Patents by Inventor Takahiro Nishimoto

Takahiro Nishimoto 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: 12109800
    Abstract: A printer includes a platen, a first head, a second head, a first lamp, and a second lamp. The first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moved relatively with respect to the platen in a main scanning direction, and the platen is moved from the second head toward the first head relatively with respect to the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp, repeatedly. The second head ejects the second ink onto the object to be printed placed on the platen while the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moving in the main scanning direction. The first lamp irradiates light onto the second ink on the object to be printed while the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moving in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Kobayashi, Takahiro Nishimoto, Kosuke Nukui, Kenta Hasebe, Kengo Takeda
  • Patent number: 12109799
    Abstract: A printer includes a platen, a first head, a second head, and an illumination device. In a normal print mode, the first head, the second head, and the illumination device are moved relatively with respect to the platen in a main scanning direction, in a state in which a distance between the platen and a predetermined position of the illumination device in the height direction is a first distance, and the ink is ejected onto an object to be printed placed on the platen and the light is irradiated onto the ejected ink. In a gloss print mode, the first head, the second head, and the illumination device are moved relatively with respect to the platen in the main scanning direction, in a state in which the distance between the platen and the predetermined position in the height direction is a second distance larger than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kengo Takeda, Akihiro Kobayashi, Takahiro Nishimoto, Kosuke Nukui, Kenta Hasebe
  • Publication number: 20240319046
    Abstract: A tire state determination system can acquire, from a vehicle, state data including various types of information that may exert influence on deterioration of a base body portion of a tire, can calculate, based on the acquired state data, an evaluation value S indicating a state of the base body portion of the tire, and can determine reusability of the tire based on the evaluation value S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki TERAMOTO, Kazuharu TANIMURA, Yukinori HASHIMOTO, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Kenji YONEDA, Yusuke MAEDA, Ai TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240309493
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a can lid for food or drink, the can lid including an end and a tab for opening a score formed on the end. The end and/or the tab includes an aluminum alloy containing: Mn: 0.5 mass % to 1.4 mass %, Mg: 2.0 mass % to 4.5 mass %, Si: 0.6 mass % or less, Fe: 0.8 mass % or less, Cu: 0.25 mass % or less, Cr: 0.10 mass % or less, Zn: 0.25 mass % or less, and Ti: 0.10 mass % or less. With this configuration, even if the end and/or the tab contains a recycled aluminum alloy made up of aluminum UBCs as a raw material, a can lid having such an end and/or tab that has properties required for a can lid, such as pressure resisting strength, can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji NAKANO, Shigeya Takahashi, Hideki Nishimoto, Ryotaro Isomura, Takahiro Oki
  • Publication number: 20240262824
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having the basic structure shown by Formula (I) in which the indole ring and the pyrazolopyridine structure is bound through a substituent, a salt thereof or a solvate of either the compound or a salt of the compound, as well as a preventative agent or a therapeutic agent for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (Type 2 diabetes) or obesity containing such compound, salt or solvate as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi YOSHINO, Satoshi TSUCHIYA, Atsushi MATSUO, Tsutomu SATO, Masahiro NISHIMOTO, Kyoko OGURI, Hiroko OGAWA, Yoshikazu NISHIMURA, Yoshiyuki FURUTA, Hirotaka KASHIWAGI, Nobuyuki HORI, Takuma KAMON, Takuya SHIRAISHI, Shoshin YOSHIDA, Takahiro KAWAI, Satoshi TANIDA, Masahide AOKI
  • Patent number: 12050231
    Abstract: A testing method using a micro flow path device configured for a test liquid containing a specimen to be brought into contact with a drug therein and for a test on an action of the drug on the specimen includes: preparing the micro flow path device including: a plurality of micro flow paths, first and second openings which are disposed at both ends of each of the plurality of micro flow paths and communicate with an outside, a storage unit which is provided in each of the plurality of micro flow paths and stores the drug, and a gas-permeable membrane covering the first opening; applying a fluid pressure higher than an external pressure to the test liquid through the second opening from a syringe pump connected to the second opening to pressure-feed the test liquid to the storage unit; and observing a target region set in the micro flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwata, Hiroomi Goto, Shigehiko Zoda, Eiichi Ozeki, Takahiro Nishimoto, Aline Rotzetter, Yasuko Yoneda, Ippei Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20240246971
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having the basic structure shown by Formula (I) in which the indole ring and the pyrazolopyridine structure is bound through a substituent, a salt thereof or a solvate of either the compound or a salt of the compound, as well as a preventative agent or a therapeutic agent for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (Type 2 diabetes) or obesity containing such compound, salt or solvate as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi YOSHINO, Satoshi TSUCHIYA, Atsushi MATSUO, Tsutomu SATO, Masahiro NISHIMOTO, Kyoko OGURI, Hiroko OGAWA, Yoshikazu NISHIMURA, Yoshiyuki FURUTA, Hirotaka KASHIWAGI, Nobuyuki HORI, Takuma KAMON, Takuya SHIRAISHI, Shoshin YOSHIDA, Takahiro KAWAI, Satoshi TANIDA, Masahide AOKI
