Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Tsunoda
Hiroshi Tsunoda 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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Patent number: 10683819Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine including a control device 40 configured to adjust fuel injection valves 12 and a resting mechanism 30 and thereby executing a control of switching between an all-cylinder operation Oa and a reduced-cylinder operation Or, the all-cylinder operation Oa being an operation in which a combustion cycle is always performed in all of the cylinders 11, and the reduced-cylinder operation Or being an operation in which a combustion cycle is always performed in some cylinders 11 less than a cylinder number Nc, wherein in the reduced-cylinder operation Or, all of the cylinders 11 perform a partial operation in which an operating state and a resting state thereof are repeated.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Hiroshi Tsunoda
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Patent number: 10655506Abstract: Multiple tubular members 40 that include multiple cam members 41 and 42 having cam parts 11 are connected to each other to form a single cam tube 12. Multiple female splines 45, which are partially arranged on an inner tube surface 44 of the tubular members which include the cam members 41 and 42, mate with male splines 47 formed on the outer tube surface 46 of a drive shaft 13, and the cam tube 12 rotates integrally with the drive shaft 13, and is capable of moving freely in the axial direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Hiroshi Tsunoda
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Patent number: 10480363Abstract: A cam-switching device switches between first and second cams provided so as to correspond to intake exhaust valves of an engine. In a case of switching from the first cam to the second cam, a cylinder resting unit stops the opening and closing operations of the intake and exhaust valves in the same combustion cycle, and a cam shaft moving unit starts sliding the cam shaft in a first cam angle range. In a case of switching from the second cam to the first cam, the cylinder resting unit stops the opening and closing operations of the intake and exhaust valves in the same combustion cycle, and the cam shaft moving unit starts sliding the cam shaft in a second cam angle range.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Hiroshi Tsunoda
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Publication number: 20190010839Abstract: A cam-switching device switches between first and second cams provided so as to correspond to intake exhaust valves of an engine. In a case of switching from the first cam to the second cam, a cylinder resting unit stops the opening and closing operations of the intake and exhaust valves in the same combustion cycle, and a cam shaft moving unit starts sliding the cam shaft in a first cam angle range. In a case of switching from the second cam to the first cam, the cylinder resting unit stops the opening and closing operations of the intake and exhaust valves in the same combustion cycle, and the cam shaft moving unit starts sliding the cam shaft in a second cam angle range.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2017Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Hiroshi TSUNODA
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Publication number: 20190003410Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine including a control device 40 configured to adjust fuel injection valves 12 and a resting mechanism 30 and thereby executing a control of switching between an all-cylinder operation Oa and a reduced-cylinder operation Or, the all-cylinder operation Oa being an operation in which a combustion cycle is always performed in all of the cylinders 11, and the reduced-cylinder operation Or being an operation in which a combustion cycle is always performed in some cylinders 11 less than a cylinder number Nc, wherein in the reduced-cylinder operation Or, all of the cylinders 11 perform a partial operation in which an operating state and a resting state thereof are repeated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Hiroshi TSUNODA
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Publication number: 20180371960Abstract: Multiple tubular members 40 that include multiple cam members 41 and 42 having cam parts 11 are connected to each other to form a single cam tube 12. Multiple female splines 45, which are partially arranged on an inner tube surface 44 of the tubular members which include the cam members 41 and 42, mate with male splines 47 formed on the outer tube surface 46 of a drive shaft 13, and the cam tube 12 rotates integrally with the drive shaft 13, and is capable of moving freely in the axial direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2017Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventor: Hiroshi TSUNODA
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Patent number: 9641746Abstract: A mobile phone includes a display, a capturing module configured to obtain a photographed image, a touch detection module configured to receive a touch operation, a main storage module and an auxiliary storage module, and a control module. The control module temporarily stores in the main storage module successively photographed images photographed at a predetermined time interval by the capturing module, and displays a postview screen for allowing a user to select a predetermined photographed image from a successively photographed image group stored in the main storage module when the touch detection module receives a touch operation with respect to a shutter icon. The control module stores a selected photographed image in the auxiliary storage module when the touch detection module receives a touch operation with respect to a photographed image.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Tsunoda
