Patents by Inventor Kenji Matsui
Kenji Matsui 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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Patent number: 11933762Abstract: A metal structure evaluator for rolled steel sheets includes: a magnetic property measuring unit configured to measure a magnetic property of an evaluation target point in at least two or more different magnetization directions by performing, in the at least two or more different magnetization directions, processing of: applying a magnetic field on a surface of a rolled steel sheet in one direction; and measuring a magnetic property of the evaluation target point on the surface of the rolled steel sheet; and a determination unit configured to determine a metal structure of the evaluation target point based on the magnetic property measured by the magnetic property measuring unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Ozeki, Yutaka Matsui, Kenji Adachi, Junji Shimamura
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Patent number: 11679677Abstract: A device control system includes a first input device and a gaze detector. The first input device allows a command to be entered with respect to a target device selected from one or more devices. The gaze detector detects a user's gaze direction. The gaze detector determines, based on the gaze direction detected by the gaze detector, one device, selected from the one or more devices, to be the target device. A gaze detector makes the target device change, based on the gaze direction detected by the gaze detector, the type of processing to be performed in accordance with the command entered through the first input device.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouji Ueda, Shigeo Nakamura, Kenji Matsui, Takehiko Yasuda, Yoshiteru Matsushita
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Publication number: 20220317443Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: recognize a traffic regulation mark provided on a traveling path of a car, the traffic regulation mark indicating traffic regulation; specify a valid regulation range used as a valid range of regulation indicated by the traffic regulation mark based on the recognized traffic regulation mark; and control a display device mounted on the car to display regulations information on a display area, the regulations information including contents of regulation indicated by the recognized traffic regulation mark. The processor is configured to switch displaying the regulations information into another upon satisfying a predetermined condition in a case where the valid regulation range is not specified.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji MATSUI, Masato NOGUCHI, Nobutoshi HIGAKI, Kazuomi KATO, Tetsuji YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210232340Abstract: A drive recorder transmits, to a server device, a moving image file showing status of surroundings of a vehicle at the time of generation of a large acceleration. The server device determines whether overwrite prohibition is to be designated for the moving image file that shows surroundings of the vehicle at the time of an occurrence of an event, based on the moving image file. The drive recorder designates, based on a determination result, overwrite prohibition for a piece of video data showing surroundings of the vehicle at the time of and/or before and after the occurrence of the event, and counts the number of pieces of video data for which overwrite prohibition is designated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiki ITO, Kenji MATSUI, Seigo TAKADA, Kazuomi KATO
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Publication number: 20210206269Abstract: A device control system includes a first input device and a gaze detector. The first input device allows a command to be entered with respect to a target device selected from one or more devices. The gaze detector detects a user's gaze direction. The gaze detector determines, based on the gaze direction detected by the gaze detector, one device, selected from the one or more devices, to be the target device. A gaze detector makes the target device change, based on the gaze direction detected by the gaze detector, the type of processing to be performed in accordance with the command entered through the first input device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji UEDA, Shigeo NAKAMURA, Kenji MATSUI, Takehiko YASUDA, Yoshiteru MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20210197618Abstract: A tire includes a tire frame member that has bead portions in which bead cores are embedded in a resin material and side portions that comprise the resin material and are continuous with tire radial direction outer sides of the bead portions, wherein assuming that T1 is a thickness of thick-walled portions of the tire frame member that are adjacent to the tire radial direction outer sides of the bead cores and that T2 is a thickness of the side portions, T1>T2, a thickness of the tire frame member decreases from T1 to T2 between the thick-walled portions and the side portions, and a position at which the thickness of the tire frame member starts to decrease from T1 to T2 is on a tire radial direction outer side of tire radial direction outer ends of rim flanges of a rim on which the bead portions are mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Masahiro KATAYAMA, Tatsurou UCHIDA, Yoshifumi MATSUMOTO, Kenji MATSUI
