Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Harada
Tomohiro Harada 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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Patent number: 10446737Abstract: A piezoelectric element which is a single-layer or laminated piezoelectric element has a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric ceramic layer. The first electrode and second electrode contain silver by 50 percent by weight or more. The piezoelectric ceramic layer is placed between the first electrode and second electrode, and constituted by a polycrystalline substance of alkali niobate piezoelectric ceramic containing at least one alkali earth metal being calcium, strontium, or barium, and silver. According to this constitution, the electrical resistance and piezoelectric property can be improved, and consequently high reliability and good piezoelectric characteristics can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiichi Hatano, Sumiaki Kishimoto, Tomohiro Harada, Yutaka Doshida
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Publication number: 20190307761Abstract: The inventors found that postsurgical recurrence and/or metastasis of cancer is suppressed by administering a beta-blocker to a cancer patient during a perioperative period of cancer surgery. Accordingly, the disclosure provides an agent for suppressing recurrence and/or metastasis of cancer, comprising a beta-blocker and being administered during a perioperative period of cancer surgery.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicants: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATIONInventors: Atsuhiro SAKAMOTO, Tatsuaki OKAMURA, Tomohiro HARADA
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Publication number: 20190237653Abstract: A multi-layer piezoelectric ceramic component includes: a piezoelectric ceramic body having a cuboid shape, having upper and lower surfaces facing in a thickness direction, first and second end surfaces facing in a length direction, and a pair of side surfaces facing in a width direction, and including first and second regions; first internal electrodes in the first region; second internal electrodes in the second region; third internal electrodes in the first and second regions; a first terminal electrode formed on the first end surface and electrically connected to the first internal electrodes; a second terminal electrode formed on the first end surface and electrically connected to the second internal electrodes; and a third terminal electrode formed on the second end surface and electrically connected to the third internal electrodes, the first, second, and third internal electrodes each having a width equal to a distance between the pair of side surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Sumiaki KISHIMOTO, Hiroyuki SHIMIZU, Tomohiro HARADA, Takayuki GOTO, Yukihiro KONISHI
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Publication number: 20190237657Abstract: A method of producing a multi-layer piezoelectric ceramic component includes: laminating ceramic green sheets to form a laminate, each of the ceramic green sheets being made of a piezoelectric ceramic material and including an electrically conductive pattern, the electrically conductive pattern including a base metal, being to be an internal electrode, and being formed on an inner side of an outer edge of the ceramic green sheet; sintering the laminate; and cutting the sintered laminate and causing the internal electrodes to be exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Tomohiro HARADA, Hiroyuki SHIMIZU, Takayuki GOTO, Sumiaki KISHIMOTO, Yukihiro KONISHI
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Publication number: 20190237652Abstract: A multi-layer piezoelectric ceramic component includes: a piezoelectric ceramic body having a cuboid shape, having upper and lower surfaces facing in a thickness direction, first and second end surfaces facing in a length direction, and a pair of side surfaces facing in a width direction, and including first and second regions; first internal electrodes in the first region; second internal electrodes in the second region; third internal electrodes in the first and second regions; a first terminal electrode formed on the first end surface and electrically connected to the first internal electrodes; a second terminal electrode formed on the first end surface and electrically connected to the second internal electrodes; a third terminal electrode formed on the second end surface and electrically connected to the third internal electrodes; a first surface electrode formed on the upper surface; and a second surface electrode formed on the lower surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Tomohiro HARADA, Takayuki GOTO, Hiroyuki SHIMIZU, Sumiaki KISHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190044053Abstract: A multilayer piezoelectric element includes a ceramic body formed by a piezoelectric ceramic, and having first and second end face facing a longitudinal direction, first and second principal faces facing a thickness direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A pair of external electrodes cover the first and second end faces, extend from the first and second end faces onto the first principal face via ridge parts connecting the end faces with the principal faces, and project in the thickness direction on the first principal face. Multiple internal electrodes are stacked inside the ceramic body and are connected alternately to the pair of external electrodes along the thickness direction. A surface electrode is provided on at least one of the first and second principal faces, and connected to the external electrode different from the one to which the internal electrode adjacent in the thickness direction is connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Hiroshi HAMADA, Hiroyuki SHIMIZU, Sumiaki KISHIMOTO, Yukihiro MATSUI, Shigeo ISHII, Tomohiro HARADA, Yukihiro KONISHI
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Publication number: 20190027678Abstract: A multilayer piezoelectric element includes a ceramic base body, a pair of external electrodes, multiple internal electrodes, and surface electrodes. The pair of external electrodes cover a pair of end faces and extend from the pair of end faces along a pair of principal faces and a pair of side faces. The multiple internal electrodes are stacked inside the ceramic base body along the thickness direction, and are connected alternately to one or the other of the pair of external electrodes along the thickness direction. The surface electrodes extend from the pair of external electrodes along the pair of principal faces, and are each divided in the longitudinal direction at a position near, of the pair of external electrodes, the external electrode to which the internal electrode adjacent to the principal face is connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Sumiaki KISHIMOTO, Hiroshi HAMADA, Hiroyuki SHIMIZU, Yukihiro MATSUI, Tomohiro HARADA, Yukihiro KONISHI
