Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Ito
Hiroyuki Ito 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: 20240105996Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains: as an electrolyte, LiN(FSO2)2; and as an additive, at least one selected from the group consisting of a boron atom-containing compound represented by the general formula (3): B(OR6)3, a carbon atom-containing compound represented by the general formula (4): C(?O)(R5)(OR6), a sulfur atom-containing compound represented by the general formula (5): {S(?O)2(R5)y}x(OR6)x(2-y), and a phosphorus atom-containing compound represented by the general formula (6): P(?O)(R5)y(OR6)2.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki MIZUNO, Ryo NISHIHATA, Masayuki OKAJIMA, Yutaro ITO, Toru ODANI
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Publication number: 20240101867Abstract: Provided are a polishing method and a polishing composition that are applied to polishing of silicon carbide and allows reduction of rise in pH of the polishing composition and increase in pad temperature during polishing Provided is a method of polishing an object to be polished having a surface formed of silicon carbide. The method includes steps of preparing a polishing composition, and supplying the polishing composition to the object to be polished and polishing the object to be polished. The polishing composition contains permanganate, a metal salt A, and water. The metal salt A is a salt of a metal cation having a pKa of less than 7.0 in form of a hydrated metal ion, and an anion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Yuichiro NAKAGAI, Hiroyuki ODA, Yasuaki ITO, Shogaku IDE, Shinichiro TAKAMI
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Patent number: 11941549Abstract: The management device of an autonomous driving vehicle includes a congestion rate calculation unit and a waiting place setting unit. The congestion rate calculation unit is able to calculate the congestion rate of a parking lot adjoining each of a plurality of commercial facilities. In a case where the congestion rate of a neighbor parking lot, or a parking lot in the neighborhood of a boarding place contained in reservation information for an autonomous driving vehicle reserved for dispatch, during a waiting time period before the scheduled boarding time, is less than a congestion threshold, the waiting place setting unit sets the neighbor parking lot as a waiting place for the autonomous driving vehicle to wait during the waiting time period.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Sakurada, Katsuya Hoshi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahisa Sawada, Hiroyuki Ito, Makoto Segi, Hiroki Hattori
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Patent number: 11932147Abstract: Disclosed is a seat including: sensors which includes a first cushion sensor provided at a seat cushion in a position corresponding to buttocks of an occupant, a second cushion sensor provided at the seat cushion and located farther frontward than the first cushion sensor, a first back sensor provided at a seat back and located in a lower position thereof, and a second back sensor provided at the seat back and located above the first back sensor; and a controller connected to the sensors and thereby allowed to acquire pressure values from the respective sensors. The controller is configured to identify the motion of the occupant based on outputs of at least two sensors of the first cushion sensor, the second cushion sensor, the first back sensor, and the second back sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Atsushi Kusano, Hiroyuki Numajiri, Satoshi Fujita, Takako Miyoshi, Munetaka Kowa, Ryuichiro Hirose, Yoshikazu Ito, Yosuke Higashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Ryosuke Sato, Kento Uetake, Yasuharu Otsuka, Satoru Kaneda
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Patent number: 11928591Abstract: An information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of accurately recognizing an object to be sensed are provided. One or a plurality of learning models are selected from among learning models corresponding to a plurality of categories, a priority of each of the selected learning models is set, observation data obtained by sequentially compounding pieces of sensor data applied from a sensor is analyzed using the learning model and the priority of the learning model, a setting of sensing at a next cycle is selected based on an analysis result, predetermined control processing is executed in such a manner that the sensor performs sensing at the selected setting of sensing, and the learning model corresponding to the category estimated as the category to which a current object to be sensed belongs with a highest probability is selected based on the categories to each of which the previously recognized object to be sensed belongs.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kanako Esaki, Tadayuki Matsumura, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Kiyoto Ito
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Patent number: 11914407Abstract: The flow rate control device 10 includes a control valve 11, a restriction part 12 provided downstream of the control valve 11, an upstream pressure sensor 13 for measuring a pressure P1 between the control valve 11 and the restriction part 12, a differential pressure sensor 20 for measuring a differential pressure ?P between the upstream and the downstream of the restriction part 12, and an arithmetic control circuit 16 connected to the control valve 11, the upstream pressure sensor 13, and the differential pressure sensor 20.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATEDInventors: Kaoru Hirata, Keisuke Ideguchi, Shinya Ogawa, Katsuyuki Sugita, Masaaki Nagase, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda, Hiroyuki Ito