  • Patent number: 12017446
    Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a conveyer configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a head configured to discharge a liquid toward the sheet; a heater configured to heat the sheet and/or the liquid on the sheet; a reader positioned downstream in the conveying direction of the heater, the reader being configured to read an image, on the sheet, formed by the head and the heater; and a holder positioned between the reader and the heater in the conveying direction, the holder being configured to hold a body of rotation configured to contact a recording surface of the sheet. In a crossing direction orthogonal to the conveying direction and crossing the recording surface of the sheet being conveyed by the conveyer, both ends in the crossing direction of the holder are positioned outside of both ends in the crossing direction of the reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsugi Tanaka, Yoshikazu Shimizu, Takahiro Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 11890865
    Abstract: A movable assembly configured to move a table in a first direction is provided. The movable assembly includes a first link member including a first elongated member and a second elongated member coupled in an X formation, a second link member including a third elongated member and a fourth elongated member coupled in the X formation, a first frame member, a second frame member, and a rotatable member being a threaded rod. The first frame member includes a first supporting portion and a first guiding portion, which support ends of the first, second, third, and fourth elongated members on one side rotatably. The second frame member includes a second supporting portion and a second guiding portion, which support other ends of the first, second, third, and fourth elongated members located on the other side movably in the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Kobayashi, Kengo Takeda, Takayuki Akimatsu, Takahiro Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 11850863
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus, having a discharging head, a fan, and a controller, is provided. The discharging head includes a discharging surface and a plurality of nozzles arranged along a sub-scanning direction, which intersects orthogonally with a main scanning direction. The discharging head is configured to move in the main scanning direction. The fan is configured to generate an airflow for collecting mist of ink discharged through the nozzles. The controller is configured to obtain a droplet size of the ink to be discharged through the nozzles from one of a print job and a printing mode set in advance, obtain a distance between the discharging surface and a printable medium, and control a rotation speed of the fan based on the droplet size and the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishimoto, Akihiro Kobayashi, Kenta Hasebe, Kengo Takeda, Yumiko Oshika
  • Publication number: 20230332983
    Abstract: A tire state determination system (100) acquires, from a vehicle (50), state data that includes various types of information that may exert influence on deterioration of a base body portion of a tire (1), and calculates an evaluation value S that indicates a state of the base body portion of the tire (1), based on the acquired state data. This allows an inspector who inspects an applicability to a base tire, to preliminarily grasp, as a material for determining whether it can be used as the base tire, the state of the base body portion of the tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki TERAMOTO, Kazuharu TANIMURA, Yukinori HASHIMOTO, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Kenji YONEDA
  • Publication number: 20230311591
    Abstract: A tire air pressure management system (100) includes: an acquisition processing portion (61) that acquires an air pressure and an air temperature of a tire (11) attached to a vehicle (1); a correction processing portion (62) that corrects the air pressure that has been acquired by the acquisition processing portion (61) together with the air temperature, based on a difference between the air temperature and a predetermined reference temperature; and a first output processing portion (63) that outputs determination information that is generated based on the air pressure after correction by the correction processing portion (62) and is used to determine whether or not the tire (11) needs air pressure adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki TERAMOTO, Kazuharu TANIMURA, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Kenji YONEDA, Yukinori HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230304808
    Abstract: A tire management system (100) includes: an acquisition processing portion (62) that acquires state information regarding a state of a pneumatic tire (11) attached to a vehicle (1); a detection processing portion (63) that detects an abnormality of the pneumatic tire (11) based on the state information acquired by the acquisition processing portion (62); and a first output processing portion (64) that, when the detection processing portion (63) has detected the abnormality, outputs first route information to a display portion of a vehicle-mounted communication apparatus (13) of the vehicle (1), wherein the first route information includes a first route that is a route to, among a plurality of predetermined stop spots, a specific stop spot that has a stop space corresponding to a size of the vehicle (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki TERAMOTO, Kazuharu TANIMURA, Yukinori HASHIMOTO, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Kenji YONEDA
  • Publication number: 20230306378
