Patents by Inventor Shiro Kitamura
Shiro Kitamura 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: 20230339836Abstract: An efficient production method for obtaining a reduced coenzyme Q10 Form II-type crystal having a stable crystal form is disclosed. The production method includes adding a seed crystal of a Form II-type crystal to a solution including ethanol and reduced coenzyme Q10; and precipitating a Form II-type crystal, wherein a dissolved concentration Ci of reduced coenzyme Q10 before adding the seed crystal is equal to or more than a saturated concentration of a Form II-type crystal and less than a saturated concentration of a Form I-type crystal at a temperature Ti when adding the seed crystal. The crystal precipitation step may include controlling a temperature Tp of the solution so that a dissolved concentration Cp of reduced coenzyme Q10 is equal to or more than the saturated concentration of the Form II-type crystal and less than the saturated concentration of the Form I-type crystal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Shiro KITAMURA, Koichi KINOSHITA, Takahiro UEDA
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Patent number: 11792484Abstract: An information providing system includes: a memory unit configured to store an image data acquired by an imaging unit a robot in association with a position data and a time data acquired by an information acquisition portion; a data extraction portion configured to extract an image data corresponding to a time and a position instructed by the user from among the stored image data; and a display unit configured to display an image based on the extracted image data. The memory unit stores the image data acquired by the imaging unit of a first robot moving with a first user and the image data acquired by the imaging unit of a second robot moving with a second user.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shiro Kitamura, Shuji Nakayama
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Patent number: 11518036Abstract: A service providing system including: a mobile robot configured to act in response to an instruction from a user through wireless communication and including a sensor having a capability corresponding to a human sensing capability to perceive an external world; a target identifying unit configured to identify whether an action target of the robot is a human being or another robot; an user apparatus control portion configured to output the signal detected by the sensor in a first manner when the action target is identified to be a human being and output the signal detected by the sensor in a second manner when the action target is identified to be the other robot; and a user apparatus configured to act in a manner perceivable by the user based on a output signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Shiro Kitamura, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shuji Nakayama
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Patent number: 11135725Abstract: A robot control system, including: a mobile robot having a situation-detecting unit detecting surrounding situations; a user apparatus operating in a manner recognizable by a user based on signals detected by the situation-detecting unit; an action-detecting unit detecting a predetermined action of the user; a brain-activity-detecting unit detecting a brain activity of the user; and a robot-controlling unit controlling the robot. The user apparatus has a computing unit analyzing the brain activity of the user detected by the brain-activity-detecting unit to output a first-action instruction from the user to the robot. The robot controlling unit further controlling the robot in accordance with the first-action instruction output by the computing unit and controlling, when the predetermined action is detected by the action-detecting unit during operation of the user apparatus, the robot in accordance with a second-action instruction different from the first-action instruction output by the computing unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Shiro Kitamura, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shuji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20210056154Abstract: A user information sharing apparatus includes: a CPU and a memory coupled to the CPU. The memory is configured to store time-series user information of a plurality of users including information about events from past to present occurred to each of the plurality of users. The CPU is configured to perform: receiving a reference request from a first user for the user information of other users stored in the memory; extracting the user information of a second user similar to the first user from among the user information stored in the memory, when the reference request from the first user is received; and outputting the user information of the second user extracted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shiro KITAMURA, Jumpei MORITA, Yo ITO, Shuji NAKAYAMA
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Patent number: 10883837Abstract: A map generating server capable of bidirectional communication with multiple vehicles having a database configured to store vehicle type identifiers assigned to the vehicles and map data regarding roads usable by the vehicles and cultivated land area near the roads. In the server, a vehicle position data tagged with vehicle type identifier is successively written to location concerned of the map data when each vehicle transmits the position data tagged with the vehicle type identifier. The vehicle position data writing number is incremented if the written vehicle position data is that of a vehicle assigned a specified vehicle type identifier, and the location concerned of the cultivated land area is determined to be cultivated land area road and to update the map data stored in the database when the writing number is equal to or greater than a predetermined number.