Patents by Inventor Koji Tsukamoto

Koji Tsukamoto 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: 20190242379
    Abstract: An impeller is attached to a rotary shaft provided in an inner space of a housing and includes a tube fixed to the rotary shaft and a plurality of blades protruding toward an outer diameter direction from the tube. A tip of each blade is in slidable contact with an inner peripheral surface of the housing. Each blade has a shape curved toward a rotation-direction rear side of the rotary shaft in a free state and includes an extension surface on a rotation-direction front side of the rotary shaft and a compression surface on the rotation-direction rear side of the rotary shaft. A curvature radius of a root on the compression surface in the blade is formed larger than a curvature radius of a root on the extension surface in the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventor: Koji TSUKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10318996
    Abstract: An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which bid targets are a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content and a right to replace the advertisement displayed in the advertising space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takata, Nobuyuki Akashi, Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto, Nari Woo, Akihiro Tanabe, Shinichiro Sega, Rin Katou
  • Patent number: 10296942
    Abstract: An advertisement choosing device chooses an advertisement to be displayed in a display space of a predetermined size. The advertisement choosing device includes an advertisement storing unit and an advertisement choosing unit. The advertisement storing unit stores therein sizes of multiple advertisements of various sizes. The advertisement choosing unit chooses, from among the multiple advertisements, one or more advertisements whose total size is equal to or less than the size of the display space as the advertisement to be displayed in the display space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 10223712
    Abstract: There is provided an information providing apparatus including a reception unit, a provision determining unit, and a request reply unit. The reception unit receives provision availability information indicating whether provision of user information for an advertisement delivery apparatus is permitted from a user terminal accessing any one of a plurality of site providing apparatuses or the like. The provision determining unit determines whether the provision availability information corresponding to the user terminal represents a provision permission in a case where an acquisition request for the user information relating to the user terminal is received from the advertisement delivery apparatus. The request reply unit replies to the advertisement delivery apparatus with the user information of the user terminal in a case where the provision permission is determined to be represented by the provision determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehito Gomi, Koji Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20190050083
    Abstract: An input device includes a translucent base material having flexibility, translucent first electrode parts arranged in a sensing region on the base material in a first direction, translucent second electrode parts arranged in the sensing region on the base material in a second direction crossing the first direction, and lead wires that are electrically continuous to the first electrode parts and second electrode parts, the lead wires extending from the sensing region on the base material to a peripheral region allocated outside the sensing region. A bent portion is provided in the peripheral region on the base material. Each lead wire has a flexible conductive member on the bent portion. A covering material is provided so as cover at least part of the flexible conductive member on the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Suguru WADA, Toru SAWADA, Junji HASHIDA, Yoshifumi MASUMOTO, Takenobu HORINO, Atsushi MATSUDA, Akihiro TAKEDA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Toru TAKAHASHI, Minoru SATO
  • Patent number: 10100881
    Abstract: The invention provides a clutch seal which can enhance a durability of a membrane portion which is a constituting part of a seal and is constructed by a rubber-like elastic body, and can inhibit a working fluid from standing in a concave surface of the membrane portion. The clutch seal of the invention is an annular seal interposed between a clutch plate in a dry clutch and a piston pressing the clutch plate, has a middle ring fixed to the piston between an outer ring and an inner ring which are fixed to a clutch housing, and has membrane portions constructed by a rubber-like elastic body respectively between the outer ring and the middle ring and between the inner ring and the middle ring, wherein the middle ring is arranged at an intermediate position of a stroke in an initial shape of the membrane portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignees: NOK Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Tsukamoto, Kuniaki Miyake, Toshihiro Mukaida, Hitoshi Okabe, Atsushi Yokota, Tatsuya Osone, Yuuzo Akasaka, Hiroki Uehara, Jun Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20180258932
    Abstract: An impeller 1 for a pump includes a cylindrical bush 13 rotatably held at an eccentric position within a cylindrical pump housing via a rotating shaft 3 and a plurality of vanes 11 that are fixed to an outer circumferential face of the bush 13 and radially extend to divide the inside of the pump housing into a plurality of compartments 14, each of the vanes 11 being made of a rubber-like elastic material and being formed inclined in a rotational direction of the bush 13 relative to a radial direction from the rotating shaft 3 of the bush 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventor: Koji Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 10019735
    Abstract: An advertisement distribution apparatus according to an embodiment includes a user information table, a determining unit, a request unit, and a distribution unit. The user information table stores user information about a user. When the advertisement distribution apparatus is accessed by a user terminal, the determining unit determines whether the user information of the user of the user terminal has been stored in the user information table. When the determining unit determines that the user information has not been stored in the storage unit, the request unit requests an information provision apparatus to transmit the user information. When the determining unit determines that the user information has not been stored in the storage unit, the distribution unit distributes advertisement content to the user terminal using the user information which is acquired from the information provision apparatus by the request unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto, Hidehito Gomi, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Taisuke Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20180163598
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided an SCR catalytic system including an SCR catalyst that absorbs NH3 and reduces NOx using the absorbed NH3 as a reducing agent. In the SCR catalytic system, the SCR catalyst is a Cu- and Mg-containing CHA zeolite in which a silica-alumina ratio (SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio) is 10 to 13 and 0.18 weight % to 0.44 weight % of Mg is contained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki MIZUNO, Koji TSUKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9916600
    Abstract: An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and a providing unit. The plan receiving unit gradually receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content a plurality of times. The providing unit additionally presents the plan information which is gradually received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space set to the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takata, Nobuyuki Akashi, Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto, Nari Woo, Akihiro Tanabe, Shinichiro Sega, Rin Katou
  • Patent number: 9818132
