Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Fujita
Hiroyuki Fujita 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: 20220325157Abstract: The present invention relates to a film including a base layer and an oil-containing layer formed on the base layer, wherein the oil-containing layer contains an oil ingredient which bleeds out from a surface of the oil-containing layer at a given temperature or lower, the base layer is an elemental metal or a multilayer structure including a metal layer, and the elemental metal or the metal layer is in contact with the oil-containing layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Nobuaki MARUOKA, Hiroyuki FUJITA, Aika KOSAKA
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Publication number: 20220236352Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit acquires a measurement field corresponding to a spatial distribution of a predetermined physical quantity in a subject of measurement. The processing circuit calculates an unknown quantity in the subject of measurement based on a first equation between the measurement field and the unknown quantity having spatial dependence, and on the acquired measurement field. The first equation is one that is acquired based on a second equation expressing a dual field divergence of which can be expressed using the measurement field, by using the measurement field and the unknown quantity, and on the Helmholtz decomposition of the dual field.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicants: The University of Tokyo, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Takaaki NARA, Motofumi FUSHIMI, Naohiro EDA, Seiichi SHIN, Hitoshi YAMAGATA, Koji YANO, Hiroyuki FUJITA
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Publication number: 20220173695Abstract: A solar cell structure including panel structure comprising a solar cell panel and a mount configured to support the panel structure in an inclined state, in which the mount has a support surface that supports the panel structure, and the solar cell structure further including a cover configured to cover at least a region from an end portion of the support surface on a lower side in an inclination direction to a predetermined portion on the solar cell panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Kenichi EGUCHI, Hiroyuki FUJITA, Masaaki SATO
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Publication number: 20220145028Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a film capable of enhancing snow sliding property and highly preventing snow accretion and/or ice accretion on a structure. The film of the present invention includes, as an outermost layer, an oil-containing layer containing an oil component in a resin, wherein the oil component bleeds from a surface of the oil-containing layer at a temperature not more than a predetermined temperature, the surface of the oil-containing layer has a concave-convex configuration, and the arithmetic mean height (Sa) in a 3.2 cm×3.2 cm region on the surface of the oil-containing layer is 4 ?m or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Daisuke MATSUKUMA, Haruka ONA, Yoshihiro NAKAMURA, Hiroyuki FUJITA
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Publication number: 20220089836Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a film which enables an oil to be held on a surface of an object over a long period and which makes it possible to reduce work costs and equipment construction costs. The film of the present invention includes a base material having a plurality of voids therein and an oil retained in the voids, wherein the voids on one surface of the base material have an average void diameter which is smaller than an average void diameter of the voids present near a thickness-direction center of the base material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Shinya KOTAKE, Daisuke MATSUKUMA, Hiroyuki FUJITA
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Publication number: 20220082534Abstract: In a standing pipe body (210), an adsorbent layer (240) filled with active magnesium silicate as an adsorbent and an alumina layer (250) positioned therebelow are arranged. A sample solution containing dioxins is applied into the pipe body (210) from the top, and an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent is subsequently supplied into the pipe body (210) from the top. The aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent having dissolved dioxins in the sample solution passes through the adsorbent layer (240) and the alumina layer (250) in this order, and is discharged from a bottom of the pipe body (210). At this point, a dioxin group including non-ortho PCBs, PCDDs, and PCDFs is selectively trapped by the adsorbent layer (240), and mono-ortho PCBs are selectively trapped by the alumina layer (250).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: MIURA CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki FUJITA, Koichi SUGA
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Publication number: 20210403754Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a product, in particular, a coating material capable of preventing icing and/or snow accretion. This product includes a first oil component, a second oil component, and a first resin precursor, which is a precursor for a resin component. The first resin precursor including the first and second oil components is cured to form an oil-containing resin layer including the first and second oil components and the resin component. The second oil component constitutes a low-temperature phase-separable oil component that may be phase-separated from the first oil component to exude from the oil-containing resin layer when a temperature decreases to a predetermined value or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2019Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Shinya KOTAKE, Daisuke MATSUKUMA, Kenichi EGUCHI, Aika ISHII, Hiroyuki FUJITA
