Patents by Inventor Yuichi Ogawa

Yuichi Ogawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20210202144
    Abstract: The soft magnetic alloy of the present disclosure is represented by a composition formula of FeaSibBcCudMe where M is at least one type of element selected from a group consisting of Nb, Mo, V, Zr, Hf, and W, and the formula satisfies 82.5?a?86, 0.3?b?3, 12.5?c?15.0, 0.05?d?0.9, and 0?e<0.4 in at %. The soft magnetic alloy includes a structure that has a crystal grain with a grain diameter of 60 nm or less in an amorphous phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yuichi OGAWA, Naoki ITOH, Takahiro SHIRATAKE, Motoki OHTA
  • Publication number: 20210131452
    Abstract: A controller (45) is provided with an elapse time measuring section (47A) that measures an elapse time (tx) elapsed since an initial use of an accumulator (29) based upon a reset signal from a reset switch (44), a number-of-operations measuring section (47B) that measures a number of operations of the accumulator (29), that is, a number (N) of boom lowering operations after a reset, based upon a detection signal from an accumulator side pressure sensor (39), a gas permeation amount estimating section (47C) that estimates an estimation gas permeation amount (Qloss) of the accumulator (29), a sealed gas pressure estimating section (47D) that finds an estimation sealed gas pressure (Pgs) of a gas chamber (29B) of the accumulator (29), and an accumulator degradation determining section (47E) that determines a degradation condition of the accumulator (29) and outputs the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Kiwamu TAKAHASHI, Seiji HIJIKATA, Masatoshi HOSHINO, Yuichi OGAWA, Kouji ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210090409
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a payment apparatus includes a memory, an operation device, and a controller. The controller performs, in a case where the controller determines that payment by a designated payment means is acceptable with respect to at least one commodity of one or more commodities identified on the basis of identification information, payment processing on the at least one commodity identified on the basis of the identification information, for which payment is acceptable, by using the payment means determined to be acceptable for payment. The controller makes, in a case where the controller determines that payment by the designated payment means is inacceptable with respect to all the one or more commodities identified on the basis of the identification information, a notification of guidance indicating that payment by the payment means is inacceptable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Yuichi OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210090060
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the settlement device of the embodiment includes merchandise information storage means for storing specific information for specifying one or a plurality of merchandises subjected to a sales registration process in a storage unit; extraction means for extracting all settlement means available for settlement of the merchandise specified by the specific information stored in the storage unit based on a table in which determination information for determining whether the plurality of kinds of settlement means are respectively available for the settlement for each kind of the specific information is stored; notification means for notifying extracted settlement means to be selectable; designation means for receiving information of one kind of the settlement means selected from the notified settlement means; and settlement processing means for performing a settlement process on the merchandise that can be settled with the settlement means of which the information is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Yuichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10914328
    Abstract: It is made possible to suppress variations of the speed of an actuator into which a regeneration flow rate flows, regardless of variations of the regeneration flow rate caused by posture changes of the front part and to enhance the operability when the front part moves in the free fall direction, and hydraulic fluid discharged from an actuator driving the front part is regenerated. Accordingly, a controller 19 of a hydraulic system is provided with a regeneration control calculation section 19b, and a pump flow rate control calculation section 19c, and when the regeneration control calculation section controls a regeneration valve 12 to perform regeneration, the pump flow rate control calculation section controls a pump flow rate regulation device 20 to increase the delivery flow rate of a hydraulic pump 1 as the angle of an arm 16 approaches the vertically downward direction based on posture information about the arm 16 acquired by an inertial measurement unit 31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ogawa, Shinya Imura
  • Patent number: 10816536
    Abstract: A bioparticle observation apparatus includes a dielectrophoresis electrode that outputs a first signal causing a dielectrophoresis force to act on a bioparticle, a sensor electrode that detects an impedance difference between the bioparticle and the liquid, and a control circuit that controls the first signal so that the detected impedance difference is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takeshi Mitsunaka, Yuichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10801532
    Abstract: A work machine including: a hydraulic cylinder 20 configured to drive a work implement 3; a control valve 22 configured to connect a delivery line of a hydraulic pump 21 switchingly to a bottom fluid chamber and a rod fluid chamber of the hydraulic cylinder 20 and a tank; a pilot pump 23 configured to output a pilot pressure to drive the control valve 22; an engine 24 configured to drive the hydraulic pump 21 and the pilot pump 23; and an accumulator 26 configured to accumulate a return hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic cylinder 20 is provided with: a bypass line 41 configured to connect the bottom fluid chamber of the hydraulic cylinder 20 and a delivery line 21a of the hydraulic pump 21 by bypassing the control valve 22 and be provided with the accumulator 26 thereon; a pressure-accumulation control valve 27 provided between the bottom fluid chamber of the hydraulic cylinder 20 and the accumulator 26; a release control valve 28 provided between the accumulator 26 and the delivery line 21a; and a hydraulic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ogawa, Seiji Hijikata, Masatoshi Hoshino, Kiwamu Takahashi, Kouji Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10794044
