Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Sasaki
Hitoshi Sasaki 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: 20160362102Abstract: A drive control device of the vehicle controls a left and right driving force difference by a driving device based on a rotational velocity of a rotary electric machine, which imparts a steering force or a steering additive force to a steering system of the vehicle. Furthermore, at a time that there is a deviation or a likelihood of a deviation of the vehicle with respect to a travel path or when an avoidance assistance unit produces a notifying operation or imparts a deviation avoidance assistance steeling force or a deviation avoidance assistance steering additive force, the drive control device prohibits or suppresses control of the left and right driving force difference based on the rotational velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomokazu Honda, Hitoshi Sasaki
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Patent number: 9514708Abstract: A driving device of a display apparatus includes a calculation unit which calculates a correction value to correct a gradation value of a pixel that is a correction target on the basis of n gradation values that corresponds to n pixels and a correction unit which corrects the gradation value of a pixel that is a correction target on the basis of the correction value and the calculation unit performs a first calculation in a case in which a gradation value among the n gradation values is included in a first range, performs a second calculation in a case in which a gradation value among the n gradation values is included in a second range, respectively performs the first calculation or the second calculation on the n gradation values, and calculates the correction value on the basis of the calculation results performed on the n gradation values.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Hidehito Iisaka
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Patent number: 9308754Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a recording medium; a reversing unit configured to reverse front and back sides of the recording medium; a recording head configured to reciprocatingly scan to form a first image on a first side of the recording medium, which is reciprocatingly conveyed by the conveyance unit at a first conveyance speed V1, and a second image on a second side of the recording medium, which is conveyed at a second conveyance speed V2 and ejected, in a case of performing a double-sided printing; and a control unit configured to control the first conveyance speed V1 and the second conveyance speed V2 to satisfy a relation V2?W/t<V1?(W/t)×2, where t is a scanning time required for one reciprocation of the recording head, and W is an image formation width of the recording head.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Yuuichiroh Tsujiguchi, Takuji Kawaguchi, Shigeru Yoshigai, Keizoh Shigaki
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Publication number: 20160082753Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a recording medium; a reversing unit configured to reverse front and back sides of the recording medium; a recording head configured to reciprocatingly scan to form a first image on a first side of the recording medium, which is reciprocatingly conveyed by the conveyance unit at a first conveyance speed V1, and a second image on a second side of the recording medium, which is conveyed at a second conveyance speed V2 and ejected, in a case of performing a double-sided printing; and a control unit configured to control the first conveyance speed V1 and the second conveyance speed V2 to satisfy a relation V2?W/t<V1?(W/t)×2, where t is a scanning time required for one reciprocation of the recording head, and W is an image formation width of the recording head.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Yuuichiroh Tsujiguchi, Takuji Kawaguchi, Shigeru Yoshigai, Keizoh Shigaki
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Publication number: 20160075468Abstract: [Problem] To provide a paper container for foods capable of being fabricated by heat sealing which does not absorb flavors, such as limonene, and capable of storing a long period at ordinary temperature. [Solving Means] The laminated material for paper containers is composed of paper substrate layer/adhesive for paper layer/first adhesive for barrier layer/barrier layer/second adhesive for barrier layer/heat-sealable PET resin layer, has an oxygen gas barrier ability of 2.0 ml/m2·D·atm or less, and the heat-sealable PET resin layer is made having a crystal portion of less than 15%, non-crystal portion of 85% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2013Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicants: MIKUNISHIKO CO., LTD., NAKAMOTO PACKS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio KOBAYASHI, Hitoshi SASAKI, Katsuro SASAUCHI, Shingo ABE, Yoshiyuki KOIZUMI
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Publication number: 20160067989Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes a conveying unit that conveys a recording medium; a recording head that reciprocates in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording medium while the recording medium is being conveyed by the conveying unit, the recording head forming an image on the recording medium; a reception unit that receives scan image data, the scan image data being used to form the image, while the recording head waits in a non-printing region of the recording medium; and a control unit that controls a conveyance distance of the recording medium conveyed by the conveying unit while the recording head waits in the non-printing region. The control of the conveyance distance of the recording medium is determined based on a scan image data reception period of the scan image data, the scan image data reception period being obtained from a communication speed of the reception unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Shigeru Yoshigai, Yuuichiroh Tsujiguchi, Hitoshi Sasaki, Takuji Kawaguchi, Keizoh Shigaki
