Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Higuchi
Hiroyuki Higuchi 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: 12157808Abstract: This cellulose acetate has a total degree of acetyl substitution of 1.75 or more and 2.55 or less, and a degree of acetyl substitution at 2-position or a degree of acetyl substitution at 3-position is 0.7 or less. This cellulose acetate composition includes the cellulose acetate and an additive. The additive is one or more selected from the group consisting of (a) substances of which a pH of a 1 wt. % aqueous solution at 20° C. is 8 or more, (b) substances that dissolve in water at 20° C. in an amount of 2 wt. % or more, and (c) substances that exhibit biodegradability in seawater.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Matsumura, Hiroki Taniguchi, Akihiro Higuchi, Tomohiro Hashizume, Masaaki Kusumoto
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Publication number: 20240377681Abstract: According to one embodiment, an alignment processing device includes a light source, a polarizing beam splitter, a first optical system, a second optical system, a first retardation film, a second retardation film, a moving mechanism configured to move a processing substrate in which a thin film is formed, and a controller. Interfering light is formed in an exposure area by first circularly polarized light and second circularly polarized light. The controller performs control so as to repeat a process of exposing part of an area of the thin film by the interfering light and a process of moving the processing substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicants: Japan Display Inc., OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Koichi IGETA, Ayaka HIGUCHI, Junji KOBASHI, Yasushi TOMIOKA, Shinichiro OKA, Hiroyuki YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20240376012Abstract: Provided is a powder composition that includes, as a matrix, a zirconia having a high content of a stabilizing element and that can provide, through short-time sintering, a sintered body satisfying translucency and mechanical strength required for dental prosthetic materials, in particular, prosthetic anterior teeth. Provided is a powder composition including two or more stabilized zirconias having different contents of a stabilizing element, in which the powder composition has a content of the stabilizing element of more than 4.0 mol % and 5.8 mol % or less, a rate of change in thermal shrinkage rate per unit temperature at 1,300° C. is 0.07% C?1 or less, and the contents of the stabilizing element of the stabilized zirconias are each 8.0 mol % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicant: TOSOH CORPORATIONInventors: Sho AZECHI, Yuya HIGUCHI, Hiroyuki FUJISAKI, Hitoshi NAGAYAMA, Kiyotaka KAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20240364229Abstract: An effective technique is applied to a rectifier circuit that performs synchronous rectification using a switching element. The rectifier circuit performs the synchronous rectification using a MOSFET, for example, as the switching element. By using the rectifier circuit, a capacitance of a capacitor for supplying power to a drive circuit can be reduced. As a result, downsizing and cost reduction of the rectifier circuit and the power supply using the rectifier circuit can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: October 31, 2024Inventors: Yoshihiro MIWA, Hiroyuki SHOJI, Junichi SAKANO, Tomoyuki UTSUMI, Takahiro HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240364231Abstract: A first MOSFET, a second MOSFET, a first control circuit, and a second control circuit are provided; the second MOSFET is in a non-rectification period when the first MOSFET is in a rectification period; the first MOSFET is in a non-rectification period when the second MOSFET is in a rectification period; the first control circuit outputs a voltage generated on the basis of a first input voltage as a first output voltage between the gate and the source of the first MOSFET in at least a portion of a period in which a voltage between the drain and the source of the second MOSFET is inputted as the first input voltage and a negative voltage is applied between the drain and the source of the first MOSFET; the second control circuit outputs a voltage generated on the basis of a second input voltage as a second output voltage between the gate and the source of the second MOSFET in at least a portion of a period in which a voltage between the drain and the source of the first MOSFET is inputted as the second input vType: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: October 31, 2024Inventors: Yoshihiro MIWA, Hiroyuki SHOJI, Junichi SAKANO, Tomoyuki UTSUMI, Takahiro HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240332603Abstract: Provided is a sulfide solid electrolyte that has a novel crystal structure and exhibits an ionic conductivity, the sulfide solid electrolyte containing a lithium atom, a phosphorus atom, a sulfur atom, and at least one kind of halogen atom selected from a chlorine atom and a bromine atom, and having a specific diffraction peak in powdery X-ray diffractometry using CuK? line, and a method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte, the method including mixing a solvent 1 having a heteroatom and a raw material 1 containing specific atoms to prepare a mixture, preparing a solution that contains a raw material 2 containing a halogen atom and a solvent 2 having a heteroatom, mixing the mixture and the solution to prepare a fluid, and heating the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2022Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicants: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITYInventors: Kota TERAI, Futoshi UTSUNO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI, Kiyoharu TADANAGA, Akira MIURA, Nataly Carolina ROSERO NAVARRO