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoru Minowa, Shigenori Hiruta, Kimiyoshi Kusaka, Shiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20200238529Abstract: A service providing system including: a mobile robot configured to act in response to an instruction from a user through wireless communication and including a sensor having a capability corresponding to a human sensing capability to perceive an external world; a target identifying unit configured to identify whether an action target of the robot is a human being or another robot; an user apparatus control portion configured to output the signal detected by the sensor in a first manner when the action target is identified to be a human being and output the signal detected by the sensor in a second manner when the action target is identified to be the other robot; and a user apparatus configured to act in a manner perceivable by the user based on a output signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Shiro Kitamura, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shuji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20200234046Abstract: An information providing system includes: a memory unit configured to store an image data acquired by an imaging unit a robot in association with a position data and a time data acquired by an information acquisition portion; a data extraction portion configured to extract an image data corresponding to a time and a position instructed by the user from among the stored image data; and a display unit configured to display an image based on the extracted image data. The memory unit stores the image data acquired by the imaging unit of a first robot moving with a first user and the image data acquired by the imaging unit of a second robot moving with a second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shiro Kitamura, Shuji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20190137282Abstract: A map generating server capable of bidirectional communication with multiple vehicles having a database configured to store vehicle type identifiers assigned to the vehicles and map data regarding roads usable by the vehicles and cultivated land area near the roads. In the server, a vehicle position data tagged with vehicle type identifier is successively written to location concerned of the map data when each vehicle transmits the position data tagged with the vehicle type identifier. The vehicle position data writing number is incremented if the written vehicle position data is that of a vehicle assigned a specified vehicle type identifier, and the location concerned of the cultivated land area is determined to be cultivated land area road and to update the map data stored in the database when the writing number is equal to or greater than a predetermined number.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Satoru Minowa, Shigenori Hiruta, Kimiyoshi Kusaka, Shiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20190099895Abstract: A robot control system, including: a mobile robot having a situation-detecting unit detecting surrounding situations; a user apparatus operating in a manner recognizable by a user based on signals detected by the situation-detecting unit; an action-detecting unit detecting a predetermined action of the user; a brain-activity-detecting unit detecting a brain activity of the user; and a robot-controlling unit controlling the robot. The user apparatus has a computing unit analyzing the brain activity of the user detected by the brain-activity-detecting unit to output a first-action instruction from the user to the robot. The robot controlling unit further controlling the robot in accordance with the first-action instruction output by the computing unit and controlling, when the predetermined action is detected by the action-detecting unit during operation of the user apparatus, the robot in accordance with a second-action instruction different from the first-action instruction output by the computing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Shiro Kitamura, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shuji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20190091513Abstract: A motion correction apparatus, including: a setting portion configured to set a target motion; a detecting unit configured to detect an actual motion of a user corresponding to the target motion; a motion correcting unit configured to correct user motion by applying an external stimuli to a body or a brain of the user; and an outputting unit configured to output control signals to the motion correcting unit based on an attainment level of the actual motion detected by the detecting unit to the target motion so that the actual motion approaches to the target motion, wherein the target motion includes a final target motion and a single or a plurality of intermediate target motion set in steps up to the final target motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Shiro Kitamura, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shigenori Hiruta, Shuji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20180326990Abstract: A drive assist apparatus, including: a CPU and a memory coupled to the CPU, the CPU and the memory being configured to receive a drive assist intervention level instructed by a driver, the CPU and the memory being configured to acquire a biometric data of the driver upon receiving of the intervention level, the CPU and the memory being configured to determine the drive assist intervention level to create a drive plan based on the received intervention level and the acquired biometric data, the CPU and the memory being configured to inform the drive plan to the driver, the CPU and the memory being configured to perform drive assist based on the drive plan informed to the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Kimiyoshi Kusaka, Shigenori Hiruta, Shiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20180330804Abstract: A passenger health management apparatus, including: a measuring unit configured to measure health condition of a passenger onboard to acquire a biometric data; a CPU and a memory coupled to the CPU; and a presentation unit configured to preform presentation to the passenger, the CPU and the memory being configured to determine a proposal to be presented to the passenger from among a plurality of proposals regarding passenger health management including a proposal advising medical examination at a medical facility and a proposal advising purchase of medicine at a shop that sells medicine based on the biometric data acquired by the measuring unit, wherein the presentation unit is further configured to present the proposal to the passenger.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Shiro Kitamura, Kimiyoshi Kusaka
