Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Arai
Hiroyuki Arai 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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Publication number: 20170113843Abstract: A packaging bag is formed in a bag shape by overlapping of a laminated film and a laminated film facing each other, and unsealed by cutting of a predetermined section. The packaging bag includes a zipper for opening and closing an opening, the zipper being provided along edges of the opening formed by the unsealing, a linear cut section that is formed in a functional layer of the laminated film so as to be parallel to the zipper, and becomes the edge of the opening by the unsealing of the packaging bag, and a linear cut section that is formed at a different level from the cut section in a functional layer of the laminated film so as to be parallel to the zipper, and becomes the edge of the opening by the unsealing of the packaging bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Akira OHYAMA, Hiroyuki ARAI, Akio YOUTOU
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Publication number: 20170102648Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeder, a sheet conveyor, an image former, a fixer, a colorimeter and a processor. The fixer fixes an image formed on a sheet by the image former. The colorimeter is provided on a down-stream side than the fixer in a sheet conveying direction and reads the image. The processor calibrates the colorimeter based on the image read by the colorimeter. When an image for calibration which is formed in advance on a color sample housed in the sheet feeder is made to be read by the colorimeter, the processor controls at least one of the sheet conveyor, the image former and the fixer according to a condition for controlling deterioration of the color sample which is different from a condition of when carrying out an image forming.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Hiroyuki ARAI
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Publication number: 20160372219Abstract: A chemical solution injection system 30 of an embodiment includes: a chemical solution reservoir 31 that stores a chemical solution containing a depositing substance to deposit to a member in contact with cooling water for absorbing heat in a plant; a pipe 32 through which the chemical solution passes; a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger that exchange heat between the cooling water and the chemical solution; a cooling water pipe 49 which connects the heat exchangers in series and in which the cooling water passes; and a pump 34 that conveys the chemical solution. The temperature of the chemical solution in the chemical solution reservoir 31 is lower than that of the cooling water. The pipe 32 sequentially connects the chemical solution reservoir 31, the first heat exchanger, the second heat exchanger and the plant. The cooling water guided from the inside of the plant passes through the second heat exchanger and subsequently passes through the first heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2014Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masato OKAMURA, Tetsuo Oosato, Seiji Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Arai, Osamu Shibasaki, Koji Negishi, Hiromichi Koga
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Publication number: 20160246550Abstract: An image forming system capable of executing a print job including a first job and a second job, the image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus configured to print an image on a sheet based on the first job, and thereafter, print an image on a sheet based on the second job; a sheet conveyance apparatus configured to insert the sheet that has been printed by the first job into the sheet that has been printed by the second job; an input unit configured to be used to input a time period in which execution of user operation related to the sheet conveyance apparatus is possible; and a control unit configured to print the job so as to finish the first job within the time period that has been input by the input unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Kenji Taki, Hiroyuki Arai, Fusako Ozawa, Syunji Shimokawa
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Patent number: 9410252Abstract: A method for injecting a corrosion inhibitor injecting an oxidant and an anticorrosive agent-pH adjusting agent complex including an anticorrosive agent and a pH adjusting agent adsorbed on a surface of the anticorrosive agent into high temperature water in contact with a surface of a metal structural material and irradiating the high temperature water with a radioactive ray or an ultraviolet ray, wherein the anticorrosive agent of the anticorrosive agent-pH adjusting agent complex has, on the surface of the anticorrosive agent, an active site where the pH adjusting agent reacts with the oxidant, and the pH adjusting agent present on the surface of the anticorrosive agent of the anticorrosive agent-pH adjusting agent complex and/or in the high temperature water is oxidized with the oxidant by the irradiation with the radioactive ray or the ultraviolet ray to change pH adjusting ability of the pH adjusting agent and shift a pH of the high temperature water to a neutral side, and thereby deposition of the anticType: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masato Okamura, Tetsuo Oosato, Kazuo Murakami, Seiji Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Arai, Hidehiro Urata, Hajime Hirasawa, Osamu Shibasaki, Koji Negishi
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Publication number: 20160144610Abstract: An intaglio printing machine provided with a plate cylinder (14), a wiping roller (19), an impression cylinder (13), and ink devices (17) for directly or indirectly supplying ink (I) from ink fountain devices (25) to the plate cylinder (14), and in which the ink devices (17) are provided with an ink fountain device (25) equipped with: an ink fountain roller (26); an ink-fountain-roller driving motor (42); an ink fountain (30) for storing ink (I); an ink fountain key (33), which is supported on the front end of the ink fountain (30) so as to move freely and is for adjusting the gap (G) between the ink fountain (30) and the ink fountain roller (26); and an ink-fountain-key adjusting motor (43) for adjusting amount of movement of the ink fountain key (33).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: KOMORI CORPORATIONInventors: Isao KOMURO, Hiroyuki ARAI, Seiya TAMURA
