Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Kanai
Kiyoshi Kanai 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: 9916614Abstract: To guide other products related to a product which is taken out in hand by a customer. The present product display rack system carries out a first step for detecting an RFID number of a product taken by a customer from desired display racks 11 to 14 based upon the detection result of the RFID reader; a second step for acquiring RFID numbers of related products having related product types and functional types relative to the product type of the RFID number from the product related information data base 260 by using the detected RFID number as a key; a third step for acquiring the product display coordinates of the product type from the product coordinate data base 250 by using the acquired RFID number of the related product as a key; and a fourth step for lighting or flickering the lamp of the lamp guiding units 30 to 33 at a position close to the acquired product display coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Noriho Tanaka, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
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Publication number: 20160055566Abstract: To guide other products related to a product which is taken out in hand by a customer. The present product display rack system carries out a first step for detecting an RFID number of a product taken by a customer from desired display racks 11 to 14 based upon the detection result of the RFID reader; a second step for acquiring RFID numbers of related products having related product types and functional types relative to the product type of the RFID number from the product related information data base 260 by using the detected RFID number as a key; a third step for acquiring the product display coordinates of the product type from the product coordinate data base 250 by using the acquired RFID number of the related product as a key; and a fourth step for lighting or flickering the lamp of the lamp guiding units 30 to 33 at a position close to the acquired product display coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Noriho Tanaka, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
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Patent number: 7881988Abstract: A system with an intelligent shelf (100) has product display shelves (110 to 130) displaying products having RFID tags R. The system includes antennas (112a to 112c) each having unique antenna numbers and detecting a tag serial number from an RFID tag on a product, human body sensors S disposed on each end of the product display shelf 120, a tag-product ID registration table storing the tag serial numbers of the RFID tags and the product IDs of the products and a control computer (200) detecting that a particular product is picked up from and/or returned to a particular product display shelf by combining the input tag serial number and the antenna number of the antenna detecting the tag serial number and analyzing which direction the detected human body has moved based on the difference of the detection times of the human body sensors.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignees: Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd., Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Tana-X-Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Tohru Kaneko, Katsumasa Kishida, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
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Publication number: 20090153328Abstract: [OBJECT] To provide system and program for obtaining customers' purchase behavior information for products. [MEANS FOR ACHIEVING OBJECT] A system comprising an intelligent shelf (100) having product display shelves (110 to 130) on which the products A to C applied with RFID tags R are displayed, a plurality of antennas (112a to 112c) each having unique antenna numbers and detecting a tag serial number from an RFID tag on a product, a pair of human body sensors S disposed on each end of the product display shelf 120, a tag-product ID registration table storing the tag serial numbers of the RFID tags and the product IDs of the products uniquely given to each kind of product and a control.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2006Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Tohru Kaneko, Katsumasa Kishida, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
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Patent number: 7261869Abstract: Inexpensive spindle- or rice-like calcium carbonate giving useful properties for brightness, opacity and wire abrasion resistance as a paper filler is provided by taking advantage of the causticization step. When a white liquor is used for slaking a quick lime, the quick lime used in the slaking reaction of a first step has a calcium carbonate content of 10% by weight or less and is slaked with the white liquor at a concentration of 20 to 60% to prepare a milk of lime. When a green liquor is used for slaking a quick lime, the quick lime used in the slaking reaction of a first step has a calcium carbonate content of 0.1 to 10% by weight and is slaked with the green liquor at a concentration of 20 to 60% to prepare a milk of lime. In a second step, causticization reaction takes place at a green liquor loading rate of 0.02 to 0.5 cc (green liquor)/min/g (quick lime) at a reaction temperature of 20 to 105° C. to afford spindle- or rice-like calcium carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2003Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuto Takahashi, Kiyoshi Kanai, Yasunori Nanri, Yasuhiro Okamoto
