Patents by Inventor Toru Fujii
Toru Fujii 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: 20240400158Abstract: An electric device of a human-powered vehicle comprises an input part, an electric actuator, an actuator driver, and a converter circuit. The input part is configured to be electrically connected to an electric power source. The electric actuator is configured to move a movable member. The actuator driver is electrically connected to the electric actuator to control the electric actuator. The converter circuit is configured to convert a first voltage to a second voltage different from the first voltage. The converter circuit is electrically connected in series with the input part and the actuator driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Hiroaki GODA, Toru SANO, Takaaki FUJII, Hiroki TANABE
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Patent number: 12157921Abstract: In the present invention, there is provided a coating liquid for forming an insulation coating for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, including: a solvent; and one or two more layered clay mineral powders having a specific surface area of 20 m2/g or more. In addition, in the present invention, there is provided a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including: a base metal; and an insulation coating provided on a surface of the base metal, in which the insulation coating contains SiO2, and one or two of Al2O3 and MgO, and has a porosity of 10% or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Yamazaki, Kazutoshi Takeda, Hiroyasu Fujii, Toru Nagai
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Patent number: 12116002Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a communication device that communicates with an external apparatus outside the information processing apparatus; a memory that includes a protected region and an unprotected region; a processor that operates in a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which access to the protected region and access to the unprotected region are allowed, the second mode being a mode in which access to the protected region is prohibited and access to the unprotected region is allowed; a first device controller that controls the communication device by the processor operating in the first mode; a virtual machine manager that causes one or more virtual machines to operate by the processor operating in the second mode; and a second device controller that controls the communication device by the processor operating in the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Wada, Yoshiharu Imamoto, Toru Iwano, Takayuki Fujii
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Patent number: 12076585Abstract: A treatment planning system that generates treatment planning for irradiating a target with a particle beam, includes an arithmetic processing device that sets at least two or more irradiation patterns for one treatment planning, calculates a plurality of predicted dose distributions for each irradiation pattern based on a target dose set for each region for at least one region including a region of the target, and calculates an index for evaluating validity of the irradiation pattern based on the plurality of predicted dose distributions.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Taisuke Takayanagi, Takahiro Yamada, Yusuke Fujii, Toru Umekawa, Hiroki Shirato, Shinichi Shimizu, Taeko Matsuura, Naoki Miyamoto, Seishin Takao, Yuichi Hirata, Sodai Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240061410Abstract: The present invention reduces costs relating to generation of a model, and suppresses a decrease in the estimating accuracy of the generated model. A quality prediction system of one aspect of the present invention acquires first learning data collected in first manufacturing equipment, acquires second learning data collected in second manufacturing equipment, and in order to implement transfer learning, converts the acquired first learning data to match the second learning data, uses the converted first learning data and the second learning data to implement machine learning of a quality prediction model, uses a trained quality prediction model to specify an adjustment amount for each adjustment item of the second manufacturing equipment so that a quality index predicted for a second product satisfies a quality standard, and outputs the specified adjustment amount of each adjustment item of the second manufacturing equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yuya OTA, Reiko HATTORI, Mami MIYAMOTO, Toru FUJII
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Patent number: 11862436Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing vessel; a placing table, serving as a lower electrode, disposed within the processing vessel; an upper electrode serving as a facing electrode of the placing table; a plasma processor configured to form a gas within the processing vessel into plasma by supplying a high frequency power and to process a processing target object on the placing table with the plasma; a cover member configured to cover the upper electrode from thereabove; a cooler provided within the cover member and configured to cool the upper electrode with a coolant having a temperature lower than a dew point temperature of exterior air outside the processing vessel; and a gas supply configured to supply a low-dew point gas having a dew point temperature lower than the dew point temperature of the exterior air into a space surrounded by the cover member and the upper electrode.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Toru Fujii, Yoshitomo Konta, Kohei Otsuki
