Patents by Inventor Noriyasu Ninagawa

Noriyasu Ninagawa 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: 8521573
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for supporting the selection of a component or chemical substance for countermeasure in compliance with a restriction or the like to limit a content rate or content amount of a chemical substance of a product coming in or going out from each enterprise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Tanaka, Noriyasu Ninagawa, Yasuhiro Hamatsuka, Yuzo Hiroshige
  • Patent number: 8121878
    Abstract: The present invention calculates a predicted accumulative import amount for each chemical substance for each month by using information on a predicted monthly shipping amount and the amount of a chemical substance contained in the product and specifies the chemical substance whose predicted accumulative import amount exceeds a regulation threshold and the time when the import amount exceeds the regulation threshold. The present invention specifies the product containing the chemical substance, calculates the predicted shipping amount of the product from the threshold excess time of the chemical substance to the end of the year, and calculates the loss amount caused by the loss of sales opportunities from the profit per unit sales amount for each product when any regulation measures are not executed on the chemical substance. The present invention finally calculates the ratio of the expense necessary for the measures and the summed value, and displays the ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Tanaka, Noriyasu Ninagawa, Yuzo Hiroshige, Noriaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20110191130
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for supporting the selection of a component or chemical substance for countermeasure in compliance with a restriction or the like to limit a content rate or content amount of a chemical substance of a product coming in or going out from each enterprise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Masataka Tanaka, Noriyasu Ninagawa, Yasuhiro Hamatsuka, Yuzo Hiroshige
  • Publication number: 20090112665
    Abstract: The present invention calculates a predicted accumulative import amount for each chemical substance for each month by using information on a predicted monthly shipping amount and the amount of a chemical substance contained in the product and specifies the chemical substance whose predicted accumulative import amount exceeds a regulation threshold and the time when the import amount exceeds the regulation threshold. The present invention specifies the product containing the chemical substance, calculates the predicted shipping amount of the product from the threshold excess time of the chemical substance to the end of the year, and calculates the loss amount caused by the loss of sales opportunities from the profit per unit sales amount for each product when any regulation measures are not executed on the chemical substance. The present invention finally calculates the ratio of the expense necessary for the measures and the summed value, and displays the ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Masataka Tanaka, Noriyasu Ninagawa, Yuzo Hiroshige, Noriaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7437269
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system which is capable of supporting a designer in confirming constituent information of a component at early stages of design. The system has a functional configuration, in which constituents contained in a target component and a content of each of the constituents are calculated referring to a constituent information table based on identification information of the target component. Conformity of the constituent to environmental regulations is evaluated based on the content. A component similar to the target component is extracted referring to an environmental qualification information table to calculate constituents contained in the similar component and a content of each of the constituents; and credibility of evaluation of the conformity to environmental regulations is evaluated based on a difference between the content of the constituent in the target component and the content of the constituent in the similar component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Ninagawa, Noriaki Yamamoto, Yuzo Hiroshige
  • Publication number: 20070061310
    Abstract: A system for inspecting components by evaluating the degree of accuracy of component attribute information provided by third parties, wherein a performance unit for performing the evaluation of the component attribute information comprises a unit for extracting components similar to target components; a unit for determining the abnormality of component attribute information when the component attribute information can take limited kinds of values; a unit for determining the degree of the abnormality of the component attribute information when the component attribute information can take unlimited kinds of values; and a unit for sorting the components in the order of descending degree of abnormality of the component attribute information to clarify the reason for the evaluation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Noriyasu Ninagawa, Noriaki Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Hamatsuka, Takaaki Kumazawa, Masanori Ikuzawa
  • Publication number: 20060220660
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system which is capable of supporting a designer in confirming constituent information of a component at early stages of design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Noriyasu Ninagawa, Noriaki Yamamoto, Yuzo Hiroshige