Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Muramatsu
Hiroaki Muramatsu 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: 20230347238Abstract: A controller including a cross key pad is improved so that an erroneous input relating to inputs from the cross key pad is suppressed. In a casing of the controller, a pressing portion is positioned at each of four distal ends of the cross key pad. Directly below each pressing portion, a pressing amount detection sensor which outputs 256 levels of pressing amount data corresponding to a pressing amount of the pressing portion is provided. The controller includes a threshold value recording module (223) in which a threshold value, which is a reference for recognizing that there has been a press when each pressing portion is pressed, is recorded in association with the pressing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2020Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Hiroaki MURAMATSU, Koichiro AMANO, Shota UCHIYAMA
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Patent number: 11033811Abstract: Provided is a technology of allowing operation of four push buttons of a controller including the four push buttons provided in place of a cross key pad as if operating the cross key pad. The controller includes a third push-button input module (142) being a cylindrical recess including four push buttons (142A to 142D) on a bottom surface of the third push-button input module (142). A recessed portion (142E) is formed in the bottom surface. Meanwhile, the controller includes a cover member (200) having a circular plate portion (211) including a cross-key-pad portion (212). A column portion having a circular column shape is provided on a back surface of the cover member (200). The cover member (200) is fixed to the third push-button input module (142) through insertion of the column portion into the recessed portion (142E). When a user presses the cross-key-pad portion (212), freely selected one of the four push buttons (142A to 142D) positioned below the circular plate portion (211) can be pressed.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: HORI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Muramatsu, Koichiro Amano, Yoshinori Konishi
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Patent number: 10773155Abstract: A game machine controller, which is used in combination with a mouse and is connected to a game machine to be used is improved so that a user is free from feeling strange about its input. As illustrated in FIG. 6 (A), a game machine controller (1) and a mouse (2) are connected to a game machine (3) via an output cable (172) and a mouse cable (210), respectively. A signal output from the game machine controller (1) to the game machine (3) is a keyboard control signal generally output from a keyboard to the game machine (3). With this, the game machine (3) recognizes the game machine controller (1) as the keyboard. As a result, the game machine (3) receive and recognize WASD input in a vertical or horizontal direction from the game machine controller (1) and input from the mouse (2) in a direction that is not limited to the vertical or horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: HORI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Muramatsu, Koichiro Amano, Yoshinori Konishi
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Patent number: 10675546Abstract: To improve handheld controllers for game machines so that they hardly drop from the users' hand. A controller for game machines is held and manipulated with the left hand. The controller for game machines includes a main body 100 and a grip 120. The main body 100 is equipped with a first input device 130 that is manipulated with the thumb and a second input device 140 that is manipulated with the index finger and middle finger. To the main body 100, a loop-shaped band 200 is attached with both ends thereof secured to the main body 100. Users manipulate the controller for game machines while holding the grip 120 using the palm and the fingers other than the thumb of the left hand resting under the band 200.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: HORI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Muramatsu, Koichiro Amano, Yoshinori Konishi
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Publication number: 20200061455Abstract: A game machine controller, which is used in combination with a mouse and is connected to a game machine to be used is improved so that a user is free from feeling strange about its input. As illustrated in FIG. 6(A), a game machine controller (1) and a mouse (2) are connected to a game machine (3) via an output cable (172) and a mouse cable (210), respectively. A signal output from the game machine controller (1) to the game machine (3) is a keyboard control signal generally output from a keyboard to the game machine (3). With this, the game machine (3) recognizes the game machine controller (1) as the keyboard. As a result, the game machine (3) receive and recognize WASD input in a vertical or horizontal direction from the game machine controller (1) and input from the mouse (2) in a direction that is not limited to the vertical or horizontal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2017Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Hiroaki MURAMATSU, Koichiro AMANO, Yoshinori KONISHI
