Patents by Inventor Kenichi Inoue

Kenichi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240225237
    Abstract: A method for producing fragrance sample delivery paper capable of housing and delivering a plurality of fragrance sample test strips (scent paper, mouillettes, perfume test paper) to be fragrance samples impregnated with perfumes by folding a single piece of rectangular paper, and such a fragrance sample delivery paper are provided. A sheet configured with a first sheet section (first inner-side face, first outer-side face), a second sheet section (second inner-side face, second outer-side face), and a third sheet section (third inner-side face, third outer-side face) is formed into a tri-fold shape. The third sheet section is folded and bonded to the second inner-side face to configure saclike sections, fragrance test strips are inserted into the saclike sections, and the first inner-side face (first outer-side face) and the second inner-side face (second outer-side face) are bonded to form the fragrance sample delivery paper having a plurality of saclike sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventor: Kenichi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240219550
    Abstract: A detection system includes an obtainer, a generator, a classifier, a centroid calculator, associator, and combiner. The obtainer obtains a reception signal from a radio wave sensor. The generator generates a scattered point including positional information of a target, based on the reception signal. The classifier classifies a scattered point group into one or more clusters. The scattered point group is a set of scattered points generated by the generator during a predetermined length of time. The centroid calculator calculates a centroid for each of the one or more clusters classified by the classifier. The associator associates any of the one or more clusters classified by the classifier with the target. The combiner combines, as the scattered point, the centroid calculated by the centroid calculator during a preceding or earlier period with the scattered point group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Kenichi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11958101
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a forged article, capable of improving the durability of a die for forging is provided. The method, includes forging a steel material, by using a die, by spraying or applying a water-soluble polymer lubricant containing 0.01 to 0.98 mass % of a water-soluble sulfate onto a working surface of the die, the die being made of a raw material having a constituent composition of by mass %, of 0.4 to 0.7% of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.0% or less of Mn, 4.0 to 6.0% of Cr, 2.0 to 4.0% of (Mo+½W), 0.5 to 2.5% of (V+Nb), 0 to 1.0% of Ni, 0 to 5.0% of Co, 0.02% or less of N, and a remnant composed of Fe and impurities, and having hardness of 55 to 60 HRC, and the die including a nitrided layer or a nitrosulfidized layer on the working surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: PROTERIAL, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DAIDO CHEMICAL CO., LTD., UMETOKU CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shouji, Shuho Koseki, Kenichi Inoue, Katsuhiro Obata, Satoshi Murakami, Naoki Hayashi, Yoshikazu Suzuki, Toshifumi Miyamoto, Toru Otomo, Nobuhiro Ikeda, Kousuke Uda, Takashi Ogisu
  • Patent number: 11932921
    Abstract: An object is to provide an alloy composition that has a sufficient melting point for casting of an aluminum alloy, also has high hardness, and can suppress an occurrence of galling. The alloy composition of the present invention includes: a Mo—Cr-based dendritic structure 3; and a Ni—Al-based interdendritic structure 5 that fills a periphery of the Mo—Cr-based dendritic structure 3. The alloy composition of the present invention can adopt a chemical composition I in which when Mo+Cr+Ni+Al=100 at. % holds, Ni+Al=15 to 50 at. % and Mo+Cr=50 to 85 at. % hold; or a chemical composition II in which Ni+Al=40 to 70 at. % and Mo+Cr=30 to 60 at. % hold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuho Koseki, Kenichi Inoue, Hiroshi Shiratori, Kazuya Shinagawa
  • Patent number: 11911146
    Abstract: A living body detection device includes a receiver that receives, from at least one non-contact sensor, a measurement result obtained by measuring a detection area with the at least one non-contact sensor, an extraction circuit that extracts a biological signal from the measurement result, a counting circuit that counts the number of living bodies present in the detection area from the biological signal, and an acquisition circuit that acquires a prescribed number of living bodies to be present in the detection area, and a verification circuit that verifies whether the number of living bodies counted by the counting circuit is equal to the prescribed number and outputs a result of verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230279523
    Abstract: There are provided an inexpensive copper powder, which has a low content of oxygen even it has a small particle diameter and which has a high shrinkage starting temperature when it is heated, and a method for producing the same. While a molten metal of copper heated to a temperature, which is higher than the melting point of copper by 250 to 700° C. (preferably 350 to 650° C. and more preferably 450 to 600° C.), is allowed to drop, a high-pressure water is sprayed onto the heated molten metal of copper in a non-oxidizing atmosphere (such as an atmosphere of nitrogen, argon, hydrogen or carbon monoxide) to rapidly cool and solidify the heated molten metal of copper to produce a copper powder which has an average particle diameter of 1 to 10 ?m and a crystallite diameter Dx(200) of not less than 40 nm on (200) plane thereof, the content of oxygen in the copper powder being 0.7% by weight or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Kenichi Inoue, Atsushi Ebara, Yoshiyuki Michiaki, Takahiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230247115
