Patents by Inventor Masaaki Hara

Masaaki Hara 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).

  • Patent number: 11955750
    Abstract: A joint connector includes the plurality of wires extending in an extending direction, a plurality of terminals to be respectively connected to front end parts of the plurality of wires in the extending direction, a lower housing for accommodating the plurality of terminals, a busbar to be disposed in the lower housing, and an upper cover to be assembled with the lower housing. The busbar includes a plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals includes a tube portion, into which each of the plurality of tabs is inserted, and a wire connecting portion to be connected to each of the plurality of wires. The plurality of wires drawn out rearward in the extending direction from the lower housing include bent portions folded forward in the extending direction. The upper cover includes wire pressing portions for holding the plurality of wires folded forward in the extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Hajime Kawase, Masaaki Tabata, Teruo Hara, Hajime Matsui
  • Publication number: 20240109287
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a printing apparatus with usability prevented from being lowered. An embodiment of the present disclosure is a printing apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store size information of a print medium; a plurality of rollers arranged in a conveyance path of a print medium and configured to convey the print medium; a first sensor configured to detect an edge of the print medium being conveyed by the rollers; and a control unit configured to execute processing for identifying an error occurring in the conveyance of the print medium. The control unit issues a first error concerning an orientation of the print medium based on a detection result of the first sensor and the size information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO KIUCHI, TOMOYA HARA, MASAAKI MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20240109344
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a recording apparatus including: a conveyance path through which a recording medium is caused to pass from an upstream side to a downstream side in a conveyance direction; a conveying unit disposed on the conveyance path and configured to convey a recording medium; a detecting unit configured to detect an edge of a recording medium in the conveyance path; and a control unit configured to execute first control for conveying a recording medium toward the upstream side with the conveying pit and second control for conveying the recording medium toward the downstream side with the conveying unit. After the detecting unit detects a trailing edge of a recording medium, the control unit executes the first control or the second control based on a position of the trailing edge of the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOYA HARA, TAKAHIRO KIUCHI, MASAAKI MATSUURA
  • Patent number: 11942737
    Abstract: A joint connector for connecting a plurality of wires includes a lower housing, an upper cover assembled with the lower housing, a plurality of terminals respectively connected to front end parts in an extending direction of the plurality of wires, and a busbar connected to the plurality of terminals. The busbar disposed in the lower housing includes a plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals disposed in the lower housing includes a tube portion, each of the plurality of tabs being inserted into the tube portion, sandwiching portions extending along the extending direction and configured to sandwich one of the plurality of wires, and a sliding portion disposed outside the sandwiching portions, movable along the extending direction and including pressurizing portions configured to pressurize the sandwiching portions toward the wire with the one of the plurality of wires sandwiched by the sandwiching portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Hajime Kawase, Masaaki Tabata, Teruo Hara, Hajime Matsui
  • Publication number: 20240094107
    Abstract: To provide a technique capable of handling quantitative data in a spectrum type microparticle measurement device without causing deterioration of the SNR. The present technology provides a microparticle measurement spectrometer including: a spectroscopic element that disperses light emitted from microparticles flowing through a flow path; and a photoelectric conversion array that has a plurality of light receiving elements having different detection wavelength ranges and converts optical information obtained by the light receiving elements into electrical information, in which the photoelectric conversion array has a uniform output of all channels when light with which the amount of light per unit wavelength becomes same is incident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: MASAAKI HARA, TOMOYUKI UMETSU, YOSHIKI OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11852578
    Abstract: To provide a technique capable of handling quantitative data in a spectrum type microparticle measurement device without causing deterioration of the SNR. The present technology provides a microparticle measurement spectrometer including a spectroscopic element that disperses light emitted from microparticles flowing through a flow path, and a photoelectric conversion array that has a plurality of light receiving elements having different detection wavelength ranges and converts optical information obtained by the light receiving elements into electrical information, in which the photoelectric conversion array has a uniform output of all channels when light with which the amount of light per unit wavelength becomes same is incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Hara, Tomoyuki Umetsu, Yoshiki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11480513
