Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Harada

Hiroshi Harada 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: 20210277483
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of collecting exosomes and microvesicles (EMV) from urine, isolating corresponding mRNA, and analyzing expression patterns in order to diagnose and treat various urothelial cancers. In particular, various expression patterns are analyzed through a unique diagnostic formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Taku Murakami, Cindy M. Yamamoto, Masato Mitsuhashi, Hiroshi Harada
  • Publication number: 20210220907
    Abstract: A continuous casting facility used for thin slab casting has a mold for casting molten steel, an immersion nozzle that supplies the molten steel into the mold, and an electromagnetic stirring device capable of providing a swirl flow at a molten steel surface in the mold, and a thickness DCu (mm) of a copper plate of a long side wall, a thickness T (mm) of a steel piece, a frequency f (Hz) of the electromagnetic stirring device, electric conductivity ? (S/m) of the molten steel, and electric conductivity ?Cu (S/m) of the copper plate of the long side wall are adjusted to satisfy the following formulae (1)-a and (1)-b: DCu<?(2/?Cu??)??(1)-a ?(1/2???)<T??(1)-b, where ?=2?f: angular velocity (rad/sec), and ?=4?×10?7: magnetic permeability in vacuum (N/A2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi HARADA, Kanoko YAMAMOTO, Takuya TAKAYAMA, Keita IKEDA, Yui ITO
  • Publication number: 20210226241
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly of a flat plate shape including an electrolyte membrane and an electrode catalyst layer, the membrane electrode assembly having a first side intersecting a flow pathway of a reactive gas on a surface of the fuel cell and a second side differing from the first side; a frame member of a flat plate shape including an opening part for arrangement of the membrane electrode assembly, the opening part having a first frame side corresponding to the first side and a second frame side corresponding to the second side; and an adhesive member for bonding between an outer periphery of the membrane electrode assembly and an inner periphery of the frame member. The thickness of the adhesive member in an area from an inner peripheral edge at the second frame side toward a center of the frame member may be greater than the thickness of the adhesive member in an area from an inner peripheral edge at the first frame side toward the center of the frame member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto ADACHI, Makoto ICHIKAWA, Shogo OHMORI, Hiroshi HARADA, Yu ASHITAKA, Tsutomu OCHI
  • Publication number: 20210205877
    Abstract: The device for controlling a flow in a mold in thin-slab casting of steel has a thickness on the short side of the meniscus portion of 150 mm or less and a casting width of 2 m or less and includes a DC magnetic field generation unit and an immersion nozzle having a slit formed at the bottom so that the slit leads to the bottom of the discharge hole and opens outside, the discharge hole and the slit are present in the DC magnetic field zone, and the magnetic flux density B (T) in the DC magnetic field zone and the distance L (m) from the lower end of the immersion nozzle to the lower end of the core satisfy Formulae (1) and (2) described below: 0.35T?B?1.0T??Formula (1) L?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi HARADA, Keita IKEDA, Masashi SAKAMOTO, Yui ITO, Takuya TAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11028443
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of collecting exosomes and microvesicles (EMV) from urine, isolating corresponding mRNA, and analyzing expression patterns in order to diagnose and treat various urothelial cancers. In particular, various expression patterns are analyzed through a unique diagnostic formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd., Showa Denko Materials (America), Inc., City of Sapporo
    Inventors: Taku Murakami, Cindy M. Yamamoto, Masato Mitsuhashi, Hiroshi Harada
  • Patent number: 10987730
    Abstract: A continuous casting apparatus for a multilayered slab includes a ladle having a molten steel supply nozzle; a tundish having a first retention portion that receives supply of the molten steel from the ladle through the molten steel supply nozzle and has a first immersion nozzle and a second retention portion that is adjacent to the first retention portion with a flow path interposed therebetween and has a second immersion nozzle; an addition mechanism that adds a predetermined element to the molten steel in the second retention portion; and a casting mold that receives supply of the molten steel from the tundish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Masashi Sakamoto, Yui Ito, Katsuhiro Sasai
  • Publication number: 20210067992
    Abstract: Provided are a communication apparatus that is operated under a wireless communication environment to which a full duplex communication scheme is applied and a communication method. The communication apparatus includes a communication section that performs wireless communication and a control section that controls operation of the communication section and processing of a signal transmitted and received by the communication section. Upon receiving, through a downlink control channel from a base station, designation regarding a resource in which interference is to be measured, the control section conducts, in the designated resource, measurement of interference from another terminal. In addition, the control section further controls transmission of interference information obtained by the measurement to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, RYOTA KIMURA, KAZUYUKI SHIMEZAWA, RYO SAWAI, HIROTO KURIKI, KEIICHI MIZUTANI, TAKESHI MATSUMURA, HIROSHI HARADA
  • Publication number: 20210067973