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Patent number: 11912308Abstract: An autonomous vehicle allows passengers to transfer from a passenger vehicle, which is a relatively large vehicle, to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is provided with an autonomous travel control unit (steering control unit) configured to, when the passenger vehicle is stopped, cause the autonomous vehicle to pull up alongside the passenger vehicle such that an entrance (second entrance) of the autonomous vehicle is placed next to an entrance (first entrance) of the passenger vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Sakurada, Katsuya Hoshi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahisa Sawada, Hiroyuki Ito, Makoto Segi, Hiroki Hattori
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Patent number: 11900331Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller configured to execute the processing of, when a first vehicle body unit on which a first vending machine is mounted is laid at a specific place, determining a time for maintenance defined as a time to perform maintenance of the first vending machine, and sending a replacement command to a chassis unit that is configured in such a way as to be capable of travelling autonomously and being coupled to and separated from a vehicle body unit, as per the time for maintenance. The replacement command is a command to transport a second vehicle body unit on which a second vending machine is mounted to the specific place and retrieve the first vehicle body unit from the specific place.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Yuji Suzuki, Keita Yamazaki, Kei Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Ogawa, Yukiya Sugiyama, Masaru Ando, Yasushi Fujiwara, Azusa Nakagame, Erina Toyama
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Publication number: 20240017939Abstract: Provided is an article sorting device that can handle various containers without necessarily requiring a change of parts. The article sorting device includes a rotating table, a pocket, a guide, a position control unit, and a sorting unit. The position control unit controls a radial position of the pocket to a specified position that is a first position or a second position located radially outward relative to the first position. The sorting unit guides an article to different paths depending on whether the radial position of the pocket is at the first position or the second position when a circumferential position of the pocket reaches a sorting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Mitsuhiro KUREISHI, Hironori IWAMATSU, Akira SUMITANI, Shinichi TANAKA, Hiroyuki ITO, Akiyoshi ANDO
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Publication number: 20230416006Abstract: Provided is a transport device that can transport two or more types of articles without necessarily requiring a change of parts. The transport device includes a guide extending in a transport direction of an article, and a holding unit configured to hold the article between the holding unit and the guide and to move in the transport direction. The holding unit includes two or more roller units. In each roller unit, two or more rollers, including a first roller and a second roller with a diameter larger than a diameter of the first roller, are aligned along an axial direction. The holding unit is movable in the axial direction. The holding unit is moved in the axial direction to thereby switch the rollers abutting the article among the two or more rollers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Mitsuhiro KUREISHI, Hironori IWAMATSU, Akira SUMITANI, Shinichi TANAKA, Hiroyuki ITO, Akiyoshi ANDO
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Patent number: 11834075Abstract: A mass transportation vehicle includes a stop selector and a dispatcher. The stop selector is configured to enable a passenger on the mass transportation vehicle to select a destination stop at which the passenger plans to get off. The dispatcher is configured to book dispatch of an autonomous vehicle to which the passenger transfers after getting off the mass transportation vehicle at the destination stop. The dispatcher sends information about the destination stop to a dispatch management device of the autonomous vehicle as information about a waiting point of the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Sakurada, Katsuya Hoshi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahisa Sawada, Hiroyuki Ito, Makoto Segi, Hiroki Hattori
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Patent number: 11830739Abstract: Provided herein are approaches for forming an image sensor with increased well depth due to cryogenic ion channeling of ultra-high energy (UHE) ions. In some embodiments, a method may include providing a wafer of a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device including a photoelectric conversion region, and cooling the wafer to a temperature less than ?50° C. The method may further include performing an ion implant to the photoelectric conversion region to form a photodiode well after cooling the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Hans-Joachim L. Gossmann, Stanislav S. Todorov, Hiroyuki Ito
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Publication number: 20230368603Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that can maintain a sense of expectation of a player and continue a game. The gaming machine includes a display including a scroll area where a video reel including a plurality of main symbols is scrolled, the main symbols are rearranged after the scrolling, and a game result of a unit game is displayed and a non-scroll area where the video reel is not scrolled, a sub-symbol different from the main symbols being displayed in the non-scroll area and moving from the non-scroll area to the scroll area, a memory that stores information concerning the main symbols and information concerning the sub-symbol, and a controller that controls display of the main symbols and the sub-symbol on the display, the controller determining display content of the sub-symbol based on at least one probability mode among a plurality of probability modes respectively associated with probabilities different from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: SAMMY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaya YONEDA, Jun NISHIOKA, Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Hiroyuki ITO, Kazuaki UTSUNOMIYA, Teppei HIGASHI, Shinya OHTANI, Taiji SUGAI
