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Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kamiichi-Machi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110091546COMPOSITION FOR RAPID DISINTEGRATING TABLET IN ORAL CAVITY - The present invention provides rapid disintegrating tablets in oral cavity having a shortened disintegration time in oral cavity as well as a sufficient hardness with compared to rapid disintegrating tablets of the prior art.04-21-2011

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090087772DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A yellow toner, a magenta toner and a cyan toner, which are used for forming a color image, each contain a yellow pigment having an average dispersed diameter d04-02-2009
20090233201DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer to be used in an image forming apparatus has a carrier and a toner containing a colorant, a binder resin, a release agent, a charge controlling agent containing Al and Mg, and a conductive inorganic oxide having an intrinsic resistivity of from 1.0×1009-17-2009
20090258307DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer used in an image forming apparatus, the developer containing: a toner, and a carrier that charges the toner, the toner containing a core toner, and an external additive that is added to a surface of the core toner, the core toner containing a colorant, a binder resin, a releasing agent, and a charge controlling agent containing Al and Mg, an amount of the charge controlling agent on the surface of the core toner being from 0.2 to 4.0 cps/eV in terms of a Mg amount measured by EDX, the core toner having a circularity of from 0.880 to 0.930, the external additive having a primary particle diameter of from 70 to 200 nm, an amount of the external additive being from 0.2 to 3.0% by weight based on the core toner.10-15-2009
20100032754Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device - A semiconductor device includes: a high withstanding voltage transistor (02-11-2010
20100124714DEVELOPING AGENT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A developing agent is used for a recycle type image forming apparatus including an image bearing body on which an electrostatic latent image is developed with the developing agent and an image transferred to a transfer medium is formed, and includes a toner particle, a magnetic carrier to charge the toner particle to a specified polarity, and a circulation agent which is charged to a polarity reverse to that of the toner particle in the developing agent, has a primary particle diameter of 20 to 100 μm, has a magnetization lower than that of the magnetic carrier, and has a transfer efficiency of 0 to 10% from the image bearing body to the transfer medium.05-20-2010
20100327345SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a transistor with a substrate on which source and drain regions, both of a first conductivity type, and a channel region of a second conductivity type between the source and drain are formed, and a gate electrode formed in the channel region to bury a trench formed so the depth thereof changes intermittently in the width direction of the gate. In the channel region, each on a surface of the substrate and in a bottom portion of the trench, there are formed a second high-concentration region and a first high-concentration region, and the dopant concentration of the second conductivity type is higher than the dopant concentration of the second conductivity type in portions sideward from the trench. The dopant concentration of the second conductivity type in the first high-concentration region is higher than the dopant concentration of the second conductivity type in the second high-concentration region.12-30-2010
20110068391SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A trench gate transistor whose gate changes depth intermittently in the gate width direction, has a first offset region and a second offset region formed below the source and drain, respectively. The first offset region and the second offset region are shallower where they contact the device isolation film than is the device isolation film in those areas. The first and second offset regions nevertheless extend below the bottom of the trench.03-24-2011
20110068394SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A trench gate transistor whose gate changes the depth thereof intermittently in the gate width direction, has a first offset region and a second offset region formed below the source and drain, respectively. The sum of length measurements of the underlying portion of the second offset region measured from the lower corner of the trench in a direction parallel to the substrate and in a direction perpendicular to the substrate is 0.1 μm or greater.03-24-2011
20110274451IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: plural image forming units including developing devices configured to respectively form images of plural colors; plural toner cartridges in which respective toner of the plural colors is stored respectively and each of the plural toner cartridges configured to supply the respective toner to the developing device respectively; first memories provided respectively incidental to the plural toner cartridges and each of the first memories in which correspondence data between parameter value affecting printing condition and printing condition calculated on the basis of characteristic of the respective toner of the plural colors is stored in advance; a detecting mechanism configured to detect the parameter value; and an arithmetic control mechanism configured to calculate each of printing conditions in the respective toner of plural colors from the correspondence data on the basis of the parameter value and calculate control condition for the image of the plural colors formed to be superimposed one on top of another on the basis of the printing condition.11-10-2011
20110284951Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device - A semiconductor device includes a transistor that has a trench formed in an element forming region of a substrate, a gate insulating film formed on side faces and a bottom face of the trench, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film so as to bury the trench, a source region formed on one side in the gate longitude direction, which is formed on the surface of the substrate, and a drain region formed on the other side in the gate longitude direction. Here, the gate electrode is formed so as to be exposed also on the substrate outside the trench, and the gate electrode is disposed so as to cover upper portions of both ends of the trench and so as to form at least one concave portion having a depth reaching the substrate in a center portion.11-24-2011
20110284952SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes a transistor having multiple trenches with the thickness thereof being intermittently changed in the lateral direction of a gate, a gate insulating film formed on the side walls and at the bottom of each of the trenches, a gate electrode formed over the gate insulating film, a source region formed in the surface of the substrate on one side in the longitudinal direction of the gate, and a drain region formed in the surface of the substrate on the other side in the longitudinal direction of the gate. The thickness of the gate insulating film in the lower portion of the side wall of the trench from an intermediate position directing from the surface of the substrate to the bottom of the trench to the bottom thereof is larger than the thickness of the gate insulating film in the upper portion on the side wall of the trench from the intermediate position directing from the surface of the substrate to the bottom of the trench and equal with or larger than the thickness of the gate insulating film at the bottom of the trench.11-24-2011
20110318024IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including a developing device, a second toner cartridge replaced for a first toner cartridge storing a first toner having a first characteristic, stores a second toner having a second characteristic, and supplies the second toner to the developing device, a first memory provided in the second toner cartridge, and stores data of the second characteristic, a toner use amount detection mechanism to detect a toner use amount in the developing device after the replacement to the second toner cartridge, a second memory in which a first print condition as an optimum print condition obtained from data of the first characteristic, the second print condition and the toner use amount are written, and an arithmetic mechanism to obtain an execution print condition changed stepwise from the first print condition to the second print condition based on the toner use amount.12-29-2011