    Abstract: A PC includes: a frame designing section configured to design a communications frame of a communications protocol; and a protocol driver generating section configured to generate a protocol driver in accordance with the communications frame having been designed. The frame designing section includes: a providing section configured to provide a graphics object that graphically represents an element of at least one segment of the communications frame and that contains information on the size of the element, in a manner that enables the graphics object to be selected and to be disposed in the at least one segment; and a setting section configured to set the property of the element represented by the graphics object having been disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIRAISHI, Masao SAITO, Haruhiko UEKI, Kenichi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11692241
    Abstract: While a molten metal of copper heated to a temperature, which is higher than the melting point of copper by 250 to 700° C. (preferably 350 to 650° C. and more preferably 450 to 600° C.), is allowed to drop, a high-pressure water is sprayed onto the heated molten metal of copper in a non-oxidizing atmosphere (such as an atmosphere of nitrogen, argon, hydrogen or carbon monoxide) to rapidly cool and solidify the heated molten metal of copper to produce a copper powder which has an average particle diameter of 1 to 10 ?m and a crystallite diameter Dx(200) of not less than 40 nm on (200) plane thereof, the content of oxygen in the copper powder being 0.7% by weight or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Kenichi Inoue, Atsushi Ebara, Yoshiyuki Michiaki, Takahiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230167533
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a titanium or titanium alloy member and to a surface hardening method for the titanium or titanium alloy member. The titanium or titanium alloy member includes a base material of titanium or titanium alloy, and at a surface of the base material, a hardened layer formed by diffusion of oxygen into the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi SATO, Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Shouta NAGASAWA, Kenichi INOUE, Chinfu LIU, Wuchien LIU, Tienchai LIN, Weipin KAO
  • Publication number: 20230108039
    Abstract: A signal processing system according to the present disclosure includes a difference calculation unit and a determination unit. The difference calculation unit uses a sensor signal at a reference timing and a plurality of the sensor signals at a plurality of comparative timings shifted from the reference timing. The difference calculation unit generates a plurality of differential signals as respective differences between the sensor signal at the reference timing and the plurality of the sensor signals at the plurality of comparative timings and obtains respective magnitudes of the plurality of differential signals as a plurality of differential values. The determination unit obtains an evaluation value based on the plurality of differential values and determines a property of the object by using the evaluation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11578399
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a titanium or titanium alloy member and to a surface hardening method for the titanium or titanium alloy member. The titanium or titanium alloy member includes a base material of titanium or titanium alloy, and at a surface of the base material, a hardened layer formed by diffusion of oxygen into the surface. The method includes: a heating step of heating the titanium or titanium alloy base material of the member to a predetermined temperature under an inert gas atmosphere; a hardening step of introducing (i) a mixed gas including an inert gas, and (ii) oxygen gas as a hardening treatment gas, to perform hardening treatment of the surface of the base material; and a cooling step of cooling the base material down to room temperature under the inert gas atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Sato, Kazuma Kobayashi, Shouta Nagasawa, Kenichi Inoue, Chinfu Liu, Wuchien Liu, Tienchai Lin, Weipin Kao
  • Publication number: 20230032681
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a base having a pair of side wall portions separated from and facing each other and a connecting wall portion interconnecting the pair of side wall portions; and an air core coil formed by winding a wire, in which the air core coil is disposed in a groove portion formed by the pair of side wall portions and the connecting wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro URABE, Hajime KATO, Toshinori MATSUURA, Kenichi INOUE, Koutarou WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11465214
