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).

  • Patent number: 9605893
    Abstract: A heat source device is provided with a differential pressure sensor that measures the differential pressure between an inlet pressure and an outlet pressure for the chilled water in an evaporator and with a control device. The control device possesses the coefficient of loss for the evaporator and is provided with a chilled-water flow-rate computing portion that calculates a chilled-water flow rate at the evaporator on the basis of the coefficient of loss and the differential pressure output from the differential pressure sensor; a control-command computing portion that generates a control command by using a specification heating-medium flow rate that is set in advance; and a control-command correcting portion that corrects the control command generated by the control-command computing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Wajima, Kenji Ueda, Masaharu Nitta
  • Publication number: 20170068969
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores an association program causing a computer to function as: an extracting unit that extracts a person, a container, and a product from an image captured by a camera; a first specification unit that specifies a movement of the product being transferred into or from the container; and an association unit that associates a person who has a predetermined relationship with the container into or from which the product is transferred in a case where the first specification unit specifies the movement of the product being transferred into or from the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriko ARAI, Sei AMAGAI, Hiroyoshi UEJO, Kenji UEDA, Chihiro MATSUGUMA
  • Patent number: 9541318
    Abstract: A flow rate of a heat transfer medium is computed without a flow meter. In a control apparatus (30), a storing portion (36) stores an aerodynamic characteristic map indicating a line causing a rotating stall and lines showing a sonic velocity in a refrigerant sucked in by a compressor (12) on a map displaying a variable ? reflecting a suction volume of the compressor (12) and a variable ? reflecting a head of the compressor (12); a estimation portion of chilled water flow rate (30b) computes the variable ?, derives the variable ? according to the variable ? from the map, computes a heat amount exchanged between the refrigerant and the chilled water in an evaporator (24) based on the suction volume of the compressor (12) according to the computed variable ?, and computes the flow rate of the chilled water based on the heat amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Matsuo, Kenji Ueda, Toshihiko Niinomi, Hitoi Ono
  • Publication number: 20170003679
    Abstract: This chiller control device (74) is provided with: a storage unit (18) which stores operation data detected at each site in a turbo chiller; a compression unit (34) which, when the size of the operation data accumulated over time in the storage unit (18) becomes too large, converts the operation data each time a condition depending on the type of operation data is met, thereby compressing the data size; and a diagnostic unit (36) which evaluates the state of the turbo chiller on the basis of the operation data converted by the compression unit (34). By this means, the state of the chiller can be diagnosed without increasing the storage capacity of the storage medium that stores operation data of the turbo chiller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki MIURA, Kenji UEDA, Yoshie KANKI, Minoru MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20160379144
    Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one information processing apparatus. The information processing system includes a provisional cost calculator configured to apply failure history information to a failure prediction model to provisionally calculate a cost of the failure prediction model, the failure history information expressing failure history of at least one electronic device in which a failure has occurred, the failure prediction model including a symptom detection method for detecting a symptom of a failure to occur in the electronic device in association with a preventive action for preventing the failure to occur in the electronic device; and an adoption determiner configured to determine to adopt the failure prediction model by which a profit can be obtained, based on a result of the provisional calculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi MIZUNO, Takenori OKU, Hiroshi NISHIDA, Shunsuke HAYASHI, Kentaro SEO, Yusuke SHIBATA, Yuuta SANO, Takeyoshi SEKINE, Fumihiro NAGANO, Satoshi HATANAKA, Kenji UEDA
  • Publication number: 20160380847
    Abstract: A system includes a device and one or more information processing apparatuses. The device includes a device-information generator configured to generate device information on the device; and an analyzer determining unit configured to determine any one of the device and the one or more information processing apparatuses as an analyzer for the device information. The one determined as the analyzer includes an analysis unit configured to perform an analysis based on the device information; and a service determining unit configured to determine a service to the device based on a result of the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji UEDA, Takenori OKU, Hiroshi NISHIDA, Satoshi HATANAKA, Takeyoshi SEKINE, Yasushi NAKAZATO, Fumihiro NAGANO, Tetsutaro OISHI, Kazuho SATOH
