Patents by Inventor Taichi Shimizu
Taichi Shimizu 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: 11698630Abstract: An abnormality analysis device including: an overall information obtainer that obtains overall information indicating an overall feature amount of a manufacturing system; an overall abnormal degree calculator that calculates an overall abnormal degree that is an abnormal degree of a whole of the manufacturing system by statistically processing the overall information; an individual information obtainer that obtains individual information indicating a feature amount of each of the plurality of constituent elements; an individual abnormal degree calculator that calculates an individual abnormal degree that is an abnormal degree of each of the plurality of constituent elements by statistically processing the individual information; and a determiner that determines whether or not the overall abnormal degree exceeds a threshold value, wherein the individual abnormal degree calculator calculates the individual abnormal degree when the determiner determines that the overall abnormal degree exceeds the threshold valuType: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Amano, Narumi Atsuta, Noriaki Hamada, Yosuke Tajika, Nobutaka Kawaguchi, Yuichi Higuchi, Taichi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20230093632Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization that is capable of reducing the amount of fine powder contained in the solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization. The method includes the step of reacting a magnesium compound and a titanium halide compound with each other so that a maximum heat release rate per mole of the magnesium compound is 18 W or less. Also disclosed herein is a method for producing a solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization that is capable of preventing a reduction in polymerization activity caused by application of heat to the solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization. The method includes the step of reacting a magnesium compound and a titanium halide compound with each other so that a total heat release value per mole of the titanium compound is 6 kJ to 90 kJ.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Naoki SERYO, Taichi SHIMIZU, Hideaki YAMAMICHI, Kaiyou CHEN, Kenji SOGO
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Patent number: 11526158Abstract: A display device that displays productivity of a manufacturing facility that performs processes to manufacture products, wherein the manufacturing facility includes constituent element groups, each including constituent elements, constituent elements selected from the constituent element groups perform a corresponding one of the processes. The display device includes: an obtainer that obtains manufacturing log information from the manufacturing facility; a calculator that calculates an indicator showing productivity of each combination of a first constituent element and a second constituent element, based on the manufacturing log information; and a display that displays the indicator showing the productivity of each combination at a position of an intersection point corresponding to the combination on a productivity indicator map including a vertical axis along which first constituent elements are arranged and a horizontal axis along which second constituent elements are arranged.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Hiroshi Amano, Yosuke Tajika, Taichi Shimizu
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Patent number: 11431173Abstract: Power demand control is performed without a decrease in productivity. A device for performing electric power demand control includes: a processor; and a storage medium including an instruction for causing the processor to obtain a sum of energy consumption of a plurality of manufacturing devices, obtain a production capacity from production information on each manufacturing device, and perform electric power demand control on a manufacturing system based on the production capacity and the sum of energy consumption. To perform electric power control includes determining that electric power demand control is necessary if the sum of energy consumption reaches a predetermined threshold and excluding one of the manufacturing devices having a smallest production capacity from a target of electric power demand control.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Hiroshi Amano, Yosuke Tajika, Taichi Shimizu
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Patent number: 11389620Abstract: A catheter (100) includes a resin-made distal tip (80) linked to a distal end of a catheter body (10), and the distal tip (80) has a distal lumen (81) having an open distal end. The distal lumen (81) communicates with a lumen (31). The catheter (100) is an inactive type microcatheter in which an outer diameter of the distal end of the catheter body (10) is 0.6 mm or smaller and a maximum outer diameter of the distal tip (80) is 0.6 mm or smaller. A dimension of a marker (70) in an axial direction of the catheter body (10) is smaller than the maximum outer diameter of the distal tip (80), and the length of the distal tip (80) in the axial direction of the distal tip (80) is 3 times to 18 times the maximum outer diameter of the distal tip (80).Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujita, Yasushi Matsumoto, Taichi Shimizu, Yusaku Sugihara
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Publication number: 20220171377Abstract: A mounted board manufacturing system that manufactures a mounted board, which is a board mounted with a component. The mounted board manufacturing system includes: at least one component loading device that executes a component loading operation for loading the component on a board; a rule base with which at least one machine parameter for executing the component loading operation performed by the at least one component loading device can be calculated; an operation information aggregator that aggregates, for each component data, results of processing executed by the at least one component loading device, together with operation information; and a calculation processor that selects, as actual training data, component data corresponding to an operation result that exceeds a predetermined reference, from the operation information aggregator, and estimates at least one machine parameter of a new component, using the actual training data, the rule base, and basic information of the new component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Taichi SHIMIZU, Eiji SHIGAKI
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Publication number: 20220174851Abstract: A production data creation device includes an input unit and a setting unit. The input unit receives an input of one application from among a plurality of applications displayed on a screen. The setting unit sets one or more operation parameters used by a component mounter to mount a component on a board, on the basis of the input application.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: EIJI SHIGAKI, TAICHI SHIMIZU, TAKAAKI YOKOI, TAKUYA YAMAZAKI
