Patents by Inventor Akira Hirose

Akira Hirose 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: 20240141314
    Abstract: The information processing device includes: a cultivation information acquisition unit configured to acquire cultivation information of a cell; and a recommended condition setting unit configured to set a recommended condition for detaching the cell from a to be-processed vessel in which the cell is cultured, the cultivation information including information about the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition being a condition for detaching the cell by applying vibration to the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition setting unit being configured to set the recommended condition based on the cultivation information, with use of information concerning an association relationship between information about a cultivation condition and information about a detachment condition, the information about the cultivation condition including information about a culture vessel, the information about the detachment condition including information about a condition for applying vibration to the culture vess
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: KENJIRO TAKEMURA, YUTA KURASHINA, CHIKAHIRO IMASHIRO, KAZUNORI NOGUCHI, MASASHI HIROSE, KATSUHISA YAMAZAKI, KEIICHIRO TSUBAKI, SUGURU WATANABE, AKIRA SUGIYAMA, KENICHI KAKU, RYUICHI OTSU, YUKARI NAKASHOJI, TAKAAKI FURUI, TATSUO FURUTA, HITOMI TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20240141281
    Abstract: The information processing device includes: a cultivation information acquisition unit configured to acquire cultivation information of a cell; and a recommended condition generation unit configured to generate a recommended condition for detaching the cell from a to-be-processed vessel in which the cell is cultured, the cultivation information including information about the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition being a condition for detaching the cell by applying vibration to the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition generation unit being configured to generate the recommended condition based on the cultivation information, with use of a learned model, the learned model being learned with use of information about a cultivation condition and information about a detachment condition, the information about the cultivation condition including information about a culture vessel, the information about the detachment condition including information about a condition for applying vibration t
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: KENJIRO TAKEMURA, YUTA KURASHINA, CHIKAHIRO IMASHIRO, KAZUNORI NOGUCHI, KATSUHISA YAMAZAKI, MASASHI HIROSE, KEIICHIRO TSUBAKI, SUGURU WATANABE, AKIRA SUGIYAMA, KENICHI KAKU, TAKAAKI FURUI, TATSUO FURUTA, HITOMI TOKUTAKE, RYUICHI OTSU, YUKARI NAKASHOJI
  • Patent number: 11972947
    Abstract: A semiconductor laminate film includes a silicon substrate and a semiconductor layer formed on the silicon substrate and containing silicon and germanium. The semiconductor layer having a surface roughness Rms of 1 nm or less. Further, the semiconductor layer satisfies the following relationship t?0.881×x?4.79 where t represents a thickness (nm) of the semiconductor layer, and x represents a ratio of the number of germanium atoms to a sum of the number of silicon atoms and the number of germanium atoms in the semiconductor layer. Also, the semiconductor layer being a mixed crystal semiconductor layer containing silicon and germanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: National University Corporation Tokyo University Of Agriculture And Technology, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Suda, Takahiro Tsukamoto, Akira Motohashi, Kyohei Degura, Katsumi Okubo, Takuma Yagi, Akifumi Kasamatsu, Nobumitsu Hirose, Toshiaki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11935700
    Abstract: A laminated electronic component includes an element body formed by laminating an insulating layer and having a bottom surface used as a mounting surface, and a bottom surface electrode formed on the bottom surface of the element body and containing glass and a sintered metal. The bottom surface electrode includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer formed on the element body side from the first electrode layer, an edge portion of the second electrode layer is covered with an overcoat layer which is a part of the element body, the first electrode layer is laminated on the second electrode layer with the overcoat layer interposed therebetween, and a content of glass in the first electrode layer is larger than a content of glass in the second electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Saito, Osamu Hirose, Toru Yoshida, Yoshinori Sato, Akira Suda, Akira Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240078122
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to function as a virtual device that is provided one-to-one with a physical device and that mediates transmission and reception of information between an application and the physical device. On acceptance of an instruction from the application to read/write information, the virtual device connects to a storage area determined in advance for each content of the information and reads/writes the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Akira HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20240064141
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: function as a virtual device that is provided one-to-one with a physical device and that mediates transmission and reception of information between an application and the physical device; and, in a case where transmission and reception of information is set to unapproved in the virtual device, prohibit transmission and reception of information to and from another application other than a connection-approved application whose connection with the virtual device is approved in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Akira HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20230220692
    Abstract: In a house having a standard two-story building height, an inner living space is provided, which gives a feeling of spaciousness and openness. A house includes: a first floor; a second floor; a higher second floor as a skip floor positioned substantially a half story higher than the second floor and being led from the second floor; and a gable roof provided above these floors. The higher second floor is provided along a gable end wall of the gable roof on at least one side to spread across a full width of the gable end wall. An upper area of the higher second floor is integrated with an attic space under the gable roof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD.
