Patents by Inventor Takahiro Ando
Takahiro 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).
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Publication number: 20240134296Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrophotographic photoreceptor including at least a photosensitive layer and a protective layer in sequence on a conductive support, and the protective layer contains a cured product of a curable compound, conductive particles having a band gap of 2.0 eV or more and 3.6 eV or less, and particles having a band gap of 8.0 eV or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Takahiro Choda, Daisuke Yamazaki, Akira Ando
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Publication number: 20240085311Abstract: There is provided an automatic analyzer that keeps a temperature of alight emitting element of alight source constant and has high accuracy analysis performance. A light source for an automatic analyzer includes: a substrate including a light source; a temperature adjustment unit configured to adjust a temperature of the light source; a first optical element configured to emit light from the light source to an outside; and a member configured to cover the light source, in which the temperature adjustment unit, the substrate, the member, and the first optical element are arranged in this order, the optical element is assembled so as to be accommodated in the member, and the temperature adjustment unit puts the light source, the member, and the optical element under the same temperature control.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Shohei ARITA, Yuya MATSUOKA, Takahiro ANDO, Yasuhiro KETA
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Publication number: 20240072406Abstract: Provided is a distribution circuit which has good pass characteristic and isolation characteristic over a wide band. A distribution circuit, in which Wilkinson-type distribution circuits configured with a coil, a capacitor, and a resistor are cascaded in two stages between an input terminal and at least three terminals, and a capacitor is connected in parallel with the resistor inserted between the output terminals in the latter-stage Wilkinson-type distribution circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: TOMOMICHI MURAKAMI, EIICHI SANO, TAKAHIRO ANDO, NORIHIRO MURAYAMA
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Publication number: 20240067883Abstract: Provided is a production system for producing a hydrocarbon compound, which is a hydrocarbon compound production system capable of managing an environmental load reducing effect derived from a raw material. The hydrocarbon compound production system includes a hydrogen production device that generates hydrogen, a carbon dioxide supply device that supplies a carbon dioxide, and a hydrocarbon compound production device that generates a hydrocarbon compound from each of the hydrogen generated by the hydrogen production device and the carbon dioxide supplied from the carbon dioxide supply device, wherein, on the basis of at least either one of respective environmental indicators of the hydrogen generated by the hydrogen production device and the carbon dioxide supplied from the carbon dioxide supply device, an environmental load level of the hydrocarbon compound generated by the hydrocarbon compound production device is categorized.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Shinya MARUSHIMA, Kenichi IRIE, Takahiro KAMO, Tadateru TANIOKA, Yoshimasa ANDO, Atsushi TSUTSUMI
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Patent number: 11911394Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preventing transmission of influenza, wherein said method comprises administering an effective amount of a compound to a patient having an influenza virus infection, herein referred to as “index patient”, wherein the compound has one of the formulae (I) and (II), or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. The compound to be used in the present invention reduces infectivity of the influenza virus of the index patient, and therefore, reduces the risk of the index patient to trigger an influenza epidemic or an influenza pandemic as compared to a control patient.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Shionogi & Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Noshi, Takahiro Noda, Ryu Yoshida, Takao Shishido, Kaoru Baba, Aeron C. Hurt, Leo Yi Yang Lee, Steffen Wildum, Klaus Kuhlbusch, Barry Clinch, Jan Michal Nebesky, Annabelle Lemenuel, Wendy S. Barclay, Jean-Eric Charoin, Yoshinori Ando
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Patent number: 11906420Abstract: This invention is capable of improving performance of a biochemical analyzer and facilitating the maintenance. A light source includes: a first LED that emits ultraviolet light and a second LED that has a light emission spectrum different from that of the first LED, the first LED and the second LED being disposed in parallel; a reflection surface that is opposite to the first LED and reflects light of the first LED; and a dichroic surface that is opposite to the second LED, reflects light of the first LED, and allows light of the second LED to penetrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Sekiguchi, Shin Imamura, Takahiro Ando, Tomoto Kawamura, Yuya Matsuoka, Sakuichiro Adachi, Yasuhiro Keta, Eiichiro Takada
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Patent number: 11867628Abstract: A sample measurement device includes: a sample container that stores a sample solution; a light source that irradiates the sample container with irradiation light from a first direction; an imaging part that captures an image of the sample solution based on light scattered by the sample solution from a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a calculator that calculates an absorbance or a concentration of the sample solution based on the image. The calculator calculates a degree of attenuation of a light amount of the image at a constant optical path length along the first direction based on the image, and calculates the absorbance or concentration of the sample solution according to the degree of attenuation.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Sakuichiro Adachi, Takahiro Ando
