Patents by Inventor Koji Ando

Koji Ando 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: 20240152078
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a reading unit, a reference member, and a controller is described. The image forming unit forms an image and a detection image on a sheet. The detection image is used for detecting geometric characteristics of an image to be formed on a sheet by the image forming unit. The fixing unit fixes the image and the detection image formed by the image forming unit on the sheet. The reading unit reads the detection image on the sheet. The controller adjusts geometric characteristics of the image to be formed on a sheet based on a reading result of the detection image by the reading unit, and controls the reading unit to read the reference member and executes shading correction based on a reading result of the reference member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Koji Yumoto, Takashi Yokoya, Toshifumi Oikawa, Yutaka Ando, Akinobu Nishikata, Riki Fukuhara, Yuichiro Oda
  • Publication number: 20240141202
    Abstract: A siloxane-modified polyurethane resin coating agent composition which includes: (A) a siloxane-modified polyurethane resin; and (B) a solvent, wherein component (A) is a cured product of a composition including: (a) a hydroxyl group-containing organosilicon compound having the formula (1): (R13SiO1/2)k(R12SiO2/2)p(R1SiO3/2)q(SiO4/2)r ??(1) wherein R1 is a group selected from the following formulas (2) and (3) or the like, k, p, q, and r are predetermined integers, wherein R2 to R4 are each hydrogen or the like, and x, y, z, s, t, and u are predetermined numbers; (b) a diisocyanate compound; and (c) an organic compound such as polyols, wherein (c) is m moles, (b) is (l+m)×(0.9 to 1.2) moles each per 1 mole of (a), and m is 0.2 moles or more and less than 1.6 moles, and wherein a content of component (B) is 50 to 98% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Sakuta, Yuji Ando, Noriyuki Meguriya
  • Patent number: 11969291
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to display, as a live image, an image that data output from an ultrasonic probe represents; recognize an image type of the live image; extract, out of past data collected before the live image, data at least a part of which is in common to the image type of the live image; and display an image that the extracted data represents on the same screen as that of the live image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Akiyama, Nobuhide Ooi, Koji Ando, Kodai Hirayama
  • Patent number: 11934121
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a reading unit, a reference member, and a controller is described. The image forming unit forms an image and a detection image on a sheet. The detection image is used for detecting geometric characteristics of an image to be formed on a sheet by the image forming unit. The fixing unit fixes the image and the detection image formed by the image forming unit on the sheet. The reading unit reads the detection image on the sheet. The controller adjusts geometric characteristics of the image to be formed on a sheet based on a reading result of the detection image by the reading unit, and controls the reading unit to read the reference member and executes shading correction based on a reading result of the reference member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Yumoto, Takashi Yokoya, Toshifumi Oikawa, Yutaka Ando, Akinobu Nishikata, Riki Fukuhara, Yuichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 11901774
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor includes a coil slot, a sub-slot, and coil airflow paths arranged in the rotor axial direction. At least one coil airflow path among the coil airflow paths includes a first wall surface disposed on a core central portion side of a cooling gas inlet portion of the coil airflow path, a second wall surface disposed on the core central portion side of an inside of the coil airflow path, and located more on the rotor radially outward side and more on a core end portion side than the first wall surface, and a third wall surface configured to connect the first wall surface and the second wall surface, the third wall surface including a surface perpendicular to a rotor radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Harakawa, Shinji Kubo, Yasuo Kabata, Yoshihiro Taniyama, Ryo Fuchimoto, Koji Ando
  • Publication number: 20230066729
    Abstract: This invention relates to a substrate processing technique for performing a pressure increasing step, a pressure keeping step and a pressure reducing step in this order in a processing container. A flow rate of a processing fluid in a processing space is suppressed to a second flow rate lower than a first flow rate while maintaining the processing space at a first pressure between the pressure increasing step and the pressure keeping step or in an initial stage of the pressure keeping step. In this way, the mutual diffusion between the processing fluid and a liquid in the processing space is promoted. After this diffusion proceeds, the substrate is dried by the discharge of the processing fluid from the processing space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Zhida WANG, Koji ANDO, Noritake SUMI, Chiaki MORIYA, Daiki UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20220358643