  • Publication number: 20160378584
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a storage unit that stores and associates a cause of a failure that has occurred in an electronic device, state information of the electronic device at the time the failure has occurred in the electronic device due to the cause of the failure, and a measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure. The information processing system further includes at least one processor that performs an acquisition process for acquiring the state information of the electronic device, and a failure diagnosis process for determining the cause of the failure that has occurred in the electronic device and the measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure based on the acquired state information of the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori OKU, Hiroshi NISHIDA, Kentaro SEO, Shunsuke HAYASHI, Yusuke SHIBATA, Yuuta SANO, Satoshi MIZUNO, Takeyoshi SEKINE, Fumihiro NAGANO, Satoshi HATANAKA, Kenji UEDA
  • Publication number: 20160334748
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jumpei AOYAMA, Hajime NISHIDA, Manabu NONAKA, Junichi SUGITA, Kenji UEDA
  • Patent number: 9488387
    Abstract: A heat source system has a plurality of heat sources that can be utilized therein. The plurality of heat sources include unused heat such as sewage and wastewater generated in a facility in which an external load that receives a supply of heating medium heated or cooled by using the heat sources is installed. A system control device (10) of the heat source system determines potential temperatures and amounts of potential heat of the individual heat sources; and selects heat sources based on the potential temperatures and the amounts of potential heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshie Togano, Kenji Ueda
  • Patent number: 9457820
    Abstract: A speed profile generation apparatus includes: an input unit that receives train performance, route information, information regarding a landmark, a starting position and ending position of generating a speed profile, and a starting time and target ending time of the speed profile; and a speed profile generator that generates the speed profile based on the information inputted to the input unit, the speed profile switching a traveling mode of a train by taking a position of the landmark as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sae Kimura, Satoru Takahashi, Kenji Ueda
  • Publication number: 20160216024
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to suppress an overshoot in the outlet temperature of a heat medium. A heat source machine controlling apparatus includes a computing unit and a set temperature changing unit. The computing unit calculates a load change rate using a predetermined arithmetic expression. The set temperature changing unit determines whether or not the load change rate calculated by the computing unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value. In the case where the load change rate exceeds the predetermined threshold value, the set temperature changing unit changes a set chilled water outlet temperature so as to suppress a change in a chilled water outlet temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akimasa YOKOYAMA, Kenji UEDA, Yasushi HASEGAWA, Noriyuki MATSUKURA
  • Publication number: 20160200955
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat pump device and an organic Rankine cycle device that are capable of maintaining a stable thermal cycle even when an HFO or HCFO is used as the refrigerant. The refrigerant circulation device uses a refrigerant, wherein the refrigerant comprises a hydrofluoroolefin or hydrochlorofluoroolefin having a carbon-carbon double bond within the molecular structure, and a reaction suppression unit which suppresses an isomerization reaction of the refrigerant is provided within the refrigerant circulation circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., CENTRAL GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji UEDA, Naoki KOBAYASHI, Yoshinori AKAMATSU, Fuyuhiko SAKYU, Yoshio NISHIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160201958
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat pump device and an organic Rankine cycle device that are capable of maintaining a stable thermal cycle even when an HFO is used as the refrigerant in an environment in which the operating temperature reaches a high temperature. The refrigerant circulation device is filled with a refrigerant comprising a hydrofluoroolefin or hydrochlorofluoroolefin having a carbon-carbon double bond within the molecular structure, and has a region in the refrigerant circulation circuit where the operating temperature of the refrigerant reaches 175° C. or higher, wherein an acid suppression unit which suppresses any increase in the acid concentration in the refrigerant is provided in the region where the operating temperature of the refrigerant can reach 175° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., CENTRAL GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji UEDA, Naoki KOBAYASHI, Yoshinori AKAMATSU, Fuyuhiko SAKYU, Yoshio NISHIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160123639
