Patents by Inventor Koji Ishii
Koji Ishii 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: 20240103404Abstract: A powder conveying device includes a first conveying component through which gas containing powder is to be conveyed; a second conveying component to which a downstream end of the first conveying component is connected and through which the gas received from the first conveying component is to be conveyed, the second conveying component extending in a second gas conveying direction that intersects a first gas conveying direction defined by the first conveying component; a third conveying component extending from the second conveying component and through which the gas received from the second conveying component is to be conveyed, the third conveying component extending in a third gas conveying direction that intersects the second gas conveying direction; a fourth conveying component to which a downstream end of the third conveying component is connected and through which the gas received from the third conveying component is to be conveyed, the fourth conveying component extending in a fourth gas conveying dType: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yasuhisa GONDA, Shunsuke YAMASAKI, Yuta SHIMATATE, Koji YOSHITSUGU, Kazunari ISHII
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Publication number: 20240094673Abstract: A developing device includes: a container that contains developer; a developer holder that rotates with the developer being held on a surface thereof to transport the developer to a developing region; and a cooling unit. An introduction port is provided at a position corresponding to the developing region, the introduction port allowing suction of a floating substance generated in the developing region in a transverse direction of the container. The cooling unit is connected to the introduction port to allow passage of gas containing the floating substance in a longitudinal direction of the container, and cools the container with the gas. An intake port is connected to an end of the cooling unit in the longitudinal direction, the intake port allowing introduction of gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shunsuke YAMASAKI, Koji YOSHITSUGU, Yuta SHIMATATE, Yasuhisa GONDA, Kazunari ISHII, Yuka NOMURA
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Publication number: 20240087073Abstract: A control device reads power consumption, information on the delivery number and weight of a first product set, and information on the delivery number and weight of a second product set from a storage device. The control device proportionally divides the power consumption. The control device reads a first conversion formula from the storage device, and calculates CO2 emissions from transportation of the first product set from an A station to a B station and CO2 emissions from transportation of the second product set from the A station to the B station by substituting the power consumptions, into the first conversion formula.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
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Publication number: 20240079172Abstract: A magnetic composite includes a metal base material and a ferrite layer provided on a surface of the metal base material, the metal base material has a thickness of 0.001 ?m or more, and the ferrite layer has a thickness of 2.0 ?m or more, contains spinel-type ferrite as a principal component, and has a ratio of 0.00 or more and 0.03 or less, the ratio being of an integrated intensity of a (222) plane to an integrated intensity of a (311) plane in X-ray diffraction analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazutaka ISHII, Koji AGA
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Publication number: 20240078500Abstract: A management device includes a communication device and a control device. The communication device is configured to communicate with a moving object configured to transport a product from an upstream company to a downstream company. The control device is configured to calculate CO2 emissions emitted by transportation of the product based on an amount of energy consumed by the moving object from a transportation start time point to a transportation completion time point of the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
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Publication number: 20240069533Abstract: A management method for management of a CO2 emission amount emitted by production of a product in a production line where a first product and a second product are produced includes acquiring a power consumption amount consumed in the production line for a predetermined period, and calculating a CO2 emission amount for each product by allocating the power consumption amount based on a ratio of a total work time required to produce the first product in the production line during the predetermined period and a total work time required to produce the second product in the production line during the predetermined period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
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Publication number: 20240069506Abstract: A management method for managing a CO2 emission amount to be emitted by producing a product, includes: reading out a first CO2 emission amount that is a CO2 emission amount per unit weight of a first raw material and a second CO2 emission amount that is a CO2 emission amount per unit weight of a second raw material; and calculating the CO2 emission amount of the product based on a CO2 emission amount to be calculated from the first CO2 emission amount and from a weight of the first raw material used to produce the product, and a CO2 emission amount to be calculated from the second CO2 emission amount and from a weight of the second raw material used to produce the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