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Publication number: 20180315298Abstract: An emergency transportation arrangement apparatus, including a CPU and memory accepting a transportation-request from a patient requiring emergency-transportation to a medical-facility, acquiring a patient-data including a position-data of the patient, determining a destination-medical-facility to which the patient is to be emergency-transported based on the patient-data, registering multiple vehicles allowed in advance by their users to be employed as temporary-emergency-vehicles for emergency-transportation of patients to medical-facilities, acquiring a vehicle-data including a position data of the multiple vehicles, approving among the multiple vehicles a vehicle located within a predetermined range from the patient as an temporary-emergency-vehicle based on the patient-data and the vehicle-data when the transportation-request is accepted, and outputting the patient-data, a data of the destination-medical-facility, and a transport-instruction of the patient to the destination-medical-facility to a vehicle-Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Shiro Kitamura, Kimiyoshi Kusaka, Shigenori Hiruta
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Patent number: 9981899Abstract: The present invention provides a particulate composition wherein an oil component containing reduced coenzyme Q10 is polydispersed forming a domain in a matrix containing a water-soluble excipient, which simultaneously shows high oxidative stability and high oral absorbability, a production method thereof, and a stabilizing method thereof. It also provides a food, food with nutrient function claims, food for specified health uses, dietary supplement, nutritional product, animal drug, drink, feed, pet food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical product, therapeutic drug, prophylactic drug and the like, which contain the composition.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Ueda, Shinsuke Akao, Shiro Kitamura, Hideyuki Kishida, Takahiro Ueda
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Patent number: 9926580Abstract: A process for producing on an industrial scale the oxidized coenzyme Q10, includes culturing a reduced coenzyme Q10-producing microorganism selected from the group consisting of the genus Rhodobacter, the genus Saitoella, the genus Schizosaccharomyces and the genus Trichosporon, to obtain microbial cells containing reduced coenzyme Q10 at a ratio of not less than 70 mole % among the entire coenzymes Q10; and one of: (a) oxidizing thus-obtained reduced coenzyme Q10 to oxidized coenzyme Q10 and then extracting the oxidized coenzyme Q10 by an organic solvent; or (b) extracting reduced coenzyme Q10 by an organic solvent and oxidizing the extracted reduced coenzyme Q10 to oxidized coenzyme Q10.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Yajima, Takahisa Kato, Akihisa Kanda, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 9690545Abstract: A floating-point calculation apparatus comprising: a selection part; an addition and subtraction calculation part; an output determination part; and a buffer management part configured to add, when it is determined that a buffer used to store an input value is not prepared, a buffer that corresponds to the input value, wherein when a number of significant digits of the result of performing an addition and subtraction calculation exceeds a number of significant digits of the buffer selected by the selection part, the addition and subtraction calculation part shifts right or shifts left part of the result of performing the addition and subtraction calculation and divides the result of performing the addition and subtraction calculation into values each being storable in one of a plurality of buffers.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shiro Kitamura, Tomoyuki Okumura, Hiroshi Nanjo
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Patent number: 9556098Abstract: With respect to reduced coenzyme Q10, there has been no report about the presence of crystal polymorphism, and it has been considered that a conventionally obtained crystal form is only one form. The present invention relates to a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal having an endothermic peak indicating melting at 54±2° C. during temperature rise at a rate of 5° C./min by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and/or to a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal showing characteristic peaks at diffraction angles (2?±0.2°) of 11.5°, 18.2°, 19.3°, 22.3°, 23.0° and 33.3° by powder X-ray (Cu—K?) diffraction. The crystal form is a novel reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal which has a higher melting point and a lower solubility in a solvent, and is more excellent in stability than the conventionally known reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Kawachi, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 9532957Abstract: The present invention provides a stabilization method, a preservation method and the like method of reduced coenzyme Q10, which is useful as functional nutritive foods, specific health foods and the like. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for efficiently obtaining reduced coenzyme Q10 of high quality and by a method suitable for a commercial production. It is possible to handle and stably preserve reduced coenzyme Q10 under a condition that oxidation by a molecular oxygen is inhibited by contacting reduced coenzyme Q10 with, an ascorbic acid and citric acid or a related compound thereof, and thus a stabilized composition is obtained. Moreover, reduced coenzyme Q10 is converted into a crystalline state in such a condition that the formation of oxidized coenzyme Q10 as a byproduct is minimized by crystallizing reduced coenzyme Q10 in the presence of ascorbic acid or a related compound thereof etc., and thus a reduced coenzyme Q10 crystal of high quality is produced.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Ueda, Tadao Ono, Mitsutoshi Moro, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda
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Publication number: 20160304915Abstract: A process for producing on an industrial scale the oxidized coenzyme Q10, includes culturing a reduced coenzyme Q10-producing microorganism selected from the group consisting of the genus Rhodobacter, the genus Saitoella, the genus Schizosaccharomyces and the genus Trichosporon, to obtain microbial cells containing reduced coenzyme Q10 at a ratio of not less than 70 mole % among the entire coenzymes Q10; and one of: (a) oxidizing thus-obtained reduced coenzyme Q10 to oxidized coenzyme Q10 and then extracting the oxidized coenzyme Q10 by an organic solvent; or (b) extracting reduced coenzyme Q10 by an organic solvent and oxidizing the extracted reduced coenzyme Q10 to oxidized coenzyme Q10.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Kazuyoshi Yajima, Takahisa Kato, Akihisa Kanda, Shiro Kitamura, Yasuyoshi Ueda