Patents by Inventor Toru Nakatani
Toru Nakatani 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: 11885680Abstract: A spectral device is provided with: a filter having a property of transmitting light of multiple wavelength ranges from a measurement object; a driving means to slide the filter; and a detector to detect an intensity of the light from the measurement object, the light having passed through the filter, the detector to further measure the intensity of the light multiple times sequentially while the driving means slides the filter and thereby obtain multiple pieces of measured data to be used for a calculation of spectral information.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Toru Nakatani, Toshio Kawano, Hitoshi Nagasawa, Koji Nagai
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Publication number: 20230341261Abstract: The photometric device includes a variable light attenuator. The variable light attenuator includes a plurality of light attenuation filters and a driving device. Each of the plurality of light attenuation filters includes an interference multilayer film and a transparent substrate. A combination of any two of the plurality of light attenuation filters is set as a first light attenuation filter and a second light attenuation filter. A first optical path length of the first transparent substrate of the first light attenuation filter is different from a second optical path length of the second transparent substrate of the second light attenuation filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Tsugumi UMANODAN, Toru NAKATANI, Yusuke HIRAO
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Publication number: 20230187888Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic component having a housing with terminals insert-molded thereon. Each of the terminals includes a tapered portion having a tapered width and an extension extending from the tapered portion. A mold defining a cavity includes an upper die and sliding dies. After positioning the extension in one of grooves formed in one surface of each of the sliding dies, sliding the sliding dies relative to the extension to make tip edges of opposite side surfaces of the groove facing the cavity abut against opposite side surfaces of the tapered portion; and performing molding while keeping the upper die in close contact with the one surface, and keeping part of the tapered portion and the extension ying in the groove held between a bottom surface of the groove and the upper die with a remaining portion of the tapered portion lying in the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Youhei KIMITA, Hiroshi AKIMOTO, Takayuki NISHIMURA, Kazuya SAKAMOTO, Toru NAKATANI
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Patent number: 11556288Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an instruction to install a function in a device connected to a communication line, and receives designation of a display location of a selection part used to select the function on a screen displayed in the device in a case where the function is installed in the device, and a control unit that controls the screen of the device such that the selection part of the function is displayed in the display location, in which the designation is received in the reception unit, on the screen of the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Haruki Matsui, Toru Nakatani
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Patent number: 11548790Abstract: The present invention aims to provide techniques for efficiently synthesizing inorganic microparticles. According to the present invention, inorganic carbonate microparticles can be synthesized by generating ultrafine bubbles containing carbonic acid gas by injecting a gas containing carbonic acid gas and a liquid into a reaction vessel through a nozzle to deposit an inorganic carbonate having an average primary particle size of 300 nm or less in the presence of the ultrafine bubbles.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2017Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Oishi, Toru Nakatani, Moe Fukuoka, Shisei Goto
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Publication number: 20220349118Abstract: The present invention aims to provide highly flowable granules comprising a complex fiber of a fiber with inorganic particles. Granules comprising a complex fiber of a fiber with inorganic particles are provided by the present invention. The granules of the present invention have a particle size of 0.1 to 10 mm and a water content of less than 60%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Masatoshi Oishi, Atsushi Shigemi, Toru Nakatani, Koji Ninagawa, Hiroshi Shinkura
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Patent number: 11447912Abstract: The present invention aims to provide complex fibers of a cellulose fiber with inorganic particles exhibiting better drainage and retention when they are used as materials for forming sheets. In the complexes of the present invention, (1) the weight ratio B/A between the inorganic content (B) in the residue remaining on a 60-mesh sieve (having an opening of 250 ?m) after an aqueous suspension of a complex fiber having a solids content of 0.1% is filtered through the sieve and the inorganic content (A) in the complex fiber before treatment is 0.3 or more; or (2) the weight ratio C/A between the inorganic content (C) in fractions corresponding to an effluent volume (L) of 16.00 to 18.50 and an elution time (sec) of 10.6 to 37.3 and the inorganic content (A) in the complex fiber before treatment is 0.3 or more when an aqueous suspension of the complex fiber having a solids content of 0.3% is classified using a fiber classification analyzer under the conditions of a flow rate of 5.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayaka Hasegawa, Moe Fuchise, Masatoshi Oishi, Koji Ninagawa, Toru Nakatani