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Publication number: 20240318289Abstract: Provided is a heat-resistant ferritic steel having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.07 to 0.14%, Si: 0.15 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.30 to 0.55%, P: 0.0250% or less, S: 0.0030% or less, Ni: 0.15 to 0.35%, Cr: 8.0 to 9.7%, Mo: 0.20 to 0.60%, W: 1.50 to 2.30%, V: 0.16 to 0.25%, Nb: 0.020 to 0.120%, B: 0.0010 to 0.0050%, N: 0.010 to 0.080%, Al: 0.020% or less, and O: 0.020% or less, with the balance Fe and impurities, wherein VER, i.e., the V content (mass %) in precipitates obtained by extracted residue analysis satisfies [?0.2×C+0.060?VER??0.1×C+0.160].Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki HIRATA, Katsuki TANAKA, Masayuki TAKIGUCHI, Mitsuru YOSHIZAWA, Junichi HIGUCHI, Takahiro OSUKI
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Publication number: 20240301075Abstract: The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising second-generation molecules that are superior than TOCILIZUMAB, by altering the amino acid sequences of the variable and constant regions of TOCILIZUMAB, which is a humanized anti-IL-6 receptor IgG1 antibody, to enhance the antigen-neutralizing ability and increase the pharmacokinetics, so that the therapeutic effect is exerted with a less frequency of administration, and the immunogenicity, safety and physicochemical properties (stability and homogeneity) are improved. The present invention also provides methods for producing these pharmaceutical compositions. The present inventors have successfully generated second-generation molecules that are superior to TOCILIZUMAB by appropriately combining amino acid sequence alterations in the CDR domains, variable regions, and constant regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Igawa, Shinya Ishii, Atsuhiko Maeda, Mika Sakurai, Tetsuo Kojima, Tatsuhiko Tachibana, Hirotake Shiraiwa, Hiroyuki Tsunoda, Yoshinobu Higuchi
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Publication number: 20240233169Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a water inundation depth determination program for causing a computer to execute processing including: detecting a first type of a target and a first submersion position of the target included in a first captured image; and outputting a first submersion depth corresponding to the first type and the first submersion position by referring to depth information in which a depth is associated with a pair of a type and a submersion position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2024Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kazuhiro MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI, Shun KOHATA, Katsumi HOMMA, Fumiyasu MAKINOSHIMA
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Publication number: 20240222633Abstract: One of the purposes of the present invention is to provide: a compound which can be used as a binder having ion conductivity; and a battery which contains the compound. One aspect of the present invention is a compound comprising P and S as constituent elements, a group comprising one or more elements selected from the group consisting of O, N and halogen, the group bonding to the P, and a disulfide bond.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicants: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD., OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Atsutaka KATO, Mari YAMAMOTO, Masanari TAKAHASHI, Futoshi UTSUNO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240182316Abstract: A method for producing a lithium compound, by which a high purity lithium compound can be produced from low-grade lithium carbonate containing impurities, such as salt water. The method includes: mixing lithium carbonate, an acid containing an organic acid, and water in a reaction tank 1 to produce an aqueous organic acid lithium solution containing an organic acid lithium; mixing the organic acid lithium and a metal hydroxide in a reaction tank 2 to produce an aqueous lithium hydroxide solution; and returning an organic acid, which is regenerated by using an electrochemical device from an organic acid metal by-produced by producing the aqueous lithium hydroxide solution to the reaction tank 1 and using the regenerated organic acid as the organic acid. An apparatus for producing a lithium compound, including the reaction tank 1, the reaction tank 2, the electrochemical device, and a return pipe, which each have a specific function.