Patents by Inventor Takahiro Hara
Takahiro Hara 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: 20240109344Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a recording apparatus including: a conveyance path through which a recording medium is caused to pass from an upstream side to a downstream side in a conveyance direction; a conveying unit disposed on the conveyance path and configured to convey a recording medium; a detecting unit configured to detect an edge of a recording medium in the conveyance path; and a control unit configured to execute first control for conveying a recording medium toward the upstream side with the conveying pit and second control for conveying the recording medium toward the downstream side with the conveying unit. After the detecting unit detects a trailing edge of a recording medium, the control unit executes the first control or the second control based on a position of the trailing edge of the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: TOMOYA HARA, TAKAHIRO KIUCHI, MASAAKI MATSUURA
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Publication number: 20240109287Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a printing apparatus with usability prevented from being lowered. An embodiment of the present disclosure is a printing apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store size information of a print medium; a plurality of rollers arranged in a conveyance path of a print medium and configured to convey the print medium; a first sensor configured to detect an edge of the print medium being conveyed by the rollers; and a control unit configured to execute processing for identifying an error occurring in the conveyance of the print medium. The control unit issues a first error concerning an orientation of the print medium based on a detection result of the first sensor and the size information stored in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: TAKAHIRO KIUCHI, TOMOYA HARA, MASAAKI MATSUURA
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Publication number: 20240085609Abstract: Provided is a hologram recording medium that has high in-plane uniformity of a diffraction peak wavelength and can be peeled off from a release layer after exposure. The hologram recording medium includes a protective layer and a photosensitive layer. The initial maximum load on the protective layer measured in a tensile test is 3 N or more and 1000 N or less. The photosensitive layer contains a polymerizable compound and a polymerization initiator, and the polymerization initiator contains an electron-donating initiator and an electron-accepting initiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: HISAYA HARA, TAKAHIRO OHE, KENSHIRO KAWASAKI
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Publication number: 20240071417Abstract: Provided is a hologram recording medium that can achieve suppression of deterioration of the storage stability in an unexposed state. The hologram recording medium includes a base material and a photosensitive layer. The oxygen permeability of the base material measured in an environment at 23° C. and 0% RH is more than 0.1 cm3·(m2·day·atm)?1 and 10000 cm3·(m2·day·atm)?1 or less. The photosensitive layer contains a polymerizable compound, and the polymerizable compound contains a compound represented by a specific general formula.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: SHOICHI OZAWA, TAKAHIRO OHE, HISAYA HARA, KENSHIRO KAWASAKI
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Publication number: 20230382119Abstract: A mist collector includes: a nozzle through which air is sucked from a suction port and discharged from a discharge port; and a cyclone including an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder. The inner cylinder includes an intake hole and forms an airflow inside the inner cylinder by air taken therein through this intake hole, thereby separating ink mist from the air.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: Takahiro HARA
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Publication number: 20230370542Abstract: A communication method according to an embodiment includes determining, by a first communication device, whether timing information, which is repeatedly generated at a predetermined interval and is used for a notification process executed by the first communication device, has been generated; and transmitting, as packet data, notification data and sequentially acquired sound data to a second communication device connected to the first communication device via a network, the notification data being based on a presence or an absence of the timing information during a period in which the sound data, contained in the packet data, was sequentially acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventor: Takahiro HARA
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Patent number: 11738037Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an agent for preventing or improving decline in brain function such as decreased perception ability, decreased memory learning ability, decreased thinking ability, decreased concentration, decreased attention, decreased judgment ability, depression, and decreased exercise performance caused thereby. According to the invention, an agent for protecting brain neuronal cells, comprising citrulline or a salt thereof and citicoline or a salt thereof as active ingredients as well as an agent for preventing or improving decline in brain function, comprising citrulline or a salt thereof and citicoline or a salt thereof as active ingredients is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: KYOWA HAKKO BIO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kota Kumagai, Masahiko Morita, Takahiro Hara, Kohji Fukunaga
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Publication number: 20230110801Abstract: An extraction apparatus is a sample removal apparatus that removes a sample collected from a living body. The extraction apparatus includes: a storage container holder that holds a storage container of a sample and is capable of being placed at a sample receiving section where the sample is supplied to the storage container, and a removal section that causes the sample to be discharged from the storage container to a predetermined place; a housing that covers the storage container holder and the removal section; and a supply section that allows for supply of the sample from the outside of the housing to the storage container in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kengo FUSHIYA, Takahiro HARA, Hiroshi MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220323951Abstract: An extraction device includes an extraction container including a discharge port and capable of storing a biological sample and an extractant, a discharge accelerator configured to discharge the biological sample extracted into the extractant in the extraction container from the discharge port, and a controller configured to instruct the discharge accelerator to discharge the biological sample from the discharge port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kengo FUSHIYA, Masahiro MATSUO, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Takahiro HARA
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Patent number: 11339559Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet main body and a tank device, and the tank device includes a storage tank and a tank mounting member to which the storage tank is detachably attached. At a time of attachment of the storage tank to the tank mounting member, an attaching portion of the storage tank is engaged with an attachment-receiving portion of the tank mounting member by the storage tank being lowered onto a base of the tank mounting member from above. Then, when the storage tank is moved in a horizontal direction relative to the tank mounting member, the attaching portion of the storage tank is configured to be fixed to the attachment-receiving portion of the tank mounting member.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Hideo Iwaki, Shu Kashirajima, Yukari Kawazu, Takahiro Hara
