Patents by Inventor Kohei Higuchi
Kohei Higuchi 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: 20240131929Abstract: For a vehicle interior compartment defined by a vehicle floor, opposing sidewalls, a forward end and a rearward end, and a vehicle ceiling covering at least part of the compartment, an end zone overhead display structure includes bulkhead forming attachment elements coupled to a roof strut spanning from sidewall to sidewall of the vehicle roof. The display structure includes an open box-like upper bracket and an open box-like lower bracket coupled together with the roof strut interposed to provide an assembly that reduces unwanted motion, rotation or vibration of the display assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Kohei INOUE, Patrick J. ELLISON, Taiga MARUKAWA, Kosaku TOMOZAWA, Akira FUTATSUHASHI, Takashi NAKANO, Jagpaul S. PANDHER, Tsuyoshi HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240090812Abstract: A biological signal detection electrode stable in performance over a long period of time includes an insulating base material having electrical insulation, an electrode terminal buried in the insulating base material such that a signal detection surface is included in a part of a lower surface of the insulating base material, a conductive gel film provided on the lower surface of the insulating base material to cover the signal detection surface, an extraction electrode which is connected to the electrode terminal and has a terminal unit exposed on an upper surface of the insulating base material, and a magnetic body to be a counterpart of the conductive magnet disposed below the terminal unit in the insulating base material. The magnetic body is given only the function of mechanical connection, and the electrode terminal is formed of a corrosion-resistant material, for example Ag—AgCl, not corroded by the conductive gel film.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Kohei HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11920591Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor including a motor shaft, a pump assembly including a vane pump driven by the motor to suction and discharge oil, and an inverter to drive the motor. The motor includes a rotor, a stator on a side outward from the rotor in a radial direction, and a motor housing containing the rotor and the stator. The motor housing includes a suction port through which the vane pump suctions oil from outside, and a discharge port through which the vane pump discharges oil to outside. The motor housing includes flat surface portions in a portion of an outer periphery thereof. The suction port and the discharge port are located in a first surface of side surfaces which are the flat surface portions of the motor housing and are parallel or substantially parallel to the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION, KYB CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Higuchi, Yutaka Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Maki, Kohei Kubo
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Patent number: 11672428Abstract: A biological data measurement device in which a living organism having a first thermal resistance Rth1 from a core to a surface is a measuring object, includes a heat insulating layer which is disposed on a body surface of the measuring object and has a second thermal resistance Rth2; a measurement device for measuring a first and a second temperatures, which is segregated by the heat insulating layer; and an adding device for adding a predetermined delay time to the second temperature in order to correct a response delay of the first temperature as compared with the second temperature. The first temperature is a bottom side temperature of a bottom surface of the heat insulating layer, which is in contact with the body surface, and the second temperature is a top side temperature of a top surface of the heat insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: TECHNO-COMMONS INC.Inventors: Akio Tanaka, Chun Kit Chan, Kohei Higuchi
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Patent number: 11670949Abstract: A secondary battery built in a bio-signal measuring instrument (a wearable biosensor) is charged without using a dedicated charging terminal. A bio-signal measuring device includes: a battery as an internal power source and a charging circuit for the battery; electrodes which are brought into contact with the skin surface of the human body at the time of bio-signal measurement and are connected to a predetermined power feeder at the time of charging of the battery; a bio-signal processing circuit which processes bio-signals detected at the electrodes in a predetermined manner; and a bio-signal and feed power distribution device, in which the bio-signal processing circuit and the charging circuit are switchably connected to the electrodes through the bio-signal and feed power distribution device, and at the time of the charging of the battery, the electrodes are used as charging terminals.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: TECHNO-COMMONS INC.Inventors: Akio Tanaka, ChunKit Chan, Kohei Higuchi, Kazusuke Maenaka
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Patent number: 11633110Abstract: A biological data measurement device includes a substrate disposed at a position spaced a predetermined distance from a body surface of a living organism as a measuring object via a support member so that an air layer is formed between the substrate and the body surface. The substrate is provided with a temperature measurement device including an infrared thermometer for measuring a body surface temperature Tsk of the body surface and a substrate thermometer for measuring a substrate temperature Tsub of the substrate. The temperature measurement device measures the body surface temperature Tsk and the substrate temperature Tsub in the same place at least twice of a first timing A and a second timing B.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: TECHNO-COMMONS INC.Inventors: Akio Tanaka, Chun Kit Chan, Kohei Higuchi
