Patents by Inventor Noriaki Kimura
Noriaki Kimura 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: 12158436Abstract: A scattering tomography device includes: a transmitting antenna element that transmits radio waves into an object from outside; a receiving antenna element that receives, outside the object, scattered waves of the radio waves transmitted into the object; and an information processing circuit that generates an image of the interior of the object using measurement data indicating the scattered waves received by the receiving antenna element. The information processing circuit: derives, using the measurement data, a relational expression that satisfies an equation whose solution is a scattering field function; derives, using the relational expression, an image function that is for generating the image and includes one or more parameters indicating a correspondence between a change in frequency of the radio waves and a change in a dielectric constant of the object in accordance with Debye relaxation; and generates the image using the image function.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: INTEGRAL GEOMETRY SCIENCE INC.Inventors: Kenjiro Kimura, Noriaki Kimura
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Patent number: 12105159Abstract: An external field response distribution visualization device includes: an induction circuit that induces a first field component from each of induction positions; a sensor that senses a field strength at sensing positions for each of the induction positions; and an information processing circuit that generates an image showing an external field response distribution. The information processing circuit: calculates, using the sensing result as a boundary condition, an induction position dependent field function that takes an induction and sensing positions as inputs and outputs the field strength; calculates an imaging function that takes an imaging target position as an input and outputs an image intensity, and is defined based on the strength output from the induction position dependent field function in response to inputting the imaging target position; and generates the image based on the imaging function.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY, Integral Geometry Science Inc.Inventors: Kenjiro Kimura, Yuki Mima, Shogo Suzuki, Noriaki Kimura
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Publication number: 20240302419Abstract: The inspecting device is an inspecting device that generates a spatial distribution image of an electric field, the inspecting device including: an electric field obtainer that measures the spatial distribution of the electric field at at least one measurement position determined relative to a scanning position, outside an object that emits the electric field; a scanner, by scanning the electric field obtainer, that obtains a measurement result of the spatial distribution of the electric field at a plurality of measurement positions determined relative to a plurality of scanning positions; and a calculator that calculates the spatial distribution of the electric field in a region including a surface of the object using the measurement result of the spatial distribution of the electric field as a boundary condition, and generates the spatial distribution image that shows the spatial distribution that has been calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Shogo SUZUKI, Yutaro NISHIMURA, Yuki MIMA, Kenjiro KIMURA, Noriaki KIMURA
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Publication number: 20240280361Abstract: An imaging device includes: a plurality of transmitters which are disposed on both sides of a region and transmit waves to the region; a plurality of receivers which are disposed on the both sides and receive the waves from the region; and an information processing circuit which derives an imaging function corresponding to a scattering field function related to scattering of the wave according to a correspondence between (i) measurement data obtained by the plurality of transmitters and the plurality of receivers and (ii) a composition of a plurality of functions related to multiple first-order scattering forming multiple scattering, and visualizes a three-dimensional structure of a scatterer included in an object in the region, using the imaging function.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventors: Kenjiro KIMURA, Noriaki KIMURA, Fumitoshi KIMURA
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Patent number: 12050301Abstract: A magnetic response distribution visualization device includes: an induction circuit that induces a magnetic field component from outside a moving object; a sensor that senses a strength and a phase of the magnetic field at a plurality of points in times outside the moving object; and an information processing circuit that, based on a sensing result of the strength and the phase, a moving speed of the moving object, and a fundamental equation for magnetic fields, calculates a strength and a phase of the magnetic field at a vicinal position closer to the moving object than the sensor, and generates, based on a calculation result of the strength and the phase, a magnetic response distribution image for security inspection that shows a distribution of a response of the moving object to the magnetic field component induced by the induction circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: INTEGRAL GEOMETRY SCIENCE INC.Inventors: Noriaki Kimura, Kenjiro Kimura, Yuki Mima, Shogo Suzuki
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Patent number: 11828811Abstract: A storage battery inspection device includes: an energy storage control circuit that applies an alternating current to a storage battery; a magnetic sensor that senses a magnetic field component outside the storage battery and outputs a magnetic sensor signal indicating the sensed component; a canceling coil that generates a magnetic field component based on an input current to cancel out a magnetic field component generated by magnetization of a magnetic material in the storage battery; a feedback circuit that obtains, from the magnetic sensor signal, a low-frequency signal indicating a magnetic field component having a lower frequency than the alternating current, and applies the input current to the canceling coil based on the low-frequency signal; and a detection circuit that obtains, from the magnetic sensor signal, a detection signal indicating a magnetic field component having the same frequency as the alternating current.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: INTEGRAL GEOMETRY SCIENCE INC.Inventors: Yuki Mima, Shogo Suzuki, Kenjiro Kimura, Noriaki Kimura
