Patents by Inventor Kenji Yamaguchi

Kenji Yamaguchi 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: 20240135418
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus calculates a fee for applying a second coating film including an easily removable layer to a first vehicle having a first coating film applied thereon. The information processing apparatus disclosed herein has a controller that calculates a first fee defined as a fee for applying the second coating film to the first vehicle that is for lease lower than a second fee defined as a fee for applying the second coating film to the first vehicle that is not for lease. In other words, the controller calculates the first fee by subtracting a first subtraction value from the second fee.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Yohei Nakanishi, Yu Hamada
  • Publication number: 20240136274
    Abstract: A quantum device capable of effectively cooling a quantum chip and an area (e.g., a space) therearound is provided. A quantum device includes a quantum chip and an interposer on which the quantum chip is located. The interposer includes an interposer substrate and an interposer wiring layer. The interposer wiring layer is disposed on a surface of the interposer substrate on a side on which the quantum chip is located. The interposer wiring layer includes, in at least a part thereof, a superconducting material layer formed of a superconducting material and a non-superconducting material layer formed of a non-superconducting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi KIKUCHI, Akira MIYATA, Suguru WATANABE, Takanori NISHI, Hideyuki SATOU, Kenji NANBA, Ayami YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240119475
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to provide an incentive to a first user who sells or returns a first vehicle in which a part of a first coating film including an easily peelable layer is not peeled off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinori II, Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Junya OGAWA, Yuki NAGANUMA, Junya YAMAMOTO, Yuta TONE, Naoki ISHIZUKA, Tadayuki TANAKA, Keisuke ITO, Yuka YOKOI, Takashi HAYASHI, Naoya OKA, Yu HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240111063
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus includes a radiation detection unit, a communication unit configured to receive a setting including an imaging mode when a radiographic image is acquired by the radiation detection unit from a control apparatus, a storage unit configured to store correction data for correcting the radiographic image, and a control unit configured to control an operation of at least one of the radiation detection unit, the communication unit, and the storage unit, wherein, when imaging starts in a normal imaging state where communication between the communication unit and the control apparatus is normal, the control unit acquires first correction data by a first preparation operation of driving the radiation detection unit in a non-irradiation state in the imaging mode, and when imaging starts in an emergency imaging state where the communication state is not normal, the control unit acquires second correction data usable in an abnormal imaging mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: KENJI YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11947298
    Abstract: A recording material conveying device includes: a first conveyor that constitutes a conveyance path of a recording material; a second conveyor that branches from the first conveyor and constitutes a conveyance path of the recording material different from the conveyance path of the first conveyor; and a detector that detects recording material characteristics of the recording material, the detector being arranged in the second conveyor on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the recording material with respect to a branch portion where the first conveyor and the second conveyor branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Ogata, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Kenji Yamamoto, Takashi Nara
  • Patent number: 11938794
    Abstract: A vehicle structure includes: an exterior member for a vehicle; and a strippable coating film formed by applying an easily strippable coating material to the exterior member. The coating film includes a design portion formed to cover an outer surface of the exterior member, and a non-design portion continuous with the design portion, the non-design portion being formed to cover at least a side end portion of the exterior member. A film serving as a starting point from which the coating film is stripped off is provided between the exterior member and the non-design portion such that the film is exposed from an edge of the non-design portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Naganuma, Kenji Yamaguchi, Junya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240085837
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, in a case of duplex printing, a sheet is transported toward an image forming device along a sheet transport route, the image forming device forms an image on a first face, which is one of faces of the sheet, a reverse transport device reverses the front and back faces of the sheet and transports the sheet to a position upstream of a show-through reading device in a sheet transport direction, and the show-through reading device reads a second face, which is another face of the sheet. Then the show-through detector decides whether a show-through has occurred, on a basis of the image that has been read.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya MAJIMA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Takahiro HONDA, Hiroyuki YAMAGUCHI, Hideo TAKETANI
  • Patent number: 11907965
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to provide an incentive to a first user who sells or returns a first vehicle in which a part of a first coating film including an easily peelable layer does not peeled off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinori Il, Kenji Yamaguchi, Junya Ogawa, Yuki Naganuma, Junya Yamamoto, Yuta Tone, Naoki Ishizuka, Tadayuki Tanaka, Keisuke Ito, Yuka Yokoi, Takashi Hayashi, Naoya Oka, Yu Hamada
  • Publication number: 20240001698
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes: a transport unit including a transporting belt at which a medium is mounted with the transporting belt in contact with a first surface of the medium, the transporting belt having an endless shape and configured to transport the medium in a transport direction, the transport unit also including a first roller and a second roller over which the transporting belt is stretched; an ejecting unit configured to eject a liquid to a second surface of the medium mounted at the transporting belt downstream of the first roller in a circumferential direction of the transporting belt and upstream of the second roller; a cleaning unit configured to clean a portion of the transporting belt downstream of the second roller in the circumferential direction of the transporting belt and upstream of the first roller, the portion being a portion at which the medium is not mounted; and a removing unit provided upstream of the first roller in the transport direction and configured to remove deposits
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: Kenji YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230401611
