Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Inoue

Hiroshi Inoue 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: 20240150367
    Abstract: A compound of the following general formula [I]: wherein each symbol has the same meaning as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, and a pharmaceutical use of the same in treating organ transplant rejection, graft versus host reaction after transplantation, autoimmune disease, allergic disease and chronic myeloproliferative disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Noji, Makoto Shiozaki, Tomoya Miura, Yoshinori Hara, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Katsuya Maeda, Akimi Hori, Masafumi Inoue, Yasunori Hase
  • Publication number: 20240149741
    Abstract: A battery transport support device (10) that comprises: a communication unit (11) that acquires charging batter information from a charging device (20), the charging batter information including identification information for batteries (BAT) being charged by the charging device (20); a specification unit (12) that references a storage unit (14) that stores identification information for users in association with identification information for batteries (BAT) that belong to the users and, on the basis of the charging battery information, specifies the number of batteries (BAT) included in the batteries (BAT) being charged by the charging device (20) that belong to one of the users; and a derivation unit (13) that, on the basis of the number of batteries (BAT) that belong to the one user and the number of batteries (BAT) that can be carried by transport devices, derives a transport device needed to transport the batteries (BAT) that belong to the one user to a transport destination that corresponds to the one u
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro NAKAMURA, Yusuke NAKAJIMA, Michiyo INOUE, Hiroshi MORIYAMA, Kentaro SUGIMURA
  • Patent number: 11979255
    Abstract: when packets are received via any one of the plurality of inflow VRFs provided for respective route patterns, a chaining edge router (10) redirects the packets to a chain VRF corresponding to the inflow VRF. The chaining edge router (10) transfers the packets redirected to the chain VRF to respective functions via a communication path constructed using a VLAN in advance according to a route pattern corresponding to the chain VRF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takeaki Nishioka, Hiroshi Osawa, Satomi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11977426
    Abstract: A control device includes a determination means that determines, when a request is received in which a power amount that is requested to be supplied, and an energy source or a type of the energy source of the power amount are specified, whether or not a supply of electric power that satisfies the energy source or the type of the energy source and the power amount that are specified in the request is possible by referring to a table that manages a stored power amount stored in a storage battery for each energy source or for each type of the energy source, and a control means that causes the power amount specified in the request to be discharged from the storage battery when it is determined by the determination means that the supply of electric power is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Hidetoshi Takada
  • Publication number: 20240143311
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: one or more processors configured to acquire vehicle configuration information including information on an electronic control unit (ECU) mounted on a vehicle and transmit the vehicle configuration information to a server; and acquire software distributed from the server; and a communication module configured to transmit the software acquired by the first acquisition unit to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240144330
    Abstract: A rental fee calculation device for calculating a rental fee for renting a battery to be rented when the battery is rented to a user via a battery storage apparatus configured to allow the battery to be attached and detached includes: a first fee calculation unit configured to calculate a first fee based on a rental period from when the battery is removed from the battery storage apparatus to when the battery is returned; a second fee calculation unit configured to calculate a second fee based on a used power amount discharged by the battery during the rental period; a rental fee calculation unit configured to calculate the rental fee based on the first fee and the second fee; and an input and output unit functioning as an output unit configured to output rental fee information indicating the calculated rental fee.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi MORIYAMA, Kentaro SUGIMURA, Michiyo INOUE, Kotaro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240142323
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a force sensor on a substrate, a light emitter to emit light from over the substrate, a light receiver to receive light on the substrate and detect proximity of an object, and an elastic member made of an elastic material and including a first portion covering the force sensor, a second portion extending around the light emitter and the light receiver, through at least spaces between the light emitter, the light receiver, and the force sensor, and a third portion coupling the first portion and the second portion to each other. The third portion in the elastic member has a lower height from the substrate than the first and second portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi WATANABE, Kohei SUGAHARA, Koichi INOUE, Takatoshi KATO
  • Patent number: 11967863
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine. This rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor, and the rotor includes: a rotor core having formed therein a magnet insertion hole group; and a permanent magnet group. In the rotor core, a first magnetic slit and a second magnetic slit are formed. In the second magnetic slit, a first magnet magnetic flux guide path connecting a first q-axis magnetic path and a second q-axis magnetic path is arranged. When an angle between a straight line passing through a first intersecting point and a radial center point and a straight line passing through a second intersecting point and the radial center point is set as ?1, the number of pole pairs is set as P, a natural number is set as m1, and n1 is set as a natural number smaller than m1, the following expression: ?1=2?×n1÷{P×(2m1?1)} [rad] is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240126535
    Abstract: A vehicle including an electronic control unit configured to update software, the vehicle includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with user equipment; and a control unit configured to request the user equipment to display on a display unit of the user equipment, a first operation unit that is used when a user accepts download of software distributed from a server in a case where the software is downloaded to the vehicle via the user equipment, and a charge level of a battery of the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240127326
    Abstract: In a battery rental management device for controlling a battery storage apparatus provided in a predetermined management area where a worker works and configured to allow a battery to be rented to be attached and detached, in response to receiving a rental request for the battery which includes identification information of a desiring user, a storage unit configured to store identification information of an authorized user who has an authority to use the battery is referred to, and whether the desiring user is the authorized user is determined based on the identification information of the desiring user, and the desiring user is permitted to rent the battery based on a determination that the desiring user is the authorized user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michiyo INOUE, Kotaro NAKAMURA, Hiroshi MORIYAMA, Kentaro SUGIMURA
