Patents by Inventor Shinji Kawasaki
Shinji 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).
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Patent number: 11931396Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composition for improving vascular endothelial function or improving blood flow in peripheral blood vessels, comprising, as an active ingredient, an ingredient derived from a turmeric.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HOUSE WELLNESS FOODS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryusei Uchio, Koutarou Muroyama, Kengo Kawasaki, Shinji Murosaki
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Publication number: 20240055193Abstract: A capacitor electrode and manufacturing method capable of not only storing electric charge but also being charged by a chemical reaction of an active material to improve energy density by increasing a storage capacity and firmly holding a sufficient amount of active material while eliminating the necessity of adhesive. A capacitor electrode capable of storing electric charge on its surface to be charged as a result of application of voltage has a substrate (4) made of an electrically conductive metal. Also, it has a carbon film (5), made up of a coating of carbon material, formed on a surface of the substrate (4). Additionally, nanoparticles (6), made of a metal or an oxide of the metal, are included in the carbon film (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Tatsuya AKIYAMA, Masaki TANEMURA, Shinji KAWASAKI, Yosuke ISHII
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Patent number: 11873560Abstract: Provided is an abnormality detection system that includes a first controller configured to control a substrate processing apparatus and a second controller configured to control a device provided in the substrate processing apparatus according to an instruction from the first controller, thereby detecting an abnormality in the device. The second controller includes a storage unit configured to collect status signals for the device for a predetermined time and at a predetermined sampling interval in a predetermined cycle and accumulate the collected status signals for the device, and the first controller includes an abnormality determination unit configured to acquire the accumulated status signals for the device from the second controller at a time interval equal to or longer than the predetermined time, and determine presence or absence of an abnormality in the device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Katsuhito Hirose, Toshio Hasegawa, Shohei Yoshida, Takeshi Shinohara, Shinji Kawasaki
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Patent number: 11732357Abstract: A substrate processing method in substrate processing apparatus comprises repeating cycle including: supplying source gas into process container causing the source gas to be adsorbed to substrate; exhausting excess source gas from the process container; supplying reaction gas into the process container causing the reaction gas to react with the source gas; and exhausting excess reaction gas, wherein at least one of a gap width between placement stage and member forming processing space between the member and the stage and degree of opening of pressure adjustment valve in at least one of the supplying the source gas and the supplying the reaction gas is smaller than at least one of a gap width between the stage and the member and the degree of opening of the pressure adjustment valve in at least one of the exhausting the excess source gas and the exhausting the excess reaction gas, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Mitsuhiro Okada, Yasushi Fujii, Yu Nunoshige, Shinji Kawasaki, Hirotaka Kuwada, Toshio Takagi
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Patent number: 11435201Abstract: An information processing system and an information processing device that are capable of reflecting an emotion of a user and performing route search. In an information processing system including a search unit that performs the route search on the basis of route search information that is input, to output a result searched by the search unit, the search unit performs the route search on the basis of the route search information, and emotion information obtained from an artificial intelligence module that generates an emotion of the same quality as in an emotion of a searcher.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Yamagishi, Kazuhiro Ito, Yoji Motegi, Susumu Saito, Shinji Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20200392622Abstract: A substrate processing method in substrate processing apparatus comprises repeating cycle including: supplying source gas into process container causing the source gas to be adsorbed to substrate; exhausting excess source gas from the process container; supplying reaction gas into the process container causing the reaction gas to react with the source gas; and exhausting excess reaction gas, wherein at least one of a gap width between placement stage and member forming processing space between the member and the stage and degree of opening of pressure adjustment valve in at least one of the supplying the source gas and the supplying the reaction gas is smaller than at least one of a gap width between the stage and the member and the degree of opening of the pressure adjustment valve in at least one of the exhausting the excess source gas and the exhausting the excess reaction gas, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Tsuyoshi TAKAHASHI, Mitsuhiro OKADA, Yasushi FUJII, Yu NUNOSHIGE, Shinji KAWASAKI, Hirotaka KUWADA, Toshio TAKAGI
