Patents by Inventor Seiji Murakami
Seiji Murakami 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: 11849819Abstract: In an aspect, there is provided an elastic ring-based ornament making device for constructing an elastic ring-based ornament that includes at least one elastic ring and a plurality of ornamental members positioned thereon. The elastic ring-based ornament making device includes an elastic ring support including a plurality of extension arms which are movable between retracted and extended positions. When the arms are retracted, the elastic ring support supports the at least one elastic ring in a first state. When the arms are extended, the elastic ring support supports the at least one elastic ring in a second state. The at least one elastic ring is stretched more in the second state than in the first state. The arms when extended are spaced from one another sufficiently to permit mounting of the ornamental members on the at least one elastic ring between the arms.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SPIN MASTER LTD.Inventors: Mollie B. Jameson, Graham D. Browning, Emma Peat, Matthew Lentini, Seiji Murakami
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Publication number: 20230035879Abstract: A toy track of the invention includes a base member, a track member having a track surface portion where a toy vehicle can travel and biased into a deployed state where the track surface portion slopes down to a front relative to the base member, a lid member connected to the base member to be opened and closed and having a locked portion, and a locking member having a releasing projection disposed on the track surface portion of the track member in a stowed state and a locking portion for locking the locked portion to hold the lid member in a closed state. The lid member biases the track member into the stowed state when in the closed state, and the locking member releases locking of the locking portion on the locked portion when the releasing projection is pressed by the toy vehicle entering the track surface portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Seiji MURAKAMI, Yoichiro SETO
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Publication number: 20210370191Abstract: A toy track of the invention includes a base member, a track member having a track surface portion where a toy vehicle can travel and biased into a deployed state where the track surface portion slopes down to a front relative to the base member, a lid member connected to the base member to be opened and closed and having a locked portion, and a locking member having a releasing projection disposed on the track surface portion of the track member in a stowed state and a locking portion for locking the locked portion to hold the lid member in a closed state. The lid member biases the track member into the stowed state when in the closed state, and the locking member releases locking of the locking portion on the locked portion when the releasing projection is pressed by the toy vehicle entering the track surface portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Seiji MURAKAMI, Yoichiro SETO
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Publication number: 20210326666Abstract: An RFID tag is provided with an antenna for generating electric power from a carrier wave by a received electromagnetic wave, a semiconductor integrated circuit which is operated by the electric power supplied from the antenna; and a heat generation element for generating heat by the electric power supplied from the antenna, and heating the semiconductor integrated circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Kiminori MIZUUCHI, Yorio TAKAHASHI, Seiji MURAKAMI
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Patent number: 10997811Abstract: An authentication system includes a portable terminal carried by a user, a controller that authenticates the portable terminal, and a human detection portion that is configured to detect a person existing within a predetermined detection range. The portable terminal includes a terminal-side communication portion that communicates with the controller and transmits an authentication request signal, which requests authentication of the portable terminal. The controller performs a normal-time notification process that notifies a message in which the portable terminal is authenticated, in response to that a predetermined operation is performed on an operation area after the portable terminal has been authenticated in a authentication process.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventor: Seiji Murakami
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Publication number: 20200202653Abstract: An authentication system includes a portable terminal carried by a user, a controller that authenticates the portable terminal, and a human detection portion that is configured to detect a person existing within a predetermined detection range. The portable terminal includes a terminal-side communication portion that communicates with the controller and transmits an authentication request signal, which requests authentication of the portable terminal. The controller performs a normal-time notification process that notifies a message in which the portable terminal is authenticated, in response to that a predetermined operation is performed on an operation area after the portable terminal has been authenticated in a authentication process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicants: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED, DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventor: Seiji MURAKAMI
