Patents by Inventor Koji Harada

Koji Harada 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: 10768118
    Abstract: According to a surface defect inspection device and a surface defect inspection method according to the present invention, an inspection face of an inspection object is irradiated with illumination light, and a defect at the inspection face is detected, based on an image including the inspection face captured. According to the surface defect inspection device and the surface defect inspection method, the illumination light is emitted with formation of at least one set of a light region and a dark region, and a range of a defect detection image region for the detection of the defect, to be set to the image capturing the inspection face irradiated with the illumination light in the light region, is adjusted in accordance with a previously defined degree of visibility for orange peel, at the detection of the defect at the inspection face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Harada, Masato Kashihara, Taizo Wakimura
  • Publication number: 20200203709
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution battery includes a positive electrode containing manganese dioxide and a carbon material; a negative electrode including one of lithium and a lithium alloy; a non-aqueous electrolyte solution; and a container configured to accommodate the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the non-aqueous electrolyte solution. In a spectrum that is measured by performing Raman spectroscopic analysis with respect to the positive electrode by using argon laser at a wavelength of 514.5 nm, an average value of peak intensity ratios ID/IG of an intensity ID of a peak appearing in the vicinity of 1330 cm?1 to an intensity IG of a peak appearing in the vicinity of 1580 cm?1 satisfies a relationship of 0.5?ID/IG?1.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Kohei WATANABE, Jun YAGISAWA, Miho SUZUKI, Kaoru YABUKI, Koji HARADA, Yushin ENDO
  • Publication number: 20200195174
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller that controls a motor, a first transmission channel connected to a first power-supply terminal of an alternating-current source that supplies an alternating-current voltage, a second transmission channel connected to a second power-supply terminal of the alternating-current source, and a third transmission channel connected to each of the first transmission channel and the second transmission channel. The controller switches the rotational speed of the motor based on the voltage value of a signal input to the controller in accordance with a first connection status of the first transmission channel and the third transmission channel and a second connection status of the second transmission channel and the third transmission channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Keiichi ABE, Koji HARADA, Huafei CAI, Masashi NAGUMO, Takayuki SUEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20200088650
    Abstract: According to a surface defect inspection device and a surface defect inspection method according to the present invention, an inspection face of an inspection object is irradiated with illumination light, and a defect at the inspection face is detected, based on an image including the inspection face captured. According to the surface defect inspection device and the surface defect inspection method, the illumination light is emitted with formation of at least one set of a light region and a dark region, and a range of a defect detection image region for the detection of the defect, to be set to the image capturing the inspection face irradiated with the illumination light in the light region, is adjusted in accordance with a previously defined degree of visibility for orange peel, at the detection of the defect at the inspection face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Koji HARADA, Masato KASHIHARA, Taizo WAKIMURA
  • Patent number: 10578491
    Abstract: In a colorimetry device and a colorimetry method of the present invention, reference chart definition information including at least reference chart identification information about a reference color chart and patch position definition information indicating a position of each of plurality of patches in the reference color chart is stored, and whether the obtained color chart is matched with the reference color chart is determined based on the reference chart identification information. When the obtained color chart is determined to be matched with the reference color chart, a position of a colorimetry unit with respect to the color chart is relatively moved to the position of each of the plurality of patches in the color chart based on the reference chart definition information, and the colorimetry unit measures the color of each of the plurality of patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Tanimura, Ryoji Bando, Koji Harada
  • Patent number: 10482256
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus holding a secure chip includes a determination unit that determines whether the information processing apparatus returns from an idle state; a detection unit that, if the determination unit determines that the information processing apparatus returns from the idle state, detects initialization of the secure chip before starting application software; and a control unit that, if the detection unit detects the initialization of the secure chip, controls an operation of the information processing apparatus so that a hash value of the application software is not registered in the secure chip that is initialized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Hayashi, Koji Harada, Nobuhiro Tagashira, Takami Eguchi, Yasuhiro Nakamoto, Kazuya Kishi, Ayuta Kawazu
  • Patent number: 10473075
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a fuel rail that can be used at a high fuel pressure of 50 MPa or more, for example, has good engine mountability, and has improved material yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichi Kubota, Koji Harada, Keiichi Uraki, Shinya Nakatani, Hiroshi Ono, Masahiro Soma
  • Patent number: 10401227
    Abstract: A colorimetry device and a colorimetry method according to the present invention relatively move the position of a color measuring unit with respect to a color chart to the position of each of a plurality of patches obtained based on an image of the color chart by a moving unit for a chart region selected by a user out of chart regions extracted based on the image of the color chart, and measure the color of each of the plurality of patches by the color measuring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Harada, Satoshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 10346179
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a function of entering and returning from a hibernation state and communicable with a server apparatus performing device certification includes a storage unit configured to, in a case where a software module is activated, store a hash value of the activated software module in a volatile memory, a request unit configured to request device certification based on a hash value stored in the volatile memory from the server apparatus, and an excluding unit configured to, in a case where the device certification is requested after returning from the hibernation state, exclude a software module activated before entering the hibernation state from a target of the device certification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Kishi, Koji Harada, Junichi Hayashi, Nobuhiro Tagashira, Takami Eguchi, Yasuhiro Nakamoto, Ayuta Kawazu
  • Patent number: 10267683
