Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kawahara

Hiroshi Kawahara 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: 20240243243
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to quickly stabilize a light amount of an LED light source device used in absorbance analysis and to suppress the fluctuation of the temperature due to disturbance. In an LED light source device according to the present invention, an LED substrate is disposed on a spacer, the substrate and the spacer are brought into contact with at least one of a device housing and a device lid, and a thermal conductivity of the substrate and a thermal conductivity of the spacer are higher than a thermal conductivity of the housing and a thermal conductivity of the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Hayato SHIMIZU, Hiroshi HORIKAWA, Takuya TAKAHASHI, Tetsuji KAWAHARA
  • Patent number: 12038685
    Abstract: A reflective mask blank for EUV lithography includes a substrate, a reflective layer for reflecting EUV light, and an absorption layer for absorbing EUV light. The reflective layer and the absorption layer are formed on or above the substrate in this order. The absorption layer contains tantalum (Ta) and niobium (Nb), and the absorption layer has a composition ratio Ta:Nb of Ta (at %) to Nb (at %) of from 4:1 to 1:4. Among diffraction peaks derived from the absorption layer observed at 2?: from 20° to 50° by out-of-plane XRD method, a peak having the highest intensity has a half width FWHM of 1.0° or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Hirotomo Kawahara, Hiroyoshi Tanabe, Toshiyuki Uno, Hiroshi Hanekawa, Daijiro Akagi
  • Patent number: 12029986
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium containing a program, which, when executed by processing circuitry of a terminal device that communicates with a server device, causes the processing circuitry to: execute a game part, the server device being for storing ranking information including a plurality of first points each corresponding to each of a plurality of user groups to each of which one or more users belong, the ranking information also including a rank of each user group determined based on the corresponding first point; in response to an execution result of the game part satisfying a first condition, transmit, to the server device, a request for changing the first point corresponding to a first user group among the user groups to which the user of the terminal device belongs; and receive, from the server device, the ranking information updated based on the first point after being changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kawahara
  • Patent number: 12003002
    Abstract: An object provides a power generation apparatus performing the purification of an Al alloy melt using scrap as raw material. A power generation apparatus includes: a container body with aluminum alloy melt and molten salt in a liquid junction with the aluminum alloy melt; an anode which is in contact with the aluminum alloy melt; and a cathode which is in contact with the molten salt. DC power is obtained from between the anode and the cathode by an anode reaction on the aluminum alloy melt side and a cathode reaction on the molten salt side. When the aluminum alloy melt and the molten salt are separated by a separator allowing ionic conduction between the aluminum alloy melt and molten salt, the power generation efficiency is enhanced. The amount of a reactant in the Al alloy melt is monitored by measuring the electrical quantity associated with the power generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Jun Yaokawa, Kazuma Hibi, Takuma Minoura, Hiroshi Kawahara, Yasushi Iwata
  • Patent number: 11892060
    Abstract: A frictional roller reducer having a sun roller; a ring roller; a plurality of intermediate rollers having rolling surfaces coming in rolling contact with the sun roller and the ring roller; the sun roller or the ring roller having a pair of roller elements including inclined surface portions on a circumferential surface coming in rolling with rolling surfaces, the inclined surface portions inclined in directions going toward the intermediate rollers in a radial direction as going away from each other in the axial direction; a pressing device pressing the pair of roller elements in directions going closer to each other, and an elastic member arranged between the pair of roller elements, the elastic member urging the pair of roller elements in directions going away from the rolling surface of the intermediate rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawahara, Hiroki Hashiguchi, Hirofumi Itagaki, Azusa Hidaka, Hiroki Nishida, Naofumi Fujita, Hikari Yoshimi, Naohiro Hitomi, Masahiro Kita
  • Patent number: 11867262
    Abstract: The frictional roller reducer has an input shaft, an output shaft, a pair of annular roller elements, a plurality of planetary rollers, a carrier, a pressing device, and a controller. The pressing device rotationally drives a cam disk by a pressing force adjusting motor, which causes an annular roller element of the pair of annular roller elements to displace in the axial direction. The controller, by adjusting the rotational drive of the pressing force adjusting motor, adjusts the surface pressure at the traction portions between rolling surfaces of the planetary rollers and an inner-diameter side rolling contact surface of the input shaft and outer-diameter side rolling contact surfaces of the pair of annular roller elements to a target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NSK, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawahara, Hirofumi Itagaki
  • Publication number: 20230364518
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium containing a program, which, when executed by processing circuitry of a terminal device that communicates with a server device, causes the processing circuitry to: execute a game part, the server device being for storing ranking information including a plurality of first points each corresponding to each of a plurality of user groups to each of which one or more users belong, the ranking information also including a rank of each user group determined based on the corresponding first point; in response to an execution result of the game part satisfying a first condition, transmit, to the server device, a request for changing the first point corresponding to a first user group among the user groups to which the user of the terminal device belongs; and receive, from the server device, the ranking information updated based on the first point after being changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi KAWAHARA
  • Patent number: 11761070