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Patent number: 11211123Abstract: A disclosed semiconductor device includes a memory cell with a first terminal, a second terminal, a memory element having a first resistance state and a second resistance state, and a nonlinear element, and a drive controller that performs a first operation that allows the memory element to be in the first resistance state, a second operation that allows the memory element to be in the second resistance state, a third operation in which the voltage of the first and second terminals is caused to be different from each other and a value of electric current flowing between the first terminal and the second terminal is caused to be limited to a first current value to determine the resistance state, and a fourth operation in which the current value is caused to be limited to a second current value. The drive controller performs the fourth operation after at least one of the first to third operations.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Takeyuki Sone, Seiji Nonoguchi, Jun Okuno, Hiroyuki Fujita
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Publication number: 20210323283Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet body having an improved function of preventing icing and/or snow accretion. At least included are a solid oil-containing resin layer containing an oil and an oil-permeable surface resin layer that has higher wear resistance than the oil-containing resin layer and is layered on one of surfaces of the oil-containing resin layer. The oil included in the oil-containing resin layer includes a low-temperature exuding oil component capable of exuding from the oil-containing resin layer when a temperature decreases to a predetermined value or lower, and the surface resin layer has enough oil permeability to permeate the low-temperature exuding oil component exuding from the oil-containing resin layer to a surface of the surface resin layer that is opposite to a side of the oil-containing resin layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Kenichi EGUCHI, Shinya KOTAKE, Daisuke MATSUKUMA, Aika ISHII, Hiroyuki FUJITA
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Publication number: 20210239777Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) knee coil comprising a local shim coil. The local shim coil is disposed in a housing of the MRI knee coil. An electromagnetic coil is also disposed in the housing and spaced from the local shim coil. The local shim coil comprises one or more conductors. Each of the conductors of the local shim coil are disposed on a semi-cylindrical surface, and the semi-cylindrical surface extends laterally from a first side of the housing to a second side of the housing. The local shim coil is configured to generate a local shimming magnetic field that reduces a localized magnetic field inhomogeneity caused by a susceptibility artifact disposed in a knee of a patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Labros Petropoulos, Xiaoyu Yang, Hiroyuki Fujita
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Publication number: 20210183443Abstract: A disclosed semiconductor device includes a memory cell with a first terminal, a second terminal, a memory element having a first resistance state and a second resistance state, and a nonlinear element, and a drive controller that performs a first operation that allows the memory element to be in the first resistance state, a second operation that allows the memory element to be in the second resistance state, a third operation in which the of of the first and second terminals is caused to be different from each other and a value of electric current flowing between the first terminal and the second terminal is caused to be limited to a first current value to determine the resistance state, and a fourth operation in which the current value is caused to be limited to a second current value. The drive controller performs the fourth operation after at least one of the first to third operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takeyuki SONE, Seiji NONOGUCHI, Jun OKUNO, Hiroyuki FUJITA
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Publication number: 20210119556Abstract: A vibrational energy harvester element includes: a first electrode; a second electrode that moves in a predetermined direction with respect to the first electrode; a third electrode; a fourth electrode that moves in the predetermined direction with respect to the third electrode; and a support portion that supports the second electrode and the fourth electrode so that they are movable along the predetermined direction; and wherein: the first electrode and the third electrode are disposed along the predetermined direction; at least one of facing surfaces of the first electrode and the second electrode, and at least one of facing surfaces of the third electrode and the fourth electrode, are electrically charged; and the support portion supports the second electrode and the fourth electrode in a state in which electrostatic force between the first electrode and the second electrode, and electrostatic force between the third electrode and the fourth electrode are balanced along the predetermined direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2017Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi TOSHIYOSHI, Hiroyuki FUJITA, Hisayuki ASHIZAWA, Hiroyuki MITSUYA, Kazunori ISHIBASHI