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Patent number: 11254121Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink jetter that jets ink and a transfer unit that has a ring-shaped intermediate transfer body. The transfer unit transfers, to a recording medium, a primary image formed on an outer circumferential surface of the intermediate transfer body with the ink that is jetted to land on the outer circumferential surface by the ink jetter. The transfer unit includes a heater that heats air in an internal space of the intermediate transfer body enclosed by an inner circumferential surface of the intermediate transfer body, and an air mover that flows the air in the internal space.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Takahiro Hara
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Publication number: 20220026344Abstract: A detection device includes a support base having a rotation surface rotatable in a plane, a detector provided on the rotation surface and displaced with rotation of the rotation surface, a first supply port and a second supply port provided above the rotation surface, and an optical measurer measuring optical characteristics of a first supply material and a second supply material supplied from the first supply port and the second supply port to the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kengo FUSHIYA, Takahiro HARA, Dai SUWAMA, Hiroshi MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 11136752Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet main body, a flush water tank device, and connection conduits for supplying, to a toilet main body, flush water supplied from a reservoir tank. The reservoir tank includes a large tank portion on a large volume side in the reservoir tank when the reservoir tank is divided into two at the left-right center and a small tank portion on a small volume side in the reservoir tank when the reservoir tank is divided into two at the left-right center. The upstream end of one connection conduit is connected to the large tank portion and, on the other hand, the downstream end of the other connection conduit is connected to the other side of the toilet main body divided into two at the left-right center.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shu Kashirajima, Takahiro Hara, Masaki Mori, Yukari Kawazu, Tsubasa Ishibashi, Hironori Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20210113601Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an agent for preventing or improving decline in brain function such as decreased perception ability, decreased memory learning ability, decreased thinking ability, decreased concentration, decreased attention, decreased judgment ability, depression, and decreased exercise performance caused thereby. According to the invention, an agent for protecting brain neuronal cells, comprising citrulline or a salt thereof and citicoline or a salt thereof as active ingredients as well as an agent for preventing or improving decline in brain function, comprising citrulline or a salt thereof and citicoline or a salt thereof as active ingredients is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: KYOWA HAKKO BIO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kota KUMAGAI, Masahiko MORITA, Takahiro HARA, Kohji FUKUNAGA
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Patent number: 10982421Abstract: A flush toilet includes: a toilet main unit having a bowl portion, and a water conduit formed in the toilet main unit and configured to supply flush water into the bowl portion. The water conduit has: a first water-guiding portion extending from a water supply portion to a first spout port located on one of right and left sides of the bowl portion; and a second water-guiding portion extending from the water supply portion to a second spout port located on the other of the right and left sides of the bowl portion. The water supply portion is located at a right-sided or left-sided position in a right and left direction. The flush water is supplied to the water supply portion in a direction inclined with respect to a front and back direction and intersected with an inside surface of the water supply portion, as seen in plan view.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Masaki Mori, Shu Kashirajima, Takahiro Hara
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Publication number: 20210095449Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet main body and a tank device, and the tank device includes a storage tank and a tank mounting member to which the storage tank is detachably attached. At a time of attachment of the storage tank to the tank mounting member, an attaching portion of the storage tank is engaged with an attachment-receiving portion of the tank mounting member by the storage tank being lowered onto a base of the tank mounting member from above. Then, when the storage tank is moved in a horizontal direction relative to the tank mounting member, the attaching portion of the storage tank is configured to be fixed to the attachment-receiving portion of the tank mounting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Hideo IWAKI, Shu KASHIRAJIMA, Yukari KAWAZU, Takahiro HARA
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Patent number: 10905705Abstract: An objection of the present invention is to provide an agent for preventing or improving decline in brain function such as decreased perception ability, decreased memory learning ability, decreased thinking ability, decreased concentration, decreased attention, decreased judgment ability, depression, and decreased exercise performance caused thereby. According to the present invention, an agent for protecting brain neuronal cells, comprising citrulline or a salt thereof and citicoline or a salt thereof as active ingredients as well as an agent for preventing or improving decline in brain function, comprising citrulline or a salt thereof and citicoline or a salt thereof as active ingredients is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: KYOWA HAKKO BIO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kota Kumagai, Masahiko Morita, Takahiro Hara, Kohji Fukunaga
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Publication number: 20200308816Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet main body, a flush water tank device, and connection conduits for supplying, to a toilet main body, flush water supplied from a reservoir tank. The reservoir tank includes a large tank portion on a large volume side in the reservoir tank when the reservoir tank is divided into two at the left-right center and a small tank portion on a small volume side in the reservoir tank when the reservoir tank is divided into two at the left-right center. The upstream end of one connection conduit is connected to the large tank portion and, on the other hand, the downstream end of the other connection conduit is connected to the other side of the toilet main body divided into two at the left-right center.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shu KASHIRAJIMA, Takahiro HARA, Masaki MORI, Yukari KAWAZU, Tsubasa ISHIBASHI, Hironori YAMASAKI
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Publication number: 20200130350Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink jetter that jets ink and a transfer unit that has a ring-shaped intermediate transfer body. The transfer unit transfers, to a recording medium, a primary image formed on an outer circumferential surface of the intermediate transfer body with the ink that is jetted to land on the outer circumferential surface by the ink jetter. The transfer unit includes a heater that heats air in an internal space of the intermediate transfer body enclosed by an inner circumferential surface of the intermediate transfer body, and an air mover that flows the air in the internal space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Takahiro HARA
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Patent number: 10627766Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, when a fixing device is in a non-fixing state and a transfer device is in a non-transfer state, an ejection device increases a conveying force by a pair of ejection rollers as compared to the conveying force in the fixing state. According to this image forming apparatus, a printing object can be stably conveyed even when a pair of rollers of the fixing device becomes separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Takahiro Hara