Patents by Inventor Ken Kurokawa

Ken Kurokawa 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: 20240310343
    Abstract: Provided is a novel space evaluation system capable of simply and quantitatively evaluating how close an unknown space is to a natural environment. The space evaluation system 1 comprises: a setting unit 12 for setting naturalness as an index of how close a space is to a natural environment; and an estimating unit 11 for estimating, from air quality data indicating a type of material including a microbe included in a sample collected from air in a target space to be evaluated and indicating an abundance of each material, the naturalness of the target space from which the sample has been collected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Akinobu TOYODA, Masakazu ITO, Satoshi KATAHIRA, Yuji MATSUO, Akinori IKEUCHI, Ken KUROKAWA, Koichi HIGASHI, Hiroshi MORI
  • Patent number: 11551788
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a sample data acquisition unit that acquires, for each sample, sample data in which a first cluster and a second cluster are associated with each other, the first cluster including a plurality of sets of a biological element detected from the sample and a biological element quantity indicating a quantity of the biological element, the second cluster including a plurality of sets of a morpheme regarding text describing an environment in which the sample is present and an appearance frequency of the morpheme; and a generation unit that analyzes a plurality of pieces of the sample data with the biological element quantity and the appearance frequency as parameters and generates information indicating a relationship between the environment and the first cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Inter-University Research Institute Corporation Research Organization of Information and Systems
    Inventors: Ken Kurokawa, Koichi Higashi, Hiroshi Mori
  • Patent number: 5698317
    Abstract: A polyolefin-based laminate film including at least 4 layers which includes a polyolefin-based resin layer; a polyolefin-based mixed resin layer formed on one surface of the polyolefin-based resin layer of which surface is treated by a discharge treatment, the polyolefin-based mixed resin layer containing at least one of petroleum resins and terpene resins in an amount of 5-30% by weight; a vapor deposited metal layer formed on the discharging-treated surface of the polyolefin-based mixed resin layer; and a heat seal layer formed on the surface of the polyolefin-based resin film opposite the surface on which the polyolefin-based mixed resin layer is formed. The laminate film has excellent moisture-proof and gas-barrier properties, and the rejection rate due to blocking in the production process is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Kurokawa, Nobuo Suzui