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Publication number: 20230298845Abstract: A decelerating electrode of this energy filter comprises: an electrode pair that has an opening; and a cavity portion that provided in a rotationally symmetrical manner with the center of the opening as the optical axis. Voltages with electric potentials that are substantially the same as that of a charged particle beam are independently applied to the both sides of the decelerating electrode. When an electrical field protrudes into the cavity portion provided in the decelerating electrode, a saddle point having the same electric potential as that of incident charged particles is formed inside the decelerating electrode. The saddle point acts as a high pass filter for incident charged particles at an energy resolution of 1 mV or less. By analyzing charged particles which have been energy-separated, it is possible to measure the energy spectrum and ?E at the high resolution of 1 mV or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Kazuhiro HONDA, Hiroyuki ITO, Takashi DOI, Soichiro MATSUNAGA
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Patent number: 11750204Abstract: This atomic resonator for causing a resonance frequency by CPT resonance includes: a gas cell having alkali metal atoms enclosed; a photodetector configured to detect light having passed through the gas cell and convert the light to an electric signal; a high-frequency oscillator configured to receive the electric signal and output the signal after a frequency thereof is divided by two; and a laser light source configured to modulate and introduce, into the gas cell, light based on the signal output from the high-frequency oscillator. The high-frequency oscillator has an injection-locked frequency divider circuit including an acoustic resonator as an oscillation element.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo Institute of TechnologyInventors: Motoaki Hara, Yuichiro Yano, Masatoshi Kajita, Tetsuya Ido, Hiroyuki Ito
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Patent number: 11718760Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon black molded body having different pore structure from conventional carbon black. A carbon black molded body of the present invention includes a peak M of a pore volume being exist in a specified pore diameter in the specified Log differential pore volume distribution; a specified half band width of the peak M; a specified ratio of the half band width/an area-based median diameter; and a specified difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of a Log differential pore volume.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: KANSAI COKE AND CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ito, Takaki Tsukazaki
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Patent number: 11639443Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon black molded body having different pore structure from conventional carbon black. A carbon black molded body of the present invention includes a peak M of a pore volume being exist in a specified pore diameter in the specified Log differential pore volume distribution; a specified half band width of the peak M; a specified ratio of the half band width/an area-based median diameter; and a specified difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of a Log differential pore volume.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: KANSAI COKE AND CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ito, Takaki Tsukazaki
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Publication number: 20230129795Abstract: A machine learning method includes: calculating a reward for a result of decision of a cold isostatic pressing process condition based on an acquired state variable; updating, based on the reward, a function to decide at least one cold isostatic pressing process condition from the state variable; and deciding a cold isostatic pressing process condition which yields a highest reward, by repeating update of the function. The cold isostatic pressing process condition is at least one of a first parameter related to an object to be processed, a second parameter related to a preceding process of a cold isostatic pressing process, and a third parameter related to operating conditions of a cold isostatic pressing apparatus, and the at least one physical amount is related to at least one of sterilization and inactivation, shucking, improvement of taste and flavor, and improvement of texture and nourishment of the object to be processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Hiroyuki ITO, Tomoya MINAMINO, Hiroshi SHIRAKASHI, Yoshikazu KISHI, Tadataka MIZOKAMI, Yasuhide MIYASHITA
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Patent number: 11604313Abstract: A waveguide includes a core and a cladding. The core has an inlet on which light is incident. The core includes a front portion and a rear portion located between the front portion and the inlet. The front portion and the rear portion each have a thickness that is a dimension in a first direction and a width that is a dimension in a second direction. The first direction is orthogonal to a propagation direction of the light. The second direction is orthogonal to the propagation direction of the light and the first direction. The thickness of the front portion decreases with increasing distance from the inlet.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: HEADWAY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yukinori Ikegawa, Dayu Zhou, Koji Shimazawa, Yoshitaka Sasaki, Hiroyuki Ito, Yoji Nomura
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Publication number: 20230061892Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an analysis program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes determining whether a resource usage of a machine executing a service exceeds a threshold when the machine processes a request for the service, notifying the machine of the request when it is determined that the resource usage does not exceed the threshold, and scaling out the machine when it is determined that the resource usage exceeds the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: TAKUMI SAKAI, Yusuke Hara, Kengo Hobo, Hiroyuki Ito