Patents by Inventor Kei Inoue
Kei Inoue 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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Publication number: 20150354825Abstract: Provided is a fuel spray nozzle provided with: a liquid fuel channel (15) which is a channel for liquid fuel; a liquid fuel injection hole (19) which is a hole for communicating the liquid fuel channel (15) and the inside of a combustion burner, and injecting the liquid fuel into the combustion burner; an additive channel (14) which is a channel for an additive; and an additive injection hole (18a) which is a hole for communicating the additive channel (14) and the inside of the combustion burner, and injecting the additive into the combustion burner at an angle at which the additive collides with the liquid fuel injected from the liquid fuel injection hole (19); therefore, NOx reduction can be accomplished at low cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Shuhei KAJIMURA, Keijiro SAITO, Kei INOUE, Kotaro MIYAUCHI
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Patent number: 9170514Abstract: A polymerizable monomer is provided which is represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; A represents —CO— or —SO2—; and the moiety represented by the formula (1) is, at the part shown by an asterisk *, linked to a moiety represented by the following formula (2), at any position of a, b, c or d thereof; wherein the sites among a, b, c and d at which the moiety represented by the formula (2) is not linked to the moiety represented by the formula (1) each has a hydrogen atom or a substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkoxy group and a sulfonic acid group, or any of which may connect at mutually adjoining positions to form a ring.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuaki Murai, Kei Inoue, Ryuji Murayama, Kazuyuki Sato, Masashi Hirose
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Patent number: 9062885Abstract: A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine combustor includes: an internal cylinder; a burner cylinder concentrically provided on the outer circumference of the internal cylinder in the vicinity of its distal end to surround the distal end portion of the internal cylinder; an air passage provided between the burner cylinder and the internal cylinder for delivering combustion air; a space provided at an axial center of the internal cylinder and extending in the axial direction of the internal cylinder; a plurality of inner passages provided at approximately equal intervals in the circumferential direction of the internal cylinder for injecting fluid through its distal end portion; and at least one communication portion provided on the upstream side of the distal end portion of the internal cylinder and extending from the outer wall of the internal cylinder toward the inner side in the radial direction to communicate with the space.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Eiji Takami, Katsunori Tanaka, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu, Hideki Haruta, Tomo Kawakami, Kei Inoue
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Publication number: 20150115641Abstract: A vehicle center console includes a small item receptacle closing a part of an opening of a console body and capable of storing therein small items, and an arm rest closing a remaining part of the opening of the console body and capable of placing thereon an elbow of a passenger. The small item receptacle and the arm rest are mounted adjacent to each other on the console body in such a manner that the small item receptacle and the arm rest are slidable in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The vehicle center console has an opening mode for opening the opening of the console body by sliding the small item rearwardly so that both the small item and the arm rest are together slid rearwardly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Kei Inoue, Masamitsu Shiono
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Publication number: 20140305095Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine combustor capable of reducing the size of a low-temperature air layer of pilot air formed between a pilot flame and a premixed flame and of improving the flame stability of the premixed flame. A gas turbine combustor, which is provided with a pilot burner that is provided at the center portion of a combustor main body formed in a cylindrical shape to form a pilot flame, and a plurality of main burners arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the pilot burner to form a premixed flame, includes, as the ignition improving part, a channel blocking member that reduces the size of the low-temperature air layer of the pilot air formed between the pilot flame and the premixed flame.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kei Inoue, Keijiro Saito, Yoshikazu Matsumura, Sosuke Nakamura
