Patents by Inventor Kazuki Maeda
Kazuki Maeda 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: 12263779Abstract: A vehicle including a lamp body that irradiates surroundings of the vehicle, comprising a control unit configured to control an irradiation range of the lamp body according to a speed of the vehicle, wherein the control unit controls the irradiation range according to the speed to be different when the speed increases and when the speed decreases.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kuroba, Kazuki Akami, Hiroshi Maeda
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Publication number: 20250105459Abstract: A power storage module includes an electrode stack and a seal. The electrode stack includes a first end surface and a second end surface and a side surface. The seal includes: a side surface part; a first projecting part projecting onto the first end surface; a second projecting part projecting onto the second end surface; an overhang extending outward of the electrode stack; and a rib provided on the overhang. The side surface part includes a connecting portion to which the overhang is connected, a first side surface portion positioned between the connecting portion and the 10 first projecting part, and a second side surface portion positioned between the connecting portion and the second projecting part. The rib connects the overhang and the first side surface portion, and wherein the second side surface portion is thicker than the first side surface portion in a direction orthogonal to the side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takahito NAKANO, Kazuki Maeda, Kojiro Tamaru, Takahiro Inakuma
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Patent number: 12258482Abstract: An object is to provide a method for storing or transporting an aqueous white ink composition for inkjet that does not cause precipitation of a pigment therein during storage for a long period or transport, and allows the pigment to be easily redispersed even if precipitation occurs. As means for solving the problems, a storing method is provided that includes placing an aqueous white ink composition for inkjet containing titanium oxide and a pigment dispersant in a tank and maintaining the entire aqueous white ink composition for inkjet in the tank at a temperature of ?5 to ?35° C.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Sato, Hirohito Maeda, Kazuki Moriyasu, Eri Ueda, Takaaki Sano
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Publication number: 20250066629Abstract: Provided is an ink composition for inkjet printing, comprising a coloring material, water, an organic solvent, resin fine particles, and a surfactant, wherein the organic solvent includes a first organic solvent and a second organic solvent that is different from the first organic solvent, wherein a total amount of the first organic solvent and the second organic solvent is 90 mass % or more in the organic solvent, wherein the first organic solvent is propylene glycol, wherein the second organic solvent has a boiling point of 120 to 200° C., and includes at least one of glycols, glycol ethers, or methoxybutanols, and wherein a content of the first organic solvent is 15 to 50 mass % in the ink composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Hirohito MAEDA, Kazuki MORIYASU, Saiei SYU
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Publication number: 20250047618Abstract: A relay device relays communication. The relay device includes: a receiving unit that receives communication data from a communication device; a storage unit that stores the communication data received by the receiving unit; and a processing unit that performs processing. A first period and a second period are alternately set. The processing unit changes the total number of the first periods and the second periods included in a next predetermined period each time a predetermined period including the first periods and the second periods passes. The processing unit determines whether or not the communication data is stored in the storage unit. When it is determined that the communication data is stored in the storage unit, the processing unit specifies a period to which a communication determination time at which the determination has been performed belongs, from the first period and the second period.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Kazuyuki Inoue, Hideki Maeda, Takeshi Hagihara, Tadashi Matsumoto, Kazuki Kitagawa, Tatsuya Izumi, Hideyuki Tanaka, Yojiro Suyama
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Patent number: 12203046Abstract: The present invention relates to a grease composition including: a base oil; a thickener; a rust inhibitor; and an extreme pressure agent, in which the rust inhibitor includes, with respect to a total mass of the grease composition: 0.10 mass % to 10.00 mass % of a calcium sulfonate; 0.20 mass % to 10.00 mass % of a zinc sulfonate; and 0.10 mass % to 10.00 mass % of a zinc carboxylate, and the extreme pressure agent includes, with respect to the total mass of the grease composition, 2.00 mass % to 14.00 mass % of a zinc dialkyldithiophosphate.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kanako Niiya, Kazunori Miyake, Masayuki Murakami, Shota Akimoto, Takahiro Maeda, Kaname Nishi, Michitaka Yoshihara, Kazuki Isa, Koki Ando
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Publication number: 20240422868Abstract: A microwave heating device includes: a heating chamber in which objects to be heated are placed; a microwave generator that generates microwaves; a microwave radiator that radiates the microwaves generated by the microwave generator into the heating chamber; and a divider that divides a space of the heating chamber into at least two divided chambers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Inventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Daisuke HOSOKAWA, Yoshiharu OOMORI
