Patents by Inventor Masahide Saito
Masahide Saito 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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Patent number: 12002359Abstract: A communication method for a vehicle dispatch system includes a communication apparatus configured to control communication between a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The first apparatus and the second apparatus are capable of information exchange with each other. The communication apparatus includes a processor. The processor operates to: acquire a position of a boarding point for a user and a current position of a target vehicle to be dispatched to the user; at identification timing at which a determination is made that the current position of the target vehicle belongs to a predetermined area defined with reference to the position of the boarding point, generate target vehicle information using a captured image captured by one or more cameras of the target vehicle; and transmit the target vehicle information to the second apparatus. The second apparatus operates to display the received target vehicle information on a display.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayasu Suzuki, Masahide Nakamura, Masaki Watanabe, Daisuke Saito
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Publication number: 20240166833Abstract: A hard coat film having high heat resistance and being excellent in optical properties, hardness, and adhesiveness with hard coat layers. The hard coat film includes hard coat layers on both surfaces of a base material film, and each hard coat layer contains an ionizing radiation curable resin composition. The hard coat film satisfies the following conditions (I), (II), and (III): condition (I): the ionizing radiation curable resin composition contains an acrylic resin including a (meth)acryloyl group; condition (II): the ionizing radiation curable resin composition contains inorganic fine particles or organic fine particles; and condition (III): a peak area ratio 1 ((A/B)×100) is 40% or more (wherein in an infrared spectroscopy spectrum measurement of the ionizing radiation curable resin composition being uncured, A denotes a peak area appearing at 1000 cm?1 to 1120 cm?1, and B denotes a peak area appearing at 1650 cm?1 to 1800 cm?1).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Shin SAITO, Shotaro TOYA, Masahide HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 11938965Abstract: Vehicle allocation system includes an information provision apparatus, a first apparatus: control apparatus, and a user's second apparatus: user terminal apparatus. Processor of the information provision apparatus calculates a first driving plan for a vehicle in response to request information. When a second driving plan different from the first driving plan is calculated based on detection information acquired from the vehicle, the processor determines the cause of a change in the driving plan on the basis of the detection information. The processor transmits cause information including the cause to the user terminal apparatus. The user terminal apparatus presents the cause information on a display.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayasu Suzuki, Masahide Nakamura, Masaki Watanabe, Daisuke Saito
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Publication number: 20200034936Abstract: An insurance management apparatus 200 includes: a storage medium for storing insurance product information including information on benefit amount depending on severity of dementia; a determination information input receiving unit for receiving an input of determination information for determining the severity of dementia of an insured person; a severity determination unit for determining the severity of dementia of the insured person based on the determination information input by the determination information input receiving unit; a benefit amount determination unit for determining the benefit amount depending on the severity of dementia determined by the severity determination unit with reference to the insurance product information; and a benefit amount recording unit for recording the benefit amount determined by the benefit amount determination unit in the storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Teppei SAKANO, Masahide SAITO, Tadashi MASUOKA
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Patent number: 9004763Abstract: A buried plug has interference which is made to exert a load or stress less in a widthwise direction of the guide rail than in a lengthwise direction of the guide rail, thereby protect raceways on the guide rail against any deformation such as bulge. The buried plug has a mating zone to press fit into a counterbore of a bolt hole and a leading zone to guide the mating zone into the counterbore. Let assuming a definition that a direction perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the guide rail is referred to a direction opposed to the raceway surface or the widthwise direction of the guide rail, the interference exerting a force on the counterbore in the widthwise direction is determined less than the interference exerting the force on the counterbore in the lengthwise direction of the guide rail.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahide Saito
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Publication number: 20140177985Abstract: A buried plug has interference which is made to exert a load or stress less in a widthwise direction of the guide rail than in a lengthwise direction of the guide rail, thereby protect raceways on the guide rail against any deformation such as bulge. The buried plug has a mating zone to press fit into a counterbore of a bolt hole and a leading zone to guide the mating zone into the counterbore. Let assuming a definition that a direction perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the guide rail is referred to a direction opposed to the raceway surface or the widthwise direction of the guide rail, the interference exerting a force on the counterbore in the widthwise direction is determined less than the interference exerting the force on the counterbore in the lengthwise direction of the guide rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahide SAITO
