Patents by Inventor Kenji Kawai

Kenji Kawai 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).

  • HARD COATING COMPOSITION FOR METAL SUBSTRATE
    Publication number: 20090054544
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a hard coating composition for a metal substrate, including a film-forming resin component which contains a urethane(meth)acrylate obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate compound, a polyol, and a (meth)acrylate monomer having a hydroxyl group, wherein the polyisocyanate compound is hydrogenated xylylene diisocyanate and/or dicyclohexylmethane diisocyanate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIKURA KASEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Isogai, Noboru Ohara, Masao Watanabe, Mitsuo Najima, Kenji Kawai, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Method and apparatus for synchronous frame communication
    Patent number: 7496100
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronous frame communication first communicates a frame signal having communication data and first control information having a bit length and an SDH frame structure in a part of frame time interval and a control information processing method based on an SDH-frame-overhead-process for processing the first control information that includes bytes indicative of each of a relay node's section overhead, an end terminal section overhead, and at least a part of a byte of higher path's overhead. In the frame time interval a signal is communicated by a different second communicating method having the communication data and second control information having a bit length capable of including a significantly higher amount of information than that of the first control information and which corresponds to the first control information byte communicated in the frame time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kawai, Osamu Ishida, Haruhiko Ichino
  • PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL
    Publication number: 20090021170
    Abstract: A PDP is equipped with row electrode pairs deposited on the inner face of a front glass substrate and a dielectric layer covering the row electrode pairs. A discharge space defined between the front glass substrate and the back glass substrate is filled with a discharge gas. The dielectric layer has a laminated structure made up of a first dielectric layer formed of a smaller nano-particle silica film including silica particles of a particle diameter of 10 nm to 25 nm, and a second dielectric layer formed of a larger nano-particle silica film including silica particles of a particle diameter of 25 nm to 40 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Takeru OKADA, Kenji KAWAI
  • Electronic apparatus, image forming system, video printing system and camera-incorporated recording/reproducing apparatus
    Patent number: 7443530
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is, while employing only a simple structure, to engage in rapid communication with an external device and to display results of the communication. According to the present invention, disclosed is an electronic apparatus, which comprises conversion means for converting a target image into image signals, supply means for supplying, to a monitor, signals in consonance with the image signal obtained by the conversion means in order to reproduce the target image, communication means for using a DS-Link method to perform bidirectional communication with an external device handling the image signal for the target image and control means for displaying on the monitor information concerning the external device that is obtained by the communication means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Kawai
  • Image coding apparatus and method of the same
    Patent number: 7369611
    Abstract: There are provided image coding apparatus and method in which image data is inputted, a continuous change is given to the input image data, the image data is coded, a coding condition when coding the input image data is controlled in accordance with the continuous changing process, and the image data is coded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Kawai, Koji Takahashi
  • System And Method For Clustering Unstructured Documents
    Publication number: 20080104063
    Abstract: A system and method for clustering unstructured documents is provided. Documents having terms with frequencies of occurrence that satisfy upper and lower edge conditions are selected. Concepts are generated for the selected documents. The selected documents are grouped into clusters of the documents. A weight for each of the clusters is evaluated. A similarity value is determined from the frequencies of occurrence for at least one of the terms from the concepts and the cluster weights for each selected document. Each selected document is assigned into one such cluster based on the similarity value of the selected document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Dan Gallivan, Kenji Kawai
  • IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20080079818
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup circuit, the compression circuit having a plurality of compression modes, and a selecting circuit for selecting one of the compression modes of the compression processing circuit in accordance with a selected one of the photographic modes of the image pickup circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Koji Takahashi, Motokazu Kashida, Kenji Kawai
