Patents by Inventor Masaaki Masuda
Masaaki Masuda 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: 20200378292Abstract: A exhaust gas mixing apparatus includes an outer cylinder being configured to an insulating ceramic; fins being configured to an insulating ceramic, the fins being provided on an inner side of the outer cylinder; and an electric heating portion embedded in at least a part of the outer cylinder and/or the fins.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Yukio MIYAIRI, Masaaki MASUDA, Shinzo HAYASHI, Yoshifumi TAKAGI
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Publication number: 20200306125Abstract: A massage machine includes an air outlet for blowing out air, a blower unit for feeding air to the air outlet, and a contact surface provided so as to be contactable with a person to be treated. The air outlet is oriented either rightward or leftward. The air outlet and the contact surface are distanced from each other in a generally normal direction of the contact surface. The contact surface is positioned other than between the air outlet and the person to be treated while the person to be treated and the contact surface are in contact with each other. The air outlet is prevented from overlapping with the person to be treated as viewed in a left-and-right direction while the person to be treated and the contact surface are in contact with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: Fuji Medical Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki ONO, Masaaki MASUDA
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Patent number: 10716289Abstract: [Object] To provide a signal transmission device and management system which are capable of transmitting a signal including information of an attachment target or information of the surrounding of an attachment target.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Niikura, Masakazu Yajima, Junya Matsui, Tamotsu Kiyakawauchi, Hiromitsu Komatsu, Chisako Kajihara, Shingo Seto, Nobuharu Murashima, Masaaki Masuda
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Publication number: 20200128626Abstract: A heater may include: a conductive ceramic cylinder tube in which cell-arrays are concentrically arranged, each cell-array including cells which are arranged in a circumstance direction of the ceramic cylinder tube; an inner electrode electrically coupled to an inner wall portion of the ceramic cylinder tube; and an outer electrode electrically coupled to an outer wall portion of the ceramic cylinder tube. Non-linear portions are radially arranged in the ceramic cylinder tube, each non-linear portion extending in a radial direction of the ceramic cylinder tube while having a plurality of bends or curves between the inner wall portion and outer wall portion of the ceramic cylinder tube. The inner and outer electrodes are provided such that current flows radially at least via said non-linear portions between the inner and outer electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicants: NGK INSULATORS, LTD., FAURECIA SYSTEMES D'ECHAPPEMENTInventors: Yukio MIYAIRI, Masaaki MASUDA, Xavier BARTOLO
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Publication number: 20200123956Abstract: A heater includes: a conductive ceramic cylinder tube provided with a plurality of cells, each cell being defined by a pair of first cell-walls and a pair of second cell-walls, each first cell-wall extending in a radial direction of the ceramic cylinder tube, and each second cell-wall extending so as to cross the radial direction of the ceramic cylinder tube; an inner electrode electrically coupled to an inner wall of the ceramic cylinder tube; and an outer electrode electrically coupled to an outer wall of the ceramic cylinder tube. Linear portions are radially arranged in the ceramic cylinder tube, each linear portion linearly extending in the radial direction of the ceramic cylinder tube so as to include a plurality of first cell-walls that are arranged on the same axial line that extends in the radial direction of the ceramic cylinder tube. The inner and outer electrodes are provided such that current flows radially at least via said linear portions between the inner and outer electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicants: NGK INSULATORS, LTD., FAURECIA SYSTEMES D'ECHAPPEMENTInventors: YUKIO MIYAIRI, MASAAKI MASUDA, XAVIER BARTOLO
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Publication number: 20200077915Abstract: A massage machine includes an electroencephalograph (brain wave measuring device), arranged to measure brain waves of a person being treated, an emotion estimating portion, which, when a massage is being executed, estimates, based on the brain waves measured by the electroencephalograph, an emotion of the person being treated, a question message outputting portion, arranged to vocally output a question message for asking the person being treated whether or not to perform, on the massage currently being executed, a setting change that is in accordance with the emotion of the person being treated estimated by the emotion estimating portion, and a setting changing portion, performing the setting change if a reply of the person being treated to the question message is one that accepts the setting change.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: Fuji Medical Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masafumi TAKARABE, Masaaki MASUDA
