Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kusumoto
Hiroshi Kusumoto 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: 20240097132Abstract: An electrode material includes an active material particle and a solid electrolyte particle. The solid electrolyte particle includes Li, M, and X, wherein M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metal elements excluding Li and metalloid elements, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. The ratio R1 of the volume of the active material particle to the sum of the volume of the active material particle and the volume of the solid electrolyte particle is greater than or equal to 10% and less than 65% when expressed as percentage. The ratio R2 of the average particle diameter of the active material particle to the average particle diameter of the solid electrolyte particle is greater than or equal to 0.5 and less than or equal to 3.4.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: MASAYOSHI UEMATSU, AKIHIKO SAGARA, HIROSHI ASANO, SHOHEI KUSUMOTO, TOMOKATSU WADA
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Refrigerant Quantity Diagnosis Device, Refrigerant System, and Refrigerant Quantity Diagnosis Method
Publication number: 20230304713Abstract: A refrigerant quantity diagnosis device includes: an evaluation value calculation part that calculates a refrigerant quantity index evaluation value including a ratio of a measured refrigerant quantity index value to a reference refrigerant quantity index value in each of a normal period and a determination period; and a refrigerant quantity diagnosis part that diagnoses a refrigerant quantity based on the refrigerant quantity index evaluation value. The evaluation value calculation part calculates a first refrigerant quantity index evaluation value in the normal period and a second refrigerant quantity index evaluation value in the determination period, based on respective reference refrigerant quantity index values having respective values associated with an operating condition of interest, and respective measured refrigerant quantity index values.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Yoko KOKUGAN, Hiroshi KUSUMOTO, Keiko OKA, Hisae SHIBUYA, Noriyuki TOKURA, Norikazu SASAKI, Kazuhiro TSUCHIHASHI, Eiji OGATA -
Patent number: 10989428Abstract: A performance diagnosis device for an air conditioner includes: a data collection unit that collects and records operation data on the air conditioner; an equipment characteristic database that is a data group covering operation conditions meeting the specifications of the air conditioner; a reference data creation unit that calculates individual characteristic curved surface data by using the operation data possessed by the data collection unit and the equipment characteristic database; and a performance evaluation unit that compares part of the operation data possessed by the data collection unit with the individual characteristic curved surface data to evaluate the performance of the air conditioner, in which the individual characteristic curved surface data is corrected with respect to the equipment characteristic database so as to correspond to the operation data possessed by the data collection unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoko Kokugan, Hiroshi Kusumoto, Tatsuo Fujii
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Patent number: 10792707Abstract: A sorting device includes a transport unit, an identification unit, and a plurality of nozzles. Each of the plurality of nozzles has a valve that adjusts a flow amount of pulse air, a pulse air flow path that is connected to the valve, and a pulse air blowing port that is arranged at a tip end of the pulse air flow path. The pulse air flow path has at least one bent portion. An adjustment flow path is connected to the bent portion of the pulse air flow path. An adjustment member capable of increasing and decreasing a volume of the adjustment flow path is provided in the adjustment flow path.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoya Miyaji, Shingo Hamada, Hiroshi Nagayasu, Hiroshi Kusumoto
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Publication number: 20190316798Abstract: A performance diagnosis device for an air conditioner includes: a data collection unit that collects and records operation data on the air conditioner; an equipment characteristic database that is a data group covering operation conditions meeting the specifications of the air conditioner; a reference data creation unit that calculates individual characteristic curved surface data by using the operation data possessed by the data collection unit and the equipment characteristic database; and a performance evaluation unit that compares part of the operation data possessed by the data collection unit with the individual characteristic curved surface data to evaluate the performance of the air conditioner, in which the individual characteristic curved surface data is corrected with respect to the equipment characteristic database so as to correspond to the operation data possessed by the data collection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2017Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Yoko KOKUGAN, Hiroshi KUSUMOTO, Tatsuo FUJII
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Publication number: 20190143376Abstract: A sorting device includes a transport unit, an identification unit, and a plurality of nozzles. Each of the plurality of nozzles has a valve that adjusts a flow amount of pulse air, a pulse air flow path that is connected to the valve, and a pulse air blowing port that is arranged at a tip end of the pulse air flow path. The pulse air flow path has at least one bent portion. An adjustment flow path is connected to the bent portion of the pulse air flow path. An adjustment member capable of increasing and decreasing a volume of the adjustment flow path is provided in the adjustment flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2018Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: NAOYA MIYAJI, SHINGO HAMADA, HIROSHI NAGAYASU, HIROSHI KUSUMOTO
