Patents by Inventor Ryota Ando

Ryota Ando 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: 20250392009
    Abstract: A busbar module includes a case, busbars, a circuit body, and a cover. The case includes busbar accommodating row portions in which a plurality of busbar accommodating portions are connected to each other by coupling members, and are arranged in two rows, and support plate members each of which connecting one busbar accommodating portion and the other busbar accommodating portion to each other, and a plurality of locking portions locking the cover. Each of a plurality of block bodies constituted by a pair of the busbar accommodating portions connected to each other by the support plate member is provided with one of the locking portions, the locking portions being arranged on the busbar accommodating portions in one row or the other busbar accommodating portions in the other row so as not to be adjacent to each other along the stacking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventors: Takafumi Saito, Ryota Ando
  • Publication number: 20250376374
    Abstract: A method for producing lithium hydroxide includes: reacting lithium carbonate with calcium hydroxide in a liquid to obtain a solution containing lithium hydroxide; subjecting the solution to solid-liquid separation into a liquid component containing the lithium hydroxide and a solid component comprising lithium derived from the lithium carbonate; and recovering the lithium hydroxide from the liquid component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2025
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Ryota ANDO
  • Publication number: 20250372703
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte composite includes: adding a metal compound to a solution containing at least one sulfide solid electrolyte raw material and dispersing the metal compound or a compound derived from the metal compound to obtain a metal dispersion liquid; removing a solvent of the metal dispersion liquid to obtain a composite powder of the metal compound or the compound derived from the metal compound and the sulfide solid electrolyte raw material; and obtaining the sulfide solid electrolyte composite using the composite powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Ryota ANDO
  • Publication number: 20250329854
    Abstract: A circuit collection portion includes a connector connection portion, a via hole installation portion, and a positional deviation absorption portion that absorbs positional deviation in an arrangement direction of the connector between the connector connection portion and the via hole installation portion, the circuit cover member includes a cover body that covers the main line portion from a front surface at an assembly completion position, and a via hole cover portion that presses a front surface of the via hole installation portion at the assembly completion position, and intersects the via hole installation portion such that an angle on an inner side of bending with respect to the two main line portions is an obtuse angle, and the via hole cover portion is inclined at the angle with respect to the cover body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2025
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Inventors: Ryota Ando, Kaname Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20250329850
    Abstract: A plurality of bus bars; a circuit conductor component that includes a circuit conductor; a housing member that houses the bus bar and the circuit conductor component; and a cover member that is assembled to the housing member are provided, and the circuit conductor component includes a main line portion in which the circuit conductor is wired and is housed at a prescribed position in the housing member, and a branch portion that branches the circuit conductor from the main line portion and is bent and routed in a prescribed shape within an elastic range between the main line portion at the prescribed position and the bus bar, and the housing member is provided with a main line locking portion that locks the main line portion at the prescribed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2025
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Inventors: Ryota Ando, Yuki Ohira
  • Publication number: 20250323316
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite powder containing a lithium halide and elemental sulfur which is to be used in a raw material for a sulfide solid electrolyte, the method including heating a lithium halide aqueous solution at a temperature equal to or higher than a boiling point in the presence of elemental sulfur, and removing a solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2025
    Publication date: October 16, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Ryota ANDO
  • Publication number: 20250316754
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte composite includes: adding fine particles having a BET specific surface area of 5 m2/g or more to a solution containing at least one sulfide solid electrolyte raw material and dispersing the fine particles to obtain a fine particle dispersion liquid; removing a solvent of the fine particle dispersion liquid to obtain a composite powder of the fine particles and the sulfide solid electrolyte raw material; and obtaining the sulfide solid electrolyte composite using the composite powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Ryota ANDO
  • Publication number: 20250178898
    Abstract: A hydrogen sulfide purification method includes removing a lithium raw material by using a cyclone, from a mixed gas containing unreacted hydrogen sulfide and the lithium raw material which is generated in a process of producing lithium sulfide by a reaction of hydrogen sulfide and the lithium raw material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota ANDO, Hiroshi HATANO
  • Publication number: 20250178897
    Abstract: A hydrogen sulfide purification method includes removing a lithium raw material by using an ejector that utilizes a cleaning liquid as a driving fluid, from a mixed gas containing unreacted hydrogen sulfide and the lithium raw material which is generated in a process of producing lithium sulfide by a reaction of hydrogen sulfide and the lithium raw material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota ANDO, Hiroshi HATANO
  • Publication number: 20250129480
    Abstract: This film forming device includes: a vacuum container in which a substrate is disposed; an antenna that generates inductively coupled plasma in the vacuum container and that includes a conductor element and a capacitor element that are electrically connected to each other in series; a high-frequency power supply that supplies high-frequency current to the antenna; and a gas supply mechanism that supplies raw material gas containing C, H, and O into the vacuum container. A carbon-based thin film is formed on the substrate in the vacuum container by a plasma CVD method using the inductively coupled plasma generated in the vacuum container by applying the high-frequency current to the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NISSIN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru NAGAMACHI, Ryota ANDO, Natsuo TATSUMI, Yasunori ANDO
