Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Sugiyama

Hirokazu Sugiyama 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: 20240106258
    Abstract: A power supply control apparatus includes: a current supply switching section that switches between a current restricting state, in which a current to be supplied from a storage battery to electrical equipment is restricted to a predetermined upper limit current or less, and a current non-restricting state, in which a current exceeding the upper limit current is allowed to be supplied from the storage battery to the electrical equipment; and a current supply control section that executes current restriction processing to cause the current supply switching section to set up the current restricting state before an engine is started, the engine having been stopped by an idling stop function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kanahara, Yuki Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11833698
    Abstract: A vision system includes a robot body and a robot operation manipulator that receives inputs from an operator to manipulate the robot body. The vision system also includes a left-eye and right-eye cameras, and a display that displays parallax images for an operator. The vision system further includes an area operation manipulator that receives inputs by the operator to specify a target area to be seen three-dimensionally through the parallax images displayed on the display. The target area is located in an absolute space and is included in a portion of a field of view common between the left-eye and right-eye cameras. The vision system further includes a first controller that controls operation of the robot body, and a second controller that extracts and displays, as parallax images, images corresponding to the target area from a left-eye and right-eye capturing images captured by the left-eye and right-eye cameras, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Kamon, Hirokazu Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20230239439
    Abstract: An imaging system includes: an unmanned flight vehicle; an imager that is mounted on the unmanned flight vehicle and takes an image of a robot which performs work with respect to a target object; a display structure which is located away from the unmanned flight vehicle and displays the image taken by the imager to a user who manipulates the robot; and circuitry which controls operations of the imager and the unmanned flight vehicle. The circuitry acquires operation related information that is information related to an operation of the robot. The circuitry moves the unmanned flight vehicle such that a position and direction of the imager are changed so as to correspond to the operation related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230131540
    Abstract: A compound that helps achieve a high voltage holding ratio (VHR) of a liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal composition that contains this compound, and a liquid crystal display element made with this liquid crystal composition. More specifically, a compound represented by general formula (Y), which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s). A liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (Y), each of which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s). A liquid crystal display element made with a liquid crystal composition that contains one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (Y), each of which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi INOUE, Daiki NORO, Yutaka KADOMOTO, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Noriyuki SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230028457
    Abstract: A robot system includes a robot installed in a work area and controlled by a second control device, a 3D camera operated by an operator, a sensor that is disposed in a manipulation area that is a space different from the work area, and wirelessly detects position information and posture information on the 3D camera, a display, and a first control device. The first control device acquires image information on a workpiece imaged by the 3D camera, acquires, from the sensor, the position information and the posture information when the workpiece is imaged by the 3D camera, displays the acquired image information on the display, forms a three-dimensional model of the workpiece based on the image information, and the acquired position information and posture information, displays the formed three-dimensional model on the display, and outputs first data that is data of the formed three-dimensional model to the second control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Yuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230010975
    Abstract: A robot system (100) of the present disclosure includes a robot (101) installed in a workarea (201), an interface (102), a display (105), and a control device (111). When operating the robot (101) to perform a kind of work defined beforehand to a workpiece (300) based on manipulational command information on the robot (101) inputted from the interface (102), the control device (111) displays on the display (105) a spatial relationship between the workpiece (300) and the robot (101) in a state where the workpiece and the robot are seen from a direction different from a direction in which an operator looks at the robot (101) from a manipulation area (202) that is a space different from the workarea (201), based on three-dimensional model information on the workpiece (300), three-dimensional model information on the robot (101), and the manipulational command information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Hidenori TANI
  • Patent number: 11422410