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Publication number: 20200030694Abstract: Provided is a technology of allowing operation of four push buttons of a controller including the four push buttons provided in place of a cross key pad as if operating the cross key pad. The controller includes a third push-button input module (142) being a cylindrical recess including four push buttons (142A to 142D) on a bottom surface of the third push-button input module (142). A recessed portion (142E) is formed in the bottom surface. Meanwhile, the controller includes a cover member (200) having a circular plate portion (211) including a cross-key-pad portion (212). A column portion having a circular column shape is provided on a back surface of the cover member (200). The cover member (200) is fixed to the third push-button input module (142) through insertion of the column portion into the recessed portion (142E). When a user presses the cross-key-pad portion (212), freely selected one of the four push buttons (142A to 142D) positioned below the circular plate portion (211) can be pressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: HORI CO., LTDInventors: Hiroaki MURAMATSU, Koichiro AMANO, Yoshinori KONISHI
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Patent number: 10525340Abstract: To allow users who usually play games on a personal computer to enter input to game consoles for domestic use without being stressed. A controller system for game consoles is made up of a game console controller 100 and a mouse 200. The mouse 200 is identical to an ordinary mouse. The game console controller 100 has a structure resembling a part of a keyboard that is used for common personal computers and equipped with at least six keys 120 in a 2-by-3 array. The mouse 200 and the game console controller 100 can be attached to and removed from each other via a cable 210 extending from the mouse 200. The connection between them is an USB connection.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: HORI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Muramatsu, Koichiro Amano, Yoshinori Konishi
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Publication number: 20190308110Abstract: To improve handheld controllers for game machines so that they hardly drop from the users' hand. A controller for game machines is held and manipulated with the left hand. The controller for game machines includes a main body 100 and a grip 120. The main body 100 is equipped with a first input device 130 that is manipulated with the thumb and a second input device 140 that is manipulated with the index finger and middle finger. To the main body 100, a loop-shaped band 200 is attached with both ends thereof secured to the main body 100. Users manipulate the controller for game machines while holding the grip 120 using the palm and the fingers other than the thumb of the left hand resting under the band 200.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Hiroaki MURAMATSU, Koichiro AMANO, Yoshinori KONISHI
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Patent number: 10221934Abstract: A case that houses a chain includes a first cover member fixed to a cylinder block and a cylinder head, and a second cover member arranged on the opposite side of the cylinder block and the cylinder head from the first cover member. In an intermediate part, which is a part of a confronting wall of the first cover member between the first flange and the second flange, a cover-side rib is provided, having a height so that a distal end of the cover-side rib is not in contact with the cylinder block.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Asano, Tatsuhiro Terada, Kazuhiro Mori, Hiroaki Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20180326299Abstract: To allow users who usually play games on a personal computer to enter input to game consoles for domestic use without being stressed. A controller system for game consoles is made up of a game console controller 100 and a mouse 200. The mouse 200 is identical to an ordinary mouse. The game console controller 100 has a structure resembling a part of a keyboard that is used for common personal computers and equipped with at least six keys 120 in a 2-by-3 array. The mouse 200 and the game console controller 100 can be attached to and removed from each other via a cable 210 extending from the mouse 200. The connection between them is an USB connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Hiroaki MURAMATSU, Koichiro AMANO, Yoshinori KONISHI
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Patent number: 9958177Abstract: An air conditioning system that includes refrigerant systems respectively including an indoor unit connected to an outdoor unit by a refrigerant pipe, the refrigerant systems being controlled by a remote controller that is provided. The indoor unit includes a human sensor whose power supply operates simultaneously with the indoor unit. When the air conditioning system is in an on-state and detection information of the human sensor indicates absence, the indoor unit transmits an absence signal to the remote controller. The remote controller that has received the absence signal transmits an absence-off period signal including absence-off period control information set in advance to the indoor unit. The indoor unit that has received the absence-off period signal is controlled according to the absence-off period control information.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20170299042Abstract: A case that houses a chain includes a first cover member fixed to a cylinder block and a cylinder head, and a second cover member arranged on the opposite side of the cylinder block and the cylinder head from the first cover member. In an intermediate part, which is a part of a confronting wall of the first cover member between the first flange and the second flange, a cover-side rib is provided, having a height so that a distal end of the cover-side rib is not in contact with the cylinder block.