Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Inaba
Hiroshi Inaba 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: 11961059Abstract: The present disclosure promotes distribution of sensor data among a plurality of business operators. A controller that an information processing system according to the present disclosure includes collects first data including a plurality of items and personal information from mobile bodies belonging to a first business operator. The controller converts the first data to second data not being usable to identify individuals. The controller provides data in a range decided based on content of a predetermined data use contract, among the second data, to a second business operator. The controller calculates a consideration for the data that is to be paid by the second business operator, based on a data use record of the second business operator.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuaki Matsueda, Takashi Sueki, Jun Okamoto, Takumi Wada, Ryo Midorikawa, Junichi Nonaka, Wataru Shiraishi, Yasuhisa Fujiwara, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shigeru Ichikawa, Hidetaka Eguchi, Masayo Nagai, Mika Inaba
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Publication number: 20240092784Abstract: A condensed heterocyclic compound has a sepiapterin reductase inhibitory action and is particularly useful for treatment of a pain. The condensed heterocyclic compound represented by Formula (I) below (R1 represents a hydrocarbon group or the like; R2 and R3 represent a hydrogen atom or the like; R4, X, and Y represent defined substituents), a tautomer or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound, or a solvate of any of these.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SHIONOGI & CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro KAMAURA, Yusuke INABA, Yusuke SHINTANI, Yuki KUWANO, Moemi NAKAO, Hiroshi NAGAI, Noriyuki KUROSE, Kenji TAKAYA, Mado NAKAJIMA
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Patent number: 11932345Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left wheel, a right wheel, left and right bearings, left and right axle, left arm, right arm, and lean mechanism. The left arm supports the left wheel from inside in a vehicle width direction. The right arm supports the right wheel from inside in the vehicle width direction. The lean mechanism causes the left wheel and the right wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The single bearing is inserted into a hub hole of the left wheel. The single bearing is inserted into a hub hole of the right wheel.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Taro Iwamoto, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
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Patent number: 11926388Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a lean mechanism, and a lean brake mechanism. The lean mechanism causes the left front wheel and the right front wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The lean brake mechanism brakes a leaning operation of the lean mechanism. The lean brake mechanism includes a brake caliper and a brake disc. The brake caliper is attached to the lean mechanism and has a brake pad. The brake disc is attached to the lower arm of the upper arm and the lower arm that is farther from the brake pad in the front view, has a contact portion that generates braking force by being pressed by the brake pad.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Taro Iwamoto, Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
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Patent number: 11919604Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a lean mechanism, and a lean brake mechanism. The lean mechanism causes the left front wheel and the right front wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The lean brake mechanism brakes a leaning operation of the lean mechanism. The lean brake mechanism includes a brake disc and brake pads. The brake disc is attached to an upper arm or a lower arm. The brake pads, which are attached such that their position relative to the brake disc changes in the leaning operation, produce a frictional force against the brake disc in the leaning operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Ishii, Taro Iwamoto, Kazuya Nagasaka, Taichi Inaba
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Patent number: 10661336Abstract: A casting mold supporting structure is provided herein which includes a support roller for supporting a part of a casting mold that is used in centrifugal casting. The casting mold has a supported surface (that is, a side surface of an end portion of the casting mold which end portion has a circular truncated cone shape) at which the casting mold is supported by the support roller. The supported surface is inclined with respect to a rotation axis of the casting mold.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Takayuki Abe, Hiroshi Inaba, Atsushi Shibaki, Kazuhiro Yamato
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Publication number: 20190134703Abstract: A casting mold supporting structure is provided herein which includes a support roller for supporting a part of a casting mold that is used in centrifugal casting. The casting mold has a supported surface (that is, a side surface of an end portion of the casting mold which end portion has a circular truncated cone shape) at which the casting mold is supported by the support roller. The supported surface is inclined with respect to a rotation axis of the casting mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2019Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: Kubota CorporationInventors: Takayuki ABE, Hiroshi INABA, Atsushi SHIBAKI, Kazuhiro YAMATO
