Patents by Inventor Akira Imai
Akira Imai 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).
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Publication number: 20240135133Abstract: A storage box state determination system according to the present invention has: a storage unit that stores an identification information management table in which tag IDs of multiple wireless tags are associated with a storage box ID of a storage box, and a state management table in which an empty state and a storing state are associated with the number of tag IDs; an information acquisition unit that acquires the tag IDs using an antenna that receives radio waves of the wireless tags of the storage box 31; a number identification unit that identifies the number of acquired tag IDs which correspond to the storage box ID; and a state identification unit that identifies, on the basis of the number of acquisition, whether the state of the storage box as indicated by the storage box ID corresponding to the tag IDs is an empty state or a storing state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventor: Akira IMAI
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Publication number: 20240123654Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery apparatus for continuously separating and recovering, from a resin mixture containing a resin containing a hydrolyzable polymer and a resin containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the apparatus including: a crushing unit that crushes the resin mixture a melting/discharging unit that melts a crushed product obtained by the crushing unit to form a fluid and discharges the fluid at a high pressure; and a hydrothermal reaction treatment unit that continuously subjects the fluid discharged from the melting/discharging unit to a hydrothermal reaction treatment, wherein, in the melting/discharging unit, the hydrolyzable polymer A is hydrolyzed, and the hydrolytic component a thereof is dissolved and transferred into water permeating a sintered alloy diaphragm, thereby separating the nonhydrolyzable polymer B.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOPPAN INC.Inventors: Masaru WATANABE, Aritomo YAMAGUCHI, Osamu SATO, Yuuma IRISA, Akira TAKAMA, Kousuke NISHIMURA, Hiroki KUJIRAOKA, Hideki MIYAZAKI, Keita AKIMOTO, Takuya TAKAHATA, Daisuke KUGIMOTO, Shingo KOUDA, Satoshi HAMURA, Takahiro IMAI, Yumiko OMORI, Manabu KAWA
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Patent number: 11956525Abstract: The present invention includes: a preliminary photography unit 521 that performs preliminary photography which is photography at a stage before the main photography for photographing the driving state of a driver of a vehicle using a photographing device 1 that photographs a prescribed range including the face of the driver; and a lighting control unit 522 that lights a lighting device 2 for emitting light which is attached to the photographing device 1 or around the photographing device 1 when the preliminary photography is performed by the preliminary photography unit 521. A control device 5 may be provided with an output unit 523 that outputs a message instructing the driver to look at the lighting device when the preliminary photography is performed by the preliminary photography unit 521.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventors: Akira Imai, Ryuta Tsuda, Hideto Hirahara
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Patent number: 11933234Abstract: An engine is provided with a turbo charger including a wastegate valve. A first setpoint of opening of the wastegate valve is set in accordance with a target boost pressure. While a difference between the target boost pressure and a real boost pressure is large, the opening is controlled to a second setpoint, wherein the second setpoint is smaller than the first setpoint. While the opening is controlled to the second setpoint, it is determined whether a condition for limitation is satisfied in which an intake air quantity is above an intake air quantity criterion and an engine rotation speed is above an engine rotation speed criterion. When the condition is satisfied, the opening is controlled in a direction to increase from the second setpoint. The engine rotation speed criterion decreases as the intake air quantity increases. The intake air quantity criterion decreases as the engine rotation speed increases.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Kojima, Mitsuhiko Kubota, Daisuke Imai, Masashi Morikawa
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Publication number: 20230294712Abstract: An information output apparatus including: an acquisition part that acquires vehicle identification information of a trailer; vehicle identification information of a tractor, a measured tractor weight measured by a tractor-uncoupled rear axle weight sensor, a calculation part that calculates a second measured load on the basis of the weight of the tractor stored in the storage in association with the vehicle identification information of the tractor and the measured tractor weight to calculate the carried load by subtracting the weight of the trailer stored in the storage in association with the vehicle identification information of the trailer from a total value of the acquired, measured trailer load and the calculated fifth wheel load, and an output part that outputs information indicating the carried load.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Akira IMAI, Kenji HORI
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Publication number: 20230278508Abstract: A mounted equipment information acquisition apparatus includes: a storage part that stores identification information of mounted equipment information including control information for controlling a mounted equipment body and the identification information for identifying the control information; and a mounted equipment information acquiring part that acquires, when the mounted equipment information is transmitted and received between a plurality of mounted equipment control devices installed in a mounted equipment body, the mounted equipment information including the mounted-equipment-side identification information stored in the storage part. The mounted equipment information acquisition apparatus 1 acquires a copy of the mounted equipment information that is transmitted and received between the plurality of mounted equipment control devices 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Akira IMAI, Takahiro SUESADA