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Publication number: 20240413504Abstract: A power storage device includes a pair of restraint plates configured to sandwich and restrain a stacked body, a pair of current collector plates, and a pair of insulating plates in a first direction; and a terminal base configured to be provided on a side surface of at least one of the restraint plates extending in a third direction intersecting both the first direction and a second direction, and the first direction, and have a terminal bolt fixed thereto. The at least one of the restraint plates is configured to have a pair of projecting portions projecting in the second direction beyond the side surface having the terminal base fixed thereto when viewed in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji OIDE, Kazuki Maeda, Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura
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Patent number: 12144092Abstract: A microwave treatment device of the present disclosure includes heating chamber (1) for accommodating object (2) to be heated, microwave generator (3), heater (7), power feeder (4), detector (5), and controller (6). Microwave generator (3) generates microwaves. Heater (7) includes a heat source other than the microwaves and heats an inside of heating chamber (1). Power feeder (4) supplies the heating chamber with the microwaves. Detector (5) detects reflected power from power feeder (4). Controller (6) controls heater (7) and microwave generator (3). When heater (7) carries out heating, Controller (6) causes microwave generator (3) to generate the microwaves in heating by heater (7). The microwaves have output power such that the reflected power at a level detectable by detector (5) returns. By present disclosure, by understanding progress of cooking, a heating target can be appropriately cooked.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Maeda, Daisuke Hosokawa, Yoshiharu Oomori, Koji Yoshino, Fumitaka Ogasawara, Takashi Uno
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Patent number: 12119501Abstract: A coin-type lithium secondary cell for soldering by reflow method includes a positive electrode including a lithium composite oxide, a negative electrode, an electrolyte layer provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and including an electrolytic solution, a cell case having an enclosed space in which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the electrolyte layer are housed. The positive electrode and the negative electrode as a whole contains 3.0% by mass or less of lithium carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Yukinobu Yura, Kazuki Maeda, Masanori Tajima
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Patent number: 12120805Abstract: A high-frequency heating apparatus includes heating chamber (1), generator (2), radiator (3), and controller (30). Heating chamber (1) has a wall surface including metal, and accommodates object (4) to be heated. Generator (2) generates high-frequency power at any frequency in a band of 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz. Radiator (3) includes loop antenna (3) including a plurality of loop portions (3A, 3B), and radiates the high-frequency power generated by generator (2) to heating chamber (1). Controller (30) controls a frequency of the high-frequency power generated by generator (2). According to this aspect, a heating target can be uniformly heated or partially heated without a waveguide for transmitting high-frequency power.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Maeda, Daisuke Hosokawa, Yoshiharu Oomori
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Patent number: 12074295Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a wiring board, a coin-type secondary cell that is a lithium secondary cell electrically connected to the wiring board by reflow soldering, and a wireless communication device electrically connected to the wiring board. The coin-type secondary cell includes a positive electrode including a sintered body, a negative electrode including a sintered body, an electrolyte layer provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a cell case having an enclosed space in which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the electrolyte layer are housed. When C is given as the capacity of the positive electrode and A is given as the capacity of the negative electrode, 1.03<C/A<1.60 is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Yukinobu Yura, Kazuki Maeda, Shunsuke Mizukami
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Publication number: 20240200163Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for recovering at least one kind of metal selected from the group consisting of gold (Au) and palladium (Pd), the method including: an addition process of adding a metal adsorbent to a solution containing the metal; and an adsorption process of causing the metal to be adsorbed on the metal adsorbent, wherein the metal adsorbent comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a cell and a cell-derived article of microorganism belonging to Cyanidiales, a processed article of the cell and the cell-derived article, and an artificial substance mitigating the cell, the cell-derived article, and the processed article, and wherein the solution is a nitric acid solution or a sulfuric acid solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: Galdieria Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eri Adams, Kazuki Maeda, Chiharu Tokoro, Tatsuya Kato