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Patent number: 9238634Abstract: The purpose is to provide a compound which can overcomes the disadvantages of conventional steroid drugs and NSAID. It is found that specific epoxy monohydroxy forms of eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid and docosapentaenoic acid which are independently represented by formulae [chemical formula 1], [chemical formula 5] and the like have an inhibitory activity on neutrophils. This compound can inhibit the invasion of neutrophils into tissues and the activation of neutrophils which are observed in acute inflammations.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2011Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Makoto Arita, Hiroyuki Arai, Yosuke Isobe, Tadafumi Kubota
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Publication number: 20150243387Abstract: A photocatalyst injection system including: a reactor primary system coolant collection section collecting a reactor primary system coolant containing a noble metal or noble metal ion from a reactor primary system; a photocatalyst addition section adding a photocatalyst to the collected reactor primary system coolant; an ultraviolet irradiation section irradiating, with ultraviolet rays, the coolant to which the photocatalyst has been added for producing, in the coolant, a noble metal-carrying photocatalyst in which the noble metal is carried on a surface of the photocatalyst; and a noble metal-carrying photocatalyst injection section injecting the coolant containing the noble metal-carrying photocatalyst into the reactor primary system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2013Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masato Okamura, Osamu Shibasaki, Koji Negishi, Seiji Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Arai, Yutaka Uruma
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Patent number: 9045140Abstract: A coasting control device capable of avoiding coasting control during running on road having a small coefficient of friction between a tire and a road surface (“low ? roads”) includes a low ? road running recognition unit which recognizes that a vehicle is running on a low ? road and a unit for prohibiting coasting control during low ? road running when the low ? road running recognition unit recognizes that the vehicle is running on a low ? road.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignees: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED, TRANSTRON INC.Inventors: Nobuyuki Iwao, Yasushi Yamamoto, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Arai, Kouhei Takama
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Patent number: 8880307Abstract: A coasting control device for avoiding dangerous modes such as tire lock up upon the end of coasting control. The device, which performs coasting control to disengage the clutch and to reduce the engine revolutions per minute (RPM), also prevents a gearshift operation during coasting control.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignees: Isuzu Motors Limited, Transtron Inc.Inventors: Nobuyuki Iwao, Yasushi Yamamoto, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Arai, Kouhei Takama
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Patent number: 8855887Abstract: A coasting control device capable of avoiding coasting control during turning is provided. A turning recognition unit that recognizes that a vehicle is turning and a unit for prohibiting coasting control during turning that prohibits coasting control when the turning recognition unit recognizes that the vehicle is turning are provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignees: Isuzu Motors Limited, Transtron Inc.Inventors: Nobuyuki Iwao, Yasushi Yamamoto, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Arai, Kouhei Takama
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Patent number: 8853437Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compound having a novel structure for overcoming the defects of conventional steroid agents and NSAIDs. It is found that the particular dihydroxy bodies of eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, which have not conventionally been known (11,18-dihydroxy eicosapentaenoic acid (11,18-diHEPE), 17,18-dihydroxy eicosapentaenoic acid (17,18-diHEPE) etc.), have activity of inhibiting neutrophil, thereby solving the object. The present invention unexpectedly remarkably inhibits infiltration into a tissue of, and activation of neutrophil found out at acute inflammation. The compound of the present invention is a compound which has not conventionally been known. Therefore, utility as a new therapeutic is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: The University of TokyoInventors: Makoto Arita, Hiroyuki Arai, Yousuke Isobe, Ryo Taguchi
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Publication number: 20140242299Abstract: A method for injecting a corrosion inhibitor injecting an oxidant and an anticorrosive agent-pH adjusting agent complex including an anticorrosive agent and a pH adjusting agent adsorbed on a surface of the anticorrosive agent into high temperature water in contact with a surface of a metal structural material and irradiating the high temperature water with a radioactive ray or an ultraviolet ray, wherein the anticorrosive agent of the anticorrosive agent-pH adjusting agent complex has, on the surface of the anticorrosive agent, an active site where the pH adjusting agent reacts with the oxidant, and the pH adjusting agent present on the surface of the anticorrosive agent of the anticorrosive agent-pH adjusting agent complex and/or in the high temperature water is oxidized with the oxidant by the irradiation with the radioactive ray or the ultraviolet ray to change pH adjusting ability of the pH adjusting agent and shift a pH of the high temperature water to a neutral side, and thereby deposition of the anticType: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masato Okamura, Tetsuo Oosato, Kazuo Murakami, Seiji Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Arai, Hidehiro Urata, Hajime Hirasawa, Osamu Shibasaki, Koji Negishi
