Patents by Inventor Toru Ichikawa

Toru 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).

  • Patent number: 12319280
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is disclosed. The vehicle control device controls a vehicle on the basis of one or more detection times each representing a distance measured by a distance measuring device mounted on the vehicle. The distance measuring device measures a distance to an object around the vehicle by transmitting and receiving sound waves. The vehicle control device includes acquisition circuitry and estimated coordinate calculation circuitry. The acquisition circuitry acquires the one or more detection times. The estimated coordinate calculation circuitry calculates estimated coordinates indicating an estimated position of an object in a case where the object is present in a neighborhood of the distance measuring device but a distance to the object is not measured. The estimated coordinates is calculated on the basis of the one or more detection times having been acquired by the acquisition circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Ishibashi, Teppei Shibata, Toru Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20250100260
    Abstract: A packaging bag laminate to be used for a packaging bag, a spout-attached packaging bag, and a content-contained spout-attached packaging bag, includes a base layer, an intermediate layer, and a sealant layer that are laminated in this order, the base layer is a stretched film made of high density polyethylene, the intermediate layer is a multilayer-coextruded film in which support layers mainly made of polyethylene are laminated on two sides of a gas barrier resin layer, and the sealant layer is a film made of one or more materials selected from ethylene homopolymer or ethylene copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Toru ICHIKAWA, Kousuke SHINOZAKI, Katsuyuki YOSHIKAWA, Masahiro ITO, Kenji NAGATA, Naijun TONG
  • Publication number: 20250100261
    Abstract: A packaging bag laminate to be used for a packaging bag, a spout-attached packaging bag, and a content-contained spout-attached packaging bag, includes a base layer, an intermediate layer, and a sealant layer that are laminated in this order, the base layer is a stretched film made of polypropylene, the intermediate layer is a multilayer-coextruded film in which support layers mainly made of polyolefin are laminated on two sides of a gas barrier resin layer, and the sealant layer is a film made of one or more materials selected from ethylene homopolymer or ethylene copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Toru ICHIKAWA, Kousuke SHINOZAKI, Katsuyuki YOSHIKAWA, Takamasa MORI, Masahiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20230322217
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is disclosed. The vehicle control device controls a vehicle on the basis of one or more detection times each representing a distance measured by a distance measuring device mounted on the vehicle. The distance measuring device measures a distance to an object around the vehicle by transmitting and receiving sound waves. The vehicle control device includes acquisition circuitry and estimated coordinate calculation circuitry. The acquisition circuitry acquires the one or more detection times. The estimated coordinate calculation circuitry calculates estimated coordinates indicating an estimated position of an object in a case where the object is present in a neighborhood of the distance measuring device but a distance to the object is not measured. The estimated coordinates is calculated on the basis of the one or more detection times having been acquired by the acquisition circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yuya ISHIBASHI, Teppei SHIBATA, Toru ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11738909
    Abstract: A sleeve (10) is for being provided in a bag body (20) to come into contact with an inner face of the bag body (20) in a tubular state and imparting a three-dimensional shape to the bag body (20), and comprises polyolefin and a filler. The packaging bag (1) includes a bag body (20) and a sleeve (10) provided in the bag body (20), and is capable of self-standing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: HOSOKAWA YOKO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Toru Ichikawa, Kenji Nagata
  • Publication number: 20230002136
    Abstract: A discharge member used for discharging contents accommodated in a container includes: an attachment part to be attached to the container; and a tubular part that is formed into a tubular shape, through which the contents from the container pass, the tubular part being provided with a tubular member in which a functional resin layer is disposed as an intermediate layer inside in a radial direction. The functional resin layer provided to the tubular member is disposed closer to the outer circumferential surface among the outer circumferential surface and the inner circumferential surface of the tubular member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: HOSOKAWA YOKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru ICHIKAWA, Takayuki KOTANI, Tomonari SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 11459138
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a spouted pouch aseptically filled with contents includes a supplying process, a sterilizing process, a stopper opening process, a filling process, a tightly re-stopping process, and a capping process. The sterilizing process, the stopper opening process, the filling process, and the tightly re-stopping process are performed in an aseptic chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HOSOKAWA YOKO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11203453