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Publication number: 20230285625Abstract: An air purification system includes a linear electrode that generates electromagnetic resonance; an electric field probe that measures the electric field intensity; and a controller that controls power supplied to the linear electrode. The controller adjusts the frequency of the power supplied to the linear electrode and the position at which the power is supplied to the linear electrode, to maximize an output value of a signal indicating the electric field intensity. Feedback control is performed to make the amount of ozone always constant, by monitoring the amount of ozone generated and adjusting the amplitude modulation of the power supplied, so that ozone necessary for decomposing viruses is generated but harmful nitrogen oxides are not generated as a result of applying, to gas molecules contained in influent gas, an energy that is at least the dissociation energy of oxygen molecules and no greater than the dissociation energy of nitrogen molecules.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Kenjiro KIMURA, Noriaki KIMURA
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Publication number: 20230152482Abstract: A magnetic response distribution visualization device includes: an induction circuit that induces a magnetic field component from outside a moving object; a sensor that senses a strength and a phase of the magnetic field at a plurality of points in times outside the moving object; and an information processing circuit that, based on a sensing result of the strength and the phase, a moving speed of the moving object, and a fundamental equation for magnetic fields, calculates a strength and a phase of the magnetic field at a vicinal position closer to the moving object than the sensor, and generates, based on a calculation result of the strength and the phase, a magnetic response distribution image for security inspection that shows a distribution of a response of the moving object to the magnetic field component induced by the induction circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Noriaki KIMURA, Kenjiro KIMURA, Yuki MIMA, Shogo SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220413066Abstract: An external field response distribution visualization device includes: an induction circuit that induces a first field component from each of induction positions; a sensor that senses a field strength at sensing positions for each of the induction positions; and an information processing circuit that generates an image showing an external field response distribution. The information processing circuit: calculates, using the sensing result as a boundary condition, an induction position dependent field function that takes an induction and sensing positions as inputs and outputs the field strength; calculates an imaging function that takes an imaging target position as an input and outputs an image intensity, and is defined based on the strength output from the induction position dependent field function in response to inputting the imaging target position; and generates the image based on the imaging function.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Kenjiro KIMURA, Yuki MIMA, Shogo SUZUKI, Noriaki KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220349943Abstract: A storage battery inspection device includes: an energy storage control circuit that applies an alternating current to a storage battery; a magnetic sensor that senses a magnetic field component outside the storage battery and outputs a magnetic sensor signal indicating the sensed component; a canceling coil that generates a magnetic field component based on an input current to cancel out a magnetic field component generated by magnetization of a magnetic material in the storage battery; a feedback circuit that obtains, from the magnetic sensor signal, a low-frequency signal indicating a magnetic field component having a lower frequency than the alternating current, and applies the input current to the canceling coil based on the low-frequency signal; and a detection circuit that obtains, from the magnetic sensor signal, a detection signal indicating a magnetic field component having the same frequency as the alternating current.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Yuki MIMA, Shogo SUZUKI, Kenjiro KIMURA, Noriaki KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220319067Abstract: A scattering tomography device includes: a transmitting antenna that transmits radio waves into an interior of an object; a receiving antenna that receives, outside the object, scattered waves of the radio waves; and an information processing circuit that obtains measurement results over a plurality of days and generates a reconstructed image showing a persistent element inside the object based on the measurement results. The information processing circuit calculates a scattering field function for each of the measurement results, calculates a visualization function for each of the measurement results, generates intermediate images for the measurement results, and generates a reconstructed image by calculating a minimum value of an image intensity at each position in the intermediate images using a logical conjunction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Noriaki KIMURA, Kenjiro KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220268711Abstract: A scattering tomography device includes: a transmitting antenna element that transmits radio waves into an object from outside; a receiving antenna element that receives, outside the object, scattered waves of the radio waves transmitted into the object; and an information processing circuit that generates an image of the interior of the object using measurement data indicating the scattered waves received by the receiving antenna element. The information processing circuit: derives, using the measurement data, a relational expression that satisfies an equation whose solution is a scattering field function; derives, using the relational expression, an image function that is for generating the image and includes one or more parameters indicating a correspondence between a change in frequency of the radio waves and a change in a dielectric constant of the object in accordance with Debye relaxation; and generates the image using the image function.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Kenjiro KIMURA, Noriaki KIMURA
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Patent number: 11422110Abstract: Provided is a measurement device including an application unit, a detection unit, and a calculation unit. The application unit applies a first magnetic field, which is generated by applying a pulse current to a coil or applying currents with a plurality of frequencies to the coil in order, to an object. The detection unit detects a second magnetic field which is generated by applying the first magnetic field to the object. The calculation unit calculates a distribution of a magnetic field source m in the second magnetic field. The calculation unit may further generate an imaging signal for displaying the calculated distribution of the magnetic field source m, as an image. The display unit displays the image indicating the distribution of the magnetic field source m by using the imaging signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignees: National University Corporation Kobe University, Integral Geometry Science Inc.Inventors: Kenjiro Kimura, Noriaki Kimura
