Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sakamoto
Hiroshi Sakamoto 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: 20240144148Abstract: Provided is a technique for facilitating evaluation of a relationship between persons in work. An information processing device according to one embodiment includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an achievement value for each work representing an achievement of each work obtained when a plurality of workers is combined and allocated to the work; a calculation unit that calculates an evaluation value for each work by comparing the achievement value for each work with a reference value; a determination unit that determines quality of a relationship between the plurality of workers based on the evaluation value for each work; and a setting unit that sets, based on a result of the determination, a relationship value numerically representing the quality of the relationship between the plurality of workers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Tomoko SHIBATA, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Masanobu SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240135894Abstract: A panel drive circuit having an input interface to which an image signal is input, a gamma correction circuit that corrects an image processing signal generated by an image processing circuit performing image processing on the image signal input to the input interface, such that a gamma correction signal thus generated has predetermined gamma characteristics, an unevenness correction circuit that corrects the gamma correction signal generated through the correction by the gamma correction circuit, based on correction data for reducing unevenness of a display panel, and an D/A convertor that has a variable output voltage range, and performs D/A conversion on an unevenness correction signal generated through the correction by the unevenness correction circuit and outputs the signal thus generated to the display panel, and the unevenness correction circuit changes the correction method according to the output voltage range of the D/A convertor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: IIX INC.Inventors: Makoto HATAKENAKA, Takashi SAKAMOTO, Mitsuo HAGIWARA, Norimasa SENDA, Yoshihide MINEGISHI, Hiroshi MURASE
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Publication number: 20240120604Abstract: A power supply device with enhanced safety is provided. A power supply device (100) includes secondary battery cells (1) each including a positive electrode (2) including a safety valve on one end surface of each cell, a battery holder holding the secondary battery cells (1) each including the positive electrode (2) on the one end surface thereof, and a housing (20) having a bottom surface (22), a top surface (23), and an inner space which accommodates the battery holder therein. The battery holder holds the secondary battery cells (1) upright in parallel to one another such that the positive electrode (2) on the one end surface of each cell (1) is directed vertically downward. In the housing (20), the battery holder retains the positive electrode (2) of each cell (1) spaced apart from the bottom surface (22) across a first space (SP1).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: HIROSHI KONDO, TOMONORI SAKAMOTO, TAKUYA TSUTSUMI
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Publication number: 20240112996Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a substrate having an obverse and a reverse face; wirings on the obverse face such as a first and a second drive wiring; a semiconductor element connected to the first and second drive wirings; a first drive conductor on the same side as the semiconductor element with respect to the substrate outside of the semiconductor element as viewed in a thickness direction and connected to the first drive wiring; a second drive conductor on the same side as the semiconductor element with respect to the substrate outside of the semiconductor element as viewed in the thickness direction and connected to the second drive wiring; and a sealing resin covering the wirings and the semiconductor element, while also covering the first and second drive conductor such that their faces opposite to the substrate in the thickness direction are exposed. The first and the second drive conductor are separated in a direction parallel to the obverse face.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi OJI, Hiroyuki SHINKAI, Natsuki SAKAMOTO, Naoyuki SANO
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Publication number: 20240079222Abstract: A surface modifying apparatus is configured to modify a bonding surface of a substrate to be bonded to another substrate by plasma of a processing gas. The surface modifying apparatus includes a processing vessel; a measuring unit; and a controller. The processing vessel is configured to accommodate the substrate therein. The measuring unit is configured to measure a value indicating an amount of moisture in the processing vessel. The controller is configured to determine whether or not bonding strength between the substrate and the another substrate, when it is assumed that the substrate modified in the processing vessel is bonded to the another substrate, is good based on the value indicating the amount of moisture in the processing vessel measured by the measuring unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Takashi Terada, Yuji Mimura, Hiroshi Maeda, Takuro Masuzumi, Masaru Honda, Ryoichi Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20240079214Abstract: A surface modifying method of modifying a bonding surface of a substrate to be bonded to another substrate by plasma of a processing gas includes an adjusting process and a modifying process. In the adjusting process, an amount of moisture in a processing vessel is adjusted by supplying a humidified gas into the processing vessel allowed to accommodate the substrate therein. In the modifying process, the bonding surface of the substrate is modified by forming the plasma of the processing gas in the processing vessel in a state that the amount of moisture in the processing vessel is adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Yuji Mimura, Hiroshi Maeda, Takuro Masuzumi, Takashi Terada, Masaru Honda, Ryoichi Sakamoto, Takashi Fuse, Yusuke Kubota
