Patents by Inventor Koji Nagai
Koji Nagai 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: 11916563Abstract: Provided are an analog-to-digital (AD) converter, a sensor processing circuit, and a sensor system capable of improving responsiveness of feedback control. AD converter includes input part, AD conversion part, first output part, and second output part. The analog signal output from sensor is input to input part. AD conversion part digitally converts an analog signal to generate first digital data and second digital data. First output part outputs the first digital data to control circuit. Second output part outputs the second digital data to sensor before first output part outputs the first digital data.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun'Ichi Naka, Koji Obata, Junji Nakatsuka, Hiroki Yoshino, Masaaki Nagai
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Publication number: 20240047179Abstract: A plasma treatment apparatus includes a treatment chamber 2 and a gas supply device 30 for supplying a treatment gas into the treatment chamber 2. The gas supply device 30 includes: a mass flow controller box 40 having an intake port 41 and an exhaust port 42; a plurality of pipes 43 to each of which a mass flow controller (43a) is attached; and a plurality of pipes 52 which are connected to the pipes 43 in the mass flow controller box 40 and connected to a plurality of pipes 54 as supply sources of the treatment gas by a plurality of joints 53 outside the mass flow controller box. At least one of the joints 53 is covered by a pipe cover 60 so that the joint 53 is hermetically sealed. The inside of the pipe cover 60 and the inside of the mass flow controller box 40 are communicated by a communicating member (circumferential pipe 61, tube 62).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Kentaro Kiyosue, Kohei Sato, Ryoichi Isomura, Koji Nagai, Tsutomu Matsuyoshi
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Patent number: 11885680Abstract: A spectral device is provided with: a filter having a property of transmitting light of multiple wavelength ranges from a measurement object; a driving means to slide the filter; and a detector to detect an intensity of the light from the measurement object, the light having passed through the filter, the detector to further measure the intensity of the light multiple times sequentially while the driving means slides the filter and thereby obtain multiple pieces of measured data to be used for a calculation of spectral information.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Toru Nakatani, Toshio Kawano, Hitoshi Nagasawa, Koji Nagai
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Patent number: 11526315Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display, an input device, and a processor configured to accept, through the input device, a user input of identification information about a package for delivery, acquire information about a plurality of document types used in a delivery service, generate a screen displayed on the display, the screen showing a preview of a print image for each of the document types, upon selection of a previewed print image, encode the identification information into a code, and output the selected print image together with the code for printing. The previewed print image includes a signature field and a code field in which the code is to be printed.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiko Fujiwara, Koji Nagai, Shigeo Uchida, Masateru Mitani
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Publication number: 20220146309Abstract: A spectral device is provided with: a filter having a property of transmitting light of multiple wavelength ranges from a measurement object; a driving means to slide the filter; and a detector to detect an intensity of the light from the measurement object, the light having passed through the filter, the detector to further measure the intensity of the light multiple times sequentially while the driving means slides the filter and thereby obtain multiple pieces of measured data to be used for a calculation of spectral information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Toru NAKATANI, Toshio KAWANO, Hitoshi NAGASAWA, Koji NAGAI
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Publication number: 20210389916Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display, an input device, and a processor configured to accept, through the input device, a user input of identification information about a package for delivery, acquire information about a plurality of document types used in a delivery service, generate a screen displayed on the display, the screen showing a preview of a print image for each of the document types, upon selection of a previewed print image, encode the identification information into a code, and output the selected print image together with the code for printing. The previewed print image includes a signature field and a code field in which the code is to be printed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Akihiko FUJIWARA, Koji NAGAI, Shigeo UCHIDA, Masateru MITANI
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Patent number: 11195526Abstract: According to one embodiment, an indication management device includes voice acquisition means, indication recognition means, importance degree determination means, and output control means. The voice acquisition means acquires a voice which is input by a voice input terminal. The indication recognition means recognizes details of an indication from the voice acquired by the voice acquisition means. The importance degree determination means determines a degree of importance of the indication from the voice acquired by the voice acquisition means. The output control means controls output of indication details to an output device in accordance with the degree of importance determined by the importance degree determination means.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazunori Hirabayashi, Kazuhiro Ogura, Ryuichi Aoyama, Koji Nagai, Toshinori Fukuta
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Publication number: 20200348894Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display, an input device, and a processor configured to accept, through the input device, a user input of identification information that specifies a predetermined service and is associated with a plurality of document types used in the predetermined service, acquire document type information about each of the document types, generate a screen displayed on the display, the screen showing a preview of a print image for each of the document types, upon selection of a previewed print image, encode the identification information and generate a code for the predetermined service, and output the selected print image together with the generated code for printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Akihiko FUJIWARA, Koji NAGAI, Shigeo UCHIDA, Masateru MITANI
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Patent number: 10796890Abstract: There is disclosed a plasma processing apparatus for processing a wafer put on a sample stage disposed in a processing chamber within a vacuum vessel by the use of a plasma generated in the processing chamber after mounting the wafer on the sample stage. The apparatus has heaters in areas of the interior of the sample stage which are divided radially and circumferentially. At least those of the heaters which are arranged in the areas located in the radially outer position include circumferentially arranged heater portions that are connected in series. The amounts of heat generated by these circumferentially arranged heater portions are adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Kusumoto, Yutaka Ohmoto, Kazunori Nakamoto, Koji Nagai
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Patent number: 10732912Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printer, an input device configured to receive a user input, and a processor configured to acquire identification information that specifies a task in a predetermined service and is input through the input device, acquire document type information about document types used in the predetermined service based on the acquired identification information, generate a code for the task by encoding the acquired identification information, and control the printer to print an image of one of the document types and the generated code on a sheet of paper.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiko Fujiwara, Koji Nagai, Shigeo Uchida, Masateru Mitani
