Patents by Inventor Takashi Shimizu

Takashi Shimizu 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).

  • Publication number: 20250032392
    Abstract: To provide a hyaluronate skin-penetrating cosmetic that allows a hyaluronate to penetrate into the skin without a complicated step such as composite formation of a hyaluronate. A hyaluronate skin-penetrating cosmetic of the present disclosure contains a hyaluronate and an amphoteric surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mika YOSHIMURA, Anna OKISHIMA, Takashi OKA, Hiroko SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20250038007
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of conductive layers that are stacked in plurality in a first direction via an inter-layer insulating layer, that extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction, and that are disposed in plurality in a third direction which intersects the first direction and the second direction. In addition, the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor layer that has the first direction as a longitudinal direction; a tunnel insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the semiconductor layer; a charge accumulation layer that contacts a side surface of the tunnel insulating layer; and a block insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the charge accumulation layer. Furthermore, in the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, an end in the third direction of the plurality of conductive layers is rounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi SONEHARA, Takahiro HIRAI, Masaaki HIGUCHI, Takashi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 12204275
    Abstract: A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keita Shimizu, Tomoya Ichikawa, Takashi Shimizu, Kazuna Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20250006891
    Abstract: A negative electrode includes a negative active material layer containing a silicon-based negative active material, a rubber-based binder, and a carbon nanotube, wherein a content of the silicon-based negative active material in the negative active material layer is 68 mass % or more, a content of the rubber-based binder in the negative active material layer is 3.0 mass % or more, and a content of the carbon nanotube in the negative active material layer is 0.4×(n2+4n)/(2n+3) mass % or less where n is the number of layers of graphene forming the carbon nanotube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinnosuke ICHIKAWA, Nobuhiro NAKAJIMA, Takashi SHIMIZU, Akihito TANOI, Heisuke NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 12165452
    Abstract: An electronic key terminal includes a first case and a second case, an elastic member including a planar portion and a wall portion protruding from at least a part of a periphery of the planar portion in a direction from the first case toward the second case, and an electronic board housed in a space defined by the first case and the second case. The wall portion includes protruding portions protruding from opposing sides of the wall portion. The electronic board is partially disposed between the third planar portion and the protruding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Yuichi Suehiro, Koichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240396135
    Abstract: The sealing film seals a gap between an electrode lead wire and a housing vessel. The electrode lead wire is electrically connected to a battery body. The housing vessel houses the battery body. The sealing film includes one or a plurality of thermoplastic resin layers. At least one of the thermoplastic resin layers includes a hydrogen-bonding resin having a structure allowing hydrogen bonding between molecules thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takeyama, Takanori Sakuragi, Atsufumi Meguro, Takashi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240377576
    Abstract: A plastic optical fiber suitable for reducing interfacial delamination between a clad and a coating layer. The plastic optical fiber includes: a core; a clad disposed on an outer circumference of the core and including a fluorine-containing resin; and a coating layer disposed on an outer circumference of the clad, the coating layer consisting of a material. The material has an elongation, as measured by a given test, of 0.05% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi OHMURA, Takashi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 12142486
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of conductive layers that are stacked in plurality in a first direction via an inter-layer insulating layer, that extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction, and that are disposed in plurality in a third direction which intersects the first direction and the second direction. In addition, the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor layer that has the first direction as a longitudinal direction; a tunnel insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the semiconductor layer; a charge accumulation layer that contacts a side surface of the tunnel insulating layer; and a block insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the charge accumulation layer. Furthermore, in the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, an end in the third direction of the plurality of conductive layers is rounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Sonehara, Takahiro Hirai, Masaaki Higuchi, Takashi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240329295
    Abstract: A plastic optical fiber of the present disclosure includes: a core including a first region having a refractive index decreasing in a direction from a center of the core toward an outer edge of the core; and a trench disposed on an outer circumference of the core. When a refractive index difference between a refractive index n1 at the outer edge of the core and a refractive index n2 of the trench is defined as ?n and a thickness of the trench is defined as d (?m), a value of ?n×d is 0.010 or more and 0.06 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Toru Moriya, Kazuya Takayama, Hiroshi Ohmura
  • Patent number: 12085872
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a photoconductor; a developing device; a developer storage; a supplier configured to supply developer; an optical sensor; and a controller configured to execute: a developing process of developing an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor; a usage-amount obtaining process of obtaining a usage amount of the developer; a supplying process of supplying the developer to the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a first threshold; and a detecting process of detecting, by the optical sensor, an amount of the developer in the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and wherein the controller is configured to execute the detecting process in a period different from a period in which the developing process is being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Kazuma Hinoue, Takashi Yasuda, Takashi Shimizu, Yoshifumi Kajikawa
  • Patent number: 12072006
