Patents by Inventor Hikaru Takahashi
Hikaru Takahashi 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: 11978326Abstract: The present disclosure appropriately encourages provision of a service according to a location or provision of a location according to a service. A controller of a server apparatus that is an information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure acquires, from an apparatus of a location provider, attribute information of a location that the location provider is able to provide. The controller acquires, from an apparatus of a service provider, attribute information of a service that the service provider is able to provide. The controller performs, at least one of transmission, to the apparatus of the location provider, of a notification encouraging rental of the location to the service provider and transmission, to the apparatus of the service provider, of a notification encouraging use of the location when the attribute information of the location and the attribute information of the service satisfy a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya Matsunami, Atsuko Yamanaka, Kunihiro Tsunekawa, Sokfan Yee, Masahiro Tanaka, Shuichiro Takahashi, Satoshi Nonoyama, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Hikaru Satou
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Patent number: 11972391Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to further improve convenience of customers and the like accompanying purchase of merchandise. An autonomous traveling unit is provided with: a driving portion including an autonomous traveling ability, the driving portion being configured to be movable together with a storing portion configured to store merchandise; and a controlling portion configured to execute: acquiring settlement completion information about the merchandise stored in the storing portion, the merchandise being merchandise in a store; and controlling the driving portion to cause the merchandise storing portion to move to a first point outside the store after acquiring the settlement completion information.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya Matsunami, Atsuko Yamanaka, Kunihiro Tsunekawa, Sokfan Yee, Masahiro Tanaka, Shuichiro Takahashi, Satoshi Nonoyama, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Hikaru Satou
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Publication number: 20230192946Abstract: Disclosed are compositions comprising polyesters containing a chain of residue of: diols and diesters along the chain, wherein at least a portion of the diesters are 1, 1-diester-1-alkenes, and the chains have alkene groups incorporated into the chains; the composition comprising one or more of the following: i ether groups derived from alcohols, diols, polyols, or a combination thereof obtained via Michael addition to the alkene groups and a residue of the alkene groups remaining after Michael addition; ii the formed polyesters contain one percent or less of residual 1, 1-diester-1-alkene which are unreacted; iii one or more free radical inhibitors; and iv a stabilizer comprising one or more of: oxo acids phosphorous or esters thereof, aluminum sulfate, stannous pyrophosphate, stannous sulfate, aluminum dihydrogenphosphate or decomposition products thereof. The stabilizer is present in an amount sufficient to enhance stability of the polyester without lowering reactivity of the polyester.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Mathew Sanyo, Alexander Y. Polykarpov, Aniruddha Palsule, Jeffrey M. Sullivan, Kazuyuki Oshima, Camille Boucher-Jacobs, Alexander R. Holzer, Jeff Uhrig, Toshiya Iida, Hayato Miwa, Hikaru Takahashi, J. Taylor Goodrich, Anushree Deshpande
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Patent number: 11554420Abstract: Disclosed are threading device and threading method, including a turning step for threading a rotating workpiece with a predetermined cutting depth, by relatively moving a tool in the axial direction of the workpiece and then rounding-up the workpiece obliquely by relatively moving the tool in the axial direction and radially outward. The workpiece is subjected to the threading process by repeatedly carrying out the turning step while sequentially shifting the axial position for starting the rounding-up of the workpiece relative to an axial position where the rounding-up of the workpiece has been started in a previous turning step.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hikaru Takahashi, Tamotsu Katsuta
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Patent number: 11021557Abstract: The present invention provides a carboxyl group-containing copolymer having a better calcium ion trapping ability and a better carbon black dispersing ability than any conventional carboxyl group-containing copolymers. The present invention relates to a carboxyl group-containing copolymer including a structural unit (a) derived from an unsaturated monocarboxylic acid monomer (A), a structural unit (b) derived from an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid monomer (B), and a structural unit (c) derived from a cationic monomer (C).Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hikaru Takahashi, Ryosuke Takechi, Yasuhiro Ono
