Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kawasaki

Masahiro Kawasaki 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: 11958145
    Abstract: A welding device for gas shielded arc welding includes: a portable welding robot mounted with a welding torch including a nozzle that guides jetting of shielding gas and a contact tip that performs energization on a consumable electrode; a feeding device that supplies the consumable electrode to the welding torch; a welding power source that supplies electric power to the consumable electrode via the contact tip; a gas supply source that supplies the shielding gas to be jetted from a nozzle end; and a control device that controls the portable welding robot. When the welding torch is seen from a side of jetting of the shielding gas, the contact tip is placed in an inside of an opening of the nozzle, the nozzle and the contact tip have a relatively movable structure, and an inner diameter of the nozzle end is within a range of 10-20 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO ROBOTiX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yashima, Masahiro Yokota, Shun Izutani, Hirofumi Kawasaki, Shinobu Toda
  • Publication number: 20240118636
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer disposed on the conductive substrate, having a volume resistivity of 5.0×107 [?m] or more and 5.0×109 [?m] or less, and having a thickness of 20 ?m or more and 40 ?m or less, a charge generation layer disposed on the undercoat layer, and a charge transport layer disposed on the charge generation layer, having a volume resistivity of 1.0×1013 [?m] or more and 5.0×1014 [?m] or less, and having a thickness of 15 ?m or more and 40 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki OYAMADA, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Akihiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20240118653
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate, the electrophotographic photoreceptor having an outermost surface layer that contains a binder resin, a charge-transporting material, and a fluorine-containing resin particle, the fluorine-containing resin particle containing 0 or more and 30 or less carboxy groups per 106 carbon atoms, a charging device that charges the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the electrophotographic photoreceptor that is charged, a developing device that houses a developer containing a toner and that develops, with the developer, the electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photoreceptor into a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image onto a transfer-receiving medium, and an optical discharging device that, after the toner image i
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kusano, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Akihiro Kawasaki, Yuki Oyamada
  • Patent number: 11933677
    Abstract: A temperature detecting material comprises a first material containing a first temperature indicating material and a second material containing a second temperature indicating material, wherein the first temperature indicating material and the second temperature indicating material contain a leuco dye, a color developing agent, and a decoloring agent, and have a hysteresis characteristic in their color density-temperature curves, wherein the first temperature indicating material has a color developing temperature in a temperature increase process lower than a decoloring temperature in the temperature increase process, and turns to a non-crystalline state and is kept in a decoloring state when cooled down below the color developing temperature in the temperature increase process with a predetermined cooling speed or more after melting, wherein the second temperature indicating material, a color developing temperature is lower than a decoloring temperature in the temperature increase process, and wherein the co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohhei Aida, Shunsuke Mori, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kotaro Araya
  • Patent number: 11635335
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a temperature sensing material that changes a color density continuously with the lapse of time at a temperature not lower or higher than a predetermined temperature and a temperature deviation time estimating system using it. In order to achieve the above object, the temperature sensing material according to the present invention is a temperature sensing material having a structure of dispersing a temperature indicating material that changes color by crystallization in a dispersion medium and is characterized in that an average particle size of the temperature indicating material is not larger than a resolution when observed and a volume fraction of the temperature indicating material to the temperature sensing material is not less than 5% to less than 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohhei Aida, Shunsuke Mori, Shigetaka Tsubouchi, Shintarou Takeda, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kotaro Araya
  • Patent number: 11572486
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a temperature detection material that can be manufactured through a simple step and is excellent in handleability. In order to solve the above problem, the temperature detection material according to the present invention includes a temperature-indicating material including a leuco dye, a color developer, and a color eraser and a matrix material; and is characterized in that the matrix material is in a solid state, a melting point of the matrix material is higher than a melting point of the temperature-indicating material, and a phase separation structure in which the temperature-indicating material disperses in the matrix material is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohhei Aida, Shunsuke Mori, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kotaro Araya, Hiroshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11443154
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mechanically readable code including a first area comprising multiple first unit cells and including an information region where information was recorded and a second area including multiple second unit cells including an allochroic cell that changes in color depending on a physical quantity. The multiple first unit cells include transitional color cells having any transitional color in the process of color change of the allochroic cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Kimura, Shigetaka Tsubouchi, Kota Otake, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11398055