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Patent number: 7704187Abstract: A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission having an automatic shift mode for performing a shift operation by determining a gear position or gear ratio to be set according to a vehicle running condition and a manual shift mode for performing a shift operation instructed by a manual operation by an operator. The shift control apparatus includes a region determining unit for determining whether the present running condition is in a first region where downshift is performed at the present gear position or gear ratio in the automatic shift mode or in a second region higher in vehicle speed than the first region, and an upshift allowing unit for allowing upshift instructed by the manual operation by the operator in the manual shift mode when the region determining unit has determined that the present running condition is in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2006Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Saito, Tatsuyuki Ohashi, Masahide Saito, Yoshiyuki Kokubo
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Patent number: 7627949Abstract: In order to increase the displacement of a motorcycle engine, the existing cylinder block of the engine is dismounted from its crankcase, and the existing piston is dismounted from its connecting rod. Then, a new piston having a greater diameter than the dismounted existing piston is mounted on the connecting rod, and a new cylinder block having a greater bore diameter than the existing dismounted cylinder block is connected to the crankcase while sliding the new large-diameter piston along the inner wall of the bore of the new cylinder block. The new cylinder block has a bottom end that is located above the top end of the crankcase when mounted on the crankcase. The new piston is short enough not to be inserted into the crankcase when moved to the bottom dead center. This eliminates the need to disassemble the crankcase or any parts in the crankcase. It is thus possible to easily increase the engine displacement.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Special Parts Takegawa Co., Ltd.Inventors: Go Takegawa, Masahide Saito
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Patent number: 7382105Abstract: In a motor driving device where a motor having a winding wire with small inductance value is driven by a digital control means comprised of control means including a current command value calculating means, a current control means and a PWM control means whose sampling periods are different from each other, when discrete signals sampled by the respective control means are zero-order-held, a motor current includes a lot of higher harmonic waves due to a quantization error, thereby increasing a motor noise. When an n-th-order hold means is provided between the respective control means with different sampling periods, the quantization error can be reduced remarkably, and thus the higher harmonic wave components included in the motor current are reduced, thereby greatly reducing the motor noise.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2004Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignees: NSK Ltd., NSK Steering Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Endo, Masahide Saito, Kenji Mori, Lilit Kovudhikulrungsri, Toru Sakaguchi
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Publication number: 20080028603Abstract: In order to increase the displacement of a motorcycle engine, the existing cylinder block of the engine is dismounted from its crankcase, and the existing piston is dismounted from its connecting rod. Then, a new piston having a greater diameter than the dismounted existing piston is mounted on the connecting rod, and a new cylinder block having a greater bore diameter than the existing dismounted cylinder block is connected to the crankcase while sliding the new large-diameter piston along the inner wall of the bore of the new cylinder block. The new cylinder block has a bottom end that is located above the top end of the crankcase when mounted on the crankcase. The new piston is short enough not to be inserted into the crankcase when moved to the bottom dead center. This eliminates the need to disassemble the crankcase or any parts in the crankcase. It is thus possible to easily increase the engine displacement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2006Publication date: February 7, 2008Inventors: Go Takegawa, Masahide Saito
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Publication number: 20070099756Abstract: A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission having an automatic shift mode for performing a shift operation by determining a gear position or gear ratio to be set according to a vehicle running condition and a manual shift mode for performing a shift operation instructed by a manual operation by an operator. The shift control apparatus includes a region determining unit for determining whether the present running condition is in a first region where downshift is performed at the present gear position or gear ratio in the automatic shift mode or in a second region higher in vehicle speed than the first region, and an upshift allowing unit for allowing upshift instructed by the manual operation by the operator in the manual shift mode when the region determining unit has determined that the present running condition is in the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2006Publication date: May 3, 2007Inventors: Yoshiharu Saito, Tatsuyuki Ohashi, Masahide Saito, Yoshiyuki Kokubo
