Patents by Inventor Takuya Higuchi

Takuya Higuchi 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: 20250075322
    Abstract: A method of monitoring a liquid raw material in a gas supply device, including a raw material storage tank that stores the liquid raw material, a liquid level detector that detects a liquid level of the liquid raw material, a gas inlet provided in the raw material storage tank, a gas outlet provided in the raw material storage tank, and a raw material inlet provided in the raw material storage tank, includes calculating a remaining amount of the liquid raw material based on a usage amount of the raw material and a replenishment amount of the raw material, estimating a detection result of a virtual sensor from the calculated remaining amount of the liquid raw material, and monitoring the liquid raw material based on a detection result of the liquid level detector and the estimated detection result of the virtual sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Takuya HIGUCHI, Kosuke TAKAHASHI, Yasuhiro ONODERA
  • Patent number: 12179402
    Abstract: A production management system includes: an injection molding unit producing a molded product; and a control device. The injection molding unit includes: an injection molding machine molding the molded product by injection molding; a determination unit determining whether a number of the molded products to be produced is equivalent to a predetermined unit of production or not; and an operation information transmitting unit transmitting operation information of the injection molding unit when it is determined that the number of the molded products to be produced is equivalent to the predetermined unit of production. The control device includes an operation information receiving unit receiving the operation information transmitted from the operation information transmitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Minowa, Kazuhiko Tsuchimoto, Takuya Higuchi, Yuji Saito
  • Publication number: 20240412970
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device including a first semiconductor element and a second semiconductor element, includes the steps of forming an insulating layer on a first substrate having a first elastic modulus higher than a second elastic modulus, forming a first semiconductor element having a first bonding surface on the insulating layer, forming a second semiconductor element having a second bonding surface on a second substrate having the second elastic modulus, bonding the first bonding surface and the second bonding surface to each other to form a laminate of the first semiconductor element and the second semiconductor element, and removing the first substrate from the laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Kiyotaka IMAI, Motoyuki SATO, Yoshihiro HIROTA, Takuya HIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 12138839
    Abstract: There is provided an injection molding machine management system including an injection molding machine configured to mold a molded article with injection molding, a peripheral device configured to perform a post-process of the injection molding, and a control device communicably coupled to the injection molding machine and the peripheral device. The injection molding machine management system includes a generating section configured to generate a common identifier for each of predetermined production units and transmit the common identifier to the peripheral device. Molding data concerning the injection molding and post-process data concerning the post-process are correlated with the common identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Minowa, Kazuhiko Tsuchimoto, Takuya Higuchi, Yuji Saito
  • Publication number: 20240344021
    Abstract: A composition for animal cell culture and techniques relating thereto are provided. A composition for animal cell culture, which contains an amino acid source and ?-ketoglutaric acid, and has the following properties: (A) the ?-ketoglutaric acid is a salt of ?-ketoglutaric acid; and/or (B) the amino acid source is free L-cysteine anhydrate is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Yamaide, Masashi Harada, Akari Tashiro, Chihiro Tsuji, Takuya Higuchi, Satoshi Okutani, Fumi Ogata, Shumpei Furomitsu, Masakazu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11939659
    Abstract: A deposition mask group includes a first deposition mask having two or more first through holes arranged along two different directions, a second deposition mask having two or more second through holes arranged along two different directions and a third deposition mask having two or more third through holes. The first through hole and the second through hole or the third through hole partly overlap when the first deposition mask, the second deposition mask and the third deposition mask are overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Higuchi, Hiromitsu Ochiai, Hiroki Oka
  • Patent number: 11763834
    Abstract: Features are extracted from an observed speech signal including at least speech of multiple speakers including a target speaker. A mask is calculated for extracting speech of the target speaker based on the features of the observed speech signal and a speech signal of the target speaker serving as adaptation data of the target speaker. The signal of the speech of the target speaker is calculated from the observed speech signal based on the mask. Speech of the target speaker can be extracted from observed speech that includes speech of multiple speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marc Delcroix, Keisuke Kinoshita, Atsunori Ogawa, Takuya Higuchi, Tomohiro Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20230175137
    Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus includes a control device. The control device includes a heat treatment control unit that controls a heat treatment performed on a processing target accommodated in a processing container, according to a process condition, a cleaning control unit that controls a cleaning process on deposits adhering to the processing container due to the heat treatment, a cumulative film thickness specification unit that specifies a value of a cumulative film thickness of the deposits adhering to the processing container, based on the process condition for the heat treatment, and a temperature correction unit that corrects a temperature of the heat treatment based on a temperature correction amount corresponding to the value of the cumulative film thickness and a frequency of the cleaning process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Morihito INAGAKI, Takuya HIGUCHI, Hideomi HANE
  • Patent number: 11649539
