Patents by Inventor Hideki Kikuchi

Hideki Kikuchi 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: 20240364674
    Abstract: An in-vehicle relay device to be connected to a plurality of in-vehicle devices mounted on a vehicle and an authentication device performing authentication of the in-vehicle device, to relay communication between the plurality of in-vehicle devices, the device including a control unit controlling the relay of the communication, in which the control unit relays authentication communication data for the authentication between the in-vehicle device and the authentication device before the authentication of the in-vehicle device connected to the in-vehicle relay device is completed, transmits and receives setting data for setting an in-vehicle network with the authentication device and the in-vehicle device, in parallel with the relay of the authentication communication data, acquires setting information of the in-vehicle network according to the transmitted setting data, from the authentication device, and starts relay based on the acquired setting information after the authentication is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Hirofumi URAYAMA, Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hideki MAEDA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Hideyuki TANAKA, Yusuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240351520
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus according to the present disclosure is an in-vehicle apparatus that is mounted in a vehicle and connected to another in-vehicle apparatus to be capable of communicating with the other in-vehicle apparatus via an in-vehicle network, the in-vehicle apparatus including: a control unit that controls communication with the other in-vehicle apparatus. When the control unit causes the in-vehicle apparatus to transition from a normal state to a sleep state, the control unit generates a notification message that is defined by AUTOSAR by including, in the notification message, a deactivation flag for causing the other in-vehicle apparatus to deactivate disconnection detection, and outputs the generated notification message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro OTSU, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Hideki MAEDA, Darmawan GO, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 12111600
    Abstract: A powder conveying device includes a drop conveyance passage, an intersecting conveyance passage, a conveying screw, and a floating member. Powder entering from an inflow port drops in the drop conveyance passage. The intersecting conveyance passage communicates with a lower end of the drop conveyance passage and extends in an intersecting direction that intersects the drop conveyance passage. The conveying screw is disposed in the intersecting conveyance passage and rotates in a specified direction to convey the powder in the intersecting direction. The floating member is movably installed in the drop conveyance passage and floats in the drop conveyance passage to move by contact with the conveying screw. The inflow port and the floating member interfere with each other to prevent the floating member from coming out of the inflow port of the drop conveyance passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimada, Seiichi Kogure, Hideki Kimura, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yusuke Ishizuka, Yutaka Takahashi, Takuya Akiyama, Yutaka Goto, Yuuki Aoki
  • Publication number: 20240333597
    Abstract: A management device includes: a specification information acquisition unit configured to acquire specification information indicating a specification of a configuration of an in-vehicle network; a state information acquisition unit configured to acquire state information indicating an assembly state, in the in-vehicle network, of a plurality of in-vehicle devices forming the in-vehicle network; and a comparison unit configured to compare the specification indicated by the specification information acquired by the specification information acquisition unit with the assembly state indicated by the state information acquired by the state information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke YAMAMOTO, Hideyuki TANAKA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Kenta OGATA, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Hideki GOTO, Yasuhiro YAMASAKI, Takashi YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20240297181
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of gate bus lines, a plurality of source bus lines located closer to the substrate side; a lower insulating layer that covers the source bus lines; an interlayer insulating layer that covers the gate bus lines; a plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs disposed in association with respective pixel regions; a pixel electrode disposed in each of the pixel regions; and a plurality of source contact portions each of which electrically connects one of the oxide semiconductor TFTs to the corresponding one of the source bus lines, in which each of the oxide semiconductor TFTs includes an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the lower insulating layer, a gate electrode disposed on a portion of the oxide semiconductor layer, and a source electrode formed of a conductive film, and each of the source contact portions includes a source contact hole, and a connection electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiko SUZUKI, Tetsuo KIKUCHI, Hideki KITAGAWA, Setsuji NISHIMIYA, Kengo HARA, Hitoshi TAKAHATA, Tohru DAITOH
  • Publication number: 20240283676
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted relay device for relaying Ethernet frames includes a plurality of PHY units corresponding to a plurality of vehicle-mounted devices, a switch unit to which the plurality of PHY units are connected, and a control unit configured to monitor operating states of the plurality of PHY units. The plurality of PHY units include a predetermined PHY unit whose operating state switches between a sleep state and an active state in response to reception of a predetermined control signal that differs from the Ethernet frames. When an Ethernet frame to be transmitted from the predetermined PHY unit has been detected during a period where the predetermined PHY unit is in the sleep state, the control unit executes switching control to switch the predetermined PHY unit to the active state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicants: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Hideki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240266141
