Patents by Inventor Takahiro Imai
Takahiro Imai 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: 11018602Abstract: A power generating element is provided. The power generating element includes a pair of electrodes, an intermediate layer being insulating, and a substrate being flexible. The intermediate layer is disposed between the electrodes. The substrate is configured to support the electrodes and the intermediate layer. When the substrate undergoes a deformation, the intermediate layer is separated from or pressed against one of the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mizuki Otagiri, Tsuneaki Kondoh, Tomoaki Sugawara, Yuko Arizumi, Junichiro Natori, Mayuka Araumi, Takahiro Imai, Hideyuki Miyazawa, Makito Nakashima, Megumi Kitamura
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Patent number: 11010004Abstract: An input element includes: a first electrode and a second electrode that face each other; and an intermediate layer disposed between the first and the second electrodes and made of rubber or a rubber composition, the rubber or rubber composition containing siloxane. The intermediate layer is made of rubber or a rubber composition, the rubber or rubber composition containing siloxane that has a silicon atom bound to three to four oxygen atoms. The intermediate layer has concentration profiles such that, while oxygen increases from one side to the other side of a thickness direction thereof and has a maximal value, carbon decreases from the one side to the other side thereof and has a minimal value.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mayuka Araumi, Yuko Arizumi, Makito Nakashima, Megumi Kitamura, Tomoaki Sugawara, Tsuneaki Kondoh, Takahiro Imai, Junichiro Natori, Hideyuki Miyazawa, Mizuki Otagiri
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Patent number: 10962513Abstract: A method for detecting the concentration of a specified gas contained in a mixed gas includes, in a pressure-type flow rate control device including a restriction portion, an upstream valve provided upstream of the restriction portion, and a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure between the restriction portion and the upstream valve, a step of flowing the mixed gas from the upstream side of the upstream valve in a state in which the pressure on the downstream side of the restriction portion is lower than the pressure on the upstream side of the restriction portion, a step of determining with a pressure sensor pressure drop characteristics occurring after the upstream valve is changed from an open to a closed state, and a step of determining the concentration of the specified gas in the mixed gas based on the pressure drop characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATEDInventors: Masaaki Nagase, Kenji Aikawa, Kaoru Hirata, Takahiro Imai, Tetsuo Naritomi, Tsutomu Shinohara, Takahiro Matsuda, Kouji Nishino
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Patent number: 10953842Abstract: A gas generator includes an elongated cylindrical housing, an accommodation chamber defining member arranged in the housing, a gas generating agent, and an autoignition agent. The accommodation chamber defining member includes a cylindrical portion which extends in a direction in parallel to an axial direction of the housing and accommodates the gas generating agent therein. A heat insulating layer is located between the housing and the cylindrical portion. The autoignition agent is arranged in a portion inside the housing in the axial direction of the housing where no heat insulating layer is provided, as being in contact with the housing with a member made of a metal being interposed.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Imai, Genya Iizuka, Akinori Matsumoto, Masaki Hiraoka, Syouichi Ashida
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Patent number: 10884436Abstract: A flow rate signal correction method applicable to a pressure-type flow rate control device that controls a flow rate by controlling pressure existing upstream of a restriction part includes a step of generating a primary signal indicating the flow rate in accordance with an output of a pressure sensor provided upstream of the restriction part and a step of generating a secondary signal as a corrected signal of the primary signal such that the current value of the primary signal and a value including information regarding one or a plurality of past values of the primary signal are used to derive a current value corrected according to a predetermined relational expression. The secondary signal is output as a flow rate signal during a stable flow rate period, and the secondary signal is not output as a flow rate signal during a transient change period.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATEDInventors: Katsuyuki Sugita, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino, Kaoru Hirata, Masahiko Takimoto, Masayoshi Kawashima, Takahiro Imai
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Patent number: 10870409Abstract: A gas generator includes a housing, a partition member which divides a space in the housing into a combustion chamber where a gas generating agent is accommodated and a filter chamber where a filter is accommodated, and a sealed container which externally seals the gas generating agent. The filter has a hollow portion which reaches an axial end surface located on a side of the combustion chamber. The sealed container is made of a member relatively low in mechanical strength so as to burst or melt as a result of burning of the gas generating agent. The partition member is made of a member relatively high in mechanical strength such that only a portion opposed to the hollow portion bursts as a result of burning of the gas generating agent to provide a communication hole which allows communication between the combustion chamber and the filter chamber with each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahiro Imai
