Patents by Inventor Takeshi Otsuka

Takeshi Otsuka 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: 20240115998
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an exhaust gas purifying catalyst filter which has enhanced soot collection performance without increasing pressure loss caused by the formation of a catalyst layer in a partition wall of a wall flow type substrate. A gasoline engine exhaust gas purifying catalyst filter for purifying exhaust gas of a gasoline engine includes: a wall flow type substrate in which an introduction-side cell having an open exhaust gas introduction-side end, and a discharge-side cell adjacent to the introduction-side cell and having an open exhaust gas discharge-side end are defined by a porous partition wall; and a catalyst layer formed in a pore of the partition wall. An absolute value of a maldistribution degree of the catalyst layer formed in the pore of the partition wall is 4.50 or less. A wash coat amount, excluding a mass of a platinum group, of the catalyst layer formed in the pore of the partition wall, is 40 g/L or more and 50 g/L or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi MORI, Shinichiro OTSUKA, Yoshiaki HATAKEYAMA, Mahiro SHIROTORI
  • Patent number: 11933520
    Abstract: A fluid-heating device for heating fluid with a heater includes: a heating portion that is molded so as to cover the surrounding of the heater; and a support body integrally cast into the heating portion, the heating portion being molded in a state in which the heater is supported by the support body in a die for molding the heating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MARELLI CABIN COMFORT JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogasawara, Naohisa Kamiyama, Hiroki Yoshioka, Takashi Otsuka, Daiju Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11936164
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a wiring substrate, a light emitting element array that includes a first side surface and a second side surface facing each other, and a third side surface and a fourth side surface connecting the first side surface and the second side surface to each other and facing each other, the light emitting element array being provided on the wiring substrate, a driving element that is provided on the wiring substrate on the first side surface side and drives the light emitting element array, a first circuit element and a second circuit element that are provided on the wiring substrate on the second side surface side to be arranged in a direction along the second side surface, and a wiring member that is provided on the third side surface side and the fourth side surface side and extends from a top electrode of the light emitting element array toward an outside of the light emitting element array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sakai, Daisuke Iguchi, Takeshi Minamiru, Yoshinori Shirakawa, Tomoaki Sakita, Tsutomu Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20230274910
    Abstract: Light which is radiant energy is emitted from a sample which is heated, and is detected by a backscattered electron detector. A detection signal from the backscattered electron detector includes a radiant component. A radiant component removal section extracts the radiant component from the detection signal using a filter, and then removes the radiant component from the detection signal. An optical detector which detects the radiant component may be provided. A divided detector may be provided as the backscattered electron detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Takeshi Otsuka, Sadahiko Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11692080
    Abstract: Provided is a dispersion liquid for sealing a light-emitting element containing metal oxide particles having a refractive index of 1.7 or higher and a surface-modifying material at least partially attached to the metal oxide particles, in which a particle diameter D50 of the metal oxide particles when a cumulative percentage of a scattering intensity distribution obtained by a dynamic light scattering method is 50% is 30 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and a content of the surface-modifying material not attached to the metal oxide particles is 60% by mass or less with respect to a total content of the metal oxide particles and the surface-modifying material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Harada, Takeshi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20230102420
    Abstract: A dispersion liquid contains a metal oxide particle surface-modified with a silane compound and a silicone compound, when a transmission spectrum of the metal oxide particles that are obtained by vacuum-drying the dispersion liquid is measured in a wavenumber range of 800 cm?1 or more and 3800 cm?1 or less with FT-IR, IA/IB?3.5 is satisfied (IA is a spectrum value at 3,500 cm?1 and IB is a spectrum value at 1,100 cm?1), and, when the dispersion liquid and methyl phenyl silicone are mixed such that a mass ratio of a total mass of the metal oxide particles and the surface-modifying material to a mass of methyl phenyl silicone becomes 30:70 and the hydrophobic solvent is removed, a viscosity is 9 Pa·s or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomomi ITO, Kenji HARADA, Takeshi OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20220392738
