Patents by Inventor Kenji Ueda
Kenji Ueda 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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Publication number: 20180077321Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit, a memory controller, and a transfer unit. The extraction unit extracts, on the basis of image information, pieces of color information having a high frequency of occurrence as color information that is necessary to perform image processing. The memory controller causes a first memory to store a color information group including the pieces of color information extracted by the extraction unit. The transfer unit transfers the color information group from the first memory to a second memory, an access time of the second memory being shorter than an access time of the first memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yurie ISHIKAWA, Noriko ARAI, Kenji UEDA, Chihiro MATSUGUMA, Tatsuya NAMIKI
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Publication number: 20180066871Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerant circulation device and method that can suppress acid generation caused by decomposition of a refrigerant containing an HFO or HCFO. The refrigerant circulation device has a compressor, a condenser, expansion valves and an evaporator connected by a main pipe to form a refrigerant circulation circuit through which a refrigerant is circulated, the refrigerant circulation circuit being filled with a refrigerant containing a hydrofluoroolefin or a hydrochlorofluoroolefin having a carbon-carbon double bond within the molecular structure, wherein the refrigerant circulation device includes a drive that drives the compressor via a speed increaser, and a drive cooling unit that cools the drive with the refrigerant condensed in the condenser, and a desiccant that can trap moisture is disposed in the evaporator or the drive cooling unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD., CENTRAL GLASS CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki MATSUKURA, Kenji UEDA, Naoki KOBAYASHI, Ryosuke SUEMITSU, Norihisa HORAGUCHI, Satoru OKAMOTO, Yoshio NISHIGUCHI
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Patent number: 9909005Abstract: A halogen-free type polycarbonate resin composition and a resin molded object having good flame retardant properties and physical properties that make them suitable for the use as manufactured products. The resin component includes a component A which is a polycarbonate resin, a component B including organic sulfonic acid or organic sulfonic acid metal salt, whose content is 0.05% or more and 2.0% or less by weight, a component C which is a drip inhibitor, whose content is 0.05% or more and 1.0% or less by weight, and a component D which is a silicone compound, whose content is 0.1% or more and 2.0% or less by weight. Among hydrogen atoms in the silicone compound and the proportion of hydrogen atoms in phenyl groups is 51% or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Yamada, Kenji Ueda, Takahiro Ohe, Yasuhito Inagaki
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Patent number: 9880795Abstract: A recording system, includes a recording apparatus configured to perform recording using a recording head having a plurality of recording elements; and an information processing apparatus configured to send a print job to the recording apparatus to shift a range of use of the recording elements in an array direction of the recording elements. The information processing apparatus includes a head shading correction unit configured to execute, based on information indicating that the range of use of the recording elements is one of plural ranges of use, head shading correction corresponding to the one range on image data; and a sending unit configured to send the image data subjected to the head shading correction to the recording apparatus. The recording apparatus includes a recording control unit configured to control the recording head to perform recording at the one range by using the image data subjected to the head shading correction.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Canon Finetech Nisca, Inc.Inventors: Kenji Ueda, Yasukazu Ono
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Patent number: 9856885Abstract: Provided is an oil tank of a turbo chiller compressor whose heater can be replaced or checked without removing oil from an oil tank and removing refrigerant from a turbo chiller, and a turbo chiller compressor. An oil tank (10) of a turbo chiller compressor (3A) includes a bottom plate (11) and side plates (12, 13) standing upright so as to extend upward from an outer peripheral edge portion of the bottom plate (11). The oil tank (10) forms a bottom portion of a casing (14) forming the turbo chiller compressor (3A), a through-hole (21) is formed so as to penetrate the side plate (12) in a plate thickness direction, a protective tube (22) closed at a tip end thereof is inserted into the through-hole (21), and a rod-shaped heater (26) configured to be able to be pulled out from the protective tube (22) and be inserted into the protective tube (22) is inserted into the protective tube (22).Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Hasegawa, Kenji Ueda, Masataka Yanagita, Masayoshi Mikuriya
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Patent number: 9856099Abstract: A sheet feeder, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a sheet feeding unit to feed a sheet, a sheet separating unit disposed opposite the sheet feeding unit to separate the sheet together with the sheet feeding unit, a bottom plate on which the sheet is loaded, a pressing unit having a leading end and movably disposed between the bottom plate and the sheet separating unit, and a support to rotatably support the pressing unit such that the leading end of the pressing unit contacts and separates from the sheet feeding unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Jumpei Aoyama, Hajime Nishida, Manabu Nonaka, Junichi Sugita, Kenji Ueda
