Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kawakami
Hiroshi Kawakami 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: 11978349Abstract: A setting unit sets the operating mode of an aerial vehicle to a first operating mode that transmits, data generated by a host aerial vehicle and data received from another aerial vehicle to a processing device, or a second operating mode that transmits data generated by a host aerial vehicle to another aerial vehicle. At this time, setting unit sets the operating modes of each of a plurality of aerial vehicles using a setting method corresponding to the attributes of an airspace in which aerial vehicle flies, from among a plurality of setting methods that set the operating mode of aerial vehicle. The attributes of an airspace include attributes determined in accordance with a degree of importance pertaining to the process of transmitting data from aerial vehicle to a server device and/or attributes determined in accordance with the extent to which processes are distributed among a plurality of aerial vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20240141464Abstract: A steel sheet may be used for hot-dip galvanizing capable of manufacturing hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet(s) with a high Si content and in which alloying unevenness is suppressed. Such a steel sheet for hot-dip galvanizing may include an internal oxide layer containing an oxide of Si between a surface layer of the steel sheet and a steel sheet base portion. The Si content in a chemical composition of the steel sheet may be 1.0 mass % or more. A solid solution Si amount from a surface of the steel sheet to a depth of 1 ?m measured at all four positions including positions of 10 mm, 30 mm, and 50 mm from an edge in a coil width direction and a position of a center in the coil width direction at a rear end in a rolling direction of the steel sheet for hot-dip galvanizing may be 1.4 wt. % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Akira KAWAKAMI, Hiroo SHIGE, Hiroshi IRIE, Takayuki MAEDA, Hang YU
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Publication number: 20240133013Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having a high Si content and good plating adhesion. The method for manufacturing a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes the following: hot-rolling a steel raw material having a Si content of 1.0 mass % or more and coiling a steel sheet at 500° C. to 700° C.; subjecting a surface of the steel sheet after the coiling to an oxidation treatment at a heating temperature of a steel sheet temperature of 750° C. or lower, and subsequently subjecting the surface to a reduction treatment; and subjecting the steel sheet after the reduction treatment to a hot-dip galvanizing treatment to form a Zn-plated layer on a surface of the steel sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Akira KAWAKAMI, Hiroo SHIGE, Hiroshi IRIE, Takayuki MAEDA, Hang YU
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Patent number: 11959010Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat storage composition excellent in slow flame retardance and a heat storage member excellent in the slow flame retardance. Another object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device including a heat storage member, and a manufacturing method of a heat storage member. The heat storage composition according to an embodiment of the present invention contains a heat storage material and a flame retardant, in which a specific condition A is satisfied. The heat storage member according to an embodiment of the present invention contains a heat storage material and a flame retardant, in which a specific condition C is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuro Mitsui, Naotoshi Sato, Aya Nakayama, Takuto Matsushita, Masahiro Hatta, Hiroshi Kawakami
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Publication number: 20230358624Abstract: Provided is a pressure measuring material having a substrate and a pressure-sensitive layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive layer contains a polymer matrix containing a polymer compound having a molecular weight of 1,000 or more, and microcapsules encapsulating an electron-donating dye precursor and a solvent, and an electron-accepting compound. The pressure-sensitive layer has a color development-inducing layer having the electron-accepting compound and the polymer matrix and a color-developing layer having the microcapsules. A thickness of the color-developing layer is equal to or less than ½ of a thickness of the color development-inducing layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masahiro HATTA, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20230341291Abstract: To suppress expansion of damage to a working-state cable due to work being continued without detecting breakage of the working-state cable when the breakage occurs, the working-state cable protection monitoring system is provided with: a working means that moves or installs a wire cable-shaped construction material including an optical fiber having at least one core; an interrogator that acquires environment information about each position of the construction material, sensed by the optical fiber; and an abnormal event detection means that, when the environment information acquired at each position of the construction material satisfies an abnormal pattern, detects an abnormal event at the position, where in the working means stops movement and installment of the wire cable-shaped construction material when the abnormal event has been detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yutaka YANO, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Makoto SAITOH