Patent applications by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kanagawa JP

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090306781High Wear-Resistant Bearing Material and Artificial Joint Replacement Using the Same - The present invention provides a bearing material that is excellent in durability and is capable of maintaining wear resistance over a long period of time. The bearing material of the present invention is a high wear-resistance bearing material 12-10-2009
20100262237Biomaterial, Joint Prosthesis Using the Biomaterial and Method of Producing the Same - The object of the present invention is to provide a joint prosthesis, bearing material and a production method thereof, which suppresses wear in a sliding section and suppresses the production of abrasive powder even during repeated daily operation. To achieve the object, there is provided a biomaterial comprising: a substrate made of metal, alloy or ceramic; and a biocompatible material layer laminated on the substrate, wherein hydroxyl groups are formed on the substrate by surface-treating, while the biocompatible material layer comprises a polymer containing phosphorylcholine groups, the substrate and the biocompatible material layer are bound via a binder layer which is combined with the hydroxyl groups of the substrate and with the biocompatible material layer.10-14-2010
20110027757MEDICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An object is to provide a medical device having excellent antithrombotic and sliding characteristics, which can exert a cell adhesion inhibitory effect. A medical device comprising: a substrate capable of forming hydroxyl groups; and a biocompatible material layer laminated on the substrate at an appropriate position, wherein the hydroxyl groups are formed on a surface of the substrate at least at a required position by a surface treatment, while the biocompatible material layer is formed from a polymer containing phosphorylcholine groups, and wherein the substrate and the biocompatible material layer are joined via a binder layer formed from silica being covalently bonded with the hydroxyl groups and the biocompatible material, respectively.02-03-2011
20110059176MATERIAL FOR PREVENTING TISSUE ADHESION AND MATERIAL FOR PREVENTING JOINT CONTRACTURE - The present invention provides a tissue adhesion prevention material preparable at an affected area at the time of surgical procedure by producing a three-dimensional polymeric structure having a flexible structure and high solute permeability in a medium comprising water as the main component under mild conditions appropriate for body tissue components (i.e., at ordinary temperature and pressure) without conducting a chemical reaction or employing a physical procedure such as heating or light or radiation irradiation. This makes it possible to provide a tissue adhesion prevention material and a joint contracture prevention materials, which can effectively prevent postoperative adhesion of a tissue in the affected area to the surrounding tissue and contracture of the movable part of a joint.03-10-2011

