Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Aoki

Hiroshi Aoki 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).

  • Patent number: 11965576
    Abstract: A damper device includes a first rotor, a second rotor, an elastic coupling part elastically coupling the first and second rotors in a rotational direction, and a hysteresis generating mechanism. The hysteresis generating mechanism generates a hysteresis torque and includes a friction member. The friction member is configured to make frictional contact with the first or second rotor. The friction member does not make frictional contact with the first and second rotors in a first torsion angular range where torsion is caused from a neutral condition to a first side and a second side in the rotational direction. The friction member makes frictional contact with the first or second rotor so as to generate a hysteresis torque in a second torsion angular range exceeding the first torsion angular range. The friction member is set in a neutral position by actuation of the elastic coupling part in the neutral condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: EXEDY Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Uehara, Masahiko Aoki
  • Patent number: 11964491
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a concave portion. The concave portion has an opening, first and second side walls, and a bottom wall, and the bottom wall has a tilted surface tilted. The tilted surface is provided with a cartridge side terminal group. The first side wall is provided with a first restriction portion which restricts movements in a +Z axis direction and a +X axis direction of an apparatus side terminal unit, and the second side wall is provided with a second restriction portion which restricts movements in the +Z axis direction and a ?X axis direction of an apparatus side terminal unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Aoki, Hiroshi Satoh
  • Patent number: 11968695
    Abstract: A communication device includes a processor that selects a first resource such that the first resource that is used to transmit data by the communication device does not overlap with a second resource that is used to transmit data by another communication device located in vicinity of the communication device and a transmitter that transmits the data by using the first resource selected by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Jianming Wu, Hiroshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11933543
    Abstract: A heat sink includes: a container having a cavity inside and a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a working fluid encapsulated in the cavity; and a steam flow path in the cavity where the working fluid in a gas phase flows, the first surface having a flat part and a protruding part projecting from the flat part in an external direction, causing the container to have a flat portion and a protruding portion projecting from the flat portion in the external direction, an inner space of the protruding portion of the container being in communication with an inner space of the flat portion, causing the cavity to be formed, and a first heat radiating fin being provided on an exterior of the flat part of the first surface and a second heat radiating fin being provided on an exterior of the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenya Kawabata, Masahiro Meguro, Ryo Tsubata, Hirofumi Aoki, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Hiroshi Sakai, Hideaki Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20230268783
    Abstract: Provided is a stator core of a rotating electrical machine in which a core back and teeth are formed by laminating a plurality of thin steel plates with an adhesive interposed therebetween. The stator core includes a first stator core that is formed by applying the adhesive to a first region covering the core back and the teeth between the plurality of thin steel plates, and a second stator core that is formed by applying the adhesive to a second region, which has an area smaller than an area of the first region, between the plurality of thin steel plates. The first stator core is disposed at least at one end of the stator core in a laminating direction of the thin steel plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Satoshi YAMAMURA, Shuhei YAMASHITA, Hiroshi AOKI, Akihito TOYA, Mohdbasir ZULAIKA, Hiromitsu OKAMOTO, Zhi JING, Akira TOBA
  • Publication number: 20230135043
    Abstract: A rearward image displaying device includes an imaging portion configured to generate a captured image by imaging, through a camera, to the rear of a vehicle; a first generating portion configured to generate a first rearward image by extracting an image from a region of a portion of the captured image; an incline detecting portion configured to detect an incline angle of the vehicle; a second generating portion configured to extract an image from a region that is another portion of the captured image, based on the incline angle, to generate a second rearward image that is different from the first rearward image; and a display controlling portion configured to displaying the first rearward image and the second rearward image on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20230051479
    Abstract: A video display device includes performs a first Retinex process on an inputted video and a second Retinex process, which is different from the first Retinex process, on the inputted video. A video composing unit is configured to compose a video processed by the first Retinex processing unit and a video processed by the second Retinex processing unit in accordance with a feature of the inputted video, which is then displayed. In a process of composing the video processed by the first and second Retinex processing units, the video composing unit is configured to perform a process of converting a luminance level for each pixel so that more output luminance levels are assigned to a luminance band having a large frequency distribution to improve visibility of the video. A gain of the luminance level converting process is varied in accordance with an average pixel value level of the inputted video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi AOKI, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Satomi FURUHATA, Eriko YABE, Atsushi KATO, Naoya OKA