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Patent number: 11914320Abstract: An image forming apparatus, for forming an image with a fixing unit that fixes a toner image to a recording material and with a first transport path, includes: a first guide unit that guides one side of a recording material discharged from the fixing unit and transported through the first transport path; a second guide unit that guides the other side of the recording material transported thorough the first transport path; a blowing part through which gas is sent to the one side of the recording material transported through the first transport path; and a gas guiding part that faces the second guide unit with the first transport path interposed between the gas guiding part and the second guide unit and that guides, in a direction away from the first transport path, gas that is sent from the blowing part and whose traveling direction is changed by a recording material.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kazunari Ishii, Koji Yoshitsugu, Yuta Shimatate, Shunsuke Yamasaki, Naoki Sambe, Yasuhisa Gonda
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Publication number: 20230381659Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to calculate an action of each object within a field to cause a match between the user and the opponent to proceed, and for providing the game in which the first turn of an offense and the second turn of a defense are switched between the user and the opponent based on a calculation result of the action, wherein the computer program causes the computer to serve as a selection opportunity provision unit that suspends the action of each object in conjunction with switching of the turns and provides an opportunity of selection regarding the match to the user, and a calculation control unit that controls calculation of the match so that the selection by the user is reflected in the calculation of the match within a target period until switching of the turns occurs next.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAIMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma TSURUMOTO, Koji ISHII, Syogo YAMAZAKI, Taemin KIM, Yoshimasa SAITO, Yaojen CHANG, Tomohiro NAKADA, Osamu IKEDA, Shota HASEGAWA, Taito ITO, Kuka LEE, Satoshi HIGASHIDA, Yasunori KOBAYASHI, Tomohisa KOIKE, Taro MURAKAMI, Yumi KATO, Chikako IIZUKA, Shuichiro YOSHIMURA
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Patent number: 11794900Abstract: Baggage is connected to an aerial vehicle in a state in which the baggage is suspended by a connector such as rope. A learning unit of a server device performs machine learning on the relationship between the piloting of an aerial vehicle and the behavior of baggage on the basis of an aerial vehicle behavior history and a piloting history acquired by a first acquisition unit and a baggage behavior history acquired by a second acquisition unit. With this arrangement, the automatic piloting of the aerial vehicle at the time of lowering baggage is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Jooin Woo, Hiroshi Kawakami, Kaori Niihata, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20230295655Abstract: The present invention provides a recombinant vaccinia virus serving as a clinically usable preventive vaccine for COVID-19 (vaccine for SARS-CoV-2), etc. The recombinant vaccinia virus of the present invention is characterized by comprising the whole or part of cDNA encoding nonstructural proteins or structural protein derived from SARS-CoV-2, and an expression promoter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicants: TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, Shiga University of Medical ScienceInventors: Michinori KOHARA, Fumihiko YASUI, Yasushi ITOH, Koji ISHII
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Patent number: 11756436Abstract: Setting unit performs the setting of each of the operating modes of a plurality of aerial vehicles on the basis of communication quality information of the planned route of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Specifically, setting unit firstly specifies the planned positions and periods in which each aerial vehicle is to fly from the flight plan information of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Next, setting unit specifies a communication quality of first wireless communication unit of each aerial vehicle in each position and each period from the communication quality information that represents the communication quality in the specified positions and periods. Then, setting unit specifies an operating mode setting schedule of main unit mode and auxiliary unit mode, which sets an aerial vehicle having a specified communication quality, and sets the remaining aerial vehicles as auxiliary units.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11731643Abstract: A vehicle management system includes an imaging device provided in a shared vehicle to capture a plurality of passengers on the vehicle, a detection unit that detects that a user, who is one of the passengers, has performed a predetermined motion which is a motion registered in advance, based on a capturing result by the imaging device, and a controller that controls the vehicle based on a predetermined command, which is a command registered in advance as a command corresponding to the predetermined motion, when the predetermined motion is detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto Miyake, Shinichi Okamoto, Kentaro Otomo, Daiki Saito, Koji Ishii
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Publication number: 20230174586Abstract: Provided are: a recombinant vaccinia virus which is effective for the prevention of the development of a disease by the infection by H7 avian influenza virus and has high safety; and a vaccine against H7 avian influenza virus, which comprises the recombinant vaccinia virus. The recombinant vaccinia virus according to the present invention is a recombinant vaccinia virus having such a structure that an expression promoter and the full length or a part of cDNA encoding hemagglutinin protein of H7 avian influenza virus are contained in the genome for vaccinia virus strain DIs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicants: TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCEInventors: Fumihiko YASUI, Michinori KOHARA, Kenzaburo YAMAJI, Yasushi ITOH, Kazumasa OGASAWARA, Koji ISHII