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Publication number: 20190152260Abstract: A tire includes a tire frame member made of a resin material; a top tread disposed outside the tire frame member in a tire radial direction; a belt layer disposed between the tire frame member and the top tread, the width dimension BW of the belt layer in a tire axial direction being in a range of from 85 to 105% of the ground width dimension TW of the top tread; and a belt reinforcement layer disposed at end portions of the belt layer in a tire width direction, the belt reinforcement layer having lower stiffness than the belt layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: Bridgestone CorporationInventors: Yoshihide KOUNO, Yoshifumi MATSUMOTO, Kenji MATSUI, Seiji KON
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Publication number: 20190143755Abstract: A tire includes a tire frame member made of a resin material; a top tread disposed outside the tire frame member in a tire radial direction; and a belt layer disposed between the tire frame member and the top tread, the belt layer constituting of a center area at a middle in a tire width direction and shoulder areas at both sides of the center area in the tire width direction, a width dimension BCW of the center area in a tire axial direction being in a range of from 85 to 105% of a ground width dimension TW of the top tread. In a case in which Hc represents stiffness of the center area, and Hs represents stiffness of the shoulder area, Hc>Hs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Yoshihide KOUNO, Kenji MATSUI, Yoshifumi MATSUMOTO, Seiji KON
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Publication number: 20190105947Abstract: A tire includes a tire frame member formed of a resin material, a belt layer, and a top tread, in which in an outer contour of the tire as viewed in a cross section along a tire rotation axis, a ground end side of the top tread is a shoulder portion having a small arc portion which is convex toward an outer side of the tire and has a radius of curvature smaller than the radius of curvature of the top tread on a tire equatorial plane side. In addition, in the outer contour of the tire as viewed in the cross section along the tire rotation axis, a ground angle ? of a tangent line of the small arc portion at a height of 80% of a tire cross section height SH with respect to the tire axial direction is set within a range of from 47° to 52°.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2017Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihide KOUNO, Kenji MATSUI, Yoshifumi MATSUMOTO, Seiji KON
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Patent number: 9828612Abstract: A method is provided for the production of alcohol from trees, the method comprising a step of treating a subject tree with mother cell lyases formed through cytolysis associated with sporulation of spore-forming aerobic bacteria, thereby degrading said tree into a powdery state and obtaining a tree degradation product; a step of sterilizing said tree degradation product; a step of treating said sterilized tree degradation product with a koji fungus (Aspergillus oryzae) thereby carrying out a primary fermentation; a step of adding a yeast to the fermentation broth obtained by said primary fermentation thereby carrying out a secondary fermentation; and a step of filtering the fermentation broth obtained by said secondary fermentation, wherein said mother cell lyases are obtained by culturing said spore-forming aerobic bacteria, subjecting the resultant culture medium to a starvation state, thereby converting said bacteria into endospores, and removing impurities including said endosporic bacteria from said culType: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignees: Meisho Co., Ltd., Fujisawa Environment Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kaoru Mitarai, Miho Sakai, Kenji Matsui
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Patent number: 9121624Abstract: An information transfer system for a refrigeration air-conditioning apparatus in which one or more heat-source units for the refrigerating/air conditioning apparatus, one first relay unit, and one or more second relay units are connected by refrigerant piping, and the second relay units and one or more indoor units are connected by water piping, wherein communications are performed discretely between a pair of the heat-source unit and the first relay unit, a pair of the first relay unit and the second relay units, and a pair of the second relay units and the indoor units through transmission lines respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Matsui, Shigeo Takata
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Patent number: 8948919Abstract: There are provided an electric energy meter with a transmission device that generates a pulse signal for measuring electric energy supplied to an outdoor unit, an input circuit for an external signal that receives the pulse signal, and a control unit that measures electric energy on the basis of the pulse signal, wherein the control unit includes a determination unit that determines, as an input port for the pulse signal, one of input ports that are not in use from among a plurality of input ports forming the input circuit for an external signal, and a calculation unit that calculates electric power, electric energy consumption, and energy consumption efficiency on the basis of the pulse signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Atsuhiro Yabuta, Kenji Matsui
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Patent number: 8937737Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a divider which divides a document consisting of a plurality of pages, into separate block units; a block unit selector which selects a block unit most likely linked to a user to view a thumbnail image, among the block units obtained by the divider; and a thumbnail image generator which generates a thumbnail image based on an image and/or text from the block unit selected by the block unit selector.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Takahiro Tsutsumi, Kenji Matsui
