Patents by Inventor Makoto Ishikawa

Makoto Ishikawa 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: 10576661
    Abstract: There is provided with a screw that is inserted into a cylinder an inside of which a material is loaded, and is rotatably supported in both end portions on an upstream side and a downstream side, or in an end portion on the upstream side, in the cylinder; a first kneading blade including a plurality of first blades that are helically provided on the screw and send the material toward the downstream side with rotation of the screw; and a second kneading blade including a second blade that is helically provided on the screw and returns the material, which is sent toward the downstream side by the first kneading blade, toward the upstream side, the number of blades in the second blade being smaller than the number of blades in the first blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Ikeya, Makoto Ishikawa, Reo Fujita, Seiji Takamoto, Shigeki Inoue
  • Patent number: 10575420
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a cover member curved when viewed in a first axis direction along a first axis; and a display panel disposed on one side of the cover member. The cover member has a first surface facing the display panel and a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface. The first surface forms a straight line and at least a part of the second surface forms a curved line in a cross-section orthogonal to a second axis that is along a straight line extending from one end to the other end of the cover member when viewed in the first axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Ishikawa, Manabu Mizuno, Shinichiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200057399
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a ferrite carrier core material for an electrophotographic developer, the material having a mesh passing amount of 3 wt % or less as indicated by the ratio of the weight of particles passing through a 16 ?m-mesh to the weight of whole particles constituting a powder, and having a particle strength index of 2 wt % or less as indicated by a difference between the mesh passing amounts before and after crushing; a ferrite carrier which is for an electrophotographic developer and in which the surface of the ferrite carrier core material is coated with a resin; and an electrophotographic developer which includes the ferrite carrier and a toner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Makoto ISHIKAWA, Hiroki SAWAMOTO, Tetsuya UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20190196486
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including a first recognizer recognizing one or more other vehicles present in the vicinity of a subject vehicle; a second recognizer recognizing that a road on which the subject vehicle is running is a road having no center line; an estimator estimating a state of a driver of an oncoming vehicle facing the subject vehicle among the one or more other vehicles recognized by the first recognizer; a determiner determining whether the oncoming vehicle is a vehicle executing manual driving; and a controller decelerating the subject vehicle to a speed equal to or lower than a predetermined speed on the basis of the state of the driver of the oncoming vehicle in a case in which the oncoming vehicle is a vehicle executing manual driving, and the road on which the subject vehicle is running is a road having no center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto Ishikawa, Hiroshi Miura, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190193726
    Abstract: A vehicle control device according to an embodiment includes a recognition unit that recognizes moving bodies present near a subject vehicle, a deriving unit that derives an index value indicating that a following vehicle present behind the subject vehicle in a subject lane among the moving bodies recognized by the recognition unit approaches the subject vehicle, and a driving control unit that performs predetermined control in a case that the index value derived by the deriving unit is smaller than a threshold value in a case that the subject vehicle changes a route to another lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto Ishikawa, Hiroshi Miura, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190161090
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a preceding vehicle that is in front of a subject vehicle on the basis of information collected by an information collection unit including an information collection surface oriented toward an outside of the subject vehicle, a determiner configured to determine whether or not a situation in front of the subject vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition on the basis of a recognition result by the recognizer, and determine that a minute object on a road that is being flung up by the preceding vehicle affects a recognition accuracy of the recognizer by adhering to the information collection surface in a case where the situation in front of the subject vehicle satisfies the predetermined condition, and a driving controller configured to control a speed of the subject vehicle to increase a relative distance between the subject vehicle and the preceding vehicle in a case where it is determined by the determiner that the minute object on the ro
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190161087
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an imaging unit that images surroundings of an own-vehicle, a detector that detects a state of an external appearance of an oncoming vehicle facing the own-vehicle in a tunnel on the basis of an image captured by the imaging unit, and a determiner that determines whether or not the state of the external appearance of the oncoming vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition on the basis of the state of the external appearance of the oncoming vehicle detected by the detector and determines that the outside of the tunnel toward which the own-vehicle is traveling has bad weather if the state of the external appearance of the oncoming vehicle satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Kawabe, Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20190155303
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a measurement unit measuring a vibration of a subject vehicle and a prediction unit predicting the presence of a predetermined place, at which a control state of the subject vehicle is to be changed, in front of the subject vehicle in an advancement direction on the basis of a degree of coincidence between a trend of vibrations measured by the measurement unit and a vibration trend of a vehicle measured in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Kawabe, Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20190146519
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100 or 400) includes a recognizer (130 or 432) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and a driving controller (150 and 160, or 452) that controls at least acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle, the driving controller decelerating the vehicle with different deceleration patterns on the basis of whether a pedestrian crossing the crosswalk has been recognized by the recognizer at a point in time when a marking indicating the presence of the crosswalk in advance has been recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190135281
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a first recognizer recognizing, in the vicinity of a first vehicle, a plurality of second vehicles; a second recognizer recognizing a road shoulder of a road on which the first vehicle is present; and a controller executing driving control of controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the first vehicle, wherein the controller sets a degree of monitoring of one of the plurality of second vehicles present on a road shoulder in a section from a branching point to a point a predetermined distance from the branching point, to be higher than another of the plurality of second vehicles present on a road shoulder out of the section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190107842
