Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kimura

Hiroshi Kimura 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: 20260151766
    Abstract: A liquid delivery device comprises a liquid delivery unit and a liquid delivery rotary unit. The liquid delivery unit comprises a liquid delivery chamber where liquid flows in and flows out, and first and second straight flow channels. The liquid delivery rotary unit comprises a spindle that protrudes at the center of the liquid delivery chamber, and an impeller, supported by an annular part, to be rotatable about the spindle and contains a magnetic material; a drive motor is disposed outside the liquid delivery chamber and causes the impeller to be rotated by magnetic fields. A gap is provided between the outer circumference of the spindle and the inner circle of the annular part. The impeller rotates in a state where the gap is biased relative to a range of contact between the outer circumference of the spindle and the inner circle of the annular part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventors: Hiroshi KIMURA, Kenta SHINHA, Shin KOMIYAMA, Yuki UEDA, Sohei FUNAOKA, Takuro YOSHIKUNI, Taichi AIHARA
  • Publication number: 20260132360
    Abstract: The culture device includes a container main body that accommodates a culture solution and a culture chip that forms a culture room inside the container main body, in which the container main body has a bottom wall portion having light transmittance and gas permeability, and the culture chip has a frame portion that abuts on an upper surface of the bottom wall portion, and a membrane member that has liquid permeability or liquid-containing substance permeability, is fixed to an upper surface of the frame portion, and forms the culture room with the bottom wall portion and the frame portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Applicants: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Tokai University Educational System, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroshi KIMURA, Hiroki SHIRAI, Hiroko NAKAMURA, Masahito IKAWA, Maki FUJIWARA KAMOSHITA, Takehiko OGAWA, Yu YAMAUCHI ISHIKAWA, Shino NAGATA, Katsuhiro ESASHIKA, Jingjing YANG, Satoshi YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20250266463
    Abstract: A composite carbonaceous conductive material including a carbon nanotube, and a coating layer on a surface of the carbon nanotube, and the coating layer including a nitrogen element (N), a boron element (B), and an oxygen element (O) is provided. A weight ratio (B/N ratio) of a content (e.g., amount) of the boron element (B) to a content (e.g., amount) of the nitrogen element (N) in the coating layer is greater than or equal to about 0.7 and less than or equal to about 1.3, and the content (e.g., amount) of the boron element (B) in the coating layer is greater than or equal to about 1.0 wt % and less than or equal to about 21 wt % based on a total 100 wt % of the composite carbonaceous conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Inventors: Jinseok BAEK, Hiroshi KIMURA, Takayoshi FUJITA, Koji HOSHIBA, Suguru NODA, Takazumi KAIDA, Sota EBISU
  • Publication number: 20250219270
    Abstract: An all-solid-state rechargeable battery capable of preventing generation of short circuits may be provided by securely disposing the positive electrode current collector in the desired position as much as possible or by detecting an arrangement issue of the positive electrode current collector in an early stage of manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Ryo OMODA, Hiroe ISHIHARA, Hiroshi KIMURA, Yohei HAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250125350
    Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode for a solid-state secondary battery, which suppresses the internal resistance of a battery while causing a solid-state secondary battery to have a sufficiently high energy density, and thus satisfies high levels with respect to both capacity and output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi KIMURA, Satoshi FUJIKI
  • Patent number: 12059702
    Abstract: A coating device includes: a coating liquid holding part provided with an upper opening portion and a lower opening portion and holding a coating liquid that is supplied from a coating liquid supply part; and an annular body that is disposed inside the coating liquid holding part, through which a cylindrical body penetrating the upper opening portion and the lower opening portion of the coating liquid holding part penetrates, and in which the coating liquid held by the coating liquid holding part flows in from an upper side and flows out from a lower side with a relative movement to the cylindrical body, the annular body being installed to be relatively displaceable along an installation surface intersecting a direction of the relative movement with respect to the coating liquid holding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ogawa, Masaru Agatsuma, Hiroshi Kimura, Akihiko Nakamura, Takaakira Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12045775
