Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kato
Hiroshi Kato 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: 20240142323Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi WATANABE, Kohei SUGAHARA, Koichi INOUE, Takatoshi KATO
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Publication number: 20240140501Abstract: A brake disc includes an annular disc body and fins. The fins are radially disposed on a back surface of the disc body. At least one of the fins have a bolt hole at a central portion of the fin in a radial direction of the disc body. The disc body includes an inner circumferential portion. The inner circumferential portion is positioned inward from the bolt hole in the radial direction. The inner circumferential portion decreases in thickness as the inner circumferential portion extends inward in the radial direction. The fins each include a top surface and a convex portion. The convex portion protrudes inward from an imaginary plane in the radial direction. The imaginary plane passes an end portion of the top surface and an inner circumferential edge of the back surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi NOGAMI, Takanori KATO, Kenji TAMURA, Naruo MIYABE, Seiji KANAMORI, Yuzuka KITAZAWA, Masahiro KAMIYA
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Publication number: 20240132883Abstract: Disclosed are methods of RNA-triggered protein cleavage by the CRISPR Cas7-11-Csx29 complex. A guide RNA specifically hybridizes to a RNA target, and Csx29 cleaves Csx30 when Cas7-11:Csx29 complex binds to the target RNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Omar Abudayyeh, Jonathan Gootenberg, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Kazuki Kato, Cian Schmitt-Ulms, Kaiyi Jiang
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Patent number: 11965899Abstract: Disclosed is a calibration curve setting method for setting a calibration curve, the calibration curve setting method including: creating a first calibration curve on the basis of a measurement value obtained by measuring a standard sample for which a concentration of a predetermined component is known; creating a second calibration curve by correcting the created first calibration curve; displaying a screen configured to support an operator for restoring the second calibration curve to the first calibration curve; receiving an instruction of restoring the second calibration curve to the first calibration curve; and displaying the first calibration curve upon receiving the instruction of restoring.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Akihito Kato, Hiroshi Kurono
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Patent number: 11967641Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, first to third nitride regions, and first and second insulating films. The first nitride region includes Alx1Ga1?x1N, and includes first and second partial regions, a third partial region between the first and second partial regions, a fourth partial region between the first and third partial regions, and a fifth partial region between the third and second partial regions. The first nitride region includes first to fifth partial regions. The second nitride region includes Alx2Ga1?x2N, and sixth and seventh partial regions. At least a portion of the third electrode is between the sixth and seventh partial regions. The first insulating film includes silicon and oxygen and includes first and second insulating regions. The third nitride region includes Alx3Ga1?x3N, and first to seventh portions. The second insulating film includes silicon and oxygen and includes third to seventh insulating regions.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Daimotsu Kato, Yosuke Kajiwara, Akira Mukai, Aya Shindome, Hiroshi Ono, Masahiko Kuraguchi
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Patent number: 11960182Abstract: Provided is a light absorption anisotropic film capable of preparing an image display device having excellent display performance and excellent durability, and a laminate and an image display device formed of the light absorption anisotropic film. The light absorption anisotropic film is used for an image display device, which is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, in which in a signal derived from the dichroic substance detected by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, a relationship between a maximum intensity Imax of the light absorption anisotropic film in a thickness direction and an intensity Isur1 in a surface of the light absorption anisotropic film on a viewing side of the image display device satisfies Expression (I-1) 2.0?Imax/Isur1.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yumi Kato, Naoki Koito, Hiroshi Matsuyama, Akihiro Sugita, Takehiro Kasahara, Naoyoshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20240120359Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a photodetection device and an electronic apparatus that allow for reducing surface reflection from an on-chip microlens and suppressing deterioration of image quality. Provided is a photodetection device including: a plurality of pixels that have photoelectric conversion units; on-chip microlenses that are formed in such a way as to correspond to the individual pixels; and an antireflection film that is formed on a surface of the on-chip microlens, in which the antireflection film is constituted by a stacking of: a first inorganic film that is formed by a metal oxide film; and a second inorganic film that is formed on a surface of the first inorganic film and has a lower refractive index than the first inorganic film. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS solid-state imaging device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke MORIYA, Atsushi YAMAMOTO, Tomiyuki YUKAWA, Kotaro NISHIMURA, Shigehiro IKEHARA, Shogo OTANI, Hiroshi KATO
