Patents by Inventor Kenji Saito
Kenji Saito 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: 11568684Abstract: The invention provides a control unit and a control system for a vehicle capable of reducing a workload of deleting a record of information of an unintended event detected by a certain control unit by preventing the other control unit from recording the information of the event. Control units (50a to 50d) that are mounted on the vehicle and connected in a mutually communicable manner each include an event processing section (55). The event processing section (55) executes one or both of processing to switch whether to notify a recording request of the information of the event and processing to switch necessity/unnecessity of recording of the information of the event.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Toshihiro Saito, Kenji Arai, Yuki Shimoya
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Publication number: 20230011940Abstract: A heater includes an irradiator configured to irradiate a heating object including a liquid attachment region, onto which a liquid is applied, with an active energy ray, and circuitry configured to control an output of the active energy ray emitted from the irradiator to an edge portion in the liquid attachment region of the heating object to be larger than an output of the active energy ray emitted from the irradiator to a non-edge portion in the liquid attachment region excluding the edge portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Ryusaku HIDA, Kazuaki KAMIHARA, Kohki ASADA, Kenji NOZAWA, Genichiroh KAWAMICHI, Hiroshi SAWASE, Yoshihiro TAKAHASHI, Shun SAITO
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Publication number: 20220373001Abstract: A first MR sensor and a second MR sensor are a combination of a first magnetic resistance effect element pattern and a second magnetic resistance effect element pattern. The first MR sensor and the second MR sensor are disposed a prescribed distance apart such that, when the first MR sensor receives the greatest quantity of the magnetic field component of a magnet oriented parallel to the axial direction of a piston, the second MR sensor receives the greatest quantity of the magnetic field component of a magnet oriented parallel to the radial direction of the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki UCHIYAMA, Kenji SUDA, Makoto SAITO
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Patent number: 11493844Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive resin composition for a flexographic printing plate, the photosensitive resin composition including at least a hydrophilic copolymer (A), a thermoplastic elastomer (B), a photo-polymerizable monomer (C), a photo-polymerization initiator (D), a plasticizer (E), and an acidic group-containing polymer (F), wherein the photosensitive resin composition for the flexographic printing plate has an acid value of 1 to 100 mgKOH/g, as measured by neutralization titration.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Ogawa, Hideo Saito, Tohru Kihara, Kenji Ota
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Patent number: 11491503Abstract: A coating material mist remover of the present disclosure includes: a first duct that discharges air containing coating material mist from an outflow port directed downward; a second duct having an inflow port opened in a horizontal direction; and an incinerable intermediate filter that is detachably connected between the first duct and the second duct and removes the coating material mist from the air. The coating material mist remover also includes: a first connection mechanism that can connect and separate the first duct and the intermediate filter; and a second connection mechanism that can connect and separate the second duct and the intermediate filter.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignees: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryota Saito, Shigeki Fujiwara, Kenji Tajima, Kai Takishima
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Patent number: 11485397Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel trolley coupling structure that allows coupling of base parts of trolleys aligned in the vertical or horizontal direction. The present invention provides a trolley coupling structure in which a first receiving recess part is provided in a base part of one trolley, a second receiving recess part is provided in a base part of another trolley, a locking member is pivotally attached to the first receiving recess part, a recess part body and a bent section are formed in the respective first and second receiving recess parts, and retaining of the locking member is achieved by constraining and locking a constraining piece part of the locking member at the bent section.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: NANSIN CO., LTD.Inventors: Akinori Saito, Kenji Yamaguchi, Nao Kanamori
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Publication number: 20220343232Abstract: An autonomous vehicle which transports a user through autonomous driving, having: a body temperature sensor that detects a body temperature of the user; in-cabin signage attached in a vehicle cabin; and a sanitation controller that adjusts a sanitation state in the vehicle cabin. When the body temperature of the user detected by the body temperature sensor is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the sanitation controller causes the in-cabin signage to display a sanitation caution message.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Yoichi ONISHI, Kenji KANAMORI, Yusuke MATSUKAWA, Kei KAWASAKI, Mahito OSUKA, Keisuke SAITO