    Abstract: A tire management system (100) includes: a first communication apparatus (2) that acquires state information regarding a state of a tire (11) that is transmitted from an air pressure detection device (12) provided in a vehicle (1) when the vehicle (1) is located in a communication range of a predetermined wireless communication standard; and a management server (4) including a storage processing portion (70) that stores, into a storage portion (43), the state information acquired by the first communication apparatus (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki TERAMOTO, Kazuharu TANIMURA, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Kenji YONEDA, Yukinori HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230202171
    Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a casing; a conveyor positioned inside the casing and configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a recording part positioned inside the casing and configured to record an image, with an ink, on the sheet conveyed by the conveyor; a heater positioned inside the casing, on a downstream side in the conveying direction of the recording part, and configured to heat at least one of the sheet and the ink; a reading part positioned inside the casing, on the downstream side in the conveying direction of the heater, and configured to optically read the image recorded on the sheet; and a blower positioned inside the casing and configured to generate an air current toward the reading part and toward the sheet located at a position on the downstream side in the conveying direction of the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsugi TANAKA, Yoshikazu SHIMIZU, Takahiro NISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230144530
    Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a casing; a first cover configured to move to an open position and to a close position; a conveyor configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a recording head configured to discharge a liquid onto the sheet; a heater configured to heat at least one of the sheet and the liquid discharged to the sheet; a second cover configured to cover the heater. The second cover is configured to move to a cover position at which the second cover covers the heater so that the heater is not exposed to the outside and to an expose position at which the second cover allows the heater to be exposed to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsugi TANAKA, Yoshikazu SHIMIZU, Takahiro NISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230144080
    Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a conveyer configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a head configured to discharge a liquid toward the sheet; a heater configured to heat the sheet and/or the liquid on the sheet; a reader positioned downstream in the conveying direction of the heater, the reader being configured to read an image, on the sheet, formed by the head and the heater; and a holder positioned between the reader and the heater in the conveying direction, the holder being configured to hold a body of rotation configured to contact a recording surface of the sheet. In a crossing direction orthogonal to the conveying direction and crossing the recording surface of the sheet being conveyed by the conveyer, both ends in the crossing direction of the holder are positioned outside of both ends in the crossing direction of the reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsugi TANAKA, Yoshikazu SHIMIZU, Takahiro NISHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11571903
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head, a fixing device and a mist collector configured to collect a mist of a liquid. The mist collector and the fixing device are arranged side by side in this order in a first direction. The mist collector is provided with an air channel having a suction port and an exhaust port. The air channel has: a first part and a second part connected to an other end of the first part. The exhaust port is opened, in the second part, toward any one of directions which are: a direction including a direction opposite to the first direction as a directional component thereof, a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and a second direction, and a direction opposite to the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Kobayashi, Kengo Takeda, Takahiro Nishimoto
  • Publication number: 20230001712
    Abstract: A printer includes a platen, a first head, a second head, a first lamp, and a second lamp. The first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moved relatively with respect to the platen in a main scanning direction, and the platen is moved from the second head toward the first head relatively with respect to the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp, repeatedly. The second head ejects the second ink onto the object to be printed placed on the platen while the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moving in the main scanning direction. The first lamp irradiates light onto the second ink on the object to be printed while the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moving in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiro KOBAYASHI, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Kosuke NUKUI, Kenta HASEBE, Kengo TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230001711
    Abstract: A printer includes a platen, a first head, a second head, and an illumination device. In a normal print mode, the first head, the second head, and the illumination device are moved relatively with respect to the platen in a main scanning direction, in a state in which a distance between the platen and a predetermined position of the illumination device in the height direction is a first distance, and the ink is ejected onto an object to be printed placed on the platen and the light is irradiated onto the ejected ink. In a gloss print mode, the first head, the second head, and the illumination device are moved relatively with respect to the platen in the main scanning direction, in a state in which the distance between the platen and the predetermined position in the height direction is a second distance larger than the first distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kengo TAKEDA, Akihiro KOBAYASHI, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Kosuke NUKUI, Kenta HASEBE