    Abstract: The fine particle measurement apparatus according to the present technology includes a detection section, a multiplication factor setting section, a correction factor calculation section, and a spectrum generation section. The detection section has a plurality of detectors for detecting light from fine particles. The multiplication factor setting section sets a multiplication factor for each of the plurality of detectors. The correction factor calculation section calculates a correction factor on the basis of the set multiplication factor. The spectrum generation section generates spectral data by correcting a value detected by the detector, with the calculated correction factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Umetsu, Masaaki Hara, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Yasunobu Kato
  • Publication number: 20220247962
    Abstract: To enable multicolor analysis while suppressing upsizing. An optical measurement device according to an embodiment includes: a spectral optical system (37) that disperses fluorescence emitted from a biological specimen; and an image sensor (34) that receives the fluorescence dispersed by the spectral optical system and generates fluorescence information. The image sensor is divided into a plurality of regions that receive different wavelength components of the fluorescence and generate fluorescence information for each of the wavelength components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: TSUTOMU MARUYAMA, MASAAKI HARA
  • Publication number: 20220244164
    Abstract: Detection omission is reduced. An optical measuring device according to an embodiment includes: a plurality of excitation light sources (32A to 32D) that irradiates a plurality of positions on a flow path through which a specimen flows with excitation rays having different wavelengths; and a solid-state imaging device (34) that receives a plurality of fluorescent rays emitted from the specimen passing through each of the plurality of positions, in which the solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array unit (91) in which a plurality of pixels is arrayed in a matrix; and a plurality of first detection circuits (93) connected to a plurality of pixels not adjacent to each other in the same column of the pixel array unit, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: TOSHIYUKI NISHIHARA, MASAAKI HARA, TSUTOMU MARUYAMA, NOBUHIRO HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220107271
    Abstract: A microparticle analysis device (1) is provided with a light source (16), a two-dimensional photoelectric conversion sensor (28), and a calculation unit (10C). The light source (16) irradiates a microparticle (M) flowing in a flow path (14C) with excitation light (L1). The two-dimensional photoelectric conversion sensor (28) receives fluorescence emitted from the microparticle (M) by a light receiving surface (30) including a plurality of light reception units (32) arranged two-dimensionally, and acquires data of a fluorescence signal including stored charge values of the plurality of light reception units (32), respectively. The calculation unit (10C) calculates an evaluation value including an area that is a total value of a plurality of stored charge values included in the data of the fluorescence signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: MASAAKI HARA, TOMOYUKI UMETSU, TOSHIYUKI NISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210318224
    Abstract: To provide a technique capable of handling quantitative data in a spectrum type microparticle measurement device without causing deterioration of the SNR. The present technology provides a microparticle measurement spectrometer including: a spectroscopic element that disperses light emitted from microparticles flowing through a flow path; and a photoelectric conversion array that has a plurality of light receiving elements having different detection wavelength ranges and converts optical information obtained by the light receiving elements into electrical information, in which the photoelectric conversion array has a uniform output of all channels when light with which the amount of light per unit wavelength becomes same is incident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: MASAAKI HARA, TOMOYUKI UMETSU, YOSHIKI OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10802257
    Abstract: A microscope system includes a microscope apparatus including a stage on which a sample is placed and an objective lens that collects laser light to the sample on the stage, a light source unit including a light source that emits the laser light, a scanning mechanism configured to guide the laser light from the light source unit and change a direction of the guided laser light to scan the sample on the stage, a photodetector configured to guide returned light from the objective lens of the microscope apparatus and convert the guided light into an electrical signal, a controller configured to control at least the scanning mechanism and generate image data from the electrical signal output from the photodetector, and a computer connected to the controller through a bus interface and configured to process the image data transferred from the controller through the bus interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Kishima, Masaaki Hara
  • Publication number: 20200182772
    Abstract: Provided is a fine particle measurement apparatus that offers improved spectral separation capability with reduced noise. The fine particle measurement apparatus according to the present technology includes a detection section, a multiplication factor setting section, a correction factor calculation section, and a spectrum generation section. The detection section has a plurality of detectors for detecting light from fine particles. The multiplication factor setting section sets a multiplication factor for each of the plurality of detectors. The correction factor calculation section calculates a correction factor on the basis of the set multiplication factor. The spectrum generation section generates spectral data by correcting a value detected by the detector, with the calculated correction factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Umetsu, Masaaki Hara, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Yasunobu Kato
