Patents by Inventor Junichi Kimura

Junichi 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: 20240337414
    Abstract: A chilling unit includes a machine chamber unit formed in an elongated box shape; and air heat exchangers placed on the machine chamber unit. A pair of the air heat exchangers that is located opposite to each other in a short-side direction of the machine chamber unit is inclined such that a spacing between upper end portions of the pair is greater than a spacing between lower end portions of the pair, a machine chamber panel forming a side face of the machine chamber unit in the short-side direction includes a panel body positioned at a central portion of the machine chamber panel, and a fixing portion connected to a periphery of the panel body and fixed in contact with the machine chamber unit, and the panel body is located further outward from the machine chamber unit than is the fixing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Junichi MIYAI, Yuji TARUMI, Takuya ITO, Tomoya KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240316250
    Abstract: A hybrid gel comprising a particulate decellularized tissue (obtained by pulverizing animal-derived biological tissues that are decellularized (decellularized biological tissues)), fibrinogen and thrombin; a cell culture material comprising the hybrid gel; a method for preparing the hybrid gel; and a kit comprising a particulate decellularized tissue and a biological tissue adhesive are provided. The hybrid gel of the present invention exerts the effect to promote differentiation and gain of function of stem cells and the therapeutic effect to a variety of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY, SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, ADEKA CORPORATION, KM Biologics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi MATSUDA, Sumika MIYABASHIRA, Satomi HARANO, Akio KISHIDA, Tsuyoshi KIMURA, Jun NEGISHI, Tetsuya HIGAMI, Seiichi FUNAMOTO, Ken-Ichiro HIWATARI, Akiko TASAKI
  • Patent number: 12073656
    Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to provide flexible and highly accurate activity detection means. Provided is an activity detection device including: an input unit that inputs an image sequence including a first image and a second image; an object detection unit that detects a first object in the image sequence; a component model unit that generates first characteristic information characterizing the first object and includes at least one individually trainable component model; and an activity detection unit that generates a first object state corresponding to the first object in the first image and a second object state corresponding to the first object in the second image based on the first characteristic information and determines an activity related to the first object based on the first and second object states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Martin Klinkigt, Mohit Chhabra, Junichi Kimura, Tomokazu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20240272735
    Abstract: A touch panel including an oxide semiconductor film having conductivity is provided. The touch panel includes a transistor, a second insulating film, and a touch sensor. The transistor includes a gate electrode; a gate insulating film; a first oxide semiconductor film; a source electrode and a drain electrode; a first insulating film; and a second oxide semiconductor film. The second insulating film is over the second oxide semiconductor film so that the second oxide semiconductor film is positioned between the first insulating film and the second insulating film. The touch sensor includes a first electrode and a second electrode. One of the first and second electrodes includes the second oxide semiconductor film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Hajime KIMURA, Masami JINTYOU, Yasuharu HOSAKA, Naoto GOTO, Takahiro IGUCHI, Daisuke KUROSAKI, Junichi KOEZUKA
  • Patent number: 12061044
    Abstract: A natural gas liquefying apparatus is provided. At least a part of a cooling region, in which a precooling unit and a liquefaction unit are arranged, and at least a part of a compression region, in which first and second compressors compressing refrigerants to be used in the precooling unit and the liquefaction unit are arranged, are arranged to be opposed to each other across a long side of a second refrigerant cooler group arrangement region in which a liquefying refrigerant is cooled. A first refrigerant cooler group arrangement region, in which a precooling refrigerant is cooled, is arranged so that a long side of the first refrigerant cooler group arrangement region is opposed to one side of a rectangular region including the compression region, the one side being different from a side of the rectangular region opposed to a long side of the second refrigerant cooler group arrangement region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: JGC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akito Hirai, Nobuhiro Kimura, Hideto Hagiya, Shinichi Tojo, Junichi Nishida, Tomoaki Matsuo, Ayaka Uemura
  • Patent number: 11678581
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric thin film device in which lattice mismatch between a piezoelectric thin film and a lower electrode layer (first electrode layer) is reduced. A piezoelectric thin film device 10 comprises a first electrode layer 6a and a piezoelectric thin film 2 laminated directly on the first electrode layer 6a; the first electrode layer 6a includes an alloy composed of two or more metal elements; the first electrode layer 6a has a face-centered cubic lattice structure; and the piezoelectric thin film 2 has a wurtzite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11647676
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric thin film device containing: a first electrode layer; and a piezoelectric thin film. The first electrode layer contains a metal Me having a crystal structure. The piezoelectric thin film contains aluminum nitride having a wurtzite structure. The aluminum nitride contains a divalent metal element Md and a tetravalent metal element Mt. [Al] is an amount of Al contained in the aluminum nitride, [Md] is an amount of Md contained in the aluminum nitride, [Mt] is an amount of Mt contained in the aluminum nitride, ([Md]+[Mt])/([Al]+[Md]+[Mt]) is 36 to 70 atom %. LALN is a lattice length of the aluminum nitride in a direction that is approximately parallel to a surface of the first electrode layer with which the piezoelectric thin film is in contact, LMETAL is a lattice length of Me in a direction, and LALN is longer than LMETAL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Kimura, Yukari Inoue