    Inventors: Naruhiko NAKANO, Jun MIKURIYA, Akira HIROSE, Manabu KANOU, Akihiko KINOMURA, Shouhei KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230079662
    Abstract: A connecting metal (1) includes a tenon pipe (13) having through-holes (132) for fixing the tenon pipe (13) by drift pins or bolts, and a plate (12) joined at an end of the tenon pipe (13) and having through-holes (122) for fixing the plate (12) by drift pins or bolts, the tenon pipe (13) and the plate (12) being joined with each other in a substantially racket-like shape. A pair of slits (131) for receiving the plate is formed at the end of the tenon pipe (13), each of the slits (131) being defined by a first side edge and a second side edge that are bent inwardly. The plate (12) is inserted in the pair of slits (131) and joined with the tenon pipe (13) by welding, with no protrusion of weld reinforcement out of an outer periphery of the tenon pipe (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD.
    Inventor: Akira HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20230077703
    Abstract: A ridge is directly supported by a ridge supporting post that is erected on a floor plane of a floor right below a gable roof to provide a stable building frame having a pentagon shape in front view and furthermore to realize a beamless space where no lower chord member such as a roof beam extends above the floor right below the gable roof. Also, a tall window extending continuously toward the vicinity of the ridge is provided between the ridge supporting post of a gable end wall and each of gable end side sub-pillars erected on both sides of the ridge supporting post. Thus, a living space gives a feeling of spaciousness and openness in spite of a compact appearance of a building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun MIKURIYA, Kazumi HIJIKATA, Akira HIROSE, Akihiko KINOMURA, Shouhei KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200019395
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and an install controller. The acquisition unit acquires an install instruction including an install target and an attribute of the install target. The install controller controls an installation of the install target in accordance with policy defined for an install target group obtained through classification using the attribute acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira HIROSE
  • Patent number: 8645962
    Abstract: An instruction generating apparatus includes a receiving section and a generating section. The receiving section receives job information including a plurality of jobs determined in a given order. Each job includes a process of a document by a processing device. The generating section generates instruction information based on the job information received by the receiving section. The instruction information includes, in the given order, a plurality of sets of (i) document corresponding to each job and (ii) detailed process of the document so as to instruct the processing device to perform each document process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kono, Akira Hirose, Tohru Mori, Atsushi Monna, Kazushi Kaneshiro, Tomonari Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8561141
    Abstract: An information input assistance device includes an identification unit, a generation unit, and a processing unit. The generation unit acquires attribute information corresponding to a user identified by the identification unit from a first memory, acquires rule information corresponding to a transmission destination of input information and a class of input information from a second memory, and generates the input information corresponding to the identified user on the basis of the acquired attribute information and the acquired rule information. The processing unit performs processing that transmits the input information generated by the generation unit to the transmission destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Hirose
  • Patent number: 8038140
    Abstract: A document feeding device includes a carrying unit capable of carrying documents, a drawing device drawing and supplying the documents, a drawing device drive source driving the drawing device, a separation unit including a separation device to separate the documents one by one, a separation device drive source driving the separation device, a conveying device conveying the documents, a reading unit including a reading device to read information of the documents, a discharge device discharging the documents, a first document detector provided between a document set position and the separation unit to detect the documents, and a second document detector provided downstream of the separation unit and near a separation position to detect the documents. The first and second document detectors detect the trailing end of each of the documents to control the operation of the drawing device on the basis of the result of the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Norio Kimura, Hideki Tobinaga, Akira Hirose, Shinya Kitaoka, Motoya Sano, Atsushi Kanaya, Michitaka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110225628