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: an image capturer configured to image surroundings of a vehicle; a road partition line recognizer configured to recognize a position of a road partition line on the basis of an image; a driving controller configured to control at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the position of the road partition line; and an object detector configured to detect objects in the vicinity of the vehicle by emitting radiowaves and detecting reflected waves generated due to the radiowaves coming into contact with the objects, wherein, in a case in which the position of the road partition line is unrecognizable using the road partition line recognizer, the driving controller is configured to control at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the position of an object, of which the reflectivity is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190106107
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus of an embodiment includes a surrounding situation recognition unit which recognizes a situation of surroundings of a vehicle, a branch point recognition unit which recognizes a branch point present in a traveling direction of the vehicle on the basis of the recognition result of the surrounding situation recognition unit, a main lane recognition unit which recognizes a main lane connected to the branch point, and a driving control unit which controls one or both of the steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and causes the vehicle to travel in the direction of the main lane recognized by the main lane recognition unit at the branch point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190077459
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: an imager (10) imaging a side in front or side to the rear of a vehicle; a road partition line recognizer (131) recognizing a position of a road partition line on the basis of an image captured by the imager; and a driving controller (160) controlling at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the position of the road partition line recognized by the road partition line recognizer, and, in a case in which a degree of recognition of the road partition line using the road partition line recognizer decreases due to presence of a vehicle running ahead or a vehicle running behind, the driving controller causes the vehicle to run while deviating from a center of a lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190080600
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes: a detection device having a detection area in an advancement direction of a vehicle; and a crossing recognizer (132) determining whether or not a concave part extending in a direction intersecting the advancement direction is present on the basis of an output of the detection device and recognizing presence of a crossing in the advancement direction of the vehicle in a case in which a concave part is determined as being present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190080601
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) comprising: a recognizer (130) recognizing surrounding situations of a vehicle; a setting unit (154) setting a virtual lane in an area inside a crossing that is present in an advancement direction of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result acquired by the recognizer; and a driving controller (150, 160) controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and causing the vehicle to run within the virtual lane and pass through the crossing in a case in which an object recognized by the recognizer is not present on the virtual lane, wherein, in a case in which an area inside the crossing has a width for which only one virtual lane is settable, the driving controller handles an oncoming vehicle recognized by the recognizer as an object present on the virtual lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Kawabe, Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20190080599
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes: an imager imaging the vicinity of a vehicle; a position identifying unit identifying a position of the vehicle; and a crossing recognizer (132) recognizing the presence of a crossing ahead in running of the vehicle on the basis of the position identified by the position identifying unit and map information and raising a degree of certainty in the presence of the crossing ahead in running of the vehicle on the basis of an element of a specific color, which represents the presence of a crossing, included in an image captured by the imager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto Ishikawa, Hiroshi Miura, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190047966
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof: [in the formula (I), A1 represents a methylene group or the like; A2 represents a methylene group or an oxygen atom; A3 represents an azetidinyl group, a pyrrolidinyl group, a piperidinyl group, a piperazinyl group, or a homopiperazinyl group which is optionally substituted with —N(R1)R2, —N(R1)R3, and/or —R3; A4 represents —O—, —S—, —S(O)—, —S(O)2—, or —N(R1)—; A5 represents an optionally substituted C3-10 cycloalkylalkyl group or the like; R4 represents a halogen atom or the like; and n represents an integer of 0 or 1].
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: MEIJI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mami ARAI, Takeru YAMAKAWA, Rie NAKAJIMA, Kota MURASAKI, Yoshinari WAKIYAMA, Yuta FUJIWARA, Makoto ISHIKAWA, Tomohisa NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20190049870
    Abstract: There is provided a carrier including a magnetic core material having a surface coated with a surfactant-containing resin mixture of an elemental fluorine-containing resin and a polyimide resin. The carrier has an elution amount of an eluted material into water in an elution test ranging from 180 ppm to 3,500 ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Aya SAKUTA, Makoto ISHIKAWA, Hiroki SAWAMOTO, Tetsuya UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20180280902
    Abstract: A multi-shaft kneading machine includes a channel and two screws rotatable around first axes of rotation. A pair of gate rods sandwich the two screws and are rotatable around second axes of rotation. Each of the pair of gate rods has two recess parts that form respective spaces through which the two screws penetrate. Each of the pair of gate rods has a first contact surface, which comes into surface contact with a screw when a gate rod is rotated to a minimum degree-of-opening position. Large diameter parts are fitted into the groove of the cylinder, and a small diameter part have a radius of curvature equal to half a distance between two second axes of rotation and smaller than a radius of curvature of the large diameter parts. The small diameter parts of the pair of gate rods are in contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Takuya Hamada, Manabu Ikeya, Makoto Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Kodate, Takayuki Yamazawa, Seiji Takamoto
  • Publication number: 20180270975
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a cover member curved when viewed in a first axis direction along a first axis; and a display panel disposed on one side of the cover member. The cover member has a first surface facing the display panel and a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface. The first surface forms a straight line and at least a part of the second surface forms a curved line in a cross-section orthogonal to a second axis that is along a straight line extending from one end to the other end of the cover member when viewed in the first axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Makoto ISHIKAWA, Manabu MIZUNO, Shinichiro TANAKA