  • Patent number: 10578848
    Abstract: There is provided a measurement apparatus including a control unit configured to control an on/off state of illumination that does not contribute to acquisition of measurement data on the basis of an acquisition time period of the measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Okamoto, Masaaki Hara, Terumasa Ito
  • Publication number: 20190258039
    Abstract: A microscope system includes a microscope apparatus including a stage on which a sample is placed and an objective lens that collects laser light to the sample on the stage, a light source unit including a light source that emits the laser light, a scanning mechanism configured to guide the laser light from the light source unit and change a direction of the guided laser light to scan the sample on the stage, a photodetector configured to guide returned light from the objective lens of the microscope apparatus and convert the guided light into an electrical signal, a controller configured to control at least the scanning mechanism and generate image data from the electrical signal output from the photodetector, and a computer connected to the controller through a bus interface and configured to process the image data transferred from the controller through the bus interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Kishima, Masaaki Hara
  • Patent number: 10310244
    Abstract: A microscope system includes a microscope apparatus including a stage on which a sample is placed and an objective lens that collects laser light to the sample on the stage, a light source unit including a light source that emits the laser light, a scanning mechanism configured to guide the laser light from the light source unit and change a direction of the guided laser light to scan the sample on the stage, a photodetector configured to guide returned light from the objective lens of the microscope apparatus and convert the guided light into an electrical signal, a controller configured to control at least the scanning mechanism and generate image data from the electrical signal output from the photodetector, and a computer connected to the controller through a bus interface and configured to process the image data transferred from the controller through the bus interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Kishima, Masaaki Hara
  • Patent number: 10209177
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A signal processing apparatus is a signal processing apparatus for an optical tomographic measurement apparatus that generates measurement light and reference light and measures a tomographic structure of a measurement object on the basis of a signal intensity of interference light between the reference light and return light of the measurement light from the measurement object. An arithmetic unit is configured to calculate a signal intensity of simple reflection among the return light of the measurement light, the simple reflection being one time of reflection at a plurality of layers virtually set in a depth direction from a surface layer side of the measurement object. The arithmetic unit is configured to calculate a signal intensity of multiple reflection on the basis of the signal intensity of the simple reflection, the signal intensity of multiple reflection being a signal intensity of return light generated by being reflected at the plurality of layers three or more times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Hara, Yoshiki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9964757
    Abstract: There is provided a laser scanning microscope apparatus including a first moving part equipped with an objective lens and configured to move the objective lens in a first direction, and a second moving part configured to be movable in a second direction orthogonal to the first moving part and equipped with the first moving part and a reflecting mirror that guides laser light radiated to an observation object and returning light of the observation object in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukumoto, Masaaki Hara, Yoshiki Okamoto, Koichiro Kishima
  • Publication number: 20180073978
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A signal processing apparatus is a signal processing apparatus for an optical tomographic measurement apparatus that generates measurement light and reference light and measures a tomographic structure of a measurement object on the basis of a signal intensity of interference light between the reference light and return light of the measurement light from the measurement object. An arithmetic unit is configured to calculate a signal intensity of simple reflection among the return light of the measurement light, the simple reflection being one time of reflection at a plurality of layers virtually set in a depth direction from a surface layer side of the measurement object. The arithmetic unit is configured to calculate a signal intensity of multiple reflection on the basis of the signal intensity of the simple reflection, the signal intensity of multiple reflection being a signal intensity of return light generated by being reflected at the plurality of layers three or more times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: MASAAKI HARA, YOSHIKI OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180003936
    Abstract: There is provided a measurement apparatus including a control unit configured to control an on/off state of illumination that does not contribute to acquisition of measurement data on the basis of an acquisition time period of the measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Okamoto, Masaaki Hara, Terumasa Ito