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Patent number: 11390997Abstract: The present invention provides a titanium oxide composite fiber in which titanium oxide is efficiently fixed in fiber, and a method for producing the titanium oxide composite fiber. A composite fiber of the present invention includes: fiber; titanium oxide; and an inorganic binder, at least part of the inorganic binder containing at least one inorganic compound selected from (i) an inorganic salt containing at least one of: at least one metal selected from magnesium, barium, aluminum, copper, iron, and zinc; and silicic acid and (ii) metal particles containing the at least one metal, the titanium oxide being firmly fixed to the fiber via the inorganic binder.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Oishi, Koji Ninagawa, Toru Nakatani, Dai Nagahara, Shisei Goto
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Patent number: 11354081Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a collection unit that collects a first history on a monitoring target device, a display unit that displays a history screen including at least a part of the first history collected by the collection unit, a receiving unit that receives an operator's operation to designate information included in the first history, on the history screen displayed by the display unit, and a generation unit that generates a second history in which the information designated by the operator is concealed, from the first history.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Aiko Nozue, Koji Hashimoto, Toru Nakatani, Haruki Matsui, Takeshi Ogura
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Patent number: 11339529Abstract: The present invention aims to provide cellulose fibers covered by inorganic particles on the fiber surface. According to the present invention, complexes of a cellulose fiber and inorganic particles wherein 15% or more of the surface of the cellulose fiber is covered by the inorganic particles can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Moe Fukuoka, Toru Nakatani, Shisei Goto, Masatoshi Oishi, Hiroaki Noguchi
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Publication number: 20220146309Abstract: A spectral device is provided with: a filter having a property of transmitting light of multiple wavelength ranges from a measurement object; a driving means to slide the filter; and a detector to detect an intensity of the light from the measurement object, the light having passed through the filter, the detector to further measure the intensity of the light multiple times sequentially while the driving means slides the filter and thereby obtain multiple pieces of measured data to be used for a calculation of spectral information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Toru NAKATANI, Toshio KAWANO, Hitoshi NAGASAWA, Koji NAGAI
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Patent number: 11295267Abstract: A software management device includes a display which is a section that displays a product list showing a software product satisfying a predetermined condition, and displays a product list including an item indicating a registered face-to-face selling product which is sold on a face-to-face basis and for which license information has been registered, in a case where the registered face-to-face selling product satisfies the predetermined condition, and a controller that non-restrictively receives a user operation with respect to an on-line selling product, which is a software product sold on line, in a case where the user has an on-line purchase right, and restrictively receives a user operation with respect to the registered face-to-face selling product in a case where the user does not have the on-line purchase right.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takeshi Ogura, Toru Nakatani, Koji Hashimoto, Haruki Matsui, Aiko Nozue
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Patent number: 11268241Abstract: The present invention provides a method for reducing web break caused in preparing, by continuous paper making, a fiber sheet containing a high content of functional inorganic substance. The composite fiber sheet manufacturing method includes: generating composite fibers composed of cellulosic fibers and inorganic particles by synthesizing the inorganic particles in slurry containing the cellulosic fibers; and continuously generating a sheet by supplying composite-fiber-containing slurry including the composite fibers to a continuous paper machine. In the composite fiber generating step, at least one of (i) slurry containing cellulosic fibers having a length of 1.2 mm to 2.0 mm in an amount of 16% or more in terms of length-weighted fiber length distribution (%) and (ii) slurry containing cellulosic fibers having a length of 1.2 mm to 3.2 mm in an amount of 30% or more in terms of length-weighted fiber length distribution (%) is used.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTDInventors: Ayaka Hasegawa, Moe Fukuoka, Masatoshi Oishi, Koji Ninagawa, Toru Nakatani, Shisei Goto