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Patent number: 9358160Abstract: An apparatus for producing an absorbent is provided with a stacking unit which sequentially forms a plurality of stacks S and discharges these stacks in the machine direction separated by gaps, pattern plates respectively having deep recesses so that thick parts are formed around back ends of the stacks in the machine direction, a wrapping unit which wraps the stacks which are sequentially discharged from the stacking unit by a wrapping web to thereby form continuous wrapped stacks, a conveying unit which conveys the continuous wrapped stacks in the machine direction, a pressing unit which presses the conveyed continuous wrapped stacks to stretch the stacks and thereby form connected parts C at which adjoining stacks are connected, and a cutting unit which cuts the continuous wrapped stacks at the connected parts C to thereby form the absorbents into predetermined shapes.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Atushi Tukuda, Seiji Murakami
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Patent number: 9221570Abstract: A production device of linked packaged products comprised of a first set number of packages linked in a line forms and transports a strip of linked packages, judges if the packages in the strip of linked packages are good packages or defective packages, cuts the strip of linked packages each time the first set number of the good packages are successively transported and cuts the strip of linked packages between the good package and the defective package, whereby good products which are comprised of the first set number of the good packages, fractional products which are comprised of a number of the good packages less than the first set number, and defective products which are comprised of at least one of the defective packages are formed, and transports the good products, the fractional products, and the defective products along respectively different transport routes.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Youji Shinomori, Seiji Murakami
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Patent number: 9181040Abstract: A method of changing a transporting configuration of a workpiece of an absorbent article includes: for the workpiece having a shape in which a longitudinal central section is narrower in the lateral direction than longitudinal end sections, transporting a plurality of workpieces in longitudinal-direction flowing, the plurality of workpieces being transported in a state where the longitudinal end sections of each workpiece are adjacent to the central section of another workpiece and the plurality of workpieces form N workpiece lines (N is an integer of 2 or more) arranged in a lateral direction; forming each workpiece group including N workpieces by correlating, based on a predetermined correlation pattern; and changing a transporting configuration of the workpieces of the workpiece group from the longitudinal-direction flowing to the lateral-direction flowing. The forming of the workpiece group is performed by correlating workpieces arranged side by side in the lateral direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Murakami, Youji Shinomori, Hidenori Sato, Masashi Hosokawa
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Patent number: 9108819Abstract: A folding apparatus for a combined body of a continuous sheet includes a standing guide member disposed at a predetermined position in a conveying direction, and standing an one end section of the combined body in a width direction by bending a predetermined section of the combined body in the width direction and forming a bent section; a folding guide member corresponding to the stood one end section in the conveying direction for folding the stood one end section by laying the one end section towards a section located closer to another side than the one end section in the combined body; and a shift-regulating guide member for regulating shifting of the combined body towards the one side in the width direction by coming into contact, from the one side, with the combined body when laying the one end section towards the section located closer to the other side.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Murakami, Hirotomi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8955670Abstract: An absorbent article rotating apparatus includes a transporting section that transports an absorbent article along a transport direction with the absorbent article being sandwiched between a pair of belts, and a fixed member that rotates the absorbent article by coming into contact with a portion of an edge of the absorbent article, the portion being exposed from the belts, the edge being at a downstream side in the transport direction, the fixed member being fixed at a predetermined position in the transport direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Seiji Murakami, Youji Shinomori
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Publication number: 20140087933Abstract: A method for manufacturing an absorbent article including a mounting step of conveying a web 7 in which components forming the absorbent article 1, and then mounting an absorber on the web 7, a folding step of folding the web, a cutting step S5 of cutting the web and forming a plurality of absorbent articles, an assigning step S6 of assigning the absorbent articles cut by the cutting step to at least a first path 75 and a second path 76, one by one, and a direction-changing step S8 of changing the direction of the absorbent articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Seiji Murakami
