Patents by Inventor Tomoko Ichikawa

Tomoko Ichikawa 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: 20240112450
    Abstract: An information processing device of the present invention is capable of collaboration with a learning device to determine whether an image group that has been obtained in time series by the first endoscope is an image group obtained at a first time or at a second time, and to create a first inference model for image feature determination of images for the first endoscope by performing learning with results of having performed annotation on the image group that was obtained at the second time as training data, the information processing device comprising at least one or a plurality of classifying processors that classify image groups constituting training data candidates, within an image group from the first endoscope that has been newly acquired, or an image group from a second endoscope, using the image group that has been obtained at the first time, when the first inference model was created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi SHINTANI, Akira TANI, Osamu NONAKA, Manabu ICHIKAWA, Tomoko GOCHO
  • Publication number: 20240108033
    Abstract: A beverage comprising an unsaturated fatty acid, comprising: 2.5 to 500 ppb of sabinene and/or 5 to 5000 ppb of ?-terpinene. A method of masking a light-deterioration odor in a beverage comprising an unsaturated fatty acid, by blending sabinene and/or ?-terpinene in such an amount that the content of the sabinene and/or ?-terpinene in the beverage are the amounts noted above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., ASAHI SOFT DRINKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eri ICHIKAWA, Tomoko ISHIBIKI, Tomoe MIKI
  • Publication number: 20220316983
    Abstract: A diagnosis apparatus includes: a sensor that detects diagnosis target information generated by a diagnosis target device; a threshold setting unit that sets a threshold for the diagnosis target information; and a diagnosis unit that diagnoses the diagnosis target device based on the diagnosis target information detected by the sensor and the threshold, in which the threshold setting unit sets the threshold based on the diagnosis target information in a predetermined period before a diagnosis time point, and the diagnosis unit performs diagnosis based on a current time point threshold set at the diagnosis time point and at least one past threshold set in the past.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoko Ichikawa, Yutaka Akedo
  • Patent number: 11390720
    Abstract: Provided are a sizing agent coated carbon fiber bundle that has excellent mechanical characteristics when used as a carbon fiber reinforced composite material, as well as excellent ease of handling; a method for manufacturing the same; and a prepreg and carbon fiber reinforced composite material of excellent mechanical characteristics, employing the fiber bundle. The carbon fiber bundle is coated with a sizing agent that includes a polyether aliphatic epoxy compound having two or more epoxy groups per molecule and/or a polyol aliphatic epoxy compound or a non-water-soluble compound having a glass transition temperature of ?100-50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takumi Hiasa, Daigo Kobayashi, Tomoko Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11286359
    Abstract: A prepreg includes; sizing agent-coated carbon fibers coated with a sizing agent; and a thermosetting resin composition impregnated into the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers. The sizing agent includes an aliphatic epoxy compound (A) and an aromatic compound (B) at least containing an aromatic epoxy compound (B1). The thermosetting resin composition includes a thermosetting resin (D) and a latent hardener (E), and optionally includes an additive (F) other than the thermosetting resin (D) and the latent hardener (E). The (a)/(b) ratio is within a predetermined range where (a) is the height of a component at a binding energy assigned to CHx, C—C, and C?C and (b) is the height of a component at a binding energy assigned to C—O in a C1s core spectrum of the surfaces of the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Arai, Tomoko Ichikawa, Hiroshi Taiko, Makoto Endo, Masanobu Kobayashi, Jun Misumi
  • Patent number: 11118022
    Abstract: Sizing agent coated carbon fibers obtained by coating carbon fibers with a sizing agent comprising at least one of (A) to (C) in a total amount of 80 mass % or more with respect to the whole sizing agent, the carbon fibers each having a surface layer which has a thickness of 10 nm or larger and has an oxygen content of 4% or higher with respect to all the elements, wherein when the sizing agent coated carbon fibers are subjected three times to a 10-minute ultrasonic treatment in an acetone solvent, then the amount of the remaining sizing agent is 0.1-0.25 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the sizing agent coated carbon fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko Ichikawa, Kazuki Yoshihiro, Hisafumi Mizuta, Makoto Endo
  • Patent number: 11111345
    Abstract: A prepreg includes; sizing agent-coated carbon fibers coated with a sizing agent; and a thermosetting resin composition impregnated into the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers. The sizing agent includes an aliphatic epoxy compound (A) and an aromatic compound (B) at least containing an aromatic epoxy compound (B1). The thermosetting resin composition includes a thermosetting resin (D) and a latent hardener (E), and optionally includes an additive (F) other than the thermosetting resin (D) and the latent hardener (E). The (a)/(b) ratio is within a predetermined range where (a) is the height of a component at a binding energy assigned to CHx, C—C, and C?C and (b) is the height of a component at a binding energy assigned to C—O in a C1s core spectrum of the surfaces of the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Arai, Tomoko Ichikawa, Hiroshi Taiko, Makoto Endo, Masanobu Kobayashi, Jun Misumi