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Patent number: 11169790Abstract: A software management device includes a specification section that specifies a to-be-replaced software product which is a software product having been installed in a device in advance and which is replaced with a target software product, prior to remote installation of the target software product in the device, and a providing section that provides notice information including replacement notice information for giving a notice of the replacement of the to-be-replaced software product with the target software product to a user who attempts to execute the remote installation, prior to the remote installation.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Haruki Matsui, Koji Hashimoto, Toru Nakatani, Takeshi Ogura, Aiko Nozue
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Publication number: 20210276878Abstract: The present invention aims to provide techniques for efficiently synthesizing inorganic microparticles. According to the present invention, inorganic carbonate microparticles can be synthesized by generating ultrafine bubbles containing carbonic acid gas by injecting a gas containing carbonic acid gas and a liquid into a reaction vessel through a nozzle to deposit an inorganic carbonate having an average primary particle size of 300 nm or less in the presence of the ultrafine bubbles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2017Publication date: September 9, 2021Applicants: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Oishi, Toru Nakatani, Moe Fukuoka, Shisei Goto
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Patent number: 11113044Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays a first list which is a list of available software and a second list which is a list of software installed on a target device; and a receiving unit that receives an instruction operation of installing the software displayed in the first list on the target device and an instruction operation of performing a predetermined process on the installed software displayed in the second list, in which the display unit continues to display the software in the second list, in a case where the software included in the second list is no longer newly provided, and the display unit does not display the software in the first list or displays a fact that it is not allowed to install the software, in a case where the software included in the first list is no longer newly provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takeshi Ogura, Toru Nakatani, Koji Hashimoto, Haruki Matsui, Aiko Nozue
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Patent number: 11080123Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores on a storage unit a log related to an operation performed on a device that is a monitoring target, and an instruction unit that, if a fault occurs in the monitoring target device in response to an operation performed by an operator, gives an instruction to the memory to change an amount of memory of the log stored on the memory from a first amount of memory to a second amount of memory different from the first amount of memory, and if the fault re-occurs in response to the operation subsequent to the instruction, instructs the memory to change the amount of memory of the log from the second amount of memory back to the first amount of memory.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Toru Nakatani, Koji Hashimoto, Haruki Matsui, Takeshi Ogura, Aiko Nozue
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Patent number: 11053133Abstract: The present invention aims to provide techniques for preparing complexes of magnesium carbonate particles and a fiber. The complexes of magnesium carbonate microparticles and a fiber can be synthesized efficiently by synthesizing the magnesium carbonate in a solution containing the fiber.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Moe Fukuoka, Toru Nakatani, Shisei Goto
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Publication number: 20210180254Abstract: The present invention provides a titanium oxide composite fiber in which titanium oxide is efficiently fixed in fiber, and a method for producing the titanium oxide composite fiber. A composite fiber of the present invention includes: fiber; titanium oxide; and an inorganic binder, at least part of the inorganic binder containing at least one inorganic compound selected from (i) an inorganic salt containing at least one of: at least one metal selected from magnesium, barium, aluminum, copper, iron, and zinc; and silicic acid and (ii) metal particles containing the at least one metal, the titanium oxide being firmly fixed to the fiber via the inorganic binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Masatoshi OISHI, Koji NINAGAWA, Toru NAKATANI, Dai NAGAHARA, Shisei GOTO
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Publication number: 20210025109Abstract: The present invention aims to provide complex fibers of a cellulose fiber with inorganic particles exhibiting better drainage and retention when they are used as materials for forming sheets. In the complexes of the present invention, (1) the weight ratio B/A between the inorganic content (B) in the residue remaining on a 60-mesh sieve (having an opening of 250 ?m) after an aqueous suspension of a complex fiber having a solids content of 0.1% is filtered through the sieve and the inorganic content (A) in the complex fiber before treatment is 0.3 or more; or (2) the weight ratio C/A between the inorganic content (C) in fractions corresponding to an effluent volume (L) of 16.00 to 18.50 and an elution time (sec) of 10.6 to 37.3 and the inorganic content (A) in the complex fiber before treatment is 0.3 or more when an aqueous suspension of the complex fiber having a solids content of 0.3% is classified using a fiber classification analyzer under the conditions of a flow rate of 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Ayaka Hasegawa, Moe Fuchise, Masatoshi Oishi, Koji Ninagawa, Toru Nakatani