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Publication number: 20200338644Abstract: Disclosed are threading device and threading method, including a turning step for threading a rotating workpiece with a predetermined cutting depth, by relatively moving a tool in the axial direction of the workpiece and then rounding-up the workpiece obliquely by relatively moving the tool in the axial direction and radially outward. The workpiece is subjected to the threading process by repeatedly carrying out the turning step while sequentially shifting the axial position for starting the rounding-up of the workpiece relative to an axial position where the rounding-up of the workpiece has been started in a previous turning step.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicants: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hikaru TAKAHASHI, Tamotsu KATSUTA
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Publication number: 20200291153Abstract: The present invention provides a carboxyl group-containing copolymer having a better calcium ion trapping ability and a better carbon black dispersing ability than any conventional carboxyl group-containing copolymers. The present invention relates to a carboxyl group-containing copolymer including a structural unit (a) derived from an unsaturated monocarboxylic acid monomer (A), a structural unit (b) derived from an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid monomer (B), and a structural unit (c) derived from a cationic monomer (C).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2017Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Hikaru TAKAHASHI, Ryosuke TAKECHI, Yasuhiro ONO
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Patent number: 10738156Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a polymer capable of well dispersing hydrophobic particles. The present invention relates to a hydrophobic group-containing copolymer including a structural unit (A) derived from a hydrophobic group-containing monomer that is represented by the formula (1) and a structural unit (B) derived from a carboxylic acid-based monomer. The proportion of the structural unit (A) is from 16% by mass or more to 50% by mass or less based on 100% by mass of the structural units derived from all monomers constituting the copolymer, and the copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 1,000,000.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Michitaka, Hikaru Takahashi
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Patent number: 10661349Abstract: An automatic lathe includes a main spindle that rotates a workpiece about a shaft center, a cutting tool that processes the workpiece, a feeder that moves the cutting tool, an input receiver that receives inputs regarding an eccentric distance and a radius, and a controller that controls the movement by the feeder such as to set a virtual circle having a radius of the distance, to set an offset virtual circle having a center at a position where a center of the virtual circle is offset from the shaft center of the workpiece in the radial direction of the workpiece by the radius, and to move the cutting tool along an circumference of the offset virtual circle in relation to a rotation of the workpiece by the main spindle. A hole is processed, which has the radius at a position away from the shaft center by the distance.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hikaru Takahashi
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Publication number: 20180369920Abstract: An automatic lathe includes a main spindle that rotates a workpiece about a shaft center, a cutting tool that processes the workpiece, a feeder that moves the cutting tool, an input receiver that receives inputs regarding an eccentric distance and a radius, and a controller that controls the movement by the feeder such as to set a virtual circle having a radius of the distance, to set an offset virtual circle having a center at a position where a center of the virtual circle is offset from the shaft center of the workpiece in the radial direction of the workpiece by the radius, and to move the cutting tool along an circumference of the offset virtual circle in relation to a rotation of the workpiece by the main spindle. A hole is processed, which has the radius at a position away from the shaft center by the distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventor: Hikaru TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20180118886Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a polymer capable of well dispersing hydrophobic particles. The present invention relates to a hydrophobic group-containing copolymer including a structural unit (A) derived from a hydrophobic group-containing monomer that is represented by the formula (1) and a structural unit (B) derived from a carboxylic acid-based monomer. The proportion of the structural unit (A) is from 16% by mass or more to 50% by mass or less based on 100% by mass of the structural units derived from all monomers constituting the copolymer, and the copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 1,000,000.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Daisuke MICHITAKA, Hikaru TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 9956624Abstract: A beveling method for beveling the edge of the opening of a cross hole (2-1) formed in a workpiece (W) while rotating a conical tool (1), which has conical cutting blade sections (11-1, 11-2), wherein beveling is carried out so that a surface of the same width is formed on the edge of the opening of the cross hole (2-1) by controlling the height of the conical tool (1) and/or the position of the rotation shaft of the conical tool (1) on the basis of a conic section, which is generated when a cutting blade section (11-1, 11-2) is cut with an imaginary plane (V) that contacts the processing point (P) of the conical tool (1) on the cross hole (2-1), and the shape of the edge of the cross hole (2-1) opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hikaru Takahashi
