Patents by Inventor Hideki Fujii
Hideki Fujii 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: 12140430Abstract: A sensor device includes a sensor element, a supporting member, a substrate, and a bonding wire. The supporting member is electrically connected to the sensor element. The substrate is electrically connected to the supporting member. The bonding wire forms at least part of a connection path that electrically connects the sensor element and the supporting member together. The substrate and an installation member on which the sensor element is installed intersect with each other. The sensor element and the supporting member are separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Ueda, Yusuke Nakamura, Koichiro Nakashima, Takashi Uchida, Toshio Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Fujii, Chikara Nara
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Patent number: 12103082Abstract: A method for producing a metallic green compact 61 relates to a method for producing the green compact 61 having at least one recess 62, including a step of subjecting a raw material powder filled in a resin mold 1 to cold isostatic pressing while placing a resin core material 11 having a shape corresponding to the recess 62 at a position corresponding to the recess 62 in the resin mold 1.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Toho Titanium Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Morita, Masashi Hayakawa, Yosuke Inoue, Hideki Fujii
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Publication number: 20240291132Abstract: According to an embodiment, in an air-cooled cooling structure that cools the heating element with air, the air-cooled cooling structure includes a support member that supports the heating element on the inner face and an air guide portion. The air guide portion generates a spiral air flow with the extension direction of the support member as an axis. Furthermore, the air guide portion may include a fan that forcibly generates the air flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORP.Inventors: Shingo NAKAMURA, Hideki FUJII
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Publication number: 20240242262Abstract: The present invention provides a system for determining a commodity or service suitable for a user. The system is configured to perform: acquisition of data and/or information regarding the user (step S701); calculation of a score that multi-dimensionally represents a feature of the user on the basis of the acquired data and/or information regarding the user (step S702); and determination of a commodity or service suitable for the user, by using the score (step S703).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: ADVASA Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideki FUJII
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Publication number: 20240191385Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a titanium-containing electrodeposit, which can achieve good refinement by an electrodeposition without using the Kroll method. A method for producing a titanium-containing electrodeposit, including an electrodeposition step of electrodepositing a titanium-containing electrodeposit in a chloride bath, the chloride bath being a molten salt, using an anode including a TiAlO conductive material containing titanium, aluminum, and oxygen, and a cathode, wherein, in the electrodeposition step, a current density of the cathode is in a range of 0.3 A/cm2 or more and 2.0 A/cm2 or less, and wherein the chloride bath contains 1 mol % or more of a titanium subchloride.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: Yuta Nakajo, Kazuhiro Kumamoto, Daisuke Suzuki, Masashi Yamamoto, Matsuhide Horikawa, Hideki Fujii
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Publication number: 20240191381Abstract: Provided is a method for producing metal titanium by molten salt electrolysis using a conductive material containing titanium, aluminum, oxygen and other impurities. A method for producing metal titanium, wherein a refining process includes: a rough electrodeposition step of performing a molten salt electrolysis using an electrode containing a TiAlO conductive material in a chloride bath Bf to obtain a titanium-containing electrodeposit TC; and one or more refinement electrodeposition steps of performing a molten salt electrolysis using an electrode containing the titanium-containing electrodeposit TC in a chloride bath Bf, and wherein at least one of the chloride bath Bf used for the rough electrodeposition step and the chloride bath Bf used for the refinement electrodeposition step contains 30 mol % or more of magnesium chloride.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: Daisuke Suzuki, Yuta Nakajo, Kazuhiro Kumamoto, Matsuhide Horikawa, Hideki Fujii
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Publication number: 20240084469Abstract: A method for producing a titanium foil according to the present invention includes an electrodeposition step of performing electrolysis with electrodes including an anode and a cathode using a molten salt bath comprising titanium ions and having at least one molten chloride to deposit metal titanium onto an electrolytic surface of the cathode, wherein the electrodeposition step includes maintaining a ratio of a molar concentration of titanium ions to the total molar concentration of metal ions in the molten salt bath at 7% or more, and maintaining a temperature of the molten salt bath at 510° C. or less, and conducting a current to the electrodes under conditions where a continuous stop time of current conduction is less than 1.0 second, a current density is 0.10 A/cm2 or more and 1.0 A/cm2 or less, and a time for electrodepositing the metal titanium onto the electrolytic surface of the cathode is 120 minutes or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Takumi Kaneko, Yuta Nakajo, Daisuke Suzuki, Matsuhide Horikawa, Hideki Fujii