    Abstract: An information input assistance device includes an identification unit, a generation unit, and a processing unit. The generation unit acquires attribute information corresponding to a user identified by the identification unit from a first memory, acquires rule information corresponding to a transmission destination of input information and a class of input information from a second memory, and generates the input information corresponding to the identified user on the basis of the acquired attribute information and the acquired rule information. The processing unit performs processing that transmits the input information generated by the generation unit to the transmission destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira HIROSE
  • Patent number: 7844910
    Abstract: A linking information making device including a service list acquisition unit which acquires a service list expressing services which execute predetermined processing of document data; an interface information acquisition unit which individually acquires pieces of interface information from service processing devices respectively providing the services expressed in the service list which has been acquired by the service list acquisition unit; and a linking information making unit which makes linking information to link services provided by the respective service processing devices, based on the interface information which has been acquired by the interface information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiko Shiraishi, Tadahiko Ikegaya, Akira Hirose, Tadao Michimura
  • Publication number: 20100225045
    Abstract: A document feeding device includes a carrying unit capable of carrying documents, a drawing device drawing and supplying the documents, a drawing device drive source driving the drawing device, a separation unit including a separation device to separate the documents one by one, a separation device drive source driving the separation device, a conveying device conveying the documents, a reading unit including a reading device to read information of the documents, a discharge device discharging the documents, a first document detector provided between a document set position and the separation unit to detect the documents, and a second document detector provided downstream of the separation unit and near a separation position to detect the documents. The first and second document detectors detect the trailing end of each of the documents to control the operation of the drawing device on the basis of the result of the detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Norio Kimura, Hideki Tobinaga, Akira Hirose, Shinya Kitaoka, Motoya Sano, Atsushi Kanaya, Michitaka Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7715062
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus configured to be disposed in an image forming apparatus. An image reading unit is configured to read an image from a document. A light permeable member has a surface configured to face the image on the document, the surface having a roughness of at most 0.5 S. A coating is disposed on the surface of the light permeable member, the coating configured to prevent adherence of contaminants on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuaki Nagano, Masashi Kohchi, Hiroshi Kusumoto, Hiroshi Kubo, Akira Hirose, Masahiro Taniuchi, Takuro Sekiya
  • Publication number: 20090064146
    Abstract: An instruction generating apparatus includes a receiving section and a generating section. The receiving section receives job information including a plurality of jobs determined in a given order. Each job includes a process of a document by a processing device. The generating section generates instruction information based on the job information received by the receiving section. The instruction information includes, in the given order, a plurality of sets of (i) document corresponding to each job and (ii) detailed process of the document so as to instruct the processing device to perform each document process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke KONO, Akira Hirose, Tohru Mori, Atsushi Monna, Kazushi Kaneshiro, Tomonari Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 7382479
    Abstract: An instruction sheet making section of an instruction sheet editor displays on a GUI icons of services capable of being executed by using a service list sent from a service search server. Further, the instruction sheet making section also displays logic icons of linking processing patterns of the respective services. An instruction sheet making section combines the services provided by one or more service processing sections and makes an instruction sheet, by using service icons and logic icons selected by a user, while referring to and utilizing I/F information sent by the service processing section. Therefore, it is possible to easily combine the services capable of being executed on a network and produce a workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Hirose, Tadao Michimura, Tadahiko Ikegaya, Keiko Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20060203274
    Abstract: A document processing apparatus receives a command to create a data file, creates a predetermined format data file of a document to be processed, and stores the file into a storage. After receiving the command to create a data file, a screen is presented that prompts input of attribute information to be retained in association with a file of the document, before the file is created and stored into the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Hirose