Patents by Inventor Yuji Yoshikawa
Yuji Yoshikawa 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: 11964402Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Publication number: 20240101192Abstract: In a crawler type work machine, when switching from a pivot turning mode to a straight travel mode or a slow turning mode, a controller is configured to maintain a rotation speed of the turning motor until after a first timing at which the inside steering clutch begins partial engagement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Takeshi YOSHIKAWA, Hiroaki TAKESHIMA, Naoya AKIYAMA, Kazushi NAKATA, Osamu YATSUDA, Shinichi OTAKA, Yuji NAMEKI, Ryoichi NAGASAKA, Takaomi KOMURA
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Patent number: 11926067Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11929589Abstract: A light-emitting component includes: a substrate; plural light-emitting elements that are disposed on the substrate and that emit light in a direction intersecting with a surface of the substrate; and plural thyristors that are stacked on the plural light-emitting elements and that are turned ON to drive the corresponding light-emitting elements so that the light-emitting elements emit light or an amount of light emitted from the light-emitting elements is increased. Each of the plural light-emitting elements includes a current confinement region which is oxidized via a hole provided in a multilayer structure. The multilayer structure is constituted by a corresponding light-emitting element and a corresponding thyristor.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takashi Kondo, Michiaki Murata, Kenichi Ono, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Takehito Hikichi, Yuji Shirai
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Patent number: 11919168Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of transport robots that is travelable autonomously in a facility. The robot control system: acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot; acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot; determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information; and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma
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Patent number: 11914397Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11914363Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Publication number: 20220195210Abstract: To provide a cationic electrodeposition coating composition manifesting excellent anticorrosive property at edges and in flat areas, along with finish quality, even in a state of thin film, as well as a coated article demonstrating these excellent coating film performances, the cationic electrodeposition coating composition includes an amino group-containing epoxy resin (A), a blocked polyisocyanate compound (B), and crosslinked epoxy resin particles (C), wherein the crosslinked epoxy resin particles (C) are contained by 0.1 to 40 parts by mass relative to the total mass in solids content of the amino group-containing epoxy resin (A) and blocked polyisocyanate compound (B); the number-average molecular weight of the crosslinked epoxy resin particles (C) is under 100,000; and/or the volume-average particle size of the crosslinked epoxy resin particles (C) is 30 to 1,000 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Yuji YOSHIKAWA, Daisaku ITO, Hideki IIJIMA
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Patent number: 11203668Abstract: This polysiloxane: comprises a hydrolytic condensation product of a silicon compound that contains a cyclic alkoxysiloxane represented by formula (1) (in the formula, R1 groups each independently denote a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms, R2 groups each independently denote a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, and n denotes an integer between 3 and 8); has at least two hydrosilylable carbon-carbon unsaturated groups per molecule; has at least two hydrosilyl groups per molecule; and in which the inequality 0.25?t1<1 is satisfied, where t1 denotes the molar ratio of T units having a group represented by R1 relative to all siloxane units in the hydrolytic condensation product. The polysiloxane is addition crosslinkable, and is therefore suitable as a binder component of a heat-resistant paint or the like or as a coating material.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki Negishi, Yuji Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20200392293Abstract: This polysiloxane: comprises a hydrolytic condensation product of a silicon compound that contains a cyclic alkoxysiloxane represented by formula (1) (in the formula, R1 groups each independently denote a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms, R2 groups each independently denote a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, and n denotes an integer between 3 and 8); has at least two hydrosilylable carbon-carbon unsaturated groups per molecule; has at least two hydrosilyl groups per molecule; and in which the inequality 0.25?t1<1 is satisfied, where t1 denotes the molar ratio of T units having a group represented by R1 relative to all siloxane units in the hydrolytic condensation product. The polysiloxane is addition crosslinkable, and is therefore suitable as a binder component of a heat-resistant paint or the like or as a coating material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki NEGISHI, Yuji YOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20200071564Abstract: Provided is a coating composition that contains (A) an alkoxysilane containing a compound represented by formula (I) or a hydrolyzate or condensate thereof and (B) a curing catalyst, the coating composition giving a coating having selective ultraviolet radiation transmission optical-characteristics, namely transmitting ultraviolet radiation having wavelengths of 280 nm or more to the greatest extent possible while completely blocking ultraviolet radiation having wavelengths of less than 280 nm, without losing the advantages of a curable coating composition having a siloxane bond. (In the formula, the Y moieties may be the same as, or different from, each other, and each denote a group represented by —R1—SiR2n(OR3)3?n, R? denotes an alkylene group having 1-6 carbon atoms, and R2 and R3 may be the same as, or different from, each other, and each denote an alkyl group having 1-5 carbon atoms, n is an integer between 0 and 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoo FUKUSHIMA, Yuji YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 9683131Abstract: A coating composition comprising (A) an organosiloxane obtained from hydrosilylation reaction of an organohydrogensiloxane having at least two hydrosilyl groups with an alkenyl-containing alkoxysilane, and (B) an organometallic catalyst is fast curable at low temperature. The cured coating is crack resistant.