Patents by Inventor Kenichi Numata
Kenichi Numata 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: 20260185638Abstract: This flexible tube is formed by molding a thermoplastic resin composition into a tubular shape, has favorable physical properties for a roller pump or the like, and has high durability. The resin composition does not exhibit fracture until the strain reaches 300% in the stress-strain curve; has a positive value that is obtained by first-order differentiation of an approximation formula for the stress-strain curve in a region up to the fracture point; and exhibits an evaporation residue of 150 ?g/ml or less from a leaching solution obtained by immersing the resin composition in n-heptane as a solvent at 25° C. for 1 hour. The resin composition is characterized by having a tensile stress of 4.5 to 8.0 MPa at a strain of 100% in the stress-strain curve and a tensile stress within a range from 11.0 to 19.0 MPa at a strain of 300%.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2023Publication date: July 2, 2026Inventors: Kenichi NUMATA, Takumi KONISHI
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Patent number: 12584570Abstract: To provide a multilayer tubular molded body, which has high chemical resistance and heat resistance and excellent adhesive strength, and a method for producing the same, a multilayer tubular molded body 1 has an inner layer 2 containing a polyolefin as a main component, an outer layer 3 containing polyvinyl chloride as a main component, and an interlayer 4, which is provided between the inner layer 2 and the outer layer 3, has a function to attach the inner layer 2 and the outer layer 3, and contains a first polyolefin having an aromatic ring on a side chain and a second polyolefin having an ester containing group on a side chain.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: TOYOX CO., LTD.Inventors: Daichi Aoki, Kenichi Numata
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Publication number: 20250237330Abstract: A flexible tube includes at least a first resin layer which is composed of a fluororesin, having a thickness of 0.05 to 0.5 mm and accounting for 1 to 16% of a total thickness of the flexible tube, and a second resin layer composed of a thermoplastic resin different from the first resin layer, wherein the fluororesin has a free volume between molecular chains such that the flexural modulus dependent on number average molecular weight is 500 to 1200 MPa, the thermoplastic resin of the second resin layer has a flexural modulus of 200 to 1300 MPa, the flexural modulus is measured based on ASTM D790, and an amount of eluted substances obtained by analyzing an eluate obtained after putting heptane as a solvent into the flexible tube and allowing the flexible tube to stand at 25° C. for 60 minutes is 150 ppm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2025Publication date: July 24, 2025Inventors: Kenichi NUMATA, Masaru OKURA
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Patent number: 12353571Abstract: A storage device includes a storage and a controller. The storage includes a plurality of sections. The controller executes control of the storage. The control includes writing data to the storage and reading data from the storage, in response to a command from a host. The controller includes a security control unit that applies a data protection processing method compliant with a first specification or a second specification, to protect data in the storage. The security control unit applies a first data protection processing method compliant with the first specification to a first section of the plurality of sections and a second data protection processing method compliant with the second specification to a second section of the plurality of sections.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Kenichi Numata
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Publication number: 20250189063Abstract: This tube is an elongated object having longitudinally constant shape with a uniform wall thickness, preventing local concentration of load during use. The tube is highly durable and stabilizes discharging when used in a peristaltic pump or the like. This tube includes a flow passage 12 penetrating inside longitudinally and a resin section 13 surrounding the flow passage. The resin section is a laminate in which expanded polytetrafluoroethylene layers 16 having voids impregnated with elastomer and elastomer layers 18 each being made from at least one type of elastomer for bonding the polytetrafluoroethylene layers are alternately laminated radially in the flow passage. An average of wall thicknesses of the resin section in at least four mutually intersecting radial directions of the flow passage, a wall thickness ratio calculated from wall thicknesses in opposing directions of the four directions, and the number of laminated polytetrafluoroethylene layers and elastomer layers satisfy predetermined conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: June 12, 2025Inventors: Takumi KONISHI, Kenichi NUMATA
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Publication number: 20240328544Abstract: A flexible tube has a styrene-based elastomer as a main component, which is formed by extrusion molding so that a draw down ratio in an inner diameter will be 0.8 to 1.1, and an arithmetic average roughness Ra of an inner surface of the flexible tube is 1.5 ?m or less, and a maximum height Rz of an inner surface of the flexible tube is 7 ?m or less, and an amount of evaporation residue except for heptane in the flexible tube, which is measured in accordance with a test method in Standards and criteria for food and food additives, etc. (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Notification No. 380 on Dec. 4, 2020), is 30 ?g/ml or less, and a ratio of the maximum height Rz to the arithmetic average roughness Ra of an inner surface of the flexible tube Rz/Ra is 3.9 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventor: Kenichi NUMATA
