Patents by Inventor Takeshi Kimura

Takeshi Kimura 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: 20250032694
    Abstract: An adsorbent material used for adsorbing a disease-causing substance, the adsorbent material including two-dimensional particles having one or plural layers, the one or plural layers containing a layer body represented by: MmXn, wherein M is at least one metal of Group 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7, X is a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, or a combination thereof, n is not less than 1 and not more than 4, m is more than n but not more than 5, and a modifier or terminal T exists on a surface of the layer body, wherein T is at least one selected from a hydroxyl group, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom, an oxygen atom, and a hydrogen atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki KIMURA, Ichitaro Okamura, Takeshi Torita, Yusuke Kobayashi, Hiromichi Wakui, Kengo Azushima, Kouichi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20240394129
    Abstract: An information processing device according to one aspect of the present disclosure is capable of safely separating a communication path from a communication port, said information processing device comprising: a communication port that is for connecting a communication path with a communication device; a display unit that displays the state of the communication port; a communication control unit that controls communication with the communication device; a header extraction unit that extracts prescribed header information of communication data; a correspondence storage unit that stores a correspondence between the header information and a risk grade which is preset as a rating indicative of the probability that failure will occur as a result of separation of the communication path from the communication port; a risk determination unit that determines the current risk grade of the communication port on the basis of the correspondence and of the header information extracted by the header extraction unit; and a d
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 12125325
    Abstract: A vehicular apparatus includes a drawer, an input device, functional devices and a maintainer. The drawer executes drawing on a display device. The input device receives a signal indicating an operation for stopping a vehicle. The maintainer maintains the drawer at an operating state to execute drawing required during stopping of the vehicle in response to that the input device receives the signal indicating the operation for stopping the vehicle, and lifts the operating state of the drawer based on a condition that a predetermined ending condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240344931
    Abstract: An exhaust gas sampling device that collects an exhaust gas emitted from a vehicle including an engine or a part of the vehicle into a sampling bag includes a main channel through which the exhaust gas flows, a main valve that opens and shuts the main channel, a dilution gas channel that is connected downstream from the main valve in the main channel and introduces a dilution gas into the main channel, a purge gas channel that branches from the dilution gas channel and has a downstream end connected downstream from the main valve in the main channel and upstream from a junction of the dilution gas channel and a purge pump that is disposed in the purge gas channel, sucks a part of the dilution gas flowing through the dilution gas channel, and delivers the sucked part as a purge gas to the main channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi KIMURA, Kazunori KURIAKI, Masahiro HIGUCHI, Yoji KOMATSU, Jun TOMITA
  • Patent number: 12040573
    Abstract: A connector housing includes a housing main body and a latch arm having a latch arm main body and a latch portion protruding from the latch arm main body. The latch arm main body is formed of a first material, extends like a cantilever from the housing main body, and is elastically deformable with respect to the housing main body. The latch portion is formed of a second material having a higher rigidity than the first material and latches with a latched member. A transition region between the first material and the second material has a continuously changing mixing ratio between the first material and the second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventor: Takeshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240206342
    Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric film, being a polycrystalline film comprised of potassium sodium niobate; containing at least one metal element selected from a group consisting of Cu and Mn; and having 1.0 or less ratio of a concentration B of the metal element at grain boundaries of crystals, with respect to a concentration A of the metal element in a matrix phase of the crystals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiaki KURODA, Kenji SHIBATA, Kazutoshi WATANABE, Takeshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 12011438
    Abstract: The inventors have found that the compounds of formula (I) protect cardiomyocytes. Accordingly, the disclosure provides a pharmaceutical composition for protecting a cardiomyocyte comprising a compound of formula (I) or an ester, oxide, pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof. The pharmaceutical composition may be used for treating or preventing a disease associated with cardiomyocyte death, such as myocardial infarction, chronic heart failure, hypertensive heart failure, or dilated cardiomyopathy, especially for treating myocardial infarction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akira Kakizuka, Koh Ono, Takahiro Horie, Yuya Ide, Naritatsu Saitou, Takeshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240183024
    Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric stack including: a substrate having a main surface with a diameter of 3 inches or more; and a piezoelectric film on the substrate, comprising a perovskite-type alkali niobium oxide containing potassium, sodium, niobium, and oxygen, wherein, a half-value width of an X-ray rocking curve of (001) is within a range of 0.5° or more and 2.5° or less over an entire area of an inside of a main surface of the piezoelectric film excluding its periphery when performing X-ray diffraction measurement on the piezoelectric film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiaki KURODA, Kenji SHIBATA, Kazutoshi WATANABE, Takeshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 12002903
    Abstract: Provided is a technology capable of improving the quality of a GaN layer that is formed on an underlying substrate. A group III-nitride laminated substrate includes an underlying substrate, a first layer that is formed on the underlying substrate and is made of aluminum nitride, and a second layer that is formed on the first layer and is made of gallium nitride. The second layer has a thickness of 10 ?m or less. A half-value width of (0002) diffraction determined through X-ray rocking curve analysis is 100 seconds or less, and a half-value width of (10-12) diffraction determined through X-ray rocking curve analysis is 200 seconds or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hajime Fujikura, Taichiro Konno, Takeshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240099143
    Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric stack including: a substrate (1); a bottom electrode film (2) on the substrate; a piezoelectric film (3) on the bottom electrode film, having a planar area smaller than a planar area of the bottom electrode film; a top electrode film (4) on the piezoelectric film; and an insulating film (5) provided from the top electrode film to the bottom electrode film and covering at least a part of a side surface of the piezoelectric film, wherein the insulating film has a slope (9a) filling a step between a top surface of the top electrode film and a top surface of the bottom electrode film, and the slope has a shape alleviating the step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiaki KURODA, Kenji SHIBATA, Kazutoshi WATANABE, Takeshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11908902
    Abstract: Provided is a group III nitride laminate for improving device characteristics, including: an underlying substrate; a first layer that is formed on the underlying substrate and is made of aluminum nitride; and a second layer that is formed on the first layer and is made of gallium nitride, wherein the first layer has a thickness of more than 100 nm and 1 ?m or less, a full width at half maximum of (0002) diffraction determined through X-ray rocking curve analysis is 250 seconds or less, and a full width at half maximum of (10-12) diffraction determined through X-ray rocking curve analysis is 500 seconds or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hajime Fujikura, Taichiro Konno, Takeshi Kimura, Osamu Goto
  • Publication number: 20230353370
    Abstract: Reduce inventory cost without preparing a control device for each destination in advance. This control device is for controlling industrial machinery and includes an encryption unit, and comprises: an encryption device unit that includes a plurality of encryption units corresponding to each of a plurality of destinations, and a plurality of invalidation units that invalidate any one of the plurality of encryption units or invalidate the plurality of encryption units; and an operating unit that, depending on the destination of the control device, selects invalidation of the encryption units by specifying to each of the plurality of invalidation units to invalidate one of the plurality of encryption units or to invalidate the plurality of encryption units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yumeki YUI, Takeshi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230276711
    Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric stack, including: a substrate; an output-side bottom electrode film on the substrate; an output-side piezoelectric film, being an oxide film, on the output-side bottom electrode film; an output-side top electrode film on the output-side piezoelectric film; an input-side bottom electrode film on the substrate; an input-side piezoelectric film, being a nitride film, on the input-side bottom electrode film; an input-side top electrode film on the input-side piezoelectric film; and an ultrasonic output part and ultrasonic input part placed in such a manner as not overlapping each other when viewed from a top surface of the substrate, the ultrasonic output part comprising a stacked part of the output-side bottom electrode film, the output-side piezoelectric film, and the output-side top electrode film, the ultrasonic input part comprising a stacked part of the input-side bottom electrode film, the input-side piezoelectric film, and the input-side top electrode film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiaki KURODA, Kenji SHIBATA, Kazutoshi WATANABE, Takeshi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230270013
    Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric stack, including: a substrate; an oxide film on the substrate, containing zinc and oxygen as main elements; an electrode film on the oxide film; and a piezoelectric film on the electrode film, being an alkali niobium oxide film containing potassium, sodium, niobium, and oxygen and having a perovskite structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiaki KURODA, Kenji SHIBATA, Kazutoshi WATANABE, Takeshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11732380