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry estimates a contour of a desired structure based on a medical image, receives a desired correction mode among multiple correction modes for correcting the estimated contour, and corrects the estimated contour according to the desired correction mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kodai HIRAYAMA, Yasuhiko ABE, Koji ANDO
  • Publication number: 20220313214
    Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to any of embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire ultrasonic image data by ultrasonic scanning. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire multiple contour candidates based on a quantitative value indicating a function of a tissue, and superimpose the multiple contour candidates on the acquired ultrasonic image data to display the multiple contour candidates on a display. The processing circuitry is configured to determine contour data out of the multiple contour candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji ANDO, Mitsuo AKIYAMA, Kodai HIRAYAMA, Yasuhiko ABE, Koichiro KURITA
  • Publication number: 20220235009
    Abstract: Provision of a stabilized crystal of 6-(3-chloro-2-fluorobenzyl)-1-[(S)-1-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpropyl]-7-methoxy-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid (compound A). A crystal of compound A, which shows a particular X-ray powder diffraction pattern of a characteristic diffraction peaks at diffraction angles 2?(°) as measured by X-ray powder diffractometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Motohide SATOH, Takahisa MOTOMURA, Takashi MATSUDA, Kentaro KONDO, Koji ANDO, Koji MATSUDA, Shuji MIYAKE, Hideto UEHARA
  • Patent number: 11380562
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holder, a rotating mechanism, a processing liquid discharge unit, and a gas discharge unit. The processing liquid discharge unit discharges a liquid flow of a processing liquid such that the liquid flow comes into contact with a landing position in a rotation path of a peripheral portion of an upper surface of the substrate being rotated. The gas discharge unit discharges a first gas flow of an inert gas from above toward a first position upstream from the landing position in a direction of rotation of the substrate in the rotation path, and discharges a second gas flow of the inert gas from above toward a second position upstream from the first position in the direction of rotation of the substrate in the rotation path. The kinetic energy of the second gas flow is lower than the kinetic energy of the first gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rei Takeaki, Koji Ando, Tadashi Maegawa, Yosuke Yasutake
  • Patent number: 11346885
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a winding interlayer short-circuit detection apparatus includes a processor configured to perform at least an interlayer short-circuit detecting process to detect, based on a difference between a measurement value of a field current in a field winding of a brushless exciter and a reference value, and based on a difference between a calculated value of an armature reaction voltage induced in the field winding of the brushless exciter and a reference value, a presence or absence of an interlayer short-circuit that may occur in any of the field winding of the brushless exciter, an armature winding of the brushless exciter, and a field winding of a rotary electric machine body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Sato, Masafumi Fujita, Norio Takahashi, Ken Nagakura, Koji Ando, Yoichi Tomoe
  • Patent number: 11320489
    Abstract: According to the embodiment, a field winding interlayer short-circuit detection apparatus comprises: a field winding resistance calculator to calculate, for a field winding of a rotating electrical machine, a field winding resistance calculated value from a detected value of a field winding current and a detected value of a field winding voltage; a determiner to determine presence or absence of an interlayer short-circuit in the field winding by using a comparison result between the field winding resistance calculated value and the reference resistance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio Hirano, Yoshihiro Taniyama, Masafumi Fujita, Koji Ando, Yoshinori Torii
  • Publication number: 20220021277
    Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, there is provided an abnormality detection system of a rotary electrical machine. The system includes a plurality of magnetic flux sensors disposed at intervals on a back of a stator core in a circumferential direction or an axial direction, and configured to detect a magnetic flux, and an abnormality detection apparatus configured to detect an abnormality of the stator core from a predetermined event that appears in a composite signal or a differential signal obtained from signals respectively output from at least two magnetic flux sensors of the plurality of magnetic flux sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Takahashi, Masafumi Fujita, Takahiro Sato, Takashi Ueda, Ken Nagakura, Masashi Kobayashi, Koji Ando
  • Patent number: 11185308
    Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment, processing circuitry obtains volume video data of a patient acquired by a transesophageal echocardiography probe. The processing circuitry sets, with the volume video data, a three-dimensional coordinate system that matches a display orientation of image data of the patient acquired by a body-surface ultrasound probe, on the basis of a positional relationship between the transesophageal echocardiography probe and the patient. The processing circuitry causes a display screen to display image data generated from the volume video data by using the set three-dimensional coordinate system. The processing circuitry receives, from an operator, a designation related to calculating movement information in a region of interest of the patient, the designation being received in an image displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Abe, Shogo Fukuda, Koji Ando
  • Publication number: 20210293886
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a winding interlayer short-circuit detection apparatus includes a processor configured to perform at least an interlayer short-circuit detecting process to detect, based on a difference between a measurement value of a field current in a field winding of a brushless exciter and a reference value, and based on a difference between a calculated value of an armature reaction voltage induced in the field winding of the brushless exciter and a reference value, a presence or absence of an interlayer short-circuit that may occur in any of the field winding of the brushless exciter, an armature winding of the brushless exciter, and a field winding of a rotary electric machine body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro SATO, Masafumi FUJITA, Norio TAKAHASHI, Ken NAGAKURA, Koji ANDO, Yoichi TOMOE
  • Publication number: 20210296952
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor includes a coil slot, a sub-slot, and coil airflow paths arranged in the rotor axial direction. At least one coil airflow path among the coil airflow paths includes a first wall surface disposed on a core central portion side of a cooling gas inlet portion of the coil airflow path, a second wall surface disposed on the core central portion side of an inside of the coil airflow path, and located more on the rotor radially outward side and more on a core end portion side than the first wall surface, and a third wall surface configured to connect the first wall surface and the second wall surface, the third wall surface including a surface perpendicular to a rotor radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi HARAKAWA, Shinji KUBO, Yasuo KABATA, Yoshihiro TANIYAMA, Ryo FUCHIMOTO, Koji ANDO
  • Publication number: 20210033674
    Abstract: According to the embodiment, a field winding interlayer short-circuit detection apparatus comprises: a field winding resistance calculator to calculate, for a field winding of a rotating electrical machine, a field winding resistance calculated value from a detected value of a field winding current and a detected value of a field winding voltage; a determiner to determine presence or absence of an interlayer short-circuit in the field winding by using a comparison result between the field winding resistance calculated value and the reference resistance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio HIRANO, Yoshihiro TANIYAMA, Masafumi FUJITA, Koji ANDO, Yoshinori TORII
  • Publication number: 20210032186
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing high-purity iron(III) citrate substantially free of beta-iron hydroxide oxide, high-purity iron(III) citrate substantially free of beta-iron hydroxide oxide, and medical uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ando, Naoki Manta
  • Patent number: 10903092
    Abstract: Pure water, a mixed solution, and an organic solvent are applied to a substrate in this order. The organic solvent is then removed by rotation. The mixed solution is a mixture of pure water and the organic solvent, and has a surface tension lower than that of the pure water. Since the mixed solution has a solubility in pure water, which is higher than that of the organic solvent, local drying on the upper surface becomes less likely at an interface between the mixed solution and the pure water, which suppresses collapse of pattern elements. Since the temperature of the substrate is raised by the mixed solution having a temperature higher than room temperature, it is possible to reduce the time required for a process related to drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventors: Hitoshi Nakai, Koji Ando
  • Publication number: 20210016383
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of counting the spatters by a simple method while suppressing costs, and the present invention provides a spatter counting method performed by a portable terminal device provided with an image capturing device comprising: an image capturing step of capturing a moving image of an area including spatters generated during welding: and a counting step of counting a number of the spatters captured in each still image constituting the moving image captured in the capturing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Koji ANDO, Tomoaki SASAKI, Katsunori WADA, Yusaku NANAO