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Publication number: 20220053785Abstract: Provided is a method for producing hen's egg improved in quality includes feeding a solid-cultured product of filamentous bacteria blended with feedstuff of a hen or the solid-cultured product of the filamentous bacteria alone to a hen to improve quality of the hen's egg, in which at least one quality among improvement in yolk color, improvement in eggshell strength, increase in an egg white height, increase in an eggshell thickness, increase in an egg weight, increase in a Haugh unit, increase in an egg production ratio, and reduction in a generation ratio of an abnormal egg is improved for hen's egg that the hen ingesting the solid-cultured product of the filamentous bacteria produce.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Satoko SENOO, Natsuki FUKANO, Miyabi MORINO, Yuma FUKUDA, Ayano NAKAYAMA, Satoru ARIYASU, Yuma NAKANISHI, Yoshino MITSUDA, Mio MORIMOTO, Maho OTSUKI, Toru FUJII
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Publication number: 20220044914Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing vessel; a placing table, serving as a lower electrode, disposed within the processing vessel; an upper electrode serving as a facing electrode of the placing table; a plasma processor configured to form a gas within the processing vessel into plasma by supplying a high frequency power and to process a processing target object on the placing table with the plasma; a cover member configured to cover the upper electrode from thereabove; a cooler provided within the cover member and configured to cool the upper electrode with a coolant having a temperature lower than a dew point temperature of exterior air outside the processing vessel; and a gas supply configured to supply a low-dew point gas having a dew point temperature lower than the dew point temperature of the exterior air into a space surrounded by the cover member and the upper electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Toru Fujii, Yoshitomo Konta, Kohei Otsuki
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Patent number: 11183371Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing vessel; a placing table, serving as a lower electrode, disposed within the processing vessel; an upper electrode serving as a facing electrode of the placing table; a plasma processor configured to form a gas within the processing vessel into plasma by supplying a high frequency power and to process a processing target object on the placing table with the plasma; a cover member configured to cover the upper electrode from thereabove; a cooler provided within the cover member and configured to cool the upper electrode with a coolant having a temperature lower than a dew point temperature of exterior air outside the processing vessel; and a gas supply configured to supply a low-dew point gas having a dew point temperature lower than the dew point temperature of the exterior air into a space surrounded by the cover member and the upper electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Toru Fujii, Yoshitomo Konta, Kohei Otsuki
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Patent number: 11029674Abstract: An information processing device determines, based on a preset threshold, whether the production index belongs to either a first section or a second section contained in one maintenance cycle of the member, wherein a change in the production index is larger in the second section than in the first section. The information processing device executes at least one of first processing in which the production index determined to belong to the first section is used and second processing in which the production index determined to belong to the second section is used.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Matsuyama, Reiko Hattori, Toru Fujii, Hideki Yachiku, Hiroshi Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20200211826Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing vessel; a placing table, serving as a lower electrode, disposed within the processing vessel; an upper electrode serving as a facing electrode of the placing table; a plasma processor configured to form a gas within the processing vessel into plasma by supplying a high frequency power and to process a processing target object on the placing table with the plasma; a cover member configured to cover the upper electrode from thereabove; a cooler provided within the cover member and configured to cool the upper electrode with a coolant having a temperature lower than a dew point temperature of exterior air outside the processing vessel; and a gas supply configured to supply a low-dew point gas having a dew point temperature lower than the dew point temperature of the exterior air into a space surrounded by the cover member and the upper electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Toru Fujii, Yoshitomo Konta, Kohei Otsuki
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Patent number: 10639759Abstract: There are provided a load state diagnosis device and a load state diagnosis method for a servomotor. A PLC diagnoses the load state of the servomotor which rotationally drives a rotary tool in a predetermined rotational drive direction at a constant speed. The PLC includes a detection part that detects the rotational direction of a torque acting on the servomotor, a determination part that determines whether the rotational direction of the torque detected by the detection part is consistent with the predetermined rotational drive direction, and a load index output part that outputs a load index indicating the load state of the servomotor based on a determination result of the determination part.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Reiko Hattori, Takayoshi Matsuyama, Toru Fujii
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Patent number: 10591824Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination optical apparatus comprises: a light splitting device which splits the beam into a plurality of beams with respective polarization states different from each other; a spatial light modulation device which is arranged on at least one of a first optical path in which a first beam out of the plurality of beams travels and a second optical path in which a second beam out of the plurality of beams travels, and which has a plurality of optical elements arranged two-dimensionally and driven individually; and a control device which controls the spatial modulation device to combine the first beam and the second beam at least in part.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Toru Fujii