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Patent number: 10245527Abstract: A solid-liquid separation device performs dehydration/deoiling from a mixture of water and/or oil and a solid. Substance A is capable of dissolving water and oil. The device includes substance B circulated while generating phase change in a closed system; a compressor; a first heat exchanger exchanging condensation heat of substance B and evaporation heat of substance A; a second heat exchanger exchanging evaporation heat of substance B and condensation heat of substance A; and a treatment tank for mixing substance A with an object to be treated; substance A having been evaporated while separated from the water or the oil in the first heat exchanger, and condensed in the second heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger is lower than the treatment tank in a vertical direction, and a connection port of the first heat exchanger and a lower portion of the treatment tank are connected with a flow path.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: HITACHI LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Sano, Hiroshi Kusumoto, Michiharu Watanabe, Mitsuhiro Matsuzawa
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Patent number: 10197331Abstract: To provide a solid-liquid separation system in which a stable operation can be continuously conducted and the introduction cost and the running cost can be suppressed, in cases where moisture or oil are separated from a substance containing moisture or oil by using changes in phase of a working fluid having a nature of dissolving moisture or oil in a liquid phase.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoko Kokugan, Hiroshi Kusumoto, Tadashi Sano, Michiharu Watanabe, Mitsuhiro Matsuzawa
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Publication number: 20180144206Abstract: A setting apparatus which sets a detection region for a detection process of detecting a change of an image within a detection region corresponding to an object of detection inputs a first image in which the object of detection is present and a second image in which the object of detection is not present and determines the detection region from the first image and the second image such that the detection process may be performed on a detection region of a third image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventor: Hiroshi Kusumoto
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Patent number: 9904865Abstract: A setting apparatus which sets a detection region for a detection process of detecting a change of an image within a detection region corresponding to an object of detection inputs a first image in which the object of detection is present and a second image in which the object of detection is not present and determines the detection region from the first image and the second image such that the detection process may be performed on a detection region of a third image.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Kusumoto
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Publication number: 20180028935Abstract: A solid-liquid separation device performs dehydration/deoiling from a mixture of water and/or oil and a solid. Substance A is capable of dissolving water and oil. The device includes substance B circulated while generating phase change in a closed system; a compressor; a first heat exchanger exchanging condensation heat of substance B and evaporation heat of substance A; a second heat exchanger exchanging evaporation heat of substance B and condensation heat of substance A; and a treatment tank for mixing substance A with an object to be treated; substance A having been evaporated while separated from the water or the oil in the first heat exchanger, and condensed in the second heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger is lower than the treatment tank in a vertical direction, and a connection port of the first heat exchanger and a lower portion of the treatment tank are connected with a flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Tadashi SANO, Hiroshi KUSUMOTO, Michiharu WATANABE, Mitsuhiro MATSUZAWA
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Publication number: 20180003438Abstract: To provide a solid-liquid separation system in which a stable operation can be continuously conducted and the introduction cost and the running cost can be suppressed, in cases where moisture or oil are separated from a substance containing moisture or oil by using changes in phase of a working fluid having a nature of dissolving moisture or oil in a liquid phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Yoko KOKUGAN, Hiroshi KUSUMOTO, Tadashi SANO, Michiharu WATANABE, Mitsuhiro MATSUZAWA
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Publication number: 20170357855Abstract: In order to facilitate determination as to whether or not a person is a suspicious person, there are provided: a person detecting unit for detecting the person from a captured image captured by one or a plurality of imaging units; a vehicle detecting unit for detecting a vehicle from the captured image; and an associating unit for, in a case where the person detected by the person detecting unit satisfies a predetermined condition of being assumed to be an owner of the vehicle detected by the vehicle detecting unit, associating the detected person with the detected vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventor: Hiroshi KUSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20170347068Abstract: An image outputting apparatus comprises: a first accepting unit which accepts an output instruction of a captured image; and an outputting unit which outputs, in a case where, in the captured image captured at a first time point, a predetermined event occurs and the output instruction is accepted at a second time point after the occurrence of the predetermined event and the predetermined event is continuing at the second time point, the captured image captured by an imaging unit at and after the second time point, and outputs, in a case where the output instruction is accepted at the second time point and the predetermined event does not continue at the second time point, the captured image captured during the continuation of the predetermined event.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventor: Hiroshi KUSUMOTO
