Patents by Inventor Kenji Inoue

Kenji 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).

  • Patent number: 9700793
    Abstract: A recording medium for storing a game program which processes progress of a game, the game program when executed on a computer causes the computer to execute instructions for: storing basic information of game contents and state information changing according to the progress of the game; receiving an instruction from a user; generating information relating to a game screen based on a received instruction; and outputting information relating to the generated game screen to a user terminal at a predetermined time, wherein the screen information relates to a first game screen that displays game contents and information relating to a second game screen that displays state information of the game contents, and the second game screen includes latest state information at a time when receiving a first instruction which is an instruction to update the state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Inoue
  • Patent number: 9683330
    Abstract: There is provided a wet paper web transfer belt for transferring a wet paper web, comprising: a wet paper web carrying side resin layer having a wet paper web carrying surface for carrying the wet paper web; and a roll side resin layer having a roll contacting surface. A water swelling rate of a resin material constituting the wet paper web carrying side resin layer and a water swelling rate of a resin material constituting the roll side resin layer are different, and the water swelling rate of the resin material constituting the wet paper web carrying side resin layer is 2.0% or more and the water swelling rate of the resin material constituting the roll side resin layer is 10.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kenji Inoue, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura, Yuta Sugawara, Tomoyo Ogishima
  • Publication number: 20170051455
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a wet paper web transfer belt with excellent crack resistance in the regions of the wet paper web transfer belt facing the roll edges. This is achieved by an endless wet paper web transfer belt travelling by rotation while being supported by a plurality of rolls in the press part of a papermaking machine; wherein the wet paper web transfer belt has at least an outer circumferential resin layer on the wet paper supporting side, the outer circumferential resin layer comprises roll edge-facing regions positioned to face both edges in the width direction of at least one of the plurality of rolls and a central region positioned between the roll edge-facing regions, the difference in the thickness between the thickness of the roll edge-facing regions and the thickness of the central region is 0.5 mm or less, and the maximum profile valley depth Rv of the outer circumferential surface of the roll edge-facing regions is 40 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta SUGAWARA, Kenji INOUE
  • Publication number: 20160348311
    Abstract: There is provided a wet paper web transfer belt for transferring a wet paper web, comprising: a wet paper web carrying side resin layer having a wet paper web carrying surface for carrying the wet paper web; and a roll side resin layer having a roll contacting surface. A water swelling rate of a resin material constituting the wet paper web carrying side resin layer and a water swelling rate of a resin material constituting the roll side resin layer are different, and the water swelling rate of the resin material constituting the wet paper web carrying side resin layer is 2.0% or more and the water swelling rate of the resin material constituting the roll side resin layer is 10.0% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: KENJI INOUE, RYO UMEHARA, AI TAMURA, YUTA SUGAWARA, TOMOYO OGISHIMA
  • Patent number: 9239683
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic disk device including a magnetic disk, a storage unit, and a control unit. The magnetic disk includes a recording region. The storage unit is configured to store a value according to number of accesses to each of a plurality of regions obtained by dividing of the recording region of the magnetic disk in association with each of the plurality of regions. The control unit is configured to count a value according to the number of accesses to each of a plurality of regions in a count step unit that is a value determined according to an elapsed time from occurrence of a specific situation and is a value counted per unit access, and to update the value stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Michio Yamamoto, Tetsuo Kuribayashi, Masami Tashiro, Kenji Inoue, Takumi Kakuya, Hironori Kanno, Keiichi Yorimitsu
  • Patent number: 9187286
    Abstract: This folding device 1 comprises: a folding blade mechanism operation control mechanism 16 for operating a folding blade mechanism 13C provided in a folding cylinder 13; and a paper edge holding mechanism operation control mechanism 15 for operating a paper edge holding mechanism 13B provided in the folding cylinder 13, the folding blade mechanism operation control mechanism 16 and the paper edge holding mechanism operation control mechanism 15 being provided capable of activation based on a predetermined activating signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kenji Maeda, Kenji Inoue
  • Publication number: 20150299277
