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).

  • Patent number: 12263779
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kuroba, Kazuki Akami, Hiroshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20250105459
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takahito NAKANO, Kazuki Maeda, Kojiro Tamaru, Takahiro Inakuma
  • Patent number: 12258482
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Hirohito Maeda, Kazuki Moriyasu, Eri Ueda, Takaaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20250066629
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Hirohito MAEDA, Kazuki MORIYASU, Saiei SYU
  • Publication number: 20250047618
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Inoue, Hideki Maeda, Takeshi Hagihara, Tadashi Matsumoto, Kazuki Kitagawa, Tatsuya Izumi, Hideyuki Tanaka, Yojiro Suyama
  • Patent number: 12203046
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: 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
  • Publication number: 20240422868
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Daisuke HOSOKAWA, Yoshiharu OOMORI
  • Publication number: 20240413504
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuji OIDE, Kazuki Maeda, Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura
  • Patent number: 12144092
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Maeda, Daisuke Hosokawa, Yoshiharu Oomori, Koji Yoshino, Fumitaka Ogasawara, Takashi Uno
  • Patent number: 12119501
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Yura, Kazuki Maeda, Masanori Tajima
  • Patent number: 12120805
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Maeda, Daisuke Hosokawa, Yoshiharu Oomori
  • Patent number: 12074295
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Yura, Kazuki Maeda, Shunsuke Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20240200163
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Galdieria Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eri Adams, Kazuki Maeda, Chiharu Tokoro, Tatsuya Kato
  • Publication number: 20240194948
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Naoki Matsuoka, Kaishi Hori, Kazuki Maeda, Nobuyuki Uematsu
  • Patent number: 11996544
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Yura, Kazuki Maeda, Shunsuke Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20240172337
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: MASAYUKI KUBO, YOSHIHARU OOMORI, KAZUKI MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240127189
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Hiroko Imai, Mitsuhiro Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20240127190
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Hiroko Imai, Mitsuhiro Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20240121868
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: DAISUKE HOSOKAWA, YOSHIHARU OOMORI, HIDEKI NAKAMURA, KAZUKI MAEDA, TAKASHI UNO
  • Publication number: 20240112146
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki MAEDA, Hiroko IMAI, Mitsuhiro NAKAYAMA