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Publication number: 20230278509Abstract: A mounted equipment information conversion apparatus includes: a mounted equipment information acquiring part that acquires, from a mounted equipment control device, mounted equipment information including control information used in the mounted equipment control device controlling a mounted equipment body, and mounted-equipment-side identification information for identifying the control information; and a mounted equipment information converting part that converts the mounted-equipment-side identification information included in the mounted equipment information into vehicle-body-side identification information associated with the mounted-equipment-side identification information, according to a conversion rule in which the vehicle-body-side identification information used in a vehicle body control device controlling a vehicle body connected to the mounted equipment body is associated with the mounted-equipment-side identification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Akira IMAI, Takahiro SUESADA
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Publication number: 20230132833Abstract: A reading system includes a controller that is mounted on a vehicle, and a reader that reads a tag of a load placed in a load chamber of the vehicle, wherein the controller includes a second determination part that determines whether the door of the load chamber is closed, and a displacement control part that displaces the load chamber in accordance with a timing when the tag information acquisition part acquires the identification information if the second determination part determines that the door of the load chamber is closed, wherein the reader includes a first determination part that determines whether a door of the load chamber is closed, and a tag information acquisition part that acquires identification information stored in the tag through non-contact communication if the first determination part determines that the door of the load chamber is closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventor: Akira IMAI
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Publication number: 20230122897Abstract: A notification apparatus comprises a receiving part that receives a designation of a reference position; a specifying part that specifies a current wheel nut at the same position as a reference wheel nut, which is one of a plurality of wheel nuts included in a reference image that is a captured image acquired by the acquiring part in the past, from the captured image acquired by the acquiring part, with respect to the reference position; and a detecting part that detects looseness of the current wheel nut by detecting that the current wheel nut specified by the specifying part has rotated with respect to the reference wheel nut included in the reference image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventor: Akira IMAI
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Publication number: 20220358799Abstract: This inspection assistance program is a program for assisting inspection of a vehicle, and causes an inspection assistance apparatus 2 to function as: a registration information acquisition unit 251 that acquires vehicle registration information corresponding to the vehicle; a determination unit 252 that determines whether wireless identification information for identifying an on-vehicle wireless machine installed in the vehicle is associated with the vehicle registration information; and a display control unit 253 that causes a display unit 23 to display an operation screen that is generated in a mode determined on the basis of the determination result of the determination unit 252 and that is used for inspecting the vehicle through communication with the on-vehicle wireless machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Akira IMAI, Yusuke SAKAKIBARA, Masakazu ISHIMARU
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Publication number: 20220343698Abstract: A program for supporting inspection of a vehicle causes a computer to function as: a detection information obtainment unit 251 that obtains, from a control device of the vehicle detecting an operation to an operation part mounted on the vehicle, detection information indicating that the operation to the operation part is detected; a confirmation result reception unit 253 that receives an input of a confirmation result of a state of equipment of the vehicle in which the state changes in accordance with the operation to the operation part; and a determination unit 254 that determines that there is no abnormality in the operation part, on condition that the detection information obtainment unit 251 normally obtains the detection information and that the confirmation result received by the confirmation result reception unit 253 indicates that there is no abnormality.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Akira IMAI, Hideto HIRAHARA
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Publication number: 20220262167Abstract: An inspection support program is a program for supporting inspection of a vehicle, and causes a computer to function as a vehicle identification number obtainment unit 252 that obtains a vehicle identification number indicating a type of the vehicle, and a display control unit 254 that causes a display unit 23 to display a plurality of inspection screens corresponding to a plurality of inspection items in an order associated with the type of the vehicle indicated by the vehicle identification number. For example, the display control unit 254 displays lastly an inspection screen corresponding to an inspection item to be performed at a driver's seat of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Akira IMAI, Masakazu ISHIMARU
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Publication number: 20220262179Abstract: A program for assisting an inspection of a vehicle causes an inspection assistance apparatus 2 to function as: a registration information acquisition unit 251 that acquires vehicle registration information corresponding to the vehicle; a vehicle identification number acquisition unit 252 that acquires a vehicle identification number indicating a type of the vehicle from an in-vehicle wireless device having wireless identification information associated with the vehicle registration information; an inspection item information acquisition unit 253 that acquires inspection item information indicating a plurality of inspection items associated with the type of the vehicle indicated by the vehicle identification number; and a display control unit 254 that causes a display unit to display, as inspection target items, the plurality of inspection items indicated by the inspection item information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Akira IMAI, Masakazu ISHIMARU, Takahiro SUESADA