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Patent number: 10554035Abstract: An arc detector includes a current sensor, a power spectrum conversion unit that converts an output from the current sensor to a power spectrum, a section value obtaining unit that divides an arc measurement section for the power spectrum into a plurality of regions, and obtains, from region values for the plurality of regions excluding a maximum one of the region values, a region value to be a section value of the arc measurement section, and an arc determination unit that determines a presence of an arc by comparing the section value with a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kohei Tomita, Toru Fujii, Reiko Hattori, Takeshi Ashida
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Publication number: 20190184511Abstract: There are provided a load state diagnosis device and a load state diagnosis method for a servomotor. A PLC diagnoses the load state of the servomotor which rotationally drives a rotary tool in a predetermined rotational drive direction at a constant speed. The PLC includes a detection part that detects the rotational direction of a torque acting on the servomotor, a determination part that determines whether the rotational direction of the torque detected by the detection part is consistent with the predetermined rotational drive direction, and a load index output part that outputs a load index indicating the load state of the servomotor based on a determination result of the determination part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Reiko HATTORI, Takayoshi MATSUYAMA, Toru FUJII
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Publication number: 20190181025Abstract: A monitoring system according to an aspect may construct a predictive model that predicts a value of a removal amount depending on values of an accumulated operating time and an accumulated number of processed wafers, based on learning data; acquires actual values of the accumulated operating time, the accumulated number of processed wafers, and the removal amount with respect to a wet etching apparatus when it is in operation; calculates a predicted value of the removal amount by inputting the acquired actual values of the accumulated operating time and the accumulated number of processed wafers to the predictive model; calculates the difference between the predicted value and the actual value of the removal amount, as an indicator value serving as a measure of how necessary it is to replace a chemical solution; and outputs information regarding replacement of the chemical solution based on the calculated indicator value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yuya OTA, Toru FUJII, Shin EGAMI, Kosuke TSURUTA, Hiroki KOYAMA
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Publication number: 20190072945Abstract: An information processing device determines, based on a preset threshold, whether the production index belongs to either a first section or a second section contained in one maintenance cycle of the member, wherein a change in the production index is larger in the second section than in the first section. The information processing device executes at least one of first processing in which the production index determined to belong to the first section is used and second processing in which the production index determined to belong to the second section is used.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takayoshi MATSUYAMA, Reiko HATTORI, Toru FUJII, Hideki YACHIKU, Hiroshi KURIBAYASHI
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Method for measuring resistance of conveyor belt to getting over support roller, and device therefor
Patent number: 9823180Abstract: An evaluation subject formed by a cut sample of a conveyor belt is mounted on a flat substrate with an inner periphery-side cover rubber layer located on the upper side, a support roller mounted in a frame is horizontally pulled and rolled in the longitudinal direction of the evaluation subject by pulling the frame by a wire while the support roller is pressed vertically downward against the upper surface of the evaluation subject at a preset pressure using a pneumatic cylinder without substantial deformation of the outer peripheral surface thereof, and tensile force in a horizontal direction measured at this time by a tensile force sensor connected to the wire is evaluated as resistance to moving over the support roller.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.Inventors: Shigehiko Amano, Gang Hou, Toru Fujii, Kazuya Okubo -
Publication number: 20170324236Abstract: An arc detector includes a current sensor, a power spectrum conversion unit that converts an output from the current sensor to a power spectrum, a section value obtaining unit that divides an arc measurement section for the power spectrum into a plurality of regions, and obtains, from region values for the plurality of regions excluding a maximum one of the region values, a region value to be a section value of the arc measurement section, and an arc determination unit that determines a presence of an arc by comparing the section value with a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kohei TOMITA, Toru FUJII, Reiko HATTORI, Takeshi ASHIDA
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Patent number: 9709820Abstract: A refractive Fresnel lens used for an optical system including an image plane, which includes a plurality of zone lens surfaces disposed concentrically and a plurality of side wall surfaces each formed between adjacent zone lens surfaces, is characterized in that the side wall surfaces are modulated so as to spatially spread in the image plane noise light due to reflection and/or refraction at the side wall surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignees: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale D'Optique), Nikon CorporationInventors: Toru Fujii, Alain Goulet