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Patent number: 9902003Abstract: The present invention achieves a machining apparatus which can easily be composed and a machining method which can perform gear machining or splined shaft machining easily by using an existing lathe.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hikaru Takahashi
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Patent number: 9764961Abstract: High purity cyclohexasilane and a method for increasing the purification efficiency thereto are provided. The method for producing cyclohexasilane of the present invention is characterized in that, in distilling crude cyclohexasilane to obtain purified cyclohexasilane, the absolute pressure during distillation is set to 2 kPa or less, and the heating temperature of crude cyclohexasilane is set to 25 to 100° C. The cyclohexasilane of the present invention contains pure cyclohexasilane at a rate of 98% by mass or more and 100% by mass or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Shin-ya Imoto, Takashi Abe, Morihiro Kitamura, Hikaru Takahashi, Takehiko Morita, Tatsuhiko Akiyama
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Publication number: 20170182572Abstract: The present invention achieves a machining apparatus which can easily be composed and a machining method which can perform gear machining or splined shaft machining easily by using an existing lathe.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicants: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hikaru TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 9676071Abstract: A guide bush control device includes a guide bush motor that rotates and drives a guide bush; and a controller that controls driving of the guide bush motor, the guide bush control device controlling rotation of the guide bush by controlling the driving of the guide bush motor with the controller, wherein the controller includes a fixing unit that fixes the guide bush non-rotatably by exciting the guide bush motor in a rotation stop state.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignees: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Citizen Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yosuke Kobayashi, Hikaru Takahashi
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Publication number: 20170158518Abstract: High purity cyclohexasilane and a method for increasing the purification efficiency thereto are provided. The method for producing cyclohexasilane of the present invention is characterized in that, in distilling crude cyclohexasilane to obtain purified cyclohexasilane, the absolute pressure during distillation is set to 2 kPa or less, and the heating temperature of crude cyclohexasilane is set to 25 to 100° C. The cyclohexasilane of the present invention contains pure cyclohexasilane at a rate of 98% by mass or more and 100% by mass or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Shin-ya IMOTO, Takashi ABE, Morihiro KITAMURA, Hikaru TAKAHASHI, Takehiko MORITA, Tatsuhiko AKIYAMA
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Patent number: 9617161Abstract: High purity cyclohexasilane and a method for increasing the purification efficiency thereto are provided. The method for producing cyclohexasilane of the present invention is characterized in that, in distilling crude cyclohexasilane to obtain purified cyclohexasilane, the absolute pressure during distillation is set to 2 kPa or less, and the heating temperature of crude cyclohexasilane is set to 25 to 100° C. The cyclohexasilane of the present invention contains pure cyclohexasilane at a rate of 98% by mass or more and 100% by mass or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Shin-ya Imoto, Takashi Abe, Morihiro Kitamura, Hikaru Takahashi, Takehiko Morita, Tatsuhiko Akiyama
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Patent number: 9463512Abstract: A machine tool includes a main spindle (10) which holds a workpiece (200, object to be machined) and is rotatable about the shaft center (C1), a main spindle motor (20, main spindle driver) which rotates the main spindle (10), a rotary guide bush (30, eccentric guide bush) which supports the workpiece (200) projecting from a leading end of the main spindle (10) to be rotatable in a state of being eccentric relative to the shaft center (C1) by a length E, a guide bush servomotor (40, guide bush driver) which rotates the rotary guide bush (30) about the shaft center (C1) in synchronization with the main spindle (10), and a controller (50) which controls the rotation and driving of the guide bush servomotor (40), so as to selectively switch between the rotation state and the stop state of the rotation.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignees: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd., Citizen Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hikaru Takahashi
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Patent number: 9290525Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a production method that can efficiently produce a cyclic silane compound or a salt thereof with a high yield and to provide a novel salt having a cyclic silane dianion that is easy to handle and a cyclic silane dianion salt-containing composition. The method for producing a cyclic silane compound or a salt thereof of the present invention includes the step of allowing a halosilane compound to react in the presence of at least one of a phosphonium salt and an ammonium salt, and a compound represented by a specific formula.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Abe, Shin-ya Imoto, Morihiro Kitamura, Hikaru Takahashi