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Publication number: 20200299841Abstract: Provided is an abnormality detection system that includes a first controller configured to control a substrate processing apparatus and a second controller configured to control a device provided in the substrate processing apparatus according to an instruction from the first controller, thereby detecting an abnormality in the device. The second controller includes a storage unit configured to collect status signals for the device for a predetermined time and at a predetermined sampling interval in a predetermined cycle and accumulate the collected status signals for the device, and the first controller includes an abnormality determination unit configured to acquire the accumulated status signals for the device from the second controller at a time interval equal to or longer than the predetermined time, and determine presence or absence of an abnormality in the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Katsuhito Hirose, Toshio Hasegawa, Shohei Yoshida, Takeshi Shinohara, Shinji Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20200191590Abstract: An information processing system and an information processing device that are capable of reflecting an emotion of a user and performing route search. In an information processing system including a search unit that performs the route search on the basis of route search information that is input, to output a result searched by the search unit, the search unit performs the route search on the basis of the route search information, and emotion information obtained from an artificial intelligence module that generates an emotion of the same quality as in an emotion of a searcher.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2016Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Yusuke Yamagishi, Kazuhiro Ito, Yoji Motegi, Susumu Saito, Shinji Kawasaki
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Patent number: 10421691Abstract: A joined body 20 according to the present invention includes a first member 22 made of a porous ceramic, a second member 24 made of a metal, and a joint 30 formed of an oxide ceramic of a transition metal, the joint 30 joining the first member 22 to the second member 24. Alternatively, a joined body may include a first member made of a dense material, a second member made of a dense material, and a joint formed of an oxide ceramic of a transition metal, the joint joining the first member to the second member.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Kenji Morimoto, Shinji Kawasaki
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Patent number: 10167235Abstract: A joined body 20 includes a porous ceramic 22 made of porous ceramic, a metal member 24 made of a metal, and a joint 30 formed of an oxide ceramic that penetrates into pores 23 of the porous ceramic 22 and joins the porous ceramic 22 to the metal member 24. The penetration depth of the oxide ceramic into the pores of the porous ceramic is preferably 10 ?m or more, and more preferably 15 to 50 ?m. The joined body 20 may be produced through a joining step of forming a joint by placing a metal raw material between a porous ceramic and a metal member and firing the metal raw material in the air at a temperature in the range of 400° C. to 900° C., where an oxide ceramic produced by oxidation of the metal raw material penetrates into the pores of the porous ceramic in the joint.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Kenji Morimoto, Shinji Kawasaki
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Patent number: 9679685Abstract: The voltage nonlinear resistive element includes a resistor containing a joined body in which a zinc oxide ceramic layer composed mainly of zinc oxide and having a volume resistivity of less than 1.0×10?2 ?cm is joined to a rare-earth metal oxide layer composed mainly of a rare-earth metal oxide, and a pair of electrodes disposed on the resistor such that an electrically conductive path passes through a junction between the zinc oxide ceramic layer and the rare-earth metal oxide layer. In this element, the zinc oxide ceramic layer of the joined body has a lower volume resistivity than before. This can result in a lower clamping voltage in a high electric current region than before.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Yamazaki, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto, Shinji Kawasaki, Yukihisa Takeuchi
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Patent number: 9679684Abstract: A voltage nonlinear resistive element includes a resistor containing a joined body in which a zinc oxide ceramic layer composed mainly of zinc oxide and having a volume resistivity of 1.0×10?1 ?cm or less is joined to a bismuth oxide layer composed mainly of bismuth oxide, and a pair of electrodes disposed on the resistor such that an electrically conductive path passes through a joint surface between the zinc oxide ceramic layer and the bismuth oxide layer. In this element, the zinc oxide ceramic layer of the joined body has a lower volume resistivity than before. This can result in a lower clamping voltage in a high-current region than before.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Yamazaki, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto, Shinji Kawasaki, Yukihisa Takeuchi
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Patent number: 9567032Abstract: A brake caliper arrangement structure for a saddled vehicle, wherein a brake caliper for braking and a brake caliper for parking are provided on a swing arm. At least one or other of the brake caliper for braking and the brake caliper for parking is arranged in front of a rear axle being the axle of the rear wheel, when viewed from a side, at a position on a vehicle widthwise inside of the swing arm and overlapping the swing arm.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryuichi Nagai, Hirokatsu Nakaie, Hidetoshi Toyoda, Shinji Ito, Shinji Kawasaki, Yasumasa Matsui