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Publication number: 20140305094Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine combustor capable of reducing the size of a low-temperature air layer of pilot air formed between a pilot flame and a premixed flame and of improving the flame stability of the premixed flame. A gas turbine combustor, which is provided with a pilot burner that is provided at the center portion of a combustor main body formed in a cylindrical shape to form a pilot flame, and a plurality of main burners arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the pilot burner to form a premixed flame, includes, as the ignition improving part, a channel blocking member that reduces the size of the low-temperature air layer of the pilot air formed between the pilot flame and the premixed flame.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kei Inoue, Keijiro Saito, Yoshikazu Matsumura, Sosuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 8794004Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine combustor capable of reducing the size of a low-temperature air layer of pilot air formed between a pilot flame and a premixed flame and of improving the flame stability of the premixed flame. A gas turbine combustor, which is provided with a pilot burner that is provided at the center portion of a combustor main body formed in a cylindrical shape to form a pilot flame, and a plurality of main burners arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the pilot burner to form a premixed flame, includes, as the ignition improving part, a channel blocking member that reduces the size of the low-temperature air layer of the pilot air formed between the pilot flame and the premixed flame.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kei Inoue, Keijiro Saito, Yoshikazu Matsumura, Sosuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 8628899Abstract: There is provided an azo compound for improvement in the dispersibility of an azo pigment into a water-insoluble solvent.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Kawamura, Yuki Hasegawa, Masatake Tanaka, Takayuki Toyoda, Kei Inoue, Yasuaki Murai, Masashi Hirose, Takeshi Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20140011130Abstract: To provide a polymeric compound having superior charge-providing properties, the polymeric compound contains at least one unit represented by the following general formula (5). In the general formula (5), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R2 to R4 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a hydroxyl group or a halogen atom, or R3 and R4 may combine each other to form a ring; and A represents a divalent linking group.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kei Inoue, Yasuaki Murai, Ryuji Murayama, Kazuyuki Sato, Soichiro Kawakami, Masashi Hirose
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Publication number: 20140011129Abstract: A polymerizable monomer is provided which is represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; A represents —CO— or —SO2—; and the moiety represented by the formula (1) is, at the part shown by an asterisk *, linked to a moiety represented by the following formula (2), at any position of a, b, c or d thereof; wherein the sites among a, b, c and d at which the moiety represented by the formula (2) is not linked to the moiety represented by the formula (1) each has a hydrogen atom or a substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkoxy group and a sulfonic acid group, or any of which may connect at mutually adjoining positions to form a ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuaki Murai, Kei Inoue, Ryuji Murayama, Kazuyuki Sato, Masashi Hirose
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Publication number: 20140005417Abstract: The present invention provides a water-insoluble coloring compound that has high solubility in solvent, good color tone and saturation, spectral reflectance characteristics for a wide color gamut, and a high light resistance. The present invention provides an ink containing the water-insoluble coloring compound. Furthermore, the present invention provides a resist composition for color filter and a thermal transfer recording sheet each produced using the ink. The present invention provides a water-insoluble xanthene coloring compound having a specific structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kaoru Takahashi, Taichi Shintou, Yutaka Tani, Masao Nakano, Takayuki Ujifusa, Satoshi Saito, Yasuaki Murai, Kei Inoue, Masashi Hirose, Takeshi Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20140004458Abstract: There is provided a magenta toner having spectral reflection characteristics, such as high color developability and transparency, and high lightfastness. The magenta toner contains at least a water-insoluble xanthene dye compound having a specific structure and a binder resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaka Tani, Kaoru Takahashi, Masao Nakano, Takayuki Ujifusa, Taichi Shintou, Satoshi Saito, Yasuaki Murai, Kei Inoue, Takeshi Miyazaki, Masashi Hirose
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Patent number: 8507713Abstract: A pigment has a compound expressed by Formula (1). The pigment has a number average primary particle size of 30 to 70 nm and has a CuK? characteristic X-ray diffraction spectrum having, when ? represents a Bragg angle, a peak at 2?±0.20° equal to 10.0° and a peak at 2?±0.20° equal to 11.1°, the intensity ratio of the 11.1° peak to the 10.0° peak being 0.1 to 0.6.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kei Inoue, Takayuki Toyoda, Yutaka Tani, Taichi Shintou, Yasuaki Murai, Masashi Hirose