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine hydraulic control system capable of detecting abnormality in a pump output power switching device independently of the abnormality state of the pump output power switching device. A hydraulic control system of a hydraulic excavator is equipped with an accumulator 21 connected to a hydraulic line 25A between a pilot pump 17 and a pilot valve 20, an unloading valve 27 that is a pump output power switching device, a pressure sensor 29 detecting the pressure of the hydraulic fluid supplied to the pilot valve 20, and a controller 30 having a pump output power control section 31 switching the unloading valve 27 in accordance with the pressure detected by the pressure sensor 29. The controller 30 further has an abnormality determination section 32 that computes a command continuation time in a state in which a command output to the unloading valve 27 is not changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ogawa, Seiji Hijikata, Masatoshi Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10769690
    Abstract: A register system includes an optical code reader, a data storage, a wireless communication interface through which the register system communicates wirelessly with a user computing device, a display, and a processor. The processor queries a master record stored in the data storage to determine whether or not a product corresponding to a product code read by the code reader is an confirmation-required product, and responsive to determining that the product is an confirmation-required product, controls the wireless communication interface to transmit a pull request for a user attribute stored in the user computing device. The processor further determines whether or not product registration processing for the confirmation-required product should continue with or without special processing based on the user attribute received by the wireless communication interface from the user computing device responsive to the pull request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20200242314
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus according to the embodiment including: a storage unit that stores caution information; a tag information receiving unit that receives tag information including information specifying an article from a radio tag attached to the article and received by an antenna; a determination unit that determines whether the received tag information includes information indicating notification of caution information that cautions handling of the radio tag or the article to which the radio tag is attached; and a notification unit that issues notification of the stored caution information from the storage unit when the determination unit determines that the received tag information includes the caution information indicating that a caution is paid to the handling of the radio tag or the article to which the radio tag is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Yuichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10713637
    Abstract: A registration settlement apparatus comprises a first determination module that determines a commodity in response to an operation by a first operator; a second determination module that determines a commodity in response to an operation by a second operator; a determination control module that controls the first and second determination modules to enable either the first or the second determination module, and enables the second determination module in response to an instruction from the second operator while the first determination module is enabled within a registration period for one transaction; a creation module that creates a list of commodities determined as objects of the transaction within the registration period by the first or the second determination module enabled; and a settlement module that calculates a settlement amount based on the list created and performs settlement processing on the settlement amount in response to an operation by the first operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Ogawa, Takashi Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20200173145
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine hydraulic control system capable of detecting abnormality in a pump output power switching device independently of the abnormality state of the pump output power switching device. A hydraulic control system of a hydraulic excavator is equipped with an accumulator 21 connected to a hydraulic line 25A between a pilot pump 17 and a pilot valve 20, an unloading valve 27 that is a pump output power switching device, a pressure sensor 29 detecting the pressure of the hydraulic fluid supplied to the pilot valve 20, and a controller 30 having a pump output power control section 31 switching the unloading valve 27 in accordance with the pressure detected by the pressure sensor 29. The controller 30 further has an abnormality determination section 32 that computes a command continuation time in a state in which a command output to the unloading valve 27 is not changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichi OGAWA, Seiji HIJIKATA, Masatoshi HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 10650366
    Abstract: A registration settlement apparatus comprises a first determining module configured to determine contents of a transaction in response to an operation by a first operator; a second determining module configured to determine contents of the transaction in response to an operation by a second operator facing the first operator across the registration settlement apparatus; a determination control module configured to enable one of the first and second determining modules, and to switch to the determining module enabled for the determination on contents of a transaction started thereafter in response to a button operation by the second operator before the determination on contents of one transaction is started; and a settlement module configured to perform a settlement processing of calculating a settlement amount based on the contents of the transaction determined by the determining module enabled, and settling the calculated settlement amount in response to an operation by the first operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Ogawa, Takashi Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20200118107