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Publication number: 20140373582Abstract: A method is provided for the production of alcohol from trees, the method comprising a step of treating a subject tree with mother cell lyases formed through cytolysis associated with sporulation of spore-forming aerobic bacteria, thereby degrading said tree into a powdery state and obtaining a tree degradation product; a step of sterilizing said tree degradation product; a step of treating said sterilized tree degradation product with a koji fungus (Aspergillus oryzae) thereby carrying out a primary fermentation; a step of adding a yeast to the fermentation broth obtained by said primary fermentation thereby carrying out a secondary fermentation; and a step of filtering the fermentation broth obtained by said secondary fermentation, wherein said mother cell lyases are obtained by culturing said spore-forming aerobic bacteria, subjecting the resultant culture medium to a starvation state, thereby converting said bacteria into endospores, and removing impurities including said endosporic bacteria from said culType: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Kaoru Mitarai, Miho Sakai, Kenji Matsui
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Publication number: 20130305758Abstract: A refrigerating and air-conditioning apparatus that achieves reduced limitations with respect to the communication of indoor units and can identify which indoor unit is connected to each branch port is obtained. Indoor units are made to operate on a one-by-one basis, and it is identified which indoor unit is connected to each branch port on the basis of the difference between an inlet temperature and an outlet temperature at the branch port at that time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2011Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Matsui
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Publication number: 20130016405Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a divider which divides a document consisting of a plurality of pages, into separate block units; a block unit selector which selects a block unit most likely linked to a user to view a thumbnail image, among the block units obtained by the divider; and a thumbnail image generator which generates a thumbnail image based on an image and/or text from the block unit selected by the block unit selector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Takahiro TSUTSUMI, Kenji Matsui
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Patent number: 8285043Abstract: The image processing apparatus is provided with a scanner unit that reads a document and generates image data; an edge vicinity pixel detection unit that detects pixels in the vicinity of the edge of the document based on luminance values of the image data generated by the scanner unit; a histogram creation unit that creates a histogram using the luminance values of pixels in a region of the document within a predetermined distance from the pixels in the vicinity of the edge; and a judgment unit that judges whether or not it is possible to separate a document region from a document-external region based on the created histogram.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Kenji Matsui
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Publication number: 20120222440Abstract: To provide a refrigeration cycle apparatus that achieves load balancing (for example, the balance between the cooling load and the heating load, and the balance between the cooling load and the heating and hot water loads) to increase system COP and an information transfer method used in the refrigeration cycle apparatus. A refrigeration cycle apparatus operates a plurality of indoor units so that the thermal cooling load and the thermal heating load to be executed by the plurality of indoor unit are balanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2009Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Matsui, Shigeo Takata, Hironori Yabuuchi
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Publication number: 20120057186Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with a mass storage that stores a file of an image read with a scanner in association with a file name for distinguishing the file from other files, a file search portion that carries out a search for files of images containing a keyword specified by a user, and a file name updating portion that updates a file name of a file selected, by the user, from among files found out by the search to the keyword.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Kenji MATSUI
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Publication number: 20120017619Abstract: There are provided an electric energy meter with a transmission device that generates a pulse signal for measuring electric energy supplied to an outdoor unit, an input circuit for an external signal that receives the pulse signal, and a control unit that measures electric energy on the basis of the pulse signal, wherein the control unit includes a determination unit that determines, as an input port for the pulse signal, one of input ports that are not in use from among a plurality of input ports forming the input circuit for an external signal, and a calculation unit that calculates electric power, electric energy consumption, and energy consumption efficiency on the basis of the pulse signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2009Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Atsuhiro Yabuta, Kenji Matsui