    Abstract: Provided are a substrate that can exert an anchoring force causing liquid crystal molecules to be vertically aligned and a liquid crystal display device. The substrate of the present invention is to be used in contact with a liquid crystal composition containing liquid crystal molecules and an alignment aid having a polar group and having the function of causing the liquid crystal molecules to be aligned spontaneously. The substrate includes an insulating film having a contact surface to be in contact with the liquid crystal composition. The static contact angle of water on the contact surface at 25° C. is 70° or less and/or the surface free energy of the contact surface is 50 mN/m or more. The substrate is preferably a substrate in direct contact with the liquid crystal composition with no alignment film therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Kanda, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Shinichi Hirata
  • Publication number: 20220184814
    Abstract: A robot system according to the present disclosure includes a robot installed in a work area, a manipulator configured to be gripped by an operator and manipulate the robot, a sensor disposed at a manipulation area and configured to wirelessly detect positional information and posture information on the manipulator, and a control device which calculates a locus of the manipulator based on the positional information and the posture information on the manipulator detected by the sensor, and operates the robot on real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo HASEGAWA, Tetsuya Yoshida, Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Tomofumi OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220128867
    Abstract: Provided are a substrate that can exert an anchoring force causing liquid crystal molecules to be vertically aligned and a liquid crystal display device. The substrate of the present invention is to be used in contact with a liquid crystal composition containing liquid crystal molecules and an alignment aid having a polar group and having the function of causing the liquid crystal molecules to be aligned spontaneously. The substrate includes an insulating film having a contact surface to be in contact with the liquid crystal composition. The static contact angle of water on the contact surface at 25° C. is 70° or less and/or the surface free energy of the contact surface is 50 mN/m or more. The substrate is preferably a substrate in direct contact with the liquid crystal composition with no alignment film therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Kanda, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Shinichi Hirata
  • Patent number: 11312906
    Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition excellent in vertical alignment and compatibility and to provide a liquid crystal display device produced using the same. The problem is solved by a liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more kinds of self-aligning polymerizable monomers and one or two or more kinds of polymerizable monomers (or polymerizable compounds) having a specific chemical structure, and a liquid crystal display device produced using the same, specifically a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I) and a spontaneously aligning monomer which has a chemical structure different from that of the polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I), and has a polar group, and a liquid crystal display device containing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Mamiya, Yuichi Inoue, Masaomi Kimura, Junko Yamamoto, Masanao Hayashi, Hirokazu Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20210323165
    Abstract: A robot system includes a robot body having a working part, a robot manipulation device used by an operator to manipulate the robot body, left and right-eye cameras configured to capture left and right-eye capturing images of a work area where the working part performs the work, a stereoscopic display unit configured to display parallax images seen three-dimensionally by the operator with both eyes, an area manipulation device operated by the operator to specify a stereoscopic vision target area to be seen three-dimensionally on the display unit, in an absolute space in a field of view common between the cameras, a robot controlling module that controls operation of the robot body according to manipulation of the robot manipulation device, a stereoscopic display controlling module that extracts images corresponding to the target area, from the left and right-eye capturing images, and display the extracted images on the stereoscopic display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200224098
    Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition excellent in vertical alignment and compatibility and to provide a liquid crystal display device produced using the same. The problem is solved by a liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more kinds of self-aligning polymerizable monomers and one or two or more kinds of polymerizable monomers (or polymerizable compounds) having a specific chemical structure, and a liquid crystal display device produced using the same, specifically a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I) and a spontaneously aligning monomer which has a chemical structure different from that of the polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I), and has a polar group, and a liquid crystal display device containing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Mamiya, Yuichi Inoue, Masaomi Kimura, Junko Yamamoto, Masanao Hayashi, Hirokazu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 10616394
    Abstract: A cordless telephone that establishes a call with a telephone of a destination via a base unit includes a controller and a radio unit. The controller modulates control data for controlling radio communication and voice data to be transmitted to the telephone, and stores a modulation control signal of the control data and a modulation voice signal of the voice data in a half slot of a Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) system. The radio unit transmits, by radio, the half slot to the base unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishihara, Akira Shibuta, Hirokazu Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20190387090