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Publication number: 20240312089Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more processors configured to: from an image captured of a target object of a task and a worker performing the task, detect the target object and a change in a state of the target object; and correlate information about the detected change in the state of the target object with information about a pre-created procedure of the task.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventor: Kenichi NUMATA
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Patent number: 12085195Abstract: A flexible tube includes at least a first resin layer which includes a fluororesin and has a thickness of 0.05 to 0.5 mm and 1 to 16% of the overall thickness of the flexible tube, and a second resin layer which is provided on an outer side of the first resin layer and includes a thermoplastic resin different from that in the first resin layer, wherein in the fluororesin, the flexural modulus measured by ASTM D790 is 500 to 1200 MPa, and the ratio (A)/(B), which is obtained by FTIR measurement, of the peak area (A) corresponding to C—H bonds at a wavenumber of 1400 to 1500 cm?1 to the peak area (B) corresponding to C—F bonds at a wavenumber of 1000 to 1100 cm?1 is 0.2 to 4.0.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: TOYOX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Numata, Masaru Okura
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Publication number: 20240229980Abstract: A flexible tube includes at least a first resin layer which includes a fluororesin and has a thickness of 0.05 to 0.5 mm and 1 to 16% of the overall thickness of the flexible tube, and a second resin layer which is provided on an outer side of the first resin layer and includes a thermoplastic resin different from that in the first resin layer, wherein in the fluororesin, the flexural modulus measured by ASTM D790 is 500 to 1200 MPa, and the ratio (A)/(B), which is obtained by FTIR measurement, of the peak area (A) corresponding to C—H bonds at a wavenumber of 1400 to 1500 cm?1 to the peak area (B) corresponding to C—F bonds at a wavenumber of 1000 to 1100 cm?1 is 0.2 to 4.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Inventors: Kenichi NUMATA, Masaru OKURA
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Publication number: 20240151330Abstract: A multilayered tubular shaped object has an inner layer, an outer layer, and an interlayer interposed between the inner layer and the outer layer to bond them together, and the inner layer contains a polyolefin as a main component, the outer layer contains a thermoplastic polyurethane as a main component, the interlayer contains an adhesive polyolefin as a main component, a thickness of the outer layer is 1 to 1.5 mm, and a proportion of a sum of the thickness of the outer layer and a thickness of the interlayer to a thickness of the multilayered tubular shaped object is 0.7 to 0.88, and a softening temperature of the thermoplastic polyurethane is 135 to 200° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Daichi AOKI, Kenichi NUMATA
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Publication number: 20240133491Abstract: A flexible tube includes at least a first resin layer which includes a fluororesin and has a thickness of 0.05 to 0.5 mm and 1 to 16% of the overall thickness of the flexible tube, and a second resin layer which is provided on an outer side of the first resin layer and includes a thermoplastic resin different from that in the first resin layer, wherein in the fluororesin, the flexural modulus measured by ASTM D790 is 500 to 1200 MPa, and the ratio (A)/(B), which is obtained by FTIR measurement, of the peak area (A) corresponding to C—H bonds at a wavenumber of 1400 to 1500 cm?1 to the peak area (B) corresponding to C—F bonds at a wavenumber of 1000 to 1100 cm?1 is 0.2 to 4.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Kenichi NUMATA, Masaru OKURA
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Patent number: 11956356Abstract: According to one embodiment, a key management device includes a storage and a server. The storage includes a first nonvolatile memory, and a first controller configured to encrypt, using a first media encryption key, data from a host, and store the encrypted data in the first nonvolatile memory. The server includes a second nonvolatile memory storing a first key, and a second controller configured to transmit the first key from the second nonvolatile memory to the storage without passing through the host. The first controller is configured to generate the first media encryption key using the first key.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kusaka, Kenichi Numata
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Patent number: 11941261Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a first storage region assigned to a first user and a second storage region assigned to a second user. A first controller is capable of providing a data protection function to the first and second storage regions, and a second controller is capable of providing the data protection function to the second storage region. The first controller stores a table with information about the data protection function. The second controller can refer to the table. The first controller has a authority to execute a user authentication for the first storage region and the second storage region to determine whether the data protection function can be provided for the first or second storage regions.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Kenichi Numata