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member capable of suppressing deterioration in ductility thereof. In the method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member, an aluminum alloy casting material that contains 2.0 to 5.5 mass % of Cu, and 4.0 to 7.0 mass % of Si in which a content of Mg is 0.5 mass % or less, a content of Zn is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Fe is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Mn is 0.5 mass % or less and the balance is made of Al and inevitable impurities is used. The method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member includes a heating and holding step of heating and holding the aluminum alloy casting material within a solid-liquid coexisting temperature region; and a quenching step of rapidly cooling the aluminum alloy casting material after performing the heating and holding step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Yokota, Hirotsune Watanabe, Makoto Kikuchi, Hiroshi Kawahara, Yasushi Iwata, Jun Yaokawa, Kazuma Hibi
  • Patent number: 11712632
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium containing a program, which, when executed by processing circuitry of a terminal device that communicates with a server device, causes the processing circuitry to: execute a game part, the server device being for storing ranking information including a plurality of first points each corresponding to each of a plurality of user groups to each of which one or more users belong, the ranking information also including a rank of each user group determined based on the corresponding first point; in response to an execution result of the game part satisfying a first condition, transmit, to the server device, a request for changing the first point corresponding to a first user group among the user groups to which the user of the terminal device belongs; and receive, from the server device, the ranking information updated based on the first point after being changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20230193984
    Abstract: A frictional roller reducer having a sun roller; a ring roller; a plurality of intermediate rollers having rolling surfaces coming in rolling contact with the sun roller and the ring roller; the sun roller or the ring roller having a pair of roller elements including inclined surface portions on a circumferential surface coming in rolling with rolling surfaces, the inclined surface portions inclined in directions going toward the intermediate rollers in a radial direction as going away from each other in the axial direction; a pressing device pressing the pair of roller elements in directions going closer to each other, and an elastic member arranged between the pair of roller elements, the elastic member urging the pair of roller elements in directions going away from the rolling surface of the intermediate rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Hiroki HASHIGUCHI, Hirofumi ITAGAKI, Azusa HIDAKA, Hiroki NISHIDA, Naofumi FUJITA, Hikari YOSHIMI, Naohiro HITOMI, Masahiro KITA
  • Publication number: 20230070997
    Abstract: A metal removal agent used when removing Mg from an aluminum alloy melt whose raw material is scrap or the like and used for formation of a molten salt layer that takes in Mg from an aluminum alloy melt. The metal removal agent contains: a specific metal element one or more of Cu, Zn, or Mn; a specific halogen element one or more of Cl or Br; and Mg. The metal removal agent may also contain: a base halide that serves as a base material of the molten salt layer; and a specific metal halide that is a compound of a specific metal element and a specific halogen element. When the molten salt layer formed using the agent and the aluminum alloy melt containing Mg are brought into contact with each other, Mg is taken into the molten salt layer side from the aluminum alloy melt side and efficiently removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA TSUSHO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun YAOKAWA, Takuma MINOURA, Kazuma HIBI, Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Yasushi IWATA, Hiroyuki ISHII, Akira KANO, Yusei KUSAKA, Kyosuke ITO, Tomoo MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230043661
    Abstract: A method with which Mg can be removed from aluminum alloy melt whose raw material is scrap or the like. Metal removal method includes processing step of forming molten salt layer in contact with aluminum alloy melt containing Mg which covers at least part of the surface of the aluminum alloy melt. This method allows Mg to be taken in from aluminum alloy melt to molten salt layer and removed. Molten salt layer contains specific halogen element that is one or more of Cl or Br and specific metal element that is one or more of Cu, Zn, or Mn. The specific metal element is supplied as an oxide of the specific metal element to the molten salt layer. At that time, the molten salt layer contains Mg. The step of removing Mg is performed by disposing a conductor that bridges the aluminum alloy melt and the molten salt layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA TSUSHO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma MINOURA, Jun YAOKAWA, Kazuma HIBI, Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Yasushi IWATA, Hiroyuki ISHII, Akira KANO, Yusei KUSAKA, Kyosuke ITO, Tomoo MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230030521
    Abstract: A Mg removal agent is composed of a chloride and copper oxide. The chloride contains at least Mg and one or more base metal elements selected from K, Na, and Ca. The chloride contains, for example, 0.2 to 60 mass % of MgCl2 and/or 40 to 99.8 mass % of KCl with respect to the chloride as a whole. The compounding ratio that is a mass ratio of the chloride to the copper oxide is, for example, 0.15 or more. The chloride may be a re-solidified salt or a mixed salt. At least a part of the chloride may be a mineral containing the base metal elements and Mg or a mineral-derived chloride. A preferred example of the Mg removal agent is granular flux introduced into the aluminum alloy molten metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA TSUSHO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuma HIBI, Jun YAOKAWA, Hiroyuki MORI, Takuma MINOURA, Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Yasushi IWATA, Kyosuke ITO, Satoshi NAKANO, Hiroyuki ISHII, Akira KANO, Yusei KUSAKA
  • Publication number: 20220349026