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Patent number: 9120321Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes: a container to store ink; a detector to detect a remaining ink amount; a liquid feeding unit to supply the ink to the container; an energy generation unit to cause the ink to be discharged; a storage unit to store correspondence information in which driving information for driving the energy generation unit is associated with each piece of time information indicating a supply time taken to supply the ink; and a setting unit to set new driving information using the correspondence information when an actual supply time is different from the supply time indicated by the time information associated with current driving information among the pieces of time information. The actual supply time indicates a time period from when the liquid feeding unit starts supplying the ink until the detector detects that the remaining ink amount is equal to or higher than a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yuuichiroh Tsujiguchi, Namio Ogihara, Hitoshi Sasaki
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Publication number: 20150213812Abstract: A communication device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to extract a component of a voice signal that is input, detect a speech rate of the voice signal, adjust the extracted component, based on the detected speech rate, and add the adjusted component to the voice signal to expand a band of the voice signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Kaori ENDO
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Patent number: 9070372Abstract: A voice processing apparatus includes a voice signal acquiring unit that acquires a voice signal converted to plural frequency bands from an input signal having a narrowed band; an expanding unit that generates based on a narrowband component of the voice signal acquired by the voice signal acquiring unit, an expansion band component expanding the band of the voice signal; a correcting unit that corrects the power of the expansion band component by a correction amount determined based on a noise component included in the voice signal acquired by the voice signal acquiring unit; and an output unit that outputs the voice signal of which the band has been expanded based on the expansion band component corrected by the correcting unit and based on the narrowband component of the voice signal acquired by the voice signal acquiring unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kaori Endo, Takeshi Otani, Hitoshi Sasaki, Mitsuyoshi Matsubara, Rika Nishiike, Kaoru Chujo
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Patent number: 9028797Abstract: The invention provides an antigen or drug delivery complex containing a complex of an antigen or drug and a cationic molecule, and an anionic molecule encapsulating the same. The antigen or drug delivery complex can be used as a main component of a drug delivery system that delivers various antigens and drugs to a particular cell or organ.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignees: Nagasaki University, Kyusyu University Corporation, National University Corporation Hamamatsu University School of MedicineInventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Tomoaki Kurosaki, Takashi Kitahara, Hideto To, Katsuyuki Yui, Kenji Hirayama, Kouichi Morita, Takahiro Mukai, Yasuhiro Magata, Mikako Ogawa, Kohei Sano
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Patent number: 9001111Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the invention has an effect that burn-in and a flicker do not occur. Dummy pixels are provided around pixels of the liquid crystal display device. A first voltage higher in order than a reference voltage and a second voltage lower in order than the first voltage are applied to a pixel electrode of a liquid crystal device included in the dummy pixel while being temporally shifted. The liquid crystal display device changes, on the basis of an electric current flowing to a second opposed electrode when the first voltage is applied and an electric current flowing to the second opposed electrode when the second voltage is applied, a ratio of effective voltages of a positive voltage and a negative voltage applied to a liquid crystal device included in the pixel that displays an image.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Mizusako, Hitoshi Sasaki
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Publication number: 20140313248Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes: a container to store ink; a detector to detect a remaining ink amount; a liquid feeding unit to supply the ink to the container; an energy generation unit to cause the ink to be discharged; a storage unit to store correspondence information in which driving information for driving the energy generation unit is associated with each piece of time information indicating a supply time taken to supply the ink; and a setting unit to set new driving information using the correspondence information when an actual supply time is different from the supply time indicated by the time information associated with current driving information among the pieces of time information. The actual supply time indicates a time period from when the liquid feeding unit starts supplying the ink until the detector detects that the remaining ink amount is equal to or higher than a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yuuichiroh TSUJIGUCHI, Namio OGIHARA, Hitoshi SASAKI
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Patent number: 8784253Abstract: A second shaft is configured by a shaft portion extending outside a housing in which a nutation gear mechanism is housed, a housing portion, and a cylindrical portion. A communicating hole, through which an outside and an inside of the housing portion communicate with each other, is formed in the shaft portion. A preload applying mechanism includes a preload adjusting plug that is screwed to the housing portion and is able to be operated from outside through the communicating hole, a wave washer compressed in accordance with a position of the preload adjusting plug, and a lock nut that is screwed to the housing portion of the second shaft so as to press the preload adjusting plug toward the nutation gear mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Satoshi Motoyama, Tomonari Yamakawa, Masanori Natsume