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Patent number: 8377616Abstract: There is provided a colorant compound improved in the dispersibility of an azo pigment into a water-insoluble solvent. The colorant compound is represented by the following general formula (1). R1 denotes an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a phenyl group; R2 to R6 each denote a hydrogen atom, or a substituent represented by the following general formula (2); R7 to R11 each denote a hydrogen atom, a COOR12 group, or a CONR13R14 group; and R12 to R14 each denote a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; and P1 denotes a polymeric component; L1 denotes an alkylene group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms or an arylene group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms; and * denotes a binding site.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Tani, Masashi Hirose, Takayuki Toyoda, Yasuaki Murai, Masatake Tanaka, Masashi Kawamura, Kei Inoue, Yuki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8367288Abstract: To provide a yellow toner satisfying good toner particles and a superior coloring power, the toner has toner base particles having at least a binder resin, a colorant and a wax component, and contains as the colorant at least a coloring matter compound represented by the following general formula (1) and a pigment represented by the following formula (2).Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Tani, Yasuaki Murai, Takayuki Toyoda, Masahiro Suenaga, Masatake Tanaka, Taichi Shintou, Kei Inoue, Masashi Kawamura, Masashi Hirose, Takeshi Miyazaki
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Patent number: 8343269Abstract: The present invention is a colorant compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein at least one of R2, R4, R7 and R9 is an acylamino group represented by the following general formula (2): wherein R11 denotes one of an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, an alkenyl group and a heterocyclic group; and ‘*’ denotes a bonding site with an aromatic ring of the general formula (1).Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kaoru Takahashi, Yasuaki Murai, Kei Inoue, Masashi Hirose, Takeshi Miyazaki, Ryosuke Nagao, Otome Mori, Minako Kawabe
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Patent number: 8312703Abstract: A solar-thermal gas turbine generator is equipped with a compressor, a heat receiver, and a turbine. Additionally, there is a generator that is driven by the solar-thermal gas turbine to generate power; and a steam power generation cycle in which high-temperature air exhausted from the turbine is introduced into a steam generator and in which a steam turbine that is operated with steam generated at the steam generator drives a generator to generator power, wherein a solar-thermal steam generator that generates steam by being heated with heat collected by the light collector is provided upstream of the steam turbine of the steam power generation cycle, and a distribution ratio for distributing the sunlight collected by the light collector to the heat receiver and the solar-thermal steam generator is adjusted in accordance with the sunlight intensity.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kuniaki Aoyama, Kei Inoue, Kazuta Kobayashi, Masashi Tagawa, Toshiyuki Osada, Manabu Maeda
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Publication number: 20120231388Abstract: There is provided an azo compound for improvement in the dispersibility of an azo pigment into a water-insoluble solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2011Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi Kawamura, Yuki Hasegawa, Masatake Tanaka, Takayuki Toyoda, Kei Inoue, Yasuaki Murai, Masashi Hirose, Takeshi Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20120180490Abstract: A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine combustor includes: an internal cylinder; a burner cylinder concentrically provided on the outer circumference of the internal cylinder in the vicinity of its distal end to surround the distal end portion of the internal cylinder; an air passage provided between the burner cylinder and the internal cylinder for delivering combustion air; a space provided at an axial center of the internal cylinder and extending in the axial direction of the internal cylinder; a plurality of inner passages provided at approximately equal intervals in the circumferential direction of the internal cylinder for injecting fluid through its distal end portion; and at least one communication portion provided on the upstream side of the distal end portion of the internal cylinder and extending from the outer wall of the internal cylinder toward the inner side in the radial direction to communicate with the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2011Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Eiji Takami, Katsunori Tanaka, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu, Hideki Haruta, Tomo Kawakami, Kei Inoue
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Publication number: 20120094226Abstract: There is provided a colorant compound improved in the dispersibility of an azo pigment into a water-insoluble solvent. The colorant compound is represented by the following general formula (1). R1 denotes an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a phenyl group; R2 to R6 each denote a hydrogen atom, or a substituent represented by the following general formula (2); R7 to R11 each denote a hydrogen atom, a COOR12 group, or a CONR13R14 group; and R12 to R14 each denote a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; and P1 denotes a polymeric component; L1 denotes an alkylene group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms or an arylene group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms; and * denotes a binding site.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaka Tani, Masashi Hirose, Takayuki Toyoda, Yasuaki Murai, Masatake Tanaka, Masashi Kawamura, Kei Inoue, Yuki Hasegawa