  • Publication number: 20250096313
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide-based solid electrolyte includes heating and melting a raw material under a gas atmosphere containing a sulfur element. The raw material includes a lithium source obtained by using an aqueous solution containing Li and SO4, and a ratio of SO4 to Li is 0.1 mol % or more in the aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota ANDO, Hidenobu SEKI
  • Publication number: 20250019238
    Abstract: A method for producing lithium sulfide includes placing a powder containing a lithium element into a container, and while the container is sealed, vibrating the container from an outside to move the powder and reacting the powder with a gas comprising a sulfur element. The method may include temporarily reducing a pressure in the container in the middle of the reaction to lower than a pressure in the container at the time of the reaction, or reducing a pressure in the container after the reaction to lower than the pressure in the container at the time of the reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hidenobu SEKI, Norifumi OMORI, Seiji HIGASHI, Ryota ANDO
  • Patent number: 12164552
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of supporting work of giving a classification to a group of sentences. The information processing apparatus includes a presentation unit that presents a sentence included in a cluster of interest among clusters generated by clustering a sentence set in a sentence selection region, and a reception unit that receives selection of the sentence constituting a group of sentences from the sentences presented in the sentence selection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Kanemoto, Michael Siegfried Spranger, Akihito Kumakura, Kojiro Kashiwa, Ippei Murofushi, Jin Nakayama, Ryota Ando, Koichiro Shimoda, Yoshinori Akisawa, Nobuo Sato, Masaaki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240380002
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide-based solid electrolyte includes obtaining a sulfide-based solid electrolyte recycled product (B) from a liquid in which a sulfide-based solid electrolyte (A) in a sulfide-based solid electrolyte-containing mixture is dissolved in an organic solvent. The sulfide-based solid electrolyte-containing mixture contains the sulfide-based solid electrolyte (A) and another substance insoluble in the organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Seiji HIGASHI, Naoki FUJII, Hidenobu SEKI, Ryota ANDO
  • Publication number: 20240356089
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte having an ignition time of 5 seconds or more or is non-ignitable when an ignition test is performed using a prescribed test method in a dry air atmosphere, and having a value of S5 nm/S100 nm of 0.6 or less when S5 nm is an elemental ratio of sulfur (S) at a depth of 5 nm from a surface and S100 nm is an elemental ratio of sulfur (S) at a depth of 100 nm from the surface, as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota ANDO, Naoki FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240270575
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrogen sulfide purification method including removing a lithium raw material from a mixed gas which is generated in a process of producing lithium sulfide by a reaction of hydrogen sulfide and the lithium raw material and which includes unreacted hydrogen sulfide and the lithium raw material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Ryota ANDO
  • Patent number: 11951939
    Abstract: An anti-theft system for a working machine, includes: a start-operation tool to issue an order to start a prime mover; an information obtaining device to obtain first information and second information; and a controller device having: a certification storage to store certification information; a start processor to obtain the order issued by the start-operation tool and to start the prime mover when the first information obtained by the information obtaining device is related to the certification information; and a registration processor to perform a registration process for registering the second information as the certification information. The registration processor allows the registration process before starting of the prime mover, and stops allowing the registration process after the starting of the prime mover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Ikeda, Keisuke Egashira, Ryota Ando
  • Publication number: 20230247734
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a SiSiC member including at least one long hole provided therein, the SiSiC member including: a tubular region A which is an outer peripheral region of the long hole; and a tube exterior region B which is a region outside the tubular region A, in which a content of Si simple substance in the tube exterior region B in terms of vol % is higher than a content of Si simple substance in the tubular region A in terms of vol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota ANDO, Toshiyuki OYAMA, Shunsuke SUSA, Kenji YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230108518
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of supporting work of giving a classification to a group of sentences. A presentation unit presents a sentence included in a cluster of interest among clusters generated by clustering a sentence set in a sentence selection region, and a reception unit receives selection of the sentence constituting a group of sentences from the sentences presented in the sentence selection region. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an FAQ construction/search support tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: KATSUYOSHI KANEMOTO, MICHAEL SIEGFRIED SPRANGER, AKIHITO KUMAKURA, KOJIRO KASHIWA, IPPEI MUROFUSHI, JIN NAKAYAMA, RYOTA ANDO, KOICHIRO SHIMODA, YOSHINORI AKISAWA, NOBUO SATO, MASAAKI NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20230084099
    Abstract: An anti-MEFLIN antibody and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the antibody is described. The pharmaceutical composition may comprise an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) of the anti-MEFLIN antibody and a cytotoxic agent, which may be connected to each other by a linker. The pharmaceutical composition may be used in the treatment of a cancer in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicants: National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System, Sowakai Medical Foundation
    Inventors: Atsushi ENOMOTO, Nobutoshi ESAKI, Masahide TAKAHASHI, Yuki MIYAI, Ryota ANDO, Yukihiro SHIRAKI, Yoshihiro NISHIDA, Makoto MATSUYAMA, Shino MANABE