  • Publication number: 20230009899
    Abstract: A stator, of a rotating electrical machine, includes a core including a plurality of teeth and a slot formed between the teeth, and a plurality of coils inserted into the slot and fixed with varnish, in which the plurality of coils is disposed side by side in a radial direction in the slot, and the varnish is most applied to at least an innermost diameter side coil among the plurality of coils in the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicants: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki NOTO, Hiroshi AOKI, Shunsuke ISOGAI, Keiichiro KASHIWABARA, Norifumi YASUDA, Tsutomu YOSHINARI
  • Patent number: 11522329
    Abstract: A terminal-wire bonding method includes: arranging a first core at a second end of a first terminal-wire having a first terminal connected with the first core exposed from an insulating sheath at a first end, onto a side of an anvil and a second core at a second end of a second terminal-wire having a second terminal connected with the second core exposed, at a first end, from an insulating sheath longer than the insulating sheath of the first terminal-wire, onto a side of a horn; and bonding the first core at the second end and the second core at the second end together by ultrasonic bonding between the horn and the anvil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Sato, Hiroshi Aoki, Naoki Ito, Yasunori Nabeta
  • Patent number: 11458934
    Abstract: In a cleaning nozzle unit including an inner liquid passage guiding a cleaning solution, an inner air passage feeding air to an outlet of the inner liquid passage, and an injection port that mixes the cleaning solution guided by the inner liquid passage and the air fed by the inner air passage and injects a mixture of the cleaning solution and the air to a surface of an object, a plurality of the injection ports are provided, are disposed at predetermined intervals and inject the mixtures in directions such that the mixtures hits each other in the surface at a substantially predetermined angle in a front view of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Morita, Hideyuki Tamura, Tetsuo Hata, Nobuhiro Sato, Nobuhiko Mochiji, Hiroshi Shojima, Norihiko Nakano, Hiroshi Aoki, Yukari Akiyama, Naohiro Noguchi, Hiroko Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11296747
    Abstract: An information processing device and method, a transmitting device and method, and a receiving device and method are disclosed for multiplexing transmission signals in the same channel. In one example, transmission signals are generated by performing chirp modulation on data to be transmitted, and the transmission signals are multiplexed by shifting transmission timings of a plurality of transmission signals in a time direction and transmitting the transmission signals. Further, a plurality of chirp-modulated transmission signals which are multiplexed by shifting the transmission timing in the time direction and transmitted from a transmission side are received, and the plurality of received transmission signals are dechirped at timings according to the transmission timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Sachio Iida, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20210368625
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, methods, and methods of making devices for facilitating condition monitoring of machinery allowing improve efficiencies and increased lifetime of the machinery while also reducing maintenance. In one embodiment, a device includes an enclosure assembly and a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly. The enclosure assembly includes a cap, a base mechanically coupled with the cap, and a support bracket mechanically coupled with the base. The PCB assembly includes a processor, a memory coupled with the processor, a first sensor electrically coupled with the processor, a second sensor electrically coupled with the processor, and a communication interface electrically coupled with the processor. The device, when installed, may generally form a shape of a tapered cylinder having a maximum height of 2.1 inches and a maximum diameter of 1.2 inches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Kotaro MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki MATSUDA, Hiroshi AOKI, Masaru TERADA, Ovel EMERSON, Paul A. LOWE
  • Publication number: 20210258944
    Abstract: A communication device includes a processor that selects a first resource such that the first resource that is used to transmit data by the communication device does not overlap with a second resource that is used to transmit data by another communication device located in vicinity of the communication device and a transmitter that transmits the data by using the first resource selected by the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Jianming Wu, Hiroshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11045145
