Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kaneko

Hiroshi Kaneko 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: 20250021816
    Abstract: An inference apparatus includes an inference unit that executes inference processing using a plurality of pieces of inference data, a determination unit that determines, for each of a plurality of pieces of input data inputted into the inference apparatus, whether each of the plurality of pieces of input data are suitable for the inference processing or unsuitable for the inference processing, and a decision unit that decides, in place of input data determined to be unsuitable, substitute data based on input data determined to be suitable. The inference unit applies the input data determined to be suitable and the substitute data to an inference model as the plurality of pieces of inference data and executes the inference processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: DAI MIYAUCHI, HIROSHI KANEKO
  • Patent number: 12187977
    Abstract: This invention provides a water-glycol hydraulic fluid comprises from 0.2 to 0.6% by mass of a dimer acid as a fatty acid lubricant, and more than 0.10% by mass and 0.20% by mass or less of a phosphoric acid ester of Formula (1), wherein the sum of the dimer acid and the phosphoric acid ester is more than 0.35% by mass wherein R1 and R2 may be the same or different, each representing a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, R3 represents a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and X1, X2, X3 and X4 may be the same or different, each representing an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Shell USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240395029
    Abstract: A control device performs inference processing using data items related to each other as inputs. A first inference model is formed by layers using data items as inputs, for feature value extraction, and a connection layer outputting output data as an inference result based on the extracted feature values, and a second inference model to which data is input, for feature value extraction. If all data items are usable, the controller controls the second inference model not to extract feature values, and the first inference model to output the output data from the connection layer based on extracted feature values. If data is unusable, the controller controls the first inference model to output the output data from the connection layer based on feature values extracted by layers using usable input data, and feature value(s) extracted by the second inference model using the usable input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Dai MIYAUCHI, Hiroshi KANEKO
  • Patent number: 12129531
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy that has high yield strength enabling use as a substitute for iron- and copper-based metal materials, and has a constant break elongation even at narrow diameters. The aluminum alloy has an alloy composition containing 0.20-1.80 mass % of Mg, 0.20-2.00 mass % of Si, and 0.01-1.50 mass % of Fe, with a balance being Al and inevitable impurities. The aluminum alloy material has a fibrous metallic microstructure in which a plurality of crystal grains extend so as to be aligned in one direction, and in a cross section parallel to the one direction, an average value of a maximum dimension in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of a plurality of the crystal grains is no more than 400 nm, and viewing the cross section in a thickness direction, when observing at a central part, specific voids having a maximum dimension in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of no less than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12116654
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy material which has high yield strength and excellent electric and thermal conductivity and can have a constant break elongation even when the aluminum alloy material has a small diameter. The aluminum alloy material has an alloy composition including 0.05 to 1.50 mass % of Fe, at least one of 0.01 to 0.15 mass % of Si, 0.01 to 0.30 mass % of Cu and 0.01 to 1.50 mass % of Mg, and a remainder made up by Al and unavoidable impurities, and has a fibrous metallic structure in which a plurality of crystal grains extend in line in one direction. The average value of maximum dimensions of the plurality of crystal grains in a direction perpendicular to the length direction is 800 nm or less in a cross section parallel to the aforementioned one direction, and there is no specific void of which the maximum dimension in a direction perpendicular to the length direction is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240204263
    Abstract: Infiltration of an electrolyte solution into a through hole is prevented or minimized to suppress the occurrence of a liquid junction, so that battery performance is less likely to deteriorate, and the life is prolonged. A cell member includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer interposed therebetween. The cell member is stacked and disposed at an interval. A space forming member includes a substrate and a frame body. A through hole penetrates between a positive electrode side and a negative electrode side in the space forming member, and a conductor inserted into the through hole electrically connects them. A liquid junction prevention member is provided in a vicinity of an opening on the positive electrode side, a vicinity of an opening on the negative electrode side, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Keizo Yamada, Hideo Nishikubo, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Hiroshi Kaneko, Hiroki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11946015
