Patents by Inventor Kenji Kaneko

Kenji Kaneko 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: 20230125051
    Abstract: A task is to provide a wire regulator that can prevent a wire and a guide rail from rusting and prevent an operation failure of the wire regulator. A first rain water guide part 170 that prevents rain water from entering an ascending wire end housing part 157, a descending wire end housing part 163 and a gutter part 161 is provided at a part above a lower end of the ascending wire end housing part 157 of a slider 103, and the first rain water guide part 170 includes first eaves 171, and second eaves 173 that overlap the first eaves 171 on a lower side of the first eaves 171 and in a drop direction R of the rain water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji YAMAMOTO, Kenichi SUZUKI, Kazuya YOKOYAMA, Takashi SAGISAKA, Toshihiro GOTOU, Kenji KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220341240
    Abstract: An opening-closing member controller includes a control unit that executes an initialization process to store at least a fully closed position of an opening-closing member. In the initialization process, the control unit closes the opening-closing member, executes entrapment reversing control one or more times when entrapment is detected to open the opening-closing member, and closes the opening-closing member after the entrapment reversing control to store a position where the opening-closing member locks as the fully closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki AOSHIMA, Akiyoshi OHARA, Ryo MIYAZAKI, Kenji KANEKO, Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Toshihiro GOTOU, Hideki MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11179059
    Abstract: An optical imaging apparatus for diagnosis generates a closed curve which precisely reproduces the shape of the indwelled stent and the shape of the inner wall of the biological tissue at the indwelling position of the stent. The optical imaging apparatus analyzes intensity change in transmission direction of the light from the transmission and reception unit for every one of the respective line data; based on the result of the analysis detects pixel data expressing the stent position in the transmission direction; labels each pixel data expressing the detected stent position; eliminates, within the respective labeling groups applied with the same labels, labeling groups in each of which the number of pixel data in the circumferential direction is a predetermined value or less; calculates center position for each labeling group not eliminated; and generates a stent closed-curve using the center position of each labeling group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junya Furuichi, Kenji Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10260259
    Abstract: A door handle device for a vehicle includes a door opening prevention mechanism that is provided with an inertia lever being rotatably supported at a base frame, an inertia body being mounted to the inertia lever, and an elastic member elastically biasing the inertia lever toward an initial position where the movement of a link mechanism is not restricted by the inertia lever. The inertia lever includes a center of gravity of the inertia lever being set at a same position as a position of a center of gravity of the outside handle in an extending direction of the outside handle, the center of gravity of the inertia lever being set at a same position as a position of the center of gravity of the outside handle in vehicle upper-lower directions, or being set at a lower position relative to the center of gravity of the outside handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Nagata, Nobukazu Araki, Jun Hasegawa, Kenji Kaneko, Isao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190088917
    Abstract: A polyolefin microporous membrane is capable of achieving a low shutdown temperature while keeping air permeation resistance sufficiently low, and a method produces the polyolefin microporous membrane. The polyolefin microporous membrane has, when a temperature is raised to 230° C. at a temperature rise rate of 10° C./min in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), a ratio of a melting heat quantity (?H<Tm0) of equal to or larger than 95% at temperatures lower than an equilibrium melting point of polyethylene, relative to 100% of the total melting heat quantity (?Hall).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ikki Katada, Kenji Kaneko, Fumiyasu Nomura
  • Publication number: 20170150900
    Abstract: An optical imaging apparatus for diagnosis generates a closed curve which precisely reproduces the shape of the indwelled stent and the shape of the inner wall of the biological tissue at the indwelling position of the stent. The optical imaging apparatus analyzes intensity change in transmission direction of the light from the transmission and reception unit for every one of the respective line data; based on the result of the analysis detects pixel data expressing the stent position in the transmission direction; labels each pixel data expressing the detected stent position; eliminates, within the respective labeling groups applied with the same labels, labeling groups in each of which the number of pixel data in the circumferential direction is a predetermined value or less; calculates center position for each labeling group not eliminated; and generates a stent closed-curve using the center position of each labeling group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junya FURUICHI, Kenji KANEKO
  • Patent number: 9615771
    Abstract: An optical imaging apparatus for diagnosis generates a closed curve which precisely reproduces the shape of the indwelled stent and the shape of the inner wall of the biological tissue at the indwelling position of the stent. The optical imaging apparatus analyzes intensity change in transmission direction of the light from the transmission and reception unit for every one of the respective line data; based on the result of the analysis detects pixel data expressing the stent position in the transmission direction; labels each pixel data expressing the detected stent position; eliminates, within the respective labeling groups applied with the same labels, labeling groups in each of which the number of pixel data in the circumferential direction is a predetermined value or less; calculates center position for each labeling group not eliminated; and generates a stent closed-curve using the center position of each labeling group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junya Furuichi, Kenji Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20160290019