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Publication number: 20240071337Abstract: An unevenness correction data generation device suppressing the appearance of color unevenness when turning on R, G and B together includes a pattern generation unit causing red, green and blue images, in which display panel subpixels are turned on at the same gray level, to be displayed, a monochrome camera, a control unit generating first red, green and blue luminance correction data based on shooting data of the monochrome camera, a pattern generation unit causing the display panel to display a white image by causing red, green and blue images corrected with the respective luminance correction data to be displayed simultaneously, a color camera shooting the white image in color, and a control unit generating color correction data for correcting color unevenness based on shooting data of the color camera and generates unevenness correction data based on the red, green and blue luminance correction data and the color correction data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: IIX INC.Inventors: Makoto HATAKENAKA, Takashi SAKAMOTO, Hiroshi MURASE, Mitsuo HAGIWARA, Hideaki SUZUKI, Kazunori YOSHIZAWA
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Patent number: 11896579Abstract: The present invention relates to a drug that is for treating or preventing cancer, that is effective in the treatment of cancer, and that comprises a combination of an ALK inhibitor and a VEGF inhibitor. The present invention also relates to a method for treating or preventing cancer and a method for inhibiting tumor growth.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Sakamoto, Toshiyuki Tsukaguchi
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Patent number: 11889329Abstract: A wireless base station and a first wireless terminal include means for collecting first wireless performance information regarding wireless communication in both a downstream direction and an upstream direction and transmitting the first wireless performance information to a wireless performance measurement device. The wireless base station and a second wireless terminal include means for collecting second wireless performance information regarding wireless communication in both the downstream direction and the upstream direction and transmitting the second wireless performance information to the wireless performance measurement device.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Otsuki, Tomoaki Ogawa, Makoto Umeuchi, Junichi Iwatani, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Masayoshi Nabeshima, Hiroyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11879233Abstract: A work machine includes a plurality of actuators that drive a work device; a posture sensor that senses postural data about the work device; and a controller having a degree-of-proximity calculating section that computes a degree of proximity that is an index value indicating proximity between an intrusion prohibition region and the work device on the basis of positional data about the intrusion prohibition region and the postural data. A command section executes, when the proximity specified by the degree of proximity is closer than proximity specified by a degree-of-proximity threshold, operating area limiting control to decelerate at least one of the plurality of actuators such that an intrusion of the work device into the intrusion prohibition region is prevented. History of the data about the degree of proximity calculated at the degree-of-proximity calculating section is stored and the degree-of-proximity threshold is altered on the basis of the history data.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryu Narikawa, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hidekazu Moriki
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Publication number: 20240003302Abstract: A compressed air supply system includes: a bleed air passage; an auxiliary compressor structure including a compressor inlet and a compressor outlet, the compressor inlet being fluidly connected to the bleed air passage; a supply passage which is fluidly connected to the compressor outlet and through which compressed air from the auxiliary compressor structure is supplied to an air cycle machine; an accessory gear box; and a continuously variable transmission structure that changes speed of rotational driving force output from the accessory gear box and rotates the auxiliary compressor structure. The continuously variable transmission structure and the auxiliary compressor structure are fixed to the accessory gear box, and the accessory gear box is fixed to the gas turbine engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki TAKAMI, Naoya SEKOGUCHI, Katsuhiko ISHIDA, Kenta UMEZAKI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Tatsuhiko GOI
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Publication number: 20240003293Abstract: A compressed air supply system that extracts compressed air from a gas turbine engine and supplies the compressed air to an air conditioning pack of an airframe. The compressed air supply system includes: a low-pressure bleed air port that extracts compressed air from an upstream side of a high-pressure compressor; a high-pressure bleed air port that extracts compressed air from a downstream side of a front-stage portion of the high-pressure compressor; a main pipe extending from the low-pressure bleed air port toward the air conditioning pack; an auxiliary compressor that is located at the main pipe and increases pressure of the compressed air; a high-pressure bleed air pipe that couples the main pipe to the high-pressure bleed air port; a high-pressure bleed air valve located at the high-pressure bleed air pipe; and circuitry that opens the high-pressure bleed air valve when the circuitry determines that an insufficient pressure state occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki TAKAMI, Naoya SEKOGUCHI, Katsuhiko ISHIDA, Kenta UMEZAKI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Tatsuhiko GOI
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Publication number: 20230407794Abstract: A core engine including a core casing covering a low-pressure rotary structure and a high-pressure rotary structure and includes a passage of air flowing through the low-pressure and the high-pressure rotary structures; a fan located in front of the core engine; an inner cowl serving as an inner peripheral surface of a bypass passage that extends through the fan and bypasses the core engine; an accessory gear box that extracts power from the low-pressure or the high-pressure rotary structure and supplies the power to accessories; an auxiliary compressor attached to the accessory gear box, is driven by power of the accessory gear box, and increases pressure of compressed air extracted from the core engine; and a compressed air pipe that extends through an inside of a strut connecting the core engine and an airframe and supplies the compressed air having an increased pressure by the auxiliary compressor to the airframe.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki TAKAMI, Naoya SEKOGUCHI, Katsuhiko ISHIDA, Kenta UMEZAKI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Tatsuhiko GOI