    Abstract: A calculation device comprises a color evaluation unit that acquires a sensor color and four or more reference colors from photography data from a measurement time when an indication object was photographed in a second photography environment; determines coefficients for color conversion between a first and the second photography environments based on the amount of change from color information for the reference colors in the first photography environment, which has been read from a calculation device storage unit, to color information for the reference colors in the second photography environment, which has been acquired from the photography data; and uses the sensor color acquired from the photography data from the measurement time and the color conversion coefficients to correct the sensor color to the color that would have been photographed in the first photography environment by solving a conversion formula including terms representing an affine transformation consisting of translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Suwa, Kohhei Aida, Shunsuke Mori, Shigetaka Tsubouchi, Masahiro Kawasaki, Yoshifumi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 11397115
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a temperature detection label capable of preventing falsification using a simple structure. To solve this problem, the present invention provides a temperature detection label that is characterized by comprising a supporting member and a temperature detection part provided on the supporting member and in that: the temperature detection part has a temperature detection material that, in a heating process, starts color development at temperature T1 and starts losing color as a result of melting at temperature T2 and, in a cooling process, solidifies while remaining colorless by being cooled to temperature T1 or lower; the temperature detection material includes a leuco dye, decolorizer, and developer; and the temperature detection label also comprises a member having an appearance that changes between T1 and T2, inclusive, or a high-melting-point material having a melting point or glass transition temperature higher than T2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigetaka Tsubouchi, Kohhei Aida, Shunsuke Mori, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20220034726
    Abstract: A calculation device includes a storing unit that records discoloration characteristics about a sensor which changes color according to a size of physical quantity and a time when the physical quantity lasts, as a discoloration map with the physical quantity and the time as axes, for every sensor, and a physical quantity converting unit that specifies an area within each discoloration map corresponding to the color information of each sensor measured from a display area including the plural sensors having mutually different discoloration characteristics, calculates an overlapping area when the discoloration maps overlap each other as for the specified areas within the discoloration maps, and specifies a combination of the corresponding physical quantity and time from the position of the overlapping area within the discoloration map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji SUWA, Shunsuke MORI, Shigetaka TSUBOUCHI, Masahiro KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 11162849
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a temperature detecting element including base materials provided with substrates and electrodes arranged on the substrates, and a temperature detector arranged to electrically contact the electrodes on the substrates, in which a change in an electromagnetic wave absorbing property (light-absorbing property) and a change in an electrical property (resistance value) corresponding to a temperature change of the temperature detector are reversible. The temperature detecting element is easily stored and managed before use, and a temperature change in a temperature management environment can be accurately detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Mori, Kohhei Aida, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20210303958
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mechanically readable code including a first area comprising multiple first unit cells and including an information region where information was recorded and a second area including multiple second unit cells including an allochroic cell that changes in color depending on a physical quantity. The multiple first unit cells include transitional color cells having any transitional color in the process of color change of the allochroic cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu KIMURA, Shigetaka TSUBOUCHI, Kota OTAKE, Masahiro KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 11105690
    Abstract: To address the problem of providing a temperature history indicator capable of specifying a time when a temperature deviated from a set temperature range, a temperature history indicator according to the present invention is characterized in being provided with a substrate and temperature indicators that irreversibly change color upon deviation from a set temperature range, and in that a plurality of the temperature indicators are provided on the substrate, the temperatures at which the temperature indicators change color a within ±2° C. of each other, and the temperature indicators change color after different amounts of time from deviation from the set temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Tada, Tomotoshi Ishida, Hiroshi Sasaki, Kohhei Aida, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20210158574
    Abstract: A calculation device comprises a color evaluation unit that acquires a sensor color and four or more reference colors from photography data from a measurement time when an indication object was photographed in a second photography environment; determines coefficients for color conversion between a first and the second photography environments based on the amount of change from color information for the reference colors in the first photography environment, which has been read from a calculation device storage unit, to color information for the reference colors in the second photography environment, which has been acquired from the photography data; and uses the sensor color acquired from the photography data from the measurement time and the color conversion coefficients to correct the sensor color to the color that would have been photographed in the first photography environment by solving a conversion formula including terms representing an affine transformation consisting of translation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji SUWA, Kohhei AIDA, Shunsuke MORI, Shigetaka TSUBOUCHI, Masahiro KAWASAKI, Yoshifumi SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10989700