    Abstract: A charged particle beam apparatus acquires a scanned image by scanning a specimen with a charged particle beam, and detecting charged particles emitted from the specimen. The apparatus includes a charged particle beam source that emits the charged particle beam; an irradiation optical system that scans the specimen with the charged particle beam; a plurality of detection units that detects the charged particles emitted from the specimen; and an image processing unit that reconstructs a profile of a specimen surface of the specimen, based on a plurality of detection signals outputted from the plurality of detection units. The image processing unit: determines an inclination angle of the specimen surface, based on the plurality of detection signals; processing to determine a height of the specimen surface, based on the scanned image; and reconstructs the profile of the specimen surface, based on the inclination angle and the height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Takeshi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20220392737
    Abstract: An electron beam is irradiated on a specimen in a state where a negative voltage is applied to the specimen. The specimen is rotated to establish an optimum orientation of a specimen surface shape relative to an orientation of a detector having two detection surfaces disposed at rotational symmetric positions with respect to an optical axis of the electron beam taken as an axis of rotation, and an image is generated based on a quantity of a signal from reflected electrons detected by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Takeshi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11378515
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: with respect to each pixel included in a fluorescent image obtained by capturing a tissue group including one or more tissues dyed by using a fluorescent dye group including one or more fluorescent dyes by a fluorescent microscope, estimate a light quantity of fluorescence emitted by each fluorescent dye of the fluorescent dye group; estimate a tissue amount of each tissue of the tissue group based on the estimated light quantity; estimate a virtual dye amount of each dye of a bright-field dye group of a case in which the tissue group dyed by using the bright-field dye group including one or more dyes is captured by a transmission-type microscope based on the estimated tissue amount; and generate a virtual transmitted-light image from the estimated dye amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Otsuka, Kunio Hori
  • Publication number: 20220195202
    Abstract: Provided is a method for surface-modifying inorganic particles having a mixing step of mixing at least a surface-modifying material and the inorganic particles to obtain a liquid mixture and a dispersion step of dispersing the inorganic particles in the liquid mixture, in which a content of the inorganic particles in the liquid mixture is 10% by mass or more and 49% by mass or less, and a total content of the surface-modifying material and the inorganic particles in the liquid mixture is 65% by mass or more and 98% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomomi ITO, Kenji HARADA, Takeshi OTSUKA
  • Patent number: 11359072
    Abstract: Provided is a dispersion liquid for sealing a light-emitting element containing metal oxide particles having a refractive index of 1.7 or higher and a surface-modifying material at least partially attached to the metal oxide particles, in which a particle diameter D50 of the metal oxide particles when a cumulative percentage of a scattering intensity distribution obtained by a dynamic light scattering method is 50% is 30 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and a value D50/D90 obtained by dividing the particle diameter D50 of the metal oxide particles when the cumulative percentage of the scattering intensity distribution is 50% by a particle diameter D90 of the metal oxide particles when the cumulative percentage of the scattering intensity distribution is 90% is 0.20 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Harada, Takeshi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20220177709
    Abstract: A dispersion liquid according to the present invention is a dispersion liquid containing metal oxide particles which have been surface-modified with a silane compound and a silicone compound, in which, when the dispersion liquid is dried by vacuum drying to separate the metal oxide particles, and a transmission spectrum of the separated metal oxide particles is measured in a wavenumber range from 800 cm?1 to 3800 cm?1 with a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer, Formula (1) below: IA/IB?3.5 is satisfied (in the formula, “IA” represents a spectrum value at 3500 cm?1 and “IB” represents a spectrum value at 1100 cm?1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomomi ITO, Kenji HARADA, Takeshi OTSUKA
  • Patent number: 11037294
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: sequentially perform, on all at least two types of stains, an extraction process to extract a stained area due to a target stain from a single stain image of the target stain, starting from a stain having high specificity with regard to a target site; and sequentially perform a correction process, on all at least one type of second stain except for a first stain having the highest specificity among the at least two types of stains, to correct the single stain image by excluding stained areas of all stains having higher specificity than the target stain from the single stain image of the target stain, starting from the stain having the high specificity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshioki Kaneko, Takeshi Otsuka, Zhen Li
  • Publication number: 20210174147