    Abstract: A door handle device for a vehicle includes a door opening prevention mechanism that is provided with an inertia lever being rotatably supported at a base frame, an inertia body being mounted to the inertia lever, and an elastic member elastically biasing the inertia lever toward an initial position where the movement of a link mechanism is not restricted by the inertia lever. The inertia lever includes a center of gravity of the inertia lever being set at a same position as a position of a center of gravity of the outside handle in an extending direction of the outside handle, the center of gravity of the inertia lever being set at a same position as a position of the center of gravity of the outside handle in vehicle upper-lower directions, or being set at a lower position relative to the center of gravity of the outside handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi NAGATA, Nobukazu ARAKI, Jun HASEGAWA, Kenji KANEKO, Isao KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150190054
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus is disclosed for diagnosis, which generates multiple horizontal cross-sectional images inside a body lumen, and a vertical cross-sectional image suitable for use by using the generated horizontal cross-sectional image. The imaging apparatus for diagnosis includes first extraction means for extracting a pixel corresponding to a cut position when a body lumen wall is cut by a plane substantially parallel to an axial direction, from a first horizontal cross-sectional image, second extraction means for extracting a pixel corresponding to a lumen surface when the body lumen wall is cut by the plane, from a second horizontal cross-sectional image, generation means for generating a vertical lumen image in such a way that a pixel obtained by projecting the pixel extracted by the second extraction means at the cut position is superimposed on the pixel extracted by the first extraction means, and display means for displaying the vertical lumen image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20150182192
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus is disclosed for diagnosis which includes first generating means for generating a closed curve indicating a blood vessel wall by extracting a position of the blood vessel wall using an ultrasonic cross-sectional image at a predetermined position in an axial direction, second generating means for generating a closed curve indicating a boundary of a blood flow region by extracting a boundary position of the blood flow region using an optical cross-sectional image at the predetermined position, and setting means for setting a region between the closed curve generated by the first generating means and the closed curve generated by the second generating means as the region of interest in the ultrasonic cross-sectional image or the optical cross-sectional image, in a case where the ultrasonic cross-sectional image and the optical cross-sectional image are aligned and overlapped with each other at the predetermined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji KANEKO
  • Patent number: 8994803
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus generates a cross-sectional image in the longitudinal direction inside a body cavity (e.g., blood vessel) by using an interference signal. The apparatus includes an obtaining unit for obtaining line data, and a judgment unit for judging whether or not the optical probe unit operates in a normal state based on existence or non-existence of intensity change in at least a portion of signals within the obtained line date, based on existence or non-existence of change of position in the depth direction in which the portion of signals appear, or based on change quantity per unit time with respect to the position in the depth direction in which the portion in the depth direction of signals appear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20150005626
    Abstract: A probe is configured to be detachably attached to a rotary junction unit of the imaging apparatus for diagnosis, and is inserted into a body lumen. The probe includes a plurality of transmitting and receiving units that obtain tomographic images by transmitting and receiving signals inside the body lumen and a drive shaft that receives a rotary-drive force from the rotary junction unit and rotates the plurality of transmitting and receiving units. Then, the plurality of transmitting and receiving units are respectively disposed along axial directions by adjusting angles with respect to directions orthogonal to the axial directions so that the signals are transmitted in directions identical to the directions orthogonal to the axial directions of the rotation among directions to a distal side of the probe and a proximal side of the probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20140374947
    Abstract: In an apparatus for manufacturing a microporous plastic film roll by conveying a microporous plastic film by conveying rollers and then winding the microporous plastic film in a roll shape while being brought close to a near roller or being brought into contact with a touch roller, a part of the touch roller to be in contact with the plastic film has a Vickers hardness of 100 to 2,000, and the microporous plastic film is conveyed so that a side of the microporous plastic film opposite the side being in contact with the conveying rollers is in a noncontact state in a range being in contact with the conveying rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicants: Toray Industries, Inc., Toray Battery Separator Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ichinomiya, Takanori Iizuka, Kenji Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20140024930
