Patents by Inventor Akira Ichikawa

Akira Ichikawa 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).

  • Patent number: 12187367
    Abstract: A battery frame is fixed to a chassis and a battery pack is assembled to the battery frame. The battery frame includes a pair of crossbars and a pair of side bars. The crossbars extend in the vehicle width direction while being spaced apart in the vehicle front-rear direction, and have both ends in the vehicle width direction fixed to the side members. The side bars extend in the vehicle front-rear direction while being spaced apart in the vehicle width direction, and have front ends and rear ends detachably fixed to the crossbars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Ichikawa, Yusuke Kamijo, Atsuo Takeuchi, Makito Muramatsu, Kayo Kimura, Hiroshi Ogihara, Nana Taie
  • Patent number: 12184128
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine apparatus includes an electric rotating machine having a windings and an output axle, a power module having a switching device connected with the winding, a bus bar that is held by a bus-bar holder and is included in a power-supply path to the power module, two or more smoothing capacitors connected with the bus bar, and a capacitor holder in which at a more outer side in the radial direction of the electric rotating machine than the bus-bar holder is, the two or more smoothing capacitors are arranged in the axial direction of the electric rotating machine, and that holds the two or more smoothing capacitors from the outer circumferential side of the electric rotating machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Suzuki, Akira Kimishima, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Takanori Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 12167624
    Abstract: A display device includes: a base substrate; a thin-film transistor layer provided on the base substrate, a light-emitting element layer provided on the thin-film transistor layer; and a sealing film provided on the light-emitting element. Each of light-emitting elements includes: a first electrode; a functional layer; and a second electrode stacked on top of another in a stated order. The display device includes: a display region; a frame region; and a non-display region. The non-display region includes a through hole. The display device includes a separation wall shaped into a frame and provided to the non-display region along an edge of the through hole. The separation wall includes: a first resin layer: and a first metal layer provided on the first resin layer. The first metal layer includes a first protrusion shaped into a canopy, and protruding from the first resin layer toward the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroharu Jinmura, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada
  • Patent number: 12167633
    Abstract: A separation wall is provided in a frame-like shape along a peripheral edge of a through-hole in a non-display region which is defined to be in an island shape inside a display region and in which the through-hole is formed, the separation wall includes an inner metal layer provided in a frame-like shape on a first inorganic insulating film on a side of the through-hole, and a resin layer provided in a frame-like shape on the first inorganic insulating film and the inner metal layer, and the resin layer includes an inner protrusion portion provided in an eaves shape and protruding from the inner metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroharu Jinmura, Yoshihiro Nakada, Akira Inoue, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Publication number: 20240403990
    Abstract: A server for enabling automatic determination of the lending type for a vehicle returned from a user in a vehicle lending service for lending out a vehicle to the user includes first calculation means for calculating, based on information (revenues and expenses) corresponding to a state value of a battery, a subscription profit to be gained when the returned vehicle is lent out for subscription and a share profit to be gained when the returned vehicle is lent out for car share. The server also includes determination means for determining the subscription or the car share as the lending type for the returned vehicle based on the subscription profit and the share profit that have been calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Soichi KOBAYASHI, Akira OISHI, Taketora FUKUCHI, Yasushi ABE, Masaaki TAKEZAWA, Yasushi AOYAGI, Hiromitsu ASAHI, Takehiro ICHIKAWA, Nobuhiro TAJIMA, Akihiko ASAI
  • Patent number: 12158584
    Abstract: An image capturing and display apparatus includes a plurality of image capturing units, a plurality of display units, and a signal processing unit. The plurality of image capturing units includes a first image capturing unit and a second image capturing unit configured to output a signal corresponding to an incident light quantity higher than that of the first image capturing unit. The signal processing unit generates a single third image signal based on a first image signal from the first image capturing unit and a second image signal from the second image capturing unit, and the plurality of display devices displays images based on the third image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Ichikawa, Akira Okita
  • Patent number: 12153853
    Abstract: An imaging unit includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a processing unit, and a display unit. The processing unit processes a signal transmitted from the imaging unit. The display unit displays an image based on the signal transmitted from the processing unit. The imaging unit acquires first image information at a first time. The processing unit generates first prediction image information at a second time later than the first time based on the first image information. Moreover, the display unit displays an image based on the first prediction image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yosuke Nishide, Takeshi Ichikawa, Akira Okita, Toshiki Tsuboi, Nao Nakatsuji, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20240386520