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi ASANO, Tatsuhiro TERADA, Kazuhiro MORI, Hiroaki MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20150263586Abstract: By removably attaching a simplified mechanism to a prior-art stage for moving a sliding component by manual rotation of a control knob, an automatic mode and a manual mode can be made selectable and moreover, a motorization unit for a manual stage capable of fine adjustment by manual operation and a manual stage with the motorization unit is provided. A motorization unit for a manual stage is provided with a clamp for preventing co-rotation by sandwiching a sliding component or a fixed component of a manual stage, a coupling coupled to a control knob while holding substantial coaxiality with a control knob shaft, a coupling claw for gripping a knob portion, and a motor for rotating the coupling, either one of manual operation and automatic operation being selected by removal from/attachment to the manual stage, and constitutes a manual stage with the motorization unit by being equipped to the manual stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: MIRUC OPTICAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroaki Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20150226447Abstract: An air conditioning system that includes refrigerant systems respectively including one indoor unit connected to one outdoor unit by a refrigerant pipe, and controls the refrigerant systems by one remote controller is provided. An indoor unit includes a human sensor in which a power supply thereof operates simultaneously with the indoor unit. When the air conditioning system is in an on-state and detection information of the human sensor indicates absence, the indoor unit transmits an absence signal to the remote controller. The remote controller that has received the absence signal transmits an absence-off period signal including absence-off period control information set in advance to the indoor unit. The indoor unit that has received the absence-off period signal is controlled according to the absence-off period control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventor: Hiroaki MURAMATSU
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Patent number: 9022373Abstract: The slide operation-type dovetail groove sliding stage may include a sliding lock screw for locking sliding of a sliding component, by causing the screw to abut on an inverted triangle-shaped protrusion, provided on a sidewall of a sliding component approximately parallel to a sliding direction and coupled to the sliding component, to bring the protrusion into contact with a dovetail of the fixed component and by tightening the screw. The sliding lock screw may be used as a sliding adjustment screw for performing fine adjustment of a degree of sliding of the sliding component with respect to the fixed component by adjusting an amount of rotation of the screw which abuts on the protrusion to bring it into contact with the dovetail of the sliding component, and a driving means which an operator grasps to perform an operation of sliding the sliding component to a desired position.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Miruc Optical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroaki Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20150054935Abstract: A portable terminal adaptor for a microscope may be provided in a microscope to capture an image observed under the microscope by means of a camera of a portable terminal. The portable terminal adaptor may include a lens-barrel attachment fixed to a lens-barrel of the microscope, a portable-terminal placing base having a first imaging hole through which the image observed under the microscope passes, the portable terminal being placed on the portable-terminal placing base, and a portable-terminal holder holding the portable terminal placed on the portable-terminal placing base.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: MIRUC OPTICAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroaki MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20140090496Abstract: The slide operation-type dovetail groove sliding stage may include a sliding lock screw for locking sliding of a sliding component, by causing the screw to abut on an inverted triangle-shaped protrusion, provided on a sidewall of a sliding component approximately parallel to a sliding direction and coupled to the sliding component, to bring the protrusion into contact with a dovetail of the fixed component and by tightening the screw. The sliding lock screw may be used as a sliding adjustment screw for performing fine adjustment of a degree of sliding of the sliding component with respect to the fixed component by adjusting an amount of rotation of the screw which abuts on the protrusion to bring it into contact with the dovetail of the sliding component, and a driving means which an operator grasps to perform an operation of sliding the sliding component to a desired position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: MIRUC OPTICAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroaki Muramatsu
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Patent number: 8496528Abstract: A controller characterized with a function for adjusting the controller to provide an optimal operational feel to a player comprises a main body configured to be held by the player performing a game, a plurality of operational keys arranged on the main body, a pair of analog stick means arranged on the main body, a switch arranged in contact with the plurality of operational keys and a plurality of adjustment parts for adjusting key stroke of the plurality of operational keys. The plurality of operational keys is configured to be operated by a finger of the player. The plurality of plurality of operational keys, the switch and the plurality of adjustment parts are configured to be adjusted by the player holding the controller so as to achieve an optimal operational feel, according to the player's preferences and game characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Inventor: Hiroaki Muramatsu
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Patent number: D718354Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Miruc Optical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroaki Muramatsu
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Patent number: D718355Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Miruc Optical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroaki Muramatsu