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuro Yamada, Yuji Yoshikawa, Kazuhiro Tsuchida
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Patent number: 9303180Abstract: A coating composition comprising a hydrolyzable silyl-containing (meth)acrylic copolymer which is obtained from copolymerization of an alkyl (meth)acrylate with a silane compound having a long-chain alkylene linker between a hydrolyzable functional group and a radically polymerizable unsaturated group, and an organometallic catalyst is low-temperature curable and isocyanate-free. Even though the silane content is increased for coating hardness, the composition maintains alkali resistance and has good adhesion and solvent resistance when applied onto substrates.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuro Yamada, Yuji Yoshikawa, Kazuhiro Tsuchida, Munenao Hirokami
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Publication number: 20150118483Abstract: A photocurable coating composition is provided comprising (1) surface-treated titanium oxide comprising core/shell type microparticles each consisting of a titanium oxide core and a silicon oxide shell, which are treated with two surface treating components having formula (I): R1Si(0R2)3 wherein R1 is an organic group which may have a (meth)acrylic moiety, and R2 is alkyl, and formula (II): (R3R42Si)2NH wherein R3 is an organic group which may have a (meth)acrylic moiety, and R4 is alkyl, (2) a photopolymerizable monomer or oligomer, and (3) a photoinitiator. The composition has improved transparency and mar resistance despite titanium oxide loading.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kohei MASUDA, Koichi HIGUCHI, Yuji YOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20140336329Abstract: A coating composition comprising a hydrolyzable silyl-containing (meth)acrylic copolymer which is obtained from copolymerization of an alkyl (meth)acrylate with a silane compound having a long-chain alkylene linker between a hydrolyzable functional group and a radically polymerizable unsaturated group, and an organometallic catalyst is low-temperature curable and isocyanate-free. Even though the silane content is increased for coating hardness, the composition maintains alkali resistance and has good adhesion and solvent resistance when applied onto substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuro YAMADA, Yuji YOSHIKAWA, Kazuhiro TSUCHIDA, Munenao HIROKAMI
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Publication number: 20140323653Abstract: A coating composition comprising (A) an organosiloxane obtained from hydrosilylation reaction of an organohydrogensiloxane having at least two hydrosilyl groups with an alkenyl-containing alkoxysilane, and (B) an organometallic catalyst is fast curable at low temperature. The cured coating is crack resistant.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuro YAMADA, Yuji YOSHIKAWA, Kazuhiro TSUCHIDA
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Patent number: 8673976Abstract: A medicament for prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of hepatic steatosis or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, which comprises a polyprenyl compound (e.g., 3,7,11,15-tetramethyl-2,4,6,10,14-hexadecapentaenoic acid) as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Kowa Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Yoshikawa, Megumi Yamamoto, Naoto Ishibashi, Mami Seki
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Patent number: 8642672Abstract: A coating composition is provided which contains (A) a co-hydrolytic condensate of a UV-absorbing alkoxysilane, a UV-curable alkoxysilane, and a tetraalkoxysilane, (B) a polyfunctional poly(meth)acrylate, and (C) a photobleachable photopolymerization initiator. Upon exposure to UV, the composition cures briefly at low temperature to form a cured film having durability, adhesion and transparency.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motoo Fukushima, Yuji Yoshikawa, Kazuharu Sato
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Patent number: 8314264Abstract: An organosilicon compound is provided comprising an organic functional radical having a photopolymerizable double bond linked to a hydrolyzable radical-bonded silicon atom via a divalent organic radical containing a urea bond. Due to the inclusion of amide, urethane or urea bond structure and a photopolymerizable functional radical, the organosilicon compound has excellent compatibility with resins. The method is capable of preparing the organosilicon compound having a minimal chlorine content.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Tsuchida, Yuji Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20120259015Abstract: A medicament for prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of hepatic steatosis or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, which comprises a polyprenyl compound (e.g., 3,7,11,15-tetramethyl-2,4,6,10,14-hexadecapentaenoic acid) as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: KOWA COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yuji YOSHIKAWA, Megumi YAMAMOTO, Naoto ISHIBASHI, Mami SEKI