    Abstract: A buckle includes a main body connectable to a tongue attached to a seatbelt of a vehicle, a sensor disposed in the main body or in a support member that supports the main body, the sensor configured to produce a sensor output signal whose waveform changes in response to movement of an object situated in a seat of the vehicle, a detection unit configured to detect, from the sensor output signal produced by the sensor, vital-sign signal components indicative of a vital sign that is at least either respiration or pulse beat, a generation unit configured to evaluate reliability of the vital-sign signal components detected by the detection unit and to generate vital-sign information about the vital sign from a reliable one of the vital-sign signal components, and an output unit configured to output the vital-sign information generated by the generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Joyson Safety Systems Japan K.K.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11012091
    Abstract: LDPC coding is executed using a check matrix of an LDPC code whose code length is 736 bits and whose code rate is 1/4, and modulation is executed using a repetition unit that has an LDPC code obtained by the LDPC coding, repeatedly arranged therein. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits, the parity matrix portion has a stepwise structure, the information matrix portion is indicated by a check matrix initial value table, and the check matrix initial value table is a predetermined table indicating positions of elements of “1” of the information matrix portion for each eight columns. This technique is applicable to, for example, information transmission using the LDPC code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Masanori Sato, Nabil Loghin, Toshihiro Fujiki, Ryoji Ikegaya, Hiroyuki Kamata, Yusuke Yoneyama, Kimiya Kato, Akira Endo, Sawako Kiriyama, Hiroyuki Mita, Hideshi Motoyama, Hiroshi Aoki, Daisuke Kawakami
  • Patent number: 10998701
    Abstract: A wire bonding method includes: arranging a first core including a plurality of strands exposed from an insulating sheath of a first wire, onto a side of an anvil and a second core including a plurality of strands exposed from an insulating sheath of a second wire, onto a side of a horn for ultrasonic bonding, the second core being larger in sectional area than the first core; and bonding the first core and the second core together by ultrasonic bonding between the horn and the anvil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Sato, Hiroshi Aoki, Naoki Ito, Yasunori Nabeta
  • Publication number: 20200307524
    Abstract: In a cleaning nozzle unit including an inner liquid passage guiding a cleaning solution, an inner air passage feeding air to an outlet of the inner liquid passage, and an injection port that mixes the cleaning solution guided by the inner liquid passage and the air fed by the inner air passage and injects a mixture of the cleaning solution and the air to a surface of an object, a plurality of the injection ports are provided, are disposed at predetermined intervals and inject the mixtures in directions such that the mixtures hits each other in the surface at a substantially predetermined angle in a front view of the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji MORITA, Hideyuki TAMURA, Tetsuo HATA, Nobuhiro SATO, Nobuhiko MOCHIJI, Hiroshi SHOJIMA, Norihiko NAKANO, Hiroshi AOKI, Yukari AKIYAMA, Naohiro NOGUCHI, Hiroko TSUTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20200244305
    Abstract: An information processing device and method, a transmitting device and method, and a receiving device and method are disclosed for multiplexing transmission signals in the same channel. In one example, transmission signals are generated by performing chirp modulation on data to be transmitted, and the transmission signals are multiplexed by shifting transmission timings of a plurality of transmission signals in a time direction and transmitting the transmission signals. Further, a plurality of chirp-modulated transmission signals which are multiplexed by shifting the transmission timing in the time direction and transmitted from a transmission side are received, and the plurality of received transmission signals are dechirped at timings according to the transmission timings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Sachio Iida, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 10679804
    Abstract: A drip-proof structure of an electronic component includes a rotary body that includes a main body as an operating portion, a first case rotatably supporting the rotary body, a second case that supports the other side surface of the main body of the rotary body and houses, together with the first case, the rotary body, a sliding piece that changes its position to follow rotation of the rotary body, a circuit board that outputs an output signal corresponding to the rotational position of the rotary body, a cover that covers the first and second cases and the circuit board, and first and second drip-proof members arranged between the first case and the cover and between the second case and the cover, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Yoshiharu Tsukahara, Satoshi Kuwabara, Naoki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10659101
    Abstract: An information processing device and method, a transmitting device and method, and a receiving device and method are disclosed for multiplexing transmission signals in the same channel. In one example, transmission signals are generated by performing chirp modulation on data to be transmitted, and the transmission signals are multiplexed by shifting transmission timings of a plurality of transmission signals in a time direction and transmitting the transmission signals. Further, a plurality of chirp-modulated transmission signals which are multiplexed by shifting the transmission timing in the time direction and transmitted from a transmission side are received, and the plurality of received transmission signals are dechirped at timings according to the transmission timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Sachio Iida, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Aoki