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Publication number: 20190380306Abstract: [Object] To provide a signal transmission device and management system which are capable of transmitting a signal including information of an attachment target or information of the surrounding of an attachment target.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Niikura, Masakazu Yajima, Junya Matsui, Tamotsu Kiyakawauchi, Hiromitsu Komatsu, Chisako Kajihara, Shingo Seto, Nobuharu Murashima, Masaaki Masuda
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Publication number: 20190331435Abstract: A heat storage reactor, comprising: a plurality of heat storage layers including first flow paths through which a first fluid can flow, each of the first flow paths being filled with heat storage materials; and a plurality of heat exchange layers including second flow paths through which a second fluid can flow. In the heat storage reactor, the plurality of heat storage layers and the plurality of heat exchange layers are alternately stacked. Further, open ends for the second flow paths are formed on a surface different from a surface on which open ends of the first flow paths are formed. Furthermore, at least a part of the second flow paths is formed in parallel to the first flow paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicants: NGK INSULATORS, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITYInventors: Masaaki MASUDA, Yukio Miyairi, Atsuhiro Ichinose, Noriyuki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20190323401Abstract: A catalyst substrate may include a ceramic base body including first and second ends, the second end being opposite to the first end, and the ceramic base body being provided with a plurality of cells each extending between the first and second ends; and a plurality of metal particles or metal fragments introduced into one or more internal spaces of one or more selected cells in the plurality of cells. Each of the plurality of metal particles or metal fragments has a size equal to or less than an opening width of the cell. The plurality of metal particles or metal fragments is configured to generate heat in accordance with varying magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicants: NGK INSULATORS, LTD., FAURECIA SYSTEMES D'ECHAPPEMENTInventors: Yukio Miyairi, Masaaki Masuda, Jean-Paul Brunel
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Publication number: 20180273201Abstract: [Object] To provide a control device which enables a flight vehicle device to obtain a highly precise image. [Solution] Provided is the control device including an illuminating control unit configured to adjust a light amount of an illuminating device according to an inclination of a body of a flight vehicle device that has an imaging device configured to photograph a photographing target and the illuminating device configured to illuminate the photographing target.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kohtaro Sabe, Kayoko Tanaka, Kousuke Suzuki, Masaaki Masuda, Takekazu Kakinuma, Kazunori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20180250190Abstract: A massage system includes a chair type massage machine that performs a massage on a person to be treated, a head mounted display (head worn type display device) that is worn on a head portion of the person to be treated, and a controller, which, when the massage is being performed by the massage machine on the person to be treated, makes a video image, including a moving image of a virtual practitioner performing the massage, be displayed on the head mounted display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: FUJI MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaaki MASUDA
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Patent number: 10011371Abstract: [Object] To provide a control device which enables a flight vehicle device to obtain a highly precise image. [Solution] Provided is the control device including an illuminating control unit configured to adjust a light amount of an illuminating device according to an inclination of a body of a flight vehicle device that has an imaging device configured to photograph a photographing target and the illuminating device configured to illuminate the photographing target.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kohtaro Sabe, Kayoko Tanaka, Kousuke Suzuki, Masaaki Masuda, Takekazu Kakinuma, Kazunori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20170283088Abstract: [Object] To provide a control device which enables a flight vehicle device to obtain a highly precise image. [Solution] Provided is the control device including an illuminating control unit configured to adjust a light amount of an illuminating device according to an inclination of a body of a flight vehicle device that has an imaging device configured to photograph a photographing target and the illuminating device configured to illuminate the photographing target.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2015Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Kohtaro Sabe, Kayoko Tanaka, Kousuke Suzuki, Masaaki Masuda, Takekazu Kakinuma, kazunori Hayashi
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Patent number: 9138810Abstract: A work supply apparatus that can cope with a variation (decrease or increase) in length of the work and can eliminate adverse effects caused by vibration or the like and a machine tool provided with this work supply apparatus are aimed at to be provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaaki Masuda
