Patents by Inventor Takashi Kato
Takashi Kato 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: 11913126Abstract: A hydrogen-system control device according to the present embodiment is a control system for a hydrogen system that produces hydrogen: a first setter; a second setter configured to set an actual power consumption amount obtained by reducing a reduced power amount from the first power consumption amount in advance, when the demand response for reducing the first power consumption amount in the request period is requested the device comprising: and a controller configured to control a power amount of the second power in the request period based on the actual power consumption amount. The second setter is configured to set the actual power consumption amount in a range in which the hydrogen system is able to achieve a target amount of hydrogen to be produced in a first period that includes the request period and is longer than the request period.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Takashi Akiba, Shingo Tamaru, Shin Kato, Fumiyuki Yamane
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Publication number: 20240059065Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejection head capable of suppressing a decrease in printing quality. To this end, circulation efficiency J at an ejection orifice on a downstream side in a flow direction in a channel is set high.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: TAKASHI KATO, YOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 11893546Abstract: Systems and methods for automated or computer assisted planning of pipe replacement projects includes searching a database of pipe segments each having assigned or calculated failure risk parameters. The searching algorithm looks for connected pipe segments falling within a customer's specified project size and identifies potential projects having a relatively high combined high failure risk.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: FractaInventors: Daichi Yoshikawa, Takashi Kato, Yongyang Wang, Tomohiro Kawaji, Joel Michael Weingarten
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Patent number: 11863036Abstract: In this armature, between the first segment conductor and the second segment conductor that are joined to each other in the joint portion, a first clearance portion is provided between the tip end portion of the first leg portion and the second leg portion body portion in the axial direction, and a second clearance portion is provided between the tip end portion of the second leg portion and the first leg portion body portion in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Takahiro Kobuchi, Takashi Kato
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Patent number: 11843224Abstract: A quantum cascade laser includes a substrate having a group III-V compound semiconductor and a core region that is provided on the substrate and that includes a group III-V compound semiconductor. The core region includes a plurality of unit structures that are stacked on top of one another. Each of the plurality of unit structures includes an active layer and an injection layer. The injection layer includes at least one strain-compensated layer including a first well layer and a first barrier layer and at least one lattice-matched layer including a second well layer and a second barrier layer. The first well layer has a lattice constant larger than a lattice constant of the substrate. The first barrier layer has a lattice constant smaller than the lattice constant of the substrate. The second well layer and the second barrier layer each have a lattice constant that is lattice-matched to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Takashi Kato
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Patent number: 11835766Abstract: A slope gain equalizer that corrects a slope of a gain characteristic of an optical signal in a predetermined wavelength bandwidth. An interference filter, which allows insertion losses in a predetermined wavelength region to be inclined in opposite directions between a transmitting direction and a reflecting direction from a short wavelength side to a long wavelength side, is arranged between a dual-core fiber collimator and a single-core fiber collimator facing each other on an optical axis. An optical signal of a predetermined bandwidth inputted from a first or second optical fiber held by the dual-core fiber collimator is reflected by the interference filter and outputted from the second or the first optical fiber. An optical signal inputted from a third optical fiber held by the first optical fiber or the single-core fiber collimator is transmitted through the interference filter and outputted from the third or the first optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: KOHOKU KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihisa Okubo, Takashi Kato
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Publication number: 20230388716Abstract: An acoustic device includes: a first vibrating body having a first vibration frequency; a second vibrating body having a second vibration frequency; and a base material having a disposition surface on which the second vibrating body is disposed. In a plan view of the base material, the first vibrating body and the second vibrating body are arranged in an in-plane direction of the disposition surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi KATO, Akihiro TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20230286281Abstract: The liquid ejection head includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface which is a back surface of the first surface, a plurality of individual channels provided on the first surface, communicating with the ejection port, and recirculating the liquid, and a circulation channel communicating with the plurality of individual channels and recirculating the liquid. The circulation channel is provided on the first surface and has a connection region communicating with the outlet ports of the plurality of individual channels, a supply through-hole penetrating the substrate and supplying the liquid to the connection region, and a correct through-hole penetrating the substrate and correcting the liquid from the connection region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: TAKASHI KATO, YOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 11720816Abstract: An improved solution accurately predicts of an underground pipe's likelihood of leaking. A data-driven approach uses a combination of information acquisition, classification, regression and/or machine learning. The replacement of underground pipes can be prioritized. Pipe data is inputted and processed. Potential features within the cleaned data is used in pipe life of failure prediction models. The importance of the potential features is ranked. The most important features are extracted and applied to a likelihood of failure model that is created based on historical data and machine learning. Future likelihood of failure for each pipe in the network of pipes can be predicted using the model.