    Abstract: The present invention provides a water-glycol hydraulic fluid comprising 0.3-0.6% by mass in total of fatty acid sodium salt and/or fatty acid, and 0.3-0.6% by mass of dimerized fatty acid. The water-glycol hydraulic fluid also comprises 20-60% by mass water, 20-60% by mass glycol, 0.01-0.06% by mass alkali hydroxide compound selected from potassium hydroxide and/or sodium hydroxide, and 1.0-5.0% by mass alkanolamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11946014
    Abstract: The present invention provides a water/glycol-based hydraulic fluid that includes a total fatty acid and dimer acid of more than 0.4 and no more than 1.2 mass % as a fatty acid lubricant, and also a phosphate ester at between 0.01 and 0.07 mass %. The phosphate ester has the following structure (1) here R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrogen group with a carbon number between 1 and 30, and may either be mutually identical or mutually different; R3 represents a hydrocarbon group with a carbon number between 1 and 20; R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group with a carbon number between 1 and 30; and X1, X2, X3, and X4 each indicate an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, where these may either be mutually identical or mutually different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11923110
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a cable used to at least moor a moving body to be moored and supply power thereto, such that weight of the whole cable can be reduced. A cable according to the present invention connects a moving body to be moored to a unit assembly including a power supply unit. The cable is used to at least moor the moving body to be moored to the unit assembly and supply power from the power supply unit to the moving body to be moored. The cable includes a conductor constituted with element wires, and at least part of the element wires is a high-strength aluminum-based conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240047697
    Abstract: A lead foil and a bipolar lead acid storage battery capable of preventing breakage of the lead foil due to growth deformation are described. The lead foil is for a current collector in a bipolar lead acid storage battery, in which at least one of a front surface or a back face has a maximum valley depth Rv of 4 ?m or less in a profile curve acquired, orthogonally to a rolling direction, by surface roughness measurement with a stylus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Miho Yamauchi, Jun Furukawa, Ayano Koide, Keizo Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240047698
    Abstract: A lead foil and a bipolar lead acid storage battery capable of suppressing a voltage drop in the battery due to peeling of the lead foil from a substrate are described. The lead foil is for a current collector in a bipolar lead acid storage battery. A back face of the lead foil opposed to a substrate of the bipolar lead acid storage battery has a contact length of between 150 ?m and 1800 ?m, inclusive, in a profile curve acquired, orthogonally to a rolling direction, by surface roughness measurement with a stylus, and with a scanning distance of 4 mm and a measurement interval of 0.5 ?m, the contact length is a sum total of respective absolute values of differences in height between adjacent measurement points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Miho Yamauchi, Jun Furukawa, Ayano Koide, Keizo Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240021841
    Abstract: A positive electrode current collector plate, which is a current collector sheet for a lead-acid storage battery, includes a rolled sheet including a lead alloy in which a content ratio of tin (Sn) is between 1.0 mass % and 1.9 mass %, inclusive, a content ratio of calcium (Ca) is between 0.005 mass % and 0.028 mass %, inclusive, and a balance is lead (Pb) and inevitable impurities. A hole penetrating in a plate surface direction is not formed, and the number of crystal grains having a grain size of 10 ?m or more present in a range excluding top and bottom 10% in a thickness direction of the rolled sheet in an arbitrary cross section is between 25 and 55, inclusive, per area of 1 mm2 in the range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ayano Koide, Keizo Yamada, Atsushi Sato, Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20240014405
    Abstract: A current collector sheet suitable as a positive electrode current collector plate used by being attached to a resin substrate surface of a space forming member constituting a bipolar lead-acid storage battery is provided. A current collector sheet for a lead-acid storage battery has a Vickers hardness of 10 or less when measured by a micro Vickers hardness test specified in JIS Z2244:2009, has a thickness of less than 0.5 mm, and is formed of a lead alloy in which a content ratio of tin (Sn) is 1.0 mass % or more and less than 2.0 mass %, a content ratio of calcium (Ca) is 0.005 mass % or more and less than 0.030 mass %, and a balance is lead (Pb) and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ayano Koide, Keizo Yamada, Atsushi Sato, Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20230383214