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Patent number: 8881627Abstract: There is provided a workpiece supply/conveyance device that can remove a workpiece from a spindle and supply another workpiece to the spindle smoothly and in a short time. A workpiece holding section of one of a plurality of arms includes an unmachined workpiece holding section 29 for holding an unmachined workpiece and a machined workpiece holding section 21 for holding a machined workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2008Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Citizen Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaaki Masuda
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Patent number: 8367966Abstract: The ceramic plasma reactor includes: a plurality of unit electrodes each of which comprises a plate-shaped ceramic dielectric body 4 and a conductive film 3 embedded in the ceramic dielectric body superimposing them each other with a gap which works as a discharge portion 11, and preferably being formed by sandwiching one unit electrode 2b having no through holes 15 by two unit electrodes having plural through holes 2a there between. A partition wall plate 9 is provided by facing one of unit electrodes on a side opposite to the gap and being held by a holding member 7 at a predetermined distance so as to form there between a gas introducing-circulating portion 21 for introducing and circulating gas in the through-holes 15 so as to send gas introduced to the gap between the unit electrodes as a discharge portion by applying a voltage thereto to generate plasma.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Michio Takahashi, Hiroshi Mizuno, Masaaki Masuda
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Publication number: 20120013062Abstract: A work supply apparatus that can cope with a variation (decrease or increase) in length of the work and can eliminate adverse effects caused by vibration or the like and a machine tool provided with this work supply apparatus are aimed at to be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: Citizen Machinery Miyano Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaaki Masuda
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Patent number: 8053992Abstract: A plasma reactor includes a honeycomb electrode in which a plurality of cells that function as gas passages are partitioned by a partition wall, and a discharge electrode. The honeycomb electrode includes a first gas circulation section that allows a first gas to pass through, and a second gas circulation section that allows a second gas to pass through. The plasma reactor causes the first gas introduced into the first gas circulation section of the honeycomb electrode through the space between the electrodes to undergo a reaction while causing a plasma discharge between the honeycomb electrode and the discharge electrode, and allows the second gas to be introduced into the second gas circulation section of the honeycomb electrode to transfer heat of the second gas to the first gas circulation section to promote the reaction of the first gas.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2009Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Masuda, Michio Takahashi, Hiroshi Mizuno
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Patent number: 7922978Abstract: A plasma generating electrode includes two types of plate-shaped unit electrodes of different polarities, the two types of unit electrodes of different polarities being hierarchically and alternately stacked at specific intervals, a discharge space for generating plasma being formed between the opposing unit electrodes, each of the unit electrodes of one polarity among the two types of unit electrodes of different polarities including a plate-shaped conductor exhibiting conductivity and a ceramic dielectric disposed to cover the conductor, the ceramic dielectric of the unit electrode of one polarity including a support protrusion for forming the discharge space for generating plasma between the opposing unit electrodes and at least a part of a space in which the unit electrode of the other polarity is disposed opposite to the unit electrode of one polarity and for supporting the unit electrode of one polarity, the support protrusion being integrally formed with the ceramic dielectric on at least one surface oType: GrantFiled: December 22, 2005Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignees: NGK Insulators, Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasumasa Fujioka, Atsuo Kondo, Masaaki Masuda, Kenji Dosaka, Masanobu Miki
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Patent number: 7863540Abstract: The present invention provides a plasma reactor which can suppress deactivation of components (active components) activated by plasma when causing exhaust gas to flow through a plasma generating space to ensure efficient reaction between the active components and particulate matter, whereby the particulate matter can be efficiently purified via reaction. The plasma reactor includes a plasma reactor main body 1, a positive electrode 11 disposed on an inlet side 2 of the plasma reactor main body 1, a conductive honeycomb filter 21 disposed so that a filter inlet side 22 faces an outlet side 3 of the plasma reactor main body 1, and a pulse power supply 31 which is connected with the positive electrode 11 and the honeycomb filter 21 and is capable of applying a pulse voltage between the positive electrode 11 and the honeycomb filter 21 as plasma generating electrodes to generate plasma.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2007Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Masuda, Michio Takahashi, Takeshi Sakuma