Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Murata
Yoshiaki Murata 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: 20240105917Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is an active material including a niobium titanium-containing oxide phase and a carbon coating layer. The niobium titanium-containing oxide phase contains a niobium titanium-containing oxide having a monoclinic structure and Na, and a Na content therein is 0 ppm or more and 100 ppm or less. The carbon coating layer coats at least a part of the niobium titanium-containing oxide phase, and contains 0.001% or more of carboxyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yasuhiro HARADA, Taro FUKAYA, Yasunobu YAMASHITA, Kakuya UEDA, Yoshiaki MURATA, Norio TAKAMI
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Patent number: 11939183Abstract: A post-processing apparatus (1) includes a first conveyance path (41), a first processing part (55), a second conveyance path (95) and a merging conveyance path (97), and the first processing part (55) includes a conveying rollers pair (80) including a first roller (81) and a second roller (83) conveying the sheet along a first direction; a first folding rollers pair (84) including the first roller (81) and a third roller (85) forming a first nip, conveying the sheet along a second direction and performing a folding processing along a first fold line; a second folding rollers pair (86) including the third roller (85) and a fourth roller (87) forming a second nip, conveying the sheet along a third direction and performing a folding processing along a second fold line; a first folding guide (89) movable to the first nip; and a second folding guide (91) movable to the second nip.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tadahisa Kishimoto, Yoshiaki Tashiro, Koji Murata, Masahiko Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20240088385Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, a niobium-titanium oxide is provided. The niobium-titanium oxide satisfies Formulae (1) to (3) below in an L*a*b* color space according to Japanese Industrial Standard JIS Z 8722:2009: 95.0?L*?100??(1) ?1.0?a*?1.0??(2) ?1.0?b*?6.0??(3).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yoshiaki MURATA, Kakuya UEDA, Yasuhiro HARADA, Kazuki ISE, Norio TAKAMI
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Publication number: 20240079576Abstract: A niobium-titanium-based oxide includes niobium-titanium-based oxide particles, wherein an Si2p peak area and an Nb3d peak area, as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for the niobium-titanium-based oxide particles, satisfy a ratio A of 0.40?A?1.0, provided that the ratio A is the Si2p peak area/the Nb3d peak area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kakuya UEDA, Yoshiaki MURATA, Yasuhiro HARADA, Norio TAKAMI, Shinsuke MATSUNO
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Publication number: 20230290940Abstract: According to one embodiment, an active material is provided. The active material includes a primary particle including an Nb10Ti2O29 phase and at least one Nb-rich phase selected from an Nb14TiO37 phase and an Nb24TiO64 phase. In the primary particle, a ratio MNb/MTi of substance amount of niobium to titanium satisfies 5.0<MNb/MTi?24.0. A diffraction chart according to a wide angle X-ray diffraction method using a CuK? ray for the active material includes a peak A and a peak C attributed to the Nb10Ti2O29 phase and a peak B appearing within a range of 2? of 25.5±0.2° attributed to the Nb-rich phase. The active material satisfies a peak intensity ratio represented by 0<IB/IA<5.0. A half width of the peak C is in a range of 0.15° or more and 0.80° or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yoshiaki MURATA, Yasuhiro HARADA, Kazuki ISE, Norio TAKAMI
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Publication number: 20230071491Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is an active material including a crystal particle that includes a niobium-titanium composite oxide. A ratio ANb/ATi of a Nb abundance ANb to a Ti abundance ATi in the crystal particle satisfies 2.3?ANb/ATi?4.0. According to a powder X-ray diffraction spectrum using a Cu-K? ray for the crystal particle, an intensity ratio I?/I? of a peak intensity I? of a peak ? appearing at 12.5°?2??13.0° to a peak intensity I? of a peak ? appearing at 8.5°?2??9.0° is within a range of 0.1<I?/I??2.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yasuhiro HARADA, Yoshiaki MURATA, Kazuki ISE, Norio TAKAMI
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Patent number: 10017604Abstract: Provided are a modified epoxy resin and a modified epoxy resin whose cured products exhibit good heat resistance and dielectric properties, methods for producing these, a curable resin composition, a cured product of the curable resin composition, and a printed wiring substrate. A modified phenolic resin comprises a phenolic resin structure (A), wherein at least one aromatic nucleus (a) in the phenolic resin structure (A) has, as a substituent, a structural segment (1) represented by structural formula (1) below: In the formula, Ar each independently represent a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, or a structural segment having, on an aromatic nucleus of a phenyl or naphthyl group, at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, a phenyl group, and an aralkyl group.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: DIC CorporationInventors: Takamitsu Nakamura, Hajime Watanabe, Koji Hayashi, Yoshiaki Murata
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Publication number: 20160289165Abstract: A biomass resource-derived 1,5-pentamethylene diamine produces a polyamide resin composition having a good color tone. The 1,5-pentamethylene diamine in which a total of the contents of an acetamide, 2,3,4,5-tetrahydropyridine, 2-piperidone, ?-amino-?-caprolactam, lysine and ornithine that the 1,5-pentamethylene diamine contains as impurities is less than or equal to 150 weight ppm.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicants: Toray Industries, Inc., Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Yoshiaki Murata, Takahiro Kuribayashi, Fumito Onishi, Takehiro Hiura