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a coated cutting tool having a hard coating film on a surface of the tool. The hard coating film is a nitride, the content ratio of titanium (Ti) with respect to a total amount of metal elements (including semimetal elements) is in a range of 70 at % to 95 at %, the content ratio of silicon (Si) with respect to the total amount of metal elements (including semimetal elements) is in a range of 5 at % to 30 at %, and the content ratio of argon (Ar) with respect to the total amount of metal elements (including semimetal elements) and non-metal elements is 0.1 at % or less. The hard coating film has a NaCl type crystal structure and has an average crystal grain size in a range of 5 nm to 30 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: MOLDINO Tool Engineering, Ltd., HITACHI METALS, LTD., Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon
    Inventors: Tomoya Sasaki, Shuho Koseki, Kana Morishita, Saleh Abusuilik, Kenichi Inoue, Denis Kurapov, Wolfgang Kalss
  • Patent number: 11420256
    Abstract: A silver powder which has a small content of carbon and which is difficult to be agglutinated, and a method for producing the same. While a molten metal, which is prepared by melting silver to which 40 ppm or more of copper is added, is allowed to drop, a high-pressure water is sprayed onto the molten metal to rapidly cool and solidify the molten metal to produce a silver powder which contains 40 ppm or more of copper, 0.1% by weight or less of carbon and 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Michiaki, Masahiro Yoshida, Kenichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11407030
    Abstract: There is provided a silver powder which has a small average particle diameter and a small thermal shrinkage percentage, and a method for producing the same. While a molten metal of silver heated to a temperature (1292 to 1692° C.), which is higher than the melting point (962° C.) of silver by 330 to 730° C., is allowed to drop, a high-pressure water is sprayed onto the molten metal of silver (preferably at a water pressure of 90 to 160 MPa) to rapidly cool and solidify the molten metal of silver to powderize silver to produce a silver powder which has an average particle diameter of 1 to 6 ?m and a shrinkage percentage of not greater than 8% (preferably not greater than 7%) at 500° C., the product of the average particle diameter by the shrinkage percentage at 500° C. being 1 to 11 ?m·% (preferably 1.5 to 10.5 ?m·%).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ebara, Kenichi Inoue, Yoshiyuki Michiaki, Takahiro Yamada, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20220049329
    Abstract: An object is to provide an alloy composition that has a sufficient melting point for casting of an aluminum alloy, also has high hardness, and can suppress an occurrence of galling. The alloy composition of the present invention includes: a Mo—Cr-based dendritic structure 3; and a Ni—Al-based interdendritic structure 5 that fills a periphery of the Mo—Cr-based dendritic structure 3. The alloy composition of the present invention can adopt a chemical composition I in which when Mo+Cr+Ni+Al=100 at. % holds, Ni+Al=15 to 50 at. % and Mo+Cr=50 to 85 at. % hold; or a chemical composition II in which Ni+Al=40 to 70 at. % and Mo+Cr=30 to 60 at. % hold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Shuho Koseki, Kenichi Inoue, Hiroshi Shiratori, Shinagawa Kazuya
  • Publication number: 20220005636
    Abstract: A soft magnetic powder, including an Fe alloy, and containing 0.1 to 15 mass % of Si, wherein a ratio (Si/Fe) of an atomic concentration of Si and an atomic concentration of Fe is from 4.5 to 30 at a depth of 1 nm from a particle surface of the soft magnetic powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi KAWAUCHI, Kyoso MASUDA, Kenichi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20210245233
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a forged article, capable of improving the durability of a die for forging is provided. The method, includes forging a steel material by using a die, by spraying or applying a water-soluble polymer lubricant containing 0.01 to 0.98 mass % of a water-soluble sulfate onto a working surface of the die, the die being made of a raw material having a constituent composition of by mass %, of 0.4 to 0.7% of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.0% or less of Mn, 4.0 to 6.0% of Cr, 2.0 to 4.0% of (Mo+½W), 0.5 to 2.5% of (V+Nb), 0 to 1.0% of Ni, 0 to 5.0% of Co, 0.02% or less of N, and a remnant composed of Fe and impurities, and having hardness of 55 to 60 HRC, and the die including a nitrided layer or a nitrosulfidized layer on the working surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Tatsuya SHOUJI, Shuho KOSEKI, Kenichi INOUE, Katsuhiro OBATA, Satoshi MURAKAMI, Naoki HAYASHI, Yoshikazu SUZUKI, Toshifumi MIYAMOTO, Toru OTOMO, Nobuhiro IKEDA, Kousuke UDA, Takashi OGISU
  • Patent number: 11041229
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide metal powder that can be used to form an external electrode, which is excellent in solder wettability and solder leach resistance while having a layer structure with fewer layers than in the related art and, furthermore, is excellent in electrical conductivity. This silver-coated alloy powder comprises a coating layer on a surface of an alloy core particle containing copper, nickel, zinc, and inevitable impurities, the coating layer containing silver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoso Masuda, Kenichi Inoue, Yuki Kaneshiro, Atsushi Ebara, Yoshiyuki Michiaki, Kozo Ogi, Takahiro Yamada, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11016444
    Abstract: A pointer including a pointer body constituted by a plate member, an engraved section provided in at least one of front and back surfaces of the pointer body excluding an edge of the pointer body, and a reinforcing section provided at the edge of the pointer body by the engraved section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Inoue, Masao Amano