    Abstract: This invention provides a water-glycol hydraulic fluid comprises from 0.2 to 0.6% by mass of a dimer acid as a fatty acid lubricant, and more than 0.10% by mass and 0.20% by mass or less of a phosphoric acid ester of Formula (1), wherein the sum of the dimer acid and the phosphoric acid ester is more than 0.35% by mass wherein R1 and R2 may be the same or different, each representing a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, R3 represents a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and X1, X2, X3 and X4 may be the same or different, each representing an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroshi KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230326716
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber having a processing space for performing plasma processing on a substrate and a synthesis space for synthesizing electromagnetic waves, a dielectric window configured to partition the processing space and the synthesis space, an antenna unit having a plurality of antennas that radiate the electromagnetic waves into the synthesis space and functioning as a phased array antenna, an electromagnetic wave output part configured to output the electromagnetic waves to the antenna unit, and a controller configured to cause the antenna unit to function as the phased array antenna. The dielectric window has a plurality of recesses on a surface thereof facing the processing space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Eiki KAMATA, Hiroshi KANEKO, Taro IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230299268
    Abstract: A lead alloy that is difficult to cause extension even when force is applied to the lead alloy is described. The half width of a (311) diffraction peak in a diffraction chart obtained by analyzing the lead alloy using an X-ray diffraction method is 1.4 or more times the half width of a (311) diffraction peak in a diffraction chart obtained by analyzing powder of pure lead using the X-ray diffraction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Miho Yamauchi, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Jun Furukawa, Keizo Yamada, Ayano Koide, Atsushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20230299267
    Abstract: A lead alloy usable to manufacture a lead storage battery electrode the with easily predictable growth is described. The diffraction intensity determined by analyzing the surface of the lead alloy in a crystal orientation {211}<111> in a pole figure using an X-ray diffraction method is five or less times the diffraction intensity determined by analyzing powder of pure lead in a random orientation in a pole figure using the X-ray diffraction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Miho Yamauchi, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Jun Furukawa, Keizo Yamada, Ayano Koide, Atsushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20230274530
    Abstract: An inference processing system performs computation of an inference model by a server and an edge device. Setting in the server, a server-side inference model. In the edge device, an edge-side inference model including an input layer and first to third intermediate layers of the inference model is set, and layer position information indicating a position of a last layer to process the input image in the edge-side inference model is generated. When layer data that is a computation result at the edge device obtained by performing processing from the input layer to a layer indicated by the layer position information and the layer position information is transmitted from the edge device to the server, the layer data is input to a layer subsequent to a layer indicated by the layer position information in the server-side inference model, and performs processing up to the output layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi KANEKO, Dai MIYAUCHI, Ryo ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230178712
    Abstract: A lead alloy is described that is capable of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lead storage battery with a reduced likelihood of causing growth. The lead alloy contains 0.4% by mass or more and 2% by mass or less of tin and 0.004% by mass or less of bismuth, with the balance being lead and inevitable impurities. The diffraction intensity of a Cube orientation {001} <100> in a pole figure created by analyzing the surface of the lead alloy by an X-ray diffraction method is 4 times or less the diffraction intensity of a random orientation in a pole figure created by analyzing a pure lead powder by the X-ray diffraction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Miho Yamauchi, Akira Tanaka, Hideto Nakamura, Masanobu Aragaki, Jun Furukawa, Toru Mangahara, Keizo Yamada, Ayano Koide, Atsushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20230170464
    Abstract: A lead alloy is described that is capable of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lead storage battery less likely to cause corrosion penetrating through a lead layer for the positive electrode in the thickness direction. The lead alloy contains 0.4% by mass or more and 2% by mass less of tin and 0.004% by mass or less of bismuth, with the balance being lead and inevitable impurities. When image analysis of a crystal orientation distribution map created by analyzing the surface of the lead alloy by an electron backscatter diffraction method is performed, intersection points of misorientation boundaries between crystal grains with a crystal misorientation of 5° or more and a straight line extending in one specific direction are extracted. The distances between two adjacent intersection points among the extracted intersection points are measured, and the average value of the distances is 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Miho Yamauchi, Akira Tanaka, Hideto Nakamura, Masanobu Aragaki, Jun Furukawa, Toru Mangahara, Keizo Yamada, Ayano Koide, Atsushi Sato