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Publication number: 20160277656Abstract: A controller is configured to perform a first image capturing operation and a second image capturing operation based on a shutter operation, in the first image capturing operation a first image capturing unit capturing an image without light emission from a light emitter, in the second image capturing operation the first image capturing unit capturing an image with light emission from the light emitter, and divide an area of a first image captured by the first image capturing operation into an area of a subject and an area of a background based on a difference in state between corresponding portions of the first image and a second image captured by the second image capturing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventor: Hiroshi TSUNODA
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Patent number: 9342682Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a display unit; an input detection unit that detects an input to the display unit, and a lock control unit that sets or releases a locked state for a part or all of functions of the portable electronic device when a predetermined input is detected by the input detection unit, wherein the predetermined input includes inputs, in which a preset screen operation is continuously performed by a predetermined number of times in an area of the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Tsunoda
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Publication number: 20160014331Abstract: A mobile phone includes a display, a capturing module configured to obtain a photographed image, a touch detection module configured to receive a touch operation, a main storage module and an auxiliary storage module, and a control module. The control module temporarily stores in the main storage module successively photographed images photographed at a predetermined time interval by the capturing module, and displays a postview screen for allowing a user to select a predetermined photographed image from a successively photographed image group stored in the main storage module when the touch detection module receives a touch operation with respect to a shutter icon. The control module stores a selected photographed image in the auxiliary storage module when the touch detection module receives a touch operation with respect to a photographed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Inventor: Hiroshi TSUNODA
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Patent number: 9217366Abstract: An engine including: a primary balancer driven by a crankshaft via a gear drive device and rotates in a direction reverse to a direction of the crankshaft; an electric motor driven by the primary balancer via a belt drive device to rotate in a direction reverse to the direction of the crankshaft; an auxiliary flywheel provided to a rotary shaft of the electric motor via a clutch. An engine control unit including a first device for increasing and decreasing effective moment of inertia around the crankshaft by engaging or disengaging the clutch in accordance with an operating condition of the engine, and a second device for controlling torque to be transmitted to the gear drive device via the belt drive device by power-driving or regeneratively driving the electric motor in accordance with a crank angular acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Hiroshi Tsunoda
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Publication number: 20150363059Abstract: A mobile phone includes a storage module configured to store a correspondence table which associates notification information and a plurality of applications used for a response to the notification information, and a notification control module configured to display notification information on a display surface, display on the display surface a menu dialog for selecting an application to be launched from among a plurality of applications associated with notification when an operation to designate notification information is received by a touch detection module, and launch the selected application when an operation to select an application is received by the touch detection module. The notification control module is configured to change an arrangement of a plurality of applications in the menu dialog in accordance with a priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Hiroshi TSUNODA, Rie KANAZAWA
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Publication number: 20150178491Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a display unit; an input detection unit that detects an input to the display unit, and a lock control unit that sets or releases a locked state for a part or all of functions of the portable electronic device when a predetermined input is detected by the input detection unit, wherein the predetermined input includes inputs, in which a preset screen operation is continuously performed by a predetermined number of times in an area of the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroshi TSUNODA
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Patent number: 8948820Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a display unit; an input detection unit that detects an input to the display unit, and a lock control unit that sets or releases a locked state for a part or all of functions of the portable electronic device when a predetermined input is detected by the input detection unit, wherein the predetermined input includes inputs, in which a preset screen operation is continuously performed by a predetermined number of times in an area of the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Tsunoda
