Patents by Inventor Kazutaka Kato
Kazutaka Kato 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: 20240176198Abstract: The present invention relates a non-alkali glass, having a Young's modulus (E) of from 70 GPa to 95 GPa and an average coefficient of thermal expansion a from 50° C. to 350° C. of from 32 to 45 (×10?7/° C.), and which satisfies the following formula (1): 20?+7E?1310. The non-alkali glass has a composition in terms of mol % on the basis of oxides, satisfying the relationship of: 759?13.1×SiO2?7.5×Al2O3?15.5×B2O3+9.7×MgO+21.8×CaO+27.2×SrO+27.9×BaO?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Kazutaka ONO, Yasumasa KATO, Masaya KUNIGITA
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Publication number: 20240144700Abstract: A moving body control device includes an outside recognition unit configured to acquire recognition data of an outside of a moving body, a reception unit which receives designation of a predetermined parking position from a user of the moving body, and a control unit configured to perform automatic parking control for parking the moving body at the predetermined parking position based on the recognition data of the outside and the predetermined parking position, and register the predetermined parking position as a designated parking position. The control unit is configured to register feature points related to the designated parking position by using a plurality of patterns based on illuminance of the outside calculated from the recognition data of the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakashima, Takeshi Sasajima, Hiroki Takaku, Hideki Nagatomo, Tatsuro Fujiwara, Makoto Bessho, Masaya Kato, Jun Adachi, Momoka Akaike, Kazutaka Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20240085847Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image holding bodies that are provided for respective colors of toners and hold toner images having the respective colors, an intermediate transfer body onto which the toner images having the respective colors held by the plural image holding bodies are transferred, a waste toner collection unit that collects toners remaining on the intermediate transfer body as a waste toner in a case where the toner images having the respective colors transferred onto the intermediate transfer body are transferred onto a recording material, a waste toner developing unit that uses the waste toner collected by the waste toner collection unit to develop a toner image on an image holding body of the plural image holding bodies or the other image holding body of the plural image holding bodies, and a control unit that performs a control to cause the waste toner developing unit to develop the toner image in a case where a predetermined condition about a ratio of a waste toner having eachType: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Tatsuya KOYAMA, Ryo WAKAMATSU, Kenta TSUKAHIRA, Kenji SUZUKI, Kazutaka SHIBANO, Daiki KATO, Naoyuki KURITA
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Patent number: 7529600Abstract: A target vehicle path is corrected in accordance with the environment surrounding a vehicle during parking assist or U-turn assist. To achieve the target vehicle path, target wheel speeds are set for respective wheels so as to generate a speed difference an inside wheel and an outside wheel of a turn. The target wheel speed is achieved by controlling braking force and driving force of each wheel. Thus, it is possible for the vehicle to turn with a smaller turning radius than that generated by a normal steering angle, and to cause the vehicle to move accurately along the target vehicle path that avoids any obstacles that are present.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Mori, Kazutaka Kato, Kazuhiro Kamiya, Masahiro Matsuura
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Patent number: 7358864Abstract: In a parking assist control apparatus for assisting a driver with parking a vehicle, when a brake control ECU detects that a door is open based on a detection signal from a door open/close sensor during parking assist control, the brake control ECU determines whether the open door is a door other than the driver side door. If the open door is a door other than the driver side door, the vehicle is automatically stopped, thus enabling occupant safety to be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2005Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Mori, Kazutaka Kato, Kazuhiro Kamiya, Masahiro Matsuura
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Patent number: 7356396Abstract: An automatic steering control performs an automatic parking control which automatically steers steerable wheels of a vehicle, without requiring a driver to perform steering wheel operation, such that the actual steering angle of the steerable wheels follows a changing target steering angle, whereby the vehicle is moved to a target parking state. When the actual steering angle fails to follow the target steering angle because of insufficiency of the steering drive force of a steering actuator, a braking force difference imparting control is performed so as to apply a predetermined braking force on the steerable wheel located inside a target vehicle locus. As a result, a steering moment is generated in the steerable wheels. This steering moment serves as a force for compensating for the insufficiency of the steering drive force of the steering actuator. As a result, the actual steering angle accurately follows the target steering angle.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2005Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Mori, Kazutaka Kato, Kazuhiro Kamiya, Masahiro Matsuura
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Patent number: 7344205Abstract: When an abnormality is detected in a vehicle side device such as an obstacle sensor during parking assist control, a brake control ECU ends the parking assist control and outputs a control signal to warn the driver while forcibly stopping the vehicle by outputting a first drive signal to a hydraulic brake device and generating braking force.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2005Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Advics Co., LtdInventors: Kazuhiro Kamiya, Yukio Mori, Kazutaka Kato, Masahiro Matsuura
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Patent number: 7234786Abstract: A vehicular brake control apparatus detects risky occasions and locations that may be risky by using, for example, an infrastructure information input device or a navigation device, and, for such locations and the like, performs the pre-charge so that braking force will be promptly generated. Therefore, the pre-charge can be precisely performed under necessary circumstances, irrespectively of the driver's accelerator operation. Hence, when the driver depresses the brake pedal at such a location or the like, braking force will be promptly generated. Thus, accidents and the like can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2005Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Mori, Kazutaka Kato, Kazuhiro Kamiya, Masahiro Matsuura
