Patents by Inventor Kenji Ochiai

Kenji Ochiai 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: 20240138779
    Abstract: A physiological information processing apparatus includes one or more processors, and one or more memories configured to store a computer readable instruction, when the computer readable instruction is executed by the processor, the physiological information processing apparatus is configured to: cause a plurality of physiological sensors to intermittently operate such that an operation time and a standby time are alternately repeated; obtain a plurality of pieces of physiological information on a patient from the plurality of physiological sensors during the operation time; and change an operation mode of the plurality of physiological sensors that intermittently operate in accordance with a condition related to at least a part of the plurality of pieces of physiological information or a condition related to at least a part of the plurality of physiological sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuri ARIYAMA, Kenji OHARA, Minoru MATSUSHIMA, Hideki OCHIAI
  • Patent number: 10458552
    Abstract: A valve includes a valve seat having a hole configured as a flow path, a valve body configured to open/close the flow path due to relative movement with respect to the valve seat, an opening member having a first surface fixed to one of the valve seat and the valve body, a second surface configured to separate away and abut the other one of the valve seat and the valve body, a third surface which intersects the first and second surfaces, and an opening penetrating the first and second surfaces, a fixing member that fixes the first surface to the one of the valve seat and the valve body, and an inclined portion, which makes an interval between the one of the valve seat and the valve body and the first surface long in a direction from the opening to the third surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yukimasa Ishida, Kenji Ochiai, Taiki Hanagami, Daisuke Noguchi, Hironori Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20180058588
    Abstract: A valve includes a valve seat having a hole configured as a flow path, a valve body configured to open/close the flow path due to relative movement with respect to the valve seat, an opening member having a first surface fixed to one of the valve seat and the valve body, a second surface configured to separate away and abut the other one of the valve seat and the valve body, a third surface which intersects the first and second surfaces, and an opening penetrating the first and second surfaces, a fixing member that fixes the first surface to the one of the valve seat and the valve body, and an inclined portion, which makes an interval between the one of the valve seat and the valve body and the first surface long in a direction from the opening to the third surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Yukimasa ISHIDA, Kenji OCHIAI, Taiki HANAGAMI, Daisuke NOGUCHI, Hironori MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20160165312
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a receiver, a transmitter, a management module, and an informing module. The receiver receives a purchase instruction from a user. The transmitter transmits the received purchase instruction to a server via a network. The management module manages a purchase history of the user. The informing module determines, upon receiving the purchase instruction from the user, whether the received purchase instruction satisfies a predetermined condition based on a purchase history of a predetermined period, and sends a message to the user if the purchase instruction satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji Ochiai, Kenji Yamazato, Hiroshi Ueda, Tomoyuki Shirai, Hirofumi Kanai, Tomohide Kawano
  • Publication number: 20140351847
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a receiver, a transmitter, a management module, and an informing module. The receiver receives a purchase instruction from a user. The transmitter transmits the received purchase instruction to a server via a network. The management module manages a purchase history of the user. The informing module determines, upon receiving the purchase instruction from the user, whether the received purchase instruction satisfies a predetermined condition based on a purchase history of a predetermined period, and sends a message to the user if the purchase instruction satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kenji Ochiai, Kenji Yamazato, Hiroshi Ueda, Tomoyuki Shirai, Hirofumi Kanai, Tomohide Kawano
  • Patent number: 8063874
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a luminance adjustable display module; an illuminance sensor configured to detect illuminance around the electronic apparatus; and a controller configured to: read the illuminance from the illuminance sensor; determine luminance corresponding to the illuminance; control the luminance adjustable display module to set luminance to the determined luminance; and set a waiting time based on the determined luminance, the waiting time being a time to a next time point of illuminance reading and luminance control. The controller is configured to set the waiting time short when the determined luminance is high and to set the waiting time long when the determined luminance is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications Limited
    Inventors: Masanori Katayanagi, Tomonori Sunazuka, Kenji Ochiai
  • Patent number: 7934816