    Abstract: A part management apparatus may include an acquisition unit configured to acquire part information indicating a part having a symptom of a failure among a plurality of parts configuring a drive mechanism mounted to a vehicle. The part management apparatus may include an identification unit configured to refer to a storage unit that is configured to store a material configuring each of the plurality of parts to identify a material of the part indicated by the part information. The part management apparatus may include a notification unit configured to notify a material management apparatus configured to manage an inventory of a material of a part, of information related to the material of the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Takei, Atsushi Fujikawa, Tsutomu Kamiyamaguchi, Fumihiro Yoshino, Hiroshi Kimura, Ryosuke Itoyama, Ryuzo Sakamoto, Atsushi Kubota
  • Publication number: 20240103781
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive a change request for a change to a quiet mode in an image forming apparatus that is operating in a normal mode and to which a printing instruction has been issued; and display the change request for the change to the quiet mode on an operation screen of the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazuya YOSHINARI, Hiroshi KIMURA, Kazuma HOSODA, Mao MORITA
  • Patent number: 11916442
    Abstract: A rotor may be provided with a rotor core that is fixed to a shaft and includes a plurality of through holes along an axial direction of the shaft. The rotor may be provided with a permanent magnet disposed in each of the plurality of through holes. The rotor may be provided with a functional fluid having a magneto rheological effect of fixing the permanent magnet in each of the plurality of through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Takei, Hiroshi Kimura, Atsushi Kubota
  • Publication number: 20220362794
    Abstract: A coating device includes: a coating liquid holding part provided with an upper opening portion and a lower opening portion and holding a coating liquid that is supplied from a coating liquid supply part; and an annular body that is disposed inside the coating liquid holding part, through which a cylindrical body penetrating the upper opening portion and the lower opening portion of the coating liquid holding part penetrates, and in which the coating liquid held by the coating liquid holding part flows in from an upper side and flows out from a lower side with a relative movement to the cylindrical body, the annular body being installed to be relatively displaceable along an installation surface intersecting a direction of the relative movement with respect to the coating liquid holding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroaki OGAWA, Masaru AGATSUMA, Hiroshi KIMURA, Akihiko NAKAMURA, Takaakira SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220301359
    Abstract: A vehicle management apparatus may include a collection unit configured to collect data indicating a state of a vehicle based on a detection result of a sensor configured to detect the state of the vehicle from a plurality of vehicles. The vehicle management apparatus may include a classification unit configured to classify the plurality of vehicles into a plurality of group according to a predetermined algorithm based on the data of each of the plurality of vehicles. The vehicle management apparatus may include an identification unit configured to identify, when a faulty vehicle in which a failure has occurred is present among the plurality of vehicles, another vehicle belonging to a group to which the faulty vehicle belongs from among a plurality of groups as a failure symptom vehicle having a symptom of occurrence of a failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuhito TAKEI, Atsushi FUJIKAWA, Tsutomu KAMIYAMAGUCHI, Fumihiro YOSHINO, Hiroshi KIMURA, Ryosuke ITOYAMA, Ryuzo SAKAMOTO, Atsushi KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20220300900
    Abstract: A part management apparatus may include an acquisition unit configured to acquire part information indicating a part having a symptom of a failure among a plurality of parts configuring a drive mechanism mounted to a vehicle. The part management apparatus may include an identification unit configured to refer to a storage unit that is configured to store a material configuring each of the plurality of parts to identify a material of the part indicated by the part information. The part management apparatus may include a notification unit configured to notify a material management apparatus configured to manage an inventory of a material of a part, of information related to the material of the part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuhito TAKEI, Atsushi FUJIKAWA, Tsutomu KAMIYAMAGUCHI, Fumihiro YOSHINO, Hiroshi KIMURA, Ryosuke ITOYAMA, Ryuzo SAKAMOTO, Atsushi KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20220302782
    Abstract: A rotor may be provided with a rotor core that is fixed to a shaft and includes a plurality of through holes along an axial direction of the shaft. The rotor may be provided with a permanent magnet disposed in each of the plurality of through holes. The rotor may be provided with a functional fluid having a magneto rheological effect of fixing the permanent magnet in each of the plurality of through holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuhito TAKEI, Hiroshi KIMURA, Atsushi KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 11414680