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Publication number: 20050270177Abstract: In a parking assist control apparatus for assisting a driver with parking a vehicle, when a brake control ECU detects that a door is open based on a detection signal from a door open/close sensor during parking assist control, the brake control ECU determines whether the open door is a door other than the driver side door. If the open door is a door other than the driver side door, the vehicle is automatically stopped, thus enabling occupant safety to be ensured.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Inventors: Yukio Mori, Kazutaka Kato, Kazuhiro Kamiya, Masahiro Matsuura
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Publication number: 20050273236Abstract: An automatic steering control performs an automatic parking control which automatically steers steerable wheels of a vehicle, without requiring a driver to perform steering wheel operation, such that the actual steering angle of the steerable wheels follows a changing target steering angle, whereby the vehicle is moved to a target parking state. When the actual steering angle fails to follow the target steering angle because of insufficiency of the steering drive force of a steering actuator, a braking force difference imparting control is performed so as to apply a predetermined braking force on the steerable wheel located inside a target vehicle locus. As a result, a steering moment is generated in the steerable wheels. This steering moment serves as a force for compensating for the insufficiency of the steering drive force of the steering actuator. As a result, the actual steering angle accurately follows the target steering angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Inventors: Yukio Mori, Kazutaka Kato, Kazuhiro Kamiya, Masahiro Matsuura
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Publication number: 20050264099Abstract: When an abnormality is detected in a vehicle side device such as an obstacle sensor during parking assist control, a brake control ECU ends the parking assist control and outputs a control signal to warn the driver while forcibly stopping the vehicle by outputting a first drive signal to a hydraulic brake device and generating braking force.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2005Publication date: December 1, 2005Inventors: Kazuhiro Kamiya, Yukio Mori, Kazutaka Kato, Masahiro Matsuura
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Publication number: 20050240332Abstract: A target vehicle path is corrected in accordance with the environment surrounding a vehicle during parking assist or U-turn assist. To achieve the target vehicle path, target wheel speeds are set for respective wheels so as to generate a speed difference an inside wheel and an outside wheel of a turn. The target wheel speed is achieved by controlling braking force and driving force of each wheel. Thus, it is possible for the vehicle to turn with a smaller turning radius than that generated by a normal steering angle, and to cause the vehicle to move accurately along the target vehicle path that avoids any obstacles that are present.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2005Publication date: October 27, 2005Inventors: Yukio Mori, Kazutaka Kato, Kazuhiro Kamiya, Masahiro Matsuura
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Publication number: 20050206236Abstract: A vehicular brake control apparatus detects risky occasions and locations that may be risky by using, for example, an infrastructure information input device or a navigation device, and, for such locations and the like, performs the pre-charge so that braking force will be promptly generated. Therefore, the pre-charge can be precisely performed under necessary circumstances, irrespectively of the driver's accelerator operation. Hence, when the driver depresses the brake pedal at such a location or the like, braking force will be promptly generated. Thus, accidents and the like can be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2005Publication date: September 22, 2005Inventors: Yukio Mori, Kazutaka Kato, Kazuhiro Kamiya, Masahiro Matsuura
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Patent number: 5496171Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a surface combustion burner which can permit high intensity combustion at the burner surface by preventing the occurrence of a lift phenomenon of flames due to whirling of air from the peripheral portion of the surface combustion burner. To this end, a mixing chamber positioned rearwardly of a porous member having its front surface constituting a combustion surface is divided by a partition wall into a first mixing chamber positioned at a central portion and a second mixing chamber positioned to surround the first mixing chamber so that fuel gas mixtures at different air ratios are supplied to the first and second mixing chambers, respectively, and/or the porous member having its front surface serving as the combustion surface has a resistance against the flow velocity of fuel gas mixture which is higher at a peripheral edge nearby region than at the remaining region.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1994Date of Patent: March 5, 1996Assignee: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidenari Ozawa, Kazutaka Kato, Keiichi Ohgi, Masahiro Yahagi
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Patent number: 4666097Abstract: A seat belt winding apparatus with a rotation detection unit, for detecting a rotation of a belt winder shaft, and a driving unit, controlled by a detection signal from the rotation detection unit so as to apply a winding force to the belt winder shaft.When the seat belt is pulled by a passenger and a buckle is coupled with a tongue, the driving unit is controlled so that a rotational position of the belt winder shaft in a winding termination state is stored in a storage unit as a reference rotational position, thus establishing a correspondence between a reference rotational position and a count in the storage unit.In the belt fastened state, when the rotational position of the belt winder shaft is shifted from the reference rotational position, the shifted rotational position of the belt winder shaft is compared with the reference rotational position.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1985Date of Patent: May 19, 1987Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Noboru Tsuge, Masahiro Taguchi, Satosi Kuwakado, Kazutaka Kato
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Patent number: 4478181Abstract: An after glow control system for an engine, which controlls the voltage to be applied to glow plugs of the engine, is disclosed. The system comprises a first electric path through which a voltage is applied from a battery to glow plugs during the preheating period and a second electric path which is connected to the first electric path in parallel and through which a voltage is applied from the battery to the glow plugs during the after glow period. In the second electric path, a voltage dropping circuit of a switching type is provided. The voltage dropping circuit is provided with a switching means between the battery and the glow plugs and a switching control circuit which controls the opening and closing period of the switching means.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1982Date of Patent: October 23, 1984Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuro Kikuchi, Masanori Kato, Masahiko Kato, Kazutaka Kato, Tomio Kumoi