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Publication number: 20140060999Abstract: A method of changing a transporting configuration of a workpiece of an absorbent article includes: for the workpiece having a shape in which a longitudinal central section is narrower in the lateral direction than longitudinal end sections, transporting a plurality of workpieces in longitudinal-direction flowing, the plurality of workpieces being transported in a state where the longitudinal end sections of each workpiece are adjacent to the central section of another workpiece and the plurality of workpieces form N workpiece lines (N is an integer of 2 or more) arranged in a lateral direction; forming each workpiece group including N workpieces by correlating, based on a predetermined correlation pattern; and changing a transporting configuration of the workpieces of the workpiece group from the longitudinal-direction flowing to the lateral-direction flowing. The forming of the workpiece group is performed by correlating workpieces arranged side by side in the lateral direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Seiji Murakami, Youji Shinomori, Hidenori Sato, Masashi Hosokawa
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Publication number: 20130328233Abstract: An apparatus for producing an absorbent is provided with a stacking unit which sequentially forms a plurality of stacks S and discharges these stacks in the machine direction separated by gaps, pattern plates respectively having deep recesses so that thick parts are formed around back ends of the stacks in the machine direction, a wrapping unit which wraps the stacks which are sequentially discharged from the stacking unit by a wrapping web to thereby form continuous wrapped stacks, a conveying unit which conveys the continuous wrapped stacks in the machine direction, a pressing unit which presses the conveyed continuous wrapped stacks to stretch the stacks and thereby form connected parts C at which adjoining stacks are connected, and a cutting unit which cuts the continuous wrapped stacks at the connected parts C to thereby form the absorbents into predetermined shapes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventors: Atushi Tukuda, Seiji Murakami
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Publication number: 20130291486Abstract: A nuclear reactor is provided with a core which includes a new fuel part and a burning part at which neutrons are generated and fuel is burned. The burning part moves in a direction toward the new fuel part from the beginning to the end of the combustion cycle. The plurality of the fuel assemblies of the core include the fuel assemblies which are fastened to the core and the fuel assemblies which can move in the longitudinal direction of the fuel assemblies. By pulling out the fuel assemblies from the core, the nuclear reactor can be made to stop. Further, by inserting fuel assemblies into the core from the pulled out state, the nuclear reactor is started up.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: Unicharm CorporationInventors: Youji Shinomori, Seiji Murakami
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Publication number: 20130296152Abstract: A folding apparatus for a combined body of a continuous sheet includes a standing guide member disposed at a predetermined position in a conveying direction, and standing an one end section of the combined body in a width direction by bending a predetermined section of the combined body in the width direction and forming a bent section; a folding guide member corresponding to the stood one end section in the conveying direction for folding the stood one end section by laying the one end section towards a section located closer to another side than the one end section in the combined body; and a shift-regulating guide member for regulating shifting of the combined body towards the one side in the width direction by coming into contact, from the one side, with the combined body when laying the one end section towards the section located closer to the other side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Seiji Murakami, Hirotomi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20130270068Abstract: An absorbent article rotating apparatus includes a transporting section that transports an absorbent article along a transport direction with the absorbent article being sandwiched between a pair of belts, and a fixed member that rotates the absorbent article by coming into contact with a portion of an edge of the absorbent article, the portion being exposed from the belts, the edge being at a downstream side in the transport direction, the fixed member being fixed at a predetermined position in the transport direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Seiji Murakami, Youji Shinomori
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Patent number: 8379305Abstract: The observation unit according to the present invention comprises an observation device observing a sample, a placing table on which the sample is placed, a drive device moving the placing table to an observation position where the sample is observed by the observation device, and a casing sealing a first space extending in a vertical direction. The first space and the placing table are arranged so as to be displaced from each other in a horizontal direction, and the drive device is arranged in the first space.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mikio Houjou, Seiji Murakami, Yasuhiro Asai, Yoshitaro Yamanaka, Takahiro Inoue
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Patent number: D645948Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: S.T. CorporationInventors: Atsushi Iwasawa, Fumie Sugita, Seiji Murakami
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Patent number: D799478Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: CASIO KEISANKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Kachi, Seiji Murakami, Shigeru Hanagata