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Hideki YAMAMOTO, Futoshi UTSUNO, Daisuke MORI, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240010813Abstract: A resin composition containing a compound including phosphorus and sulfur as constituent elements and having a disulfide bond, and a thermoplastic resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicants: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD., OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Atsutaka KATO, Mari YAMAMOTO, Masanari TAKAHASHI, Futoshi UTSUNO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11854441Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a display control program for causing a computer to execute processing, the processing including: determining priorities of a plurality of facilities positioned within a specific area according to a value related to congestion determined on the basis of the upper limit number of people in each of the plurality of facilities and the number of visitors calculated on the basis of an image captured in each of the plurality of facilities; selecting a specific number of facilities from the plurality of facilities on the basis of the determined priorities; and displaying, for each of the specific number of selected facilities, a position on a map and alert information according to the value related to the congestion.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Shun Kohata, Hiroyuki Higuchi
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Publication number: 20230378525Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide sulfide solid electrolyte glass ceramics that have a high ionic conductivity and an enhanced water resistance, and is also to provide a method of producing the sulfide solid electrolyte glass ceramics. Sulfide solid electrolyte glass ceramics that have peaks at 20.2° and 23.6° in an X-ray diffractometry (XRD) using the CuK? line, a crystallite diameter of 30 nm or more, and a P2S64? phosphorus proportion obtained by a solid 31P-NMR spectroscopy of 4.5% by mol or less, and a method of producing the sulfide solid electrolyte glass ceramics are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Kota TERAI, Katsuhito KONDO, Takeshi MAKINO, Atsushi SATO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230178794Abstract: To provide an electrode composite material that is excellent in conductivity through the excellent contact state of a solid electrolyte and an electrode active material, and is capable of exhibiting a high battery capability, containing the sulfide solid electrolyte and the electrode active material, having an electron conductivity parameter X represented by the prescribed expression satisfying 0.30?X?2.10.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Naoya MASUDA, Futoshi UTSUNO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11530992Abstract: A gas detection element for detection of a measurement target gas is provided. The gas detection element includes a gas detection layer including a chemochromic pigment; and a spacer. The spacer is permeable to the measurement target gas, is disposed on a first surface of the gas detection layer, and has an area smaller than an area of the gas detection layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Namiko Suzuki, Hiroyuki Higuchi, Koichi Nakamura, Masaya Nishigawara, Nahid Mohajeri
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Publication number: 20220376291Abstract: A compound comprising phosphorus atoms and sulfur atoms as constituent elements and having a peak in Raman spectroscopy, the peak being attributable to a disulfide bond bonding between two phosphorus atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicants: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD., OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Atsutaka KATO, Mari YAMAMOTO, Masanari TAKAHASHI, Futoshi UTSUNO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220284837Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a display control program for causing a computer to execute processing, the processing including: determining priorities of a plurality of facilities positioned within a specific area according to a value related to congestion determined on the basis of the upper limit number of people in each of the plurality of facilities and the number of visitors calculated on the basis of an image captured in each of the plurality of facilities; selecting a specific number of facilities from the plurality of facilities on the basis of the determined priorities; and displaying, for each of the specific number of selected facilities, a position on a map and alert information according to the value related to the congestion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Shun Kohata, Hiroyuki Higuchi
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Patent number: 10996174Abstract: A gas sensing element includes a gas detection layer including a pigment, the gas detection layer including a first surface; and a backing material disposed on the first surface of the gas detection layer. When reducing gas causes the gas sensing element to change in color, a color change ?L* of the gas sensing element is greater than or equal to 5.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Koichi Nakamura, Nahid Mohajeri, Yu-chu Chen, Kujtim Bizati, Shinji Inokuchi, Namiko Suzuki, Hiroyuki Higuchi, Masahiko Hirose, Masaya Nishigawara
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Publication number: 20200249174Abstract: A gas detection element for detection of a measurement target gas is provided. The gas detection element includes a gas detection layer including a chemochromic pigment; and a spacer. The spacer is permeable to the measurement target gas, is disposed on a first surface of the gas detection layer, and has an area smaller than an area of the gas detection layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Namiko SUZUKI, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI, Koichi NAKAMURA, Masaya NISHIGAWARA, Nahid MOHAJERI