Patent applications by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Tokyo JP

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kobe-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090129031Planar Element Module, Manufacturing Method of Planar Element Module, and Planar Element Device - A flat pressure sensor of the invention is prepared by processing a thin film of a polymer material to have plurality of substantially square openings 05-21-2009
20100292987CIRCUIT STARTUP METHOD AND CIRCUIT STARTUP APPARATUS UTILIZING UTTERANCE ESTIMATION FOR USE IN SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH SOUND COLLECTING DEVICE - A circuit startup method utilizing utterance estimation in a speech processing system including a sound collecting device is provided. The circuit startup method includes a subset power supply step of supplying power to the sound collecting device and a signal processing circuit, and a sound collecting step of inputting a sound from the sound collecting device through the signal processing circuit. The circuit startup method further includes an utterance estimation step of estimating whether or not a speech is contained in the inputted sound, and a power supply step of supplying power to the speech processing circuit for an utterance interval when it is estimated that a speech is contained from an estimation result of the utterance estimation step.11-18-2010

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Southlake, TX US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090042664Golf Club Head Having a Bridge Member and a Damping Element - A cavity back golf club head having a bridge member and a damping element is disclosed. The bridge member extends across a first rear cavity connecting a heel and a toe of the golf club head to control the trajectory of a golf ball. For the longer iron clubs, a damping element extends from the sole portion of the cavity back golf club head to the bridge member to define a second cavity to further influence the trajectory of the golf ball. For the shorter iron clubs, the damping element extends from the top portion of the cavity back golf club head to the bridge member. The damping element may reduce the vibration and sound of the golf club head upon impact with a golf ball.02-12-2009
20090048035High Moment of Inertia Wood-Type Golf Clubs and Golf Club Heads - Wood-type golf club heads include: (a) a club head body including heel, toe, crown, sole, and weighted rear portions; and (b) a variable thickness ball striking face. The club head body parts and weighted portion(s) may be arranged such that the club head has a moment of inertia about a vertical axis passing through the club head center of gravity of at least 5000 g-cm02-19-2009
20100137073High Moment of Inertia Wood-Type Golf Clubs and Golf Club Heads - Wood-type golf club heads include: (a) a club head body including heel, toe, crown, sole, and weighted rear portions; and (b) a variable thickness ball striking face. The club head body parts and weighted portion(s) may be arranged such that the club head has a moment of inertia about a vertical axis passing through the club head center of gravity of at least 5000 g-cm06-03-2010
20100234130GOLF CLUBS AND GOLF CLUB HEADS HAVING FEEL ALTERING SYSTEMS - Golf club heads include: (a) a body having a ball-striking face and a rear face, the body defining a cavity; (b) a bridge member extending across the cavity, wherein the bridge member is provided to affect, at least in part, a position of a center of gravity of the club head; and (c) a feel altering element provided between the bridge member and the rear face. The feel altering element may affect a wide variety of parameters that relate to the “feel” of the golf club head when it strikes a golf ball, such as the sound produced by the club head during the strike, the vibrational response of the club head during the strike, the swing characteristics of the club head (e.g., weight, center of gravity position, etc.), and the like.09-16-2010
20100234131GOLF CLUBS AND GOLF CLUB HEADS HAVING FEEL ALTERING SYSTEMS - Golf club heads include: (a) a body having a ball-striking face and a rear face, the body defining a cavity; (b) a bridge member extending across the cavity, wherein the bridge member is provided to affect, at least in part, a position of a center of gravity of the club head; and (c) a feel altering element provided between the bridge member and the rear face. The feel altering element may affect a wide variety of parameters that relate to the “feel” of the golf club head when it strikes a golf ball, such as the sound produced by the club head during the strike, the vibrational response of the club head during the strike, the swing characteristics of the club head (e.g., weight, center of gravity position, etc.), and the like.09-16-2010
20100263787Golf Clubs and Golf Club Heads - A golf club head enables the initial velocity of a ball to be increased and enables the carry to be lengthened. In some example structures, the golf club includes a face plate formed from metal and club head body (e.g., a crown and sole) formed from fiber reinforced plastic. A weighted body is provided inside the rearmost portion of the golf club head and a low rigidity portion whose width becomes gradually narrower as it approaches the rearmost portion is provided in the crown extending from the vicinity of the face plate to the rearmost portion.10-21-2010
20110172022Golf Club Head Having a Bridge Member and a Damping Element - A cavity back golf club head having a bridge member and a damping element is disclosed. The bridge member extends across a first rear cavity connecting a heel and a toe of the golf club head to control the trajectory of a golf ball. For the longer iron clubs, a damping element extends from the sole portion of the cavity back golf club head to the bridge member to define a second cavity to further influence the trajectory of the golf ball. For the shorter iron clubs, the damping element extends from the top portion of the cavity back golf club head to the bridge member. The damping element may reduce the vibration and sound of the golf club head upon impact with a golf ball.07-14-2011
20110212794GOLF CLUBS AND GOLF CLUB HEADS HAVING FEEL ALTERING SYSTEMS - Golf club heads include: (a) a body having a ball-striking face and a rear face, the body defining a cavity; (b) a bridge member extending across the cavity, wherein the bridge member is provided to affect, at least in part, a position of a center of gravity of the club head; and (c) a feel altering element provided between the bridge member and the rear face. The feel altering element may affect a wide variety of parameters that relate to the “feel” of the golf club head when it strikes a golf ball, such as the sound produced by the club head during the strike, the vibrational response of the club head during the strike, the swing characteristics of the club head (e.g., weight, center of gravity position, etc.), and the like.09-01-2011

