Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Yamada

Kazuhiro Yamada 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).

  • Patent number: 10852238
    Abstract: A fluorescence image analyzer, analyzing method, and pretreatment evaluation method capable of determining with high accuracy whether a sample is positive or negative are provided. A pretreatment part performs pretreatment including a step of labeling a target site with a fluorescent dye to prepare a sample. A fluorescence image analyzer measures and analyzes the sample. The fluorescent image analyzer includes light sources to irradiate light on the sample, imaging part to capture the fluorescent light given off from the sample irradiated by light, and processing part for processing the fluorescence image captured by the imaging part. The processing part extracts the bright spot of fluorescence generated from the fluorescent dye that labels the target site from the fluorescence image for each of a plurality of cells included in the sample, and generates information used for determining whether the sample is positive or negative based on the bright spots extracted for each of the plurality of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 10836168
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head is manufactured by forming on a substrate an energy generating element for ejecting a liquid, an integrated circuit for driving the energy generating element, a supply port for the liquid so as to penetrate through the substrate, an electrode for generating a liquid flow, and a flow path forming member having an ejection orifice for ejecting the liquid such that a flow path for the liquid is formed between the substrate and the flow path forming member. The electrode is formed over high and low of a stepped shape formed on the substrate in at least one step selected from the steps of forming the energy generating element, forming the integrated circuit and forming the supply port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Kasai, Takashi Sugawara, Masafumi Morisue, Takuro Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Tomoko Kudo
  • Patent number: 10828893
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes an element substrate including a common liquid chamber connected to a liquid supply source, a pressure chamber connected to the common liquid chamber and including inside an element to generate energy used for ejecting liquid, a bubble generating chamber connected to the common liquid chamber and including inside a pump to cause a flow of the liquid, and a connection flow path connecting the pressure chamber and the bubble generating chamber. The liquid ejecting head includes a first anti-cavitation film over the element to generate the energy and a second anti-cavitation film over the pump, and the first anti-cavitation film and the second anti-cavitation film have different film thicknesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masafumi Morisue, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Takuro Yamazaki, Ryo Kasai, Tomoko Kudo, Takashi Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20200348970
    Abstract: A management system includes a storage unit that stores schedule information that indicates schedules of a plurality of tasks to be performed by the same flight vehicle. The schedule information includes types of the plurality of tasks, date/times of the plurality of tasks, and locations at which the plurality of tasks are to be performed. When the types, the date/times, and the locations that are included in the schedule information stored in the storage unit satisfy an integration condition, an integration unit integrates the schedules of the plurality of tasks. An output unit outputs integrated schedule information indicating the schedules of the integrated tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa
  • Patent number: 10821736
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a discharge port; a flow passage; a discharge port part; a supply flow passage; and a recovery flow passage. The flow passage, the supply flow passage, and the recovery flow passage are configured such that the liquid inside the flow passage is capable of being circulated between the inside of the flow passage and the outside of the flow passage. An opening of the discharge port is configured such that a liquid surface of the liquid within the opening of the discharge port has a first region and that a second region, and a viscosity of the liquid in the first region is 1.2 or more times higher than a viscosity of the liquid in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shingo Okushima, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Yasuhiko Osaki, Naozumi Nabeshima
  • Patent number: 10824171
    Abstract: A launched flying object is configured to continue to transmit a signal to a launching device. The launching device is configured to continue to receive the signal from the launched flying object, continue to calculate a probability when the launched flying object intercepts a target from a distance, a relative velocity and a relative angle between the launched flying object and the target, and output a final interception probability when communication from the launched flying object is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Araki, Kazuhiro Yamada, Keisuke Ando, Yasuhiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 10826986
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of first-information acquiring units, a second-information acquiring unit, a merge unit, and a processing unit. Each of the plurality of first-information acquiring units is configured to acquire, from a corresponding cloud among a plurality of clouds that manage first information, the first information in a mode according to the cloud. The second-information acquiring unit is configured to acquire second information. The merge unit is configured to merge the first information acquired by any one of the first-information acquiring units with the second information acquired by the second-information acquiring unit. The processing unit is configured to perform processing based on merge information that is obtained by merging the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20200320460