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: FractaInventors: Daichi Yoshikawa, Takashi Kato
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Publication number: 20230212675Abstract: This invention relates to a kit or device for detection of hippocampal atrophy comprising a nucleic acid(s) capable of specifically binding to particular hippocampal atrophy marker miRNA(s) or to complementary strand(s) thereof, and a method for detecting hippocampal atrophy comprising measuring such miRNA(s) in vitro.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicants: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGYInventors: Chiori KASHIMURA, Hiroko SUDO, Makiko YOSHIMOTO, Shumpei NIIDA, Kengo ITO, Daichi SHIGEMIZU, Takashi KATO, Akinori NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11691912Abstract: A glass member for a housing of an electronic device may include an aluminosilicate glass substrate defining a first surface of the glass member, the first surface having a first surface roughness, a fused composite coating bonded to a portion of the aluminosilicate glass substrate and defining a second surface of the glass member, the second surface having a second surface roughness greater than the first surface roughness, a first ion-exchanged layer extending into the glass member and through the fused composite coating, and a second ion-exchanged layer extending into the glass member from the first surface. The fused composite coating may include an amorphous glass matrix and a crystalline material dispersed in the amorphous glass matrix.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Masashige Tatebe, Takahiro Oshima, Jody Akana, Palaniappan Chinnakaruppan, Tushar S. Deshpande, Kenichi Nakajima, Shigehiro Sanichi, Takashi Kato, Koji Takano
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Patent number: 11682128Abstract: A face image processing device, includes: an image coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit detecting an x-coordinate value and a y-coordinate value in an image coordinate system at a feature point of an organ of a face of a person in an image, and estimating a z-coordinate value, so as to derive three-dimensional coordinate values in the image coordinate system; a camera coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit deriving three-dimensional coordinate values in a camera coordinate system from the three-dimensional coordinate values in the image coordinate system derived by the image coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit; and a parameter derivation unit applying the three-dimensional coordinate values in the camera coordinate system derived by the camera coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit to a predetermined three-dimensional face shape model to derive a model parameter of the three-dimensional face shape model in the camera coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin-ichi Kojima, Yuya Yamada, Shin Osuga, Koki Ueda, Yuta Kawai, Takashi Kato, Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 11673172Abstract: Provided is a method that, when pulp fibers are recovered from used absorbent articles that have been put into collection bags, makes it possible to safely and sanitarily crush the used absorbent articles while suppressing costs. A method for recovering pulp fibers from used absorbent articles, the method comprising: a crushing step (S12) in which collection bags (A) in which used absorbent articles have been sealed are put into a container (65), the collection bags in the container are transferred to a crushing device (12) that communicates with the container, and, bag by bag, the crushing device crushes the used absorbent articles in the collections bags in a deactivating aqueous solution; and a separation step (S13) in which the pulp fibers, a highly water-absorbent polymer, and the deactivating aqueous solution are separated from the crushed product and deactivating aqueous solution obtained in the crushing step.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Konishi, Toshio Hiraoka, Takashi Kato, Noritomo Kurita
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Patent number: 11658317Abstract: The invention provides a method of inspection for erroneous assembly of a fuel cell stack which allows for determination of whether the fuel cell stack has been properly assembled without depending on the appearance of the fuel cell stack. The erroneous assembly inspection method inspects for erroneous assembly of a fuel cell stack that is produced by stacking power generation cells and dummy cells in proper power generation positions and proper dummy positions. The erroneous assembly inspection method measures a pressure difference in anode gas passages and cathode gas passages when gas is supplied at different pressures respectively to an anode gas inlet and a cathode gas inlet of the workpiece to determine whether or not the workpiece is in a third erroneous assembly state including a first abnormal cell in which a dummy MEA and a power generation separator are assembled.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kato, Toru Ikeda, Naohiro Kawakita, Keiichi Iio