    Abstract: A cordless telephone that establishes a call with a telephone of a destination via a base unit includes a controller and a radio unit. The controller modulates control data for controlling radio communication and voice data to be transmitted to the telephone, and stores a modulation control signal of the control data and a modulation voice signal of the voice data in a half slot of a Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) system. The radio unit transmits, by radio, the half slot to the base unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Akira SHIBUTA, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190203309
    Abstract: This H section includes, as a chemical composition, C, Si, Mn, Nb, V, Ti, and N; in which the H section includes, as a metallographic structure, ferrite of 60 area % to less than 100 area %, an average grain size of this ferrite is 1 ?m to 30 ?m, a thickness of a flange is 20 mm to 140 mm, tensile yield stress is 385 MPa to 530 MPa, and Charpy absorbed energy at ?20° C. is 100 J or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki MIZOGUCHI, Kazutoshi ICHIKAWA, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Tetsuya SEIKE
  • Patent number: 10280476
    Abstract: An H-section steel has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a Mg-containing oxide having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.005 ?m to 0.5 ?m is contained at a total number density of 100 pieces/mm2 to 5000 pieces/mm2, a thickness of a flange is 100 mm to 150 mm, at a strength evaluation portion which is at a ? position from a surface of the flange in a length direction and at a ¼ position from the surface in a thickness direction, a fraction of bainite in a steel structure is 80% or more, and the average prior austenite grain size is 70 ?m or more, and at a toughness evaluation portion which is at a ½ position from the surface of the flange in the length direction and at a ¾ position from the surface of the flange in the thickness direction, the average prior austenite grain size in a steel structure is 200 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Mizoguchi, Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Kazuaki Mitsuyasu, Hirokazu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 10149297
    Abstract: Data is transferred between a DECT terminal and an LTE base station. A base unit includes a DECT communication unit and an LTE communication unit, the DECT communication unit performing DECT communication with a DECT terminal, and the LTE communication unit transmitting and receiving data with the DECT communication unit and performing LTE communication with an LTE carrier gateway through an LTE base station. The DECT communication unit, in a case where an adjacent frequency bandwidth that is adjacent to one of DECT communication sub-bands is used in the LTE communication, controls the DECT communication to be performed by using the other sub-band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishihara, Akira Shibuta, Shinji Ikegami, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Takashi Enoki, Kazuhide Shibata, Masayuki Nagano
  • Patent number: 10060002
    Abstract: An H-section steel has a predetermined chemical composition in which Ti oxides having a grain size of 0.01 ?m to 3.0 ?m are included at a density of 30 pieces/mm2 or more, a thickness of a flange is 100 mm to 150 mm, an area fraction of bainite at a ? position from a surface of the flange in a length direction and at a ¼ position from the surface thereof in a thickness direction is 80% or more, a yield strength or 0.2% proof stress is 450 MPa or more, and a tensile strength is 550 MPa or more, a Charpy absorbed energy at 21° C. at a ½ position from the surface of the flange in the length direction and at a ¾ position from the surface thereof in the thickness direction is 100 J or more, and an average austenite grain size is 50 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Mizoguchi, Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Kazuaki Mitsuyasu, Hirokazu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9863022
    Abstract: This H-beam steel has a composition including C, Si, Mn, Cu, Ni, V, Al, Ti, B, N, and O, and further including at least one of Mo and Nb, in which Ceq obtained in Equation 1 described below falls in a range of 0.37 to 0.50, the thickness of a flange falls in a range of 100 to 150 mm, and the area fraction of bainite at a depth of one quarter of the thickness of the flange from the external surface of the flange is 60% or more. Ceq=C+Mn/6+(Mo+V)/5+(Ni+Cu)/15??Equation 1, where C, Mn, Mo, V, Ni, and Cu represent the amount of each element contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Masaki Mizoguchi, Kazuaki Mitsuyasu, Hirokazu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9834931
    Abstract: An H-section steel has a predetermined chemical composition in which a thickness of a flange is 100 mm to 150 mm, at a strength evaluation position an area fraction of bainite in a steel structure is 80% or more, yield strength or 0.2% proof strength is 450 MPa or more, tensile strength is 550 MPa or more and 680 MPa or less, at a toughness evaluation position an average austenite grain size in the steel structure is 150 ?m or less, and (Mg, Mn)S having a particle size of 0.005 ?m to 0.5 ?m is included at a density of 1.0×105 pieces/mm2 to 1.0×107 pieces/mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Mizoguchi, Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Manabu Hoshino, Kazuaki Mitsuyasu, Hirokazu Sugiyama