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Patent number: 11852571Abstract: A sample separation device to introduce a sample to be separated to an inside of the sample separation device, centrifuge the sample, and collect a desired liquid after separation, includes: a sample introducing portion introducing the sample into the sample separation device; a liquid surface defining portion connected to the sample introducing portion; a first separating portion connected to the liquid surface defining portion; a second separating portion connected to the first separating portion; a third separating portion connected to the second separating portion; and a liquid extracting portion including the third separating portion and connected to the third separating portion, in which a tubular flow path is formed by at least the first separating portion and the second separating portion, in which an opening of the sample introducing portion and an opening of the liquid extracting portion are oriented in the same direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yu Ishige, Sakuichiro Adachi, Takahiro Ando
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Patent number: 11840959Abstract: A unison ring of a gas turbine engine includes: an annular body including fiber-reinforced resin or circular-arc bodies including the fiber-reinforced resin, the fiber-reinforced resin including resin and reinforced fibers; and pin holes in which a pin is in a radial direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the unison ring. A main orientation of the reinforced fibers of the fiber-reinforced resin is directed in a circumferential direction of the unison ring.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Ando, Hirokazu Sasaki, Hidetoshi Takemura, Nobuhiro Tatematsu, Mitsuhiro Kawakatsu, Ryosuke Uraguchi, Kohei Yuki
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Patent number: 11837490Abstract: An electrostatic chuck heater according to the present invention includes an alumina substrate having a wafer placement surface on its upper surface; an electrostatic electrode, a resistance heating element provided for each zone, and a multilayer jumper wire for supplying power to the resistance heating element, which are buried in the alumina substrate in this order from the wafer placement surface side; a heating element coupling via for vertically coupling the resistance heating element to the jumper wire; and a power supply via extending outward for supplying power to the jumper wire. At least the heating element coupling via and the power supply via contain ruthenium metal.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: NGL INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Aikawa, Yuji Akatsuka, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Takahiro Ando
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Publication number: 20230374377Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to increase the amount of near-infrared light emitted by a phosphor excited by near-ultraviolet light to blue light. The present invention relates to a phosphor containing gallium oxide Ga2O3 as the base composition, one or two elements selected from Cr and Fe as the light-emitting center, and aluminum fluoride AlF3 as the flux.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Masaaki KOMATSU, Shin IMAMURA, Yoshifumi SEKIGUCHI, Takahiro ANDO, Eiichiro TAKADA
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Patent number: 11754493Abstract: A broadband light source device in a biochemical analyzing device, and facilitates maintenance thereof, including an LED substrate that is provided with an LED chip generating a light beam having a first wavelength band and including a fluorescent substance in the light beam having a first wavelength band and that is provided with an LED chip generating a light beam having a second wavelength band, in which the fluorescent substance includes at least alumina and at least one of Fe, Cr, Bi, Tl, Ce, Tb, Eu, and Mn and is produced by calcining a raw material that contains sodium at 6.1 to 15.9 wt. % in the whole raw material. The broadband light source device further includes an optical system including a light pipe that color-mixes the light beam passing through the fluorescent substance of the LED chip and the light beam emitted from the LED chip, and a flat dichroic prism.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoto Kawamura, Takahiro Ando, Shin Imamura, Masaaki Komatsu, Yuya Matsuoka, Takeshi Ishida, Sakuichiro Adachi
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Publication number: 20230145667Abstract: Provided is a labyrinth seal including a first structure; and a second structure opposing the first structure. The first structure includes seal fins located at intervals in an axial direction and extending toward the second structure; a downstream wall surface located most downstream one of the seal fins and extending toward the second structure. A tip of the downstream wall surface located at a side of a tip of the most downstream seal fin, the side being close to the second structure in a radial direction and having a first outlet surface extending from the tip of the downstream wall surface toward a downstream side. The second structure includes a second outlet surface opposing the first outlet surface, a radial gap between the first outlet surface and the second outlet surface; and a cavity surface located upstream of the second outlet surface recessed away from the first structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro ANDO, Shoichi SHIMOMURA, Naoya TANABASHI, Shinya MAKINO, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230147099Abstract: A unison ring of a gas turbine engine includes: an annular body including fiber-reinforced resin or circular-arc bodies including the fiber-reinforced resin, the fiber-reinforced resin including resin and reinforced fibers; and pin holes in which a pin is in a radial direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the unison ring. A main orientation of the reinforced fibers of the fiber-reinforced resin is directed in a circumferential direction of the unison ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro ANDO, Hirokazu SASAKI, Hidetoshi TAKEMURA, Nobuhiro TATEMATSU, Mitsuhiro KAWAKATSU, Ryosuke URAGUCHI, Kohei YUKI