    Abstract: An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment includes an allocation unit and an advertisement delivery unit. The allocation unit selects delivery target users who have the user attribute designated by each of order requests and whose number corresponds to the number of deliveries designated by each of order requests, from a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations, and allocates the selected delivery target users to the order requests. The advertisement delivery unit selects the advertising information of the order request corresponding to a user attribute of a user of a user terminal on the basis of the allocation result of the allocation unit and transmits the selected advertising information to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Shimura, Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto, Hiroyuki Kato, Takenobu Dei
  • Publication number: 20170151657
    Abstract: A power tool includes a tool-main-body part, an electric motor as a drive source, a grip part, which extends downward from the tool-main-body part and is configured to be gripped by a user, and a power-supply unit at a tip of the grip part. The power tool includes a controller configured to control the operation of the electric motor, the controller being located on the power-supply unit, and a display controlled by the controller and configured to indicate an operating state of the electric motor. The controller and the display each have a flat-plate shape and are disposed along a surface direction with respect to one another, and the display includes a first portion that overlies the controller and a second portion that projects beyond an end edge of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Hidenori NAGASAKA, Ryunosuke KUMAGAI, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Tomonori KAWASE, Kosuke ITO, Tokuo HIRABAYASHI, Yasuhito KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20160379300
    Abstract: A prediction device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a prediction unit. The acquisition unit acquires information on a current price at which a target product is bid at an auction. The prediction unit predicts a price difference between the current price and a future price at which the target product is assumed to be bid after bidding at the current price based on the information on the current price acquired by the acquisition unit and a bid history at the auction. For example, the prediction unit predicts a price difference between the current price and the future price at which the target product is assumed to be bid immediately after bidding at the current price.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki HIRAI, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Junichiro KITAGAWA, Katsushi YAMASHITA, Satoshi YAMAUCHI, Akira TAJIMA
  • Patent number: 9524512
    Abstract: An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a prediction information storage unit, an acquisition unit and an allocation unit. The prediction information storage unit stores information including user attributes of a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations. The acquisition unit acquires a plurality of order requests designating user attributes and the numbers of deliveries. The allocation unit allocates the delivery target users to the plurality of order requests, on the basis of the user attributes and the numbers of deliveries designated by the plurality of order requests, such that the number of predetermined user attributes of the delivery target users who have not been allocated to the order requests is the maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Shimura, Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto, Hiroyuki Kato, Takenobu Dei
  • Patent number: 9514480
    Abstract: An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a predicted information storage unit, an allocating unit, and a reallocating unit. The predicted information storage unit stores information including user attributes of a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations. The allocating unit allocates the delivery target user to an advertisement delivery order request based on the information stored in the predicted information storage unit. The reallocating unit performs a reallocating process of exchanging the delivery target user allocated to the order request with a non-allocated user who is the delivery target user that has not been allocated to the order request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Shimura, Koji Tsukamoto, Akira Tajima, Hiroyuki Kato, Takenobu Dei
  • Patent number: 9508088
    Abstract: An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and an accepting unit. The acquisition unit acquires information on two or more types of delivery target user groups, each including a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations. The determination unit determines whether each of the delivery target user groups satisfies delivery conditions designated by an advertisement delivery order request. The accepting unit accepts the advertisement delivery order request based on the determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Shimura, Koji Tsukamoto, Akira Tajima, Hiroyuki Kato, Takenobu Dei
  • Patent number: 9449286
    Abstract: A machine learning apparatus includes an analytical information storage unit that stores therein two or more pieces of analytical information each associating input/output information used for machine learning with time-point information indicating a time point of the input/output information, an analysis-object-set specifying unit that specifies an analysis object set containing a unit-period input-output set being a set of pieces of the input/output information corresponding to pieces of the time-point information indicating the time point in a unit period and an amount of the pieces of the input/output information of the set being dependent on a period between the time point of the unit periods and a specific time point, and a machine learning unit that performs machine learning by using the pieces of the input/output information contained in the analysis object set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Sega, Shingo Hoshino, Koji Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20150292572
    Abstract: The invention provides a clutch seal which can enhance a durability of a membrane portion which is a constituting part of a seal and is constructed by a rubber-like elastic body, and can inhibit a working fluid from standing in a concave surface of the membrane portion. The clutch seal of the invention is an annular seal interposed between a clutch plate in a dry clutch and a piston pressing the clutch plate, has a middle ring fixed to the piston between an outer ring and an inner ring which are fixed to a clutch housing, and has membrane portions constructed by a rubber-like elastic body respectively between the outer ring and the middle ring and between the inner ring and the middle ring, wherein the middle ring is arranged at an intermediate position of a stroke in an initial shape of the membrane portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Tsukamoto, Kuniaki Miyake, Toshihiro Mukaida, Hitoshi Okabe, Atsushi Yokota, Tatsuya Osone, Yuuzo Akasaka, Hiroki Uehara, Jun Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20150081456
    Abstract: A service providing apparatus has a plan receiving unit and a service providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives advertising space information relating to an advertising space set to content by a content creator who creates the content and a targeting condition set to the advertising space by the content creator. The service providing unit provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in the advertising space for each targeting condition on the basis of the advertising space information received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Toru TAKATA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Nari WOO, Akihiro TANABE, Shinichiro SEGA
  • Publication number: 20150081455
    Abstract: A service providing apparatus includes a calculating unit, a plan receiving unit, and a service providing unit. The calculating unit calculates an evaluation value for a content creator that creates content. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of the content planned by the content creator. The service providing unit presents the evaluation value calculated by the calculating unit and the plan information received by the plan receiving unit, and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement on the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Toru TAKATA, Nobuyuki AKASHI, Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Nari WOO, Akihiro TANABE, Shinichiro SEGA