Patents by Inventor Hajime Kawakami
Hajime Kawakami 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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Patent number: 8666635Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine provided by the present invention is a control device which can satisfy a requirement concerning exhaust gas performance of the internal combustion engine, a requirement concerning fuel economy performance, and a requirement concerning operation performance with an excellent balance by properly regulating a change speed of a required air-fuel ratio and an ignition timing. The present control device keeps the ignition timing at an optimal ignition timing if a predetermined permission condition is not satisfied. However, when the permission condition is satisfied, the present control device controls the ignition timing so as to compensate for a difference which occurs between torque which is estimated from an operation of an actuator for air quantity control and required torque by the ignition timing.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuntaro Okazaki, Satoshi Yoshizaki, Masashi Shibayama, Kaoru Shokatsu, Hajime Kawakami
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Patent number: 8660451Abstract: A cleaning device for cleaning a belt member, includes a cleaning blade; a removing member coming in contact with the surface of the belt member so as to remove foreign matter adhering on the surface of the belt member; and a contact pressure changing section to change a contact pressure between the removing member to the belt member, wherein, when the contact pressure between the removing member and a region of the belt member corresponding in position to a toner image to be not transferred to a paper sheet is made P1, and the contact pressure between the removing member and a region of the belt member corresponding in position to a toner image to be transferred to a paper sheet is made P2, the contact pressure changing section changes the contact pressure to satisfy the conditional formula: (P1<P2).Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Hideo Yamaki, Shigetaka Kurosu, Nobuyasu Tamura, Hajime Kawakami, Yusuke Nishisaka, Keiki Katsumata
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Publication number: 20140041628Abstract: When a change amount of any one of a demanded torque, a demanded efficiency, and a demanded air-fuel ratio exceeds a predetermined threshold value, an internal combustion engine control apparatus provided by this invention makes a temporary adjustment to a value of any one of a demanded torque, a demanded efficiency and instructed efficiency, and a demanded air-fuel ratio in accordance with a type of demanded engine performance that is currently being given priority among various performances demanded of the internal combustion engine. In the present control apparatus, an actuator for air amount control is operated in accordance with a target air amount calculated based on a demanded torque and a demanded efficiency, an actuator for ignition timing control is operated in accordance with an instructed efficiency, and an actuator for fuel injection amount control is operated in accordance with a demanded air-fuel ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Yoshizaki, Shuntaro Okazaki, Masashi Shibayama, Kaoru Shokatsu, Hajime Kawakami
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Patent number: 8649957Abstract: A control device is provided that generates a target air-fuel ratio by lessening a change speed of a required air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine. However, when a deterioration degree of a catalyst which is disposed in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine is a predetermined reference or more, lessening of the change speed of the required air-fuel ratio is stopped, or a lessening degree of the change speed of the required air-fuel ratio is decreased. The control device calculates a target air quantity for realizing the required torque under the target air-fuel ratio. For calculation of the target air quantity, data in which relationship of torque generated by the internal combustion engine and an air quantity taken into a cylinder is fixed by being related to an air-fuel ratio can be used.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2011Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Yoshizaki, Shuntaro Okazaki, Masashi Shibayama, Kaoru Shokatsu, Hajime Kawakami
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Publication number: 20130297186Abstract: A control device is provided that generates a target air-fuel ratio by lessening a change speed of a required air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine. However, when a deterioration degree of a catalyst which is disposed in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine is a predetermined reference or more, lessening of the change speed of the required air-fuel ratio is stopped, or a lessening degree of the change speed of the required air-fuel ratio is decreased. The control device calculates a target air quantity for realizing the required torque under the target air-fuel ratio. For calculation of the target air quantity, data in which relationship of torque generated by the internal combustion engine and an air quantity taken into a cylinder is fixed by being related to an air-fuel ratio can be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Yoshizaki, Shuntaro Okazaki, Masashi Shibayama, Kaoru Shokatsu, Hajime Kawakami
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Publication number: 20130275028Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine provided by the present invention is a control device which can satisfy a requirement concerning exhaust gas performance of the internal combustion engine, a requirement concerning fuel economy performance, and a requirement concerning operation performance with an excellent balance by properly regulating a change speed of a required air-fuel ratio and an ignition timing. The present control device keeps the ignition timing at an optimal ignition timing if a predetermined permission condition is not satisfied. However, when the permission condition is satisfied, the present control device controls the ignition timing so as to compensate for a difference which occurs between torque which is estimated from an operation of an actuator for air quantity control and required torque by the ignition timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuntaro Okazaki, Satoshi Yoshizaki, Masashi Shibayama, Kaoru Shokatsu, Hajime Kawakami
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Patent number: 8515648Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine provided by the present invention is a control device which can enhance precision of realization of required torque while enhancing emission performance by positively changing an air-fuel ratio. The present control device generates a target air-fuel ratio by lessening a change speed of a required air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine. However, in a situation in which the required air-fuel ratio is made rich with return from fuel cut, lessening of the change speed of the required air-fuel ratio is stopped, and the required air-fuel ratio is directly outputted as a target air-fuel ratio. The control device calculates a target air quantity for realizing the required torque under the target air-fuel ratio. For calculation of the target air quantity, data in which relationship of torque generated by the internal combustion engine and an air quantity taken into a cylinder is fixed by being related to an air-fuel ratio can be used.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Yoshizaki, Shuntaro Okazaki, Masashi Shibayama, Kaoru Shokatsu, Hajime Kawakami