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Patent number: 9440705Abstract: A brake caliper includes: a caliper body which slidably houses a mechanically operated piston which presses a brake disc; a rotation cylinder member which is arranged alongside the mechanically operated piston, coaxially with the mechanically operated piston, and which is rotatably supported on the caliper body; a rotation arm which is fixed to the rotation cylinder member, and which rotates the rotation cylinder member by means of an operation of an operating element; a conversion mechanism which is provided between the rotation cylinder member and the mechanically operated piston, and which converts rotary motion of the rotation cylinder member into axial linear motion of the mechanically operated piston to thereby press and move the mechanically operated piston toward the brake disc side; and a return spring which biases the mechanically operated piston in a direction of moving away from the brake disc.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Honda Motor Co. Ltd.Inventors: Ryuichi Nagai, Hirokatsu Nakaie, Shinji Ito, Hidetoshi Toyoda, Shinji Kawasaki, Yasumasa Matsui
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Publication number: 20160046531Abstract: A joined body 20 includes a porous ceramic 22 made of porous ceramic, a metal member 24 made of a metal, and a joint 30 formed of an oxide ceramic that penetrates into pores 23 of the porous ceramic 22 and joins the porous ceramic 22 to the metal member 24. The penetration depth of the oxide ceramic into the pores of the porous ceramic is preferably 10 ?m or more, and more preferably 15 to 50 ?m. The joined body 20 may be produced through a joining step of forming a joint by placing a metal raw material between a porous ceramic and a metal member and firing the metal raw material in the air at a temperature in the range of 400° C. to 900° C., where an oxide ceramic produced by oxidation of the metal raw material penetrates into the pores of the porous ceramic in the joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2015Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Kenji MORIMOTO, Shinji KAWASAKI
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Publication number: 20160002110Abstract: A joined body 20 according to the present invention includes a first member 22 made of a porous ceramic, a second member 24 made of a metal, and a joint 30 formed of an oxide ceramic of a transition metal, the joint 30 joining the first member 22 to the second member 24. Alternatively, a joined body may include a first member made of a dense material, a second member made of a dense material, and a joint formed of an oxide ceramic of a transition metal, the joint joining the first member to the second member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Kenji MORIMOTO, Shinji KAWASAKI
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Patent number: 9193125Abstract: A honeycomb structure mainly composed of cordierite and obtained by forming and firing a forming material containing a layered clay mineral whose layer charge (X) is 0.2<X?2 in addition to the cordierite forming material and an organic binder. A total amount of at least one element selected from a group consisting of sodium, potassium, and calcium contained in the layered clay mineral is set to 0.5% by mass or less in terms of oxide with respect to a total with the cordierite forming material, and a content ratio of the organic binder is set to 5 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass in total of the cordierite forming material and the layered clay mineral.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Tomita, Shinji Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20150291250Abstract: A brake caliper arrangement structure for a saddled vehicle, wherein a brake caliper for braking and a brake caliper for parking are provided on a swing arm. At least one or other of the brake caliper for braking and the brake caliper for parking is arranged in front of a rear axle being the axle of the rear wheel, when viewed from a side, at a position on a vehicle widthwise inside of the swing arm and overlapping the swing arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2013Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Ryuichi Nagai, Hirokatsu Nakaie, Hidetoshi Toyoda, Shinji Ito, Shinji Kawasaki, Yasumasa Matsui
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Publication number: 20150270036Abstract: A voltage nonlinear resistive element 10 includes a resistor 14 containing a joined body 12 in which a zinc oxide ceramic layer 12a composed mainly of zinc oxide and having a volume resistivity of 1.0×10?1 ?cm or less is joined to a bismuth oxide layer 12b composed mainly of bismuth oxide, and a pair of electrodes 16 and 18 disposed on the resistor 14 such that an electrically conductive path passes through a junction between the zinc oxide ceramic layer 12a and the bismuth oxide layer 12b. In this element 10, the zinc oxide ceramic layer 12a of the joined body 12 has a lower volume resistivity than before. This can result in a lower clamping voltage in a high-current region than before.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Satoshi YAMAZAKI, Toru HAYASE, Kenji MORIMOTO, Shinji KAWASAKI, Yukihisa TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20150270037Abstract: The voltage nonlinear resistive element 10 includes a resistor 14 containing a joined body 12 in which a zinc oxide ceramic layer 12a composed mainly of zinc oxide and having a volume resistivity of less than 1.0×10?2 ?cm is joined to a rare-earth metal oxide layer 12b composed mainly of a rare-earth metal oxide, and a pair of electrodes 16 and 18 disposed on the resistor 14 such that an electrically conductive path passes through a junction between the zinc oxide ceramic layer 12a and the rare-earth metal oxide layer 12b. In this element 10, the zinc oxide ceramic layer 12a of the joined body 12 has a lower volume resistivity than before. This can result in a lower clamping voltage in a high electric current region than before.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Satoshi YAMAZAKI, Toru HAYASE, Kenji MORIMOTO, Shinji KAWASAKI, Yukihisa TAKEUCHI