Patents by Inventor Erika Katayama

Erika Katayama 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: 20240092084
    Abstract: A technique capable of certainly suppressing adhesion of waste ink to hands, clothes, and the like during replacement of a waste ink tank is provided. There are included a container portion provided with an insertion port which a discharge member discharging waste ink can be inserted into and pulled out from and a shielding portion movable between a shielding position where the insertion port is shielded and an open position where the insertion port is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: KOKI SHIMADA, TOSHIAKI SOMANO, YUTA ARAKI, KAORI KATAYAMA, YUSUKE TANAKA, TETSU HAMANO, ERIKA IYAMA, FUMIE KAMEYAMA, NOBUHIRO TOKI, YASUYUKI TAKANAKA, DAIJU TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240086592
    Abstract: A design assistance device (10) comprises: a determination rule definition unit (102) that defines a determination rule for determining whether a CAD model (103) violates a design guideline (101); a geometric shape recognition unit (105) that extracts, from the CAD model (103), a violation location violating the design guidelines (101), by using geometric shape recognition based on the determination rule defined by the determination rule definition unit (102); and a feature amount recognition unit (108) that identifies, from among violation locations, a violation location violating the design guidelines (101), by using feature amount recognition based on a prescribed feature amount of the violation location extracted by the geometric shape recognition unit (105).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Erika KATAYAMA, Ichiro KATAOKA, Makoto ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20230350647
    Abstract: A programming aiding apparatus including: a visual program storage unit; a training data generating unit that edits the visual program; a graph learning unit that trains a graph learning model that receives a feature of a node and a connection of the node in the visual program as an input, among the input data, and outputs a likelihood of a feature of a node to be added to in the visual program; and an added node selecting unit that calculates a likelihood of a feature of a node by using data of a visual program as input data input to the learning model trained by the graph learning unit, and selects a node to be added based on the likelihood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuya HASEBE, Erika KATAYAMA, Makoto ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20160054011
    Abstract: The present invention provides an outdoor unit including: a housing; an air blower that is disposed at an upper part of the housing to supply air from the inside of the housing to the outside of the housing; a heat exchanger that is disposed on a side of the housing; and electric components that are disposed on a side of the housing. A rotational axis of the air blower is inclined towards the heat exchanger side relative to the vertical direction of the housing, and an end of the air blower on a sucking side is disposed at a position overlapped with the electric components in the height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Erika KATAYAMA, Taku IWASE, Osamu WATANABE
  • Patent number: 8287179
    Abstract: A fluid mixer for mixing a first fluid and a second fluid includes an introducing component having a bore, a cylindrical component fitted into the bore of the introducing component and a mixing component having a conical recess and on which the introducing component and the cylindrical component are held. A first introducing flow path receives the first fluid and a first distributing flow path distributes the first fluid over the whole circumference of the cylindrical component. A second introducing flow path receives the second fluid. A second distributing flow path distributes the second fluid so that the first fluid and the second fluid are alternately arranged in an circumferential direction. A joining part joins together the first fluid and the second fluid fed with the fluids alternately arranged circumferentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Miyamoto, Yoshishige Endo, Shigenori Togashi, Erika Katayama
  • Patent number: 8221686
    Abstract: A particle manufacturing device for manufacturing a particle by mixing a plural number of fluids, thereby manufacturing a particle, being uniform in the size or particle diameter thereof, with stability comprises a mixing channel portion, which is configured to mix the plural number of fluids therein, a residence channel portion, which is connected with the mixing channel portion in series, and in which the particles manufactured in the mixing channel portion reside, a sensor mechanism, which is configured to sense at least a condition of the residence channel portion, and an agitation giving mechanism, which is configured to give an agitation to the residence channel portion, upon basis of the condition, which is detected by the sensor mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Erika Katayama, Shigenori Togashi, Yukako Asano, Tetsuro Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20100265786
    Abstract: A fluid mixer for mixing, at least, first fluid and second fluid includes an introducing component having a bore, a cylindrical component fitted into the bore of the introducing component and a mixing component having a conical recess and on which the introducing component and the cylindrical component are held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Tetsuro MIYAMOTO, Yoshishige Endo, Shigenori Togashi, Erika Katayama
  • Publication number: 20100202930
    Abstract: A particle manufacturing device for manufacturing a particle by mixing a plural number of fluids, thereby manufacturing a particle, being uniform in the size or particle diameter thereof, with stability comprises a mixing channel portion, which is configured to mix the plural number of fluids therein, a residence channel portion, which is connected with the mixing channel portion in series, and in which the particles manufactured in the mixing channel portion reside, a sensor mechanism, which is configured to sense at least a condition of the residence channel portion, and an agitation giving mechanism, which is configured to give an agitation to the residence channel portion, upon basis of the condition, which is detected by the sensor mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Erika KATAYAMA, Shigenori Togashi, Yukako Asano, Tetsuro Miyamoto