Patents by Inventor Tatsuya Higuchi
Tatsuya 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).
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Publication number: 20180132705Abstract: Provided is a medical tube including: a main body; a first lumen formed in the main body in a longitudinal direction of the main body; a plurality of second lumens formed in the main body in the longitudinal direction of the main body, the plurality of second lumens formed about at least a portion of a circumference of the first lumen; a portion of a distal end of the first lumen comprising a first indicator, the first indicator configured to specify a rotational direction position about the longitudinal direction of the main body of any one of the plurality of second lumens with respect to the first lumen; and a portion of the proximal end of the main body comprising a plurality of second indicators, wherein each of the plurality of second indicators are configured to indicate each of the plurality of second lumens specified by the first indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Tatsuya HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20180080672Abstract: A remote control for an air conditioner facilitates setting of various kinds of data without operation of a button. A remote control (30) includes an external communication unit (45) having an NFC circuit (42) and an NFC antenna (43). The external communication unit (45) is capable of wirelessly communicating with an external apparatus even when a microcomputer (36) in the remote control (30) is not supplied with power (i.e., in a non-operating state). Hence, through the wireless communication between the external communication unit (45) of the remote control (30) and the external apparatus, the various kinds of data is forwarded from the external device to the remote control (30), and stored in the remote control (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryousuke YAMAMOTO, Asuka YAGI, Yukio INOUE, Ryouji INOUE, Youta KATOU, Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Takeshi YOSHIMURA, Yasuaki KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170340398Abstract: A correction jig of a medical master-slave manipulator system limits a straight state of a master manipulator, in a state where the correction jig is attached to the master manipulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Toshihiro YOSHII
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Patent number: 9822225Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an ETFE film having excellent transparency and heat resistance and cost efficiency. The present invention relates to a film including a copolymer containing an ethylene unit, a tetrafluoroethylene unit, and a (fluoroalkyl)ethylene unit represented by Formula (1): CH2?CX—Rf??(1) wherein X represents H or F, and Rf represents a fluoroalkyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms, the copolymer containing the (fluoroalkyl)ethylene unit in an amount of 0.8 to 2.5 mol % relative to the amount of all the monomer units and containing the ethylene unit and the tetrafluoroethylene unit at a molar ratio of 30.0/70.0 to 50.0/50.0, the film having a crystallinity of 68% or less, the crystallinity being calculated on the basis of a diffraction intensity curve of the film resulting from X-ray diffraction measurement.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuko Kouketsu, Ryouichi Fukagawa, Tatsuya Higuchi, Takeshi Shimono, Takashi Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20170327075Abstract: According to one embodiment, an occupant restraining apparatus includes a webbing W, a tongue 4, an airbag 20 provided along the webbing W, a bag cover 40 surrounding the airbag 20, and a webbing guide 30 through which the webbing W is passed. The webbing guide 30 extends continuously from one end to the other end of the bag cover 40. The lower end of the bag cover 40 surrounds the lower end of the webbing guide 30, and the lower end of the bag cover 40 and the lower end of the webbing guide 30 are bound together. The upper end of the bag cover 40 surrounds the upper end of the webbing guide 30, and the upper end of the bag cover 40 and the upper end of the webbing guide 30 are bound together.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: TAKATA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki MURAKAMI, Hiroaki ISOZAKI, Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Yongliang HUANG
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Publication number: 20170122618Abstract: A remote control device configured communicate with an air conditioner or a heat pump includes a touch panel having an electrode unit, a liquid crystal display, and a casing accommodating the touch panel and the liquid crystal display. The casing has a back surface part and a front surface part. The liquid crystal display is disposed to overlap the touch panel as seen from a front surface part side. The electrode unit has a first electrode section to detect a touched position, and a second electrode section that may function as an antenna to perform wireless communication with another communication device. The first and second electrode sections are configured and arranged to be nearer to the front surface part than to the back surface part inside the casing, and to be disposed so as not to overlap with each other as seen from the front surface part side.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Ryousuke YAMAMOTO, Mario HAYASHI, Yasuaki KOBAYASHI, Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Ryouji INOUE, Yukio INOUE, Natsuko KITAGAWA, Takeshi YOSHIMURA, Asuka YAGI, Youta KATOU