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Patent number: 11814703Abstract: Provided is a titanium composite material 1 including: a first surface layer portion 2; an inner layer portion 4; and a second surface layer portion 3; wherein: the first surface layer portion 2 and the second surface layer portion 3 are composed of a titanium alloy; the inner layer portion 4 is composed of a commercially pure titanium including pores; a thickness of at least one of the first surface layer portion 2 and the second surface layer portion 3 is 2 ?m or more, and a proportion of the thickness with respect to an overall thickness of the titanium composite material 1 is 40% or less; and a porosity in a cross section perpendicular to a sheet thickness direction is more than 0% and 30% or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Kitaura, Yoshihisa Shirai, Hideki Fujii
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Patent number: 11649554Abstract: A method for producing metal titanium by carrying out electrolysis using an anode and a cathode in a molten salt bath, the method using an anode containing metal titanium as the anode, the method comprising a titanium deposition step of depositing metal titanium on the cathode, wherein, in the titanium deposition step, a temperature of the molten salt bath is from 250° C. or more and 600° C. or less, and an average current density of the cathode in a period from the start to 30 minutes later of the titanium deposition step is maintained in a range of 0.01 A/cm2 to 0.09 A/cm2.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Toho Titanium Co., Ltd.Inventors: Matsuhide Horikawa, Daisuke Suzuki, Haruka Yamamoto, Hideki Fujii
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Patent number: 11542581Abstract: A titanium product includes an inner layer portion and a surface layer portion joined to the inner layer portion. The surface layer portion has a composition consisting of, by mass %, O: 0.4% or less, Fe: 0.5% or less, Cl: 0.020% or less, the balance: Ti and impurities. The inner layer portion 3 has pores and a composition consisting of, by mass %, O: 0.4% or less, Fe: 0.5% or less, Cl: more than 0.020% and 0.60%, the balance: Ti and impurities. The area fraction of the pores in the inner layer portion in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the titanium product is more than 0% and not more than 30%. The Cl content (ClI) of the inner layer portion, a thickness (tS) of the surface layer portion, and a thickness (tI) of the inner layer portion satisfy the expression [ClI?0.03+0.02×tS/tI].Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Kitaura, Yoshihisa Shirai, Hideki Fujii
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Patent number: 11504765Abstract: Provided is a titanium cast product for hot rolling made of commercially pure titanium, the titanium cast product including a melted and resolidified layer in a range of more than or equal to 1 mm in depth on a surface serving as a rolling surface, the melted and resolidified layer being obtained by adding one or more elements out of any one of or both of at least one ? stabilizer element and at least one neutral element to the surface, and melting and resolidifying the surface. An average value of a total concentration of the at least one ? stabilizer element and the at least one neutral element in the range of more than or equal to 1 mm in depth is higher than a total concentration of the at least one ? stabilizer element and the at least one neutral element in a base metal by, in mass %, more than or equal to 0.1% and less than 2.0%.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomonori Kunieda, Yoshitsugu Tatsuzawa, Hideki Fujii
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Patent number: 11479839Abstract: A method for producing a hot-rolled titanium plate includes, [1] melting at least one part of the side surface of the titanium slab by radiating a beam or plasma toward the side surface, not toward the surface to be rolled, and thereafter causing re-solidification to form, in the side surface, a layer having grain diameter of 1.5 mm or less and a depth of 3.0 mm or more from the side surface; [2] performing a finishing process on the surface to be rolled of the titanium slab in which the layer is formed, to thereby bring a slab flatness index X to 3.0 or less; and [3] subjecting the titanium slab after the finishing process to hot rolling under a condition in which a length of an arc of contact of a roll L in a first pass of rough rolling is 230 mm or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitsugu Tatsuzawa, Tomonori Kunieda, Kenichi Mori, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Hideki Fujii
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Patent number: 11459649Abstract: A titanium sheet including the following chemical components in mass %: Cu: 0.70 to 1.50%, Cr: 0 to 0.40%, Mn: 0 to 0.50%, Si: 0.10 to 0.30%, O: 0 to 0.10%, Fe: 0 to 0.06%, N: 0 to 0.03%, C: 0 to 0.08%, H: 0 to 0.013%, elements except the above and Ti: 0 to 0.1% each, with a total amount of the elements being 0.3% or less, and the balance: Ti, wherein A value defined by Formula (1) is 1.15 to 2.5 mass %, and the titanium sheet having a metal microstructure in which an area fraction of an ? phase is 95% or more, an area fraction of a ? phase is 5% or less, and an area fraction of an intermetallic compound is 1% or less, wherein an average crystal grain size D (?m) of the ? phase is 20 to 70 ?m and satisfies Formula (2).Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori Takebe, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Hideki Fujii
