Patents by Inventor Toru Kawahara

Toru Kawahara 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: 11597056
    Abstract: An assistance apparatus includes a status information acquiring section that acquires a grinding condition as a status information, the grinding condition including set states associated with a plurality of movement command data, an evaluation result acquiring section that acquires evaluation results of a plurality of evaluation objects that are obtained under the grinding condition, a reward calculating section that calculates a reward for the status information based on the evaluation results, a policy storing section that stores a policy which is obtained from a value function, an action determining section that determines the movement command data to be adjusted and an adjustment amount at which said movement command data is adjusted, from among candidates of the plurality of movement command data that are adjustable, based on the status information and the policy, and an action information outputting section that is configured to output determined contents including an action information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Masuda, Toru Kawahara, Shinji Murakami
  • Publication number: 20220315682
    Abstract: A method for producing a crosslinking polymer gel, the method including polymerizing a monomer composition containing at least one (meth)acrylic acid compound selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof and benzaldehyde to obtain a crosslinking polymer gel, in which a centrifuge retention capacity of crosslinking polymer particles obtained by coarsely crushing, drying, and pulverizing the crosslinking polymer gel is 60 g/g or more. A monomer composition for obtaining a crosslinking polymer gel, the monomer composition containing at least one (meth)acrylic acid compound selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof, and benzaldehyde, in which a centrifuge retention capacity of crosslinking polymer particles obtained by coarsely crushing, drying, and pulverizing the crosslinking polymer gel is 60 g/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Toru KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220143575
    Abstract: Disclosed are water-absorbent resin particles having a gel outflow test force measured by the following method of 5 to 14 N. The measuring method for gel outflow test force includes: producing a swollen gel by allowing the water-absorbent resin particles to absorb 29 times as amount of physiological saline as the water-absorbent resin particles under stirring; evenly putting 20 g of the swollen gel in a cylinder with an inner diameter of 5 cm and having a hole with a diameter of 5 mm at a bottom part, compressing the swollen gel in the cylinder at a rate of 10 mm/min with a jig with a diameter of 4.9 cm, thereby recording a test force at a time point when a part of the swollen gel flows out from the hole at the bottom part of the cylinder, as the gel outflow test force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Toru KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220143574
    Abstract: Water-absorbent resin particles 10a having a gel surface elasticity measured by the following (1) to (5) is 0.35 to 2.00 N: (1) preparing a gel of the water-absorbent resin particles, (2) bringing a jig into contact with the gel, (3) performing an operation of pressing the jig into the gel and thereafter pulling the jig back to obtain a maximum value and a minimum value of loads applied to the jig during the operation, (4) repeating twice an operation of pressing the jig into the gel and thereafter pulling the jig back to obtain a maximum value and a minimum value of loads applied to the jig during each of operations, and (5) obtaining an average value of maximum values obtained in (3) and (4) and an average value of minimum values obtained in (3) and (4) to obtain a difference between these values as the gel surface elasticity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Toru KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220143576
    Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article 100 including an absorber 10 containing water-absorbent resin particles 10a, in which the water-absorbent resin particles 10a have a maximum gel resistance measured by procedures (1) to (3) of 0.3 to 1.5 N, and a water absorption amount for physiological saline under a load of 4.14 kPa of 12 mL/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Toru KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220134310
    Abstract: Water-absorbent resin particles in which a gel outflow proportion is 0% to 20% are disclosed. The gel outflow proportion is measured by a method including: measuring a mass W (g) of 20 g of a swollen gel flowed out from a through hole of a disc while the swollen gel is compressed by a weight of 2000 g for 30 seconds, where the swollen gel is formed by allowing the water-absorbent resin particles to absorb physiological saline; and calculating the gel outflow proportion (%) by the following formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Toru KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220023830
    Abstract: Disclosed is water-absorbent resin particles including a crosslinked polymer having a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof, in which a proportion of (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof is 70 to 100 mol % with respect to a total amount of monomer units in the crosslinked polymer, and a dissolved content in an aqueous solution of 0.9% by mass NaCl at 25° C. is 10% by mass or more and 25% by mass or less, and a dissolved content in an aqueous solution of 0.9% by mass NaCl at 40° C. is 1.4% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less, where the dissolved contents are measured by a specific method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventor: Toru KAWAHARA
  • Patent number: 10945890
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an absorbent body according to the present invention includes a first step of successively introducing an aggregate of absorbent fibers and a water-absorbent resin into a gap that is formed between a first surface and a second surface and is smaller than a thickness of the aggregate of the absorbent fibers, recesses and protrusions being formed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface, a second step of applying a shearing force to the aggregate of the absorbent fibers by moving the first surface relative to and parallel to the second surface in order to mix the absorbent fibers and the water-absorbent resin, and a third step of causing the absorbent fibers and the water-absorbent resin that were mixed to fall, and stacking the absorbent fibers and the water-absorbent resin by suctioning the absorbent fibers and the water-absorbent resin into a recessed portion having a predetermined shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO SEIKA CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabuguchi, Toru Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20200306928