  • Patent number: 11961710
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a balun having a first unbalanced terminal, a second unbalanced terminal, a first balanced terminal, and a second balanced terminal, a grounded vacuum container, a first electrode electrically connected to the first balanced terminal, a second electrode electrically connected to the second balanced terminal, an impedance matching circuit, a first power supply connected to the balun via the impedance matching circuit, and configured to supply a high frequency to the first electrode via the impedance matching circuit and the balun, a low-pass filter, and a second power supply configured to supply a voltage to the first electrode via the low-pass filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Inoue, Masaharu Tanabe, Kazunari Sekiya, Hiroshi Sasamoto, Tatsunori Sato, Nobuaki Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20240118885
    Abstract: User equipment includes one or more processors configured to: receive data on updating software on an in-vehicle electronic control unit (ECU); transmit the received data to a vehicle; and display progress of a first update process when the first update process is performed. The first update process is a process of updating the software on the in-vehicle ECU using the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240120870
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis device includes: a feature quantity calculation unit which calculates a plurality of feature quantities from the time-series data of the current values; an operation mode determination unit which determines an operation mode of a compressor on the basis of the load torque and the drive frequency; a feature quantity distribution generation unit which generates a feature quantity distribution from values of the plurality of feature quantities; a reference region generation unit which generates a reference region on the basis of the feature quantity distribution that is obtained in a normal case; and a determination unit which compares the feature quantity distribution that is obtained during an abnormality diagnosis and the reference region corresponding to the operation mode that is applied during the abnormality diagnosis, to determine whether an abnormality is present or absent in either of the compressor and the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi INOUE, Ken HIRAKIDA, Makoto KANEMARU, Takaharu NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240118886
    Abstract: Mobile equipment includes one or more first processors and a communication module. The one or more first processors are configured to generate a package including update software and rollback data. The one or more first processors are configured to control the communication module to send the package to a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Publication number: 20240118882
    Abstract: A server that distributes software, includes one or more processors configured to: classify a plurality of vehicles that is software distribution targets into a first vehicle and a second vehicle; and prioritize software distribution to the second vehicle over software distribution to the first vehicle. The first vehicle is configured to wirelessly communicate with the server, and receive the software distributed by the server directly from the server. The second vehicle is configured to communicate with mobile equipment that wirelessly communicates with the server, and receive the software distributed by the server via the mobile equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Patent number: 11954512
    Abstract: A control system (10) includes, for each type of Virtual Network Function (VNF), a VNF compatibility condition indicating a condition of allocation of resources by which the VNF corresponding to the type is allowed to coexist with other VNFs in an identical computer, and resource usage information indicating resources in use by the VNF in the computer and unused resources. The control system (10) includes a VNF deploy control unit (14) referencing, in a case of receiving an instruction to additionally install a VNF, the type of the VNF to be additionally installed, the VNF compatibility condition, and the resource usage information to determine, from among the unused resources, resources allocated to the VNF to be additionally installed, and a resource allocation processing unit allocating the determined resources to the VNF to be additionally installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Satomi Inoue, Masayuki Nishiki, Hiroshi Osawa, Takayuki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20240099553
    Abstract: Provided is an endoluminal device system including: an elongated and flexible endoluminal device; a wire that is disposed in the endoluminal device; a first sensor that detects tension of the wire; a second sensor that detects displacement of the wire; a driving device capable of pulling the wire; and a processor. The processor is configured to: cause the driving device to execute a relaxing operation for relaxing the wire, acquire the tension and the displacement of the wire during the relaxing operation, which are detected by the first sensor and the second sensor, respectively, and adjust a control parameter of the endoluminal device based on a rate of change in the tension with respect to the displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Noriaki YAMANAKA, Shota SAWADA, Hiroshi ASHIBA, Saki ISHIZAWA, Shun INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240103839
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: one or more memories; and one or more processors configured to receive, from a vehicle, pre-update software of a single-bank computer mounted on the vehicle; and transmit, to the vehicle, update software acquired from a server after the received pre-update software is stored in the one or more memories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi INOUE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Nana KIKUIRE
  • Patent number: 11939033
    Abstract: A fuel management system including a fuel pump and a flow meter to transfer and control remaining amounts fuel among fuel tanks mounted on a hull of a marine vessel includes first fuel flow channels corresponding to the fuel tanks to connect the fuel tanks to an upstream side of the fuel pump and the flow meter, and second fuel flow channels corresponding to the fuel tanks to connect the fuel tanks to a downstream side of the fuel pump and the flow meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11932921
    Abstract: An object is to provide an alloy composition that has a sufficient melting point for casting of an aluminum alloy, also has high hardness, and can suppress an occurrence of galling. The alloy composition of the present invention includes: a Mo—Cr-based dendritic structure 3; and a Ni—Al-based interdendritic structure 5 that fills a periphery of the Mo—Cr-based dendritic structure 3. The alloy composition of the present invention can adopt a chemical composition I in which when Mo+Cr+Ni+Al=100 at. % holds, Ni+Al=15 to 50 at. % and Mo+Cr=50 to 85 at. % hold; or a chemical composition II in which Ni+Al=40 to 70 at. % and Mo+Cr=30 to 60 at. % hold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuho Koseki, Kenichi Inoue, Hiroshi Shiratori, Kazuya Shinagawa