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Patent number: 11253157Abstract: A biological data measurement device according to the present invention includes a substrate disposed at a position spaced a predetermined distance from a body surface BS of a living organism as a measuring object via a support member so that an air layer is formed between the substrate and the body surface, in which the substrate is provided with a thermometer including an infrared thermometer for measuring a body surface temperature and a substrate thermometer for measuring a substrate temperature, thereby measuring a deep body temperature with higher accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: TECHNO-COMMONS INC.Inventors: Akio Tanaka, Chun Kit Chan, Kohei Higuchi
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Publication number: 20210307617Abstract: A biological data measurement device includes a substrate disposed at a position spaced a predetermined distance from a body surface of a living organism as a measuring object via a support member so that an air layer is formed between the substrate and the body surface. The substrate is provided with a temperature measurement device including an infrared thermometer for measuring a body surface temperature Tsk of the body surface and a substrate thermometer for measuring a substrate temperature Tsub of the substrate. The temperature measurement device measures the body surface temperature Tsk and the substrate temperature Tsub in the same place at least twice of a first timing A and a second timing B.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Akio TANAKA, Chun Kit CHAN, Kohei HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210307618Abstract: A biological data measurement device in which a living organism having a first thermal resistance Rth1 from a core to a surface is a measuring object, includes a heat insulating layer which is disposed on a body surface of the measuring object and has a second thermal resistance Rth2; a measurement device for measuring a first and a second temperatures, which is segregated by the heat insulating layer; and an adding device for adding a predetermined delay time to the second temperature in order to correct a response delay of the first temperature as compared with the second temperature. The first temperature is a bottom side temperature of a bottom surface of the heat insulating layer, which is in contact with the body surface, and the second temperature is a top side temperature of a top surface of the heat insulating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Akio TANAKA, Chun Kit CHAN, Kohei HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190357796Abstract: A secondary battery built in a bio-signal measuring instrument (a wearable biosensor) is charged without using a dedicated charging terminal. A bio-signal measuring device includes: a battery as an internal power source and a charging circuit for the battery; electrodes which are brought into contact with the skin surface of the human body at the time of bio-signal measurement and are connected to a predetermined power feeder at the time of charging of the battery; a bio-signal processing circuit which processes bio-signals detected at the electrodes in a predetermined manner; and a bio-signal and feed power distribution device, in which the bio-signal processing circuit and the charging circuit are switchably connected to the electrodes through the bio-signal and feed power distribution device, and at the time of the charging of the battery, the electrodes are used as charging terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Akio TANAKA, ChunKit CHAN, Kohei HIGUCHI, Kazusuke MAENAKA
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Publication number: 20190159680Abstract: A biological data measurement device according to the present invention includes a substrate disposed at a position spaced a predetermined distance from a body surface BS of a living organism as a measuring object via a support member so that an air layer is formed between the substrate and the body surface, in which the substrate is provided with a thermometer including an infrared thermometer for measuring a body surface temperature and a substrate thermometer for measuring a substrate temperature, thereby measuring a deep body temperature with higher accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Akio TANAKA, Chun Kit CHAN, Kohei HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20180181886Abstract: Reservations for a plurality of tables are managed. Input of the number of persons with a reservation for a customer coming to a store on a reservation date is received, icons respectively corresponding to the plurality of tables arranged inside the store are displayed on a screen, a selection of the displayed icons is received, and after the input of the number of persons with a reservation and the selection of the icons are established, reservation information including customer identification information that specifies the customer, the reservation date, the number of persons with a reservation and table identification information corresponding to the selected icons is generated for each piece table identification information, and in the case that the plurality of icons are selected, group identification information that specifies a group formed of the plurality of tables is issued and added to each piece reservation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Miki Nagao, Kohei Higuchi, Eika A