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Patent number: 9384760Abstract: A sound processing device includes a first noise suppression unit configured to suppress a noise component included in an input sound signal using a first suppression amount, a second noise suppression unit configured to suppress the noise component included in the input sound signal using a second suppression amount greater than the first suppression amount, a speech section detection unit configured to detect whether the sound signal whose noise component has been suppressed by the second noise suppression unit includes a speech section having a speech for every predetermined time, and a speech recognition unit configured to perform a speech recognizing process on a section, which is detected to be a speech section by the speech section detection unit, in the sound signal whose noise component has been suppressed by the first noise suppression unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Nakadai, Keisuke Nakamura, Tatsuya Higuchi
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Patent number: 9199599Abstract: A passenger protection device in which an airbag capable of expanding by receiving a predetermined action signal is disposed on the position of a shoulder belt, and a webbing is wound by means of one winding device, wherein the airbag is folded along a gate-shape guide-form slide guide having high-rigidity parts arranged to have a predetermined distance from one another along one side surface of a low-rigidity part extending in the lengthwise direction of the airbag can smoothly slide along the webbing via the slide guide when the webbing is being pulled out. Moreover, it is possible to fit the folded airbag between the chest and shoulder of a passenger because the slide guide is flexible.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Takata CorporationInventors: Norio Yamataki, Hikaru Kameyoshi, Atsushi Ichida, Tatsuya Higuchi
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Publication number: 20150252156Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an ETFE film having excellent transparency and heat resistance and cost efficiency. The present invention relates to a film including a copolymer containing an ethylene unit, a tetrafluoroethylene unit, and a (fluoroalkyl)ethylene unit represented by Formula (1): CH2?CX—Rf??(1) wherein X represents H or F, and Rf represents a fluoroalkyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms, the copolymer containing the (fluoroalkyl)ethylene unit in an amount of 0.8 to 2.5 mol % relative to the amount of all the monomer units and containing the ethylene unit and the tetrafluoroethylene unit at a molar ratio of 30.0/70.0 to 50.0/50.0, the film having a crystallinity of 68% or less, the crystallinity being calculated on the basis of a diffraction intensity curve of the film resulting from X-ray diffraction measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuko Kouketsu, Ryouichi Fukagawa, Tatsuya Higuchi, Takeshi Shimono, Takashi Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20150107194Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a PCTFE film having excellent moisture resistance, good tensile elongation, and excellent formability. Provided is a method for producing a polychlcrotrifluoroethylene film, the method including step (1) of melting and molding polychlorotrifluoroethylene into a film, step (2) of maintaining the formed film at a temperature of 100° C. to 170° C., and step (3) of cooling the film to room temperature after the maintaining, wherein the temperature of the film is not allowed to be 170° C. or lower during an interval between step (1) and step (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Toshiaki MASUI, Hidenori OZAKI, Shinya MURAKAMI, Takeshi INABA
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Publication number: 20140353950Abstract: A passenger protection device in which an airbag capable of expanding by receiving a predetermined action signal is disposed on the position of a shoulder belt, and a webbing is wound by means of one winding device, wherein the airbag is folded along a gate-shape guide-form slide guide having high-rigidity parts arranged to have a predetermined distance from one another along one side surface of a low-rigidity part extending in the lengthwise direction of the airbag can smoothly slide along the webbing via the slide guide when the webbing is being pulled out. Moreover, it is possible to fit the folded airbag between the chest and shoulder of a passenger because the slide guide is flexible.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Norio Yamataki, Hikaru Kameyoshi, Atsushi Ichida, Tatsuya Higuchi
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Publication number: 20140329952Abstract: The present invention provides a polychlorotrifluoroethylene film having ultraviolet shielding ability, moisture resistance and small absolute values of thermal deformation rates. The present invention is a polychlorotrifluoroethylene film having an ultraviolet shield rate of not lower than 70%, a water vapor transmission rate of not higher than 1.00 g/m2·day and absolute values of thermal deformation rates after 30 minutes-heating at 150° C. of not higher than 5.0%.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hidenori OZAKI, Kenji KAWASAKI, Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Takayuki ARAKI