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Publication number: 20050079117Abstract: Inexpensive spindle- or rice-like calcium carbonate giving useful properties for brightness, opacity and wire abrasion resistance as a paper filler is provided by taking advantage of the causticization step. When a white liquor is used for slaking a quick lime, the quick lime used in the slaking reaction of a first step has a calcium carbonate content of 10% by weight or less and is slaked with the white liquor at a concentration of 20 to 60% to prepare a milk of lime. When a green liquor is used for slaking a quick lime, the quick lime used in the slaking reaction of a first step has a calcium carbonate content of 0.1 to 10% by weight and is slaked with the green liquor at a concentration of 20 to 60% to prepare a milk of lime. In a second step, causticization reaction takes place at a green liquor loading rate of 0.02 to 0.5 cc (green liquor)/min/g (quick lime) at a reaction temperature of 20 to 105° C. to afford spindle- or rice-like calcium carbonate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2003Publication date: April 14, 2005Inventors: Kazuto Takahashi, Kiyoshi Kanai, Yasunori Nanri, Yasuhiro Okamoto
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Patent number: 6761301Abstract: A soldering machine using lead-free solders is provided which can uniformly heat a printed circuit board and electronic parts to be mounted thereon, and which can solder the electronic parts without thermally damaging them. A porous member having a number of holes formed therein is disposed between a blower fan and a heater for making uniform the pressure of a fluid. A radiation plate is disposed between the heater and a heating target for blowing the fluid having been heated by the heater to the heating target in the form of a turbulent flow. The heated fluid is blown to the heating target for heating the same, whereby solder is melted.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Tamura/FA System Co., Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd., Tamura CorporationInventors: Hideki Mukuno, Kazumi Tashiro, Hideaki Arita, Kiyoshi Kanai, Teruo Okano, Fumihiro Yamashita, Shoichirou Matsuhisa, Hidekazu Imai
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Patent number: 6630277Abstract: Coarsely crushed toner particles comprising at least a binder resin and a colorant are effectively pulverized by a mechanical pulverizer including a generally cylindrical rotor rotating about an axis and a stator surrounding the rotor with a minute gap from the rotor. Each of the outer wall of the rotor and the inner wall of the stator is provided with a plurality of grooves which extend generally in parallel with the rotation axis of the rotor and are formed of a wave-shaped plurality of projections and intervening recesses. Each recess on at least one of the rotor and the stator is provided with a flat-shaped bottom between a forward corner and a rear corner adjacent a forward slope and a rear slope respectively, with respect to the rotation direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Naka, Momosuke Takaichi, Kiyoshi Kanai, Tsuneo Nakanishi
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Patent number: 6627170Abstract: Inexpensive spindle- or rice-like calcium carbonate giving useful properties for brightness, opacity and wire abrasion resistance as a paper filler is provided by taking advantage of the causticization step. When a white liquor is used for slaking a quick lime, the quick lime used in the slaking reaction of a first step has a calcium carbonate content of 10% by weight or less and is slaked with the white liquor at a concentration of 20 to 60% to prepare a milk of lime. When a green liquor is used for slaking a quick lime, the quick lime used in the slaking reaction of a first step has a calcium carbonate content of 0.1 to 10% by weight and is slaked with the green liquor at a concentration of 20 to 60% to prepare a milk of lime. In a second step, causticization reaction takes place at a green liquor loading rate of 0.02 to 0.5 cc (green liquor)/min/g (quick lime) at a reaction temperature of 20 to 105° C. to afford spindle- or rice-like calcium carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1999Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuto Takahashi, Kiyoshi Kanai, Yasunori Nanri, Yasuhiro Okamoto
