Patents by Inventor Takeshi Murakami

Takeshi Murakami 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: 12119417
    Abstract: An optical semiconductor element includes: a semiconductor substrate that is semi-insulating; a columnar body that is formed on a front surface-side of the semiconductor substrate and configured to emit or receive light from the front surface-side; a front surface-side electrode that is connected to the columnar body; a back surface-side electrode formed on a back surface-side of the semiconductor substrate; and an electrically conductive member that is formed to penetrate through the semiconductor substrate to connect the front surface-electrode and the back surface-side electrode, and has a protruding portion protruding on the front surface-side of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Satoshi Inada, Kenichi Ono, Takeshi Minamiru, Akemi Murakami, Junichiro Hayakawa, Tsutomu Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20240331467
    Abstract: A log management device acquires an alive monitoring log indicating that a security sensor of an electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle is operating; records acquisition of the alive monitoring log in an alive monitoring table; identifies an unacquired alive monitoring log, and records, in the alive monitoring table, an unacquired period during which the unacquired alive monitoring log is not acquired; and invalidates a record of the unacquired alive monitoring log in the alive monitoring table when the unacquired period of the unacquired alive monitoring log is equal to or longer than a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Shogo WATANABE, Tokuya INAGAKI, Ryosuke MURAKAMI, Hirofumi YAMASHITA, Shinnosuke SUGAWARA, Takeshi MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20240330166
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a computation unit that executes a computation of first control software when a vehicle is in a first state and that executes a computation of second control software when the vehicle is in a second state; a comparison reference data saving unit that saves input data input from a sensor to the first control software and to the second control software and that saves output data from the first control software and the second control software; and an evaluation unit that evaluates the performance of the second control software, based on a difference between pieces of output data read from the comparison reference data saving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi FUKUDA, Tasuku ISHIGOOKA, Masashi MIZOGUCHI, Takashi MURAKAMI, Kazuyoshi SERIZAWA, Tomohito EBINA
  • Patent number: 12089686
    Abstract: A helmet that is reliably and quickly removable from the head of a user by a third person includes a head covering shell having an insertion opening that opens downward and configured to protect the head of the user; a shock absorbing body disposed adjacent to an inner periphery of the head covering shell to reduce shock to the head of the user; and a cushion pad disposed adjacent to an inner periphery of the shock absorbing body to fill a gap between the shock absorbing body and the head. The cushion pad includes an emergency removal pad at a position along an opening edge of the insertion opening. The emergency removal pad includes a pad bag having a hollow interior, a pad body disposed in the pad bag, and a pad removal part that enables the pad body to be taken out from the pad bag attached to the opening edge of the insertion opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: OGK KABUTO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshito Nakashima, Takeshi Murakami, Toru Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20240286540
    Abstract: An effective component generation device includes an effective component generator and a controller. The effective component generator generates an effective component inside a table storage provided to an armrest in a vehicle. The table storage can store a table. The effective component generator is provided in the table storage. The effective component generation device includes a fan. The controller drives the fan when the controller causes the effective component generator to generate the effective component. The effective component generation device includes a direction switcher. The controller controls the direction switcher to control a direction in which the effective component flows. When the table is stored in the table storage, the controller controls the direction switcher to cause the effective component to flow into the table storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi MIYAOKA, Masahiro JIGI, Hideyuki MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240282157
    Abstract: A control unit of an information processing device acquires a request to add an item to a vehicle, acquires first information that is information according to whether the vehicle has a structure for adding an item, determining a fee for adding the item to the vehicle based on the one piece of information and the information about the item, and outputting the information about the fee.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nariaki AMANO, Yukinori II, Yusuke MAEDA, Takeshi MURAKAMI, Atsuki SAKURAI, Yuichiro YANO, Yuki KATAI, Yoshiaki SUGIYAMA, Taisei NISHIMORI, Seiichi TAGAWA, Shinichi TAKEDA, Yuta TONE