  • Patent number: 11594669
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric thin film device in which lattice mismatch between a piezoelectric thin film and a lower electrode layer (first electrode layer) is reduced. A piezoelectric thin film device 10 comprises a first electrode layer 6a and a piezoelectric thin film 2 laminated directly on the first electrode layer 6a; the first electrode layer 6a includes an alloy composed of two or more metal elements; the first electrode layer 6a has a body-centered cubic lattice structure; and the piezoelectric thin film 2 has a wurtzite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230043386
    Abstract: An alert output apparatus is configured to hold: image information indicating one or more inspection objects included in a photographic object of an image for which determination is to be executed; alert target item information indicating an alert target item; and co-occurrence item information indicating alert co-occurrence items each determined in advance as an item to be included in the image at the same time as the alert target item, and to output alert when determining that at least one inspection object out of the one or more inspection objects matches to the alert target item and satisfies a given condition, and when determining that no inspection object out of the one or more inspection objects matches to the alert target item but at least one inspection object out of the one or more inspection objects matches to at least one of the alert co-occurrence items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd
    Inventors: Toru YASUMURA, Noboru OZEKI, Satoko IWASAWA, Daisuke MATSUBARA, Koh KAJII, Naoto AKIRA, Junichi KIMURA, Hideki OKITA
  • Patent number: 11411164
    Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film device 10 includes a conductive layer 4 and a piezoelectric thin film 2 laminated directly on a surface of the conductive layer 4. The piezoelectric thin film 2 contains a plurality of crystalline grains having a wurtzite structure, a (001) plane of at least a part of the crystalline grains is oriented in a normal direction DN of the surface of the conductive layer 4, and a median diameter of the plurality of crystalline grains in a direction parallel to the surface of the conductive layer 4 is 30 nm or more and 80 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Kimura, Yukari Inoue
  • Patent number: 11270562
    Abstract: An efficient alert process is realized and effectiveness of surveillance is improved when surveilling various incidents that occur within a surveillance area. In a video surveillance system for detecting a plurality of incidents in a surveillance area using a video that captured the surveillance area, provided are a calculation unit which detects an image of a person and/or an object from the video, and calculates an incident feature quantity as a feature quantity representing a status of a detected person and/or a feature quantity of a detected object, and a determination unit which detects an occurrence of the incident based on the incident feature quantity, and determines subjects to be alerted of an occurred incident, which is a detected incident, from a type of the occurred incident and a determination accuracy of the occurred incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ito, Kenichi Morita, Tomokazu Murakami, Junichi Kimura, Keisuke Terada
  • Publication number: 20220012502
    Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to provide flexible and highly accurate activity detection means. Provided is an activity detection device including: an input unit that inputs an image sequence including a first image and a second image; an object detection unit that detects a first object in the image sequence; a component model unit that generates first characteristic information characterizing the first object and includes at least one individually trainable component model; and an activity detection unit that generates a first object state corresponding to the first object in the first image and a second object state corresponding to the first object in the second image based on the first characteristic information and determines an activity related to the first object based on the first and second object states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Martin KLINKIGT, Mohit CHHABRA, Junichi KIMURA, Tomokazu MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11148883
    Abstract: An article carrier system has a plurality of storage shelves and an order management unit. In the storage shelves, articles are stored. The order management unit manages a plurality of orders for shipping orders, holds receptacle information including at least information regarding a quantity of articles stored in each receptacle of each of the storage shelves, determines to provide different conditions for orders for performing picking at different workplaces, as conditions for correlating between each order and the receptacle for performing the picking in accordance with each order, and determines a storage shelf to be carried to the workplace for performing the picking in association with each order, based on the determined conditions and receptacle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshitake, Ryota Kamoshida, Junichi Kimura, Emi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210256823
    Abstract: An efficient alert process is realized and effectiveness of surveillance is improved when surveilling various incidents that occur within a surveillance area. In a video surveillance system for detecting a plurality of incidents in a surveillance area using a video that captured the surveillance area, provided are a calculation unit which detects an image of a person and/or an object from the video, and calculates an incident feature quantity as a feature quantity representing a status of a detected person and/or a feature quantity of a detected object, and a determination unit which detects an occurrence of the incident based on the incident feature quantity, and determines subjects to be alerted of an occurred incident, which is a detected incident, from a type of the occurred incident and a determination accuracy of the occurred incident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiki ITO, Kenichi MORITA, Tomokazu MURAKAMI, Junichi KIMURA, Keisuke TERADA