Patent applications by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Southlake, TX US

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitachinaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100158348INSPECTION SYSTEM AND INSPECTION METHOD - The inspection system arbitrarily selects from among a plurality of optical conditions to change a distribution of reflected or diffracted light component from an object being inspected. The inspection system has a one- or two-dimensional optoelectric conversion image sensor, optically acquires an image of the object by scanning a stage on which the object is mounted or scanning the image sensor, and processes the image to check for defects in the object. Under each optical condition (illumination optical system, detection optical system, scan direction, etc.) the object being inspected is imaged and, based on the brightness distribution and contrast in the detection field of the image sensor, image sensor output correction data is generated to correct the output of the image sensor.06-24-2010

Patent applications by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitachinaka JP

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Numazu-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090154944IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of more reliably detecting patches formed on a recording medium while suppressing an increase in the consumption of printing media and toners. In an image forming apparatus which detects the density or color of each patch of a patch array fixed on a recording medium that is conveyed and corrects an image formation condition based on the detection result, the patches are formed as the patch array so that the conveyance-direction length of each patch gradually increases in an order of detection by the patch detection unit, and the conveyance-direction length of each patch gradually increases according to increasing of a detection position variation amount of a patch in the order of detection by the patch detection unit.06-18-2009
20090214241IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In the case where a peripheral velocity of photosensitive drums differs from a peripheral velocity of an intermediate transfer belt, the peripheral velocity of the intermediate transfer belt or the peripheral velocity of the photosensitive drums is corrected. The velocity of the intermediate transfer belt is transiently varied in an image forming operation. Accordingly, a plurality of tonner patch patterns including toner patches are formed on the intermediate transfer belt, and the difference in peripheral velocity between the intermediate transfer belt and the photosensitive drums is estimated based on a difference between the displacements in the tonner patch patterns.08-27-2009

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kanagawa-Ken JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090068582DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer includes a core toner containing a magenta colorant including a quinacridone pigment, the magenta colorant having a dispersed diameter d=(major diameter+minor diameter)/2 of 0.25≦d≦0.50 μm being present in a number of from 5 to 200 per 10 particles of the core toner on observation of one sliced surface of the core toner, and the magenta colorant having a dispersed diameter d of d>2.0 μm being present in a number of 1 or less per 10 particles of the core toner on observation of one sliced surface of the core toner, and inorganic oxide particles having a primary particle diameter of from 80 to 300 nm externally added to a surface of the core toner in an amount of from 0.1 to 5.0% by weight based on 100% by weight of the toner.03-12-2009
20110176837DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a deteriorated carrier included in a developer circulating in a developer tank is extracted. The extracted deteriorated carrier is guided to an outflow port.07-21-2011