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an accumulation unit that accumulates history information regarding a flight history of an aircraft. A specification unit, based on the history information accumulated by the accumulation unit, specifies a candidate to be an operation assistant who assists an operation planned by an assisted operator. An output unit outputs information regarding the candidate to be the operation assistant specified by the specification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 10792917
    Abstract: The liquid ejecting head includes a first individual flow path and a second individual flow path for supplying liquid to a pressure chamber, a first common flow path for supplying liquid to the first individual flow path, and a second common flow path for supplying liquid to the second individual flow path. A first circulation for causing liquid to flow in the order of the first individual flow path, the pressure chamber, and the second individual flow path and a second circulation for causing liquid to flow in the reverse order of the first circulation are switched. A flow path resistance of the first common flow path is designed to be less than a flow path resistance of the second common flow path and a flow path resistance of the first individual flow path is designed to be less than a flow path resistance of the second individual flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Yohei Nakamura, Naozumi Nabeshima
  • Patent number: 10792930
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejection port ejecting a liquid, a pressure chamber storing the liquid, an element generating energy for ejecting the liquid in the pressure chamber, first and second tanks which can store the liquid, a flow passage establishing communication between the first and second tanks through the pressure chamber, a switching unit switching a flowing direction of the liquid in the flow passage between a first direction from the first tank to the second tank and a second direction being opposite to the first direction, and a pressure compensation unit. When a pressure in a downstream side flow passage portion downstream of the pressure chamber has a predetermined pressure or below, the pressure compensation unit compensates for reduction in pressure in the downstream side flow passage portion by supplying the liquid to the downstream side flow passage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yohei Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Naozumi Nabeshima
  • Publication number: 20200310716
    Abstract: A system includes an operation device and an information storing apparatus, which are connected via a network. The operation device determines, based on information input from the outside of the operation device in response to an operation performed on the operation device, an electronic device among a plurality of electronic devices connected to the system, for causing the electronic device to input electronic data to the information storing apparatus, and sends, to the information storing apparatus, a first request to cause the determined electronic device to input the electronic data to the information storing apparatus. The information storing apparatus sends, to the determined electronic device, a second request based on the first request sent from the operation device, and stores the electronic data that has been sent from the determined electronic device based on the sent second request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20200290363
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a plurality of liquid ejection units ejecting different types of liquids. Each liquid ejection unit includes an ejection orifice which ejects a liquid, first and second liquid tanks which store the liquid, and a liquid flow path which connects the first liquid tank and the second liquid tank to each other across the ejection orifice. The liquid ejection apparatus further includes a cap member which covers of the ejection orifices of the plurality of liquid ejection units and forms a space sealed between the ejection orifices of the plurality of liquid ejection units and the cap member, and a pressure control mechanism which simultaneously pressurizes the first and second liquid tanks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Yohei Nakamura, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20200293553
    Abstract: A plurality of feature values are extracted from input data as document data, distributed representations of words that correspond to the respective extracted plurality of feature values is obtained, and the extracted plurality of feature values are aggregated into a plurality of classifications based on the obtained distributed representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Isao SONOBE, Takashi MISUBUCHI, Hideaki TANAKA, Hiroaki takasu, Kazuhiro YAMADA, Yasuhiro MITSUNO
  • Publication number: 20200282947
    Abstract: In a webbing take-up device, in a case in which the acceleration with which a webbing is pulled out from a spool, which is based on the radius of the webbing taken up on the spool and the angular acceleration of rotation of the spool in the pull-out direction that are detected by an angle-of-rotation sensor, is equal to or greater than a predetermined acceleration, a lock mechanism locks the rotation of the spool in the pull-out direction. For this reason, the rotation of the spool can be locked on based on the acceleration with which the webbing is pulled out from the spool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoya OWAKI, Kazuhiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20200278673