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Publication number: 20190027677Abstract: A multilayer piezoelectric element includes a ceramic base body, a pair of external electrodes, multiple internal electrodes, and surface electrodes. The ceramic base body is formed by a piezoelectric ceramic. The pair of external electrodes cover a pair of end faces. The multiple internal electrodes are stacked inside the ceramic base body along a thickness direction crossing at right angles with a longitudinal direction, and connected alternately to the pair of external electrodes in the thickness direction. The surface electrodes are provided on a pair of principal faces, respectively, and are each connected to the external electrode different from the one to which the internal electrode adjacent in the thickness direction is connected. The pair of external electrodes have a higher porosity than the surface electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Sumiaki KISHIMOTO, Hiroyuki SHIMIZU, Tomohiro HARADA, Yukihiro KONISHI
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Publication number: 20180375010Abstract: In an embodiment, a multilayer piezoelectric element includes a multilayer piezoelectric body and multiple internal electrodes. The multilayer piezoelectric body has a pair of principal faces in a first-axis direction, a pair of end faces in a second-axis direction crossing at right angles with the first-axis direction and defining the longitudinal direction, and a pair of side faces in a third-axis direction crossing at right angles with the first-axis direction and second-axis direction. The multiple internal electrodes are placed inside the multilayer piezoelectric body and stacked in the first-axis direction. Among the multiple internal electrodes, a center internal electrode placed at the center part of the multilayer piezoelectric body is such that its first cross-sectional shape, as viewed from the third-axis direction, has undulations greater than the undulations of the second cross-sectional shape of the center internal electrode as viewed from the second-axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Sumiaki KISHIMOTO, Hiroyuki SHIMIZU, Tomohiro HARADA, Yukihiro KONISHI
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Patent number: 10131170Abstract: The present invention aims principally to provide a protective layer transfer sheet that can prevent occurrence of fusion between a receiving layer and a transfer layer and occurrence of peeling traces when the transfer layer is peeled from the receiving layer, even in the case that thermal energy applied on transfer of the transfer layer is increased and can obtain a high quality printed article and to provide a protective layer transfer sheet that can impart extremely good scratch resistance to the surface of a printed article. The protective layer transfer sheet includes a substrate, and a transfer layer provided on a surface of the substrate, and the transfer layer includes a binder resin and one or more substances selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid esters, olefin-maleic acid copolymers, and amino polyether-modified silicone oils.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Suguru Yabe, Tomohiro Harada, Kazumasa Maeda, Munenori Ieshige
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Publication number: 20180149388Abstract: An exhaust gas latent-heat recovery device includes: a heat transfer tube disposed inside a duct through which exhaust gas flows, the heat transfer tube having a water supply inlet into which water to be heated for recovering latent heat of the exhaust gas is supplied and a water supply outlet through which the water to be heated is discharged; and a water supply control part configured to control supply of the water to be heated to the water supply inlet. The water supply control part is configured to control supply of the water to be heated from the water supply inlet so that an outlet temperature being a temperature of the water to be heated at the water supply outlet is at a set temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Naoki KOUMOTO, Tomohiro HARADA, Hiroyuki YAGITA, Akitoshi SUGIYAMA, Tarou ICHIHARA, Kimio KONNO, Yukimitsu SASAKI
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Publication number: 20180064389Abstract: The estimation of the sleep stage at a time point where data does not exist, is enabled. An acquiring unit configured to acquire biological data indicating a wave of a heartbeat; a parameter estimating unit configured to estimate a parameter by using the biological data, with respect to a mathematical expression defining a medium frequency component of the wave of the heartbeat by using the parameter; and a sleep stage estimating unit configured to estimate a sleep stage from a value of the medium frequency component at any time point, based on the mathematical expression to which the estimated parameter is applied, are included.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Keiki TAKADAMA, Tomohiro HARADA
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Patent number: 9854177Abstract: An imaging apparatus combines images output from imaging units, and reduces such scenes that an image of a displaced subject is captured. The apparatus includes a driving unit that drives at least one imaging unit serving as a driving target among the imaging units, in predetermined driving modes, and a combining unit that combines pieces of image data acquired by the imaging units. The imaging units each include an imaging sensor in which photoelectric converters for converting light into an electrical signal are arranged in rows and columns. The driving unit divides a region for acquiring the image data into a plurality of regions each corresponding to a unit formed of one or more rows of the imaging sensor. The driving modes include a first driving mode in which the imaging unit serving as the driving target is sequentially switched for each exposure or readout of the unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomohiro Harada