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Publication number: 20170350649Abstract: A liquefied gas cooling apparatus including: a gas flow path for carrying a liquefied gas that is liquefied by cooling; and a refrigeration unit including a refrigerating cycle formed by an evaporator for cooling the liquefied gas flowing through the gas flow path, a compressor, a condenser, and a throttle expansion unit. The compressor is driven through an electric motor contained in a sealed housing together with a compressor mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2015Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Toyotaka HIRAO, Kenji UEDA, Yasushi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20170350632Abstract: A liquefied gas cooling apparatus includes: a gas flow path for carrying a liquefied gas that is liquefied by cooling; and a refrigeration unit including a refrigerating cycle formed by an evaporator for cooling the liquefied gas flowing through the gas flow path, a compressor, a condenser, and a throttle expansion unit. The refrigeration unit includes: an inlet-side open/close valve and an outlet-side open/close valve provided in an inlet path and an outlet path of the compressor, respectively; and a service open/close valve in a refrigerant path between the inlet-side open/close valve and the outlet-side open/close valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2015Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Toyotaka HIRAO, Kenji UEDA, Yasushi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20170305090Abstract: A pneumatic tire manufacturing method is provided in which winding collapse is prevented, there is no possibility of adverse effects on the FV, a current-carrying layer can be formed easily, and down-stitching can be dispensed with or minimized in the manufacture of SOT-structure pneumatic tires having a base-pen structure in the tread.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki SAKAMOTO, Kenji UEDA, Takamichi SAGAWA
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Patent number: 9796846Abstract: A halogen-free type polycarbonate resin composition and a resin molded object having good flame retardant properties and physical properties that make them suitable for the use as manufactured products are provided. A resin composition of the present disclosure includes a component A, a component B, a component C and a component D. The component A is a polycarbonate resin. The component B is talc having an average median diameter of 4.6 ?m or more and 6.0 ?m or less, whose content is 5% or more and 20% or less by weight. The component C is an organic sulfonic acid or an organic sulfonic acid metal salt, whose content is 0.05% or more and 2.0% or less by weight. The component D is a drip inhibitor, whose content is 0.05% or more and 1.0% or less by weight.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenji Ueda, Yasuhito Inagaki, Takahiro Ohe, Atsushi Yamada
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Publication number: 20170297381Abstract: In a tire 2, on a cross-section, three or more rows in each of which cross-sections 30 of a wire are aligned almost in the axial direction, are layered in the radial direction. The cross-sections 30 of the wire in a first row disposed on an innermost side in the radial direction and the cross-sections 30 of the wire in a second row layered outward of the first row are staggered. On a cross-section obtained by the tire 2 being cut at a plane perpendicular to the circumferential direction, an outline of a heel surface 36 of a bead 8 portion has an arc C that projects toward an outside of the bead 8 portion. A radius R of curvature of the arc C is greater than or equal to 8 mm and not greater than 12 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Kenji UEDA
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Publication number: 20170293263Abstract: The invention relates to a holographic viewing device that enable printing or the like to be directly applied to a transmission hologram substrate without recourse to any frame for supporting and reinforcing a transmission hologram, thereby simplifying construction while enhancing aesthetic and decorative attributes, and a holographic viewing card incorporating it. The holographic viewing device enables a given image or message to be viewed near the positions of point light sources upon viewing the point light sources through a hologram, and comprises a transparent substrate 41, a hologram-formation layer 42 and a printing layer 45. The hologram-formation layer 42 may be any one of a phase type diffractive optical element having a relief structure 43 on its surface, a phase type diffractive optical element having a refractive index profile in its layer, and an amplitude type diffractive optical element having a transmittance profile in its layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2017Publication date: October 12, 2017Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuru KITAMURA, Kenji UEDA, Koji ETO
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Publication number: 20170284462Abstract: The air bearing includes a main body part having a bearing surface opposed to a guide face, first and second flow path parts, which are provided in the main body part, for allowing compressed air supplied from outside to flow, an air supply hole, which is provided in the flow path part, for supplying compressed air to the guide face to form an air film between the bearing surface and the guide face, and a negative pressure generating part, which is provided in the second flow path part intersecting with the first flow path part, for generating a negative pressure for sucking air between the guide face and the main body part by increasing the flow velocity of the compressed air.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Kenji Ueda, Hisayoshi Sakai