    Abstract: A sample holder with high versatility is provided. A sample holder 100 includes a holder shaft 2, a placement unit 3 on which a sample SAM is placeable, a moving mechanism 4 that moves the holder shaft in a first direction, rotating mechanism 5 that rotates the holder shaft 2 in a first rotation direction with a center of the holder shaft 2 as a rotation axis, a protrusion unit 6 that is fixed to the holder shaft 2 so as to protrude in a second direction intersecting the first direction and whose position is changed according to the rotation and movement of the holder shaft 2, and a guide unit 7 that surrounds an outer periphery of the holder shaft 2 and whose position is not changed according to the rotation and movement of the holder shaft 2. The guide unit 7 is provided with a through hole (7a) and a through hole (7b). A width of the through hole (7a) in the first rotation direction is larger than a width of the through hole (7b) in the first rotation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ASAKURA, Hideki KIKUCHI, Toshie YAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240255890
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a toner image bearer, a transfer device, a cleaner, a bias power source, and circuitry. The toner image bearer bears a toner image. The transfer device performs a transfer process The cleaner contacts the toner image bearer to remove transfer residual toner that is subject to the transfer process and remove untransferred toner that is not subject to the transfer process. The bias power source applies one of a first bias and a second bias different from the first bias to the cleaner. The circuitry controls the bias power source to output the first bias to the cleaner in response to a start of an image forming operation to remove the untransferred toner from the toner image bearer and control the bias power source to switch an output from the first bias to the second bias.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka GOTO, Seiichi KOGURE, Hiroshi KIKUCHI, Hirotaka HATTA, Hideki KIMURA, Yusuke ISHIZUKA, Takuya AKIYAMA, Yuuki AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240186103
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to reduce influence of a phase contrast on an observation image in a transmission electron microscope and to enable image observation with high magnification and high resolution. The transmission electron microscope according to the invention can switch between a first mode in which a lens barrel is airtightly sealed between an electron beam source side and a stage side by a diaphragm, and a second mode in which the lens barrel is not airtightly sealed (see FIG. 2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Akinari HANAWA, Toshie YAGUCHI, Hideki KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220349500
    Abstract: Described is a peelable heat shrink tube composed of a fluororesin and having a determination coefficient calculated from [Equation 1] below using an elastic modulus ratio (%) of more than 0, but 0.90 or less: Determination ? coefficient = ( correlation ? coefficient ) 2 = [ ( covariance ) ( standard ? deviation ? of ? X ) ? ( standard ? deviation ? of ? Y ) ] 2 [ Equation ? 1 ] where X, Y and covariance represent the following: X: Proportion of the position of each point, where the elastic modulus was measured, from the interior of the tube Y: Elastic modulus ratio in each region Covariance: Average of the product of deviations of X and Y.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: NISSEI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., CHEMOURS-MITSUI FLUOROPRODUCTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mineyuki NODA, Hiromasa YABE, Hideki KIKUCHI, Kei MIYAMOTO, Kota SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11164717
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a technique of capturing images at higher speed and higher magnification when acquiring continuous tilted images with an electron microscope. The electron microscope of the invention includes a first spherical receiver fixed to a column of the electron microscope and configured to slide with a spherical fulcrum provided at a tip end of a sample holder; a spherical surface part provided on the column; and a second spherical receiver provided outside the column. The spherical surface part and the second spherical receiver slide on a contact part between the spherical surface part and the second spherical receiver, and a track of the slide is along a spherical surface centered on a central axis of the first spherical receiver, so that a view shift and a focus shift from an observation position of a sample can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Kikuchi, Tadao Furutsu, Kouichirou Saitou, Hidekazu Suzuki, Ryoji Namekawa
  • Publication number: 20210066024
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a technique of capturing images at higher speed and higher magnification when acquiring continuous tilted images with an electron microscope. The electron microscope of the invention includes a first spherical receiver fixed to a column of the electron microscope and configured to slide with a spherical fulcrum provided at a tip end of a sample holder; a spherical surface part provided on the column; and a second spherical receiver provided outside the column. The spherical surface part and the second spherical receiver slide on a contact part between the spherical surface part and the second spherical receiver, and a track of the slide is along a spherical surface centered on a central axis of the first spherical receiver, so that a view shift and a focus shift from an observation position of a sample can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki KIKUCHI, Tadao FURUTSU, Kouichirou SAITOU, Hidekazu SUZUKI, Ryoji NAMEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200357601
    Abstract: There is provided a technology for imparting attenuation while maintaining rigidity of a support member that reduces vibration of a sample stage when disturbance such as an environmental sound is applied to a device and vibrates the sample stage. A charged particle beam device according to the present disclosure includes a sample stage that can move a sample, an attenuation unit that attenuates vibration of the sample stage, and a sample chamber that stores the sample stage and the attenuation unit. In the charged particle beam device, the sample stage and the attenuation unit are disposed so as to be horizontal to each other. Also, the sample stage is configured to be supported so as to be sandwiched between the attenuation unit and a first side surface of a casing, and the inside of the casing of the attenuation unit is filled with a plural number of friction bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Hirohisa ENOMOTO, Wataru SUZUKI, Munekazu KOYANAGI, Shigeru HANEDA, Hideki KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 10661497