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Publication number: 20140366832Abstract: An engine including: a primary balancer driven by a crankshaft via a gear drive device and rotates in a direction reverse to a direction of the crankshaft; an electric motor driven by the primary balancer via a belt drive device to rotate in a direction reverse to the direction of the crankshaft; an auxiliary flywheel provided to a rotary shaft of the electric motor via a clutch. An engine control unit including a first device for increasing and decreasing effective moment of inertia around the crankshaft by engaging or disengaging the clutch in accordance with an operating condition of the engine, and a second device for controlling torque to be transmitted to the gear drive device via the belt drive device by power-driving or regeneratively driving the electric motor in accordance with a crank angular acceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventor: Hiroshi Tsunoda
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Patent number: 8644891Abstract: In order to reduce power consumption while an incoming call is detected by each of a plurality of communication methods, a mobile phone includes a radio circuit, a wireless LAN circuit, and a control portion to control power supply to them. The control portion cuts off power supply to the radio circuit when communication for a call by the wireless LAN circuit is established when power is supplied to both the radio circuit and the wireless LAN circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Fumiaki Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Sugimori, Hiroshi Tsunoda, Hideto Matsuyama
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Publication number: 20130260836Abstract: A mobile electronic device and methods are disclosed. A display module is disposed on a first surface of a housing. A sound output module generates vibrations based on received sounds and transfers the vibrations to a second surface of the housing opposed to the first surface. A touch detection module detects a touch operation performed by a user on the display module. An operation determination module determines the kind of the touch operation during the telephone communications with another device. A function execution module executes a function assigned to the determined kind of the touch operation. The function relates to the telephone communications.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi TSUNODA, Masaki IZAWA, Takashi OSANAI
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Patent number: 8009647Abstract: In order to simplify the operation during a call, a communication terminal includes: a radio circuit and a wireless LAN circuit; a flash ROM storing user identification information for identifying a target to communicate and telephone book data in which the user identification information and multiple pieces of access information respectively corresponding to the radio circuit and the wireless LAN circuit are associated with each other; and a control portion to search the telephone book data, if the wireless LAN circuit becomes incommunicable with the other party's mobile phone during communication, to extract a mobile phone number which is related with the user identification information of the user of the other party's mobile phone and corresponds to the radio circuit, and to originate a call to the other party's mobile phone by the radio circuit using the extracted mobile phone number.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Fumiaki Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Sugimori, Hiroshi Tsunoda, Hideto Matsuyama
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Patent number: 8001583Abstract: A system provides definitions of network states, and identifies a cause for the anomaly upon detection. A traffic measuring portion (characteristic quantity generating portion) counts the number of packets/time slot classified by traffic type with respect to network traffic, generating a characteristic quantity; a memory portion stores information about the characteristic quantity; a portion calculates correlation coefficients between each pair of characteristic quantities classified by traffic type; a portion generates a histogram from correlation coefficients; a portion for determining the severity of an anomaly based on the histogram; a portion evaluates the similarity of an anomaly of interest to a reference anomaly using the occurrence probabilities of correlation coefficients; and a portion assigns a color to each pixel according to its occurrence probability value, generating an n×n picture.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2006Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Tohoku UniversityInventors: Yuji Waizumi, Hiroshi Tsunoda, Yoshiaki Nemoto
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Publication number: 20090265784Abstract: A system provides definitions of network states, and identifies a cause for the anomaly upon detection. A traffic measuring portion (characteristic quantity generating portion) counts the number of packets/time slot classified by traffic type with respect to network traffic, generating a characteristic quantity; a memory portion stores information about the characteristic quantity; a portion calculates correlation coefficients between each pair of characteristic quantities classified by traffic type; a portion generates a histogram from correlation coefficients; a portion for determining the severity of an anomaly based on the histogram; a portion evaluates the similarity of an anomaly of interest to a reference anomaly using the occurrence probabilities of correlation coefficients; and a portion assigns a color to each pixel according to its occurrence probability value, generating an n×n picture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2006Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITYInventors: Yuji Waizumi, Hiroshi Tsunoda, Yoshiaki Nemoto