    Abstract: There is provided a nitride crystal substrate having a main surface and formed of group-III nitride crystal, wherein NIR/NElec, satisfies formula (1) below, which is a ratio of a carrier concentration NIR at a center of the main surface relative to a carrier concentration NElec: 0.5?NIR/NElec?1.5 . . . (1) where NIR is the carrier concentration on the main surface side of the nitride crystal substrate obtained based on a reflectance of the main surface measured by a reflection type Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and NElec is the carrier concentration in the nitride crystal substrate obtained based on a specific resistance of the nitride crystal substrate and a mobility of the nitride crystal substrate measured by an eddy current method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Fumimasa Horikiri, Takeshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230245885
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor laminate, comprising: a substrate; and a p-type layer provided above the substrate and comprising a group III nitride containing Mg, wherein C concentration in the p-type layer is less than 5 × 1015 cm-3, O concentration in the p-type layer is less than 5 × 1015 cm-3, Si concentration in the p-type layer is less than 1×1015 cm-3, and F concentration in the p-type layer is 1×1014 cm-3 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shota KANEKI, Hajime FUJIKURA, Taichiro KONNO, Takeshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11705609
    Abstract: A contact structure causing a first electric device to be electrically connected to a second electric device includes first terminals and second terminals. The second terminals include contact projections to be electrically connected to the first terminals, and cleaning projections located closer to an opening side of a fitting part of the second electric device than the contact projections to be brought into contact with the first terminals. The contact structure is configured such that the contact projections are not in contact with a surface of an outer case of the first electric device or surfaces of the first terminals before the cleaning projections climb over the first terminals. The contact structure is also configured such that the contact projections are brought into contact with the surfaces of the first terminals after the cleaning projections climb over the first terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Chiba, Takashi Kuboki, Takeshi Kimura, Kenji Tanisho
  • Publication number: 20230204475
    Abstract: A dilution gas mixing unit that is used in an exhaust gas analysis system that analyzes the mixed gas obtained by diluting an exhaust gas with the dilution gas, and mixes the dilution gas with the exhaust gas is provided with a dilution gas supply pipe that is connected to an exhaust gas introduction pipe into which the exhaust gas is introduced and supplies the dilution gas to the exhaust gas introduction pipe, a dilution gas sampling unit that is provided in the dilution gas supply pipe and collects the dilution gas, and a backflow prevention member that is provided closer to the exhaust gas introduction pipe than the dilution gas sampling unit in the dilution gas supply pipe and prevents the mixed gas from flowing backward through the dilution gas supply pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki YASUDA, Hiromitsu IZUMI, Takeshi KIMURA, Masahiro HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230142065
    Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric stack, including: a substrate; an output-side bottom electrode film on the substrate; an output-side piezoelectric film, being an oxide film, on the output-side bottom electrode film; an output-side top electrode film on the output-side piezoelectric film; an input-side bottom electrode film on the substrate; an input-side piezoelectric film, being a nitride film, on the input-side bottom electrode film; an input-side top electrode film on the input-side piezoelectric film; and an ultrasonic output part and ultrasonic input part placed in such a manner as not overlapping each other when viewed from a top surface of the substrate, the ultrasonic output part comprising a stacked part of the output-side bottom electrode film, the output-side piezoelectric film, and the output-side top electrode film, the ultrasonic input part comprising a stacked part of the input-side bottom electrode film, the input-side piezoelectric film, and the input-side top electrode film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiaki KURODA, Kenji SHIBATA, Kazutoshi WATANABE, Takeshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11634140
    Abstract: The vehicle control device sets a region including a stationary object on a road, calculates a passing position at which a host vehicle and an oncoming vehicle pass each other in accordance with a velocity of the host vehicle and a position and a velocity of the oncoming vehicle, calculates a first score that is a larger value as the velocity of the oncoming vehicle is greater, calculates a second score that is a larger value as an acceleration rate of the oncoming vehicle is greater, integrates the first score with the second score so as to calculate an integration score, and causes the host vehicle to decelerate when the integration score is greater than or equal to a predetermined value or causing the host vehicle to keep the velocity or accelerate when the integration score is smaller than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Takei, Shinya Tanaka, Takeshi Kimura