    Abstract: A method is provided for integrating a DNA fragment of a desired base sequence into a site located adjacent to a binding region of a DNA-binding protein bound to a DNA molecule, the method including bringing the DNA fragment having a base sequence including a transposase-binding sequence and the desired base sequence close to the binding region using a specific binding substance to the DNA-binding protein, binding transposase to the transposase-binding sequence, and activating the transposase such that the DNA fragment of the desired base sequence is integrated into the site located adjacent to the binding region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ohkawa, Akihito Harada, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Hiroshi Kimura, Tetsuya Handa, Yuko Sato, Yoko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220241771
    Abstract: An observation sample covering implement is provided with an ultra-thin film for covering an observation sample, and a main body portion including a holding portion having opening portion formed therein, characterized in that: the ultra-thin film is formed to be larger than the opening portion; and the ultra-thin film is held onto the holding portion by being stuck by physical adsorption to at least an upper surface and a portion of a side surface of the holding portion in such a way as to close the opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Yosuke OKAMURA, Hong ZHANG, Rio KITA, Hiroshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11204572
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an inverting unit that inverts a sheet when an image forming process for forming images on both sides of the sheet is performed; an image forming unit that forms an image on a second side of the sheet based on first side image data and forms an image on a third side of the sheet based on second side image data; a controller that starts the image forming process upon receiving print data to be printed on specific paper, and inverts a sheet fed from a sheet feeding unit once or more; and a converting unit that, when the sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit is the specific paper, converts the first side print data which is received to be printed on the specific paper into N-th side image data where N?2 and transfers the N-th side image data to the image forming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hirooki Oka, Tetsuo Hara, Joji Saito, Haruhiko Kojima, Hiroshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10817762
    Abstract: A printing device includes: an acquisition section that acquires print information including the number of print sheets and the number of print copies relating to a print job; and a control section that performs a control to output a print product to a first output section, to switch from the first output section to a second output section using the print information if the number of prints will exceed a full storage capacity of the first output section halfway through a process from first print of a first job to Y-th copy of an X-th job, provided that X and Y are not simultaneously 1, and to output a print product to the second output section from first print of the Y-th copy of the X-th job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Chika, Hiroshi Kimura, Akinori Kashiwagi
  • Publication number: 20200311500
    Abstract: A printing device includes: an acquisition section that acquires print information including the number of print sheets and the number of print copies relating to a print job; and a control section that performs a control to output a print product to a first output section, to switch from the first output section to a second output section using the print information if the number of prints will exceed a full storage capacity of the first output section halfway through a process from first print of a first job to Y-th copy of an X-th job, provided that X and Y are not simultaneously 1, and to output a print product to the second output section from first print of the Y-th copy of the X-th job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke CHIKA, Hiroshi KIMURA, Akinori KASHIWAGI
  • Patent number: RE48187
    Abstract: A grease composition for rolling bearing comprising a metal soap-based thickening agent containing a long fiber-like material having a major axis length of at least 3 ?m incorporated in a base oil comprising a lubricant having a polar group in its molecular structure and a non-polar lubricant blended in combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: NSK LTD., KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Yokouchi, Jun Kuraishi, Youichiro Sugimori, Yasunobu Fujita, Michiharu Naka, Atsushi Shibayama, Hiroshi Kimura
  • Patent number: RE48450
    Abstract: A semiconductor device which eliminates the need for high fillability through a simple process and a method for manufacturing the same. A high breakdown voltage lateral MOS transistor including a source region and a drain region is completed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. A trench which surrounds the transistor when seen in a plan view is made in the surface of the semiconductor substrate. An insulating film is formed over the transistor and in the trench so as to cover the transistor and form an air-gap space in the trench. Contact holes which reach the source region and drain region of the transistor respectively are made in an interlayer insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Onishi, Yoshitaka Otsu, Hiroshi Kimura, Tetsuya Nitta, Shinichiro Yanagi, Katsumi Morii