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Publication number: 20210117159Abstract: A random number generator according to one embodiment includes a write circuit, a read circuit, and a signal output circuit. The write circuit inverts magnetization of a magnetic layer of a magnetic tunnel junction element stochastically by supplying current to the magnetic layer. The read circuit reads the magnetization. The signal output circuit generates a random number on the basis of the magnetization read by the read circuit. The random number generator includes a sequence control circuit that controls the write circuit and the read circuit. The sequence control circuit regulates the write circuit to supply the current to the write circuit in a first period, and causes the read circuit to read the magnetization after the first period is finished and then a second period longer than the first period is elapsed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro HANYU, Naoya ONIZAWA, Akira TAMAKOSHI, Hiroyuki FUJITA, Hitoshi YAMAGATA
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Patent number: 10843191Abstract: An object is to stably, continuously and easily detect reactions of filamentary biomolecules or polymers bridging between a pair of electrodes against reagents without employing any marker or labeling substances.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujita, Mehmet Cagatay Tarhan, Nicolas Lafitte, Dominique Collard
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Patent number: 10845333Abstract: An object is to make a bridge of DNA expanding between a pair of electrodes, and to characterize the bridge of DNA, to thereby detect DNA easily and surely without employing any marker or labeling substances, such as fluorescent reagents. A method of detecting DNA using a detection device with at least a couple of electrodes, the method comprising immobilizing a primer on the electrodes; making a bridge of the DNA expanded between the electrodes, by immersing the electrodes in a solution including circular templates of single stranded DNA, annealing the circular templates, and generating single stranded DNA product utilizing RCA (Rolling Circle Amplification), with impressing a designated voltage between the electrodes; and characterizing the bridge of DNA which includes multiple single stranded DNA molecules between the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignees: The Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Science, Neuroindx, Inc., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujita, Stanislav L. Karsten, Dominique Collard, Momoko Kumemura
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Patent number: 10840827Abstract: A vibration energy harvester includes: a first electrode; and a second electrode that can be displaced relative to the first electrode along a predetermined vibrating direction. At least either of a surface of the first electrode and a surface of the second electrode facing opposite each other is electrically charged. Power is generated as the second electrode becomes displaced causing a change in electrostatic capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode. A range having included therein at least a vibrational center of the second electrode, over which the electrostatic capacitance remains unchanged even as the second electrode is displaced, is set.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignees: The University of Tokyo, Saginomiya Seisakusho, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, Hiroyuki Fujita, Hisayuki Ashizawa, Hiroyuki Mitsuya, Kazunori Ishibashi
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Patent number: 10833607Abstract: An electret element includes: an Si layer, an SiO2 layer formed at a surface of the Si layer; and an electret formed at the SiO2 layer near an interface of the SiO2 layer and the Si layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignees: The University of Tokyo, Saginomiya Seisakusho, Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujita, Gen Hashiguchi, Hisayuki Ashizawa, Hiroyuki Mitsuya, Kazunori Ishibashi
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Patent number: 10811198Abstract: A switch includes a base, a fixed contact member having fixed contact, and a movable contact member having a movable contact. The movable contact member moves in a first direction to bring the movable contact into contact with the fixed contact, and moves in a second direction opposite to the first direction to separate the movable contact from the fixed contact. The switch further includes a cover, an elastic body that energizes the movable contact member in the second direction, and an operation body configured to move the movable contact member sequentially to a first position, a second position, and a third position.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Kenji Shinohara, Hiroyuki Fujita
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Patent number: 10671128Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of stoppers that are provided on a keyboard and hold a display in a standing state in which the display is standing up with respect to the keyboard and to engage with the display in a closed state in which the display is closed.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU CLIENT COMPUTING LIMITEDInventors: Shintaro Ohishi, Kohhei Nakajima, Hiroyuki Fujita, Masuo Ohnishi
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Patent number: 10566912Abstract: A vibration-driven energy harvester includes: a fixed electrode; a movable electrode that is disposed so as to face opposite the fixed electrode and is allowed to move relative to the fixed electrode; and an ionic liquid disposed between the fixed electrode and the movable electrode which face opposite each other, wherein: power is generated as an external vibration moves the movable electrode, causing a change in at least one of an area of an electrical double layer formed on two sides of an interface of the fixed electrode and the ionic liquid and an area of an electrical double layer formed on two sides of an interface of the movable electrode and the ionic liquid.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignees: The University of Tokyo, Saginomiya Seisakusho, Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujita, Hiroyuki Mitsuya