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Patent number: 8704741Abstract: A liquid crystal display, applying to the first electrode, a voltage higher and a voltage lower at different timings, detecting a current flowing through the second electrode, designating, as a reference value, the current flowing through the second electrode when the voltage maintained in the liquid crystal element is reset, specifying a first current which is obtained by excluding a charging current due to application of a related higher voltage from currents flowing through the second electrode after the higher voltage is applied to the first electrode, and a second current which is obtained by excluding a charging current due to application of a related lower voltage from currents flowing through the second electrode after the lower voltage is applied to the first electrode, and comparing the first current with the second current, and controlling the first current and the second current based on the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Mizusako, Takashi Toyooka, Hitoshi Sasaki
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Publication number: 20140045636Abstract: A second shaft is configured by a shaft portion extending outside a housing in which a nutation gear mechanism is housed, a housing portion, and a cylindrical portion. A communicating hole, through which an outside and an inside of the housing portion communicate with each other, is formed in the shaft portion. A preload applying mechanism includes a preload adjusting plug that is screwed to the housing portion and is able to be operated from outside through the communicating hole, a wave washer compressed in accordance with a position of the preload adjusting plug, and a lock nut that is screwed to the housing portion of the second shaft so as to press the preload adjusting plug toward the nutation gear mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Satoshi MOTOYAMA, Tomonari YAMAKAWA, Masanori NATSUME
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Patent number: 8433478Abstract: Generally, the toe angle target speed limiting unit (84A) adds a toe angle target value ?T2P subjected to the primary delay to the result of a min-max processing the tracking error ??T1A by an adder (58A) to output it as a toe angle target value ?T2A to a target current calculating unit (86). However, in this toe angle target speed limiting unit (84A), a switching control (steering direction change control) for generating a maximum value ??Tmax as the toe angle target change quantity ??T2 and a hold control are made when a neutral position of the toe angle target value ?T2A which is prior to the toe angle command value ?T1 which is reached.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Takamichi Hinohara, Yutaka Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20130084450Abstract: The present invention relates to a corrosion resistant member including: a substrate composed of a ceramic or a metal, and at least one layer of a corrosion resistant film formed on a surface of at least a region of the substrate to be exposed to plasma or a corrosive gas, in which the corrosion resistant film contains yttria as a main component and further also contains at least one of tantalum and niobium in an amount of 0.02 to 10 mol % in terms of pentoxide relative to the yttria, and a non-melted portion is not present in the corrosion resistant film.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: Covalent Materials CorporationInventors: Yukitaka MURATA, Hitoshi SASAKI, Shintaro MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20130069928Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the invention has an effect that burn-in and a flicker do not occur. Dummy pixels are provided around pixels of the liquid crystal display device. A first voltage higher in order than a reference voltage and a second voltage lower in order than the first voltage are applied to a pixel electrode of a liquid crystal device included in the dummy pixel while being temporally shifted. The liquid crystal display device changes, on the basis of an electric current flowing to a second opposed electrode when the first voltage is applied and an electric current flowing to the second opposed electrode when the second voltage is applied, a ratio of effective voltages of a positive voltage and a negative voltage applied to a liquid crystal device included in the pixel that displays an image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO, Hitoshi SASAKI
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Publication number: 20130052127Abstract: The invention provides an antigen or drug delivery complex containing a complex of an antigen or drug and a cationic molecule, and an anionic molecule encapsulating the same. The antigen or drug delivery complex can be used as a main component of a drug delivery system that delivers various antigens and drugs to a particular cell or organ.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicants: NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY, National University Corporation Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, KYUSYU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Tomoaki Kurosaki, Takashi Kitahara, Hideto To, Katsuyuki Yui, Kenji Hirayama, Kouichi Morita, Takahiro Mukai, Yasuhiro Magata, Mikako Ogawa, Kohei Sano
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Patent number: 8339389Abstract: A method of driving an electro-optical device having scanning lines, data lines, a switching transistor and a pixel electrode. The device also has an electro-optical layer interposed between the pixel electrode and a counter electrode. The method includes: supplying a data signal alternate between a positive and a negative voltage to the pixel electrode. The positive voltage has a potential greater than a counter electrode potential applied to the counter electrode and the negative voltage is a potential lower than the counter electrode potential; setting the counter electrode potential to reduce a flicker; supplying a first voltage that is either the positive or negative voltage to the pixel electrode in a first period; the other voltage to the pixel electrode in a second period. A ratio of the first period to the second period is variable.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Takashi Toyooka