    Abstract: Provided is a highly convenient vehicle lending service. Included are first reception means (111) for receiving registration of a subscription member, second reception means (112) for receiving registration of a car share member, storage means (120) for storing registration information that sets a user as the subscription member based on the reception performed by the first reception means (111) and storing registration information that sets the user as the car share member based on the reception performed by the second reception means (112), and payment means (170) for executing payment processing for a usage fee for subscription and executing payment processing for a usage fee for car share. The storage means (120) is allowed to store, based on the reception performed by the first reception means (111), registration information that sets the user as the car share member while setting the user as the subscription member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Soichi KOBAYASHI, Akira OISHI, Taketora FUKUCHI, Yasushi ABE, Yasushi AOYAGI, Hiromitsu ASAHI, Takehiro ICHIKAWA, Nobuhiro TAJIMA, Akihiko ASAI
  • Patent number: 12120927
    Abstract: A TFT layer and an organic EL element layer are provided in this order on a resin substrate layer, the TFT layer includes source wiring lines, high-level power source wiring lines, conductive portions including connection wiring lines between TFTs, and a flattening film covering the conductive portions provided on the interlayer insulating film, a frame region is provided with a bending portion including a portion where a slit is formed in an inorganic insulating film including the interlayer insulating film, and a flattening auxiliary film is provided between each adjacent ones of the conductive portions, formed of a material identical to a material of the frame flattening film that fills the slit of the bending portion, in a layer identical to a layer of the frame flattering film, and covered with the flattening film together with the conductive portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Gunji, Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Hiroki Taniyama, Shinji Ichikawa, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara
  • Patent number: 12089463
    Abstract: A display device according to an aspect of the disclosure includes a first metal protrusion being in contact with a first power-source trunk wire, and a second metal protrusion being in contact with a second power-source trunk wire. A first bank defining the end of an organic sealing film includes the first metal protrusion, the second metal protrusion, and a first resin protrusion. The first resin protrusion overlaps the first and second metal protrusions. The first resin protrusion has a frame shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Ryosuke Gunji, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura
  • Patent number: 12082449
    Abstract: A separation wall is provided in a frame shape along a circumferential edge of a through-hole in a non-display region, in which the through-hole is formed, defined in an island shape inside a display region. The separation wall includes a wall base portion provided in a frame shape by a part of a second interlayer insulating film and a resin layer provided in an eave shape on the wall base portion to extend to a through-hole side and a display region side. Opening portions opening upward are provided on peripheries of the wall base portion on the through-hole side and the display region side in the second interlayer insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Ryosuke Gunji, Tohru Okabe, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura
  • Patent number: 12054201
    Abstract: Each of a power-source bus bar and a grounding bus bar provided in a driving apparatus has a terminal portion to be connected with output terminals of a power module and a bending portion bent in a direction perpendicular to a first surface of a bus bar holder; the bending portion is disposed between a smoothing capacitor and the power module; the power-source bus bar and the grounding bus bar are arranged in such a way as to face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Suzuki, Akira Kimishima, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Takanori Ichikawa, Kentaro Urimoto
  • Patent number: 12046971
    Abstract: Provided is an electric driving device including a first protruding portion protruding from a holder surface. A plate-like portion has an opposed surface opposed to the holder surface. A first through hole in the plate-like portion is defined by a first through hole forming portion formed in a cylindrical shape so as to project from the plate-like portion to a side opposite to the opposed surface. The first through hole has an inner surface including a first hole inclined inner surface and a first hole cylindrical inner surface extending from the first hole inclined inner surface to the end portion of the first through hole forming portion. The first protruding portion is press-fitted into the first through hole under a state in which a plurality of first ribs are in contact with the first hole cylindrical inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Suzuki, Akira Kimishima, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Takanori Ichikawa, Kentaro Urimoto
  • Publication number: 20240067285
