Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Ito

Tetsuya Ito 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: 20250132346
    Abstract: A method for producing a positive electrode composition, the method including: a first step of mixing a first agent containing a binding material and a first liquid medium, a second agent containing carbon black and a second liquid medium, and a third agent containing carbon nanotubes and a third liquid medium to obtain a mixed solution; and a second step of mixing the mixed solution and an active material to obtain a positive electrode composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuya NAGAI, Yuma KITAE, Tetsuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20250111692
    Abstract: Images of a livestock are taken, identifiers of the livestock are acquired, and the identifiers acquired and the images taken are stored in association with one another in a storage part. The images of the livestock identified by the same identifier, which had taken at different time points, are compared. Replacement of the livestock identified by the same identifier is reported when a change in the livestock that cannot occur during a predetermined time span is detected as a result of comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systerns, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihiko KAMATA, Masakazu Kaneda, Kenichi ABE, Akira MATSUMOTO, Satoki UENO, Tetsuya ITO, Chikashi ITO, Momo SUTO
  • Patent number: 12249709
    Abstract: A positive electrode composition for a lithium ion secondary battery includes an active material that can occlude and release lithium ions and a conductive material, wherein the active material is a lithium cobalt composite oxide; the conductive material is carbon black and carbon nanotubes; the carbon black has a BET specific surface area of 100 to 400 m2/g and a DBP absorption amount of 210 to 400 ml/100 g; the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter of 20 nm or less, a BET specific surface area of 170 m2/g or more, and an aspect ratio of 50 or more; and a carbon black content X (unit: % by mass) and a carbon nanotube content Y (unit: % by mass) in the positive electrode composition satisfy the following conditions (A) and (B): (A) 0.5?(X+Y)?2.0; (B) 0.80?{X/(X+Y)}?0.95.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nagai, Shinichiro Osumi, Tetsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 12241112
    Abstract: The present invention provides a D-glucaric acid-producing bacterium and a method for producing D-glucaric acid. The present invention is characterized in that D-glucaric acid or a salt thereof is produced from one or more saccharides selected from the group consisting of D-glucose, D-gluconic acid and D-glucuronic acid with catalytic action of a specific alcohol dehydrogenase PQQ-ADH (1) and a specific aldehyde dehydrogenase PQQ-ALDH (2), and that D-glucaric acid or a salt thereof is produced by using a microorganism having the PQQ-ADH (1) and the PQQ-ALDH (2) or a processed product thereof in the presence of the one or more saccharides. The present invention can provide a microorganism having improved productivity of D-glucaric acid to be used for production of D-glucaric acid and a method for efficiently producing D-glucaric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: Ensuiko Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technoloy
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ito, Hiroki Tadokoro, Hisaharu Masaki, Katsuhiko Mikuni, Hiromi Murakami, Taro Kiso, Takaaki Kiryu
  • Publication number: 20250040518
    Abstract: There is provided a health condition determination apparatus including: a behavior data acquisition part that acquires behavior data indicating a behavior of an animal acquired by executing at least one of monitoring and sensing on the animal; a behavior data accumulation part that accumulates the behavior data; and a health condition estimation part that estimates a health condition of the animal by using the behavior data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu KANEDA, Kenichi ABE, Momo SUTO, Chikashi ITO, Tetsuya ITO, Akira MATSUMOTO, Norihiko KAMATA, Satoki UENO
  • Publication number: 20250021917
    Abstract: An evaluation apparatus includes: an evaluation method acquisition part configured to acquire evaluation method data from an evaluation method provision apparatus; an evaluation criteria creation part configured to create evaluation criteria information for evaluating collected information that integrates data collected from a field management system that manages field information based on the evaluation method data; an evaluation processing part configured to evaluate the collected information based on the evaluation criteria information and create an evaluation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira MATSUMOTO, Momo Suto, Kenichi Abe, Chikashi Ito, Tetsuya Ito, Norihiko Kamata, Masakazu Kaneda, Satoki Ueno
  • Patent number: 12176515