    Abstract: An operating method of an image processing apparatus includes: estimating, from an optical spectrum of each pixel of each training image of training images prepared by first specimen preparing process protocols, staining characteristics of each pigment at the pixel; recording the first specimen preparing process protocol for the training image in association with the estimated staining characteristics; estimating, from an optical spectrum of each pixel of an input training image, staining characteristics of each pigment at the pixel of the input training image prepared by a second specimen preparing process protocol; converting the staining characteristics of at least one selected pigment in the input training image into the staining characteristics of the at least one selected pigment of any one of the training images; and generating, based on the converted staining characteristics, a virtual stained specimen image that is stained by a third specimen preparing process protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20210164904
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: with respect to each pixel included in a fluorescent image obtained by capturing a tissue group including one or more tissues dyed by using a fluorescent dye group including one or more fluorescent dyes by a fluorescent microscope, estimate a light quantity of fluorescence emitted by each fluorescent dye of the fluorescent dye group; estimate a tissue amount of each tissue of the tissue group based on the estimated light quantity; estimate a virtual dye amount of each dye of a bright-field dye group of a case in which the tissue group dyed by using the bright-field dye group including one or more dyes is captured by a transmission-type microscope based on the estimated tissue amount; and generate a virtual transmitted-light image from the estimated dye amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi OTSUKA, Kunio HORI
  • Patent number: 10935505
    Abstract: A charged particle beam device includes: a plurality of detecting units which detect charged particles diffracted by a specimen; and an intensity pattern information generating unit which generates, based on intensities of a plurality of detection signals output from the plurality of detecting units, intensity pattern information that represents the intensities of the plurality of detection signals as a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Otsuka, Kenichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10769086
    Abstract: A recording medium to be used by being connected to a digital device includes a local bus, a plurality of recording units, an information storage unit, and a communication unit. The local bus has a plurality of switches or bridges. The plurality of recording units are connected to the local bus. The information storage unit stores information indicating a bus configuration of the local bus. The communication unit is used for transferring the information to and from the digital device. After the recording medium is inserted into the digital device, the bus configuration of the local bus is reconstructed based on the information acquired from the communication unit via the information storage unit by the digital device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Yamashita, Takeshi Otsuka, Masanori Mitsuzumi
  • Patent number: 10763077
    Abstract: A charged particle beam apparatus acquires a scanned image by scanning a sample with a charged particle beam and detecting charged particles emitted from the sample. The charged particle beam apparatus includes: a plurality of detection units that detect charged particles emitted from the sample; and an image processing unit that generates the scanned image based on a plurality of detection signals outputted from the plurality of the detection units. The image processing unit performs a process of calculating a tilt direction of a sample surface and a tilt angle of the sample surface based on the plurality of the detection signals for an irradiation position of the charged particle beam; and a process of determining a color of a pixel of the scanned image according to the calculated tilt direction and the calculated tilt angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 10720304
    Abstract: A charged particle beam apparatus acquires a scanned image by scanning a sample with a charged particle beam and detecting charged particles emitted from the sample. The charged particle beam apparatus includes: a plurality of detection units that detect charged particles emitted from the sample, and an image processing unit that generates the scanned image based on a plurality of detection signals outputted from the plurality of the detection units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20200115529
    Abstract: Provided is a dispersion liquid for sealing a light-emitting element containing metal oxide particles having a refractive index of 1.7 or higher and a surface-modifying material at least partially attached to the metal oxide particles, in which a particle diameter D50 of the metal oxide particles when a cumulative percentage of a scattering intensity distribution obtained by a dynamic light scattering method is 50% is 30 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and a content of the surface-modifying material not attached to the metal oxide particles is 60% by mass or less with respect to a total content of the metal oxide particles and the surface-modifying material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: KENJI HARADA, TAKESHI OTSUKA