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Publication number: 20070081799Abstract: In a motor driving device where a motor having a winding wire with small inductance value is driven by a digital control means comprised of control means including a current command value calculating means, a current control means and a PWM control means whose sampling periods are different from each other, when discrete signals sampled by the respective control means are zero-order-held, a motor current includes a lot of higher harmonic waves due to a quantization error, thereby increasing a motor noise. When an n-th-order hold means is provided between the respective control means with different sampling periods, the quantization error can be reduced remarkably, and thus the higher harmonic wave components included in the motor current are reduced, thereby greatly reducing the motor noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2004Publication date: April 12, 2007Inventors: Shuji Endo, Masahide Saito, Kenji Mori, Lilit Kovudhikulrungsri, Toru Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 7187154Abstract: The present invention provides a motor drive apparatus capable of calculating an angular velocity and a rotation angle accurately in the entire rotation velocity range of a motor using a cheap Hall sensor having an inferior accuracy without using an expensive resolver having a high accuracy. The present invention includes a first angular velocity calculating means for calculating the angular velocity based on the back-EMF of the motor when it rotates at low speeds and a second angular velocity calculating means for calculating the angular velocity based on a signal from the Hall sensor when it rotates at high speeds. According to the present invention, the angular velocity and rotation angle can be calculated accurately in the entire rotation speed range using the Hall sensor under hybrid usage.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2005Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignees: NSK Ltd., NSK Steering Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: CaoMinh Ta, Shuji Endo, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Masahide Saito
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Publication number: 20050242765Abstract: The present invention provides a motor drive apparatus capable of calculating an angular velocity and a rotation angle accurately in the entire rotation velocity range of a motor using a cheap Hall sensor having an inferior accuracy without using an expensive resolver having a high accuracy. The present invention includes a first angular velocity calculating means for calculating the angular velocity based on the back-EMF of the motor when it rotates at low speeds and a second angular velocity calculating means for calculating the angular velocity based on a signal from the Hall sensor when it rotates at high speeds. According to the present invention, the angular velocity and rotation angle can be calculated accurately in the entire rotation speed range using the Hall sensor under hybrid usage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2005Publication date: November 3, 2005Inventors: CaoMinh Ta, Shuji Endo, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Masahide Saito
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Publication number: 20030180030Abstract: The heater module (30) for heating an optical waveguide device (2) is provided with a ceramics heater (40) having a heating circuit (42) adapted to generate heat when energized and an AlN ceramics layer (44) stacked on the heating circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2002Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hirose, Tadashi Tomikawa, Hirohisa Saito, Nobuyoshi Tatoh, Masuhiro Natsuhara, Hirohiko Nakata, Masahide Saito, Naoji Fujimori
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Patent number: 6547698Abstract: A system for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle, wherein if the change of the destined gear GB (i.e., the target gear SH) is required when the jumping shift, i.e., two-gear downshifting is in progress, the input/output rotational speed ratio GRATIO (indicative of degree of shift progress) is compared with the predetermined input/output rotational speed ratio #GRCN312 or #GRCN423, and based on the result of comparison, how the shift to establish or effect the required destined gear GB, i.e., the shift mode QATNUM is determined, thereby enabling to improve or enhance the response to the change of the destined gear GB during two-gear downshifting. It can also prevent the clutch from being degraded in such a shifting.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Inagawa, Satoshi Kato, Masahide Saito, Masamitsu Fukuchi, Yoshikazu Nemoto, Yoshiharu Saito
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Publication number: 20030044119Abstract: In a planar waveguide optical circuit 1, a inclined groove 3 is formed at an inclination angle &thgr; with respect to the vertical axis so as to cross optical waveguides 2n. A reflection filter 4 structured such that the difference in reflectivity between orthogonal polarization is compensated for with respect to signal light is installed inside the groove 3, the reflected light from the reflection filter 4 is detected by the photodetectors 6n, and the optical intensity of the signal light is monitored. This makes it possible to accurately monitor the optical intensity regardless of the polarization state of the signal light. Also, since the inside of the groove 3 including the reflection filter 4 is sealed with a filler resin 5, any deterioration in long-term stability that would otherwise be caused by contamination of these components is prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Inventors: Takashi Sasaki, Takeo Komiya, Yasushi Fujimura, Masahide Saito
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Patent number: 6443165Abstract: A method for use in a plasma treatment system that shortens the time required for the cleaning of a fluorine containing carbon film adheared in a vacuum vessel and protects the surface of a transfer table when the cleaning is carried out. After a CF film is deposited by, e.g., a plasma treatment system, the cleaning of the CF film adhered in a vacuum vessel 2 is carried out. In the cleaning, a plasma of O2 gas is produced, and the C—C and C—F bonds on the surface of the CF film are physically and chemically cut by the active species of O produced by the plasma. The O2 gas penetrates into the CF film at places where the C—C and C—F bonds have been cut, to react with C of the CF film to form CO2 which scatters. On the other hand, F scatters as F2. Thus, the CF film is removed.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1998Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Takashi Akahori, Masaki Tozawa, Yoko Naito, Risa Nakase, Shuichi Ishizuka, Masahide Saito, Tadashi Hirata
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Patent number: D850972Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Inventor: Masahide Saito
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Patent number: D851538Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Inventor: Masahide Saito