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Publication number: 20200366156Abstract: A drive device includes a motor, a connector on which a control board is mounted, and a cover that defines a housing space for the control board together with the motor and the connector. A first recess formed on a first side of the motor and having an annular shape is connected by a first adhesive to a first protrusion formed on a mounting side of the connector. A second recess formed on a connection side of the connector and having an annular shape is connected by a second adhesive to a second protrusion formed on a rim side of the cover. Therefore, the motor and the cover are connected through the connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Takahiro Imai, Naohiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10759179Abstract: Provided is a technique that can reduce at least one of various inconveniences in a sub-tank, such as stock management being complicated. The sub-tank includes: a consumable article containing portion; a sub-tank-side storage unit; and a case that can be detachably attached to multiple slots in a consumable article consumption apparatus and contains the consumable article containing portion. In a state before the sub-tank is first mounted in the slot, the sub-tank-side storage unit stores a sub-tank-side identifier configured to distinguish from another sub-tank, and in a state after the sub-tank is first mounted in the slot, the sub-tank-side storage unit further stores sub-tank-side consumable article information relating to an attribute of the consumable article replenished in a consumable article containing portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Koganehira, Shigeki Fukushima, Yasuhiko Kosugi, Takahiro Imai, Katsutoshi Ozawa, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Noriyuki Inukai
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Patent number: 10714676Abstract: A sensor includes a plurality of elements and an insulating layer. The plurality of elements is deformable to generate power. The insulating layer is interposed between the plurality of elements. Each of the plurality of elements includes a pair of electrodes and an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer is disposed between the pair of electrodes and formed of one of a rubber and a rubber composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mizuki Otagiri, Tsuneaki Kondoh, Yuko Arizumi, Tomoaki Sugawara, Junichiro Natori, Mayuka Araumi, Hideyuki Miyazawa, Makito Nakashima, Kimio Aoki, Takahiro Imai, Megumi Kitamura, Yuki Hoshikawa
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Patent number: 10660680Abstract: A bone treating device has a bone plate and a bone screw. The bone plate has an opening which penetrates therethrough and has a female screw part having a plurality of thread grooves formed on an inner surface of the opening. The bone screw has a shaft part capable of penetrating the opening of the bone plate and a head part provided at a proximal end of the shaft part. The head part has on an outer surface thereof a male screw part having a plurality of screw threads threadedly engageable with the thread grooves of the female screw part formed on the inner surface of the opening. The bone screw has a threaded engagement start guiding portion formed by extending screw threads whose number is fewer by at least one than the number of screw threads formed in the male screw part to a threaded engagement start side.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: MEIRA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Imai
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Patent number: 10651363Abstract: A power generating device is provided. The power generating device includes an element having flexibility and a support to support at least one portion of the element. The element is capable of undergoing a deformation when receiving a vibration and capable of generating power when undergoing the deformation. The deformation includes at least one of a bending deformation, a torsional deformation, and a bending-torsional complex deformation.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Imai, Tsuneaki Kondoh, Tomoaki Sugawara, Yuko Arizumi, Junichiro Natori, Mayuka Araumi, Mizuki Otagiri, Megumi Kitamura
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Patent number: 10636958Abstract: An element including: a first electrode; an intermediate layer made of a silicone rubber composition containing a silicone rubber; and a second electrode, where the first electrode, the intermediate layer, and the second electrode are disposed in this order, wherein a peak intensity ratio (1095±5 cm?1/1025±5 cm?1) of an infrared absorption spectrum of the intermediate layer varies along a vertical direction relative to a surface of the first electrode, and to a surface of the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuko Arizumi, Tsuneaki Kondoh, Mizuki Otagiri, Junichiro Natori, Tomoaki Sugawara, Takahiro Imai
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Patent number: 10562858Abstract: A crystal form of 2-(3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-5-methylphenol which is stable and has high purity for preservation, industrial manufacturing, and circulation, and process for providing the same by using a boron compound.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: MEIJI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiro Sasaki, Takahiro Imai, Kenichiro Mori, Makoto Ohyama, Takashi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20200048492Abstract: Provided are: an aqueous coating composition which is capable of giving coating films having excellent chipping resistance without lowering the finish; and a method for forming a multilayered coating film. The aqueous coating composition comprises an acrylic-modified polyester resin (A) comprising an acrylic moiety and a polyester moiety, a crosslinking agent (B), and an epoxy phosphoric acid ester compound (C), wherein the acrylic-modified polyester resin (A) contains a polyoxyalkylene-group-containing unsaturated monomer having a weight-average molecular weight of 400 or higher as a monomer component of the acrylic moiety and the polyester moiety is configured of components, 50 mass % or more of which is accounted for by a C6 or higher compound, the content of the epoxy phosphoric acid ester compound (C) being 0.1-10 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the sum of the solid components of (A) and (B).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2017Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD.Inventor: Takahiro IMAI
