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: 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: 20230365354
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a conveyance device that can increase inductance variation while suppressing the lowering of thrust. A conveyance device 1 conveys an article 110 to be conveyed. The article 110 to be conveyed can be conveyed by a magnetic force. The conveyance device 1 comprises a plurality of electromagnets 25a and 25b. Each electromagnet 25a, 25b comprises: teeth 22, 22a, 22b, 22c and 22e including a magnetic body; and windings 21, 21a and 21b wound around the teeth 22, 22a, 22b, 22c and 22e. The conveyance device 1 comprises a yoke 26 for magnetically coupling the electromagnets 25a and 25b, and driving circuits 50a and 50b for supplying current to the windings 21, 21a and 21b. The teeth 22, 22a, 22b, 22c and 22e have a cavity 27 extending in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Ryosuke HOSHI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Satoru KANEKO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Shinji AZUMA, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230333131
    Abstract: Provided is a conveyance device capable of reducing the weight of a conveyance device while preventing magnetic saturation. A conveyance device according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a conveyance path (65) in which a conveyed object is moved, an electromagnet provided on the surface of the conveyance path (65) opposite to the surface on which the conveyed object moves, and a drive circuit for supplying a current to the electromagnet, the electromagnet including teeth (22a, 22b) formed from a magnetic body, and windings (21a, 21b) wound onto the surface of the teeth (22a, 22b), a yoke (26) is provided that supports the teeth (22a, 22b), and the relationship between the minimum cross-sectional area Sy of the yoke (26) and the minimum cross-sectional area St of the part of the teeth (22a, 22b) where the windings (21a, 21b) are provided is Sy<St.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Ryosuke HOSHI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Akeshi TAKAHASHI, Satoru KANEKO, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • 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: 20230312878
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a rubber composition from which a crosslinked rubber molded product having good softness and excellent resilience performance can be obtained. The present disclosure provides a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, (c) a crosslinking initiator, and (d) an organic sulfur compound, wherein (d) the organic sulfur compound includes (d1) a compound represented by the formula (1) and/or (d2) a compound represented by the formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi KANEKO, Hiroshi TADAOKA, Ayaka SHINDO, Kazuyoshi SHIGA
  • Patent number: 11772911
    Abstract: Provided is a transport device in which reliability is increased by suppressing deterioration of the transport surface and transport efficiency is increased by suppressing electrical current loss. A transport device 1 comprising a transported body having either a permanent magnet 10 or a magnetic body, and an electromagnet unit in which coils 21 are wound around teeth 25 comprising magnetic bodies, and having recesses on surfaces of the teeth 25 facing the transported body. Specifically, the surfaces of the teeth 25 facing the transported body have at least two surfaces (first facing surface 22, second facing surface 23, etc.) which have different distances to the transported body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Ryosuke Hoshi, Satoru Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tamakoshi, Katsuhiro Kambara, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kuniaki Onizawa
  • 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: 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: 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: 20230273229
    Abstract: Provided is a sample transport device, a sample analysis system, and a sample pretreatment device which have high positional accuracy when stopping a sample and can adjust a minute position when stopping the sample. A sample transport device (1a) according to the present invention includes: a sample provided with a permanent magnet (10); a transport path through which the sample is to be transported via the permanent magnet (10); a plurality of coils provided on a surface of the transport path opposite to a surface on which the sample is to be transported; and a drive circuit that causes a current to flow through the coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki AOYAMA, Satoru KANEKO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230211964
    Abstract: Provided are a transport device and an analysis system in which a stability of transport at a time of restart is further enhanced while achieving cost reduction by a position-sensorless configuration. A transport device includes: a plurality of coils 25a, 25b configured to generate a thrust to transport a transport container 20; a drive circuit 50 configured to apply a voltage to each of the plurality of coils 25a, 25b; and a calculation unit 40 configured to estimate a position of the transport container 20 based on current information when voltage pulses 80, 81 are applied to the coils 25a, 25b. When a power supply of the device is activated, the calculation unit 40 applies a voltage pulse 80 in a positive direction and a voltage pulse 81 in a negative direction to the target coils 25a, 25b so as to detect the position of the transport container 20 from the current information of current flowing through the coils 25a, 25b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Satoru KANEKO, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20230144254
    Abstract: The present invention provides a water-glycol hydraulic fluid composition comprising an alkanolamine compound according to the general formula (1), wherein the water-glycol hydraulic fluid composition comprises 20-60% by mass water, 20-60% by mass glycol, 0.6-1.2% by mass fatty acid lubricant, and 0.01-0.06% by mass alkaline hydroxide compound selected from potassium hydroxide and/or sodium hydroxide, and has an alkali reserve of 10-25, wherein R1 and R2 are hydrocarbon groups having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and R3 is a hydrocarbon group having 2 or more carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroshi KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230105327
    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: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroshi KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230108871
    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: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroshi KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11466346
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a high strength aluminum alloy material having a ribbon shape, which can be an alternative to copper-based materials and iron-based materials having a ribbon shape, and a conductive member, a conductive component, a spring member, a spring component, a semiconductor module member, a semiconductor module component, a structural member and a structural component including the aluminum alloy material. The aluminum alloy material of the present disclosure has an alloy composition containing Mg: 0.2% to 1.8% by mass, Si: 0.2% to 2.0% by mass, and Fe: 0.01% to 1.50% by mass, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein the aluminum alloy material has a Vickers hardness (HV) of 90 or more and 190 or less and has a ribbon shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11410787
    Abstract: The present invention provides a movable cable, which has strength that is at least equal to conventional movable cables while having excellent flexural fatigue resistance and flexibility as well as being lightweight. This movable cable 10 has an electric conductor therein. The conductor comprises a first conductor 2 made of a specific aluminum alloy material wherein: the alloy composition contains, in mass %, 0.05-1.8% Mg, 0.01-2.0% Si, 0.01-1.5% Fe, and at least a total of 0.00-2.00% of one element selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ag, Zn, Ni, Co, Au, Mn, Cr, V, Zr, Ti and Sn, the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities; the crystal grains have a fiber-like metal structure in which the crystal grains all extend in one direction; and in a cross-section parallel to the one direction, the average crystal grain dimension perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is 400 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Araki, Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20220127700
    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: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11306373
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy material has an alloy composition which includes at least one among 0.2-1.8 mass % of Mg, 0.2-2.0 mass % of Si, and 0.01-1.50 mass % of Fe, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and has a fibrous metal structure in which crystal grains extend in one direction. In a cross section parallel to the one direction, the average value of the dimensions of the crystal grains in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof is 400 nm or less, and the primary surface of the aluminum alloy material has a crystal orientation distribution in which the ratio H (K100/K111) of K100 to K111 is at least 0.17 as determined by the X-ray pole figure method, where K100 is the sum of the diffraction intensities resulting from crystals in which <100> is oriented in the longitudinal direction, and K111 is the sum of the diffraction intensities resulting from crystals in which <111> is oriented in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kaneko