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Patent number: 11307567Abstract: A management device for managing a component mounter that mounts components onto a substrate using some of constituent elements each selected from one of constituent element groups each including the constituent elements. One group is a nozzle group including nozzles. The device includes: a true displacement amount calculator that calculates, for each target component which is the component, a true amount of displacement which is a sum of (i) an amount of pickup displacement being an amount of displacement between the target component and a target nozzle being one of the nozzles and picks up the target component and (ii) an amount of correction being an amount of offset of a position of the target nozzle when picking up the target component; and a statistical processor that performs parameter estimation for a predetermined statistical model using the true amount to calculate a degree of malfunction of each constituent element.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Taichi Shimizu, Yosuke Tajika, Hiroshi Amano, Yuichi Higuchi
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Publication number: 20210264026Abstract: An unauthorized communication detection device that detects unauthorized communication in a manufacturing system that manufactures products includes: an obtainer that obtains operation information of the manufacturing system; a storage that stores element information indicating one or more target elements among a plurality of elements related to manufacturing of the products; a specifier that specifies, for each of a plurality of communications performed in the manufacturing system, an element corresponding to the communication, based on the operation information; a calculator that calculates an abnormal degree of each of one or more communications, which satisfy that the element specified by the specifier is included in the one or more target elements indicated by the element information, among the plurality of communications; and a determiner that determines that, when an abnormal degree calculated by the calculator is larger than a threshold value, a communication corresponding to the abnormal degree is thType: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi AMANO, Narumi ATSUTA, Noriaki HAMADA, Yosuke TAJIKA, Nobutaka KAWAGUCHI, Yuichi HIGUCHI, Taichi SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20210208578Abstract: An abnormality analysis device including: an overall information obtainer that obtains overall information indicating an overall feature amount of a manufacturing system; an overall abnormal degree calculator that calculates an overall abnormal degree that is an abnormal degree of a whole of the manufacturing system by statistically processing the overall information; an individual information obtainer that obtains individual information indicating a feature amount of each of the plurality of constituent elements; an individual abnormal degree calculator that calculates an individual abnormal degree that is an abnormal degree of each of the plurality of constituent elements by statistically processing the individual information; and a determiner that determines whether or not the overall abnormal degree exceeds a threshold value, wherein the individual abnormal degree calculator calculates the individual abnormal degree when the determiner determines that the overall abnormal degree exceeds the threshold valuType: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi AMANO, Narumi ATSUTA, Noriaki HAMADA, Yosuke TAJIKA, Nobutaka KAWAGUCHI, Yuichi HIGUCHI, Taichi SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20210001280Abstract: A manufacturing method for an acidic gas separation membrane sheet includes: a step of preparing a hydrophilic resin composition liquid for forming a hydrophilic resin composition layer; a step of removing bubbles contained in the hydrophilic resin composition liquid; a step of applying the hydrophilic resin composition liquid onto a first porous layer to form an applied layer on the first porous layer; and a step of laminating a second porous layer on the applied layer to form a laminated body. The step of removing bubbles includes: a step of applying a shear to the hydrophilic resin composition liquid; and a step of leaving the hydrophilic resin composition liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Kazuya INAMOTO, Taichi SHIMIZU, Osamu HIROSE
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Publication number: 20200401122Abstract: A management device for managing a component mounter that mounts components onto a substrate using some of constituent elements each selected from one of constituent element groups each including the constituent elements. One group is a nozzle group including nozzles. The device includes: a true displacement amount calculator that calculates, for each target component which is the component, a true amount of displacement which is a sum of (i) an amount of pickup displacement being an amount of displacement between the target component and a target nozzle being one of the nozzles and picks up the target component and (ii) an amount of correction being an amount of offset of a position of the target nozzle when picking up the target component; and a statistical processor that performs parameter estimation for a predetermined statistical model using the true amount to calculate a degree of malfunction of each constituent element.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Taichi SHIMIZU, Yosuke TAJIKA, Hiroshi AMANO, Yuichi HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200316668Abstract: The invention provides a method of manufacturing a press formed product which reduces the welding time and enhances the productivity. First, a main steel plate and a reinforcement steel plate are bonded by laser welding a superposed portion of the main steel plate and the reinforcement steel plate to form a superposed blank member. This superposed blank member is heated to higher temperature than the austenite transformation temperature to transform the superposed blank member into austenite. The superposed blank member transformed into austenite is then press formed and rapidly cooled with dies at the same time to be transformed into martensite, thereby forming a press formed product.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: TOA Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taichi SHIMIZU, Tadashi IWANUMA