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Publication number: 20200143803Abstract: According to one embodiment, an indication management device includes voice acquisition means, indication recognition means, importance degree determination means, and output control means. The voice acquisition means acquires a voice which is input by a voice input terminal. The indication recognition means recognizes details of an indication from the voice acquired by the voice acquisition means. The importance degree determination means determines a degree of importance of the indication from the voice acquired by the voice acquisition means. The output control means controls output of indication details to an output device in accordance with the degree of importance determined by the importance degree determination means.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Kazunori Hirabayashi, Kazuhiro Ogura, Ryuichi Aoyama, Koji Nagai, Toshinori Fukuta
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Patent number: 10634758Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a positioning apparatus comprises a first interface and a processor. The first interface receives a positioning signal. The processor sets an interval for searching the positioning signal with a first interface to a first searching interval, sets the interval for searching the positioning signal to a second searching interval which is shorter than the first searching interval if it is determined that the positioning signal is received through searching in the first searching interval and uses the positioning signal received through searching in the second searching interval to specify a position of the positioning apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeo Uchida, Akihiko Fujiwara, Mika Hirama, Kazunori Hirabayashi, Koji Nagai
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Patent number: 10487488Abstract: A sanitary washing device includes: a sprayer that jets a liquid to a surface of a toilet bowl portion of a toilet bowl; and a movable-type scattering suppression member that is movable between a closed position and an opened position and suppresses the liquid jetted from the sprayer from scattering to an upper surface side of the toilet bowl at the opened position.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koji Nagai
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Publication number: 20190324699Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printer, an input device configured to receive a user input, and a processor configured to acquire identification information that specifies a task in a predetermined service and is input through the input device, acquire document type information about document types used in the predetermined service based on the acquired identification information, generate a code for the task by encoding the acquired identification information, and control the printer to print an image of one of the document types and the generated code on a sheet of paper.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Akihiko FUJIWARA, Koji NAGAI, Shigeo UCHIDA, Masateru MITANI
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Patent number: 10309988Abstract: A probe guide plate includes a first silicon substrate, a first recess portion formed in an upper surface of the first silicon substrate, first through-holes formed in the first silicon substrate at a bottom of the first recess portion, a second silicon substrate directly bonded on the first silicon substrate, a second recess portion formed to face the first recess portion in a lower surface of the second silicon substrate, and second through-holes formed in the second silicon substrate at a bottom of the second recess portion and arranged to correspond to the first through-holes, A notch portion is formed at an upper end portion of an inner wall of each of the first through-holes of the first silicon substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignees: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., JAPAN ELECTRONIC MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro Shimizu, Kosuke Fujihara, Katsunori Yamagishi, Koji Nagai
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Patent number: 10279604Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a plasma treatment unit that performs plasma treatment on a surface of a treatment object to acidify at least the surface of the treatment object; and a recording unit that performs inkjet recording on the surface of the plasma treatment subjected to the plasma treatment by the plasma treatment unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Junji Nakai, Hiroyoshi Matsumoto, Masakazu Yoshida, Souichi Nakazawa, Tatsuro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Hiratsuka, Koji Nagai
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Publication number: 20190057846Abstract: There is disclosed a plasma processing apparatus for processing a wafer put on a sample stage disposed in a processing chamber within a vacuum vessel by the use of a plasma generated in the processing chamber after mounting the wafer on the sample stage. The apparatus has heaters in areas of the interior of the sample stage which are divided radially and circumferentially. At least those of the heaters which are arranged in the areas located in the radially outer position include circumferentially arranged heater portions that are connected in series. The amounts of heat generated by these circumferentially arranged heater portions are adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Kusumoto, Yutaka Ohmoto, Kazunori Nakamoto, Koji Nagai
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Patent number: 10141165Abstract: There is disclosed a plasma processing apparatus for processing a wafer put on a sample stage disposed in a processing chamber within a vacuum vessel by the use of a plasma generated in the processing chamber after mounting the wafer on the sample stage. The apparatus has heaters in areas of the interior of the sample stage which are divided radially and circumferentially. At least those of the heaters which are arranged in the areas located in the radially outer position include circumferentially arranged heater portions that are connected in series. The amounts of heat generated by these circumferentially arranged heater portions are adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Kusumoto, Yutaka Ohmoto, Kazunori Nakamoto, Koji Nagai
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Publication number: 20180306892Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a positioning apparatus comprises a first interface and a processor. The first interface receives a positioning signal. The processor sets an interval for searching the positioning signal with a first interface to a first searching interval, sets the interval for searching the positioning signal to a second searching interval which is shorter than the first searching interval if it is determined that the positioning signal is received through searching in the first searching interval and uses the positioning signal received through searching in the second searching interval to specify a position of the positioning apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Shigeo Uchida, Akihiko Fujiwara, Mika Hirama, Kazunori Hirabayashi, Koji Nagai
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Publication number: 20180230685Abstract: A sanitary washing device includes: a sprayer that jets a liquid to a surface of a toilet bowl portion of a toilet bowl; and a movable-type scattering suppression member that is movable between a closed position and an opened position and suppresses the liquid jetted from the sprayer from scattering to an upper surface side of the toilet bowl at the opened position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koji NAGAI