  • Publication number: 20240249208
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that executes: obtaining a request to add an item to a vehicle; obtaining first information that is information depending on whether the vehicle has a structure for adding an item; determining a factory that provides a service for adding the item to the vehicle based on the first information and information about the item; and outputting information about the factory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nariaki AMANO, Yukinori II, Yusuke MAEDA, Takeshi MURAKAMI, Atsuki SAKURAI, Yuichiro YANO, Yuki KATAI, Yoshiaki SUGIYAMA, Taisei NISHIMORI, Seiichi TAGAWA, Shinichi TAKEDA, Yuta TONE
  • Patent number: 12045006
    Abstract: There is provided an electrophotographic photosensitive member having drum shape, the electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer, wherein an outer surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member has wrinkles, and when an observation region having square form with one side of 100 ?m is placed at an arbitrary position on the outer surface, a line that passes through a central point of the observation region and is parallel to a circumferential direction of the electrophotographic photosensitive member is defined as a first reference line L1, and 3,599 reference lines obtained by rotating the first reference line L1 at every 0.1° around the central point are defined as L2 to L3,600, respectively, each of L1 to L3,600 intersects with convex portions of the wrinkles at a plurality of locations and has at least two different intersection angles selected from the plurality of locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABU SHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuhei Iwasaki, Tomohito Ishida, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Tatsuya Yamaai, Yuka Ishiduka, Yota Ito, Takeshi Murakami
  • Patent number: 11964607
    Abstract: A vehicle loads at least one of a plurality of upper units having space to store a person or an object on an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels in the vehicle. The vehicle includes an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels and the at least one of the plurality of upper units loaded on the under unit. The under unit includes a loading unit, on which the at least one of the plurality of upper units as described above can be loaded. Each of the plurality of upper units includes a joint that joins to a different upper unit that is adjacently loaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai
  • Publication number: 20240122818
    Abstract: The present invention relates to light-scattering silica particles having a light scattering property, the light-scattering silica particles including: a plurality of hollow portions each having a closed pore structure inside the particle, in which the light-scattering silica particles have a volume-based cumulative 50% particle diameter of 1 ?m to 500 ?m and an average circularity of 0.80 or more, and in use of the light-scattering silica particles, a reflectance A of a water cake containing 20 mg/cm2 of silica per measurement cross-sectional area at an ultraviolet wavelength of 310 nm is 30% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: AGC Inc., AGC SI-TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime KATAYAMA, Masashi KONDO, Kohta FUKUMOTO, Yuriko TAKANO, Shinnosuke ARIMITSU, Takeshi MURAKAMI, Kenji HIGASHI, Daisuke YAMAZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240027443
    Abstract: A particle including a polymer which has a repeating unit derived from a vinyl-based monomer. The particle has a specific structure containing a carboxy group, and a surface of the particle contains a water-soluble polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: KENGO KANAZAKI, FUMIO YAMAUCHI, NORISHIGE KAKEGAWA, MASARU SUGITA, RYO NATORI, TAKESHI MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230393085
    Abstract: Provided is a method of evaluating a deviation of a trajectory of a primary electron beam in a primary optical system in an electron beam observation device including the primary optical system that irradiates a sample with the primary electron beam including a plurality of primary electrons and a secondary optical system that detects, by a detector, a secondary electron beam including a plurality of secondary electrons emitted from the sample irradiated with the primary electron beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji WATANABE, Takeshi MURAKAMI, Yasushi TOMA, Ryo TAJIMA, Tsutomu KARIMATA
  • Patent number: 11794626
    Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to freely exchange interior of a vehicle. An interior unit according to the present disclosure is provided with: a frame portion attachable to and detachable from a vehicle; and interior parts installed on the frame portion. The frame portion is foldable, or extendable and contractible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai
  • Patent number: 11782353