    Abstract: In a colorimetric device and a colorimetric method according to the present invention, chart definition information including at least patch position definition information representing each position of a plurality of patches in a color chart is stored, patch position measurement information representing the position of the patch is obtained on the basis of an image of the color chart, patch position correction information is obtained by correcting the patch position measurement information on the basis of the chart definition information, and then, each color of the plurality of patches is measured in each of the positions of the plurality of patches represented by the patch position correction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Tanimura, Ryoji Bando, Koji Harada
  • Patent number: 10254168
    Abstract: A colorimetric device and a colorimetric method according to the present invention extract a chart region candidate, which is a candidate for a chart region, from an image of a color chart, obtain an evaluation value of this chart region candidate, determine whether or not the chart region candidate is the chart region based on this obtained evaluation value, obtain each position of a plurality of patches for the chart region candidate determined as the chart region as a result of the determination and colorimetrically measure each of the patches at each obtained position of the plurality of the patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Koji Harada
  • Patent number: 10122223
    Abstract: To reduce eddy current loss in a supporting member of a rotor of an axial gap motor, and improve efficiency, the motor includes a rotor, and stators arranged opposite to the rotor. The rotor has a disc-shaped supporting member, having a plurality of mounting holes in each of which a permanent magnet segment is installed. In the stators, a plurality of field windings is arranged for generating a rotating magnetic field. The axial gap motor is provided with notches extending radially between each of the mounting holes of the supporting member in which a permanent magnet segment is fitted, and an outer peripheral edge of the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: Dynax Corporation, National University Corporation Hokkaido University
    Inventors: Kenichi Takezaki, Wataru Hino, Koji Harada, Masatsugu Takemoto, Satoshi Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 10093100
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting portion which has a nozzle that ejects liquid, and a flushing receptive body which receives the liquid that is ejected in a flushing operation in which the liquid is ejected from the nozzle, the flushing receptive body including a receiving member that is able to receive the liquid, a receiving member holding portion which holds the receiving member, and a fixing member with conductivity that fixes the receiving member to the receiving member holding portion by contacting the receiving member and has a mesh form portion that forms an adhesion surface to which the ejected liquid is adhered with the receiving member in the flushing operation, in which the fixing member is electrically grounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Harada, Shigeki Suzuki, Kinya Ozawa, Hitotoshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20180281343
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a method for producing a multiaxial-inlay knitted fabric base material with high productivity, a multiaxial-inlay knitted fabric base material that enables to produce a molded article, which is excellent in surface smoothness and has a high strength and a high elastic modulus, and a fiber-reinforced composite material including the multiaxial-inlay knitted fabric base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Koji HARADA, Toshiyuki ITOU
  • Publication number: 20180274507
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a fuel rail that can be used at a high fuel pressure of 50 MPa or more, for example, has good engine mountability, and has improved material yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichi KUBOTA, Koji HARADA, Keiichi URAKI, Shinya NAKATANI, Hiroshi ONO, Masahiro SOMA
  • Patent number: 10005284
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head which ejects liquid from a nozzle that is disposed on a nozzle surface, and an absorption member which is able to contact the nozzle surface, in which it is possible to perform a first contact operation which causes the absorption member to contact the nozzle surface at a position which corresponds to a nozzle region that includes an opening region of the nozzle, and a second contact operation which causes the absorption member to contact the nozzle surface at a position which corresponds to a non-nozzle region that is a region outside of the nozzle region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Suzuki, Koji Harada, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kazuhiko Hara, Yasunori Koike, Ryo Oguchi
  • Patent number: 9943926
    Abstract: The present invention provides a press-fit joining apparatus 100 where two collet-chuck-type electrodes (first collet-chuck-type electrode 160 and second collet-chuck-type electrode 170) are held using a die set structural body 130 and a sub platen structural body 140. According to the press-fit joining apparatus 100 of the present invention, it is possible to manufacture a product which is required to have higher coaxiality and higher joining strength than conventional products (for example, products such as a drive force transmitting part, the manufacture of which requires the supply of a large and uniform electric current to a joining portion).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: TK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Harada, Koji Harada, Kiyoshi Takemura, Akira Nozue
  • Publication number: 20180099503
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting portion which has a nozzle that ejects liquid, and a flushing receptive body which receives the liquid that is ejected in a flushing operation in which the liquid is ejected from the nozzle, the flushing receptive body including a receiving member that is able to receive the liquid, a receiving member holding portion which holds the receiving member, and a fixing member with conductivity that fixes the receiving member to the receiving member holding portion by contacting the receiving member and has a mesh form portion that forms an adhesion surface to which the ejected liquid is adhered with the receiving member in the flushing operation, in which the fixing member is electrically grounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Koji HARADA, Shigeki SUZUKI, Kinya OZAWA, Hitotoshi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20180052052
    Abstract: In a colorimetry device and a colorimetry method of the present invention, reference chart definition information including at least reference chart identification information about a reference color chart and patch position definition information indicating a position of each of plurality of patches in the reference color chart is stored, and whether the obtained color chart is matched with the reference color chart is determined based on the reference chart identification information. When the obtained color chart is determined to be matched with the reference color chart, a position of a colorimetry unit with respect to the color chart is relatively moved to the position of each of the plurality of patches in the color chart based on the reference chart definition information, and the colorimetry unit measures the color of each of the plurality of patches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Yasutaka TANIMURA, BANDO Ryoji, Koji HARADA
  • Publication number: 20180045572
    Abstract: A colorimetry device and a colorimetry method according to the present invention relatively move the position of a color measuring unit with respect to a color chart to the position of each of a plurality of patches obtained based on an image of the color chart by a moving unit for a chart region selected by a user out of chart regions extracted based on the image of the color chart, and measure the color of each of the plurality of patches by the color measuring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Koji HARADA, Satoshi YOKOTA