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Patent number: 10210895Abstract: A magnetic recording medium that includes a substrate, an insulation layer applied onto a surface of the substrate, and a magnetic layer applied onto the insulation layer. The insulation layer is made from a redox-corrosion-inhibiting material. In one embodiment, the insulation layer inhibits redox corrosion by inhibiting electron transfer through the insulation layer (e.g., inhibits electron transfer between the substrate and the magnetic layer).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Inaba, Joe Inagaki, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Hidekazu Kashiwase
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Patent number: 10060776Abstract: A spool, including a substantially cylindrical flange portion and a substantially cylindrical front end portion which is thinner than the flange portion and whose center axis is substantially coincident with the center axis of the flange portion, is provided in a manner capable of slidingly moving in a cavity formed in a casing. The flange portion is inserted in a first cavity which has a center axis substantially coincident with the center axis of the casing and which has an inner diameter that is substantially the same as the diameter of the flange portion in length. The front end portion is inserted in a second cavity which is formed with its center axis being substantially coincident with the center axis of the casing, and which has an inner diameter greater than the diameter of the front end portion and less than the inner diameter of the first cavity in length.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: YAMASHIN-FILTER CORP.Inventors: Jiro Inoue, Nobuki Sasaki, Hiroshi Inaba, Nobuyuki Kitajima
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Publication number: 20180113011Abstract: A spool, including a substantially cylindrical flange portion and a substantially cylindrical front end portion which is thinner than the flange portion and whose center axis is substantially coincident with the center axis of the flange portion, is provided in a manner capable of slidingly moving in a cavity formed in a casing. The flange portion is inserted in a first cavity which has a center axis substantially coincident with the center axis of the casing and which has an inner diameter that is substantially the same as the diameter of the flange portion in length. The front end portion is inserted in a second cavity which is formed with its center axis being substantially coincident with the center axis of the casing, and which has an inner diameter greater than the diameter of the front end portion and less than the inner diameter of the first cavity in length.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: Jiro INOUE, Nobuki SASAKI, Hiroshi INABA, Nobuyuki KITAJIMA
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Publication number: 20170185963Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus of an information processing system in which a business card reading apparatus, the information processing apparatus, and a terminal device capable of communicating with the information processing apparatus are connected with each other, the information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store organizational information of respective organizations each including a section information and a member information; an updating unit configured to update the organizational information, based on the section information and the member information which are extracted from the business card information; a generating unit configured to generate output information for outputting the organizational information where the member information of the member whose business card information has been received can be distinguished from the member information of the member whose business card information has not been received; and an output unit configurType: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2015Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi INABA, Yoshihiro NAGASHIMA, Hirotoshi INOO
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Publication number: 20170178077Abstract: An information processing apparatus is included in an information processing system including a name card reading apparatus and the information processing apparatus connected therebetween. The information processing apparatus includes: a memory unit storing information of divisions of an organization and information of persons belonging to the divisions acquired from the name card reading, apparatus; an acquisition unit acquiring information of persons belonging to respective divisions in the organization from another medium; an identification unit identifying information of the person not stored in the memory unit from the information of the persons acquired by the acquisition unit; and an output unit outputting the identified information of the person.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi INABA, Yoshihiro NAGASHIMA, Hirotoshi INOO
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Publication number: 20160275980Abstract: A magnetic recording medium that includes a substrate, an insulation layer applied onto a surface of the substrate, and a magnetic layer applied onto the insulation layer. The insulation layer is made from a redox-corrosion-inhibiting material. In one embodiment, the insulation layer inhibits redox corrosion by inhibiting electron transfer through the insulation layer (e.g., inhibits electron transfer between the substrate and the magnetic layer).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Hiroshi Inaba, Joe Inagaki, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Hidekazu Kashiwase