    Abstract: According to various aspects of the present invention, a positive electrode composition for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes an active material capable of inserting and extracting lithium ions, and a conductor, wherein the active material is a lithium-nickel-cobalt-manganese complex oxide; the conductor is a carbon black and carbon nanotubes; the carbon black has a BET specific surface area of 100 to 400 m2/g, and a DBP absorption of 210 to 380 ml/100 g; and the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter of 7 to 15 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: Denka Company Limited, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Shinichiro Osumi, Tatsuya Nagai, Tetsuya Ito, Sheng Wen Zhong, Jun Chen, Qian Zhang, Min Zeng
  • Publication number: 20240371553
    Abstract: Provided is a DC magnetic field superconducting coil power supply device using a superconducting coil at low cost. A DC magnetic field superconducting coil power supply device 1 comprises: a superconducting coil 17; a power supply device 11 configured to supply a DC voltage; a plurality of chopper circuits 13 connected in parallel between one end of the power supply device 11 and one end of the superconducting coil 17; and a controller 18 configured to control the plurality of chopper circuits 13, wherein the 10 controller 18 is configured to operate the plurality of chopper circuits 13 in a time-division manner when charging the superconducting coil 17.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: TERAL INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWASHIMA, Shiro SUGIMOTO, Tetsuya ITO
  • Patent number: 12132204
    Abstract: A composition for a positive electrode of a lithium ion secondary battery, the composition comprising: an active material capable of storing and extracting lithium ion; and an electric conductive material, wherein the active material is lithium iron phosphate, wherein the conductive material includes carbon black and carbon nanotube, wherein the carbon black has an average primary particle diameter of 39 nm or less, and wherein the carbon nanotube has an average diameter of 20 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nagai, Shinichiro Osumi, Tetsuya Ito
  • Publication number: 20240302321
    Abstract: A gas sensor control device controls a gas sensor including a first pumping cell and a second pumping cell configured to output a current in accordance with a concentration of a specific component in a measurement target gas. The gas sensor control device has a microprocessor configured to, when calculating the concentration of the specific component, use a correction expression based on an index including at least either an initial offset indicating a current value when the concentration of the specific component at a first reference time is 0 or a difference between an ideal value and the current value when the concentration of the specific component at a second reference time is a set concentration, and a cumulative operating time which is a total operating time of the gas sensor from a third reference time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TANAKA, Tetsuya ITO
  • Patent number: 12080027
    Abstract: Provided is an article position management apparatus that a receiver receives image data from a camera apparatus and that identifies a position of an article, based on an article marker attached to an article and a reference point marker whose coordinate information in an absolute coordinate system in a field is set in advance, the article marker and the reference point marker being included in the image data, when the camera apparatus is a mobile camera apparatus, and identifies the position of the article, based on the article marker included in the image, when the camera apparatus is a fixed camera apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Communication Systems, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Hasegawa, Masahito Iwai, Kenichi Abe, Tetsuya Ito, Chikashi Ito
  • Publication number: 20240290971
    Abstract: A positive electrode composition containing carbon black, carbon nanotubes, an active material, and a binding material, in which the carbon black has a BET specific surface area of 100 to 400 m2/g and a crystallite size (Lc) of 15 to 26 ?, the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter of 5 to 15 nm, and a ratio (average diameter/BET specific surface area) of the average diameter with respect to a BET specific surface area of the carbon nanotubes is 0.01 to 0.068 nm/(m2/g).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuya NAGAI, Yuma KITAE, Tetsuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20240203627
    Abstract: A magnetic field generating device 1 comprises: an iron core 2; a pair of superconducting coils 3; and one or a pair of vacuum heat-insulation containers 4, wherein the iron core includes: a yoke 21; and a pair of split iron core portions 22 that are formed separately from the yoke, are located inside the yoke, and face each other with a work space therebetween, each of the pair of superconducting coils is wound around a different one of the pair of split iron core portions in a circumferential direction about an axis that is parallel to a direction in which the pair of split iron core portions face each other, a pair of split iron core coil assemblies 5 are stored in the one or pair of vacuum heat-insulation containers, and the yoke is located outside the one or pair of vacuum heat-insulation containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicants: TERAL INC., NIIGATA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWASHIMA, Tetsuya ITO, Satoshi FUKUI