    Abstract: The present invention provides a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), which contains a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence the same or substantially the same as the amino acid sequence of the N-terminal domain of pentraxin 3 capable of binding to histone to form a polypeptide aggregate, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention also provides a reagent for quantification and a quantification method of histone, which utilize the polypeptide or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. Furthermore, the present invention provides a polypeptide aggregate containing the polypeptide or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof and histone and a production method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Takao HAMAKUBO, Kouhei TSUMOTO, Kenji DAIGO, Kenji INOUE, Naotaka YAMAGUCHI, Motoaki MIZUUCHI, Hiroya FUJII
  • Patent number: 9157185
    Abstract: A wet paper web transfer belt for transferring a wet paper web includes a wet paper web contacting surface for carrying the wet paper web. The wet paper web contacting surface is constituted by a resin layer. The wet paper web contacting surface includes, in the width direction, sheet edge regions for carrying the edge parts of the wet paper web and a center region for carrying the center vicinity of the wet paper web. The arithmetic average roughness Ra1 (?m) of the wet paper web contacting surface in the sheet edge regions is smaller than the arithmetic average roughness Ra2 (?m) of the wet paper web contacting surface in the center region, and prescribed roughness related equations are fulfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Inoue, Masatoshi Kono, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura, Toshihiro Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9145643
    Abstract: A wet paper web transfer belt for transferring a wet paper web includes a wet paper web contacting surface for carrying the wet paper web. The wet paper web contacting surface is constituted by a resin layer, and the wet paper web contacting surface includes a wet paper web carrying region for carrying the wet paper web. A prescribed relation of the swelling rate in water of the resin layer and the surface roughness of the wet paper web contacting surface is fulfilled in accordance with the basis weight of the base paper of the wet paper web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Inoue, Masatoshi Kono, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura, Toshihiro Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20150238860
    Abstract: A recording medium for storing a game program which processes progress of a game, the game program when executed on a computer causes the computer to execute instructions for: storing basic information of game contents and state information changing according to the progress of the game; receiving an instruction from a user; generating information relating to a game screen based on a received instruction; and outputting information relating to the generated game screen to a user terminal at a predetermined time, wherein the screen information relates to a first game screen that displays game contents and information relating to a second game screen that displays state information of the game contents, and the second game screen includes latest state information at a time when receiving a first instruction which is an instruction to update the state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventor: Kenji Inoue
  • Patent number: 9116957
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage media are disclosed that involve a server receiving a search query including a query term and a substitute term for the query term and data corresponding to a set of documents. The server accesses a value corresponding to a relevance of the search query to a selected document from the set of documents and determines that the value satisfies a predetermined threshold. The server then generates a score for the selected document according to a first scoring model, the first scoring model including a first increment value for the substitute term. The first scoring model is different than a second scoring model used to generate scores for one or more other documents from the set of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Inoue, Tomoaki Yamauchi, Kenichi Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20150218751
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to reduce the wear of the doctor blade applied to the wet paper web transfer belt and the wear of the guide rolls supporting the wet paper web transfer belt while maintaining the wear resistance of the wet paper web contacting surface and the machine contacting surface of the wet paper web transfer belt together with the adhesive and releasing properties of the wet paper web on the wet paper web contacting surface of conventional wet paper web transfer belts. This is achieved by a wet paper web transfer belt in which a polyurethane is integrated with a reinforcing base material comprising a wet paper web-side surface and a machine-side surface, at least the wet paper web-side surface of the reinforcing base material is embedded in the polyurethane, an outer circumferential layer comprising a wet paper web contacting surface is constituted by some of the polyurethane; wherein, at least the outer circumferential layer comprises a spherical filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji INOUE, Ryo UMEHARA, Ai TAMURA, Yuta SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20150218752
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a wet paper web transfer belt wherein the adhesive properties and releasing properties of the wet paper web with the wet paper web contacting surface of conventional wet paper web transfer belts have been further improved and paper robbing and floating edges do not occur. This is achieved by a wet paper web transfer belt in which a polyurethane is integrated with a reinforcing base material comprising a wet paper web-side surface and a machine-side surface, at least the wet paper web-side surface of the reinforcing base material is embedded in the polyurethane, an outer circumferential layer comprising a wet paper web contacting surface is constituted by some of the polyurethane; wherein, at least the outer circumferential layer comprises two different types of fillers including a high-roundness filler with a relatively high roundness and a low-roundness filler with a relatively low roundness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji INOUE, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura, Yuta Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20150138667