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Publication number: 20160214167Abstract: A casting mold supporting structure is provided herein which includes a support roller for supporting a part of a casting mold that is used in centrifugal casting. The casting mold has a supported surface (that is, a side surface of an end portion of the casting mold which end portion has a circular truncated cone shape) at which the casting mold is supported by the support roller. The supported surface is inclined with respect to a rotation axis of the casting mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Takayuki ABE, Hiroshi INABA, Atsushi SHIBAKI, Kazuhiro YAMATO, Naohisa AKIYAMA, Masaru KOHARA, Shinichiro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20150294691Abstract: A sealed disk media enclosure is provided. The sealed disk media enclosure in one example includes a media enclosure structure formed of a porous material and including a disk media chamber and a chamber aperture on one side of the media enclosure structure, one or more disk media located in the disk media chamber, a Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating on at least a portion of the media enclosure structure, with the DLC coating preventing passage of gas molecules through the media enclosure structure, and a cover affixed to the media enclosure structure and substantially sealing the chamber aperture, wherein a predetermined gas or gas mixture is sealed within the disk media chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2014Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Hiroshi Inaba, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki Hirayama, Toru Matsumura
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Patent number: 9030774Abstract: A magnetic recording medium according to one embodiment includes at least a ground layer above a non-magnetic substrate; a magnetic recording layer above the ground layer; and an overcoat above the magnetic recording layer, the overcoat characterized in that said overcoat is an amorphous carbon film, wherein a hydrogen content in the overcoat in a center layer thereof in a film thickness direction of said overcoat is from 0.1 atom % to 1.0 atom %. Additional products and methods are also presented.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Toru Matsumura, Hiroshi Inaba, Hiroyuki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8993071Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a manufacturing method that can form a track guide separation area of a magnetic disk substrate constituting a patterned medium represented by a discrete track medium or bit patterned medium suitable for high recording density, uniformly on the whole surface of the magnetic disk substrate, and accurately according to the mask. According to one embodiment, a soft magnetic film, an under coating film, and a magnetic film are formed on a substrate. A mask having an arbitrary pattern shape provided for forming the track guide separation area in the magnetic film is formed on the magnetic film, and the track guide separation area is formed by irradiating ions and electrons onto the surface of the magnetic film and applying an intermittent voltage to the substrate, thereby non-magnetizing the area irradiated.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Hiroshi Inaba, Hiroshi Kanai, Nobuto Yasui, Toshinori Ono
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Publication number: 20140133050Abstract: A magnetic recording medium according to one embodiment includes at least a ground layer above a non-magnetic substrate; a magnetic recording layer above the ground layer; and an overcoat above the magnetic recording layer, the overcoat characterized in that said overcoat is an amorphous carbon film, wherein a hydrogen content in the overcoat in a center layer thereof in a film thickness direction of said overcoat is from 0.1 atom % to 1.0 atom %. Additional products and methods are also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Toru Matsumura, Hiroshi Inaba, Hiroyuki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8559136Abstract: A magnetic recording medium according to one embodiment includes at least a ground layer above a non-magnetic substrate; a magnetic recording layer above the ground layer; and an overcoat above the magnetic recording layer, the overcoat characterized in that said overcoat is an amorphous carbon film having a ratio of sp3 bonding with respect to sp2 bonding (sp3/(sp2+sp3)) of at least 0.5, and hydrogen content in the overcoat in a center layer thereof in a film thickness direction of said overcoat is from 0.1 atom % to 0.6 atom %. Additional products and methods are also presented.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Toru Matsumura, Hiroshi Inaba, Hiroyuki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8472134Abstract: In one embodiment, a magnetic head includes at least one magnetic head element for reading from and/or writing to a magnetic medium, the element having an air bearing surface (ABS) facing toward a magnetic medium, an adhesive film including silicon nitride above the ABS having a characteristic of being formed under a water vapor partial pressure, and a protective film above the adhesive film, the protective film including carbon. Also, in another embodiment, a method includes forming an ABS of a magnetic head, the ABS being a surface of the magnetic head which is closest to a magnetic medium when in use, forming an adhesive film above the ABS of the magnetic head, the adhesive film being formed under a water vapor partial pressure, and forming a protective film above the adhesive film, the protective film including carbon.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Mineaki Kodama, Hiroshi Ishizaki, Atsuko Okawa, Hiroshi Inaba