Patents by Inventor Hiroto Sumida
Hiroto Sumida 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: 11386275Abstract: A menu generation system including a menu item information storage that stores menu information for each restaurant, a menu item property master storage that stores menu item properties including at least any one set of a plurality of ingredients that are used in menu items, a plurality of seasonings that are used in the menu items or a plurality of cooking styles of the menu items, processing circuitry that receives a request to edit a menu item property in the first language, consults the menu item property master storage, extracts choices of menu item properties, causes the extracted choices to be displayed, and receives input of a selected choice from among the displayed choices.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Gurunavi, Inc.Inventors: Seiichiro Kubo, Makito Chiba, Hiroto Sumida, Koichiro Nakayama
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Patent number: 10991056Abstract: A menu generation system includes a menu item name database that stores a menu item name in multiple languages in association with each menu item ID that determines the menu item name, a property database that stores a menu item property in multiple languages in association with a property ID that determines the menu item property, a menu item database that stores a facility ID that determines a facility, a menu item ID and a property ID in association with one another, and processing circuitry that receives registration of menu item information and that provides menu item information.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Gurunavi, Inc.Inventors: Seiichiro Kubo, Makito Chiba, Hiroto Sumida, Koichiro Nakayama
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Patent number: 10464003Abstract: There is provided a filter which includes a fiber layer and an adsorbent. The fiber layer includes fiber. The adsorbent is held in the fiber and adsorbs a chemical substance. The filter is divided into a plurality of sections by a fold. Each of the plurality of sections includes a first end portion positioned along the fold, a center portion adjacent to the first end portion, and a second end portion which counterposes the first end portion with the center portion interposed. The density of the adsorbent at the center portion is greater than the density of the adsorbent at the first end portion and at the second end portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Motomura, Hiroto Sumida, Takahiko Murata, Takatoshi Mitsushima, Keiji Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20190292686Abstract: An electrospinning apparatus for depositing fibers on a target having first and second surfaces opposed to each other. The apparatus includes a discharger that discharges a material solution of the fibers towards the first surface of the target, a collector electrode containing a top portion opposed to the discharger, a holder that holds the target between the discharger and the collector electrode so that the first surface of the target is opposed to the discharger, a power supply, a shift regulator that shifts the holder in a direction parallel to the first surface of the target, a distance regulator that regulates a target distance between the top portion of the collector electrode and the second surface of the target, and a controller that controls the shift regulator and the distance regulator to produce a fiber assembly having a given deposited condition on the first surface of the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Hirokazu KIMIYA, Keiji FUJIWARA, Hiroto SUMIDA
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Patent number: 10413856Abstract: There is provided a stacked body which includes a porous base layer, a porous charged layer, a very fine-fiber layer, and an adsorbent. The base layer is configured with base fiber. The charged layer is configured with charged fiber. The very fine-fiber layer is interposed between the base layer and the charged layer and includes very fine fiber. The adsorbent is held in the very fine fiber and adsorbs a chemical substance. An average fiber diameter of the charged fiber is greater than an average fiber diameter of the very fine fiber.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Motomura, Hiroto Sumida, Takahiko Murata
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Patent number: 10328665Abstract: A nonwoven fabric contains a plurality of fibers having average fiber diameter Dave in a range from 10 nm to 3 ?m, inclusive. The nonwoven fabric has a plurality of fusion portions among the plurality of fibers. The nonwoven fabric has a first principal surface and a second principal surface on an opposite side to the first principal surface. Average number Nh of the fusion portions observed per 500 ?m2 on the first principal surface is six or more.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Taichi Nakamura, Takayoshi Yamaguchi, Hiroto Sumida
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Patent number: 10220340Abstract: A laminated nonwoven fabric includes a first nonwoven fabric that comprises first fibers, and a second nonwoven fabric that comprises second fibers. The second nonwoven fabric is laminated on the first nonwoven fabric. An average fiber diameter D1 of the first fibers and an average fiber diameter D2 of the second fibers satisfy a relation of D1>D2. In viewed from a side of a principal surface of the second nonwoven fabric being not opposed to the first nonwoven fabric, a total area of first portions of the second fibers superimposed on the first fibers and existing on the nearer side than the first fibers is larger than a total area of second portions of the second fibers existing and superimposed on voids S of the first nonwoven fabric formed of the first fibers.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Motomura, Takahiko Murata, Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Takatoshi Mitsushima