  • Patent number: 10738171
    Abstract: Provided is a sizing-coated carbon fiber bundle that exhibits good spreadability in a step for spreading sizing-coated carbon fibers even in the case in which said carbon fibers exhibit a high adhesiveness with respect to a thermoplastic resin. Provided is a sizing-coated carbon fiber bundle that contains, as sizing components, at least a compound (A) containing an amino group or an amide group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yomo, Kazuki Yoshihiro, Tomohisa Noguchi, Tomoko Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20200165400
    Abstract: Provided are a sizing agent coated carbon fiber bundle that has excellent mechanical characteristics when used as a carbon fiber reinforced composite material, as well as excellent ease of handling; a method for manufacturing the same; and a prepreg and carbon fiber reinforced composite material of excellent mechanical characteristics, employing the fiber bundle. The carbon fiber bundle is coated with a sizing agent that includes a polyether aliphatic epoxy compound having two or more epoxy groups per molecule and/or a polyol aliphatic epoxy compound or a non-water-soluble compound having a glass transition temperature of ?100-50° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takumi HIASA, Daigo KOBAYASHI, Tomoko ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10544275
    Abstract: Provided are a sizing agent coated carbon fiber bundle that has excellent mechanical characteristics when used as a carbon fiber reinforced composite material, as well as excellent ease of handling; a method for manufacturing the same; and a prepreg and carbon fiber reinforced composite material of excellent mechanical characteristics, employing the fiber bundle. The carbon fiber bundle is coated with a sizing agent that includes a polyether aliphatic epoxy compound having two or more epoxy groups per molecule and/or a polyol aliphatic epoxy compound or a non-water-soluble compound having a glass transition temperature of ?100-50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takumi Hiasa, Daigo Kobayashi, Tomoko Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20190390022
    Abstract: Provided is a sizing-coated carbon fiber bundle that exhibits good spreadability in a step for spreading sizing-coated carbon fibers even in the case in which said carbon fibers exhibit a high adhesiveness with respect to a thermoplastic resin. Provided is a sizing-coated carbon fiber bundle that contains, as sizing components, at least a compound (A) containing an amino group or an amide group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki YOMO, Kazuki YOSHIHIRO, Tomohisa NOGUCHI, Tomoko ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10501605
    Abstract: A carbon fiber-reinforced resin composition of the present invention includes: sizing agent-coated carbon fibers in which carbon fibers are coated with a sizing agent; and a matrix resin. The sizing agent includes at least an aliphatic epoxy compound (A) and an aromatic epoxy compound (B1) as an aromatic compound (B). The sizing agent-coated carbon fibers have a ratio (a)/(b) of 0.50 to 0.90 where (a) is the height (cps) of a component having a binding energy (284.6 eV) attributed to CHx, C—C, and C?C and (b) is the height (cps) of a component having binding energy (286.1 eV) attributed to C—O in a C1s core spectrum of the surface of the sizing agent measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy at a photoelectron takeoff angle of 15°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko Ichikawa, Atsuki Tsuchiya, Makoto Endo
  • Publication number: 20190359785
    Abstract: A prepreg includes; sizing agent-coated carbon fibers coated with a sizing agent; and a thermosetting resin composition impregnated into the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers. The sizing agent includes an aliphatic epoxy compound (A) and an aromatic compound (B) at least containing an aromatic epoxy compound (B1). The thermosetting resin composition includes a thermosetting resin (D) and a latent hardener (E), and optionally includes an additive (F) other than the thermosetting resin (D) and the latent hardener (E). The (a)/(b) ratio is within a predetermined range where (a) is the height of a component at a binding energy assigned to CHx, C—C, and C?C and (b) is the height of a component at a binding energy assigned to C—) in a C1s core spectrum of the surfaces of the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki ARAI, Tomoko ICHIKAWA, Hiroshi TAIKO, Makoto ENDO, Masanobu KOBAYASHI, Jun MISUMI
  • Patent number: 10208173
    Abstract: Sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers include reinforcing fibers and a sizing agent containing a polyrotaxane, the reinforcing fibers being coated with the sizing agent. Provided are sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers that provide a fiber-reinforced composite material with excellent mechanical properties, a method for producing the sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers, a prepreg including the sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers, and a fiber-reinforced composite material with excellent mechanical properties including the sizing agent-coated reinforcing fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takumi Hiasa, Daigo Kobayashi, Tomoko Ichikawa, Makoto Endo