    Abstract: An assistance apparatus includes a status information acquiring section that acquires a grinding condition as a status information, the grinding condition including set states associated with a plurality of movement command data, an evaluation result acquiring section that acquires evaluation results of a plurality of evaluation objects that are obtained under the grinding condition, a reward calculating section that calculates a reward for the status information based on the evaluation results, a policy storing section that stores a policy which is obtained from a value function, an action determining section that determines the movement command data to be adjusted and an adjustment amount at which said movement command data is adjusted, from among candidates of the plurality of movement command data that are adjustable, based on the status information and the policy, and an action information outputting section that is configured to output determined contents including an action information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki MASUDA, Toru KAWAHARA, Shinji MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200133246
    Abstract: A learning model generation device for supporting a machine tool, includes: a first non-control element acquisition unit configured to acquire a first non-control element, the first non-control element including at least one of specifications of a workpiece and specifications of a tool and being not a machining control element for a machine tool; a machining control element acquisition unit configured to acquire the machining control element for the machine tool; and an actual quality element acquisition unit configured to acquire an actual quality element of the workpiece after machining. The leaning model generation device further includes a learning model generation unit configured to generate, by machine learning in which the first non-control element, the machining control element and the actual quality element are set as learning data, a learning model for outputting the machining control element based on the first non-control element and the actual quality element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Toru KAWAHARA, Yuki MASUDA, Shinji MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200030939
    Abstract: An estimation model creating device for grinding wheel surface condition estimation includes a measurement data obtaining unit and a first learning model creating unit. The measurement data obtaining unit obtains measurement data measured during grinding of workpieces with a grinding wheel in a grinding machine. The measurement data obtaining unit obtains the measurement data for a predetermined period of time for each workpiece. The measurement data includes at least one of first measurement data indicating the condition of a structural member of the grinding machine, and second measurement data relating to a ground portion of the workpiece. The first learning model creating unit performs machine learning using the measurement data relating to the workpieces as first-learning input data so as to create a first learning model for estimating a surface condition of the grinding wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki MASUDA, Toru KAWAHARA, Shinji MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200033842
    Abstract: A grinding quality estimation model generating device includes a measured data acquiring unit configured to acquire measured data in a predetermined period for each of a plurality of workpieces, the measured data being data measured when grinding of the workpiece is performed using a grinding wheel in a grinding machine, and the measured data being at least one of first measured data indicating a state of a structural member of the grinding machine and second measured data associated with a grinding region; and a first learning model generating unit configured to generate a first learning model for estimating grinding quality of the workpiece by machine learning using the measured data associated with the plurality of workpieces as first learning input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki MASUDA, Toru KAWAHARA, Shinji MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20180353349
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an absorbent body according to the present invention includes a first step of successively introducing an aggregate of absorbent fibers and a water-absorbent resin into a gap that is formed between a first surface and a second surface and is smaller than a thickness of the aggregate of the absorbent fibers, recesses and protrusions being formed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface, a second step of applying a shearing force to the aggregate of the absorbent fibers by moving the first surface relative to and parallel to the second surface in order to mix the absorbent fibers and the water-absorbent resin, and a third step of causing the absorbent fibers and the water-absorbent resin that were mixed to fall, and stacking the absorbent fibers and the water-absorbent resin by suctioning the absorbent fibers and the water-absorbent resin into a recessed portion having a predetermined shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroki YABUGUCHI, Toru KAWAHARA
  • Patent number: 4147753
    Abstract: In a process for the thermal cracking of a heavy hydrocarbon in a cylindrical reactor, a portion of the content material in the reactor is taken out and injected back into the reactor according to a specific procedure to form a "wet wall" or liquid curtain on the inner peripheral wall of the reactor, thereby preventing coking in the reactor. The apparatus includes a radially outwardly extending interior annular recess around an upper portion of the inner wall thereof and forming a part of said inner wall and plural means for tangentially injecting the recycled liquid into said recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Assignees: Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Chiyoda Chemical Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomizo Endo, Yutaka Sumida, Toru Kawahara, Masaichi Ohtake, Shoichi Motokawa, Keiji Nagayama, Masatomo Shigeta, Hiroshi Hozuma, Masaharu Tomizawa, Hideo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4085034
    Abstract: In a process for the thermal cracking of a heavy hydrocarbon in a cylindrical reactor, a portion of the content material in the reactor is taken out and injected back into the reactor according to a specific procedure to form a "wet wall" or liquid curtain on the inner peripheral wall of the reactor, thereby preventing coking in the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1978
    Assignees: Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Chiyoda Chemical Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomizo Endo, Yutaka Sumida, Toru Kawahara, Masaichi Ohtake, Shoichi Motokawa, Keiji Nagayama, Masatomo Shigeta, Hiroshi Hozuma, Masaharu Tomizawa, Hideo Kikuchi