    Abstract: A sales data processing system includes a wireless communication interface and a controller. The wireless communication interface is configured to receive customer preference information from a customer terminal. The customer preference information includes a processing condition associated with a customer preference. The controller is configured to determine whether the processing condition associated with the customer preference is satisfied and control a display to display a screen indicating the customer preference upon determining that the processing condition has been satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Yuichi OGAWA
  • Patent number: 10566127
    Abstract: An Fe—Si—B—C-based amorphous alloy ribbon as thick as 20-30 ?m having a composition comprising 80.0-80.7 atomic % of Fe, 6.1-7.99 atomic % of Si, and 11.5-13.2 atomic % of B, the total amount of Fe, Si and B being 100 atomic %, and further comprising 0.2-0.45 atomic % of C per 100 atomic % of the total amount of Fe, Si and B, except for inevitable impurities has a stress relief degree of 92% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: HITACHI METALS, LTD., METGLAS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Theisen, Yuichi Ogawa, Daichi Azuma
  • Publication number: 20200040547
    Abstract: It is made possible to suppress variations of the speed of an actuator into which a regeneration flow rate flows, regardless of variations of the regeneration flow rate caused by posture changes of the front part and to enhance the operability when the front part moves in the free fall direction, and hydraulic fluid discharged from an actuator driving the front part is regenerated. Accordingly, a controller 19 of a hydraulic system is provided with a regeneration control calculation section 19b, and a pump flow rate control calculation section 19c, and when the regeneration control calculation section controls a regeneration valve 12 to perform regeneration, the pump flow rate control calculation section controls a pump flow rate regulation device 20 to increase the delivery flow rate of a hydraulic pump 1 as the angle of an arm 16 approaches the vertically downward direction based on posture information about the arm 16 acquired by an inertial measurement unit 31.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichi OGAWA, Shinya IMURA
  • Publication number: 20200034811
    Abstract: A registration settlement apparatus comprises a first determination module that determines a commodity in response to an operation by a first operator; a second determination module that determines a commodity in response to an operation by a second operator; a determination control module that controls the first and second determination modules to enable either the first or the second determination module, and enables the second determination module in response to an instruction from the second operator while the first determination module is enabled within a registration period for one transaction; a creation module that creates a list of commodities determined as objects of the transaction within the registration period by the first or the second determination module enabled; and a settlement module that calculates a settlement amount based on the list created and performs settlement processing on the settlement amount in response to an operation by the first operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichi Ogawa, Takashi Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20200035070
    Abstract: A registration settlement apparatus comprises a first display device for performing display for a store clerk; a second display device for performing display for a customer; a switching module for switching an operation mode between a first operation mode in which the store clerk performs registration operation of a purchased commodity and the customer performs settlement operation on a payment amount of the purchased commodity and a second operation mode in which the customer performs operations from the registration to the settlement; and a first control module for controlling the first display device to display an image indicating contents of an error at the time the first operation mode is selected, and controlling the second display device to display an image for instructing to call the store clerk at the time the second operation mode is selected if the error occurs in the registration operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichi Ogawa, Takashi Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20200027070
    Abstract: A registration settlement apparatus comprises a first determining module configured to determine contents of a transaction in response to an operation by a first operator; a second determining module configured to determine contents of the transaction in response to an operation by a second operator facing the first operator across the registration settlement apparatus; a determination control module configured to enable one of the first and second determining modules, and to switch to the determining module enabled for the determination on contents of a transaction started thereafter in response to a button operation by the second operator before the determination on contents of one transaction is started; and a settlement module configured to perform a settlement processing of calculating a settlement amount based on the contents of the transaction determined by the determining module enabled, and settling the calculated settlement amount in response to an operation by the first operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichi Ogawa, Takashi Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20190376947
    Abstract: A bioparticle observation apparatus includes a dielectrophoresis electrode that outputs a first signal causing a dielectrophoresis force to act on a bioparticle, a sensor electrode that detects an impedance difference between the bioparticle and the liquid, and a control circuit that controls the first signal so that the detected impedance difference is fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: TAKESHI MITSUNAKA, YUICHI OGAWA