  • Publication number: 20180346668
    Abstract: Sizing agent coated carbon fibers obtained by coating carbon fibers with a sizing agent comprising at least one of (A) to (C) in a total amount of 80 mass % or more with respect to the whole sizing agent, the carbon fibers each having a surface layer which has a thickness of 10 nm or larger and has an oxygen content of 4% or higher with respect to all the elements, wherein when the sizing agent coated carbon fibers are subjected three times to a 10-minute ultrasonic treatment in an acetone solvent, then the amount of the remaining sizing agent is 0.1-0.25 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the sizing agent coated carbon fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko ICHIKAWA, Kazuki YOSHIHIRO, Hisafumi MIZUTA, Makoto ENDO
  • Patent number: 10138593
    Abstract: Sizing agent-coated carbon fibers includes: a sizing agent including an aliphatic epoxy compound (A) and at least containing an aromatic epoxy compound (B1) as an aromatic compound (B); and carbon fibers coated with the sizing agent, wherein the sizing agent-coated carbon fibers have an (a)/(b) ratio of 0.50 to 0.90 where (a) is a height (cps) of a component at a binding energy (284.6 eV) assigned to CHx, C—C, and C?C and (b) is a height (cps) of a component at a binding energy (286.1 eV) assigned to C—O in a C1s core spectrum of a surface of the sizing agent applied onto the carbon fibers analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy using AlK?1,2 as an X-ray source at a photoelectron takeoff angle of 15°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Ichikawa, Makoto Endo, Hiroshi Taiko, Masanobu Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Arai, Jun Misumi
  • Patent number: 10134119
    Abstract: An image generation device generates an output image based on an input image captured by a camera attached to a shovel. Further, the image generation device includes an output image generation unit that associates a value of an input pixel in the input image with a value of an output pixel in the output image to generate the output image. A value of an output pixel specified by an integer coordinate point on an output image plane is determined based on values of two input pixels specified by two integer coordinate points selected from four integer coordinate points in the vicinity of a real number coordinate point on an input image plane corresponding to the integer coordinate point on the output image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kiyota, Tomoko Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 10109043
    Abstract: An image generation device generates an output image based on input images captured by three cameras. An input image portion corresponding to an overlap region of imaging ranges of the cameras forms a lattice pattern in the output image. The lattice pattern uses, as a unit pattern, lattice points divided by circles drawn by waves around two cameras. Pixel values of the unit pattern are obtained by weight-averaging pixel values of first and second input images. A weighted average value of pixel values of the first input image is equal to or larger than a weighted average value of pixel values of the second input image in one of two unit patterns through which an abdominal line and a nodal line pass, and is equal to or smaller than the weighted average value of the pixel values of the second input image in the other one thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kiyota, Tomoko Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 9931552
    Abstract: Provided are tubular carbon fiber reinforced composite material and having excellent cylindrical bending strength and a golf club shaft using the same. This tubular carbon fiber reinforced composite material is formed by laminating and curing a straight layer and a bias layer. The straight layer comprises carbon fibers S coated with a sizing agent S and arranged in parallel in a direction of ?20° to +20° with respect to the axis of the tubular body, and contains a thermosetting resin S. The bias layer comprises carbon fibers B coated with a sizing agent B and arranged in parallel in a direction of +25° to +65° with respect to the axis of the tubular body, and contains a thermosetting resin B. The carbon fiber reinforced composite material constituting the bias layer has an interlaminar shear strength of not less than 110 MPa. A cured product of the thermosetting resin S has an elastic modulus of not less than 4.0 GPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Yoshihiro, Mami Sakaguchi, Takayuki Fujiwara, Tomoko Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20180001165
    Abstract: Provided are tubular carbon fiber reinforced composite material and having excellent cylindrical bending strength and a golf club shaft using the same. This tubular carbon fiber reinforced composite material is formed by laminating and curing a straight layer and a bias layer. The straight layer comprises carbon fibers S coated with a sizing agent S and arranged in parallel in a direction of ?20° to +20° with respect to the axis of the tubular body, and contains a thermosetting resin S. The bias layer comprises carbon fibers B coated with a sizing agent B and arranged in parallel in a direction of +25° to +65° with respect to the axis of the tubular body, and contains a thermosetting resin B. The carbon fiber reinforced composite material constituting the bias layer has an interlaminar shear strength of not less than 110 MPa. A cured product of the thermosetting resin S has an elastic modulus of not less than 4.0 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki YOSHIHIRO, Mami SAKAGUCHI, Takayuki FUJIWARA, Tomoko ICHIKAWA