    Abstract: A battery frame is fixed to a chassis and a battery pack is assembled to the battery frame. The battery frame includes a pair of crossbars and a pair of side bars. The crossbars extend in the vehicle width direction while being spaced apart in the vehicle front-rear direction, and have both ends in the vehicle width direction fixed to the side members. The side bars extend in the vehicle front-rear direction while being spaced apart in the vehicle width direction, and have front ends and rear ends detachably fixed to the crossbars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira ICHIKAWA, Yusuke KAMIJO, Atsuo TAKEUCHI, Makito MURAMATSU, Kayo KIMURA, Hiroshi OGIHARA, Nana TAIE
  • Patent number: 11559892
    Abstract: A self-propelled travelling apparatus includes a travelling controller that controls travelling of the self-propelled travelling apparatus; a receiving unit that receives merchandise and a message associated with the merchandise from a user during travelling of the self-propelled travelling apparatus; and a supplying unit that supplies the message to another user in a case where the other user receives the merchandise while the self-propelled travelling apparatus is travelling after receiving the merchandise and the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Xiongfan Jin, Hideki Fujimoto, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Mariko Miyazaki, Hajime Kajiyama, Akira Ichikawa, Kunitoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11326065
    Abstract: A versatile silicone resin reflective substrate which exhibits high reflectance of high luminance light from an LED light source over a wide wavelength from short wavelengths of approximately 340-500 nm, which include wavelengths from 380-400 nm near lower limit of the visible region, to longer wavelength in the infra-red region. The silicone resin reflective substrate has a reflective layer which contains a white inorganic filler powder dispersed in a three-dimensional cross linked silicone resin, the inorganic filler powder having a high reflective index than the silicone resin. The reflective layer is formed on a support body as a film, a solid, or a sheet. The silicone resin reflective substrate can be easily formed as a wiring substrate, a packaging case or the like, and can be manufactured at low cost and a high rate of production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ASAHI RUBBER INC.
    Inventors: Masutsugu Tasaki, Naoto Igarashi, Akira Ichikawa, Tsutomu Odaki, Maimi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11279031
    Abstract: A mobile robot includes a receiving unit that receives a request for providing a service, a notifying unit that notifies a client that the request is received by performing an operation oriented toward the client who has made the request, a moving unit that moves toward a user designated as a receiver of the service in accordance with the request, and a providing unit that provides the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hideki Fujimoto, Mariko Miyazaki, Hajime Kajiyama, Akira Ichikawa, Naoya Ogata, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Toshihiko Shibusawa, Masatoshi Maruo, Kunitoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11016498
    Abstract: A control device includes: a receiving unit that receives a request for processing; and a control unit that, in a case where the receiving unit receives a plurality of requests for processing from a plurality of places, controls a traveling route of a processing apparatus based on traveling time taken for the processing apparatus to travel to the plurality of places and processing time taken for the processing apparatus to finish the processing after traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Ichikawa, Hajime Kajiyama, Hideki Fujimoto, Kunitoshi Yamamoto, Mariko Miyazaki, Naoya Ogata, Tetsuya Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10705520
    Abstract: A self-moving apparatus that provides a service by moving to a destination and includes a detection unit and a reporting unit. A reception unit receives a user instruction for causing the self-moving apparatus to move to a predetermined destination if the self-moving apparatus is in a predetermined state relating to maintenance or printing or if the self-moving apparatus is changed to be in the predetermined state. A detection unit detects a state of the self-moving apparatus. A moving unit that moves to the predetermined destination if the self-moving apparatus is in the predetermined state or if the self-moving apparatus is changed to be in the predetermined state on the basis of a detection result obtained by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mariko Miyazaki, Hideki Fujimoto, Hajime Kajiyama, Naoya Ogata, Akira Ichikawa, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Kunitoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10642281
    Abstract: A service providing system includes a request receiving robot and a service providing robot. The request receiving robot includes a floating unit configured to float in air, a recognition unit configured to recognize a service providing request by a user, and a transmitter configured to transmit the recognized service providing request. The service providing robot includes a receiver configured to receive the service providing request transmitted by the request receiving robot, a moving unit configured to move the service providing robot to the user who makes the service providing request as a destination according to the received service providing request, and a service providing unit configured to provide a service to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Maruo, Hideki Fujimoto, Mariko Miyazaki, Hajime Kajiyama, Akira Ichikawa, Naoya Ogata, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Toshihiko Shibusawa, Kunitoshi Yamamoto