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Publication number: 20130191010Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device the present invention provides is a control device that can realize both of request torque and a request A/F for each of cylinder groups with high precision, even when the request A/F differs at each of the cylinder groups. The present control device sets a reference A/F within a range from the leanest A/F to the richest A/F out of the request A/Fs to the respective cylinder groups. The present control device calculates a target air quantity for realizing the request torque under the reference A/F, based on data that defines a relation between engine output torque and an air quantity in relation to an A/F. The present control device controls a throttle opening in accordance with the target air quantity, and controls fuel injection amounts of the respective cylinders in accordance with the request A/F s to the respective cylinder groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2010Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuntaro Okazaki, Satoshi Yoshizaki, Kaoru Shokatsu, Masashi Shibayama, Hajime Kawakami
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Publication number: 20130184971Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine that enhances precision of realization of required torque while enhancing emission performance by positively changing an air-fuel ratio. The control device generates a target air-fuel ratio by lessening a change speed of a required air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine. However, when the required air-fuel ratio is made rich with return from fuel cut, lessening of the change speed of the required air-fuel ratio is stopped, and the required air-fuel ratio is directly outputted as a target air-fuel ratio. The control device calculates a target air quantity for realizing the required torque under the target air-fuel ratio. The control device manipulates an actuator for air quantity control in accordance with the target air quantity, and manipulates an actuator for fuel injection quantity control in accordance with the target air-fuel ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Yoshizaki, Shuntaro Okazaki, Masashi Shibayama, Kaoru Shokatsu, Hajime Kawakami
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Publication number: 20120085318Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine provided by the present invention is a control device which can satisfy both a requirement relating to exhaust gas performance of the internal combustion engine and a requirement relating to operation performance by properly regulating a change speed of a required air-fuel ratio, in the internal combustion engine which uses torque and an air-fuel ratio as control variables. The control device receives the requirement relating to the exhaust gas performance of the internal combustion engine, and calculates an air-fuel ratio which satisfies the requirement as a required air-fuel ratio. When a predetermined reduction condition is not satisfied, an original required air-fuel ratio is directly determined as a final required air-fuel ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2010Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KANUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuntaro Okazaki, Satoshi Yoshizaki, Masashi Shibayama, Kaoru Shokatsu, Hajime Kawakami
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Patent number: 8135302Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a primary transfer unit to transfer toner images of plural colors on image carriers onto an intermediate transfer member; a secondary transfer unit to transfer the toner images onto a transfer material; and a pre-secondary transfer discharge unit to discharge charges of the toner images, wherein the discharge unit includes a scorotron having a grid electrode and a discharging electrode; an opposing electrode opposed to the grid electrode through the intermediate transfer member; a first voltage unit to apply a reverse polarity voltage of the toner images to the discharging electrode; a second voltage applying unit to apply a same polarity voltage of the toner images to the grid electrode; a cleaning unit of the grid electrode; a current detecting unit; and a controller to control a timing to clean the grid electrode according to the detected current.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yotaro Sato, Takenobu Kimura, Hajime Kawakami
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Publication number: 20120020693Abstract: A cleaning device for cleaning a belt member, includes a cleaning blade; a removing member coming in contact with the surface of the belt member so as to remove foreign matter adhering on the surface of the belt member; and a contact pressure changing section to change a contact pressure between the removing member to the belt member, wherein, when the contact pressure between the removing member and a region of the belt member corresponding in position to a toner image to be not transferred to a paper sheet is made P1, and the contact pressure between the removing member and a region of the belt member corresponding in position to a toner image to be transferred to a paper sheet is made P2, the contact pressure changing section changes the contact pressure to satisfy the conditional formula: (P1<P2).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Hideo YAMAKI, Shigetaka KUROSU, Nobuyasu TAMURA, Hajime KAWAKAMI, Yusuke NISHISAKA, Keiki KATSUMATA
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Patent number: 7945202Abstract: An cleaning apparatus includes: a first brush roll for removing toner from an image carrier; a second brush roll for removing the toner from the image carrier; a first recovery device for recovering the toner deposited on the first brush roll; a second recovery device for recovering the toner deposited on the second brush roll; a first electric field forming device for forming an electric field between the first brush roll and the image carrier; and a second electric field forming device for forming an electric field between the second brush roll and image carrier, wherein the first brush roll and the second brush roll each has a plurality of electrically conductive yarns arranged on a conductive core, and a resistance R2 of each of the yarns used in the second brush roll is smaller than 1×107 ?/cm.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2009Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Takenobu Kimura, Yotaro Sato, Hajime Kawakami