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Publication number: 20220332351Abstract: Provided is a vehicle operation system including a first operation management server and a second operation management server. The first operation management server calculates a running route to the destination, a border point, and a scheduled arrival time at which the first vehicle is to arrive at the border point, and informs the second operation management server of these. Further, the first operation management server sends an operation instruction to the first vehicle to instruct it to run from the current position to the border point. The second operation management server sends an operation signal to a second vehicle to instruct it to arrive at the border point by the informed scheduled arrival time, and then to run from the border point to the destination after the user transfers from the first vehicle to the second vehicle at the border point.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Yoichi ONISHI, Kenji KANAMORI, Yusuke MATSUKAWA, Kei KAWASAKI, Mahito OSUKA, Keisuke SAITO
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Publication number: 20220334822Abstract: A software updating method for transmitting update data for software installed in vehicle controllers via wireless communication from an operation managing server to a plurality of vehicles on which the vehicle controllers are respectively mounted, for causing each of the vehicle controllers to update the software, in which the operation managing server is configured to group the plurality of vehicles into a plurality of groups, and vary timings of causing the vehicle controllers to update the software on a group-by-group basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Yoichi ONISHI, Kenji KANAMORI, Yusuke MATSUKAWA, Kei KAWASAKI, Mahito OSUKA, Keisuke SAITO
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Patent number: 11466337Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength sheet containing: C: 0.15% by mass to 0.35% by mass, a total of Si and Al: 0.5% by mass to 3.0% by mass, Al: 0.01% by mass or more, N: 0.01% by mass or less, Mn: 1.0% by mass to 4.0% by mass, P: 0.05% by mass or less, and S: 0.01% by mass or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the steel structure satisfies that: a ferrite fraction is 5% or less, the total fraction of tempered martensite and tempered bainite is 60% or more, the amount of retained austenite is 10% or more, MA has an average size of 1.0 ?m or less, retained austenite has an average size of 1.0 ?m or less, retained austenite having a size of 1.5 ?m or more accounts for 2% or more of the total amount of retained austenite, and the amount of solute nitrogen in a steel sheet is 0.002% by mass or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu Natsumeda, Toshio Murakami, Kenji Saito, Tadao Murata
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Publication number: 20220319228Abstract: A face authentication apparatus includes a face image acquisition unit that acquires, as a first face image, a face image of a user who moves from a first area to a second area via a gate provided between the first area and the second area, a collation unit that performs face authentication, a flow rate measurement unit that measures a flow rate of users who move from the first area to the second area via the gate and a flow rate of users who move from the second area to the first area via the gate, and a security level determination unit that determines the security level of the first area and the security level of the second area on the basis of the flow rates measured.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Taketo KOCHI, Kenji SAITO
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Publication number: 20220304747Abstract: Provided is a high-frequency treatment tool including: a sheath having an inner hole that passes therethrough in a longitudinal direction; a first electrode portion that is formed in a rod shape, that passes through the inner hole of the sheath to protrude from a distal end of the sheath, and that is configured to apply a high-frequency current; a second electrode portion that is disposed at a position at which the second electrode portion is electrically connected with the first electrode portion; and a power source that uses the first electrode portion as a negative electrode, that uses the second electrode portion as a positive electrode, and that supply a current between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion so that a state in which attached matter attached to the first electrode portion is lifted from the first electrode portion due to osmosis is created.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuo MIYANO, Yoshinori HIGUCHI, Kenji MURAKAMI, Shohei KAMADA, Yoshitaka KAMIYA, Masayoshi SAITO