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Patent number: 8781699Abstract: A coasting control device that prevents failures due to deterioration of a release bearing. The device includes an cumulative disengagement time measuring unit cumulatively measuring a duration of time that a clutch is being disengaged during coasting control, and an overtime restricting unit prohibiting coasting control when the measured cumulative clutch disengagement time has exceeded a predetermined time giving an indication of fatigue of a member of the clutch, and/or an overtime alarm unit providing an alarm when the measured cumulative clutch disengagement time has exceeded a predetermined time giving an indication of fatigue of the member of the clutch.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignees: Isuzu Motors Limited, Transtron Inc.Inventors: Nobuyuki Iwao, Yasushi Yamamoto, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Arai, Kouhei Takama
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Patent number: 8781700Abstract: A coasting control device for reducing uneasiness experienced by a driver when pressing a clutch pedal during coasting control. The device includes a clutch control unit that, when the clutch pedal is pressed during coasting control, controls an actuator to cause an amount of hydraulic oil that depends on the amount of depression of the clutch pedal to be ejected from a clutch-free operating cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignees: Isuzu Motors Limited, Transtron Inc.Inventors: Nobuyuki Iwao, Yasushi Yamamoto, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Arai, Kouhei Takama
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Patent number: 8755697Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a carrying unit, a resistance unit, a jam detection unit, a paper detection unit and a control unit. Responding to the jam detection unit detecting that a jam occurring location is outside the resistance unit, the control unit sets a part of the carrying unit, the part including at least the resistance unit, as an accumulation unit where a remaining sheet is accumulated, in accordance with a size of the remaining sheet. The remaining sheet is detected by a paper detection unit when the jam occurs. The control unit releases, among a resistance roller pair and carrying roller pairs of the carrying unit, the rollers of a pair located in the accumulation unit from pressing against each other, and makes the carrying unit carry the remaining sheet to the accumulation unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Hiroyuki Arai
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Patent number: 8609346Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to detect a change in the metabolism of a glycoprotein having an ?2,6-sialyl residue, which is contained in blood, so as to provide an agent and a method for diagnosing sporadic Alzheimer's disease. The present invention provides an agent for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, which comprises lectin used for detecting an ?2,6-sialyl residue-containing glycoprotein.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2006Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: RikenInventors: Shinobu Kitazume, Ritsuko Oka, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Tamao Endo, Makoto Higuchi, Hiroyuki Arai, Takaomi Saido, Keiko Sato
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Patent number: 8591819Abstract: A combustion-type exhaust gas treatment apparatus is used to treat a harmful exhaust gas by combustion to render the gas harmless. The treatment apparatus includes a combustion treatment section, a cooling section, and a washing section. The combustion treatment section includes an exhaust-gas treatment combustor, a body made from metal and having a roughened inner surface, and a water-film formation mechanism adapted to form a water film on the inner surface of the body. The combustion treatment of the exhaust gas is performed in the body.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2007Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Kotaro Kawamura, Hiroyuki Arai, Yasutaka Muroga
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Publication number: 20130274327Abstract: The purpose is to provide a compound which can overcomes the disadvantages of conventional steroid drugs and NSAID. It is found that specific epoxy monohydroxy forms of eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid and docosapentaenoic acid which are independently represented by formulae [chemical formula 1], [chemical formula 5] and the like have an inhibitory activity on neutrophils. This compound can inhibit the invasion of neutrophils into tissues and the activation of neutrophils which are observed in acute inflammations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Makoto Arita, Hiroyuki Arai, Yosuke Isobe, Tadafumi Kubota
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Patent number: RE46044Abstract: A soft contact lens for fitting to a cornea includes a lens main body made of a light permeable member. The lens main body has a diameter larger than that of a light-shielding portion which shields incident light incident to the cornea. The light-shielding portion includes a main body constituting a light-shielding member, an aperture that allows incident light to be transmitted, the aperture being positioned on a position of the main body of the light-shielding portion, and multiple holes that maintain a scotopic vision and a night vision, the holes being provided around the aperture in the main body of the light-shielding portion and each of the holes having a diameter smaller than that of the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Universal View Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Arai, Sunao Mikawa