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Publication number: 20220397581Abstract: Provided is an automatic analysis device capable of obtaining a stable light intensity over a wide wavelength band by multiplexing a plurality of LED lights and adjusting the temperature characteristics of each LED element. The automatic analysis device according to the present disclosure is configured such that light emitted from a second LED is reflected to be multiplexed on the same optical axis as the light emitted from a first LED, and the first LED and the second LED are in contact with the same temperature adjustment member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro ANDO, Sakuichiro ADACHI, Yasuhiro KETA, Yuya MATSUOKA, Hiromitsu MORI, Shin IMAMURA, Eiichiro TAKADA, Makoto ARAI
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Patent number: 11443485Abstract: A rendering device includes at least one memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor acquires information about projection data in a 2D space from information about a region of a 3D model; stores the information about the projection data in association with the information about the region in the at least one memory; and generates the projection data based on the information about the projection data. The associated information includes information associating an identifier given to a part of regions obtained by dividing the 3D model with information about a position where the part of the regions is projected in the 2D space.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: PREFERRED NETWORKS, INC.Inventor: Takahiro Ando
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Publication number: 20220228981Abstract: A sample measurement device includes: a sample container that stores a sample solution; a light source that irradiates the sample container with irradiation light from a first direction; an imaging part that captures an image of the sample solution based on light scattered by the sample solution from a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a calculator that calculates an absorbance or a concentration of the sample solution based on the image. The calculator calculates a degree of attenuation of a light amount of the image at a constant optical path length along the first direction based on the image, and calculates the absorbance or concentration of the sample solution according to the degree of attenuation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Sakuichiro ADACHI, Takahiro ANDO
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Publication number: 20220214266Abstract: This invention is capable of improving performance of a biochemical analyzer and facilitating the maintenance. A light source includes: a first LED that emits ultraviolet light and a second LED that has a light emission spectrum different from that of the first LED, the first LED and the second LED being disposed in parallel; a reflection surface that is opposite to the first LED and reflects light of the first LED; and a dichroic surface that is opposite to the second LED, reflects light of the first LED, and allows light of the second LED to penetrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Yoshifumi SEKIGUCHI, Shin IMAMURA, Takahiro ANDO, Tomoto KAWAMURA, Yuya MATSUOKA, Sakuichiro ADACHI, Yasuhiro KETA, Eiichiro TAKADA
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Patent number: 11265026Abstract: Disclosed is a tuner device including an input terminal, a separator, a first amplifier, a second amplifier, and a tuner. The input terminal receives an input of a reception signal of satellite digital broadcasts. The separator is connected to the input terminal and adapted to frequency-separate a first signal and a second signal. The first signal is in a low-frequency domain of the reception signal, and the second signal is in a high-frequency domain of the reception signal. The first and second amplifiers respectively amplify the first and second signals. The tuner receives an input of output signals from the first and second amplifiers.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Toshikazu Yoshida, Takahiro Ando, Norihiro Murayama, Hiroshige Takakuwa
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Publication number: 20220003685Abstract: Provided are an analyzer that analyzes a specimen with high accuracy and an analysis method for analyzing a specimen with high accuracy. The analyzer according to the present disclosure include a first reaction vessel which contains a reagent, a second reaction vessel which contains a specimen and the reagent, a detector which detects optical characteristics of the first reaction vessel and optical characteristics of the second reaction vessel, and a controller which analyzes components of the specimen in the second reaction vessel using the optical characteristics of the first reaction vessel as a baseline.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Takahiro Ando, Sakuichiro Adachi