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrophotographic photosensitive member including: forming a photosensitive layer; and forming a protective layer, wherein the step of forming the photosensitive layer forms a photosensitive layer having an amount of residual solvent of a first solvent in the photosensitive layer of 0.05% to 2.50% and an amount of residual solvent of a second solvent in the photosensitive layer of 0.50% to 2.50%, and the step of forming the protective layer includes step (A) of forming a cured film and step (B) of forming the protective layer having wrinkle shapes, wherein, in step (A), the irradiated coating film is heated at a heating temperature lower than a boiling point of the first solvent and in step (B), the cured film is heated at a heating temperature higher than a boiling point of the first solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamura, Tomohito Ishida, Shuhei Iwasaki, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Tatsuya Yamaai, Yuka Ishiduka, Yota Ito, Takeshi Murakami
  • Patent number: 11673608
    Abstract: A vehicle comprises an under unit which is equipped with a driving mechanism configured to rotate wheels of the vehicle, and an upper unit which is mounted on the under unit. The upper unit comprises an extension/contraction mechanism which is configured to extend or contract the upper unit according to a size of the under unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai
  • Publication number: 20230052900
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydroxyapatite-supporting porous silica particle, in which hydroxyapatite is supported on a surface a spherical porous silica particle and inner surfaces of pores of the spherical porous silica particle, and in which the hydroxyapatite-supporting porous silica particle has a circularity of 0.760 or larger, a method for producing the hydroxyapatite-supporting porous silica particles, and a composition containing the hydroxyapatite-supporting porous silica particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: AGC SI-TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11580583
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technique that enables customization of a vehicle. In an information processing apparatus, a controller presents vehicle units extracted from among a plurality of types of under units each of which is provided with a driving mechanism configured to cause wheels to rotate and a plurality of types of upper units to be loaded on any of the under units to a user, the vehicle units being combinable as a vehicle. Furthermore, the controller executes: accepting selection by a user from among the presented vehicle units; and calculating a fee in the case of providing the selected vehicle units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Yuji Suzuki, Keita Yamazaki, Kei Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Ogawa, Yukiya Sugiyama, Masaru Ando, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai, Azusa Nakagame, Erina Toyama, Yasushi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20230041919
    Abstract: A helmet that is reliably and quickly removable from the head of a user by a third person includes a head covering shell having an insertion opening that opens downward and configured to protect the head of the user; a shock absorbing body disposed adjacent to an inner periphery of the head covering shell to reduce shock to the head of the user; and a cushion pad disposed adjacent to an inner periphery of the shock absorbing body to fill a gap between the shock absorbing body and the head. The cushion pad includes an emergency removal pad at a position along an opening edge of the insertion opening. The emergency removal pad includes a pad bag having a hollow interior, a pad body disposed in the pad bag, and a pad removal part that enables the pad body to be taken out from the pad bag attached to the opening edge of the insertion opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: OGK KABUTO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshito NAKASHIMA, Takeshi MURAKAMI, Toru FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 11573499
    Abstract: Provided is a process cartridge detachably attachable to a main body of an electrophotographic apparatus, the process cartridge including: a developing unit including a toner; and an electrophotographic photosensitive member, wherein the toner includes a toner particle, the toner particle has a surface containing a polyvalent acid metal salt particle, and a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains at least one metal oxide particle among an aluminum oxide particle, a silicon dioxide particle, and a tin oxide particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Murakami, Kazunori Noguchi, Harunobu Ogaki, Kenta Kamikura, Yuzo Seino, Takashi Kenmoku
  • Patent number: 11482107
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform: obtaining route information indicating an operation route of a vehicle utilized by unspecified users; and obtaining desired location information indicating desired locations at which the users desire to get on the vehicle or desired locations at which the users desire to get off the vehicle. Then, the controller of the information processing apparatus determines a stop location, at which the vehicle is stopped for the users to get on or off, based on a plurality of pieces of the desired location information and the route information, and presents stop location information indicating the stop location thus determined to the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Xin Jin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai