Patents by Inventor Atsushi Hori

Atsushi Hori 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: 20240142129
    Abstract: An air-conditioning device includes: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first information indicating environmental information on an environment in which a target person has been placed in a past or biological information of the target person; and a control unit configured to grasp a habitual behavior pattern of the target person in the first information. A target value of a first index, which is an index related to a thermal environment, is set based on the first information acquired by the information acquisition unit and the grasped behavior pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shiori EMOTO, Shouta HORI, Atsushi NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20240142900
    Abstract: An electrophotographic belt comprising: a substrate and an elastic layer on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate, the elastic layer comprising a cured rubber product including a cured silicone rubber product, an elastic modulus of the elastic layer at a temperature of 23° C. being 1.00 MPa or less, wherein when 1 g sample collected from the elastic layer is immersed in 50 ml of toluene at a temperature of 23° C. for 24 hours in accordance with Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) K6258:2016, an extract of 3% by mass to 20% by mass with respect to the sample is extracted, and a burning time of the elastic layer in a burn test in accordance with UL94 VTM standard is 30 seconds or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: YUSUKE BABA, TAKESHI SUZUKI, MATSUTAKA MAEDA, ATSUSHI HORI, MASAHIRO TAKENAGA, HARUKI MORI, SHOTA INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240085828
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer member including a base layer, wherein the base layer contains a thermoplastic resin and an electroconductive filler dispersed in the thermoplastic resin, and wherein the base layer has a volume resistivity of 1×106 to 1×1013 ?·cm, and the base layer has an electroconductive path index of 0.20 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: ATSUSHI HORI, AKIHIRO TAYA, MEGUMI UCHINO, KOJI SATO
  • Publication number: 20240051789
    Abstract: There is provided a guidance system capable of guiding a user who does not operate an ascending/descending facility in a building as well on the basis of concern and interest of the user. In a guidance system (1), a behavior information acquisition unit (15) acquires behavior information on an arrival floor of a user. An interest information acquisition unit (20) acquires interest information representing a degree of interest of the user for each attribute on the basis of a relationship between layout and attributes of areas on the arrival floor and the behavior information. A destination presentation unit (22) preferentially presents an area with an attribute with a higher degree of interest as a destination when a user specification unit (14) specifies a user, on the basis of the interest information for the user and information on attributes for each area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryu MAKABE, Masami AIKAWA, Kei GOMITA, Atsushi HORI, Seiji FUWA
  • Publication number: 20240013501
    Abstract: A motion sickness regulation device includes processing circuitry to generate stimulus information to be used for displaying a motion sickness regulation image for regulating a level of motion sickness occurring to a user viewing a gaze region, as a region in which real scenery is visible or a region in which a gaze image as an image including a gaze target is displayed, based on movement of the scenery or the gaze image in the gaze region; and to generate the motion sickness regulation image based on the stimulus information, to specify a motion sickness regulation region as a region as part or a whole of a region excluding the gaze region, and to have the motion sickness regulation image displayed in the motion sickness regulation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotoyu SASAYAMA, Atsushi HORI
  • Patent number: 11796240
    Abstract: A cooler reduces size increase. The cooler includes a main container including a refrigeration compartment, and a battery mount set including a first battery mount to which a first battery is attachable and a second battery mount to which a second battery different from the first battery is attachable. The first battery mount and the second battery mount are positioned relative to each other to cause the second battery to be unattachable to the second battery mount when the first battery is attached to the first battery mount and to cause the first battery to be unattachable to the first battery mount when the second battery is attached to the second battery mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Hori
  • Publication number: 20230152720
    Abstract: An electrophotographic belt includes a base layer containing a binder resin and carbon black in the binder resin. The binder resin contains at least one resin selected from the group consisting of PEEK and PPS. A water content calculated by ((X2?X1)/X2)×100 is 0.6% where X1 is a mass of a specimen cut out of the base layer when in a nitrogen atmosphere a temperature of the specimen is increased from 30° C. to 100° C. at a rate of 20° C./min. and maintained at 100° C. for 30 min, and X2 is a mass of the specimen when in a nitrogen atmosphere the specimen is thereafter cooled from 100° C. to 30° C. at a rate of 20° C./min. and the specimen is left to stand in the air under an environment of a temperature of 23° C. and a relative humidity of 50% for 48 hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Akira Okano, Takeaki Kumagai, Atsushi Hori, Megumi Uchino, Koji Sato
