Patents by Inventor Shinya Kaneko

Shinya Kaneko 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: 12092525
    Abstract: A burner work measurement system configured to measure work using a burner is provided. The burner work measurement system includes one or more cameras configured to capture the work and a control unit configured to perform computing processing on images captured by the cameras, the control unit is configured to create work data obtained by calculating, based on the images captured by the cameras, at least one of a positional relation between a work object and the burner or flame, a positional relation between the work object and a brazing filler metal, and a positional relation between the burner or the flame and the brazing filler metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: HITACHI, LTD., DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihide Tanaka, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Shinya Kaneko, Isamu Takahashi, Naoya Okizaki, Xudong Zhang, Yasunori Hama
  • Publication number: 20240284867
    Abstract: A system toilet for a pet includes an excretion container, having a liquid-permeable bottom surface portion, that stores toilet litter, a tray, disposed below the excretion container, that stores an absorbent sheet that absorbs liquid that has passed through the bottom surface portion, a lower container that holds the tray, and an upper container disposed above the excretion container and having an opening portion on an upper side for a pet to enter and exit. The upper container has a pair of sidewall portions disposed to face each other on both sides in a width direction of the opening portion and extending in a front-rear direction and a rear wall portion facing the opening portion in the front-rear direction. A height of the highest portion in the pair of sidewall portions is higher than a height of the highest portion in the rear wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Misato Nakatani, Yasuhiro Sasano, Shinya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240284868
    Abstract: A system toilet for a pet includes an excretion container, including a liquid-permeable bottom surface portion, that houses toilet litter, a tray, disposed below the excretion container, that houses an absorbent sheet that absorbs liquid having passed through the liquid-permeable bottom surface portion, a lower container that holds the tray, and an upper container disposed to cover an upper part of the excretion container and having an opening portion through which a pet enters and exits. The upper container includes a pair of side wall portions disposed to face each other on both sides in a width direction of the opening portion and extending in a front-rear direction, an upper wall portion disposed above the opening portion to bridge over the pair of side wall portions, a lower wall portion disposed below the opening portion, and a side wall guide portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Misato Nakatani, Yasuhiro Sasano, Shinya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240114875
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an animal litter box includes: a mold preparation process of preparing a mold for molding a resin molding product that forms at least a part of the animal litter box and has a urinary contact portion, the mold including an injection hole for injecting resin; a resin injecting process of injecting the resin from the injection hole; and a smoothing process of smoothing the resin of the urinary contact portion, the resin facing an inner opening of the injection hole, after the resin injecting process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Shinya Kaneko, Yasuhiro Sasano, Yasuhiro Akino
  • Patent number: 11684034
    Abstract: An animal litter box includes: a tray housing including a urine passage portion and an insertion opening; and a tray including an absorbent-body placement surface. The urine passage portion has holes through which urine pass downward. The insertion opening is formed in a front surface of the tray housing. On the absorbent-body placement surface, an absorbent body for absorbing urine that has passed through the holes is placed. The tray is housed in the tray housing from the insertion opening in such a way that the tray is capable of being pulled out forward. The tray is capable of being housed in the tray housing with an orientation of the tray in the front-back direction reversed. The tray includes an identification portion in a part of the tray other than the absorbent-body placement surface, and the identification portion is for identifying one side and another side in the front-back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiyo Takai, Shinya Kaneko, Yuki Koido
  • Patent number: 11533887
    Abstract: An absorbent sheet for a pet toilet is provided. The pet toilet includes: a sheet accommodating portion that accommodates the absorbent sheet in a space surrounded by a bottom portion and side walls standing from the bottom portion; and an excretion receiving portion that receives excretions above the sheet accommodating portion and guides the excretions to the sheet accommodating portion. The absorbent sheet includes: a topsheet on a top side of the absorbent sheet and that includes fibers; a backsheet on a back side of the absorbent sheet; an absorber between the topsheet and the backsheet; a central region in which the absorber is disposed in plan view; and side regions that extend outside the central region and in which at least the topsheet is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Ayano Okawa, Yasuhiro Sasano, Shinya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11470810
    Abstract: A toilet for animal, including: an upper container having a plurality of holes formed on a bottom portion, the plurality of holes penetrating in an up-down direction; a lower container that includes a receiving section receiving excrement that has passed through the plurality of holes, gravity of the upper container not acting on the lower container; and an output unit that outputs a signal changing according to an amount of the excrement received by the receiving section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20220283035
    Abstract: A burner work measurement system configured to measure work using a burner is provided. The burner work measurement system includes one or more cameras configured to capture the work and a control unit configured to perform computing processing on images captured by the cameras, the control unit is configured to create work data obtained by calculating, based on the images captured by the cameras, at least one of a positional relation between a work object and the burner or flame, a positional relation between the work object and a brazing filler metal, and a positional relation between the burner or the flame and the brazing filler metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd., Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihide TANAKA, Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA, Shinya KANEKO, Isamu TAKAHASHI, Naoya OKIZAKI, Xudong ZHANG, Yasunori HAMA
  • Publication number: 20220256804
    Abstract: An animal toilet (1) has: a main body (10) provided with a urine passing section (12); and a tray (20) on which an absorbent body (200) for absorbing urine passing through the urine passing section (12) is disposed. In a lower end portion on one side in the front-rear direction of the main body (10), an opening (19) for accommodating the tray (10) is formed. In the left-right direction, the length of the opening (19) is longer than the length of the tray (20). In a state where the tray (20) is accommodated in the main body (10), both a bottom section (15d) of the main body and a bottom section (27) of the tray are grounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Chiyo Takai, Yuki Koido, Yasuhiro Sasano, Shinya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11252932