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Patent number: 11933438Abstract: An operator is enabled to easily identify the normal attachment direction of a ground clip and set the ground clip in a correct direction. Provided is a hose attachment structure in which a ground clip is attached over a grounded electroconductive pipe and a flexible hose inserted onto an outer face of the electroconductive pipe, wherein the ground clip includes a coil part that is attached to the outer face of the electroconductive pipe and an outer peripheral surface of the flexible hose and a pair of pinch parts that protrudes from both end parts in an axial direction of the coil part and faces each other, and one pinch part among the pair of pinch parts has an asymmetrically-shaped indicator part having directivity in the axial direction of the coil part.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOX CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenichi Numata
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Patent number: 11859736Abstract: An antistatic flexible hose, including: a hose body which is formed of a soft material having flexibility; a conductive layer which is provided along an outer peripheral face of the hose body in an axial direction; a conductive wire which is wound in a spiral shape along the outer peripheral face of the hose body and an outer surface of the conductive layer and which is provided so as to be pressure-welded, in a radial direction, to the outer peripheral face of the hose body and the outer surface of the conductive layer; and a reinforcing member which is provided in a spiral shape along the conductive wire so as to protrude from the outer peripheral face of the hose body and the outer surface of the conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaru Okura, Kenichi Numata
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Publication number: 20230337349Abstract: A plasma treatment apparatus has a dielectric with an inner cavity and having a cylindrical shape, a coiled inner electrode positioned on the inner peripheral surface side of the dielectric and wound along the axial direction, an outer electrode positioned on the outer peripheral surface side of the dielectric and applying an AC voltage between the outer electrode and the inner electrode, and a gas supply part supplying to the inner cavity a gas to generate plasma by applying the AC voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Kenichi NUMATA, Daichi AOKI
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Publication number: 20230297251Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a first storage region assigned to a first user and a second storage region assigned to a second user. A first controller is capable of providing a data protection function to the first and second storage regions, and a second controller is capable of providing the data protection function to the second storage region. The first controller stores a table with information about the data protection function. The second controller can refer to the table. The first controller has a authority to execute a user authentication for the first storage region and the second storage region to determine whether the data protection function can be provided for the first or second storage regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventor: Kenichi NUMATA
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Publication number: 20230250900Abstract: To provide a multilayer tubular molded body, which has high chemical resistance and heat resistance and excellent adhesive strength, and a method for producing the same, a multilayer tubular molded body 1 has an inner layer 2 containing a polyolefin as a main component, an outer layer 3 containing polyvinyl chloride as a main component, and an interlayer 4, which is provided between the inner layer 2 and the outer layer 3, has a function to attach the inner layer 2 and the outer layer 3, and contains a first polyolefin having an aromatic ring on a side chain and a second polyolefin having an ester containing group on a side chain.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Daichi AOKI, Kenichi NUMATA
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Publication number: 20230011828Abstract: An operator is enabled to easily identify the normal attachment direction of a ground clip and set the ground clip in a correct direction. Provided is a hose attachment structure in which a ground clip is attached over a grounded electroconductive pipe and a flexible hose inserted onto an outer face of the electroconductive pipe, wherein the ground clip includes a coil part that is attached to the outer face of the electroconductive pipe and an outer peripheral surface of the flexible hose and a pair of pinch parts that protrudes from both end parts in an axial direction of the coil part and faces each other, and one pinch part among the pair of pinch parts has an asymmetrically-shaped indicator part having directivity in the axial direction of the coil part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: TOYOX CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenichi NUMATA
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Patent number: 11521406Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a designated first component among one or more components which configure a document; a specification unit that specifies a second component, which has a determined relation with respect to the first component, among the components; and a notification unit that provides a notification of a request of an approval with respect to the first component to an approver in a case where all specified second components are approved.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Kenichi Numata