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Patent number: 11953351Abstract: A tactile and proximity sensor includes a light source, a light receiver, an elastic structure, and a reflecting mirror. The light source emits light. The light receiver receives light and generates a signal indicating a result of reception of the light. The elastic structure includes an elastic body deformable in response to an external force and includes a reflecting portion to reflect light and transmitting portions to transmit light. The reflecting mirror faces the light source to guide the light from the light source to the reflecting portion and the transmitting portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takatoshi Kato, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kohei Sugahara
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Patent number: 11954509Abstract: In a case where an active system virtual server detects stopping of a heartbeat received from a standby system virtual server, the active system virtual server notifies a coordination apparatus of the detection of the stopping of a heartbeat. In addition, the active system virtual server reports whether or not a service is operating to the coordination apparatus. The coordination apparatus instructs the standby system virtual server to restart the system in a case where the stopping of a heartbeat and the operation of a service are received. The standby system virtual server restarts the service, restarts an operating system, or restarts the operating system in a case where the restart of the service is not successful, in response to an instruction for restarting the system.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Nobuo Onai, Naoyuki Tanji, Naoki Take, Kensuke Takahashi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Kato, Hiroyuki Yazaki
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Patent number: 11941480Abstract: An information processing system includes an identification unit configured to identify unique information on shoes using at least part of a captured image of the shoes, and a setting unit configured to set an association between an acquisition device configured to acquire the unique information and a module device attached to the shoes based on the unique information.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro Fukushi, Zhenwei Wang, Hiroaki Nakano, Toshinori Takemura, Kentaro Nakahara, Hannah Pokka, Itsumi Kato, Akira Kamei, Chenhui Huang, Hiroshi Kajitani, Koichi Morikawa, Hiroshi Okuda
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Publication number: 20240096377Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a housing, magnetic disks in the housing, and a printed circuit board attached to an outer surface of a bottom wall of the housing. The housing includes a base including a bottom wall and a side wall, and at least two base-side positioning portions provided on the bottom wall in a region overlapping the side wall. The printed circuit board includes at least two board-side positioning portions each engaged with the base-side positioning portion. One of the base-side positioning portion and the board-side positioning portion includes a pin extending substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall, and another includes a hole into which the pin is fitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi Minami, Shigeru Juman, Kouichi Toukairin, Yasuhiko Kato, Hirofumi Kuribara, Kenji Mizuochi
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Patent number: 11933684Abstract: A tactile and proximity sensor includes a light source, a light receiving section, and a cover. The light source emits light. The light receiving section receives light and generates a signal providing a result of the received light. The cover includes an elastic body that deforms under external force and that covers the light source and the light receiving section. The cover includes a reflective section that reflects light between the light source and the light receiving section and a transmission section that allows light to pass through in a first direction from the light source and that allows light to pass through in a second direction from the light receiving section.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takatoshi Kato, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kohei Sugahara, Hironari Yamamoto, Hiraku Kawai
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Patent number: 11933936Abstract: An optical sensor includes a light source, a light receiver, and a convex portion. The light source emits light to an object. The light receiver receives reflected light of the emitted light reflected by an object and generates a signal showing a light reception result. The convex portion has a height higher than a height of the light source and the light receiver. The convex portion is between the light source and the light receiver to block reflected light from the light receiver when light from the light source is reflected within a range of a predetermined distance from the convex portion. The light receiver outputs a signal to show a light reception result of equal to or less than a threshold amount of light indicating that the reflected light is not received in response to proximity of the object being within a range of a predetermined distance.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Kohei Sugahara, Takatoshi Kato
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Patent number: 11928288Abstract: An operation input device including: a first detection section including a first detection surface that detects a position at which a detection target is touching or within a predetermined distance, the first detection section outputting a first signal representing the position; an operation control section that controls a first operation target based on the first signal; an operation determination section that outputs a second signal only when it has determined that the detection target has moved along the first detection surface; and a switching control section that switches the operation control section between an operation enabled state in which control of the first operation target is enabled, and an operation prevented state in which control of the first operation target is prevented, the switching control section switching from the operation prevented state to the operation enabled state in a case in which the second signal has been received.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Kozono, Shu Nakajima, Takeshi Nawata, Hiroshi Kato