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Publication number: 20200188630Abstract: A catheter (100) includes a resin-made distal tip (80) linked to a distal end of a catheter body (10), and the distal tip (80) has a distal lumen (81) having an open distal end. The distal lumen (81) communicates with a lumen (31). The catheter (100) is an inactive type microcatheter in which an outer diameter of the distal end of the catheter body (10) is 0.6 mm or smaller and a maximum outer diameter of the distal tip (80) is 0.6 nun or smaller. A dimension of a marker (70) in an axial direction of the catheter body (10) is smaller than the maximum outer diameter of the distal tip (80), and the length of the distal tip (80) in the axial direction of the distal tip (80) is 3 times to 18 times the maximum outer diameter of the distal tip (80).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro FUJITA, Yasushi MATSUMOTO, Taichi SHIMIZU, Yusaku SUGIHARA
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Publication number: 20200192339Abstract: A display device that displays productivity of a manufacturing facility that performs processes to manufacture products, wherein the manufacturing facility includes constituent element groups, each including constituent elements, constituent elements selected from the constituent element groups perform a corresponding one of the processes. The display device includes: an obtainer that obtains manufacturing log information from the manufacturing facility; a calculator that calculates an indicator showing productivity of each combination of a first constituent element and a second constituent element, based on the manufacturing log information; and a display that displays the indicator showing the productivity of each combination at a position of an intersection point corresponding to the combination on a productivity indicator map including a vertical axis along which first constituent elements are arranged and a horizontal axis along which second constituent elements are arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Yuichi HIGUCHI, Hiroshi AMANO, Yosuke TAJIKA, Taichi SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20200119555Abstract: Power demand control is performed without a decrease in productivity. A device for performing electric power demand control includes: a processor; and a storage medium including an instruction for causing the processor to obtain a sum of energy consumption of a plurality of manufacturing devices, obtain a production capacity from production information on each manufacturing device, and perform electric power demand control on a manufacturing system based on the production capacity and the sum of energy consumption. To perform electric power control includes determining that electric power demand control is necessary if the sum of energy consumption reaches a predetermined threshold and excluding one of the manufacturing devices having a smallest production capacity from a target of electric power demand control.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Yuichi HIGUCHI, Hiroshi AMANO, Yosuke TAJIKA, Taichi SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 9511402Abstract: The invention enhances a cooling effect on a press die for hot press. A lower die includes a first base, a second base mounted on the first base and having an opening in the center, a support table provided in the opening of the second base, and a die portion detachably mounted on the support table and including die pieces. The die portion is divided in die pieces disposed adjoining each other, and cold water pipes are provided in the die pieces respectively. The cold water pipes are bent in a U shape and inserted in the die pieces respectively, and extended downward from the lower ends of the die pieces respectively. The cold water pipes have cooling water injection ends and cooling water ejection ends in a space between the first base and the support table.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: TOA Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Hayashi, Taichi Shimizu, Kazumasa Nishio
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Patent number: 9127886Abstract: The invention provides a multistage heating system including a compact multistage furnace of which the installation area in a factory is decreased and a work carrier machine. A multistage furnace is configured by piling up a plurality of furnace units in the vertical direction. Each of the furnace units includes an upper heater and a lower heater, support pipes disposed on the upper heater and extending in the horizontal direction, and a plurality of work support bars mounted over the support pipes. A work carrier machine includes work carrier bars extending in the horizontal direction, a horizontal motion mechanism connecting the ends of the work carrier bars and move the work carrier bars on horizontal rails, and a vertical motion mechanism moving the body of the work carrier machine including the horizontal rails on vertical rails.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: TOA Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Hayashi, Taichi Shimizu
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Patent number: 8989565Abstract: The invention provides a compact multistage furnace of which the installation area in a factory is decreased. A multistage furnace is configured by piling up a plurality of furnace units in the vertical direction. Each of the furnace units includes an upper heater and a lower heater layered in the vertical direction and holding a heat insulator therebetween, a support pipe disposed on one end of the upper heater and extending in the horizontal direction, a support pipe disposed on other end of the upper heater and extending in the horizontal direction, and a plurality of work support bars mounted over the support pipes. The back surface of a work supported by the work support bars is opposed to the upper heater and the front surface of the work is opposed to the lower heater of the adjacent furnace unit disposed above.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: TOA Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Hayashi, Taichi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20140157854Abstract: The invention enhances a cooling effect on a press die for hot press. A lower die includes a first base, a second base mounted on the first base and having an opening in the center, a support table provided in the opening of the second base, and a die portion detachably mounted on the support table and including die pieces. The die portion is divided in die pieces disposed adjoining each other, and cold water pipes are provided in the die pieces respectively. The cold water pipes are bent in a U shape and inserted in the die pieces respectively, and extended downward from the lower ends of the die pieces respectively. The cold water pipes have cooling water injection ends and cooling water ejection ends in a space between the first base and the support table.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Inventors: Koji HAYASHI, Taichi SHIMIZU, Kazumasa NISHIO