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Publication number: 20160060384Abstract: Provided are a modified epoxy resin and a modified epoxy resin whose cured products exhibit good heat resistance and dielectric properties, methods for producing these, a curable resin composition, a cured product of the curable resin composition, and a printed wiring substrate. A modified phenolic resin comprises a phenolic resin structure (A), wherein at least one aromatic nucleus (a) in the phenolic resin structure (A) has, as a substituent, a structural segment (1) represented by structural formula (1) below: In the formula, Ar each independently represent a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, or a structural segment having, on an aromatic nucleus of a phenyl or naphthyl group, at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, a phenyl group, and an aralkyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Takamitsu NAKAMURA, Hajime WATANABE, Koji HAYASHI, Yoshiaki MURATA
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Publication number: 20150072583Abstract: In the fields of printed wiring boards and circuit boards, a good glass cloth-penetrating property is exhibited and prepreg appearance is excellent. A cured product thereof exhibits good heat resistance. A phenolic resin is a phosphorus-atom-containing phenolic resin that has phosphorus-atom-containing structural portions (i) represented by structural formula (Y1) or (Y2) below and alkoxymethyl groups (ii) in an aromatic nucleus of a phenolic compound: (In structural formulae (Y1) and (Y2), R1 to R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms). A ratio of the number of the alkoxymethyl groups (ii) relative to the total number of the phosphorus-atom-containing structural portions (i) and the alkoxymethyl groups (ii) is 5 to 20%.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Yoshiaki Murata, Takamitsu Nakamura, Koji Hayashi
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Patent number: 8954350Abstract: An order supporting apparatus connected to a monitoring apparatus over a network, the monitoring apparatus determining a supply status of devices in the network and sends supply shortage information regarding at least one of the devices determined to have a supply shortage to the order supporting apparatus. In particular, the order supporting apparatus includes a device information storage part that stores device information describing whether each device is monitored as a monitoring target, and maintenance contract information of each device, and a determination part that determines, based on the device information, whether each device is subject to the maintenance contract when the order supporting apparatus receives the supply shortage information. Further, the determination part deselects, in the device information, a device as the monitoring target when the device is determined to have a supply shortage by the monitoring apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2007Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Nagai, Yutaka Nakamura, Koji Dan, Masato Takahashi, Yuuki Inoue, Fujio Takahashi, Yoshiaki Murata
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Patent number: 8582586Abstract: In an onboard gateway apparatus, when data is received from one network, the received data is stored in the buffer. The buffer includes a first storage area for storing data in the order of priority of an identifier (ID) attached to the data and a second storage area for storing data in the order in which the data is received. A control means stores the received data in one of the first and second storage areas based on the attached identifier, and sends the data to another network in accordance with the priority of the ID of the data. As to data passing through the first storage area, sending in the order of priority is ensured. As to data passing through the second storage area, sending in the order in which the data is received is ensured.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Honda Elesys Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michitaka Tsuboi, Makoto Ikeda, Yoshiaki Murata, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Kazuo Hirabayashi, Tetsuya Yashiki, Kazunari Okada, Shuji Tomimatsu, Hiroshi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20120322970Abstract: To provide a method of producing a biomass resource-derived polyester capable of greatly reducing fossil resource usage amounts and carbon dioxide increases that is in way inferior in color or thermal stability to a conventional fossil resource-derived product while also having superior dye affinity. The biomass resource-derived dicarboxylic acid and/or ester forming derivative thereof used as the raw material fulfills at least one of the following conditions: (A) The amount of potassium hydroxide needed to neutralize an acid component extracted using an organic solvent from 1 g of the dicarboxylic acid and/or ester forming derivative thereof is 0.1 mg KOH/g or less (B) The amount of potassium hydroxide needed to neutralize an acid component extracted using water from 1 g of the dicarboxylic acid and/or ester forming derivative thereof is 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Inventors: Matthew W. Peters, Kunihiro Morimoto, Yoichiro Tanaka, Takuro Okubo, Yoshiaki Murata
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Patent number: 8135622Abstract: In a disclosed order support system, devices connected to a communication network are searched for and device information is acquired from each of the found devices. Specified information used for extracting devices to be monitor target candidates is obtained, which is specified according to a predetermined attribute in the device information. Based on the obtained information, devices to be monitor target candidates are extracted from among the found devices. A list of the extracted devices is displayed, and devices to be monitor targets are selected. Status information of a consumable element in each monitor target device is acquired and sent to an order-support apparatus. The order-support apparatus creates an e-mail including a URL of a website used for ordering the consumable element detected as being deficient according to the received status information, and sends the e-mail to an e-mail address associated with the device with the deficient consumable element.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2007Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuki Inoue, Keiji Nagai, Yutaka Nakamura, Koji Dan, Masato Takahashi, Shogo Hyakutake, Fujio Takahashi, Yoshiaki Murata