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Publication number: 20170326848Abstract: The present invention aims principally to provide a protective layer transfer sheet that can prevent occurrence of fusion between a receiving layer and a transfer layer and occurrence of peeling traces when the transfer layer is peeled from the receiving layer, even in the case that thermal energy applied on transfer of the transfer layer is increased and can obtain a high quality printed article and to provide a protective layer transfer sheet that can impart extremely good scratch resistance to the surface of a printed article. The protective layer transfer sheet includes a substrate, and a transfer layer provided on a surface of the substrate, and the transfer layer includes a binder resin and one or more substances selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid esters, olefin-maleic acid copolymers, and amino polyether-modified silicone oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Suguru Yabe, Tomohiro Harada, Kazumasa Maeda, Munenori Ieshige
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Patent number: 9764579Abstract: The present invention aims principally to provide a protective layer transfer sheet that can prevent occurrence of fusion between a receiving layer and a transfer layer and occurrence of peeling traces when the transfer layer is peeled from the receiving layer, even in the case that thermal energy applied on transfer of the transfer layer is increased and can obtain a high quality printed article and to provide a protective layer transfer sheet that can impart extremely good scratch resistance to the surface of a printed article. The protective layer transfer sheet includes a substrate, and a transfer layer provided on a surface of the substrate, and the transfer layer includes a binder resin and one or more substances selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid esters, olefin-maleic acid copolymers, and amino polyether-modified silicone oils.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Suguru Yabe, Tomohiro Harada, Kazumasa Maeda, Munenori Ieshige
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Publication number: 20170263845Abstract: A piezoelectric element which is a single-layer or laminated piezoelectric element has a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric ceramic layer. The first electrode and second electrode contain silver by 50 percent by weight or more. The piezoelectric ceramic layer is placed between the first electrode and second electrode, and constituted by a polycrystalline substance of alkali niobate piezoelectric ceramic containing at least one alkali earth metal being calcium, strontium, or barium, and silver. According to this constitution, the electrical resistance and piezoelectric property can be improved, and consequently high reliability and good piezoelectric characteristics can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Keiichi HATANO, Sumiaki KISHIMOTO, Tomohiro HARADA, Yutaka DOSHIDA
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Patent number: 9657995Abstract: Provided is an outer casing having a bottomed tube shape, the casing having a cooling water supply port, and a cooling water discharge port, and being inserted into a high-temperature furnace; an inner casing having a bottomed tube shape inserted into the outer casing; an imaging unit that is disposed in the inner casing which captures an image of the exterior of the outer casing; and partition members that are between an inner surface of the outer casing and an outer surface of the inner casing which define a first flow channel, a second flow channel, and a communicating channel for communicating the first flow channel and the second flow channel between the bottom of the outer casing and the partition members.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENVIRONMENTAL & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Nagai, Tomohiro Harada, Akira Noma, Toshimasa Shirai
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Publication number: 20160277655Abstract: An imaging apparatus combines images output from imaging units, and reduces such scenes that an image of a displaced subject is captured. The apparatus includes a driving unit that drives at least one imaging unit serving as a driving target among the imaging units, in predetermined driving modes, and a combining unit that combines pieces of image data acquired by the imaging units. The imaging units each include an imaging sensor in which photoelectric converters for converting light into an electrical signal are arranged in rows and columns. The driving unit divides a region for acquiring the image data into a plurality of regions each corresponding to a unit formed of one or more rows of the imaging sensor. The driving modes include a first driving mode in which the imaging unit serving as the driving target is sequentially switched for each exposure or readout of the unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventor: Tomohiro Harada
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Publication number: 20160221376Abstract: The present invention aims principally to provide a protective layer transfer sheet that can prevent occurrence of fusion between a receiving layer and a transfer layer and occurrence of peeling traces when the transfer layer is peeled from the receiving layer, even in the case that thermal energy applied on transfer of the transfer layer is increased and can obtain a high quality printed article and to provide a protective layer transfer sheet that can impart extremely good scratch resistance to the surface of a printed article. A protective layer transfer sheet 100 comprises a substrate 1, and a transfer layer 10 provided on a surface of the substrate 1, and the transfer layer 10 comprises a binder resin and one or more substances selected from the group of phosphoric acid esters, olefin-maleic acid copolymers, and amino polyether-modified silicone oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Suguru YABE, Tomohiro HARADA, Kazumasa MAEDA, Munenori IESHIGE
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Publication number: 20150285559Abstract: Provided is an outer casing having a bottomed tube shape, the casing having a cooling water supply port, and a cooling water discharge port, and being inserted into a high-temperature furnace; an inner casing having a bottomed tube shape inserted into the outer casing; an imaging unit that is disposed in the inner casing which captures an image of the exterior of the outer casing; and partition members that are between an inner surface of the outer casing and an outer surface of the inner casing which define a first flow channel, a second flow channel, and a communicating channel for communicating the first flow channel and the second flow channel between the bottom of the outer casing and the partition members.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2013Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Hiroshi Nagai, Tomohiro Harada, Akira Noma, Toshimasa Shirai