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Publication number: 20030059362Abstract: Inexpensive spindle- or rice-like calcium carbonate giving useful properties for brightness, opacity and wire abrasion resistance as a paper filler is provided by taking advantage of the causticization step. When a white liquor is used for slaking a quick lime, the quick lime used in the slaking reaction of a first step has a calcium carbonate content of 10% by weight or less and is slaked with the white liquor at a concentration of 20 to 60% to prepare a milk of lime. When a green liquor is used for slaking a quick lime, the quick lime used in the slaking reaction of a first step has a calcium carbonate content of 0.1 to 10% by weight and is slaked with the green liquor at a concentration of 20 to 60% to prepare a milk of lime. In a second step, causticization reaction takes place at a green liquor loading rate of 0.02 to 0.5 cc (green liquor)/min/g (quick lime) at a reaction temperature of 20 to 105° C. to afford spindle- or rice-like calcium carbonate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 1999Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventors: KAZUTO TAKAHASHI, KIYOSHI KANAI, YASUNORI NANRI, YASUHIRO OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 6445885Abstract: A strobe device, including: a strobe circuit board; a connecting conductor composed of a wire member; and a strobe emitting portion which includes; a) a light emitting tube, having electrode terminals on its both ends, b) a reflector for reflecting strobe light emitted by the light emitting tube toward a photographic object and c) a transmission window for covering a front surface of the reflector and for transmitting the strobe light. In the strobe device, the connecting conductor has a contact with the light emitting tube and electricity is supplied to the light emitting tube through the connecting conductor.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2001Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hiromi Nakanishi, Ken Ishida, Kiyoaki Hazama, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kanai
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Publication number: 20020100791Abstract: A soldering machine using lead-free solders is provided which can uniformly heat a printed circuit board and electronic parts to be mounted thereon, and which can solder the electronic parts without thermally damaging them. A porous member having a number of holes formed therein is disposed between a blower fan and a heater for making uniform the pressure of a fluid. A radiation plate is disposed between the heater and a heating target for blowing the fluid having been heated by the heater to the heating target in the form of a turbulent flow. The heated fluid is blown to the heating target for heating the same, whereby solder is melted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2002Publication date: August 1, 2002Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Mukuno, Kazumi Tashiro, Hideaki Arita, Kiyoshi Kanai, Teruo Okano, Fumihiro Yamashita, Shoichirou Matsuhisa, Hidekazu Imai
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Publication number: 20020086231Abstract: Coarsely crushed toner particles comprising at least a binder resin and a colorant are effectively pulverized by a mechanical pulverizer including a generally cylindrical rotor rotating about an axis and a stator surrounding the rotor with a minute gap from the rotor. Each of the outer wall of the rotor and the inner wall of the stator is provided with a plurality of grooves which extend generally in parallel with the rotation axis of the rotor and are formed of a wave-shaped plurality of projections and intervening recesses. Each recess on at least one of the rotor and the stator is provided with a flat-shaped bottom between a forward corner and a rear corner adjacent a forward slope and a rear slope respectively, with respect to the rotation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Takeshi Naka, Momosuke Takaichi, Kiyoshi Kanai, Tsuneo Nakanishi
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Patent number: 6412681Abstract: A soldering machine using lead-free solders is provided which can uniformly heat a printed circuit board and electronic parts to be mounted thereon, and which can solder the electronic parts without thermally damaging them. A porous member having a number of holes formed therein is disposed between a blower fan and a heater for making uniform the pressure of a fluid. A radiation plate is disposed between the heater and a heating target for blowing the fluid having been heated by the heater to the heating target in the form of a turbulent flow. The heated fluid is blown to the heating target for heating the same, whereby solder is melted.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2000Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Tamura Fa System Co., Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd., Tamura CorporationInventors: Hideki Mukuno, Kazumi Tashiro, Hideaki Arita, Kiyoshi Kanai, Teruo Okano, Fumihiro Yamashita, Shoichirou Matsuhisa, Hidekazu Imai
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Publication number: 20020015589Abstract: A strobe device, including: a strobe circuit board; a connecting conductor composed of a wire member; and a strobe emitting portion which includes; a) a light emitting tube, having electrode terminals on its both ends, b) a reflector for reflecting strobe light emitted by the light emitting tube toward a photographic object and c) a transmission window for covering a front surface of the reflector and for transmitting the strobe light. In the strobe device, the connecting conductor has a contact with the light emitting tube and electricity is supplied to the light emitting tube through the connecting conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Inventors: Hiromi Nakanishi, Ken Ishida, Kiyoaki Hazama, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kanai