  • Patent number: 12015878
    Abstract: A train monitoring system in the present embodiment is provided with a compartment camera 10 that takes an image of the inside of a compartment of the train, a processing server 30 that calculates a vacancy probability for each reserved seat on the basis of the image taken by the compartment camera 10 while the train is running and detects a resale candidate seat by comparing the vacancy probability with a threshold value, and a touch panel monitor 40 that displays resale candidate seat information indicating the resale candidate seat that has been detected by the processing server 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Hironori Naoi, Satoshi Masuda, Tetsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 11995865
    Abstract: Article position estimation system comprises: article movement recognition part; reference point recognition part; position information generation part; and article position estimation part. Article movement recognition part generates article movement information including time point when article is taken out by mobile body or time point when article placement is completed by mobile body. Reference point recognition part recognizes reference point and generates reference point recognition information including identification information according to recognized reference point, reference point recognition time point, and information related to recognized reference point. Position information generation part generates information related to position of mobile body at reference point recognition time point based on reference point recognition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Communication Systems, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Hasegawa, Masahito Iwai, Kenichi Abe, Yuichiro Ezure, Tetsuya Ito
  • Publication number: 20240076503
    Abstract: Carbon black in which an oil absorption amount is 150 mL/100 g or more and 400 mL/100 g or less and a cobalt content that is measured by induced coupled plasma-mass spectrometry is 20 ppb or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuya ITO, Yusaku HARADA, Kosuke TANAKA, Tatsuya NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20240079598
    Abstract: Carbon black in which an oil absorption amount is 150 mL/100 g or more and 400 mL/100 g or less and an iron content that is measured by induced coupled plasma-mass spectrometry is 500 ppb or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuya ITO, Yusaku HARADA, Kosuke TANAKA, Tatsuya NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20240076502
    Abstract: Carbon black in which an oil absorption amount is 150 mL/100 g or more and 400 mL/100 g or less and a nickel content that is measured by induced coupled plasma-mass spectrometry is 50 ppb or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuya ITO, Yusaku HARADA, Kosuke TANAKA, Tatsuya NAGAI
  • Patent number: 11920935
    Abstract: A navigation device includes an own vehicle position detecting unit configured to detect position information of own vehicle; a route setting unit configured to set a guidance route that guides the own vehicle to a destination on the basis of a first map including information of a traveling route and the position information of the own vehicle; a matching unit configured to match a position of the own vehicle as a first own position with the traveling route where the own vehicle travels on the first map on the basis of the position information of the own vehicle; a driving lane detecting unit configured to match the position of the own vehicle as a second own position with a driving lane where the own vehicle travels on a second map on the basis of the second map including information of the driving lane in the traveling route and the position information of the own vehicle; and a calculating unit configured to determine whether the second own position is included in the first own position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., RENAULT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Wataru Takeda, Junichi Hatayama, Tetsuya Ito, Katsumi Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20240003420
    Abstract: Provided is a seal device, which can reliably prevent leakage of substances from a gap in a coupling portion for two flow paths while improving ease of operation at the time of coupling the two flow paths to each other and decoupling the two flow paths from each other. The seal device includes: a first flow path (16A) which allows substances to pass therethrough; a second flow path (16B) separably coupled to the first flow path (16A); a sealing member (52), which has elasticity, and is held in a gap in a coupling portion (15) between the first flow path (16A) and the second flow path (16B); and a movable member (30) that closes the gap in the coupling portion (15) by deforming the sealing member (52) when the first flow path (16A) and the second flow path (16B) are to be coupled to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuya ITO, Toshihito GOTO, Tsutomu ISHIZAKI, Tadayoshi ARAKAWA