    Abstract: A vehicle value prediction device includes: a vehicle information value calculation unit calculating a time-series change in vehicle information; an equipment value calculation unit calculating a time-series change in equipment value; an engine value calculation unit that calculates a time-series change in engine value; a skeleton value calculation unit that calculates a time-series change in skeleton value; an exterior value calculation unit that calculates a time-series change in exterior value; an interior value calculation unit that calculates a time-series change in interior value; a vehicle value calculation unit that calculates a time-series change in vehicle value by integrating time-series changes in vehicle information value, equipment value, engine value, skeleton value, exterior value, and interior value from a purchase time of a vehicle to present; and a vehicle value prediction unit that calculates a vehicle value of a predetermined period destination based on the time-series change in vehicle v
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke KUZUYA, Kenji YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230294498
    Abstract: A vehicle coating structure formed on a surface of a base plate of an exterior member of a vehicle includes: a first coating layer formed on the surface of the base plate of the exterior member; a peelable layer formed on a surface of the first coating layer or the surface of the base plate, the peelable layer having peeling performance; and a second coating layer formed on a surface of the peelable layer and having thermal insulation performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Junya OGAWA, Nozomi TOYA, Junya YAMAMOTO, Kenji YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230271221
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle coating structure formed on a surface of a base plate of an exterior member of a vehicle. The vehicle coating structure includes: a coating layer formed on the surface of the base plate of the exterior member; a peelable layer formed on a surface of the coating layer or the surface of the base plate, the peelable layer having peelability; and a transparent matte layer formed on a surface of the peelable layer, the transparent matte layer being made of a transparent matte coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Junya OGAWA, Nozomi TOYA, Junya YAMAMOTO, Kenji YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11738578
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a feed shaft configured to feed a medium in a roll form by supporting and rotating the medium, a conveyance unit including a driving roller, a driven roller and an endless conveyance belt and configured to convey, in a conveyance direction, the medium supported by the conveyance belt by rotating the driving roller forward, a printing head configured to perform printing on the medium supported by the conveyance belt, and an ear portion winding shaft configured to wind up ear portions of the medium separated from the medium supported by the feed shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230237538
    Abstract: An information processing device including a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire vehicle information relating to a vehicle; evaluate a value of structural information, which includes the acquired vehicle information, by using a predetermined evaluation standard; and present a user of the vehicle with the evaluated value of the structural information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Yusuke KUZUYA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230237443
    Abstract: When users of vehicles provide vehicle-related data that are data related to the vehicles to a manager of a processor, the processor determines available services that are services available for the users based on the vehicle-related data, and transmit information about the available services to notification devices usable by the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Yusuke KUZUYA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230237444
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage unit configured to previously store user information for each user with which vehicle information relevant to a vehicle is capable of being registered, the user information being associated with a location of the user and an acceptance or rejection of registration of data; an acquisition unit configured to acquire search information for searching for the user; an identification unit configured to identify the user information corresponding to the acquired search information; and a presentation unit configured to present map information in which a user capable of accepting the registration of the data is set on a map, at the location related to the identified user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Yusuke KUZUYA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230219579
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a reception unit that receives setting, by a driver of a vehicle, of a provision range of vehicle information about the vehicle to be provided to a user who wishes to use the vehicle information, before the vehicle information is provided to the user; an acquisition unit that acquires the vehicle information; and a provision unit that provides the vehicle information that is included in the provision range acquired by the acquisition unit to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Yusuke KUZUYA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11648786
    Abstract: A recording device includes an endless transporting belt that transports a recording medium in a normal transport direction and a reverse transport direction, a recording head, a cleaning liquid attaching unit that attaches a cleaning liquid to a front surface of the transporting belt, a first blade that comes into contact with the front surface to remove the cleaning liquid attached to the front surface, and a blade moving unit that moves the first blade in approaching and separating directions with respect to the front surface. The blade moving unit causes the first blade to come into contact with the front surface when the transporting belt is rotating in a reverse rotation direction, and causes the first blade to be separated from the front surface when the transporting belt is rotating in a normal rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230127283
    Abstract: The present disclosure properly calculates a wage for coating of a vehicle. An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure accepts specification of a first vehicle on which a third coating film is to be newly formed after a second coating film formed on a first coating film is peeled from a vehicle body. The information processing apparatus calculates a wage for operation of forming the third coating film for the first vehicle based on a period elapsed since peeling of the second coating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinori II, Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Junya OGAWA, Yuki NAGANUMA, Junya YAMAMOTO, Yuta TONE, Naoki ISHIZUKA, Tadayuki TANAKA, Keisuke ITO, Yuka YOKOI, Takashi HAYASHI, Naoya OKA, Yu HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230071319
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides information about a coating history of a vehicle. An information processing apparatus executes acquiring, for a vehicle with a later peelable second coating film formed being layered on at least a part of a first coating film, history data that is data about work on the second coating film, and acquiring a first image that is an external appearance image of the vehicle before the second coating film being formed, based on the history data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinori II, Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Junya OGAWA, Yuki NAGANUMA, Junya YAMAMOTO, Yuta TONE, Naoki ISHIZUKA, Tadayuki TANAKA, Keisuke ITO, Yuka YOKOI, Takashi HAYASHI, Naoya OKA, Yu HAMADA