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Patent number: 11598908Abstract: An interference filter module comprises two optical fiber collimators arranged on an optical axis so as to be opposed to each other, interference filters, and a casing including a main body portion and filter holding portions to be mounted into the main body portion, which are configured to hold the interference filters. Two interference filters including a kth filter when counted from a front end and a k-th filter when counted from a rear end are determined as a k-th set. The two interference filters of the k-th set are accommodated in two filter holding portions, each of which is a k-th holding portion when counted from the front end and the rear end, respectively. The two filter holding portions have rotation axes in directions orthogonal to a fore-and-aft direction and are rotatably held by the casing. The rotation axes of the filter holding portions are orthogonal to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: KOHOKU KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihisa Okubo, Takashi Kato
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Publication number: 20230054702Abstract: A method is provided for determining, in a liquid ejection apparatus, a state of a liquid ejection from an ejection port. The liquid ejection apparatus includes the ejection port configured to eject a liquid, a substrate comprising an electrothermal conversion element configured to generate heat for ejecting the liquid from the ejection port, and a temperature detection unit configured to detect temperature information on the substrate. The method includes performing a first comparison process to compare the temperature information on the substrate detected at a first timing by the temperature detection unit with a first threshold value, and performing a second comparison process to compare the temperature information on the substrate detected at a second timing by the temperature detection unit with a second threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Takashi Kato, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11571125Abstract: A line-of-sight measurement device includes: an imaging unit that images a face of a subject; a light illumination unit that illuminates light to an eye of the subject; a camera coordinate system eyeball center coordinate calculation unit that estimates coordinates of an eyeball center, from a face image imaged by the imaging unit; a pupil center calculation unit that estimates coordinates of an apparent pupil center, from a pupil center position on the face image; an eyeball position orientation estimation unit that calculates an optical axis vector toward the pupil center from the eyeball center on the basis of the coordinates of the eyeball center and the apparent pupil center; a corneal reflection image calculation unit that obtains coordinates of a corneal reflection image on the basis of the coordinates of the eyeball center, the optical axis vector, and a predetermined eyeball model; and an image coordinate calculation unit that estimates image coordinates of a corneal reflection image on the face imagType: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin-ichi Kojima, Shin Osuga, Takashi Kato, Yuya Yamada, Takeshi Matsumura
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Publication number: 20220404262Abstract: Deterioration of optical characteristics is suppressed. An optical measurement device according to an embodiment includes: an excitation light source (101 to 103) that emits excitation light having a wavelength of at least 450 nanometers or less; a lens structure (116) that condenses the excitation light at a predetermined position; a fluorescence detection system (140) that detects fluorescence emitted from a particle by excitation of the particle present at the predetermined position by the excitation light; and a scattered light detection system (130) that detects scattered light generated by the excitation light being scattered by the particle present at the predetermined position, and the lens structure includes a plurality of lenses (21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28) arranged along an optical axis of the excitation light and a lens frame (10) that holds the plurality of lenses, and a position of at least one of the plurality of lenses in the lens frame is determined by abutting on a lens adjacent to the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: SATOSHI NAGAE, KOJI KITA, TAKASHI KATO
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Publication number: 20220373741Abstract: A slope gain equalizer that corrects a slope of a gain characteristic of an optical signal in a predetermined wavelength bandwidth. An interference filter, which allows insertion losses in a predetermined wavelength region to be inclined in opposite directions between a transmitting direction and a reflecting direction from a short wavelength side to a long wavelength side, is arranged between a dual-core fiber collimator and a single-core fiber collimator facing each other on an optical axis. An optical signal of a predetermined bandwidth inputted from a first or second optical fiber held by the dual-core fiber collimator is reflected by the interference filter and outputted from the second or the first optical fiber. An optical signal inputted from a third optical fiber held by the first optical fiber or the single-core fiber collimator is transmitted through the interference filter and outputted from the third or the first optical fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: KOHOKU KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihisa Okubo, Takashi Kato
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Publication number: 20220218931Abstract: This invention provides a mask for an mechanical ventilator, including a first opening portion that takes in inspired air from the mechanical ventilator, a second opening portion that has an edge abutting against a skin of a user to send the inspired air to at least one of a nose and a mouth of the user, and a bellows portion that is formed on at least a part of the edge of the second opening portion, forms a space for temporarily storing the inspired air and expired air of the user between the first opening portion and the second opening: portion, and deforms following a shape of a face of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: iDevice, Inc.Inventors: Masahiko HARA, Yuto KIDO, Takashi KATO