  • Electronic device having stereo speakers
    Patent number: 7327330
    Abstract: It is an object of this invention to properly output sounds in stereo at the time of reproducing of images in a video camera having a pivotal image display unit. The invention includes an image display unit which can pivot on an electronic device body and displays images, first and second sound output units, a detection unit for detecting pivoting operation of the image display unit, and a control means for controlling switching of sound signals output to the first and second sound output units upon pivoting operation of the image display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Kawai, Shigenobu Chichimatsu
  • Image processing apparatus
    Patent number: 7319812
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup circuit, the compression circuit having a plurality of compression modes, and a selecting circuit for selecting one of the compression modes of the compression processing circuit in accordance with a selected one of the photographic modes of the image pickup circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Takahashi, Motokazu Kashida, Kenji Kawai
  • Polypropylene Laminate Film, and Package Comprising the Same
    Publication number: 20080003386
    Abstract: A wide polyolefin film may be made by high-speed film forming, which has uniform properties over its whole width and is free of thickness irregularities, and provides a packaging film applicable to large-scale production which has good gloss and bag-making property, as well as a package made from the film. A polyolefin laminate film includes an oriented base layer that is mainly made up of a polypropylene resin and a sealing layer mainly made up of a polyolefin resin which is formed on at least one surface of the base layer, which film has an effective product takeout width of not less than 5500 mm and satisfies the following relational formula of the thickness variation rate Y (%) of the film and the product takeout width X (mm) of the film: Y?0.001X+4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Kenji Kawai, Hirokazu Oogi
  • RESIN COMPOSITION FOR INTERLAYER INSULATING LAYER OF MULTI-LAYER PRINTED WIRING BOARD
    Publication number: 20070295607
    Abstract: Epoxy resin compositions which comprise (A) an epoxy resin having two or more epoxy groups in one molecule, (B) a phenolic curing agent having an average content ratio of hydroxyl group in one molecule (P) of 0<P<1, and (C) a polyvinyl acetal resin are useful for an insulating layer of a multi-layer printed wiring board, which can afford an insulating layer (interlayer insulating layer) whose roughened surface shows a high cohesive force to a plated conductor, even though the roughness of the roughened surface after a roughening treatment is comparatively small
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INC
    Inventor: Kenji KAWAI
  • DISTRIBUTING WEB APPLICATIONS ACROSS A PRE-EXISTING WEB
    Publication number: 20070300160
    Abstract: An embodiment is a system and method for a user to organize web content and applications and to share web content and applications with other users. A user may bubble web pages that interest them. The bubbles may be linked or stitched together to form a trail of pages that may not only aid the user to navigate relevant pages, but also be shared with other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Patrick Ferrel, Kenji Kawai, Dan Everhart, Lynne Evans, Stefan Sigurdsson, Mike Forrest
  • System and method for dynamically evaluating latent concepts in unstructured documents
    Patent number: 7313556
    Abstract: A system and method for dynamically evaluating latent concepts in unstructured documents is disclosed. A multiplicity of concepts are extracted from a set of unstructured documents into a lexicon. The lexicon uniquely identifies each concept and a frequency of occurrence. A frequency of occurrence representation is created for the documents set. The frequency representation provides an ordered corpus of the frequencies of occurrence of each concept. A subset of concepts is selected from the frequency of occurrence representation filtered against a pre-defined threshold. A group of weighted clusters of concepts selected from the concepts subset is generated. A matrix of best fit approximations is determined for each document weighted against each group of weighted clusters of concepts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Attenex Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Gallivan, Kenji Kawai
  • Heat-Sealable Layered Polypropylene Resin Film and Package
    Publication number: 20070292640