    Abstract: When ink is filled into an ink pack 13 including a bag part 20 and an outlet part 21, firstly, air in the bag 20 and outlet part 21 is sucked by a suction pump P2 provided for an ink pouring apparatus 30. Further, by a first measuring pipe 43, ink supplied from a main tank 31 is poured through the outlet part 21 into the bag part 20. Further, by a second measuring pipe 52, the ink poured into the bag part 20 of the ink pack 13 is sucked and exhausted. Furthermore, the ink in the second measuring pipe 52 is mixed into a mixing tank 34 with ink previously supplied to the mixing tank 34 from the main tank 31. Next, the ink is supplied from the mixing tank 34 to a third measuring pipe 59, and filled from the third measuring pipe 59 through the outlet part 21 into the bag part 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Michinari Tsukahara, Masanori Kobayashi, Morio Sato, Kenji Ochiai, Yasuto Sakai
  • Publication number: 20100194289
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a luminance adjustable display module; an illuminance sensor configured to detect illuminance around the electronic apparatus; and a controller configured to: read the illuminance from the illuminance sensor; determine luminance corresponding to the illuminance; control the luminance adjustable display module to set luminance to the determined luminance; and set a waiting time based on the determined luminance, the waiting time being a time to a next time point of illuminance reading and luminance control. The controller is configured to set the waiting time short when the determined luminance is high and to set the waiting time long when the determined luminance is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masanori Katayanagi, Tomonori Sunazuka, Kenji Ochiai
  • Patent number: 7438400
    Abstract: In a liquid container in which a liquid container case accommodates at least three liquid storing packs under a condition that the liquid storing pack partially overlaps the adjacent liquid storing pack, amounts of liquid stored in the respective liquid storing packs have a plurality of levels, and the liquid pack storing the most amount of the liquid is arranged at parts other than the center of arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hitotoshi Kimura, Michinari Tsukahara, Masanori Kobayashi, Morio Sato, Kenji Ochiai, Yasuto Sakai
  • Patent number: 7357498
    Abstract: When ink is filled into an ink pack 13 including a bag part 20 and an outlet part 21, firstly, air in the bag 20 and outlet part 21 is sucked by a suction pump P2 provided for an ink pouring apparatus 30. Further, by a first measuring pipe 43, ink supplied from a main tank 31 is poured through the outlet part 21 into the bag part 20. Further, by a second measuring pipe 52, the ink poured into the bag part 20 of the ink pack 13 is sucked and exhausted. Furthermore, the ink in the second measuring pipe 52 is mixed into a mixing tank 34 with ink previously supplied to the mixing tank 34 from the main tank 31. Next, the ink is supplied from the mixing tank 34 to a third measuring pipe 59, and filled from the third measuring pipe 59 through the outlet part 21 into the bag part 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Michinari Tsukahara, Masanori Kobayashi, Morio Sato, Kenji Ochiai, Yasuto Sakai
  • Publication number: 20070091129
    Abstract: When ink is filled into an ink pack 13 including a bag part 20 and an outlet part 21, firstly, air in the bag 20 and outlet part 21 is sucked by a suction pump P2 provided for an ink pouring apparatus 30. Further, by a first measuring pipe 43, ink supplied from a main tank 31 is poured through the outlet part 21 into the bag part 20. Further, by a second measuring pipe 52, the ink poured into the bag part 20 of the ink pack 13 is sucked and exhausted. Furthermore, the ink in the second measuring pipe 52 is mixed into a mixing tank 34 with ink previously supplied to the mixing tank 34 from the main tank 31. Next, the ink is supplied from the mixing tank 34 to a third measuring pipe 59, and filled from the third measuring pipe 59 through the outlet part 21 into the bag part 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Michinari Tsukahara, Masanori Kobayashi, Morio Sato, Kenji Ochiai, Yasuto Sakai
  • Publication number: 20050140753
    Abstract: When ink is filled into an ink pack 13 including a bag part 20 and an outlet part 21, firstly, air in the bag 20 and outlet part 21 is sucked by a suction pump P2 provided for an ink pouring apparatus 30. Further, by a first measuring pipe 43, ink supplied from a main tank 31 is poured through the outlet part 21 into the bag part 20. Further, by a second measuring pipe 52, the ink poured into the bag part 20 of the ink pack 13 is sucked and exhausted. Furthermore, the ink in the second measuring pipe 52 is mixed into a mixing tank 34 with ink previously supplied to the mixing tank 34 from the main tank 31. Next, the ink is supplied from the mixing tank 34 to a third measuring pipe 59, and filled from the third measuring pipe 59 through the outlet part 21 into the bag part 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Michinari Tsukahara, Masanori Kobayashi, Morio Sato, Kenji Ochiai, Yasuto Sakai
  • Publication number: 20050057620
    Abstract: In a liquid container in which a liquid container case accommodates at least three liquid storing packs under a condition that the liquid storing pack partially overlaps the adjacent liquid storing pack, amounts of liquid stored in the respective liquid storing packs have a plurality of levels, and the liquid pack storing the most amount of the liquid is arranged at parts other than the center of arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Hitotoshi Kimura, Michinari Tsukahara, Masanori Kobayashi, Morio Sato, Kenji Ochiai, Yasuto Sakai