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Publication number: 20230399111Abstract: A compressed air supply system of an aircraft includes: a bleed air passage through which bleed air from a gas turbine engine flows; an auxiliary compressor including a compressor inlet and a compressor outlet, the compressor inlet being fluidly connected to the bleed air passage; a supply passage which is fluidly connected to the compressor outlet and through which compressed air from the auxiliary compressor is supplied to an air system of the aircraft; a driver that rotates the auxiliary compressor; a sensor that detects pressure or temperature of the supply passage; and circuitry that controls an output rotational frequency of the driver in accordance with a detection signal of the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki TAKAMI, Naoya SEKOGUCHI, Katsuhiko ISHIDA, Kenta UMEZAKI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Tatsuhiko GOI
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Patent number: 11840822Abstract: A work machine capable of assisting in an operator's operation to allow a work tool move along a design surface indicating a target shape of an object to be worked irrespectively of an angle of the design surface and a posture of a work implement is provided. A controller determines an excavation actuator in charge of an excavation action and determines an alignment actuator in charge of an alignment action for a work tool out of a plurality of actuators on the basis of the design surface set by a work execution target setting device and the posture of the work implement measured by a work implement posture/position measurement device, determines a target velocity of the excavation actuator on the basis of operation signals outputted from an operation device, and limits a target velocity of the alignment actuator in a direction in which the work tool approaches the design surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano, Yuusuke Suzuki, Hiroshi Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11812292Abstract: There are provided an information collecting device configured to collect a frame A transmitted and received between a wireless LAN base station that is an evaluation target and a wireless LAN terminal subordinate to the wireless LAN base station that is the evaluation target and a frame B transmitted and received between a wireless LAN base station that is a non-evaluation target and a wireless LAN terminal subordinate to the wireless LAN base station that is the non-evaluation target, and extract radio information on communication quality of each of the wireless LAN base stations from a header of a corresponding one of the frames A and B, and a wireless LAN communication quality estimation device configured to acquire, from the wireless LAN base station that is the evaluation target, information on the number of currently connected wireless LAN terminals, acquire, from the information collecting device, the radio information on the communication quality of each of the wireless LAN base stations, and analyzeType: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Masayoshi Nabeshima, Shinya Otsuki, Tomoaki Ogawa, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Makoto Umeuchi, Junichi Iwatani, Hiroyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230332375Abstract: The invention of the present application intends to provide a work machine that can improve the work performance by keeping the work state of work equipment conforming to the intention of an operator in machine control for causing the work equipment to follow an excavation target surface. For this purpose, a controller determines the work state of the work equipment on the basis of an operation input amount inputted from an operation input device and the posture of the work equipment with respect to the target surface, computes a range of an action command value of actuators in which the work state determined is kept, and corrects, within the range, the action command value of the actuators to make the distance between the work equipment and the target surface small.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Yusuke SUZUKI, Hiroaki TANAKA, Yasuhiko KANARI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Teruki IGARASHI, Akihiro NARAZAKI
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Publication number: 20230304260Abstract: The invention of the present application has as its object the provision of a work machine that is equipped with a function to prevent a work device thereof from going into an entry prohibited area and can satisfy both working precision and working efficiency of the work device. A controller is therefore configured to start work range limiting control to decelerate or stop an action of a machine main body or the work device when a distance between a monitor point set beforehand on the work device and the entry prohibited area decreases to a first distance, to end the work range limiting control when the distance between the monitor point and the entry prohibited area increases to a second distance greater than the first distance, and to change the second distance according to an operation amount of an operation device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Hiroaki TANAKA, Yusuke SUZUKI, Akihiro NARAZAKI, Yasuhiko KANARI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230276274Abstract: A wireless LAN frame capture method is to capture a wireless LAN frame transmitted from a target access point. The wireless LAN frame capture method includes: (A) channel scan processing of receiving a wireless LAN frame while sequentially switching a plurality of channels; (B) channel setting processing of setting the channel when an identifier of an access point included in the wireless LAN frame received in the channel scan processing matches a target identifier of the target access point, to a target channel; and (C) frame capture processing of capturing the wireless LAN frame of the target channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masayoshi NABESHIMA, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Tomoaki OGAWA
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Publication number: 20230239709Abstract: There are provided a first wireless system, a second wireless system, an information collection terminal, and a wireless control apparatus. The first wireless system includes a fixed wireless access apparatus that performs communication with a movable wireless terminal. The second wireless system performs communication in a limited communication area using a frequency band that is the same as or overlaps a frequency band of the first wireless system. The information collection terminal is installed in the communication area of the second wireless system and collects information on the wireless communication of the first wireless system. The wireless control apparatus controls the communication of the first wireless system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya OTSUKI, Junichi IWATANI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Masayoshi NABESHIMA, Tomoaki OGAWA