Patent applications by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kanagawa-Ken JP

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Ashigarakami-Gun JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080247783IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND DEVELOPING AGENT - In an image forming apparatus containing a developing device containing a toner housed therein and feeding the toner onto a photoreceptor to form a toner image, and a cleaning blade removing the toner remaining on the photoreceptor after transferring the toner image formed on the photoreceptor to a transfer medium, a toner having a particle diameter of from 5 to 8 μm and a degree of circularity of from 0.925 to 0.965 and having a lubricant added to a surface thereof in an amount of from 0.01 to 0.125 wt % is used, and the cleaning blade has a hardness of from 60 to 80, a 300% modulus of from 100 to 420 kg/cm10-09-2008

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Ashigara-Gun JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080241725TONER FOR DEVELOPING AGENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - In order to solve the foregoing inconveniences, specified addition amounts of a low-resistance external additive and a high-resistance external additive are used in this invention. Furthermore, the toner having been subjected to external addition is subjected to cyclone classification to separate the external additives by force, thereby producing a toner in the same state as in the toner to which a mechanical stress has been applied within the developing unit. When a value of resistance of the toner after externally adding the external additives and a value of resistance of the toner after cyclone classification and a relationship between the both are specified as described later, so far as they fall within the specified ranges, it is possible to provide a developing agent which is free from deterioration of the image quality and is less in toner scattering even by an environmental change or after long-term use.10-02-2008

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Takasago-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080196857MOLD OSCILLATING APPARATUS - In a mold oscillating apparatus according to the present invention, a connecting plate for interconnecting a moving bearing housing rotated by eccentric rotation of an eccentric shaft and a mold table oscillated by rotation of the moving bearing housing is supported by the mold table from one end of an upper end part thereof to the other end, and supported by the moving bearing housing from one end of a lower end part thereof to the other end. By such a configuration, torsional deformation of the connecting plate is prevented and a stress generated in the connecting plate is eased.08-21-2008
20110155342STRAND GUIDING APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUS CASTING EQUIPMENT - A strand guiding apparatus includes a plurality of pairs of rollers arranged along a moving direction of a strand, a plurality of drive motors for generating driving forces to drive the pairs of rollers, a plurality of worm reducers for transmitting the driving forces of the drive motors to the pairs of rollers while reducing the rotational speed of the drive motors, each worm reducer having a worm extending in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the corresponding roller, and operable to transmit a load occurring at the roller to the corresponding drive motor, and a control unit for controlling the respective rotational speeds of the rollers and/or the respective driving forces of the drive motors based on the load to the drive motors. The reliable control for drive rollers can be attained to have a proper rotational speed without causing a reduction in surface quality and chatter in a strand guiding apparatus for continuous casting equipment using worm reducers.06-30-2011

Patent applications by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Takasago-Shi JP

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Fort Worth, TX US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110281665Golf Clubs and Golf Club Heads - A golf club head which may include an iron-type golf club head body, a face plate, and a filler positioned behind the ball striking face. According to aspects of the disclosure, the face plate may include score lines which define holes in the face plate. Further, according to aspects of the disclosure, the filler may be comprised of a material that readily absorbs the deflection of the face plate during impact with a golf ball during a golf swing and dampens the impact between the golf club head and the golf ball.11-17-2011

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Habikino-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120022721FLYING OBJECT - By using the interaction between the wind flow and the stabilizer arranged in the wind flow and along the direction of the wind flow, this invention provides the flying object that secures the stability of device or aircraft or stabilizer itself unified with the stabilizer by above effect. The interaction mentioned above is that when the wind flow hits the stabilizer at a certain angle, the wind flow changes the direction, and the power corresponding its reaction is given to the stabilizer by its reaction.01-26-2012