    Abstract: A deposition mask group includes a first deposition mask having two or more first through holes arranged along two different directions, a second deposition mask having two or more second through holes arranged along two different directions and a third deposition mask having two or more third through holes. The first through hole and the second through hole or the third through hole partly overlap when the first deposition mask, the second deposition mask and the third deposition mask are overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Higuchi, Hiromitsu Ochiai, Hiroki Oka
  • Publication number: 20230132323
    Abstract: A deposition mask group includes a first deposition mask having two or more first through holes arranged along two different directions, a second deposition mask having two or more second through holes arranged along two different directions and a third deposition mask having two or more third through holes. The first through hole and the second through hole or the third through hole partly overlap when the first deposition mask, the second deposition mask and the third deposition mask are overlapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya HIGUCHI, Hiromitsu OCHIAI, Hiroki OKA
  • Patent number: 11566316
    Abstract: A deposition mask group includes a first deposition mask having two or more first through holes arranged along two different directions, a second deposition mask having two or more second through holes arranged along two different directions and a third deposition mask having two or more third through holes. The first through hole and the second through hole or the third through hole partly overlap when the first deposition mask, the second deposition mask and the third deposition mask are overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Higuchi, Hiromitsu Ochiai, Hiroki Oka
  • Patent number: 11562765
    Abstract: A mask estimation apparatus for estimating mask information for specifying a mask used to extract a signal of a specific sound source from an input audio signal includes a converter which converts the input audio signal into embedded vectors of a predetermined dimension using a trained neural network model and a mask calculator which calculates the mask information by fitting the embedded vectors to a mixed Gaussian model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Higuchi, Tomohiro Nakatani, Keisuke Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20230012723
    Abstract: Cells may be cultured by a method including the following steps: a first step of preparing a population of cell aggregates having a major axis of not more than 400 ?m, and a second step of suspension culturing the population of cell aggregates obtained in the first step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Shimpei OGAWA, Takuya HIGUCHI, Shumpei FUROMITSU, Megumi NISHIYAMA, Kotoe KOSEKI
  • Publication number: 20230002729
    Abstract: A medium composition, containing a basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) at not less than 150 ng/mL is useful for culturing cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Shimpei OGAWA, Takuya HIGUCHI, Shumpei FUROMITSU, Kenichiro ITO, Megumi NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220348883
    Abstract: A method including adding choline at a specific concentration to a medium is useful for culturing cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Shimpei OGAWA, Takuya HIGUCHI, Shumpei FUROMITSU, Megumi NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220348884
    Abstract: A medium with a reduced osmotic pressure containing a basal medium, in which the osmotic pressure is adjusted to 150 to 250 mOsm/kg, is useful for culturing cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Shimpei OGAWA, Takuya HIGUCHI, Shumpei FUROMITSU, Yusuke OHYA, Megumi NISHIYAMA, Atsushi KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20220251622
    Abstract: A method for producing an objective protein using animal cells as an expression host is provided. The objective protein is produced by culturing animal cells having an objective protein-producing ability under conditions where the phosphoric acid concentration and/or the potassium concentration in the culture medium is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yasumichi Koseki, Takahiro Katayama, Yusuke Ooya, Fumi Ogata, Kiyoshi Hirakawa, Takuya Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20220152901
    Abstract: A production management system includes: an injection molding unit producing a molded product; and a control device. The injection molding unit includes: an injection molding machine molding the molded product by injection molding; a determination unit determining whether a number of the molded products to be produced is equivalent to a predetermined unit of production or not; and an operation information transmitting unit transmitting operation information of the injection molding unit when it is determined that the number of the molded products to be produced is equivalent to the predetermined unit of production. The control device includes an operation information receiving unit receiving the operation information transmitted from the operation information transmitting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki MINOWA, Kazuhiko TSUCHIMOTO, Takuya HIGUCHI, Yuji SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220143887
    Abstract: There is provided an injection molding machine management system including an injection molding machine configured to mold a molded article with injection molding, a peripheral device configured to perform a post-process of the injection molding, and a control device communicably coupled to the injection molding machine and the peripheral device. The injection molding machine management system includes a generating section configured to generate a common identifier for each of predetermined production units and transmit the common identifier to the peripheral device. Molding data concerning the injection molding and post-process data concerning the post-process are correlated with the common identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki MINOWA, Kazuhiko TSUCHIMOTO, Takuya HIGUCHI, Yuji SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220106676
    Abstract: A deposition mask group includes a first deposition mask having two or more first through holes arranged along two different directions, a second deposition mask having two or more second through holes arranged along two different directions and a third deposition mask having two or more third through holes. The first through hole and the second through hole or the third through hole partly overlap when the first deposition mask, the second deposition mask and the third deposition mask are overlapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya HIGUCHI, Hiromitsu OCHIAI, Hiroki OKA