Patents by Inventor Takashi Nishiyama

Takashi Nishiyama 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: 12089947
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit that obtains use information indicating a state of use of a toilet by a subject; a calculation unit that calculates a total number of times of use of a toilet by the subject, based on the use information obtained by the obtainment unit; an evaluation unit that evaluates a cognitive function of the subject, based on the total number of times of use calculated by the calculation unit; and an output unit that outputs a result of evaluation performed by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirobumi Nakajima, Kengo Abe, Takashi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Sadayuki Sumi, Kohji Sasabe
  • Patent number: 11918372
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit that obtains utterance data indicating a voice of an evaluatee uttering a sentence as instructed; a calculation unit that calculates, from the utterance data obtained by the obtainment unit, a feature based on the utterance data; an evaluation unit that compares the feature calculated by the calculation unit to reference data indicating a relationship between voice data indicating a voice of a person and a cognitive function of the person to evaluate the cognitive function of the evaluatee; and an output unit that outputs the sentence to be uttered by the evaluatee and outputs a result of evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Sumi, Ryosuke Nagumo, Kengo Abe, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takashi Nishiyama, Hirobumi Nakajima, Kohji Sasabe, Makoto Kariyasu, Takako Yoshimura, Minoru Toyama
  • Patent number: 11892244
    Abstract: In order to improve the efficiency of solidification and melting of a heat storage material in a heat storage material unit, a heat storage material covered with a coating material is accommodated in a metal accommodating container having a high thermal conductivity, and the heat storage material unit is embedded in a thermal insulation panel in such a way that the accommodating container is exposed inside a merchandise accommodating compartment, thereby enabling a surface of the heat storage material that is embedded in the thermal insulation panel also to exhibit an action equivalent to that if the accommodating container is exposed in the merchandise accommodating compartment as a heat transfer element, thereby improving the efficiency of solidification (heat storage) and melting (heat dissipation) of the heat storage material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Yuji Ishino, Yiguang Zhang, Yasuo Nakazato, Yasuhiro Yamazaki, Takashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11883183
    Abstract: Cognitive function evaluation device includes: storing unit storing reference data on the relationship between the periodicity of a body movement of a person walking and the cognitive function level of the person; acquiring unit that acquires body movement data on the detected body movement from body movement sensor that detects the body movement of subject walking; and calculating unit that calculates the periodicity of the body movement while walking from the acquired body movement data and checks the calculated periodicity against reference data stored in storing unit so as to identify the cognitive function level corresponding to the calculated periodicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Okada, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takashi Nishiyama, Kengo Abe
  • Patent number: 11826161
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an instruction unit that instructs quick pronunciation of pseudoword in which a predetermined syllable is repeated; an obtainment unit that obtains voice data indicating a voice of an evaluatee who has received an instruction; a calculation unit that calculates a feature from the voice data obtained by the obtainment unit; an evaluation unit that evaluates a cognitive function of the evaluatee from the feature calculated by the calculation unit; and an output unit that outputs a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Sumi, Ryosuke Nagumo, Kengo Abe, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takashi Nishiyama, Hirobumi Nakajima, Kohji Sasabe, Makoto Kariyasu, Takako Yoshimura, Minoru Toyama
  • Publication number: 20230373582
    Abstract: There is provided a straddle-type vehicle including: an accommodation space configured to accommodate an accommodation object; a seat disposed behind the accommodation space in a front-rear direction and on which a rider straddles; a hinge shaft disposed above and in front of a front end portion of the seat and extending in a left-right direction; and a cover body pivotable about the hinge shaft between an open position where the accommodation space is opened upward and a closed position where the accommodation space is covered from above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Takashi NISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11766209
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit configured to obtain speech data indicating speech uttered by a subject; a calculation unit configured to extract a plurality of vowels from the speech data obtained by the obtainment unit, and calculate, for each of the plurality of vowels, a feature value based on a frequency and an amplitude of at least one formant obtained from a spectrum of the vowel; an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a cognitive function of the subject from the feature value calculated by the calculation unit; and an output unit configured to output an evaluation result of the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Sumi, Kengo Abe, Ryosuke Nagumo, Takashi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takaaki Ukeda
  • Publication number: 20230234975
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for purifying an organic compound, by which an organic compound having a reduced lead content is obtained from an organic compound that contains a lead component as an impurity. In this method for purifying an organic compound, the organic compound that contains a lead component is irradiated with ultraviolet light, and the lead component is subsequently removed from the organic compound. The present invention also provides a method for producing an organic compound, said method comprising purification of the organic compound by means of the above-described method for purifying an organic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Honda, Takashi Nishiyama, Takenori Isomura
  • Patent number: 11690561
    Abstract: An estimation system includes: a first sensor that detects a first amount of activity that is an amount of activity of a subject in a room; a second sensor that detects a second amount of activity that is an amount of activity of the subject on a bed in the room; and an estimation device that estimates at least one of a position and an action of the subject in association with a position in the room based on the first amount of activity detected by the first sensor and the second amount of activity detected by the second sensor, and outputs an estimation result obtained from the estimation. The first sensor and the second sensor are sensors other than two-dimensional image sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Abe, Takashi Nishiyama, Hirobumi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11628900
    Abstract: A straddle vehicle includes a vehicle body, a headlamp main body, and a driver circuit. The driver circuit drives the headlamp main body. The headlamp main body includes a housing that accommodates a light emission member. The driver circuit is disposed outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomo Yamamoto, Takashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11450168