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Publication number: 20220274167Abstract: A method for producing a metallic green compact 61 relates to a method for producing the green compact 61 having at least one recess 62, including a step of subjecting a raw material powder filled in a resin mold 1 to cold isostatic pressing while placing a resin core material 11 having a shape corresponding to the recess 62 at a position corresponding to the recess 62 in the resin mold 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Masahiro Morita, Masashi Hayakawa, Yosuke Inoue, Hideki Fujii
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Patent number: 11378086Abstract: A small-sized electric fan using a USB power source has such a structure that the small-sized electric fan is provided with: a body case 1; a blade part 2; a motor M that rotationally drives the blade part; a USB cable 3 provided with a connector 4 that is detachably connected to the USB power source; and a lid case 5 that is provided to the body case 1 so as to be openable/closable and turnable, in which the body case 1 is provided with a groove part 12 that can store therein the USB cable when the USB cable 3 is wound around the groove part 12, on a case side surface part 11 along a rotation direction of the blade part 2, a connector inserting part 14 to which the connector 4 of the USB cable 3 can be inserted is provided on the case side surface part 11 or a case back surface part 13 of the body case 1, and the USB cable 3 has a cable length that allows the connector 4 to be inserted to the connector inserting part 14, when the USB cable 3 is wound around the groove part 12 of the case side surface part 11Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: RHYTHM CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Ikeuchi, Hideki Fujii
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Patent number: 11359298Abstract: A titanium foil or a titanium sheet is produced by electrodeposition from molten salt using constant current pulse, the method comprising: forming an electrodeposited titanium film on a surface of a cathode electrode made of glassy carbon, graphite, Mo, and Ni, and separating thereafter the electrodeposited titanium film from the cathode electrode by performing one or both of applying an external force to the electrodeposited titanium film and removing the cathode electrode. This enables the electrodeposited titanium film electrodeposited on the cathode electrode to be peeled from the cathode electrode simply and at low cost.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Uda, Kouhei Funatsu, Akihiro Kishimoto, Kenichi Mori, Hideki Fujii
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Patent number: 11355981Abstract: A stator includes a stator core in which an annular back yoke is integrated with a plurality of teeth circumferentially arranged on the back yoke at intervals, and an insulator that sandwiches the stator core from axial sides of the stator core. The insulator is molded integrally with the stator core using resin molding such that the insulator covers an inner surface of a slot portion of the stator core. A motor includes a rotor and the stator radially facing the rotor. A compressor includes a hermetic container, a compression mechanism disposed in the hermetic container, the motor disposed in the hermetic container to drive the compression mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Shirasaka, Keiji Aota, Hideki Fujii, Shoujirou Naka, Yoshihiro Igarashi
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Publication number: 20220162451Abstract: Particles containing a titanate compound according to the present invention comprise alkali metal titanate particles and binder layers, wherein the particles containing the titanate compound has a 50% particle diameter D50 of from 40 ?m to 100 ?m, and wherein a content ratio of the particles containing the titanate compound having a shorter diameter d of 3 ?m or less, a longer diameter L of 5 ?m or more, and an aspect ratio (L/d) of 3 or more is 0.05 mass % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Matsuhide Horikawa, Seiichiro Tani, Hideki Fujii, Tomoaki Heya, Hideki Watanabe
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Patent number: 11268177Abstract: An austenitic stainless steel according to the present invention has a chemical composition containing, by mass %: C: 0.01 to 0.15%; Si: 2.0% or less; Mn: 3.0% or less; Cr: 10.0 to 20.0%; Ni: 5.0 to 13.0%; N: 0.01 to 0.30%; Nb: 0 to 0.5%; Ti: 0 to 0.5%; and V: 0 to 0.5%, with the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein an average grain size is 10.0 ?m or less, a difference in value of an average lattice constant dAve. (={d?(111)×I?(111)+d?(200)×I?(200)+d?(220)×I?(220)+d?(311)×I?(311)}/{I?(111)+I?(200)+I?(220)+I?(311)}) of an austenite phase between a surface portion and a center portion is 0.010 ? or more, and a value of a diffraction peak integrated intensity ratio r (=100×?I?/?IALL) at a surface is 95% or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiko Adachi, Akihiro Nishimura, Shinichi Teraoka, Hideki Fujii
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Publication number: 20210378614Abstract: After an operator presses a practice mode execution start switch displayed on a touch panel liquid crystal display unit in an operation unit (2) or a touch panel liquid crystal display unit in an operation unit (41) to shift an imaging mode to a practice mode, when the operation unit (2) or the operation unit (41) of the imaging unit is operated, the signal from the X-ray imaging control unit (72) is transmitted to the voice guidance output control unit (52) in a voice guidance unit (5) via a signal output unit for a voice guidance unit (73). The voice guidance output control unit (52) in the voice guidance unit (5) transmits a signal for outputting voice guidance to a speaker (51). As a result, the same voice as a voice when performing the serial imaging is output from the speaker (51). Thus, a subject can execute the practice of a breathing method or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Tomoharu OKUNO, Hideki FUJII