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Patent number: 9257632Abstract: A physical quantity sensor (100), which can detect multiple physical quantities simultaneously has flexibility or bendability over the entire body thereof. The sensor (100) has a first electrode layer (2) formed on a substrate (1) and first and second piezoelectric elements (3a, 3b) arranged in parallel on the electrode layer (2). Two additional electrode layers (4a, 4b) are formed on the piezoelectric elements (3a, 3b). The substrate (1), the electrode layer (2), first piezoelectric element (3a), one of the additional electrode layers (4a) and protective layers (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e) constitute a first physical quantity detection unit (6), and the substrate (1), the first electrode layer (2), the second piezoelectric element (3b) and the other additional electrode layer (4b) (a fourth electrode layer) constitute a second physical quantity detection unit (7).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Yonggang Jiang, Kohei Higuchi, Hiroyuki Hamada, Kazusuke Maenaka
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Publication number: 20140088890Abstract: Temperature compensation is performed using a computation program for temperature compensation, a computation processing, and a sensor. Deformation in a diaphragm caused by a pressure change due to the temperature of the gas in a cavity is cancelled out, and deformation of the diaphragm is minimized within the target temperature range, thereby allowing an optimum temperature compensation to be performed. The temperature compensation in a capacitance-type sensor executes calculation steps which include including a calculation step (S17) of acquiring the amount of change ?C? in capacitance. A parameter ?C? is obtained, through which it is possible to determine the degree of compensation for the deformation in the diaphragm section caused by a pressure change due to the temperature changes of the gas in the hermetically sealed space.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Xiuchun Hao, Yonggang Jiang, Takayuki Fujita, Kohei Higuchi, Kazusuke Maenaka, Hidekuni Takao
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Publication number: 20130088124Abstract: A physical quantity sensor (100), which can detect multiple physical quantities simultaneously has flexibility or bendability over the entire body thereof. The sensor (100) has a first electrode layer (2) formed on a substrate (1) and first and second piezoelectric elements (3a, 3b) arranged in parallel on the electrode layer (2). Two additional electrode layers (4a, 4b) are formed on the piezoelectric elements (3a, 3b). The substrate (1), the electrode layer (2), first piezoelectric element (3a), one of the additional electrode layers (4a) and protective layers (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e) constitute a first physical quantity detection unit (6), and the substrate (1), the first electrode layer (2), the second piezoelectric element (3b) and the other additional electrode layer (4b) (a fourth electrode layer) constitute a second physical quantity detection unit (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Yonggang Jiang, Kohei Higuchi, Hiroyuki Hamada, Kazusuke Maenaka
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Patent number: 4551908Abstract: A process of forming electrodes and interconnections in a silicon semiconductor device comprises the steps of forming an insulating film on a silicon substrate, defining an opening in the insulating film, depositing a layer of metal having a high melting point on the insulating film, implanting ions to mix an interface between the metal layer and the silicon substrate, heating the construction in a temperature in the range of from 400 to 650 degrees Celsius to form a silicide of the metal layer in the opening, and selectively etching away an unreacted metal layer so as to self-align the silicide metal layer with the opening. The silicide metal layer is then annealed in a non-reducing gas atmosphere at a temperature ranging from 800 to 1,100 degrees Celsius.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1984Date of Patent: November 12, 1985Assignee: Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Nagasawa, Hidekazu Okabayashi, Mitsutaka Morimoto, Kohei Higuchi
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Patent number: 4348746Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a first enhancement-type IGFET and a second depletion-type IGFET, each of which includes source and drain regions formed in the upper surface of a semiconductor substrate. Both IGFETs include a gate insulator film formed over their channel regions, the first IGFET having a high melting point metal gate electrode formed over its gate insulator without contacting the substrate surface and the second IGFET having a polycrystalline semiconductor gate electrode which directly contacts the substrate at a source/drain region common to the two IGFETs. Such a structure is used to form part of a semiconductor memory device having word lines of high melting point metal.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1980Date of Patent: September 7, 1982Assignee: Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidekazu Okabayashi, Kohei Higuchi, Tadatoshi Nozaki