    Abstract: A developing device may include an auger or an agitator that is capable of supplying toner in a toner accommodation chamber to a developing chamber and is rotatable about an auger axis extending in an axial direction, a transporting gear that is rotatable together with the auger or the agitator, and a moving gear that is in mesh with a coupling gear and is rotatable both counterclockwise and clockwise. The moving gear is movable while being in mesh with the coupling gear between a first position where the moving gear is in mesh with the transporting gear and a second position where the moving gear is out of mesh with the transporting gear. The moving gear moves to the first position when the coupling gear rotates counterclockwise and to the second position when the coupling gear rotates clockwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Yasuo Fukamachi, Keita Shimizu, Kazutoshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240210615
    Abstract: A plastic optical fiber includes a core and a clad disposed on an outer circumference of the core. The core includes a first resin, and the clad includes a second resin. The first resin has a first glass transition temperature Tg1 of 120° C. or higher. The second resin has a second glass transition temperature Tg2 of 120° C. or higher. When the plastic optical fiber bent once 180 degrees at 25° C. has a curvature radius R and a minimum of the curvature radius R is defined as a curvature radius at which a crack does not occur in a bent portion of the plastic optical fiber, the minimum is 5 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi SHIMIZU, Hiroshi OHMURA, Takeshi SAITO
  • Publication number: 20240168099
    Abstract: An estimation device is a device that estimates a charge state of an energy storage device including a negative electrode having a negative active material that contains Si. The estimation device includes a control unit that determines based on a charge-discharge history of the energy storage device whether or not to perform a first estimation method of estimating a charge state of the energy storage device by using a relationship between the charge state and a voltage of the energy storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Shinnosuke ICHIKAWA, Shinya MIYAZONO, Akihito TANOI, Heisuke NISHIKAWA, Nobuhiro NAKAJIMA, Takashi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11984547
    Abstract: A wiring board includes: a glass substrate serving as a substrate, which includes a first surface, a second surface which is opposite to the first surface, and a side surface; an input electrode serving an electrode, which is located close to a side of the first surface; an insulating layer disposed on the glass substrate; and a side wiring disposed so as to extend from the input electrode via the side surface to the second surface. An end of the insulating layer located close to the side is provided with a cutaway portion extending in an inward direction of the insulating layer, the input electrode is disposed in an entrance-side part of the cutaway portion, and the cutaway portion includes a bottom-side part constituting an inward area which is free of the input electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11929921
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus that implements at least some functions in flow control of a software defined network (SDN) by hardware, the communication control apparatus includes a processor. The configured to set, when a packet of a flow that is not registered in transfer control information is detected when a plurality of packets that constitutes a flow is transferred, a destination resolution standby state for the flow in the transfer control information, store, into an evaluation queue, at least some of packets received in the destination resolution standby state, stop a pipeline that processes a packet to be transferred after destination resolution for the flow, output a packet that belongs to the flow and is stored in the evacuation queue, and operate the pipeline after the output of the packet stored in the evacuation queue is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Takashi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11914317
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing device configured to supply toner onto the photosensitive drum, a transfer device configured to transfer the toner supplied onto the photosensitive drum onto a sheet, a spraying device configured to spray a fixing liquid toward the sheet onto which the toner has been transferred, the spraying device including a housing configured to accommodate the fixing liquid and nozzles configured to spray the fixing liquid inside the housing, and a collecting device configured to collect the fixing liquid sprayed from the nozzles and did not adhere to the sheet. The collecting device includes a collection tray configured to accommodate the fixing liquid, a collection pipe connected to the collection tray and configured to allow the fixing liquid in the collection tray to pass therethrough, and a collection pump configured to send the fixing liquid in the collection pipe toward the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masataka Kamiya, Yutaka Kakigahara, Satoshi Murata, Takashi Shimizu, Koya Morimoto, Masamitsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11899392
    Abstract: A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is detachably attachable; a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller; and a conveying roller. The drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the frame in a second direction. The transfer roller is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction and in contact with the drum. The conveying roller is rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction and separated from the transfer roller in the second direction. A first opening of the frame is positioned between the transfer roller and the conveying roller in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is exposed to an outside through the first opening in a case where the developing cartridge is attached to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Koji Abe
  • Publication number: 20240045371
    Abstract: A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keita SHIMIZU, Tomoya ICHIKAWA, Takashi SHIMIZU, Kazuna TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240030040
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of conductive layers that are stacked in plurality in a first direction via an inter-layer insulating layer, that extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction, and that are disposed in plurality in a third direction which intersects the first direction and the second direction. In addition, the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor layer that has the first direction as a longitudinal direction; a tunnel insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the semiconductor layer; a charge accumulation layer that contacts a side surface of the tunnel insulating layer; and a block insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the charge accumulation layer. Furthermore, in the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, an end in the third direction of the plurality of conductive layers is rounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi SONEHARA, Takahiro HIRAI, Masaaki HIGUCHI, Takashi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11877199
    Abstract: A base station information DB (11) of a base station management apparatus (1) stores base station information that indicates wireless schemes that can be implemented by base stations (5), scheduled periods for implementation of the wireless schemes, and coverage areas of the base stations (5) in which wireless terminals can be accommodated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Maiko Naya, Kenji Shimizu, Takahiro Yamazaki, Atsushi Taniguchi, Takayuki Yamada