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Patent number: 10195556Abstract: A laminated nonwoven fabric includes a first nonwoven fabric containing first fibers, a second nonwoven fabric containing second fibers, a third nonwoven fabric containing third fibers, and an adhesive. The second nonwoven fabric is laminated on the first nonwoven fabric, and the third nonwoven fabric is laminated on the second nonwoven fabric on an opposite side with respect to the first nonwoven fabric. The adhesive is disposed between the first nonwoven fabric and the third nonwoven fabric. An average fiber diameter of the second fibers is equal to or less than 3 ?m, and is smaller than an average fiber diameter of the first fibers. The third nonwoven fabric has a protrusion including a part of the third fibers entangled with each other on a surface facing the second nonwoven fabric. At least a part of the adhesive is disposed between the protrusion and the first nonwoven fabric.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Motomura, Takahiko Murata, Hiroto Sumida, Takatoshi Mitsushima, Keiji Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20190034418Abstract: An information multilingual conversion system that includes identification name processing circuitry that receives input of an identification name, introduction processing circuitry that receives input of an introduction in a first language, category property information processing circuitry that receives input of at least one of a category and property information, automatic translation circuitry that translates the introduction into a second language, a correspondence foreign-language term storage, foreign-language word conversion circuitry that converts the at least one of the category and the property information into the second language by using the correspondence relation between the first language and the second language, a display information storage, and information display circuitry that, in response to a display request from an information terminal configured to be able to browse various pieces of information, displays the display information on the information terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Gurunavi, Inc.Inventors: Seiichiro KUBO, Makito CHIBA, Hiroto SUMIDA, Koichiro NAKAYAMA
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Patent number: 10174441Abstract: A laminated nonwoven fabric (NF) includes a first NF containing first fibers and a second NF containing second fibers and laminated on the first NF, and has a cut-off edge at an end thereof. An average diameter of the first fibers is larger than that of the second fibers not more than 3 ?m. 50% by mass to 70% by mass, inclusive, of the second fibers satisfy x?y, and 5% by mass to 30% by mass, inclusive, thereof satisfy x<y/2. “x” is a vector component in a direction (X axis direction) of the cut-off edge, and “y” is a vector component in Y axis direction perpendicular to X axis and parallel to a principal surface of the laminated NF. When the second NF is viewed from Z axis direction perpendicular to X and Y axes, at least some of the second fibers satisfying x<y/2 overlap the second fibers satisfying x?y.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Taichi Nakamura, Takayoshi Yamaguchi, Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Takatoshi Mitsushima
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Patent number: 10173158Abstract: A laminated nonwoven fabric includes a first nonwoven fabric and a second nonwoven fabric. The first nonwoven fabric contains charged first fibers. The second nonwoven fabric contains second fibers, and is laminated on the first nonwoven fabric. A fiber diameter of the first fibers is larger than a fiber diameter of the second fibers.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Motomura, Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Taichi Nakamura, Takayoshi Yamaguchi, Takatoshi Mitsushima
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Publication number: 20180093214Abstract: There is provided a filter which includes a fiber layer and an adsorbent. The fiber layer includes fiber. The adsorbent is held in the fiber and adsorbs a chemical substance. The filter is divided into a plurality of sections by a fold. Each of the plurality of sections includes a first end portion positioned along the fold, a center portion adjacent to the first end portion, and a second end portion which counterposes the first end portion with the center portion interposed. The density of the adsorbent at the center portion is greater than the density of the adsorbent at the first end portion and at the second end portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: KOJI MOTOMURA, HIROTO SUMIDA, TAKAHIKO MURATA, TAKATOSHI MITSUSHIMA, KEIJI FUJIWARA
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Publication number: 20180085698Abstract: There is provided a stacked body which includes a porous base layer, a porous charged layer, a very fine-fiber layer, and an adsorbent. The base layer is configured with base fiber. The charged layer is configured with charged fiber. The very fine-fiber layer is interposed between the base layer and the charged layer and includes very fine fiber. The adsorbent is held in the very fine fiber and adsorbs a chemical substance. An average fiber diameter of the charged fiber is greater than an average fiber diameter of the very fine fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: KOJI MOTOMURA, HIROTO SUMIDA, TAKAHIKO MURATA