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Publication number: 20220414898Abstract: A fall prevention system includes an image capturing unit that captures an image of a space to be monitored; a skeleton model generating unit that generates a skeleton model representing a person in the image captured by the image capturing unit; a determination unit that determines a state of a person corresponding to the skeleton model generated by the skeleton model generating unit, by distinguishing between the person standing up and the person sitting down, based on the skeleton model; and an operation processing unit capable of executing a fall prevention process that is a process according to a determination result by the determination unit, and that prevents the person from falling over, based on the determination result.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hideto MIYAKE, Koji ISHII, Daiki Saito
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Publication number: 20220215501Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute a process including: accepting, from a first user, a bet placed on a first competition based on betting contents of a second user, who is different from the first user, for the first competition, and notifying the first user of information on a second competition different from the first competition when a bet on the second competition from the second user is accepted in the accepting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Koji ISHII, Kosuke KURIYAMA, Masanori MATSUMOTO, Nobutaka KOMAKI
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Patent number: 11348347Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes a camera, a passenger detector, a goods detector, an association unit, and an in-vehicle controller. The camera images the inside of a vehicle. The passenger detector detects the passenger inside the vehicle based on an image captured by the camera. The goods detector detects the goods inside the vehicle based on the image captured by the camera. The association unit generates association information. The association information is obtained by associating specific goods detected by the goods detector with a specific passenger detected by the passenger detector based on the goods detected by the goods detector and the passenger detected by the passenger detector. The in-vehicle controller performs predetermined control based on the association information generated by the association unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto Miyake, Daiki Saito, Shinichi Okamoto, Koji Ishii
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Publication number: 20220152187Abstract: The present invention provides a recombinant Vaccinia virus as a dengue virus vaccine that can be used as a therapeutic or prophylactic agent in the clinic. This recombinant Vaccinia virus is characterized by including: all or part of a cDNA that encodes a non-structural protein from a dengue virus; and an expression promoter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicants: TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY, NAGASAKI UNIVERSITYInventors: Michinori KOHARA, Fumihiko YASUI, Daisuke YAMANE, Kyoko KOHARA, Kouichi MORITA, Yasuhiro YASUTOMI, Koji ISHII
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Publication number: 20220148443Abstract: A setting unit sets the operating mode of an aerial vehicle to a first operating mode that transmits, data generated by a host aerial vehicle and data received from another aerial vehicle to a processing device, or a second operating mode that transmits data generated by a host aerial vehicle to another aerial vehicle. At this time, setting unit sets the operating modes of each of a plurality of aerial vehicles using a setting method corresponding to the attributes of an airspace in which aerial vehicle flies, from among a plurality of setting methods that set the operating mode of aerial vehicle. The attributes of an airspace include attributes determined in accordance with a degree of importance pertaining to the process of transmitting data from aerial vehicle to a server device and/or attributes determined in accordance with the extent to which processes are distributed among a plurality of aerial vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori NIIHATA, Tadao TAKAMI, Koji ISHII, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Yuichiro SEGAWA, Yasuhiro KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20220139237Abstract: Setting unit performs the setting of each of the operating modes of a plurality of aerial vehicles on the basis of communication quality information of the planned route of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Specifically, setting unit firstly specifies the planned positions and periods in which each aerial vehicle is to fly from the flight plan information of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Next, setting unit specifies a communication quality of first wireless communication unit of each aerial vehicle in each position and each period from the communication quality information that represents the communication quality in the specified positions and periods. Then, setting unit specifies an operating mode setting schedule of main unit mode and auxiliary unit mode, which sets an aerial vehicle having a specified communication quality, and sets the remaining aerial vehicles as auxiliary units.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori NIIHATA, Tadao TAKAMI, Koji ISHII, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Yuichiro SEGAWA, Yasuhiro KITAMURA