i , j ) - I ave ) ? ( T ? ( i , j ) - T ave ) ) ? j = 0 N - 1 ? ? i = 0 M - 1 ? ( I ? ( i , j ) - I ave ) 2 - ? j = 0 N - 1 ? ? i = 0 M - 1 ? ( T ? ( i , j ) - T ave ) 2 , ( 1 ) a Pd dispersity after a heat-resistance test at 1050° C. for 25 hours is 0.8% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Kumatani, Akira Morikawa, Masaoki Iwasaki, Miho Hatanaka, Taizo Yoshinaga, Masahide Miura, Takahiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11964839
    Abstract: A conveyance route switching mechanism and a paper sheet handling apparatus that includes the conveyance route switching mechanism include a driving source, a gate, a first gear, and an internal gear. The driving source includes a driving shaft. The gate includes a gate shaft, and a blade that is provided on the gate shaft, and switches conveyance routes of paper sheets. The first gear is provided on the gate shaft. The internal gear meshes with the first gear. According to rotation of the driving shaft, the gate shaft rotates on an axis of the gate shaft, and revolves with the driving shaft as a rotation center while the first gear meshes with the internal gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU FRONTECH LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Wada, Tomoyuki Tamahashi, Satoshi Hayashi, Atsushi Ando, Shohei Koizumi, Shoichi Deguchi, Akira Yamada
  • Patent number: 11919341
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided with a belt layer and a reinforcing layer provided outside the belt layer in tire radial direction. The reinforcing layer has an inner reinforcing layer in which a strip member having a plurality of cords is wound along tire circumferential direction, and an outer reinforcing layer in which the strip member having a plurality of cords is wound along the tire circumferential direction and is provided outside tire radial direction of the inner reinforcing layer. The outer reinforcing layer has a gap between adjacent strip members in tire width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hishigae, Toru Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11911891
    Abstract: An actuator system that picks up workpieces aims to shorten tact time and to reduce damages to workpieces. The actuator system includes an actuator that picks up a workpiece, an external force detection sensor that detects a physical quantity that is correlated with an external force that is applied to the workpiece, a head unit that is connected to the actuator and the external force detection sensor without a communication network, the head unit being configured to control the actuator based on a sensing result from the external force detection sensor when a pickup request signal that is a signal requesting pickup of the workpiece is received, and a control device that is connected to the head unit over the communication network, the control device being configured to transmit the pickup request signal to the head unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Fukushima, Masashi Ishii, Hiroki Niwa, Akira Suzuki, Kazuto Oga, Shogo Wakuta, Satoshi Hara, Tomofumi Mizuno, Shigeki Hayashi
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10670031
    Abstract: A compressor includes a cylindrical casing, a bundle which includes a tubular stationary member and a rotor accommodated into the tubular stationary member, the bundle being configured to be inserted into an inner portion of the casing, and a roller configured to roll on an inner circumferential surface of the casing while supporting the bundle when the bundle is inserted into the inner portion of the casing along an axial direction. An outer circumferential surface of the roller is a continuous convex curved surface defined such that a curvature radius of an end side curved surface portion along a rotating shaft of the roller is smaller than a curvature radius of a center curved surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Okada, Hikaru Kurosaki, Naoki Hirata, Akira Hayashi, Satoru Yoshida, Toru Yoshimune
  • Publication number: 20190285308
    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: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keishi Tsuda, Masaru Takada, Ippei Momose, Akira Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10112790
    Abstract: A feeding apparatus includes a mounting portion that holds a medium; a feeding roller that feeds the medium toward a feeding direction; a stopper configured to prevent the medium from moving toward the feeding direction; a supporting part that swings the feeding roller between: a first position in which the feeding roller feeds the medium while both the feeding roller and the stopper contact the medium, and a second position in which the feeding roller does not contact the medium while the stopper contacts the medium to prevent the medium from moving toward the feeding direction; and a regulating part disposed on a downstream side in feeding direction with respect to a supporting point of the supporting part. The regulating part regulates movement of the stopper by contacting a portion of the stopper that does not contact the medium in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Hayashi, Shoichi Fukuyama, Kenro Ueno
  • Publication number: 20180093840
    Abstract: A feeding apparatus includes a mounting portion that holds a medium; a feeding roller that feeds the medium toward a feeding direction; a stopper configured to prevent the medium from moving toward the feeding direction; a supporting part that swings the feeding roller between: a first position in which the feeding roller feeds the medium while both the feeding roller and the stopper contact the medium, and a second position in which the feeding roller does not contact the medium while the stopper contacts the medium to prevent the medium from moving toward the feeding direction; and a regulating part disposed on a downstream side in feeding direction with respect to a supporting point of the supporting part. The regulating part regulates movement of the stopper by contacting a portion of the stopper that does not contact the medium in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Hayashi, Shoichi Fukuyama, Kenro Ueno