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Patent number: 6337953Abstract: A strobe device, including: a strobe circuit board; a connecting conductor composed of a wire member; and a strobe emitting portion which includes; a) a light emitting tube, having electrode terminals on its both ends, b) a reflector for reflecting strobe light emitted by the light emitting tube toward a photographic object and c) a transmission window for covering a front surface of the reflector and for transmitting the strobe light. In the strobe device, the connecting conductor has a contact with the light emitting tube and electricity is supplied to the light emitting tube through the connecting conductor.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1999Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hiromi Nakanishi, Ken Ishida, Kiyoaki Hazama, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kanai
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Publication number: 20010037272Abstract: An information display apparatus including: a receiver connecting to a network and receiving financial information through the network; a reservoir connecting to an output side of the receiver and accumulating the financial information received from the receiver; a specifying-information-accepting unit for accepting specifying information that specifies the financial information accumulated in the reservoir to be a basis of predetermined information to be displayed; an information selector connecting to the specifying-information-accepting unit and the reservoir and selecting financial information specified by the predetermined information accepted by the specifying-information-accepting unit from the financial information accumulated in the reservoir; and a display processing unit connecting to an output of the information selector and displaying the predetermined information based on the financial information selected by the information selector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2001Publication date: November 1, 2001Inventors: Hisanori Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Kanai, Mina Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20010015368Abstract: A soldering machine using lead-free solders is provided which can uniformly heat a printed circuit board and electronic parts to be mounted thereon, and which can solder the electronic parts without thermally damaging them. A porous member having a number of holes formed therein is disposed between a blower fan and a heater for making uniform the pressure of a fluid. A radiation plate is disposed between the heater and a heating target for blowing the fluid having been heated by the heater to the heating target in the form of a turbulent flow. The heated fluid is blown to the heating target for heating the same, whereby solder is melted.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2000Publication date: August 23, 2001Inventors: Hideki Mukuno, Kazumi Tashiro, Hideaki Arita, Kiyoshi Kanai, Teruo Okano, Fumihiro Yamashita, Shoichirou Matsuhisa, Hidekazu Imai
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Patent number: 6190633Abstract: Inexpensive spindle- or needle-like calcium carbonate giving useful properties for bulk, brightness, opacity, wire abrasion resistance and yield as a paper filler is provided by taking advantage of the causticization step. In a first step, a quick lime having a calcium carbonate content of 10% by weight or less is slaked with a liquor having a pH of 5.5 to 13.5 at a concentration of 20 to 60% to prepare a milk of lime. In a second step, causticization reaction takes place at a green liquor loading rate of 0.02 to 0.5 cc (green liquor)/min/g (quick lime) at a reaction temperature of 20 to 105° C. to afford spindle- or needle-like calcium carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuto Takahashi, Kiyoshi Kanai, Yasunori Nanri, Yasuhiro Okamoto
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Patent number: 5291419Abstract: A method for evaluating the life of a connection between members including the steps of extracting parameters defining the shearing strain of a predetermined model representing the connection thereby to calculate the values of plural shearing strains of the connection, calculating the equivalent strain amplitude corresponding to thermal fatigue stress for each of the values of the plural shearing strains defining the relationship between the shearing strain and the equivalent strain amplitude, formulating a life evaluation criterion equation expressed using the equivalent strain amplitude, calculating, for the connection, the equivalent strain amplitude corresponding to each of the shearing strains actually measured using the equation, and substituting the equivalent strain amplitude for the life evaluation criterion equation to acquire the life of the connection.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 1992Date of Patent: March 1, 1994Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering Ltd.Inventors: Ryohei Satoh, Katsuhiro Arakawa, Kiyoshi Kanai, Tsutomu Takahashi, Takaji Takenaka, Haruhiko Imada