    Abstract: A metal purifying method having: a local heating step of heating an aluminum-based molten metal in a first region on a molten metal surface of the aluminum-based molten metal; and a local low pressure step of lowering the pressure in a second region on the molten metal surface to a pressure lower than the pressure in the first region. The second region is different from the first region. This allows a specific element to be vaporized from the second region to purify the aluminum-based molten metal. The specific element is one or more of Zn, Mg, or Pb having a saturated vapor pressure higher than that of Al. This is effective not only in a purifying method for removing a specific element from an aluminum-based molten metal but also in a method of recovering a specific element, which can be a resource, from an aluminum-based molten metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA TSUSHO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Jun YAOKAWA, Kazuma HIBI, Hiroyuki MORI, Yasushi IWATA, Takuma MINOURA, Hiroyuki ISHII, Daisuke SAKUMA, Yusei KUSAKA, Akira KANO, Kyosuke ITO, Satoshi NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220221031
    Abstract: A structure is achieved capable of ensuring excellent transmission efficiency while preventing the occurrence of gross slipping at traction portions. A pressing device 9 rotationally drives a cam disk 21 by a pressing force adjusting motor 23, which causes an annular roller element 6a of a pair of annular roller elements 6a, 6b to displace in the axial direction. A controller 31, by adjusting the rotational drive of the pressing force adjusting motor 23, adjusts the surface pressure at the traction portions between rolling surfaces 16 of planetary rollers 7 and an inner-diameter side rolling contact surface 5 of an input shaft 3 and outer-diameter side rolling contact surfaces 12a, 12b of the pair of annular roller elements 6a, 6b to a target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawahara, Hirofumi Itagaki
  • Publication number: 20220140356
    Abstract: An object provides a power generation apparatus performing the purification of an Al alloy melt using scrap as raw material. A power generation apparatus includes: a container body with aluminum alloy melt and molten salt in a liquid junction with the aluminum alloy melt; an anode which is in contact with the aluminum alloy melt; and a cathode which is in contact with the molten salt. DC power is obtained from between the anode and the cathode by an anode reaction on the aluminum alloy melt side and a cathode reaction on the molten salt side. When the aluminum alloy melt and the molten salt are separated by a separator allowing ionic conduction between the aluminum alloy melt and molten salt, the power generation efficiency is enhanced. The amount of a reactant in the Al alloy melt is monitored by measuring the electrical quantity associated with the power generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Jun YAOKAWA, Kazuma HIBI, Takuma MINOURA, Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Yasushi IWATA
  • Publication number: 20220118366
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium containing a program, which, when executed by processing circuitry of a terminal device that communicates with a server device, causes the processing circuitry to: execute a game part, the server device being for storing ranking information including a plurality of first points each corresponding to each of a plurality of user groups to each of which one or more users belong, the ranking information also including a rank of each user group determined based on the corresponding first point; in response to an execution result of the game part satisfying a first condition, transmit, to the server device, a request for changing the first point corresponding to a first user group among the user groups to which the user of the terminal device belongs; and receive, from the server device, the ranking information updated based on the first point after being changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220106666
    Abstract: A recycling method for aluminum alloy is capable of offering a recycled Al alloy (melt), in which the Fe concentration is efficiently reduced, while using Al alloy scrap and the like as raw materials. The method includes: a preparation step of preparing a first melt by melting an Fe.Mn-containing material that contains Fe and Mn and an Al alloy raw material; a crystallization step of holding the first melt at a separation temperature at which an Fe compound crystallizes; and an extraction step of extracting a second melt obtained by removing at least part of the Fe compound crystallized from the first melt. The Fe.Mn-containing material preferably has a mass ratio of Mn to Fe (Mn/Fe) of, for example, 2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA TSUSHO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma MINOURA, Jun YAOKAWA, Yasushi IWATA, Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Kazuma HIBI, Noriyuki UENO, Akira KANO, Yusei KUSAKA, Kyosuke ITO, Tomoo MURATA
  • Publication number: 20220106673
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member capable of suppressing deterioration in ductility thereof. In the method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member, an aluminum alloy casting material that contains 2.0 to 5.5 mass % of Cu, and 4.0 to 7.0 mass % of Si in which a content of Mg is 0.5 mass % or less, a content of Zn is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Fe is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Mn is 0.5 mass % or less and the balance is made of Al and inevitable impurities is used. The method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member includes a heating and holding step of heating and holding the aluminum alloy casting material within a solid-liquid coexisting temperature region; and a quenching step of rapidly cooling the aluminum alloy casting material after performing the heating and holding step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke YOKOTA, Hirotsune WATANABE, Makoto KIKUCHI, Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Yasushi IWATA, Jun YAOKAWA, Kazuma HIBI
  • Patent number: 11247132
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium containing a program, which, when executed by processing circuitry of a terminal device that communicates with a server device, causes the processing circuitry to: execute a game part, the server device being for storing ranking information including a plurality of first points each corresponding to each of a plurality of user groups to each of which one or more users belong, the ranking information also including a rank of each user group determined based on the corresponding first point; in response to an execution result of the game part satisfying a first condition, transmit, to the server device, a request for changing the first point corresponding to a first user group among the user groups to which the user of the terminal device belongs; and receive, from the server device, the ranking information updated based on the first point after being changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kawahara