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to provide piloting assistance to a pilot of a flight vehicle from a remote location. A server apparatus functions as a control platform for controlling the flight of the flight vehicle. Specifically, flight control is performed in which the server apparatus determines whether a first piloting terminal operated by a pilot or a second piloting terminal operated by a piloting assister is to pilot the flight vehicle, and in a case of determining that the second piloting terminal is to pilot the flight vehicle, the server apparatus transfers commands for the flight vehicle that are received from the second piloting terminal to the flight vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 10759182
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejection port ejecting a liquid, a pressure chamber storing the liquid, an element generating energy for ejecting the liquid in the pressure chamber, first and second tanks which can store the liquid, a flow passage establishing communication between the first and second tanks through the pressure chamber, a switching unit switching a flowing direction of the liquid in the flow passage between a first direction from the first tank to the second tank and a second direction being opposite to the first direction, and a pressure compensation unit. When a pressure in a downstream side flow passage portion downstream of the pressure chamber has a predetermined pressure or below, the pressure compensation unit compensates for reduction in pressure in the downstream side flow passage portion by supplying the liquid to the downstream side flow passage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yohei Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Naozumi Nabeshima
  • Publication number: 20200247136
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head has a laminated flow path member on which a supply flow path for individually supplying a plurality of liquids to an element substrate and a collection flow path for individually collecting the liquids are formed. The supply flow path includes first and second common supply flow paths for horizontally leading first and second liquids to positions corresponding to a plurality of element substrates. The first and second common supply flow paths are formed in the same layer of the laminated flow path member. The collection flow path includes a first common collection flow path for horizontally collecting the first liquid and a second common collection flow path for horizontally collecting the second liquid from positions corresponding to the plurality of element substrates. The first and second common collection flow paths are formed in the same layer of the laminated flow path member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Toru Nakakubo, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Shingo Okushima
  • Patent number: 10717273
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes an ejection orifice through which a liquid is ejected, a first liquid flow path which is in communication with the ejection orifice and through which the liquid flows, a second liquid flow path which is in communication with the ejection orifice on the opposite side of the first liquid flow path with respect to the ejection orifice 12 and through which the liquid flows, a first electrode positioned in the first liquid flow path 13, and a second electrode which is positioned in the second liquid flow path and generates an electro-osmotic flow in the liquid together with the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Noriyasu Nagai, Takuro Yamazaki, Toru Nakakubo, Akira Yamamoto, Masafumi Morisue, Ryo Kasai
  • Publication number: 20200226306
    Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to prevent discoloration of a surface of a hot-dip coated steel sheet after hot-dip coating. A cooling rate determining device includes: a coefficient obtaining section configured to obtain coefficients ?, ?, ?, and ? associated with the hot-dip coating bath, in the following Expression (1) which expresses a degree of discoloration YI of the surface of a hot-dip coated steel sheet; and a rate determining section configured to determine an average cooling rate A so as to allow the YI of the following Expression (1) to be not more than a predetermined reference value, YI=(?×[SE]+?)×{(T?ST)/A}1/2+?×[SE]+???(1), where: [SE] is a concentration (mass %) of a specific element contained in the hot-dip coating bath; T is a temperature (° C.) of the hot-dip coating bath; and ST is a solidification temperature (° C.) at which the hot-dip coating bath is solidified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Koutarou Ishii, Shinya Furukawa, Shinichi Koga, Yasunori Hattori, Patrick Edward Pendleton, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 10703105
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head is provided with an ejection orifice array having multiple ejection orifices in order to eject a liquid; multiple energy-generating elements for generating energy in order to eject the liquid; a substrate provided with the energy-generating elements; a through-port array having multiple through-ports penetrating the substrate; multiple linear liquid flow paths positioned between the through-port array and the ejection orifice array and connected to respective ejection orifices of the ejection orifice array and respective through-ports of the through-port array; and first and second electrodes arranged in each of the multiple liquid flow paths for generating an electroosmotic flow in the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Noriyasu Nagai, Takuro Yamazaki, Toru Nakakubo, Akira Yamamoto, Masafumi Morisue, Ryo Kasai