  • Patent number: 6800147
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a high-strength high-carbon steel wire which, owing to its high strength as well as good ductility, is excellent in resistance to strain aging embrittlement and longitudinal cracking. The steel wire is characterized by having a chemical composition (in mass %) including C: 0.75-1.20%, Si: 0.1-1.5%, Mn: 0.3-1.2%, P: no more than 0.02%, S: no more than 0.02%, Al: no more than 0.005%, and N: no more than 0.008%, with the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. The steel wire is further characterized by having worked pearlite structure containing lamellar cementite in amorphous form, a diameter (D) ranging from 0.15 to 0.4 mm, a metal lubricating film as the surface layer whose main phase is composed of at least one of Cu, Ni, and Zn or an alloy thereof, and tensile strength no lower than (3500×D−0.145) MPa and no higher than (3500×D−0.145+87×[C]−5) MPa, where [C] denotes C content in %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Nagao, Hiroshi Yaguchi, Kenji Ochiai, Nobuhiko Ibaraki, Takaaki Minamida, Noriaki Hiraga
  • Patent number: 6645319
    Abstract: A wire rod for drawing which is superior in drawability as well as twisting characteristics, and a method for producing the wire rod. The wire rod is characterized in that the raw material thereof is a eutectoid steel or hypereutectoid steel containing 0.1-2.0 mass % Si and 0.2-2.0 mass % Mn and the pearlite structure therein accounts for no less than 80 area % of microstructure and the maximum length of ferrite as the second phase therein is no larger than 10 &mgr;m. The wire rod is produced by drawing with a true strain of 1.5 or above and subjecting the wire rod to patenting at a heating temperature defined by a specific equation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Kobe Steel Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Nagao, Kenji Ochiai, Nobuhiko Ibaraki, Takaaki Minamida, Hiroshi Yaguchi
  • Publication number: 20030066575
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a high-strength high-carbon steel wire which, owing to its high strength as well as good ductility, is excellent in resistance to strain aging embrittlement and longitudinal cracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Mamoru Nagao, Hiroshi Yaguchi, Kenji Ochiai, Nobuhiko Ibaraki, Takaaki Minamida, Noriaki Hiraga
  • Publication number: 20020084003
    Abstract: A wire rod for drawing which is superior in drawability as well as twisting characteristics, and a method for producing the wire rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Mamoru Nagao, Kenji Ochiai, Nobuhiko Ibaraki, Takaaki Minamida, Hiroshi Yaguchi
  • Patent number: 6322641
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a high-carbon steel wire having high strength and superior in resistance to longitudinal cracking, a steel for said high-carbons steel wire, and a process for producing said steel. The high-carbon steel wire is characterized in that the essential components are C (0.65-1.2 wt %), Si (0.1-2.0 wt %), Mn (0.2-2.0 wt %), and Fe, the main phase is pearlite, and the ferrite area ratio is less than 0.40 % in the surface layer up to a depth of 50 &mgr;m from the surface. The high-carbon steel may further contain B (0.0003-0.0050 wt %), Ti (less than 0.030 wt %), and N (less than 0.0050 wt %), with the amount of B, Ti, and N satisfying the following equation 0.03≦B/(Ti/3.43−N)≦5.0 The resulting steel wire produced in the usual way contains ferrite in an amount less than 0.40 wt % in its surface layer. This low ferrite content is responsible for good resistance to longitudinal cracking because ferrite causes longitudinal cracking to start from it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel Ltd.)
    Inventors: Koichi Makii, Nobuhiko Ibaraki, Kenji Ochiai, Atsushi Inada, Sakae Wada, Takaaki Minamida, Mamoru Nagao
  • Patent number: 5575866
    Abstract: Disclosed are a steel wire rod for manufacturing a fine steel wire excellent in drawability, strength and toughness in which the contents of components such as C, Si, Mn, P, S, Al, Cu are specified, the contents of one or more of elements selected from a group consisting of Cr, W, Ni and Mo are also specified, and in which the balance is essentially Fe and inevitable impurities and for which, the composition of non-metallic inclusions of oxides is also specified; a fine steel wire obtained by drawing of the steel wire rod; and a twisted wire cord made by twisting of the fine steel wires. Further, disclosed is a die schedule for manufacturing the above fine steel wire. Thus, there can be provided a steel wire rod with excellent drawability and which does not break during drawing; a fine steel wire excellent in strength and toughness obtained from the steel wire rod; and a twisted wire cord obtained by twisting together lengths of the fine steel wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Takaaki Minamida, Kozo Katsube, Katsuji Mizutani, Mamoru Murahashi, Kenji Ochiai, Yasuhiro Oki, Nobuhiko Ibaraki, Tamotsu Shohzaki, Yoshihiro Mitani
  • Patent number: 5211772
    Abstract: The fine steel wire according to the present invention has a high strength and high toughness, which is used as a rubber reinforcing material for a belt cord or tire cord, or as missile wires. Such a fine steel wire can be obtained by drawing a wire rod for a fine steel wire properly adjusted in its composition and structure, while applying working strain such that the total reduction of area in the final wire drawing step becomes 95% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Shinzo Ashida, Nobuhiko Ibaraki, Katsuji Mizutani, Kenji Ochiai