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Patent number: 11794900Abstract: Baggage is connected to an aerial vehicle in a state in which the baggage is suspended by a connector such as rope. A learning unit of a server device performs machine learning on the relationship between the piloting of an aerial vehicle and the behavior of baggage on the basis of an aerial vehicle behavior history and a piloting history acquired by a first acquisition unit and a baggage behavior history acquired by a second acquisition unit. With this arrangement, the automatic piloting of the aerial vehicle at the time of lowering baggage is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Jooin Woo, Hiroshi Kawakami, Kaori Niihata, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20230296473Abstract: In order to provide a mechanism which predicts a risk of future failure occurrence, by using fiber optic sensing, this failure prediction system comprises: a sensing function unit which acquires the environmental information detected by the optical fiber; an event classification function unit which classifies, by type, events occurring at each position of the object indicated by the environmental information, on the basis of event classification conditions; and a failure occurrence risk calculation unit having, in advance, one or more failure models obtained by modeling a physical mechanism that leads to a malfunction in the object, wherein the failure occurrence risk calculation unit calculates a failure occurrence risk in each object by the mechanism, and outputs the accumulated result as a risk or availability.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yutaka Yano, Hiroshi Kawakami, Makoto Saitoh
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Patent number: 11754453Abstract: Provided is a pressure measuring material having a substrate and a pressure-sensitive layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive layer contains a polymer matrix containing a polymer compound having a molecular weight of 1,000 or more, and microcapsules encapsulating an electron-donating dye precursor and a solvent, and an electron-accepting compound. Also provided is a method for manufacturing the pressure measuring material.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masahiro Hatta, Hiroshi Kawakami
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Patent number: 11756436Abstract: Setting unit performs the setting of each of the operating modes of a plurality of aerial vehicles on the basis of communication quality information of the planned route of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Specifically, setting unit firstly specifies the planned positions and periods in which each aerial vehicle is to fly from the flight plan information of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Next, setting unit specifies a communication quality of first wireless communication unit of each aerial vehicle in each position and each period from the communication quality information that represents the communication quality in the specified positions and periods. Then, setting unit specifies an operating mode setting schedule of main unit mode and auxiliary unit mode, which sets an aerial vehicle having a specified communication quality, and sets the remaining aerial vehicles as auxiliary units.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20230258494Abstract: In order to provide a protection monitoring system that comprises a warning function to which it is not easy to become habituated, and that can call attention at the time when abnormal vibration is sensed even without a cable undergoing failure, the protection monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises an optical fiber provided along a long infrastructure element installed in water or on a seabed, an interrogator for acquiring environment information at positions along the long infrastructure element using the optical fiber, an abnormal event detection means for detecting an abnormal event around the positions when the environment information acquired at the positions satisfies an abnormality pattern provided in advance, and a notification means for issuing a notice to a ship positioned in a prescribed range from a position in which the abnormal event is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yutaka Yano, Hiroshi Kawakami, Makoto Saitoh
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Publication number: 20230190730Abstract: An anti-HIV agent containing, as an active ingredient, ex, 4-oxoquinoline compound represented by the following formula [I] wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound of the present invention has HIV integrase inhibitory action and is useful as an anti-HIV agent for the prophylaxis or therapy of AIDS. Moreover, by a combined use with other anti-HIV agents such as protease inhibitors, reverse transcriptase inhibitors and the like, the compound can become a more effective anti-HIV agent. Since the compound has high inhibitory activity specific for integrases, it can provide a safe pharmaceutical agent with a fewer side effects for human.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.Inventors: Motohide Satoh, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yoshiharu Itoh, Hisashi Shinkai, Takahisa Motomura, Hisateru Aramaki, Yuji Matsuzaki, Wataru Watanabe, Shuichi Wamaki
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Patent number: 11630445Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to construct a production line of products using pieces of first equipment located in a geographical area and mobile second equipment. An information processing method tries to assign pieces of first equipment to a series of work processes to produce products based on the pieces of first equipment located in the geographical area and positions thereof, decides installation of pieces of second equipment to be assigned to a part of the series of work processes to which a part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment when there is the part of the series of work processes to which the part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment, outputs a request to transport the pieces of second equipment to an installation position in the geographical area.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyasu Takezawa, Hirotaka Todaka, Takao Kiguchi, Chieko Sawada, Yosuke Tokuda, Ayaka Kagami, Natsuki Sugiyama, Takuzo Hirano, Taichi Amakasu, Seiei Hibino, Hiroshi Kawakami