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a temperature history indicator that allows for visual confirmation of whether the temperature is at or below a prescribed temperature as well as simple conversion of this information into data. A temperature history indicator according to the present invention is characterized by being provided with a label layer and a temperature-indicating layer laminated above or below the label layer, wherein the temperature-indicating layer includes a substance having at crystallization starting temperature of 10° C. or lower and a melting point at least 20° C. higher than the crystallization starting temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sukekazu Aratani, Hiroshi Sasaki, Toyotaka Yuasa, Kohhei Aida, Yasuhiko Tada, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10983013
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a temperature sensing body capable of sensing both a temperature increase and a temperature decrease, and having an anti-tampering function. In order to solve said problem, this temperature sensing body is characterized by including: a first ink in which a temperature Ta1 for initiating color disappearance when the temperature rises and a temperature Td1 for initiating color development when the temperature falls are different; and a second ink in which a temperature Ta2 for initiating color disappearance when the temperature rises and a temperature Td2 for initiating color development when the temperature falls are different, wherein the temperature Ta1 for initiating color disappearance, the temperature Td1 for initiating color development, the temperature Ta2 for initiating color disappearance, and the temperature Td2 for initiating color development have the relationship, Td1<Td2<Ta1<Ta2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Tada, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kohhei Aida, Hiroshi Sasaki, Toyotaka Yuasa, Hiroyuki Kagawa
  • Patent number: 10982981
    Abstract: This marking system is provided with: a marking device which has a marking unit which gives a mark for managing the quality of a product, a housing part which houses one or more temperature indicating materials, and a providing unit which provides, to the marking unit, a temperature indicating material selected by the housing part; and a control device which has a storage unit that stores temperature-indicating material information on a developing temperature or/and a decoloring temperature of each of the temperature-indicating materials included in the housing part; and a processing unit that acquires, from a server or an input unit, an appropriate temperature of the product, selects, on the basis of the acquired appropriate temperature of the product and the temperature-indicating material information, a temperature-indicating material, and notifies the providing unit of details of providing the selected temperature-indicating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Mori, Kohhei Aida, Masahiro Kawasaki, Yuya Tokuda
  • Publication number: 20210063252
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a temperature detection ink, which allows color initialization by a simple method and discolors with addition of time and temperature at a reaction temperature or higher. To solve the problem, the temperature detection ink according to the present invention includes a temperature detection material and a solvent. The temperature detection material has a structure in which a thermosensitive material containing a leuco dye, a color-developing agent, and a decolorant is contained in a microcapsule, or a structure in which a phase containing the thermosensitive material is phase-separated from a matrix material. The thermosensitive material is solidified while being decolored by cooling from a molten state to a glass transition temperature or lower at a predetermined rate or higher. The thermosensitive material has a glass transition temperature of ?20 to 60° C., and a melting point that is 60 to 250° C. and lower than the boiling point of the solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kohhei AIDA, Shunsuke MORI, Kotaro ARAYA, Shigetaka TSUBOUCHI, Masahiro KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 10894425
    Abstract: This printing device is provided with a first ink container that contains a first ink; a second ink container that contains a second ink; temperature adjusting units that adjust the temperature of the first ink contained in the first ink container and/or the temperature of the second ink contained in the second ink container; a nozzle that sprays the inks; and a control unit that controls the first temperature adjusting unit and the second temperature adjusting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohhei Aida, Yasuhiko Tada, Hiroshi Sasaki, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20210010873
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a temperature sensing material that changes a color density continuously with the lapse of time at a temperature not lower or higher than a predetermined temperature and a temperature deviation time estimating system using it. In order to achieve the above object, the temperature sensing material according to the present invention is a temperature sensing material having a structure of dispersing a temperature indicating material that changes color by crystallization in a dispersion medium and is characterized in that an average particle size of the temperature indicating material is not larger than a resolution when observed and a volume fraction of the temperature indicating material to the temperature sensing material is not less than 5% to less than 90%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohhei AIDA, Shunsuke MORI, Shigetaka TSUBOUCHI, Shintarou TAKEDA, Masahiro KAWASAKI, Kotaro ARAYA