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Publication number: 20170280017Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an image data obtaining unit, a foreign material position information obtaining unit, and a separation processor. The image data obtaining unit obtains image data read from a document passing over a read area. The foreign material position information obtaining unit obtains foreign material position information read from the read area in which the document is not present. The separation processor separates the image data into plural objects including a background object, detects, by using the foreign material position information, a streak image portion caused by foreign material in the read area and included in the image data, and assumes a pixel of the streak image portion to belong to the background object if the pixel is present in the background object and has a pixel value equal to or smaller than a threshold determined in accordance with a representative value of the background.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya NAMIKI, Chihiro MATSUGUMA, Noriko ARAI, Kenji UEDA, Yurie ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20170254568Abstract: A centrifugal chiller in which a closed-cycle refrigeration cycle is formed by connecting a compressor, a condenser, an economizer and decompression means forming a multi-stage compression cycle, and an evaporator, with the refrigeration cycle being charged with a low-pressure refrigerant. The condenser and the economizer are integrated with each other by having a portion of their vessel walls form a shared wall, with the base surface of the economizer being positioned below the base surface of the condenser and above the base surface of the evaporator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Naoya MIYOSHI, Kenji UEDA, Yasushi HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20170219260Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to achieve stable operation when using a low pressure, low GWP refrigerant. In the present invention, a control device (16) is provided with an estimation unit (31), a determination unit (32), and an activation control unit (33). The estimation unit (31) estimates the amount of air entering using a degree of influence of air entering, which represents the ease with which air enters determined by the structure of the chiller, and a variable obtained by a function including pressure as a parameter. The determination unit (32) determines whether a total value for the amount of air entering is greater than or equal to a preset tolerance value. The activation control unit (33) activates a bleed device when the total value of the amount of air entering is equal to or greater than the tolerance value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshie TOGANO, Kenji UEDA, Noriyuki MATSUKURA
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Patent number: 9689730Abstract: A required-circulated-refrigerant flow-rate calculating portion provided in a chilled-water flow-rate estimation calculation portion calculates an evaporator exchanged heat quantity exchanged between a refrigerant and chilled water at an evaporator based on a planned chilled-water-flow-rate value and a measured value of the temperature of the chilled water flowing in the evaporator, and calculates an evaporator-refrigerant flow rate based on that evaporator exchanged heat quantity.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Minoru Matsuo, Kenji Ueda, Toshihiko Niinomi, Hitoi Ono
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Publication number: 20170146271Abstract: A turbo chiller that has an oil-free configuration, which reduces the frequency of maintenance and maintenance-induced release of refrigerant, and can achieve a reduced environmental impact by utilizing the characteristics of the low-pressure refrigerant R1233zd(E) that reaches negative pressure at a saturation temperature of 18° C. or lower. The turbo chiller comprises a refrigeration cycle that includes a turbo compressor, a condenser, a decompression device, and an evaporator connected in sequence via piping and is filled with a refrigerant; wherein the refrigerant is a low-pressure refrigerant R1233zd(E) refrigerant with low global warming potential and low ozone depletion potential; the turbo compressor has a direct drive configuration in which a rotating shaft of impellers is directly joined to a motor; and the rotating shaft is supported by magnetic bearings.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2015Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yasushi HASEGAWA, Kenji UEDA, Noriyuki MATSUKURA, Ryosuke SUEMITSU, Shintaro OMURA
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Patent number: 9646272Abstract: A technique which comprehensively optimize passengers' convenience and a power consumption amount. An operation schedule evaluation apparatus has a passenger flow calculator and a power consumption amount calculator. The passenger flow calculator creates passenger flow information related to a passenger flow generated by transportation of a train, based on operation schedule information of each train and passenger information related to an entry and an exit of a passenger at a station. The power consumption amount calculator calculates the number of passengers or a car occupancy of each train based on the passenger flow information created by the passenger flow calculator, the operation schedule information and car information of each train, and calculates a power consumption amount of each train per unit time which reflects car weight corresponding to the number of passengers or the car occupancy.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Atsuko Aoki, Kenji Ueda, Satoru Takahashi, Masahiko Tanimoto, Yusaku Nagasaki
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Publication number: 20170106704Abstract: A tire 2 includes: a pair of beads 10 including cores 28; chafers 22, disposed near the beads 10, which are brought into contact with a rim; an inner liner 18 disposed inward of a carcass 32 in an axial direction; and an insulation 20 disposed between the carcass 32 and the inner liner 18 in the axial direction. The chafers 22 include bottom surfaces 22a that are brought into contact with the rim in portions inward of the cores 28 in a radial direction. The insulation 20 includes insulation lower portions 20a disposed between the cores 28 and the bottom surfaces 22a of the chafers 22 in the radial direction. The inner liner 18 includes inner liner lower portions 18a disposed between the cores 28 and the bottom surfaces 22a of the chafers 22 in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takuya OSAWA, Kenji UEDA