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat shrink tube excellent in peelability and transparency, and a method for producing the heat shrink tube. The present invention provides a peelable heat shrink tube comprising a composition containing a melt-processable fluororesin and PTFE, the PTFE lacking a heat history of its melting point or higher after polymerization and having a specific gravity, as measured according to ASTM D4894, of 2.20 or less. The content of the PTFE is 0.05 to 3.0 wt % based on the total weight of the melt-processable fluororesin and the PTFE. The present invention also provides a method for producing the tube which comprises melt-extruding the composition at a temperature lower than the melting point of the PTFE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: NISSEI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., DUPONT-MITSUI FLUORCHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Kikuchi, Tetsuto Nakajima, Daisuke Tanaka, Takao Nishio, Etsuya Taki, Hoai-Nam Pham
  • Patent number: 10636621
    Abstract: A charged particle beam device wherein a transmission image corresponding to an arbitrary diffraction spot or a diffraction pattern corresponding to a partial range in the transmission image are easily and automatically captured. A charged particle beam device having: an image-capturing unit for forming an image of a sample; a diaphragm disposed in the image-capturing unit, a plurality of openings having different sizes for transmitting an electron beam from the sample being formed in the diaphragm; a movement unit for varying the position of the diaphragm; and a display unit for displaying the formed image, wherein when the operator selects, e.g., a diffraction spot (A) on the display unit, the movement unit moves the diaphragm from the positional relationship between the diaphragm and the image in accordance with the position of the diffraction spot (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Akinari Hanawa, Hideki Kikuchi, Yoshifumi Taniguchi, Toshie Yaguchi, Takashi Dobashi, Keitaro Watanabe, Hirokazu Tamaki
  • Patent number: 10192713
    Abstract: In a side entry type sample holder, vibrations in the radial direction of the sample holder provoke a resolving power decrease in the measurement results. In the present invention, the side entry type sample holder has a stepped portion in the radial direction of an axial portion. The sample stage has a support part contacting the stepped portion in a cylindrical portion capable of moving as one body in the axis direction of the sample holder, and, through the contact between the stepped portion and the support part, a frictional force is generated, opposing the radial direction of the axial portion in the sample holder. In this manner, the vibrations in the radial direction of the sample holder are suppressed, and the resolving power decrease in the measurement results is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yabata, Hideki Kikuchi, Naotomo Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20180269027
    Abstract: In a side entry type sample holder, vibrations in the radial direction of the sample holder provoke a resolving power decrease in the measurement results. In the present invention, the side entry type sample holder has a stepped portion in the radial direction of an axial portion. The sample stage has a support part contacting the stepped portion in a cylindrical portion capable of moving as one body in the axis direction of the sample holder, and, through the contact between the stepped portion and the support part, a frictional force is generated, opposing the radial direction of the axial portion in the sample holder. In this manner, the vibrations in the radial direction of the sample holder are suppressed, and the resolving power decrease in the measurement results is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kiyoshi YABATA, Hideki KIKUCHI, Naotomo MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180186062
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat shrink tube excellent in peelability and transparency, and a method for producing the heat shrink tube. The present invention provides a peelable heat shrink tube comprising a composition containing a melt-processable fluororesin and PTFE, the PTFE lacking a heat history of its melting point or higher after polymerization and having a specific gravity, as measured according to ASTM D4894, of 2.20 or less. The content of the PTFE is 0.05 to 3.0 wt % based on the total weight of the melt-processable fluororesin and the PTFE. The present invention also provides a method for producing the tube which comprises melt-extruding the composition at a temperature lower than the melting point of the PTFE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicants: NISSEI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., DUPONT-MITSUI FLUOROCHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki KIKUCHI, Tetsuto NAKAJIMA, Daisuke TANAKA, Takao NISHIO, Etsuya TAKI, Hoai-Nam PHAM
  • Publication number: 20180076004
    Abstract: A charged particle beam device wherein a transmission image corresponding to an arbitrary diffraction spot or a diffraction pattern corresponding to a partial range in the transmission image are easily and automatically captured. A charged particle beam device having: an image-capturing unit for forming an image of a sample; a diaphragm disposed in the image-capturing unit, a plurality of openings having different sizes for transmitting an electron beam from the sample being formed in the diaphragm; a movement unit for varying the position of the diaphragm; and a display unit for displaying the formed image, wherein when the operator selects, e.g., a diffraction spot (A) on the display unit, the movement unit moves the diaphragm from the positional relationship between the diaphragm and the image in accordance with the position of the diffraction spot (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Akinari HANAWA, Hideki KIKUCHI, Yoshifumi TANIGUCHI, Toshie YAGUCHI, Takashi DOBASHI, Keitaro WATANABE, Hirokazu TAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20150243472
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to reduce drift in a sample which occurs because of distortion in an O-ring which seals off from the atmosphere a sample chamber in which vacuum is retained. Provided is an electron microscope, wherein a sample holder (2) is inserted in a column (1), comprising: an O-ring (4) which makes airtight the column (1) of the electron microscope and the sample holder (2); a slider tube (30) which slides in the longitudinal direction of the sample holder (2) and positions the sample holder in the longitudinal direction; a bellows (32) which makes airtight the slider tube (30) and the column (1); a means (10) for driving the slider (30) in the longitudinal direction of the sample holder (2); and a holder umping part (40) which positions the sample holder (2) in the longitudinal direction. The electron microscope further comprises a sample movement device which has an elastic material (31) which connects the holder umping part (40) and the slider tube (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Hideki Kikuchi, Kota Ueda, Kouichirou Saitou