  • Patent number: 11631912
    Abstract: A cooler allows easy attachment and detachment of a battery. The cooler includes a main container including a refrigeration compartment, an evaporator on the main container, a compressor and a condenser adjacent to the main container, and at least one battery mount to receive a power tool battery in a detachable manner. The at least one battery mount is adjacent to the main container and above the compressor and the condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Hori
  • Publication number: 20230078706
    Abstract: An elevator device according to this disclosure includes a detection device, an identification module, and a determination module. The detection device is provided to a car of an elevator, and detects detection information. The identification module repeatedly acquires identification information for identifying a passenger from the detection information detected by the detection device. The determination module determines a leaving floor of the passenger based on a change in the identification information acquired by the identification module and a floor on which the car stops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryu MAKABE, Atsushi HORI, Masami AIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11556082
    Abstract: An intermediary transfer belt having surface resistivity ?s of 1×109 ?/square or more and volume resistivity ?v of 1×1012 ?·cm or less includes a thermoplastic resin material containing carbon black. The carbon black contained in the thermoplastic resin material has a weight ratio of 22.5-28.5 weight % and include first carbon black and second carbon black. The first carbon black of the carbon black contained in the thermoplastic resin material has a weight ratio of 50-90 weight % and dibutyl phthalate absorption of 93-127 ml/100 g, and the second carbon black of the carbon black contained in the thermoplastic resin material has a weight ratio of 10-50 weight % and dibutyl phthalate absorption of 36-79 ml/100 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Tsuruga, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Jun Ohira, Akeshi Asaka, Hiroto Sugimoto, Takanori Ueno, Koji Sato, Midai Suzuki, Atsushi Hori, Kaoru Okamoto, Megumi Uchino, Kazuhisa Shirayama, Naoto Kameyama, Kiyonori Soutome, Shigeo Kuroda, Akira Okano, Hiroshi Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20230012093
    Abstract: The invention provides a non-volatile storage element and non-volatile storage device employing a ferroelectric material with low power consumption, excellent high reliability, and especially write/erase endurance, which can be mixed with advanced CMOS logic. The non-volatile storage element has at least a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a ferroelectric layer composed of a metal oxide between both conductive layers, with a buffer layer having oxygen ion conductivity situated between the ferroelectric layer and the first conductive layer and/or second conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Kuniyuki KAKUSHIMA, Hiroshi FUNAKUBO, Shun-ichiro OHMI, Joel MOLINA REYES, Ichiro FUJIWARA, Atsushi HORI, Takao SHIMIZU, Yoshiko NAKAMURA, Takanori MIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220411226
    Abstract: There is provided an elevator guidance device 40 including an identification information acquisition unit 41 configured to acquire identification information for a user heading for an elevator hall, a selected elevator information acquisition unit 42 configured to acquire information on a selected elevator selected from a plurality of elevators as an elevator for the user identified to take, and a guidance indication unit 43 configured to indicate, in an indication mode associated with the user, a leading guidance sign on a route starting from a leading start position, at which leading of the user identified is started, to a landing entrance of the selected elevator, the leading guidance sign leading the user to the landing entrance of the selected elevator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi HORI, Kenta KUZE, Mitsutoshi IIO, Wei WU
  • Patent number: 11487227
    Abstract: The crystallinity of a thermoplastic resin is 8% or more and 25% or less, the average primary particle size of carbon black is 10 nm or more and 30 nm or less, the content of the carbon black is 15.0 parts by mass or more and 30.0 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of an intermediate transfer belt, and (Li+Lo+Lc)/3?100 nm, where Li, Lo, and Lc are values of an L-function indicating a dispersibility of the carbon black with respect to the thermoplastic resin in an inner peripheral surface region of the intermediate transfer belt, in an outer peripheral surface region, and in a central region that is a central portion of the intermediate transfer belt in a thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Midai Suzuki, Akeshi Asaka, Koji Sato, Noriaki Kobayashi, Megumi Uchino, Akira Okano, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Naoko Kasai, Atsushi Hori
  • Publication number: 20220260299
    Abstract: A cooler reduces size increase. The cooler includes a main container including a refrigeration compartment, and a battery mount set including a first battery mount to which a first battery is attachable and a second battery mount to which a second battery different from the first battery is attachable. The first battery mount and the second battery mount are positioned relative to each other to cause the second battery to be unattachable to the second battery mount when the first battery is attached to the first battery mount and to cause the first battery to be unattachable to the first battery mount when the second battery is attached to the second battery mount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi HORI
  • Publication number: 20220187741
    Abstract: The crystallinity of a thermoplastic resin is 8% or more and 25% or less, the average primary particle size of carbon black is 10 nm or more and 30 nm or less, the content of the carbon black is 15.0 parts by mass or more and 30.0 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of an intermediate transfer belt, and (Li+Lo+Lc)/3?100 nm, where Li, Lo, and Lc are values of an L-function indicating a dispersibility of the carbon black with respect to the thermoplastic resin in an inner peripheral surface region of the intermediate transfer belt, in an outer peripheral surface region, and in a central region that is a central portion of the intermediate transfer belt in a thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Midai Suzuki, Akeshi Asaka, Koji Sato, Noriaki Kobayashi, Megumi Uchino, Akira Okano, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Naoko Kasai, Atsushi Hori
  • Publication number: 20220167774
    Abstract: An electric kettle includes: a kettle body having a power receiving connection part and a heating part; a power supply unit including a power supply base having a power supply connection part, and a mounting unit; and a detection part. The detection part is configured to detect whether the kettle body is on the power supply base. The electric kettle is configured to supply power to the heating part via the power supply connection part and the power receiving connection part when the detection part detects that the kettle body is on the power supply base, and to stop power supply to the heating part when the detection part detects that the kettle body is not on the power supply base. The power supply connection part and the power receiving connection part are disconnected after the detection part detects that the kettle body is not on the power supply base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi HORI, Yasuyuki FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220167775
    Abstract: An electric kettle has a kettle body and a power supply unit that is configured to supply power to the kettle body. The power supply unit has a power supply base, a mounting unit and a first detection part. The power supply base is configured such that the kettle body is placed on top thereof, and has a power supply connection part that is configured to be electrically removably connected to a power receiving connection part. The mounting unit is configured such that a battery pack is removably coupled thereto as an external power source for supplying power to a heating part via the power supply connection part and the power receiving connection part. The first detection part is configured to detect that the power supply unit is on a plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi HORI, Yasuyuki FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220117435
    Abstract: An electric kettle has a kettle body and a power supply unit that is configured to supply power to the kettle body. The power supply unit has a plate part, a power supply base and a mounting unit. The plate part has a first surface and a second surface. The power supply base is arranged on a side of the first surface of the plate part and configured such that the kettle body is placed on top thereof. The power supply base has a power supply connection part that is electrically removably connected to the power receiving connection part. The mounting unit is arranged on a side of the second surface of the plate part and configured such that a battery pack is removably coupled thereto as the external power source for supplying power to the heating part via the power supply connection part and the power receiving connection part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi HORI
  • Patent number: 11281128
    Abstract: An electrophotographic belt having an endless shape and including an endless-shaped base layer, an elastic layer on an outer peripheral surface of the base layer, and a surface layer on the outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer, and the surface layer contains a urethane resin as a binder, polytetrafluoroethylene particles, and a compound having a perfluoropolyether structure and an oxyalkylene structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoto Kameyama, Kaoru Okamoto, Atsushi Hori
  • Patent number: 11269470
    Abstract: An operation support device that is placed on a touch panel detecting a change in electrostatic capacitance or a change in a contact region, includes: a case part; a first member attached inside the case part; a first deforming member that is an elastic member provided on an end of the first member and is provided between the first member and the touch panel; and a wall part that is attached inside the case part and sets a direction of deformation of the first deforming member when the case part approaches the touch panel, to a predetermined direction. As the case part approaches the touch panel, the electrostatic capacitance in a region facing the first defaming member increases due to defamation of the first deforming member or area of the contact region of the first defaming member increases due to deformation of the first defaming member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Mori, Yuichi Sasaki, Atsushi Hori