    Abstract: An optical imaging apparatus for diagnosis generates a closed curve which precisely reproduces the shape of the indwelled stent and the shape of the inner wall of the biological tissue at the indwelling position of the stent. The optical imaging apparatus analyzes intensity change in transmission direction of the light from the transmission and reception unit for every one of the respective line data; based on the result of the analysis detects pixel data expressing the stent position in the transmission direction; labels each pixel data expressing the detected stent position; eliminates, within the respective labeling groups applied with the same labels, labeling groups in each of which the number of pixel data in the circumferential direction is a predetermined value or less; calculates center position for each labeling group not eliminated; and generates a stent closed-curve using the center position of each labeling group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junya Furuichi, Kenji Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8429129
    Abstract: A database restructuring apparatus which is capable of migrating a database without depending on a method of managing the database and without interrupting practical online services. Copying section copies data from a current database to a switching destination database. When data update access to the current database by current database access section occurs during copy processing by the copying section, data updating section determines whether or not data to be accessed has been copied. If the data has not been copied yet, the data updating section performs data update processing on the current database, whereas if the data has already been copied, the data updating section performs data update processing on both the current database and the switching destination database. After completion of the copy processing, switching section switches the distribution destination of an online electronic message to switching destination database access section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Kaneko, Takafumi Katsume, Hisayuki Enbutsu, Mikio Kurosaka, Shinichi Takaoka
  • Patent number: 8394214
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for processing a metal body which can turn a metal structure of the metal body into a finer grain structure thus obtaining the high strength and the high ductility. In a method or an apparatus for processing a metal body which turns the metal structure of the metal body into the finer grain structure by forming a low deformation resistance region where the deformation resistance is locally lowered in the metal body and by deforming the low deformation resistance region by shearing, using a non-low deformation resistance region forming means which forms a non-low deformation resistance region by increasing the deformation resistance which is lowered in the low deformation resistance region, the non-low deformation resistance region is formed along the low deformation resistance region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Rinascimetalli Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Nakamura, Zenji Horita, Koji Neishi, Michihiko Nakagaki, Kenji Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20120028808
    Abstract: An oxide superconducting tape comprised of a substrate on which a GdBa2Cu3O7-? (?=0 to 1) superconductor layer is formed, characterized in that, inside of said superconductor layer, columnar or rod-shaped BaZrO3 crystals are dispersed such that they are inclined from c-axis of the superconducting crystals and that BaZrO3 crystals adjacent in longitudinal directions are in a skew position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Kenji Kaneko, Teruo Matsushita, Akira Ibi, Masateru Yoshizumi, Teruo Izumi, Yuh Shiohara
  • Publication number: 20120007974
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus generates a cross-sectional image in the longitudinal direction inside a body cavity (e.g., blood vessel) by using an interference signal. The apparatus includes an obtaining unit for obtaining line data, and a judgment unit for judging whether or not the optical probe unit operates in a normal state based on existence or non-existence of intensity change in at least a portion of signals within the obtained line date, based on existence or non-existence of change of position in the depth direction in which the portion of signals appear, or based on change quantity per unit time with respect to the position in the depth direction in which the portion in the depth direction of signals appear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji KANEKO
  • Patent number: 7896112
    Abstract: A supplementary support structure, which supports the body of a robot (1), comprises a contact component (7) which is disposed in a part near a joint (2c) on the distal end, having a hand (3) disposed thereon, of an arm (2) of the robot (1) so as to come into contact with a surface on which the robot (1) is supported, such as a floor surface, and a member which lies between the part having the contact component (7) disposed therein and the proximal end of the arm (2). Thus, the supplementary support structure can avoid an increase in the weight of the hand resulting from the support structure, thus eliminate an extra load on a driving system for the hand or the arm, and thus achieve the simplification and size reduction of the driving system. Moreover, the support structure can increase the degree of freedom of the shape or functional design of the hand and thus improve the functioning of the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kawada Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takakatsu Isozumi, Masakazu Ishizaki, Tadaaki Osawa, Kazuhiko Akachi, Kenji Kaneko, Fumio Kanehiro, Kiyoshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 7801730
    Abstract: A voice recognition control system capable of realizing control of entire voice-recognizable electronic devices through voice recognition. This control system includes a voice input unit for inputting an operator's voice, a voice recognition unit and a controller constituting a control means which recognizes the operator's voice obtained from the voice input unit and controls input/output of an MD player having a voice recognition table where the operator's voice is stored in advance as an expected value. When an unregistered MD player has been connected first, the voice recognition unit registers the voice recognition table provided from the MD player. And upon input of the operator's voice by the voice input unit, the control means compares the operator's voice with the preregistered voice recognition table, and then the controller controls the input/output of the MD player in accordance with the result of comparing the operator's voice with the voice recognition table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Miyazaki, Tamiya Tanaka, Shizue Murayama, Kazuhisa Seita, Kenji Kaneko