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic disk device including a magnetic disk, a storage unit, and a control unit. The magnetic disk includes a recording region. The storage unit is configured to store a value according to number of accesses to each of a plurality of regions obtained by dividing of the recording region of the magnetic disk in association with each of the plurality of regions. The control unit is configured to count a value according to the number of accesses to each of a plurality of regions in a count step unit that is a value determined according to an elapsed time from occurrence of a specific situation and is a value counted per unit access, and to update the value stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Michio Yamamoto, Tetsuo Kuribayashi, Masami Tashiro, Kenji Inoue, Takumi Kakuya, Hironori Kanno, Keiichi Yorimitsu
  • Publication number: 20150095126
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a game program for a game which is played through a network causes a computer to realize a selection receiving function of receiving, from one user, the selection of whether to transmit a message to other user, an extraction function of extracting at least one other user to which the message is transmitted, on the basis of a certain condition, a message transmitting function of transmitting the message to the at least one other user extracted by the extraction function when the selection receiving function receives the selection indicating that the message is transmitted to the other user, and a reward giving function of giving a reward to the one user when the message transmitting function transmits the message to the at least one other user extracted by the extraction function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventor: Kenji Inoue
  • Patent number: 8993800
    Abstract: The present invention provides a simple industrial process for producing an L- or D-optically active ?-methylcysteine derivative or its salt, which is a useful pharmaceutical intermediate, from readily available, inexpensive raw materials. In a process for producing an L- or D-optically active ?-methylcysteine derivative or its salt, a racemic N-carbamoyl-?-methylcysteine derivative or its salt is D-selectively cyclized with hydantoinase to produce a D-5-methyl-5-thiomethylhydantoin derivative or its salt and an N-carbamoyl-?-methyl-L-cysteine derivative or its salt, which are then subjected to deprotection of the amino group and the sulfur atom, and hydrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Ohishi, Hirokazu Nanba, Masanobu Sugawara, Masashi Izumida, Tatsuya Honda, Kohei Mori, Satohiro Yanagisawa, Nobuo Nagashima, Kenji Inoue
  • Patent number: 8988799
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, any of a first process to perform a write retry to a write target track, a second process to perform the write retry and perform reading for data verification to an adjacent track, and a third process to perform the write retry and write data of the adjacent track to another track is executed based on a result of comparison between an offtrack amount and a plurality of different slice values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Michio Yamamoto, Takumi Kakuya, Tetsuo Kuribayashi, Kenji Inoue, Hironori Kanno
  • Patent number: 8879181
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a read/write apparatus includes a receiver and a refresh module. The receiver receives a write command requesting a write to a magnetic disk. The refresh module refreshes, when a first area of the magnetic disk includes a second area corresponding to the write command, data written in a third area, the third area being an area obtained by excluding the second area from the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Seiji Toda, Michio Yamamoto, Masakazu Kitahara, Masataka Shitara, Takumi Kakuya, Kiyotaka Sasaki, Isao Fujita, Satoru Adachi, Kenji Inoue, Nobuhiro Sugawara, Hironori Kanno
  • Patent number: 8709214
    Abstract: Provided is a belt for transferring a wet web, wherein any water mark does not appear on made paper even when a rate of feeding the belt for transferring a wet web by a roll is high. The roll side layer surface of the belt for transferring a wet web has the surface structure in which the percentage of a contact area with the roll per unit area is 10% to 75% and a surface roughness Ra is 50-150 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Inoue, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura, Toshihiro Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20140076511
    Abstract: A wet paper web transfer belt for transferring a wet paper web includes a wet paper web contacting surface for carrying the wet paper web. The wet paper web contacting surface is constituted by a resin layer. The wet paper web contacting surface includes, in the width direction, sheet edge regions for carrying the edge parts of the wet paper web and a center region for carrying the center vicinity of the wet paper web. The arithmetic average roughness Ra1 (?m) of the wet paper web contacting surface in the sheet edge regions is smaller than the arithmetic average roughness Ra2 (?m) of the wet paper web contacting surface in the center region, and prescribed roughness related equations are fulfilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji INOUE, Masatoshi Kono, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura, Toshihiro Tsuji