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Publication number: 20240068525Abstract: A torque limiter includes a first side plate, a second side plate, a friction disc, a pressure plate, and a biasing member. The first side plate includes an attachment surface. The attachment surface faces in an axial direction so as to be attached to a flywheel. The second side plate has a smaller outer diameter than the outer diameter of the first side plate. The second side plate is disposed so as to not overlap the attachment surface as seen in an axial direction. The second side plate is attached to the first side plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi UEHARA, Hiroaki KATO, Yusuke NAGAOKA
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Patent number: 11879809Abstract: In a vehicle action simulation method according to the present invention, a behavior of an actual vehicle during travel is predicted, and an attitude of a tire and a rotational speed of a rotary drum are changed to reproduce a transient change in a tire attitude that occurs during the travel of the actual vehicle on the tire while the predicted behavior of the actual vehicle during travel is reflected, stress applied to the tire in contact with the rotary drum of a tire ground contact characteristic measuring portion is measured, tire ground contact characteristics are calculated, the behavior of the actual vehicle during travel is predicted while vehicle characteristics predicted from the tire ground contact characteristics are reflected, and the prediction, the reproduction, the measurement of stress, and the calculation are performed in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takahisa Kamikura, Hiroshi Kato
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Publication number: 20240006840Abstract: Provided are a light emitting device capable of providing lenses or light emitting elements on a substrate in a suitable manner, and a method for manufacturing the light emitting device. A light emitting device of the present disclosure includes: a first substrate; a light emitting element provided on a lower surface of the first substrate; a lens provided on an upper surface of the first substrate; a first protrusion provided on the upper surface of the first substrate; and a first film provided on the upper surface of the first substrate, the first film including a first portion disposed on the lens or forming the lens, and a second portion disposed on the first protrusion or forming the first protrusion, in which a height of an uppermost portion of the first portion is equal to or less than a height of an uppermost portion of the second portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki MOGI, Masashi NAKAMURA, Jun IWASHITA, Hiroshi KATO
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Publication number: 20230419394Abstract: An information presentation method is for outputting information related to a stop position of a mobile body to a user terminal in an information processing system for lending a cabin of the mobile body. The method includes registering position information representing a stop position of the mobile body, and registering purpose information representing a purpose of use of the cabin of the mobile body. The method also includes outputting, to the user terminal, trend information representing a trend of a purpose of use of the cabin in an area including the position information of mobile bodies. The trend information is output on the basis of correspondence information by which the position information of the mobile bodies is correlated with the purpose information of the mobile bodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayasu BABA, Hiroshi KATO, Kazuhiko YAMAUCHI, Akinori OZEKI, Sadako YAMAGATA, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20230391107Abstract: A supporting structure for a temperature sensor, and a drying device provided with the supporting structure. The supporting structure includes a front panel, a rear panel, a first supporting member having both ends in a longer-side direction of the first supporting member, and a second supporting member attachable to and detachable from the first supporting member. In the supporting structure, both ends of the first supporting member are removably supported by the front panel and the rear panel. In the supporting structure, the temperature sensor is disposed on the second supporting member, and the temperature sensor detects a surface temperature of a heating roller disposed between the front panel and the rear panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ken Onodera, Yasuyuki Horie, Yoshitaka Akiyama, Kenji Maruoka, Hiroshi Kato, Junichi Terai, Masaki Kitamura
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Patent number: RE49962Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first and second regions, a first insulating portion, and first, second, and third electrodes. The first region includes first and second partial regions, and a third partial region between the first and second partial regions. The second region includes fourth and fifth partial regions. The fourth partial region overlaps the first partial region. The fifth partial region overlaps the second partial region. The first insulating portion includes first, second, and third insulating regions. The first insulating region is provided between the second insulating region and the third partial region and between the third insulating region and the third partial region. The first electrode is electrically connected to the fourth partial region. The second electrode is away from the first electrode and is electrically connected to the fifth partial region. The third electrode is provided between the first and second electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage CorporationInventors: Masahiko Kuraguchi, Yosuke Kajiwara, Aya Shindome, Hiroshi Ono, Daimotsu Kato, Akira Mukai