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Publication number: 20220237955Abstract: This inspection assistance program for assisting inspection of a vehicle causes a computer to function as: a display control unit 272 that causes a display unit 25 to display a selection screen for selecting one inspection execution item from a plurality of inspection items; and a device control unit 273 that causes a device provided to the computer and associated with the inspection execution item selected on the selection screen to operate. When a liquid amount of a battery of the vehicle is selected as an inspection execution item on the selection screen, the device control unit 273 may turn on a light 22 as a device associated with the inspection execution item. The device control unit 273 may activate an imaging device 23 that generates an image as the device associated with the inspection execution item.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Akira IMAI, Masakazu ISHIMARU, Hideto HIRAHARA
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Publication number: 20220182518Abstract: The present invention includes: a preliminary photography unit 521 that performs preliminary photography which is photography at a stage before the main photography for photographing the driving state of a driver of a vehicle using a photographing device 1 that photographs a prescribed range including the face of the driver; and a lighting control unit 522 that lights a lighting device 2 for emitting light which is attached to the photographing device 1 or around the photographing device 1 when the preliminary photography is performed by the preliminary photography unit 521. A control device 5 may be provided with an output unit 523 that outputs a message instructing the driver to look at the lighting device when the preliminary photography is performed by the preliminary photography unit 521.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Akira IMAI, Ryuta TSUDA, Hideto HIRAHARA
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Publication number: 20220044801Abstract: A health management system includes a plurality of living body information acquisition systems and a health management server. Each living body information acquisition system includes a data acquisition module that acquires body monitoring data including information on urine components contained in a urine sample collected from urine excreted into a toilet bowl; and a toilet bowl identification module configured so that a user terminal acquires toilet bowl identification information for identifying a toilet bowl in use by the user in a contactless manner. Each living body information acquisition system outputs individual health monitoring information including the body monitoring data associated with user identification information that identifies the user when using the toilet bowl by way of the toilet bowl identification information in units of urination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: ATONARP INC.Inventors: Prakash Sreedhar MURTHY, Kazuo OKEMOTO, Akira IMAI
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Publication number: 20200318226Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire manufacturing method comprises (A) a step for melting an aluminum alloy containing 0.40-0.55 mass % of Mg and 0.45-0.65 mass % of Si, the balance being obtained from Al and unavoidable impurities, (B) a step for casting molten metal of the aluminum alloy and rolling to form a rough-drawn wire rod, (C) a step for solutionizing the rough-drawn wire rod, (D) a step for drawing the rough-drawn wire rod after solutionizing to form a drawn wire rod with a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, and (E) a step for heat treatment so that internal strain is removed with substantially no deposition of Mg2Si.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Teruhito NAKATSU, Masahiro ICHIKAWA, Akira IMAI, Hiroyoshi YAMAZAKI, Susumu OHNEDA, Akira TAKEHIRA
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Publication number: 20200060261Abstract: In order to provide a device for thawing a preserved vitrified germ cell and a method for thawing the preserved vitrified germ cell, both of which device and method are capable of simultaneously achieving a high conception rate and an easier transfer operation, a thawing device (1) includes a carrying device (8), a tube (5), and a cold storage device (6), the tube (5) including, inside the tube (5), (i) a germ cell containing region (10) containing the carrying device (8), and being covered by the cold storage device (6), and (ii) a thawing solution containing region (11) containing a thawing solution, and the carrying device (8) coming in contact with the thawing solution which has been melted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2017Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Takemasa HIDAKA, Kazuhide MORIMOTO, Yutaka FUKUMOTO, Akira IMAI, Yasuhiro OGATA, Yuusuke YAMAMOTO, Hiroyasu MISAWA
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Patent number: 10542623Abstract: A porous polyimide shaped article has a thickness in a range from 550 ?m to 3,000 ?m and has a relative dielectric constant of 1.8 or less and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.01 or less at 1 MHz. The porous polyimide shaped article satisfies the following formula: 1.2?A?1.6 wherein A represents a square root of a ratio of a pore size D84 where a cumulative percentage by number of pores from smaller sizes is 84% to a pore size D16 where the cumulative percentage by number of the pores from smaller sizes is 16% ((D84/D16)1/2) in a pore size distribution measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Sugahara, Hidekazu Hirose, Katsumi Nukada, Tomoya Sasaki, Kosaku Yoshimura, Akira Imai
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Publication number: 20190239350Abstract: A porous polyimide shaped article has a thickness in a range from 550 ?m to 3,000 ?m and has a relative dielectric constant of 1.8 or less and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.01 or less at 1 MHz. The porous polyimide shaped article satisfies the following formula: 1.2?A?1.6 wherein A represents a square root of a ratio of a pore size D84 where a cumulative percentage by number of pores from smaller sizes is 84% to a pore size D16 where the cumulative percentage by number of the pores from smaller sizes is 16% ((D84/D16)1/2) in a pore size distribution measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime SUGAHARA, Hidekazu HIROSE, Katsumi NUKADA, Tomoya SASAKI, Kosaku YOSHIMURA, Akira IMAI