  • Publication number: 20210239875
    Abstract: An alert output timing control apparatus is configured to hold an analysis target image and time information indicating a period of time time to be spent until alert is output, and output the analysis target image to a display apparatus. When the analysis target image is input to a model and it is determined that an alert target object is included in a photographic object of the analysis target image, the alert output timing control apparatus obtains a period of time time from the time information and performs control so that alert is output at timing that arrives when the obtained period of time time elapses since given timing after the analysis target image is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Noboru OZEKI, Satoko HINOMIZU, Toru YASUMURA, Daisuke MATSUBARA, Koh KAJII, Naoto AKIRA, Junichi KIMURA, Hideki OKITA
  • Patent number: 11027920
    Abstract: Provided is a rack management system, including a processor and a storage unit. The storage unit stores information indicating positions of sections included in an area in which storage racks that store articles can be arranged. One of the storage racks can be arranged in each of the sections. At least one of the sections is surrounded by other adjacent sections without an aisle to convey the storage racks therebetween. The processor classifies the sections into sections assigned ranks indicating a degree of efficiency of an operation to convey the storage racks placed therein to a predetermined working area, and one or more empty sections into which, if there is a need to move one or more other storage racks in order to convey a storage rack placed in a given section, the other storage racks that were moved are placed, and outputs results of the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshimoto, Yoriko Kazama, Junichi Kimura, Ryota Kamoshida, Emi Takahashi, Haruka Terai
  • Patent number: 11014745
    Abstract: The picking system according to the present invention for executing operation assistance corresponding to an operation target relating to physical distribution receives an order designating a specific article, retrieves a first storage position at which the specific article is stored from shelf stock information, generates operation instruction data relating to a specific operation target for instructing to move the specific article from the first storage position to a second storage position, refers to operation station information and accesses the first storage position, retrieves a specific operation station capable of performing the specific operation target, transmits the operation instruction data to a terminal of the specific operation station, and transmits, to a movement device, conveyance instruction data instructing to convey a conveyance rack to the specific operation station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoriko Kazama, Junichi Kimura, Emi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210126185
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric thin film device containing: a first electrode layer; and a piezoelectric thin film. The first electrode layer contains a metal Me having a crystal structure. The piezoelectric thin film contains aluminum nitride having a wurtzite structure. The aluminum nitride contains a divalent metal element Md and a tetravalent metal element Mt. [Al] is an amount of Al contained in the aluminum nitride, [Md] is an amount of Md contained in the aluminum nitride, [Mt] is an amount of Mt contained in the aluminum nitride, ([Md]+[Mt])/([Al]+[Md]+[Mt]) is 36 to 70 atom %. LALN is a lattice length of the aluminum nitride in a direction that is approximately parallel to a surface of the first electrode layer with which the piezoelectric thin film is in contact, LMETAL is a lattice length of Me in a direction, and LALN is longer than LMETAL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi KIMURA, Yukari INOUE
  • Publication number: 20210013183
    Abstract: A semiconductor module according to the present disclosure includes: an insulating substrate; a first conductor disposed on the insulating substrate; a second conductor disposed on the insulating substrate; a first semiconductor element disposed on the first conductor; a second semiconductor element disposed on the second conductor; a first busbar connected to the first conductor in a region between the first semiconductor element and the second semiconductor element; a second busbar connected to the second semiconductor element; and an output busbar connecting the first semiconductor element to the second conductor and connected to the second conductor in the region between the first semiconductor element and the second semiconductor element. The output busbar is disposed at least partially overlapping the first busbar, and in an overlap region between the output busbar and the first busbar, the output busbar is located above the first busbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: SHINGO OKAURA, JUNICHI KIMURA, ATSUSHI MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10793353
    Abstract: An article conveyance system includes a controller and a conveyance device. The controller includes: a storage section storing information concerning a position of a housing section stored in a shelf; a housing-section retrieving section retrieving, based on the information concerning the position of the housing section, housing positions of a plurality of the housing sections, which are picking targets, in the shelf; a route generating section generating a route that makes rounds of positions of the housing sections retrieved by the housing-section retrieving section; and a transmitting section transmitting information concerning the generated route and the housing positions of the housing sections to the conveyance device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Nakano, Yoriko Kazama, Junichi Kimura, Hiroshi Yoshitake