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Publication number: 20200033895Abstract: A pressure-type flow rate control device includes a restriction part; a control valve provided upstream of the restriction part; an upstream pressure sensor for detecting pressure between the restriction part and the control valve; and an arithmetic processing circuit connected to the control valve and the upstream pressor sensor. The device is configured to perform flow rate control by controlling the control valve according to an output of the upstream pressure sensor. The arithmetic processing circuit performs an operation of closing the control valve in order to reduce a flow rate of a fluid flowing through the restriction part, and performs an operation of closing the control valve by feedback control in which a target value is an exponential function more gradual than the pressure drop characteristic data when a gas flows out of the restriction part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATEDInventors: Katsuyuki SUGITA, Kaoru HIRATA, Nobukazu IKEDA, Kouji NISHINO, Masahiko TAKIMOTO, Takahiro IMAI, Shinya OGAWA
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Patent number: 10541628Abstract: A power generating device including an element and a moving member. The element is deformable and generates power when deforming. The moving member moves when receiving a vibration, and contacts the element when moving. When the moving member contacts the element, the element deforms into another state or returns to a previous state.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuko Arizumi, Tsuneaki Kondoh, Takahiro Imai, Mizuki Otagiri, Mayuka Araumi, Tomoaki Sugawara, Junichiro Natori, Megumi Kitamura
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Publication number: 20200018736Abstract: A method for detecting the concentration of a specified gas contained in a mixed gas includes, in a pressure-type flow rate control device including a restriction portion, an upstream valve provided upstream of the restriction portion, and a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure between the restriction portion and the upstream valve, a step of flowing the mixed gas from the upstream side of the upstream valve in a state in which the pressure on the downstream side of the restriction portion is lower than the pressure on the upstream side of the restriction portion, a step of determining with a pressure sensor pressure drop characteristics occurring after the upstream valve is changed from an open to a closed state, and a step of determining the concentration of the specified gas in the mixed gas based on the pressure drop characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATEDInventors: Masaaki NAGASE, Kenji AIKAWA, Kaoru HIRATA, Takahiro IMAI, Tetsuo NARITOMI, Tsutomu SHINOHARA, Takahiro MATSUDA, Kouji NISHINO
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Patent number: 10476405Abstract: An element including: a first electrode; an intermediate layer; and a second electrode, the first electrode, the intermediate layer, and the second electrode being disposed in this order, the intermediate layer including an organic polymer material, where a molecular structure of the organic polymer material includes a structure represented by the following formula (1) where R1 is a carbonyl group, an ether group, a thioether group, or organopolysiloxane, and R1 may form a cyclic structure (an imide group) with R2; and R2 to R6 are organic groups that may be identical or different, where each of the organic groups may have a valency of 2 or more and may form another structure:Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Junichiro Natori, Tsuneaki Kondoh, Tomoaki Sugawara, Yuko Arizumi, Takahiro Imai, Mizuki Otagiri
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Patent number: 10458816Abstract: A sensor includes an electrode, an insulator, a pressure receiver, and a pressure imparting unit. The insulator is disposed at a position facing the electrode and away from the electrode. The pressure receiver is disposed on a surface of the insulator on a side opposite to the electrode. The pressure imparting unit presses a part of the insulator toward the electrode at a position different from the pressure receiver to contact the insulator with the electrode. The insulator generates power by contact charging or separation charging with respect to the electrode, to output the power as a signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Miyazawa, Tsuneaki Kondoh, Tomoaki Sugawara, Yuko Arizumi, Junichiro Natori, Mayuka Araumi, Takahiro Imai, Makito Nakashima, Kimio Aoki, Mizuki Otagiri, Megumi Kitamura, Yuki Hoshikawa
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Patent number: 10442091Abstract: A gripping device 18 is provided at the front end of an arm of an assembly robot 2. The gripping device 18 includes a pair of grippers 20 and 22 capable of opening and closing. The side configured to come into contact with a part 4, of each gripper 20, 22 includes a pressure-sensitive sensor 24. The pressure-sensitive sensor 24 includes a first electrode and a second electrode serving as a pair of electrodes and an intermediate layer formed of rubber or a rubber composition between the pair of electrodes. The intermediate layer is configured to generate electricity when deformed by contact with an object (part 4). The side configured to come into contact with the object, of the intermediate layer is subjected to a surface modification treatment and has a higher hardness than the opposite side.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tsuneaki Kondoh, Tomoaki Sugawara, Yuko Arizumi, Mayuka Araumi, Mizuki Otagiri, Junichiro Natori, Megumi Kitamura, Takahiro Imai, Hideyuki Miyazawa, Makito Nakashima