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Patent number: 11366079Abstract: A measurement device applies a pulse current or a current of a plurality of frequencies to a laminated body having a plurality of layers having different electrical conductivities. The device acquires in-plane distribution information indicating distribution of a magnetic field of a first plane outside the laminated body. A processor generates three-dimensional magnetic field distribution information indicating a three-dimensional distribution of magnetic field on an outside of the laminated body based on the in-plane distribution information, and generates information on an inside of the laminated body by processing the three-dimensional magnetic field distribution information on the outside of the laminated body. The in-plane distribution information includes information indicating response characteristics to a change in the current applied by the current applying unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY, INTEGRAL GEOMETRY SCIENCE INC.Inventors: Kenjiro Kimura, Noriaki Kimura
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Patent number: 11065938Abstract: The present invention provides a control device capable of controlling a cooling device in response to temperature changes due to external factors. The present invention is a control device for controlling a cooling device for cooling an object to be cooled, said control device being characterized by comprising: a temperature change prediction information acquisition unit for acquiring temperature change prediction information, which is information concerning temperature changes of the object to be cooled; a temperature change prediction unit for predicting the temperature changes of the object to be cooled on the basis of the temperature change prediction information acquired by the temperature change prediction information acquisition unit; and a control unit for controlling the cooling device for cooling the object to be cooled, such control carried out on the basis of the prediction results according to the temperature change prediction unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Noriaki Kimura, Atsushi Ichige
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Patent number: 11041826Abstract: Provided is a measurement device including an application unit, a detection unit, and a calculation unit. The application unit applies a first magnetic field, which is generated by applying a pulse current to a coil or applying currents with a plurality of frequencies to the coil in order, to an object. The detection unit detects a second magnetic field which is generated by applying the first magnetic field to the object. The calculation unit calculates a distribution of a magnetic field source m in the second magnetic field. The calculation unit may further generate an imaging signal for displaying the calculated distribution of the magnetic field source m, as an image. The display unit displays the image indicating the distribution of the magnetic field source m by using the imaging signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignees: National University Corporation Kobe University, Integral Geometry Science Inc.Inventors: Kenjiro Kimura, Noriaki Kimura
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Publication number: 20210148860Abstract: Provided is a measurement device including an application unit, a detection unit, and a calculation unit. The application unit applies a first magnetic field, which is generated by applying a pulse current to a coil or applying currents with a plurality of frequencies to the coil in order, to an object. The detection unit detects a second magnetic field which is generated by applying the first magnetic field to the object. The calculation unit calculates a distribution of a magnetic field source m in the second magnetic field. The calculation unit may further generate an imaging signal for displaying the calculated distribution of the magnetic field source m, as an image. The display unit displays the image indicating the distribution of the magnetic field source m by using the imaging signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Kenjiro KIMURA, Noriaki KIMURA
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Patent number: 10586354Abstract: An imaging method includes a step of radiating a wave to a target object, a step of receiving a scattered wave as a result of the wave being scattered at the target object, and a step of reconstructing an image regarding internal information of the target object on the basis of scattered wave data indicating the scattered wave. In the step of reconstructing the image, a reconstruction function is derived by solving a partial differential equation by using the scattered wave data and an analysis model indicating a shape, and the image regarding the internal information of the target object is reconstructed by using the reconstruction function. Here, the partial differential equation is an equation satisfied by the reconstruction function for reconstructing the image regarding the internal information of the target object.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY, INTEGRAL GEOMETRY SCIENCE INC.Inventors: Kenjiro Kimura, Noriaki Kimura
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Patent number: 10578552Abstract: A scattering tomography method includes: radiating waves to an object from transmitting antenna elements arranged on a curved surface; receiving scattered waves by receiving antenna elements arranged on the curved surface; and reconstructing an image relating to the information on the interior of the object from scattered wave data representing the scattered waves received by the receiving antenna elements, and in the reconstructing, a function ? for reconstructing the image relating to the information on the interior of the object is set in advance, an equation which a fundamental scattered function satisfies is constructed, a visualization function ? that is obtained by solving the equation is derived from the scattered wave data, and the image relating to the information on the interior of the object is reconstructed using the visualization function.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignees: INTEGRAL GEOMETRY SCIENCE INC., KENJIRO KIMURAInventors: Kenjiro Kimura, Noriaki Kimura
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Publication number: 20190351780Abstract: The present invention provides a control device capable of controlling a cooling device in response to temperature changes due to external factors. The present invention is a control device for controlling a cooling device for cooling an object to be cooled, said control device being characterized by comprising: a temperature change prediction information acquisition unit for acquiring temperature change prediction information, which is information concerning temperature changes of the object to be cooled; a temperature change prediction unit for predicting the temperature changes of the object to be cooled on the basis of the temperature change prediction information acquired by the temperature change prediction information acquisition unit; and a control unit for controlling the cooling device for cooling the object to be cooled, such control carried out on the basis of the prediction results according to the temperature change prediction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2017Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Noriaki KIMURA, Atsushi ICHIGE