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Patent number: 8114574Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition of the present invention includes an acid group-containing vinyl ester resin and a photopolymerization initiator as essential components, wherein the acid group-containing vinyl ester resin is an acid group-containing vinyl ester resin having a multiple-branched molecular structure obtained by the following steps where a polybasic anhydride (a3) is reacted with an epoxy vinyl ester resin (v1) that is a reaction product of an aromatic epoxy resin (a1) and a radically-polymerizable unsaturated-double bond-containing monocarboxylic acid (a2); a radically-polymerizable unsaturated-double bond-containing monoepoxy compound (a4) is subsequently reacted with an acid group formed by the reaction; and a polybasic anhydride (a3) is subsequently reacted with a secondary hydroxyl group formed by the reaction of the compound (a4) with the acid group, thereby obtaining the acid group-containing vinyl ester resin having a multiple-branched molecular structure; and contains 1.75 to 3.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: DIC CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Murata, Hironobu Itou
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Patent number: 8005725Abstract: An order supporting system includes a machine monitoring apparatus including an obtaining part for repetitively obtaining status data of plural supplies of plural machines connected to a network, a storing part for storing the status data obtained by the obtaining part, a detecting part for detecting change in the status of the supply by comparing the status data stored in the storing part and new status data that is newly obtained by the obtaining part, and a transmitting part for transmitting status data corresponding to the supply of the machine from which status change is detected by the detecting part, and an order supporting apparatus for receiving the status data transmitted from the transmitting part via the network and transmitting an electronic mail to a mail address associated to the machine corresponding to the transmitted status data in accordance with the received status data.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masato Takahashi, Keiji Nagai, Koji Dan, Yutaka Nakamura, Yuuki Inoue, Fujio Takahashi, Shogo Hyakutake, Yoshiaki Murata, Kenichi Takeda
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Publication number: 20110134481Abstract: A disclosed information processing apparatus includes an information processing unit configured to operate as a daemon process; an information displaying unit configured to operate as a process different from the daemon process and display a screen relevant to the information processing unit; a first ending unit configured to end the information displaying unit due to a first factor; and a second ending unit configured to end the information displaying unit due to a second factor different from the first factor. The information displaying unit ends the information processing unit in the event of receiving a request to end from the first ending unit and the information displaying unit does not end the information processing unit in the event of receiving a request to end from the second ending unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2011Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Keiji Nagai, Yutaka Nakamura, Koji Dan, Masato Takahashi, Yuuki Inoue, Shogo Hyakutake, Fujio Takahashi, Yoshiaki Murata, Kenichi Takeda
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Patent number: 7912944Abstract: A disclosed information processing apparatus includes an information processing unit configured to operate as a daemon process; an information displaying unit configured to operate as a process different from the daemon process and display a screen relevant to the information processing unit; a first ending unit configured to end the information displaying unit due to a first factor; and a second ending unit configured to end the information displaying unit due to a second factor different from the first factor. The information displaying unit ends the information processing unit in the event of receiving a request to end from the first ending unit and the information displaying unit does not end the information processing unit in the event of receiving a request to end from the second ending unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Nagai, Yutaka Nakamura, Koji Dan, Masato Takahashi, Yuuki Inoue, Shogo Hyakutake, Fujio Takahashi, Yoshiaki Murata, Kenichi Takeda
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Publication number: 20100329272Abstract: In an onboard gateway apparatus, when data is received from one network, the received data is stored in the buffer. The buffer includes a first storage area for storing data in the order of priority of an identifier (ID) attached to the data and a second storage area for storing data in the order in which the data is received. A control means stores the received data in one of the first and second storage areas based on the attached identifier, and sends the data to another network in accordance with the priority of the ID of the data. As to data passing through the first storage area, sending in the order of priority is ensured. As to data passing through the second storage area, sending in the order in which the data is received is ensured.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., HONDA ELESYS CO., LTD.Inventors: Michitaka Tsuboi, Makoto Ikeda, Yoshiaki Murata, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Kazuo Hirabayashi, Tetsuya Yashiki, Kazunari Okada, Shuji Tomimatsu, Hiroshi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20100092798Abstract: A high-quality submerged arc weld metal for 1.25 Cr-0.5 Mo steel that is obtained by carrying out multi-pass welding in a submerged arc welding process with a solid wire and a bonded flux being combined together, is produced in which a strength mismatch with a base material does not occur even after a Post Weld Heat Treatment is carried out for a short time to a long time, and which has high ductility as well as having no weld defect. The submerged arc weld metal for 1.25 Cr-0.5 Mo steel is characterized in that: the weld metal contains, per the total mass of the weld metal, C: 0.06 to 0.12 mass %, Si: 0.15 to 0.30 mass %, Mn: 0.60 to 1.10 mass %, Cr: 1.10 to 1.45 mass % and Mo: 0.45 to 0.60 mass %, wherein O is contained in an amount of 0.022 mass % or less and N is contained in an amount of 0.008 mass % or less, and wherein the balance is Fe and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiko Sasaki, Shinta Niimoto, Satoshi Nishimura, Yoshiaki Murata