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a spouted pouch aseptically filled with contents includes a supplying process, a sterilizing process, a stopper opening process, a filling process, a tightly re-stopping process, and a capping process. The sterilizing process, the stopper opening process, the filling process, and the tightly re-stopping process are performed in an aseptic chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: HOSOKAWA YOKO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20210245910
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a spouted pouch aseptically filled with contents includes a supplying process, a sterilizing process, a stopper opening process, a filling process, a tightly re-stopping process, and a capping process. The sterilizing process, the stopper opening process, the filling process, and the tightly re-stopping process are performed in an aseptic chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Toru ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10894649
    Abstract: A barrier plug having a spout body to be attached to a container, and a cylindrical molded article inserted into the spout body, wherein the cylindrical molded article has a resin layer having a barrier resin, an oxygen transmission rate of the resin layer is 10000 mL·?m/m2·24 hrs·MPa (23° C. and 65% RH) or less, a water vapor transmission rate of the resin layer is 1000 g·?m/m2·24 hrs (38° C. and 90% RH) or less, and the cylindrical molded article forms a discharge flow path for discharging contents in the container to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hosokawa Yoko Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Takagi, Kaoru Takasu, Toru Ichikawa, Takayuki Kotani, Tomonari Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20200407119
    Abstract: A sleeve (10) is for being provided in a bag body (20) to come into contact with an inner face of the bag body (20) in a tubular state and imparting a three-dimensional shape to the bag body (20), and comprises polyolefin and a filler. The packaging bag (1) includes a bag body (20) and a sleeve (10) provided in the bag body (20), and is capable of self-standing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Toru ICHIKAWA, Kenji NAGATA
  • Patent number: 10663582
    Abstract: A detection device includes a transmitter, an extraction unit, and a detector. The transmitter causes an ultrasonic sensor used in a vehicle to successively transmit a first transmission wave of a first frequency and a second transmission wave of a second frequency. The extraction unit extracts a frequency component from a reflected wave received by the ultrasonic sensor, the reflected wave having a reception level greater than a predetermined threshold. The detector detects an obstacle based on an extraction result of the component of the frequency. An amplitude level of the second transmission wave is greater than an amplitude level of the first transmission wave. The amplitude level of the first transmission wave is set to make the reception level of the reflected wave of the first transmission wave from a road surface less than or equal to the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Ogawa, Takashi Yoshida, Toru Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 10571553
    Abstract: A sensor mounting state determination device includes distance measurement section that measures a distance to a road surface based on time from transmission of a transmission wave to reception of a reflection wave by an ultrasonic sensor that is mounted to a vehicle to transmit a transmission wave toward a road surface and receive a reflection wave reflected off the road surface. There is further provided a determination section configured to determine not only that the ultrasonic sensor is correctly mounted when the distance measured by the distance measurement section is identical to a predetermined distance, but also that the ultrasonic sensor is incorrectly mounted when the distance measured by the distance measurement section is not identical to the predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Ogawa, Toru Ichikawa, Tatsuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 10538358
    Abstract: A container 1 according to an embodiment includes a body member 2 so formed of a stacked film 10 as to be self-standing and having an upper opening end 2a and a frame member 3 that is so provided as to be joined with an outer circumferential surface of the upper opening end 2a of the body member 2 and reinforces an edge portion of the upper opening end 2a in such a way that a predetermined opening shape of the upper opening end 2a is maintained, and the frame member 3 has a container holder 4 that is provided in a position where a finger touches the body member 2 when the body member 2 is held and extends downward from the frame member 3 to a halfway point of the body member 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Hosokawa Yoko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Miyoshi, Tomonari Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20190277967