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Publication number: 20090274500Abstract: An cleaning apparatus includes: a first brush roll for removing toner from an image carrier; a second brush roll for removing the toner from the image carrier; a first recovery device for recovering the toner deposited on the first brush roll; a second recovery device for recovering the toner deposited on the second brush roll; a first electric field forming device for forming an electric field between the first brush roll and the image carrier; and a second electric field forming device for forming an electric field between the second brush roll and image carrier, wherein the first brush roll and the second brush roll each has a plurality of electrically conductive yarns arranged on a conductive core, and a resistance R2 of each of the yarns used in the second brush roll is smaller than 1×107 ?/cm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Takenobu KIMURA, Yotaro SATO, Hajime KAWAKAMI
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Patent number: 7521454Abstract: This invention relates to an adenine derivative, a tautomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof represented by general formula (I): wherein X represents NR3 (wherein R3 represents a hydrogen atom or C1-3 alkyl) or the like; R1 represents substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or the like; R2 represents hydroxyl or the like; and Y represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hetero ring or the like. Also, the present invention relates to pharmaceuticals such as an interferon inducer, antiviral agent, anticancer agent, type 2 helper T cell selective immune response inhibitor, antiallergic agent, and immune response modulator comprising the above derivative as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2006Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiaki Isobe, Haruhisa Ogita, Masanori Tobe, Haruo Takaku, Tetsuhiro Ogino, Ayumu Kurimoto, Hajime Kawakami
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Patent number: 7488169Abstract: A three-dimensional structure, and a method and device for producing the structure, where the structure has pressure resistant characteristics despite its voluminous and elastic nature and has higher resistance to surface wear and mechanical dimensional stability than a foamed polyethylene sheet. The three-dimensional structure is characterized in that a resin sheet has needle-like projections on its both faces, each projection has a height (H) of 3 mm or more, the height (H) and a width (W) of the projection at the height of H/2 has a relationship of H?2.5 W, the projection has a hole in its tip, and the projections are joined to a sheet-like object at their tops.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2004Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Kawakami Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seijyu Keduka, Hajime Kawakami
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Patent number: 7481958Abstract: A plastic sheet having a number of recessed and protruded parts useful as a protective sheet in moving and construction, and for cushion packaging and thermal insulation is disclosed. Also disclosed is a two-layered or three-layered double wall sheet, which is produced by adhering one or two flat plastic sheets on the above plastic sheet. The double wall sheet has high rigidity against bending and improved warps when compared with the conventional plastic bubble boards, and is useful as the material for various panels and packaging containers. The plastic sheet is produced by vacuum forming to form plural protruded, truncated cone-shaped parts and recessed, ring-shaped parts surrounding and continuing from the protruding parts. The double wall sheet is produced by adhering a back sheet and/or liner sheet to the plastic sheet.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2003Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Kawakami Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Kawakami, Osamu Sugiyama, Masamoto Iwasaka
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Publication number: 20080247782Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a primary transfer unit to transfer toner images of plural colors on image carriers onto an intermediate transfer member; a secondary transfer unit to transfer the toner images onto a transfer material; and a pre-secondary transfer discharge unit to discharge charges of the toner images, wherein the discharge unit includes a scorotron having a grid electrode and a discharging electrode; an opposing electrode opposed to the grid electrode through the intermediate transfer member; a first voltage unit to apply a reverse polarity voltage of the toner images to the discharging electrode; a second voltage applying unit to apply a same polarity voltage of the toner images to the grid electrode; a cleaning unit of the grid electrode; a current detecting unit; and a controller to control a timing to clean the grid electrode according to the detected current.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yotaro SATO, Takenobu Kimura, Hajime Kawakami
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Patent number: 7396842Abstract: A 5-membered cyclic compound of the formula: wherein X is oxygen or sulfur, R1 is hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, etc., R2 is hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, etc., Y1 is a direct bond, substituted or unsubstituted alkylene, —CO(CH2)n—, etc., the wavy line means (E)-configuration or (Z)-configuration, R3 is substituted or unsubstituted aryl, etc., Y2 is substituted or unsubstituted alkylene, etc., R4 is hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkanoyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, etc., R5 is hydrogen, etc., or a salt thereof, these compound being able to inhibit infiltration of leukocytes such as eosinophils and lymphocytes, by which being useful for the treatment of various kinds of inflammation.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Dianippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norio Fujiwara, Hitoshi Fujita, Fujio Antoku, Toshinari Sugasawa, Hajime Kawakami
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Publication number: 20070037832Abstract: This invention relates to an adenine derivative, a tautomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof represented by general formula (I): wherein X represents NR3 (wherein R3 represents a hydrogen atom or C1-3 alkyl) or the like; R1 represents substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or the like; R2 represents hydroxyl or the like; and Y represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hetero ring or the like. Also, the present invention relates to pharmaceuticals such as an interferon inducer, antiviral agent, anticancer agent, type 2 helper T cell selective immune response inhibitor, antiallergic agent, and immune response modulator comprising the above derivative as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2006Publication date: February 15, 2007Applicant: Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiaki Isobe, Haruhisa Ogita, Masanori Tobe, Haruo Takaku, Tetsuhiro Ogino, Ayumu Kurimoto, Hajime Kawakami