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Patent number: 9104151Abstract: A fixing device includes a heating member, a pressing member, a first heating source, a second heating source and a reflection body. The reflection body reflects radiant heat irradiated from the first heating source toward a fixing nip side portion of the heating member and blocks radiant heat irradiated from the second heating source toward the fixing nip side portion of the heating member. After the heating of the heating member by either one of the heating sources is started until the heating member is heated to the sheet-passable temperature, an amount of radiant heat from the second heating source is larger than that of radiant heat from the first heating source, and after the heating member is heated to the sheet-passable temperature, an amount of radiant heat from the first heating source is larger than that of radiant heat from the second heating source.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Hiroshi Kusumoto
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Patent number: 8998413Abstract: A measurement apparatus for measuring aberration based on return light of measuring light radiated to an object, includes a light source configured to emit the measuring light, a focusing unit configured to focus the measuring light on the object, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a storage unit, information indicating a state of the focusing unit corresponding to identification information of a specific object, and a control unit configured to control the focusing unit based on the acquired information indicating the state of the focusing unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Kusumoto
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Patent number: 8947751Abstract: An image reading device, which can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes an image pickup device, a transparent member, a traveling body, and a housing. The traveling body includes a light source to emit light and guides the light reflected from a surface of the document to the image pickup device while moving in a sub scanning direction along the document surface on the transparent member. The housing accommodates the image pickup device and the traveling body, and includes a base member including a rectangular bottom surface and a side surface, and a rail member including a rail surface and a first vertical surface. The rail member further includes a fixing part that is a surface to be fixed to the bottom surface of the base member and to extend from one end of the rail member in the sub scanning direction to the other end.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Ricoh, Company Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kusumoto, Tatsuaki Nagano, Yohei Osanai, Satoshi Narai, Masafumi Kishi, Toshiyuki Horikawa
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Publication number: 20140355828Abstract: A setting apparatus which sets a detection region for a detection process of detecting a change of an image within a detection region corresponding to an object of detection inputs a first image in which the object of detection is present and a second image in which the object of detection is not present and determines the detection region from the first image and the second image such that the detection process may be performed on a detection region of a third image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi Kusumoto
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Patent number: 8811836Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control portion. The control portion determines a developer near end when the residual amount of a developer is in a range from a first predetermined amount to a second predetermined amount, and determines a developer end when the residual amount of the developer is equal to or lower than the second predetermined amount. Besides, in a case where the control portion determines the developer end after a predetermined number of printings are executed in a developer near end state, the control portion supplies the developer from a developer supply device to a development device via a first supply opening, and in a case where the control portion determines the developer end after more than the predetermined number of printings are executed, the control portion supplies the developer from the developer supply device to the development device via a second supply opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Hiroshi Kusumoto
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Publication number: 20140211279Abstract: An image reading device, which can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes an image pickup device, a transparent member, a traveling body, and a housing. The traveling body includes a light source to emit light and guides the light reflected from a surface of the document to the image pickup device while moving in a sub scanning direction along the document surface on the transparent member. The housing accommodates the image pickup device and the traveling body, and includes a base member including a rectangular bottom surface and a side surface, and a rail member including a rail surface and a first vertical surface. The rail member further includes a fixing part that is a surface to be fixed to the bottom surface of the base member and to extend from one end of the rail member in the sub scanning direction to the other end.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi KUSUMOTO, Tatsuaki NAGANO, Yohei OSANAI, Satoshi NARAI, Masafumi KISHI, Toshiyuki HORIKAWA