    Abstract: An animal litter box (100) includes: a litter-box main portion (1) including an upper container (10) and a lower container (30); an output main portion (60) including an output portion (61); and a position regulator. The upper container (10) includes a plurality of holes (h) passing through the upper container in the up-down direction, and the lower container (30) includes a reception portion (32) that receives excrement that has passed through the plurality of holes (h). The output portion (61) includes: a top surface (61a) that comes into contact with the litter-box main portion (1); and a side wall (61b) extending from an edge of the top surface (61a) in the up-down direction. The output portion (61) outputs a signal in accordance with a magnitude of a force that acts on the top surface (61a). The position regulator includes: a litter-box-side regulating portion (26) disposed on the litter-box main portion (1); and an output-side regulating portion (62) disposed on the output main portion (60).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11032998
    Abstract: A toilet for an animal having an up-down direction includes an upper container including a bottom part in which a plurality of holes that penetrate in the up-down direction are formed, and a lower container provided below the upper container. An outer periphery of each of the holes being surrounded with cross ribs along a direction intersecting with the up-down direction and longitudinal ribs along a direction intersecting with the up-down direction and the cross ribs. An uppermost part of the longitudinal ribs is higher than an uppermost part of the cross ribs. A part of the cross ribs connected to the longitudinal ribs being provided with an upper-side inclined surface inclined obliquely downward from the longitudinal ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiyo Takagi, Shinya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20210045348
    Abstract: An animal litter box includes: a tray housing including a urine passage portion and an insertion opening; and a tray including an absorbent-body placement surface. The urine passage portion has holes through which urine pass downward. The insertion opening is formed in a front surface of the tray housing. On the absorbent-body placement surface, an absorbent body for absorbing urine that has passed through the holes is placed. The tray is housed in the tray housing from the insertion opening in such a way that the tray is capable of being pulled out forward. The tray is capable of being housed in the tray housing with an orientation of the tray in the front-back direction reversed. The tray includes an identification portion in a part of the tray other than the absorbent-body placement surface, and the identification portion is for identifying one side and another side in the front-back direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Unichram Corporation
    Inventors: Chiyo TAKAI, Shinya KANEKO, Yuki KOIDO
  • Publication number: 20200367465
    Abstract: An absorbent sheet for a pet toilet is provided. The pet toilet includes: a sheet accommodating portion that accommodates the absorbent sheet in a space surrounded by a bottom portion and side walls standing from the bottom portion; and an excretion receiving portion that receives excretions above the sheet accommodating portion and guides the excretions to the sheet accommodating portion. The absorbent sheet includes: a topsheet on a top side of the absorbent sheet and that includes fibers; a backsheet on a back side of the absorbent sheet; an absorber between the topsheet and the backsheet; a central region in which the absorber is disposed in plan view; and side regions that extend outside the central region and in which at least the topsheet is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Ayano Okawa, Yasuhiro Sasano, Shinya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20200315125
    Abstract: A toilet for animal, including: an upper container having a plurality of holes formed on a bottom portion, the plurality of holes penetrating in an up-down direction; a lower container that includes a receiving section receiving excrement that has passed through the plurality of holes, gravity of the upper container not acting on the lower container; and an output unit that outputs a signal changing according to an amount of the excrement received by the receiving section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Shinya KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20200260684
    Abstract: An animal litter box (100) includes: a litter-box main portion (1) including an upper container (10) and a lower container (30); an output main portion (60) including an output portion (61); and a position regulator. The upper container (10) includes a plurality of holes (h) passing through the upper container in the up-down direction, and the lower container (30) includes a reception portion (32) that receives excrement that has passed through the plurality of holes (h). The output portion (61) includes: a top surface (61a) that comes into contact with the litter-box main portion (1); and a side wall (61b) extending from an edge of the top surface (61a) in the up-down direction. The output portion (61) outputs a signal in accordance with a magnitude of a force that acts on the top surface (61a). The position regulator includes: a litter-box-side regulating portion (26) disposed on the litter-box main portion (1); and an output-side regulating portion (62) disposed on the output main portion (60).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Shinya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10729097
    Abstract: A toilet for animal, including: an upper container having a plurality of holes formed on a bottom portion, the plurality of holes penetrating in an up-down direction; a lower container that includes a receiving section receiving excrement that has passed through the plurality of holes, gravity of the upper container not acting on the lower container; and an output unit that outputs a signal changing according to an amount of the excrement received by the receiving section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20200229392
    Abstract: An animal litter box includes an inner space where an animal performs excretion and an absorbent-body arrangement portion. The inner space is surrounded by at least a bottom surface and a wall portion. The bottom surface receives excrement. The wall portion rises in the height direction from a periphery of the bottom surface. The absorbent-body arrangement portion is for arranging of an absorbent body that absorbs excrement, and is provided below the inner space in the height direction. The longitudinal central position of the inner space is located shifted from the longitudinal central position of the absorbent-body arrangement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: UNICHARM Corporation
    Inventors: Chiyo Takai, Shinya Kaneko, Yuki Koido
  • Patent number: D897056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiyo Takai, Shinya Kaneko, Terutoki Kobayashi, Yuta Ida
  • Patent number: D1056363
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Misato Nakatani, Yasuhiro Sasano, Shinya Kaneko
  • Patent number: D1074091
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Misato Nakatani, Yasuhiro Sasano, Shinya Kaneko