    Abstract: A detection device includes a transmitter, an extraction unit, and a detector. The transmitter causes an ultrasonic sensor used in a vehicle to successively transmit a first transmission wave of a first frequency and a second transmission wave of a second frequency. The extraction unit extracts a frequency component from a reflected wave received by the ultrasonic sensor, the reflected wave having a reception level greater than a predetermined threshold. The detector detects an obstacle based on an extraction result of the component of the frequency. An amplitude level of the second transmission wave is greater than an amplitude level of the first transmission wave. The amplitude level of the first transmission wave is set to make the reception level of the reflected wave of the first transmission wave from a road surface less than or equal to the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: SHINYA OGAWA, TAKASHI YOSHIDA, TORU ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10272604
    Abstract: The method for attaching a thin cylindrical element to a mold core is a method for attaching a film-like thin cylindrical element, which is formed in a cylindrical shape having a constant cross-sectional shape, to an outer surface of a mold core in a manner so as to cover the mold core. The method includes pressing the thin cylindrical element onto a tip portion of the mold core; guiding the thin cylindrical element to the base end side of the mold core while ejecting gas into between the mold core and the thin cylindrical element; and attaching the thin cylindrical element to the outer surface of the mold core in a manner so as to cover the mold core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: HOSOKAWA YOKO CO., LTD., THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Ichikawa, Koki Abe, Shoso Nishida, Kenji Kikukawa
  • Publication number: 20190039800
    Abstract: A barrier plug having a spout body to be attached to a container, and a cylindrical molded article inserted into the spout body, wherein the cylindrical molded article has a resin layer having a barrier resin, an oxygen transmission rate of the resin layer is 10000 mL·?m/m2·24 hrs·MPa (23° C. and 65% RH) or less, a water vapor transmission rate of the resin layer is 1000 g·?m/m2·24 hrs (38° C. and 90% RH) or less, and the cylindrical molded article forms a discharge flow path for discharging contents in the container to an outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki TAKAGI, Kaoru TAKASU, Toru ICHIKAWA, Takayuki KOTANI, Tomonari SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20190018122
    Abstract: A sensor mounting state determination device includes distance measurement section that measures a distance to a road surface based on time from transmission of a transmission wave to reception of a reflection wave by an ultrasonic sensor that is mounted to a vehicle to transmit a transmission wave toward a road surface and receive a reflection wave reflected off the road surface. There is further provided a determination section configured to determine not only that the ultrasonic sensor is correctly mounted when the distance measured by the distance measurement section is identical to a predetermined distance, but also that the ultrasonic sensor is incorrectly mounted when the distance measured by the distance measurement section is not identical to the predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.
    Inventors: Shinya OGAWA, Toru ICHIKAWA, Tatsuaki YAMAGISHI
  • Patent number: 10065781
    Abstract: In the present invention, a blocking tube (11) has a tubular blocking layer (11a) made of a material having barrier properties, and a tubular covering layer (11b) which is disposed in contact with at least the inner peripheral surface of the blocking layer (11a) and is made of a material of the same quality as a base resin. One end portion of the covering layer (11b) protrudes further toward the outside than an end portion of the blocking layer (11a) which is disposed on the outer periphery side. In the blocking tube (11), the inner peripheral surface of the covering layer (11b) forms the inner surface of a pouring hole (5), and the end face on the one end portion side in an axial direction of the covering layer (11b) and the outer peripheral surface of the covering layer (11b), which protrudes from an end portion in the axial direction of the blocking layer (11a) are embedded in the base resin in contact with the base resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: HOSOKAWA YOKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Ichikawa, Tomonari Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10011275
    Abstract: A collision prevention device is mounted on a vehicle and prevents collision against an obstacle by controlling a driving system of the vehicle. This collision prevention device includes an obstacle sensor, an obstacle detection area setting unit, a detector and a vehicle controller. The obstacle sensor transmits one of a light wave, a radio wave and an ultrasonic wave to a predetermined obstacle detection area, and receives a reflected wave of one of the light wave, the radio wave and the ultrasonic wave. The obstacle detection area setting unit sets the obstacle detection area of the obstacle sensor. The detector detects the obstacle in the obstacle detection area based on a detection result of the obstacle sensor. The vehicle controller controls the driving system of the vehicle based on a result of the detection of the detector, and according to the obstacle detection area set by the obstacle detection area setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Ichikawa, Yasunori Shiga