    Abstract: A heat sealable polypropylene resin laminate film having good toughness and heat sealing strength and energy sufficient for packaging heavy goods, mainly fruits and vegetables, and a package made of such film, is a laminate film having three or more layers, a substrate layer made of a crystalline polypropylene resin, a heat sealable layer having a melting point of not more than 150° C., and an intermediate layer. The product of the tensile modulus of elasticity (GPa) in both orthogonal directions of the film is 3.1-6.0 (GPa)2, and the heat sealing energy is not less than 11N·cm/15 mm when the film is sealed, such that the heat sealing strength of the film is not less than 8N/15 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: Toya Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Kawai, Hirokazu Oogi, Naorobu Oda, Tadashi Nakaya, Tooru Imai, Yuka Sako
  • RESIN COMPOSITION FOR INSULATING LAYER FOR MULTI-LAYERED PRINTED BOARD
    Publication number: 20070264438
    Abstract: Epoxy resin compositions, which comprise (A) en epoxy resin having two or more epoxy groups in a molecule; (B) a phenol type curing agent where an average hydroxyl group content in a molecule (a mean value of (the total number of hydroxyl groups)/(the total number of benzene rings)), P, satisfies the equation 0<P<1; (C) a phenoxy resin; and (D) rubber particles, are suitable for use as an insulating layer of a multi-layered printed board in which, in spite of the fact that the roughness of a roughened surface after a roughening treatment is relatively small, an insulating layer having a good tight adhesion with a conductor layer formed by plating is able to be easily introduced into a multi-layered printed board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INC
    Inventor: Kenji Kawai
  • Resin composition and adhesive film for multi-layered printing wiring board
    Patent number: 7282257
    Abstract: The present invention relates to resin compositions that are useful for preparing adhesive films, which are, in turn, useful for forming interlayer insulation layers for multi-layered printed wiring boards having an excellent mechanical strength and capable of being roughened by an oxidizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Orikabe, Kenji Kawai
  • Exhaust gas purifying apparatus and method in internal combustion engine
    Publication number: 20070169763
    Abstract: When conditions for regenerating purifiers are established, a control computer first causes an addition nozzle to supply a reducing agent to a first exhaust path. At this time, the control computer reduces a vane opening degree in a first supercharger and increases a vane opening degree in a second supercharger. Accordingly, the flow rate of exhaust gas discharged to the outside from the first exhaust path is reduced, and the flow rate of exhaust gas flowing to the intake path via a first exhaust gas supply path is increased. Also, the flow rate of exhaust gas discharged to the outside from a second exhaust path is increased, and the flow rate of exhaust gas flowing to the intake path via a second exhaust gas supply path is reduced. As a result, the purifiers are regenerated in a reliable manner, while suppressing variations in the flow rate of exhaust gas supplied to the intake path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Kenji Kawai, Hisanobu Suzuki
  • Image processing apparatus
    Patent number: 7248788
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup circuit, the compression circuit having a plurality of compression modes, and a selecting circuit for selecting one of the compression modes of the compression processing circuit in accordance with a selected one of the photographic modes of the image pickup circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Takahashi, Motokazu Kashida, Kenji Kawai
  • Resin composition for interlayer insulation of multilayer printed wiring board, adhesive film and prepreg
    Patent number: 7179552
    Abstract: Resin compositions which comprise the following components (A) to (E) are useful for interlayer insulation of a multilayer printed wiring board: (A) an epoxy resin having 2 or more epoxy group in one molecule and which exists in a liquid state at a temperature of 20° C.; (B) an aromatic epoxy resin having 3 or more epoxy groups in one molecule and an epoxy equivalent of 200 or less; (C) a phenol type curing agent; (D) one or more resins selected from the group consisting of a phenoxy resin, a polyvinyl acetal resin, a polyamide resin, a polyamideimide resin, and mixtures thereof, and having a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or more; and (E) an inorganic filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeo Nakamura, Kenji Kawai
  • Fuel supply system and fuel supply method for exhaust purifying catalyst device in internal combustion engine
    Publication number: 20070022745
    Abstract: Cylinder heads are each provided with a fuel injection valve, and an addition nozzle for adding fuel for activating an exhaust purifying catalyst to an exhaust manifold. There exists a non-exhaust period in which an exhaust gas does not flow out to exhaust passages from the exhaust manifolds during an operation of an engine. An ECU controls the addition nozzles in such a manner that the addition nozzles execute a fuel addition during periods except the non-exhaust period. Accordingly, the fuel added to the exhaust manifolds for activating the catalysts is avoided from collecting on a wall surface of an exhaust system without getting on an exhaust stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Yuji Narita, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Kenji Kawai, Hisanobu Suzuki, Yoshitaka Nakamura