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device in which: a wireless network is formed of at least one sub-tree including a sub-root station; the sub-root station collects request wireless resource allocation information which a child station included in the sub-tree has; request wireless resource allocation information of the sub-root station itself is added to the collected request wireless resource allocation information, and the resultant information is reported to a parent station, the parent station notifies the sub-root station of wireless resource information available in the entire sub-tree; and the sub-root station allocates wireless resources to the sub-root station itself and the child station based on the wireless resource information notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Keiichi MIZUTANI, Hiroshi HARADA, Takeshi MATSUMURA, Takuya HABARA
  • Publication number: 20210058219
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus that flexibly switches execution/non-execution of FD. The communication apparatus includes the followings: a resource allocation unit that allocates, to another communication apparatus, reception radio resources in a predetermined frequency channel and allocates transmission radio resources at least partially overlapping the reception radio resources on a time axis; and a notification unit that notifies the other communication apparatus of information regarding the reception radio resources and the transmission radio resources. The resource allocation unit further allocates transmission radio resources at least partially overlapping the reception radio resources on a frequency axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: RYOTA KIMURA, RYO SAWAI, KAZUYUKI SHIMEZAWA, NAOKI KUSASHIMA, HIROSHI HARADA, KEIICHI MIZUTANI, TAKESHI MATSUMURA, HIROTO KURIKI
  • Patent number: 10925292
    Abstract: A production method for an edible fermented dairy product using, as a raw material, sterile full fat soy flour and a fermented dairy product produced by the method. A production method for a fermented dairy product includes the steps of: producing sterile full fat soy flour having a grain size of from 100 to 1,000 meshes by pulverizing sterile dehulled soybeans prepared so as to have a bacterial count of 300 cells/g or less by using a method of separating whole soybeans into cotyledons, germs, and hulls; adding water to the sterile full fat soy flour to prepare a powdered soy juice, followed by sterilizing the powdered soy juice by heating; homogenizing the powdered soy juice to prepare a homogenized powdered soy juice; and adding a lactic acid bacterium to the homogenized powdered soy juice, followed by fermentation to prepare fermented milk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: PELICAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Akinori Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20210044466
    Abstract: An apparatus generating a packet of signals, a number of preamble signals of a preamble portion for each of a number of radio transmission units, and a number of data signals of a data portion, wherein a phase rotation in frequency domain is equal to a time shift in time domain is applied to each symbol of the number of preamble signals separately, the same phase rotation is applied to each symbol separately, the amount of the phase rotation is different for each preamble signal and each data signal, the amount of the phase rotation of one of the number of data signals and one of the number of preamble signals is both zero, and the amount of the phase rotation is equal between one of the preamble signals and one of the data signals for the same radio transmission unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shimpei TO, Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Hideo NANBA, Seiichi SAMPEI, Hiroshi HARADA, Masafumi MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10864909
    Abstract: A vehicle control method of performing automatic braking for automatically braking a vehicle or alarm output, depending on a possibility of a collision between the vehicle and an obstacle, includes: cancelling the automatic braking or the alarm output, when an accelerator operation amount is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, during the automatic braking or the alarm output, and cancelling the automatic braking or the alarm output, when a given cancellation condition is satisfied under a situation where the accelerator operation amount of the vehicle is smaller than the predetermined threshold value, during the automatic braking or the alarm output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Taki, Masaaki Uechi, Yoji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Harada, Kumiko Kondo
  • Patent number: 10843688
    Abstract: A vehicle control method of performing automatic braking for automatically braking a vehicle or alarm output, depending on a possibility of a collision between the vehicle and an obstacle, includes: cancelling the automatic braking or the alarm output, when an accelerator operation amount is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, during the automatic braking or the alarm output, and cancelling the automatic braking or the alarm output, when a given cancellation condition is satisfied under a situation where the accelerator operation amount of the vehicle is smaller than the predetermined threshold value, during the automatic braking or the alarm output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Taki, Masaaki Uechi, Yoji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Harada, Kumiko Kondo
  • Patent number: 10833903
    Abstract: An apparatus generating a packet of signals, a number of preamble signals of a preamble portion for each of a number of radio transmission units, and a number of data signals of a data portion, wherein a phase rotation in frequency domain is equal to a time shift in time domain is applied to each symbol of the number of preamble signals separately, the same phase rotation is applied to each symbol separately, the amount of the phase rotation is different for each preamble signal and each data signal, the amount of the phase rotation of one of the number of data signals and one of the number of preamble signals is both zero, and the amount of the phase rotation is equal between one of the preamble signals and one of the data signals for the same radio transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Nanba, Seiichi Sampei, Hiroshi Harada, Masafumi Moriyama