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Publication number: 20240194948Abstract: Provided is a non-aqueous electrolyte containing a non-aqueous electrosolvent and a lithium salt, wherein the non-aqueous solvent includes a carbonate solvent, the lithium salt contains a fluorine-containing cyclic sulfonylimide salt represented by general formula (1): (in the formula, Rf each may be the same or different and each represent a fluorine atom or a C4 or lower perfluoro group), and a fluorine-containing sulfonamide compound represented by general formula (2): H(CR2)m—SO2NHM2 (in the formula, R each may be the same or different and each are a fluorine atom or a trifluoromethyl group, M2 is Li, Na, K, H, or NH4, and m is 1 or 2) is contained in an amount of 1,000 mass ppm or less relative to the total amount of non-aqueous electrolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Ito, Naoki Matsuoka, Kaishi Hori, Kazuki Maeda, Nobuyuki Uematsu
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Patent number: 11996544Abstract: Provided is a coin-shaped lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode plate which is a lithium complex oxide sintered plate; a negative electrode plate which is a titanium-containing sintered plate; a separator interposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate; an electrolytic solution with which the positive electrode plate, the negative electrode, and the separator are impregnated; and an exterior body having a closed space, the closed space accommodating the positive electrode plate, the negative electrode plate, the separator, and the electrolytic solution, the lithium secondary battery having a thickness of 0.7 to 1.6 mm and a diameter of 10 to 20 mm.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Yukinobu Yura, Kazuki Maeda, Shunsuke Mizukami
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Publication number: 20240172337Abstract: A high-frequency heating apparatus includes a table, a high-frequency power generator, a transmission body, a radiation part, and an elevating drive mechanism. A heating target is to be placed on the table. The high-frequency power generator generates high-frequency power. The transmission body propagates the high-frequency power as surface waves. The radiation part is disposed on the transmission body and radiates the surface waves as high-frequency power. The elevating drive mechanism sets a distance between a top surface of the table or the heating target and the transmission body to not less than a predetermined distance so as to heat the heating target entirely by the high-frequency power. The elevating drive mechanism sets a distance between the top surface of the table or the heating target and the transmission body to not greater than the predetermined distance so as to partially brown the heating target by the surface waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: MASAYUKI KUBO, YOSHIHARU OOMORI, KAZUKI MAEDA
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Publication number: 20240127189Abstract: Provided is a work management device including an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating login to a system using a first terminal and an operation history of the first terminal occurring after login to the system, a specifying unit that specifies a non-operation period of a terminal from the operation history of the first terminal, and a calculation unit that calculates working hours including the non-operation period of the terminal according to a length of the non-operation period of the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Hiroko Imai, Mitsuhiro Nakayama
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Publication number: 20240127190Abstract: Provided is a work management device including an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating login to a system using a first terminal and an operation history of the first terminal occurring after login to the system, a specifying unit that specifies a non-operation period of a terminal from the operation history of the first terminal, and a calculation unit that calculates working hours including the non-operation period of the terminal according to a length of the non-operation period of the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Hiroko Imai, Mitsuhiro Nakayama
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Publication number: 20240121868Abstract: A microwave processing device of the present disclosure is provided with a heating chamber, a microwave generating unit, an amplifying unit, a power supply unit, a detecting unit, a control unit, and a storage unit. The microwave generating unit generates microwave having an optional frequency in a predetermined frequency band. The amplifying unit amplifies an output level of the microwave. The power supply unit radiates the microwave amplified by the amplifying unit into the heating chamber as incident electric power. The detecting unit detects reflected electric power, which returns to the power supply unit from the heating chamber, from among the incident electric power. The control unit controls the microwave generating unit and the amplifying unit. The storage unit stores a value of the reflected electric power, together with a frequency of the microwave and an elapsed time from the start of heating.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: DAISUKE HOSOKAWA, YOSHIHARU OOMORI, HIDEKI NAKAMURA, KAZUKI MAEDA, TAKASHI UNO
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Publication number: 20240112146Abstract: Provided is a work management device including an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating login to a system using a first terminal and an operation history of the first terminal occurring after login to the system, a specifying unit that specifies a non-operation period of a terminal from the operation history of the first terminal, and a calculation unit that calculates working hours including the non-operation period of the terminal according to a length of the non-operation period of the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Hiroko IMAI, Mitsuhiro NAKAYAMA