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Publication number: 20220297058Abstract: The embodiments provide an eco-friendly carbon dioxide fixation method and a system for carrying out the method. The carbon dioxide fixation method according to the embodiment includes: immersing a magnesium alloy in an aqueous solvent; blowing carbon dioxide-containing gas into the aqueous solvent; and electrically energizing and thereby subjecting the aqueous solvent to electrolysis treatment so as to produce precipitates containing magnesium carbonate. This method can be carried out in a system having: a treating bath for storing a magnesium alloy and an aqueous solvent to treat a magnesium alloy in which said magnesium alloy is treated, a gas-introducing unit for blowing carbon dioxide-containing gas into the aqueous solvent, a pair of electrodes for applying voltage to the aqueous solvent so as to conduct electrolysis treatment, and a power control unit connected to the electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kenji SANO, Hitomi SAITO, Hirohisa MIYAMOTO, Toshihiro IMADA
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Patent number: 11447569Abstract: Provided are anti-PAD4 antibodies having excellent properties and an excellent method for treatment of RA. Used are anti-PAD4 antibodies that specifically bind to an epitope containing positions 345, 347, and 348 of PAD4. These anti-PAD4 antibodies may inhibit the citrullination activity of PAD4. In addition, these anti-PAD4 antibodies may have a KD (M) of 9.0×10?9 or less. Optionally, the anti-PAD4 antibody and a TNF? inhibitor are used in combination.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY, PHARMA FOODS INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Mamoru Sato, Michiyuki Yamada, Satoshi Kanazawa, Masayoshi Toyoura, Yuji Shoya, Kenji Saito, Chihiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11443875Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Masaru Ishikawa, Hideki Saito, Hajime Maejo
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Patent number: 11434341Abstract: A resin sheet with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer including the resin sheet. The resin sheet including a main surface A and a main surface B opposite to each other across a thickness “d”, where the resin sheet has a 50% compression load of 20 N/cm2 or less at 23±5° C. in a direction of the thickness “d”, which is measured in conformity with a method of measuring a compression hardness described in JIS K 6767:1999; where the resin sheet has a Poisson's ratio at 23° C. of 0.10 or less; and the resin sheet has a thickness recovery ratio of 40% or more when compressed by 20% in the direction of the thickness “d” at 23° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Yamanari, Makoto Saito, Akira Hirao, Kenji Furuta
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Publication number: 20220270828Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a tantalum lead-out wire and a capacitor element. The capacitor element includes an anode body, a dielectric layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a cathode body. The tantalum lead-out wire penetrates the capacitor element in a penetrating direction, cross sections of the tantalum lead-out wire and the capacitor element perpendicular to the penetrating direction include a rectangular shape, a longitudinal direction of the cross sections extending in a horizontal direction, and a value of Wc/Wd is less than 0.5, where We is a vertical length of the cross section of the tantalum lead-out wire perpendicular to the penetrating direction and Wd is a vertical length of the cross section of the capacitor element perpendicular to the penetrating direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Kazuaki SAITO, Masami ISHIJIMA, Kenji ARAKI, Daisuke TAKADA
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Patent number: 11409890Abstract: A video recording apparatus includes an illumination apparatus applying a modulated illumination light, a control apparatus controlling the illumination apparatus, an imaging apparatus imaging the illumination light and an object at the same time to generate video data; and a storage apparatus storing the video data generated by the imaging apparatus. The control apparatus generates encrypted data by using at least a portion of the video data imaged by the imaging apparatus and encryption information generated as information changing in accordance with a date and time and used for encryption and controls the illumination apparatus such that the illumination light is modulated by the generated encrypted data.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Taishi Asano, Kenji Tachibana, Shunsuke Saito, Masaharu Hirohata
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Publication number: 20220242766Abstract: A wastewater treatment apparatus includes a treatment mechanism that treats a wastewater containing an organic chromaticity component with an enzyme produced by Bacillus proteolyticus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Miwa SAITO, Takumi OBARA, Jinyang HU, Kenji KAKINUMA
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Patent number: 11403873Abstract: A face authentication apparatus includes a face image acquisition unit that acquires, as a first face image, a face image of a user who moves from a first area to a second area via a gate provided between the first area and the second area, a collation unit that performs face authentication, a flow rate measurement unit that measures a flow rate of users who move from the first area to the second area via the gate and a flow rate of users who move from the second area to the first area via the gate, and a security level determination unit that determines the security level of the first area and the security level of the second area on the basis of the flow rates measured.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Taketo Kochi, Kenji Saito