  • Patent number: 10785061
    Abstract: A propagation channel estimation method is provided. In-phase and quadrature components of a propagation channel estimation value in each pilot subcarrier are separated into amplitude and phase components. A propagation channel of a data subcarrier portion existing between pilot subcarriers is estimated by phase/amplitude separation linear interpolating in each separated amplitude and phase component. A reference parameter is produced by linear interpolating a portion between pilot subcarriers on a complex plane. When quadrants on the complex plane of the interpolated phase component estimation value and the reference parameter are different, a phase connecting process to cancel a discontinuity of the phases is executed to the phase component estimation value interpolated by the phase/amplitude separation linear interpolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Keiichi Mizutani, Kiminobu Makino
  • Publication number: 20200267027
    Abstract: A propagation channel estimation method is provided. In-phase and quadrature components of a propagation channel estimation value in each pilot subcarrier are separated into amplitude and phase components. A propagation channel of a data subcarrier portion existing between pilot subcarriers is estimated by phase/amplitude separation linear interpolating in each separated amplitude and phase component. A reference parameter is produced by linear interpolating a portion between pilot subcarriers on a complex plane. When quadrants on the complex plane of the interpolated phase component estimation value and the reference parameter are different, a phase connecting process to cancel a discontinuity of the phases is executed to the phase component estimation value interpolated by the phase/amplitude separation linear interpolation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroshi HARADA, Keiichi MIZUTANI, Kiminobu MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20200265242
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assist apparatus comprises at least one surrounding sensor and at least one vehicle element. The surrounding sensor memorizes at least one axis difference adjustment value which adjusts at least one axis difference of a detection axis of the surrounding sensor relative to a predetermined base detection axis and provides the vehicle element with information on the axis difference adjustment value memorized in the surrounding sensor as adjustment value information. The vehicle element memorizes the axis difference adjustment value included in the adjustment value information provided from the surrounding sensor and provides the surrounding sensor with information on the axis difference adjustment value memorized in the vehicle element as the adjustment value information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobutaka Funahara, Hiroshi Harada
  • Patent number: 10742454
    Abstract: Provided is a transmission device of a single carrier frequency-domain equalization scheme having a circuit in which a cyclic prefix (CP) and an overlap margin (OM) are inserted, and a time-domain windowing processing circuit to which is input a transmission symbol into which the CP and the OM have been inserted. The time-domain windowing processing circuit multiplies an arbitrary time-domain window function and suppresses out-of-band emission. In the time-domain windowing processing circuit, a window transition length of the time-domain window function is equal to or larger than a length of the CP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Keiichi Mizutani, Hiroshi Harada, Takeshi Matsumura, Yosuke Kodama
  • Patent number: 10689741
    Abstract: A method for recycling a Ni-based single crystal superalloy part or unidirectionally solidified superalloy part provided with a thermal barrier coating containing at least a ceramic on a surface of a Ni-based single crystal superalloy substrate or Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy substrate, in which the method including the steps of: melting and desulfurizing a Ni-based single crystal superalloy part or Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy part at a temperature of the melting point or more of the Ni-based single crystal superalloy or Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy and less than the melting point of the ceramic; heating a casting mold for a recycled Ni-based single crystal superalloy part or casting mold for a recycled Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy part to a temperature of the melting point or more of the Ni-based single crystal superalloy or Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy; pouring the desulfurized melted Ni-based single crystal supe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Kyoko Kawagishi, Toshiharu Kobayashi, Tadaharu Yokokawa, Makoto Osawa, Michinari Yuyama, Shinsuke Suzuki, Yuichiro Joh, Satoshi Utada
  • Publication number: 20200189578
    Abstract: A vehicle control method of performing automatic braking for automatically braking a vehicle or alarm output, depending on a possibility of a collision between the vehicle and an obstacle, includes: cancelling the automatic braking or the alarm output, when an accelerator operation amount is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, during the automatic braking or the alarm output, and cancelling the automatic braking or the alarm output, when a given cancellation condition is satisfied under a situation where the accelerator operation amount of the vehicle is smaller than the predetermined threshold value, during the automatic braking or the alarm output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki TAKI, Masaaki Uechi, Yoji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Harada, Kumiko Kondo