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Publication number: 20220292506Abstract: Provided is an authorization device that enables approval of a user's payment transaction with no need for separate verification by telephone or the like. In an authorization server (100), a traffic based authorization determination unit (102) determines legitimacy of payment by a user terminal (300) in an affiliated store server (200) being a payment server on the basis of traffic information containing access time of the user terminal (300) and server information being an access destination. Then, an authorization control unit (101) performs processing for enabling a payment transaction on the basis of this determination result.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki HAKODA, Yoshiki SAWAKAMI, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20220227602Abstract: An elevator passenger car allows enhancement of rigidity of a lower beam with a simple configuration while suppressing an increase in the number of components, and includes an upper beam disposed at an upper side, a pair of vertical frames having upper ends connected to both ends of the upper beam, a lower beam disposed between lower ends of the pair of vertical frames while having both ends connected, and a pair of underfloor side surface beams which are mounted and connected onto both ends of the lower beam while extending orthogonal thereto. The elevator passenger car has a car room disposed at a part defined by the upper beam, the pair of vertical frames, and the lower beam that is mounted on the pair of underfloor side surface beams. An underfloor side surface beam reinforcing member is provided for each of the pair of underfloor side surface beams.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2019Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Tomoki KARIYA, Katsuhiro SHIMADA, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Yoshiki TOMURA, Mari OSUGA
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Publication number: 20220148443Abstract: A setting unit sets the operating mode of an aerial vehicle to a first operating mode that transmits, data generated by a host aerial vehicle and data received from another aerial vehicle to a processing device, or a second operating mode that transmits data generated by a host aerial vehicle to another aerial vehicle. At this time, setting unit sets the operating modes of each of a plurality of aerial vehicles using a setting method corresponding to the attributes of an airspace in which aerial vehicle flies, from among a plurality of setting methods that set the operating mode of aerial vehicle. The attributes of an airspace include attributes determined in accordance with a degree of importance pertaining to the process of transmitting data from aerial vehicle to a server device and/or attributes determined in accordance with the extent to which processes are distributed among a plurality of aerial vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori NIIHATA, Tadao TAKAMI, Koji ISHII, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Yuichiro SEGAWA, Yasuhiro KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20220139237Abstract: Setting unit performs the setting of each of the operating modes of a plurality of aerial vehicles on the basis of communication quality information of the planned route of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Specifically, setting unit firstly specifies the planned positions and periods in which each aerial vehicle is to fly from the flight plan information of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Next, setting unit specifies a communication quality of first wireless communication unit of each aerial vehicle in each position and each period from the communication quality information that represents the communication quality in the specified positions and periods. Then, setting unit specifies an operating mode setting schedule of main unit mode and auxiliary unit mode, which sets an aerial vehicle having a specified communication quality, and sets the remaining aerial vehicles as auxiliary units.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori NIIHATA, Tadao TAKAMI, Koji ISHII, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Yuichiro SEGAWA, Yasuhiro KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20220002605Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat storage composition excellent in slow flame retardance and a heat storage member excellent in the slow flame retardance. Another object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device including a heat storage member, and a manufacturing method of a heat storage member. The heat storage composition according to an embodiment of the present invention contains a heat storage material and a flame retardant, in which a specific condition A is satisfied. The heat storage member according to an embodiment of the present invention contains a heat storage material and a flame retardant, in which a specific condition C is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuro MITSUI, Naotoshi SATO, Aya NAKAYAMA, Takuto MATSUSHITA, Masahiro HATTA, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20220004922Abstract: A server device performs machine learning on the relationship between the content of piloting of an aerial vehicle and the behavior of the aerial vehicle in response to the content of the piloting, and generates a learning model for automatically piloting the aerial vehicle. However, the aerial vehicle is piloted in various environments and conditions, and there are environments and conditions that are unsuited for achieving highly accurate and stable automatic piloting. Therefore, the server device performs the machine learning only in an environment or a condition suited for realizing the automatic piloting.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tadao TAKAMI, Koji ISHII, Jooin WOO, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Kaori NIIHATA, Yuichiro SEGAWA, Yasuhiro KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20210380240Abstract: Baggage is connected to an aerial vehicle in a state in which the baggage is suspended by a connector such as rope. A learning unit of a server device performs machine learning on the relationship between the piloting of an aerial vehicle and the behavior of baggage on the basis of an aerial vehicle behavior history and a piloting history acquired by a first acquisition unit and a baggage behavior history acquired by a second acquisition unit. With this arrangement, the automatic piloting of the aerial vehicle at the time of lowering baggage is achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tadao TAKAMI, Koji ISHII, Jooin WOO, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Kaori NIIHATA, Yuichiro SEGAWA, Yasuhiro KITAMURA