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Publication number: 20170315989Abstract: A menu generation system including a menu item information storage that stores menu information for each restaurant, a menu item property master storage that stores menu item properties including at least any one set of a plurality of ingredients that are used in menu items, a plurality of seasonings that are used in the menu items or a plurality of cooking styles of the menu items, processing circuitry that receives a request to edit a menu item property in the first language, consults the menu item property master storage, extracts choices of menu item properties, causes the extracted choices to be displayed, and receives input of a selected choice from among the displayed choices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Gurunavi, Inc.Inventors: Seiichiro KUBO, Makito CHIBA, Hiroto SUMIDA, Koichiro NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20170301045Abstract: A menu generation system includes a menu item name database that stores a menu item name in multiple languages in association with each menu item ID that determines the menu item name, a property database that stores a menu item property in multiple languages in association with a property ID that determines the menu item property, a menu item database that stores a facility ID that determines a facility, a menu item ID and a property ID in association with one another, and processing circuitry that receives registration of menu item information and that provides menu item information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: Gurunavi, Inc.Inventors: Seiichiro KUBO, Makito CHIBA, Hiroto SUMIDA, Koichiro NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20170210088Abstract: A nonwoven fabric contains a plurality of fibers having average fiber diameter Dave in a range from 10 nm to 3 ?m, inclusive. The nonwoven fabric has a plurality of fusion portions among the plurality of fibers. The nonwoven fabric has a first principal surface and a second principal surface on an opposite side to the first principal surface. Average number Nh of the fusion portions observed per 500 ?m2 on the first principal surface is six or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Taichi NAKAMURA, Takayoshi YAMAGUCHI, Hiroto SUMIDA
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Publication number: 20170151748Abstract: A laminated nonwoven fabric includes a first nonwoven fabric containing first fibers, a second nonwoven fabric laminated on the first nonwoven fabric and containing second fibers, a third nonwoven fabric laminated on the second nonwoven fabric on an opposite side to the first nonwoven fabric and containing third fibers, and an adhesive containing a plurality of particles. Some of the plurality of particles of the adhesive is attached to the second nonwoven fabric. At least one of the first nonwoven fabric and the third nonwoven fabric is adhered to the second nonwoven fabric via the some of the plurality of particles of the adhesive. An average fiber diameter of the first fibers is larger than the average fiber diameter of the second fibers, and an average particle diameter of the plurality of particles of the adhesive is smaller than the average fiber diameter of the first fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Koji MOTOMURA, Hiroto SUMIDA, Taichi NAKAMURA, Takayoshi YAMAGUCHI, Takatoshi MITSUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20170028335Abstract: A laminated nonwoven fabric (NF) includes a first NF containing first fibers and a second NF containing second fibers and laminated on the first NF, and has a cut-off edge at an end thereof. An average diameter of the first fibers is larger than that of the second fibers not more than 3 ?m. 50% by mass to 70% by mass, inclusive, of the second fibers satisfy x?y, and 5% by mass to 30% by mass, inclusive, thereof satisfy x<y/2. “x” is a vector component in a direction (X axis direction) of the cut-off edge, and “y” is a vector component in Y axis direction perpendicular to X axis and parallel to a principal surface of the laminated NF. When the second NF is viewed from Z axis direction perpendicular to X and Y axes, at least some of the second fibers satisfying x<y/2 overlap the second fibers satisfying x?y.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: TAICHI NAKAMURA, TAKAYOSHI YAMAGUCHI, HIROTO SUMIDA, TAKAHIRO KUROKAWA, TAKATOSHI MITSUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20170028329Abstract: A laminated nonwoven fabric includes a first nonwoven fabric containing first fibers, a second nonwoven fabric containing second fibers, a third nonwoven fabric containing third fibers, and an adhesive. The second nonwoven fabric is laminated on the first nonwoven fabric, and the third nonwoven fabric is laminated on the second nonwoven fabric on an opposite side with respect to the first nonwoven fabric. The adhesive is disposed between the first nonwoven fabric and the third nonwoven fabric. An average fiber diameter of the second fibers is equal to or less than 3 ?m, and is smaller than an average fiber diameter of the first fibers. The third nonwoven fabric has a protrusion including a part of the third fibers entangled with each other on a surface facing the second nonwoven fabric. At least a part of the adhesive is disposed between the protrusion and the first nonwoven fabric.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: KOJI MOTOMURA, TAKAHIKO MURATA, HIROTO SUMIDA, TAKATOSHI MITSUSHIMA, KEIJI FUJIWARA
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Publication number: 20160367924Abstract: A laminated nonwoven fabric includes a first nonwoven fabric and a second nonwoven fabric. The first nonwoven fabric contains charged first fibers. The second nonwoven fabric contains second fibers, and is laminated on the first nonwoven fabric. A fiber diameter of the first fibers is larger than a fiber diameter of the second fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: KOJI MOTOMURA, HIROTO SUMIDA, TAKAHIRO KUROKAWA, TAICHI NAKAMURA, TAKAYOSHI YAMAGUCHI, TAKATOSHI MITSUSHIMA