    Abstract: An automatic vending machine is provided with a storage compartment or the like having a thermally insulating construction in which a number of product columns for accommodating products aligned side-by-side in one column are provided in different levels in such a way that the most downstream products in each product column are aligned side-by-side in a vertical direction, and an in-compartment fan for cooling an internal atmosphere of the storage compartment or the like by blowing air that has been cooled by means of an evaporator disposed in the storage compartment or the like, wherein the automatic vending machine is also provided with a control unit which drives the in-compartment fan for a predefined time if the internal temperature of the storage compartment or the like reaches to or above a predefined reference temperature in a state in which driving of a freezer and of the in-compartment fan are stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Yuji Ishino, Yasuo Nakazato, Yasuhiro Yamazaki, Takashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11443583
    Abstract: An automatic vending machine includes: a product housing rack including product housing shelves each including a product housing path, and a product discharger; a first stopper configured to be movable between a protrusion position and a retract position, and to tilt such that a free end side of a holding portion is positioned at a product discharge port; a second stopper configured to be movable between a retract position and a protrusion position, and to press a vending product when protruding; a link configured to move each of the first and the second stopper to the protrusion and the retract position; and a driver configured to drive the link, wherein the second stopper includes ribs formed on a surface facing the product housing path, the ribs being configured to extend from a base end part toward a holding portion of the second stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Fukuda, Tsutomu Iwako, Yasuo Nakazato, Yasuhiro Yamazaki, Takashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11399765
    Abstract: A dementia information output system according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an amount of body motion of a user; a determining unit configured to determine a likelihood that the user is developing a mild dementia or the like on the basis of a variability degree that is a degree by which an amount of body motion varies over a plurality of days in each of a plurality of time periods; and an outputting unit configured to output dementia information indicating the likelihood determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Kengo Abe
  • Publication number: 20220126941
    Abstract: A straddle vehicle includes a vehicle body, a headlamp main body, and a driver circuit. The driver circuit drives the headlamp main body. The headlamp main body includes a housing that accommodates a light emission member. The driver circuit is disposed outside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Tomo YAMAMOTO, Takashi NISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11315130
    Abstract: A vending machine includes a storage to store product management data in which an on-sale product management numbers is associated with product management content; an input and output unit to input and output the product management data; and an update control unit configured to update the product management data. Further, the update control unit collectively receives all the product management data including a part to be updated, stores all the product management data as update target product management data, displays the update target product management data including confirmation target information and stores the update target product management data as updated product management data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Takashi Tanazawa, Minoru Murayama, Kazuo Tsunoda, Yusuke Nakajima, Yasuo Nakazato, Yasuhiro Yamazaki, Takashi Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20220120768
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dry reagent and a method that enable fibrinogen determination without dilution of the sample. More specifically, the present disclosure provides a fibrinogen measurement dry reagent of an undiluted sample comprising: (i) thrombin or a protein having thrombin activity; (ii) magnetic particles; (iii) a fibrin monomer polymerization inhibitor; (iv) a calcium salt; (v) a dry reagent layer solubility improving agent; (vi) a dry reagent layer reinforcing material; and (vii) a buffer and a method for fibrinogen determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi NISHIYAMA, Kazuya NAKAMOTO, Masayoshi KIKUCHI, Takayoshi TORAMI, Shuichi OKA
  • Patent number: 11272873
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires body motion data representing a body motion of a person to be evaluated during walking; a calculation unit that calculates a displacement of a body of the person to be evaluated during walking based on the acquired body motion data; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a cognitive function of the person to be evaluated based on a frequency peak representing a cycle of walking of person-to-be-evaluated obtained by performing a frequency analysis on the calculated displacement, and to output the evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takashi Okada, Takashi Nishiyama, Kengo Abe
  • Patent number: 11227462
    Abstract: An automatic vending machine includes a product housing rack including a plurality of product housing shelves that are disposed in an up-down direction, a plurality of product housing paths corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves, each product housing path being defined in the corresponding product housing shelf and configured to house products, a plurality of product discharge devices corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves and the plurality of product housing paths, each product discharge device being configured to separate and discharge, one by one, the products that are housed in the corresponding product housing path. The product housing shelf includes a front side shelf member and a back side shelf member that are divided in the front-back direction, supported by support members, and detachably coupled with each other so that the front side shelf member is sandwiched by the back side shelf member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignees: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Fukuda, Tsutomu Iwako, Yasuo Nakazato, Yasuhiro Yamazaki, Takashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11219404
    Abstract: Cognitive decline detection system includes obtainment unit and determination unit. Obtainment unit obtains the amount of movement during a sleep period and the amount of movement during a non-sleep period of a user for each day, the non-sleep period being the period other than the sleep period. Determination unit determines that the cognitive function of the user is lower during a determination period than during a comparison period set before the determination period when the frequency of days when a movement amount ratio falls below a predetermined ratio among days constituting the determination period is higher than that among days constituting the comparison period, the movement amount ratio representing the ratio of the amount of movement during the non-sleep period to the amount of movement during the sleep period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Kengo Abe
  • Patent number: 11183000
    Abstract: An automatic vending machine includes a product housing rack including a plurality of product housing shelves that are disposed in an up-down direction, a plurality of product housing paths corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves, each product housing path being defined in the corresponding product housing shelf and configured to house products, a plurality of product discharge devices corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves and the plurality of product housing paths, each product discharge device being configured to separate and discharge, one by one, the products that are housed in the corresponding product housing path. The product housing shelf includes a front side shelf member and a back side shelf member that are divided in the front-back direction, supported by support members, and detachably coupled with each other so that the front side shelf member is sandwiched by the back side shelf member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Fukuda, Tsutomu Iwako, Yasuo Nakazato, Yasuhiro Yamazaki, Takashi Nishiyama