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Publication number: 20140214418Abstract: A sound processing device includes a first noise suppression unit configured to suppress a noise component included in an input sound signal using a first suppression amount, a second noise suppression unit configured to suppress the noise component included in the input sound signal using a second suppression amount greater than the first suppression amount, a speech section detection unit configured to detect whether the sound signal whose noise component has been suppressed by the second noise suppression unit includes a speech section having a speech for every predetermined time, and a speech recognition unit configured to perform a speech recognizing process on a section, which is detected to be a speech section by the speech section detection unit, in the sound signal whose noise component has been suppressed by the first noise suppression unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro NAKADAI, Keisuke NAKAMURA, Tatsuya HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 8657332Abstract: An air belt apparatus is provided in which a bag is stored while being folded short prior to deployment and inflation. An air belt apparatus includes a bag provided in a part of a seatbelt, a collision detection device, and a gas supply device that supplies deployment gas to the bag. The bag includes a cylindrical portion connected to the gas supply device, and an inflatable portion wider than the cylindrical portion. Prior to deployment and inflation, the inflatable portion is stored on a radial inner side of the cylindrical portion while being turned inside out and folded up to a width substantially equal to a width of the cylindrical portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Takata CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Higuchi, Atsushi Ichida
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Publication number: 20130249200Abstract: An air belt apparatus is provided in which a bag is stored while being folded short prior to deployment and inflation. An air belt apparatus includes a bag provided in a part of a seatbelt, a collision detection device, and a gas supply device that supplies deployment gas to the bag. The bag includes a cylindrical portion connected to the gas supply device, and an inflatable portion wider than the cylindrical portion. Prior to deployment and inflation, the inflatable portion is stored on a radial inner side of the cylindrical portion while being turned inside out and folded up to a width substantially equal to a width of the cylindrical portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Tatsuya Higuchi, Atsushi Ichida
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Publication number: 20110073167Abstract: The present invention provides a polychlorotrifluoroethylene film having ultraviolet shielding ability, moisture resistance and small absolute values of thermal deformation rates. The present invention is a polychlorotrifluoroethylene film having an ultraviolet shield rate of not lower than 70%, a water vapor transmission rate of not higher than 1.00 g/m2·day and absolute values of thermal deformation rates after 30 minutes-heating at 150° C. of not higher than 5.0%.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hidenori Ozaki, Kenji Kawasaki, Tatsuya Higuchi, Takayuki Araki
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Patent number: 7884148Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition containing a filler poor in affinity for fluororesins as uniformly dispersed therein and a method of producing such resin composition and, further, a resin composition containing, as fillers, a nucleating agent for foaming and suited for producing foamed moldings with fine foam cells uniformly distributed therein and a method of producing such resin composition as well as a foamed molding formed from either of such resin compositions. The present invention is related to a resin composition comprising a fluororesin (A) and a filler (X) low in affinity for said fluororesin (A), wherein the filler (X) has a d99 value of not more than 15 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Keizou Shiotsuki, Eiji Fujita, Tatsuya Higuchi, Shouji Fukuoka, Takahiro Taira
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Publication number: 20100313946Abstract: Provided is a solar cell module which has a PCTFE film as the light-transmitting surface layer and/or back side protective sheet and is excellent in interlayer adhesion. The invention consists in a solar cell module comprising a light-transmitting surface layer, a solar cell element embedded in a filler and a back side protective sheet, wherein at least one of the light-transmitting surface layer and back side protective sheet is a polychlorotrifluoroethylene film (A) having a treated surface layer obtained by electric discharge treatment in an inert gas containing a reactive organic compound and the treated surface layer is disposed on the solar cell element side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2007Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Tatsuya Higuchi, Kenji Kawasaki, Masaji Komori, Takayuki Araki
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Publication number: 20100180938Abstract: There is provided a protection cover of solar cell having processability at room temperature, solvent resistance, weather resistance and durability without impairing its transparency, and also a curable fluorine-containing coating composition being capable of forming the protection cover. The curable fluorine-containing coating composition for a protection cover of solar cell comprises (A) a curable fluorine-containing resin, (B) a curing agent and (C) a solvent and is used for forming a top coat layer (III) of a cured article comprising the fluorine-containing resin, in which the top coat layer is provided, directly or via a primer layer (IV), on a transparent resin layer (II) provided on the sunlight irradiation side of a solar cell module (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2006Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masaru Nagato, Masahiko Maeda, Masami Kato, Tatsuya Higuchi, Eri Mukai, Tadashi Higashiura
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Patent number: D719502Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoto Shimizu, Tatsuya Higuchi