    Abstract: A turbo refrigerator includes a centrifugal compressor configured to compress a refrigerant by rotation of an impeller having a plurality of blades, a condenser configured to cool the compressed refrigerant, a first expansion valve and a second expansion valve connected in series and configured to decompress the refrigerant from the condenser to form two phases of a gas and a liquid, an evaporator configured to evaporate the refrigerant from the second expansion valve, an economizer disposed between the first expansion valve and the second expansion valve and configured to separate the refrigerant into two phases of a gas and a liquid, and an introduction path configured to allow the gas phase separated from the refrigerant in the economizer to flow between a front edge and a rear edge of a blade in a main flow channel between the neighboring blades of the impeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun KOGA, Kenji UEDA
  • Patent number: 9291378
    Abstract: In a turbo chiller, pipe joint groups (23 to 26) provided to refrigerant cooling pipe systems (13 to 16) and lubricant pipe systems connected to a turbo compressor (2) and a motor (3), as well as a joint group (28) of various replacement components (27) provided to the pipe systems, are intensively placed, and at least one refrigerant detection sensor (32) is arranged below the intensive placement region (30) of the joint groups (23 to 28) and at a pre-identified point at which a slight amount of refrigerant that leaks from each of the joint groups (23 to 28) and flows downward is distributed and pools at a high concentration, whereby the slight amount of refrigerant leakage can be detected by the refrigerant detection sensor (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Ueda, Yasushi Hasegawa, Noriyuki Matsukura
  • Publication number: 20160061210
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a turbo compressor which is provided with an open impeller and has the minimal gap between the shroud and the impeller such that efficiency is improved and the safe operating region is enlarged; and a turbo chiller using the same. The turbo compressor is provided with an open impeller with a shroud provided on the side of a casing, and the rotary shaft is supported by a radial magnetic bearing and a magnetic thrust bearing. The turbo compressor is provided with a control unit that comprises: a load calculating means that calculates the axial thrust load generated by the pressure distribution of the compressor; and an axial support position control means that controls a gap between the impeller and the shroud to be a target gap by varying, on the basis of the axial thrust load, the axial support position of the rotary shaft due to the magnetic thrust bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi HASEGAWA, Kenji UEDA, Akimasa YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160052342
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread having an outer surface forming a tread surface, and a belt positioned on radially inner side of the tread. In cross section perpendicular to circumferential direction, the tread surface has a profile ranging from equatorial plane to tread edge and including arcs protruding in radially outward direction, the arcs include arc Ci having radius Ri, arc C1 on the plane, and arc C(i+1) having radius R(i+1) equal to or less than the radius Ri, and where virtual line Lt inclines at inclination angle ? relative to axial direction and contacts with the profile at point Pt, axial width Wt is set from the plane to the point Pt, and axial width W is set from the plane to the tread edge at the angle ? of 3 degrees, the width Wt has ratio of less than 65% with respect to the width W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji UEDA
  • Patent number: 9247103
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including an image target separating unit that separates a read printed document into image targets, a page aggregation state determining unit that determines a page aggregation state of the read printed document based on a layout of the image targets separated by the image target separating unit, a printing direction determining unit that determines a printing direction of each of pages determined by the page aggregation state determining unit based on a features of each of the image targets separated by the image target separating unit, and a document format converting unit that converts a document format of the read printed document based on the results of the determination by the page aggregation state determining unit and the printing direction determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Niina, Toshiyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Hayashi, Kenji Ueda, Tatsuya Namiki
  • Publication number: 20160010654
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi HASEGAWA, Kenji UEDA, Masataka YANAGITA, Masayoshi MIKURIYA
  • Patent number: 9206994
    Abstract: Upon newly installing a system or installing an additional heat source apparatuses, manual adjustment of a number-of-units control device should be eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Matsuo, Kenji Ueda