Patents by Inventor Masahiro Ide
Masahiro Ide 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: 11933897Abstract: A distance measurement device includes: a mirror disposed so as to be tilted relative to a rotation center axis; a drive unit configured to rotate the mirror about the rotation center axis; a photodetector configured to detect reflected light, of laser light, reflected in a distance measurement region; and a condensing lens disposed on the rotation center axis and configured to condense the reflected light reflected by the mirror, on the photodetector. The mirror has a shape elongated in one direction and is disposed such that a short axis thereof is tilted relative to the rotation center axis in a direction parallel to a plane including the rotation center axis. A width in a short-axis direction of the mirror is smaller than a width of a lens portion of the condensing lens as viewed in a direction parallel to the rotation center axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhisa Ide, Masaomi Inoue, Hirotaka Ueno, Kouichi Kumamaru, Masahiro Shiihara, Kouichi Bairin, Takashi Haruguchi, Kiyoshi Hibino
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Publication number: 20230273746Abstract: A storage system comprises a plurality of controllers and a plurality of drives, is coupled to a host via a plurality of physical paths, provides the host with a volume including storage areas of the plurality of drives. One controller out of the plurality of controllers sets, to any one of the plurality of controllers, ownership which is a right to control IO to and from the volume; and notifies, to the host, one of the plurality of physical paths that is coupled to one of the plurality of controllers to which the ownership is set, as a priority path for transmitting an IO request.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro IDE, Shinichi HIRAMATSU, Masaru TSUKADA
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Patent number: 11468866Abstract: A safety protection apparatus of a display apparatus includes an input voltage detection unit configured to generate input voltage information representing an input voltage, a luminance information generation unit (a dimming signal generation unit) configured to generate luminance information according to the input voltage, and a first check unit configured to check whether there is an abnormality in a correspondence relationship between the input voltage information and the luminance information.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Ide, Naohiro Kamitsuchihashi
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Publication number: 20220028354Abstract: A safety protection apparatus of a display apparatus includes an input voltage detection unit configured to generate input voltage information representing an input voltage, a luminance information generation unit (a dimming signal generation unit) configured to generate luminance information according to the input voltage, and a first check unit configured to check whether there is an abnormality in a correspondence relationship between the input voltage information and the luminance information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: MASAHIRO IDE, NAOHIRO KAMITSUCHIHASHI
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Patent number: 10525484Abstract: A decanter centrifuge that carries out solid-liquid separation by centrifugal force on an object to be processed that is fed into a rotating bowl and designed from a solid and a saturated solution wherein that solid is dissolved, and discharges solid phase components from a solid discharge opening and discharges liquid phase components from a solvent discharge opening thereof by rotationally operating a screw conveyor disposed within the rotating bowl, the decanter centrifuge being provided with a dilution solvent supply unit for supplying, during centrifuging of the object to be processed, dilution solvent that reduces the concentration of the saturated solution to a discharge path, which is a discharge path for saturated solution moving within the rotating bowl, and which is designed closer to the solvent discharge opening side-than a chamber for supplying the object to be processed.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: TOMOE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuya Ando, Mamoru Hasegawa, Masahiro Ide
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Patent number: 10459653Abstract: A storage system according to the present invention includes a first storage device configured to receive a command from a command issuing apparatus, a second storage device configured to manage target data of the command, and a third storage device configured to form a copy pair with the second storage device for the target data and store the target data. When the target data is forwarded from the first storage device to the third storage device through the second storage device and stored in the third storage device, the second storage device stores the target data therein so that the target data is redundantly stored in the second storage device and the third storage device.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: HITACHI LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Ide, Osamu Torigoe, Shinichi Kasahara
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Publication number: 20180349031Abstract: A storage system according to the present invention includes a first storage device configured to receive a command from a command issuing apparatus, a second storage device configured to manage target data of the command, and a third storage device configured to form a copy pair with the second storage device for the target data and store the target data. When the target data is forwarded from the first storage device to the third storage device through the second storage device and stored in the third storage device, the second storage device stores the target data therein so that the target data is redundantly stored in the second storage device and the third storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro IDE, Osamu TORIGOE, Shinichi KASAHARA
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Patent number: 10055279Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to process a plurality of commands included in a series of communication processes in a shared manner by a plurality of circuit parts, thereby improving reliability and processing performance. A semiconductor integrated circuit for communication (212) includes: a plurality of first circuit parts (2121) that are responsible for communicating with a higher-level apparatus (4); a plurality of second circuit parts (2122), which analyze a command included in a series of communication processes, and which share the processing of a plurality of commands included in the series of processes with another second circuit part; a common connector (2123) for connecting the first circuit parts to the second circuit parts; and a failure management part (2124), which, when a failure has occurred in any circuit part, causes the stoppage of processing by a stop-target circuit part that must stop processing.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawato, Shinichi Kasahara, Masahiro Ide, Osamu Torigoe
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Publication number: 20170232453Abstract: A decanter centrifuge that carries out solid-liquid separation by centrifugal force on an object to be processed that is fed into a rotating bowl and designed from a solid and a saturated solution wherein that solid is dissolved, and discharges solid phase components from a solid discharge opening and discharges liquid phase components from a solvent discharge opening thereof by rotationally operating a screw conveyor disposed within the rotating bowl, said decanter centrifuge being provided with a dilution solvent supply unit for supplying, during centrifuging of the object to be processed, dilution solvent that reduces the concentration of the saturated solution to a discharge path, which is a discharge path for saturated solution moving within the rotating bowl, and which is designed closer to the solvent discharge opening side—than a chamber for supplying the object to be processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Katsuya ANDO, Mamoru HASEGAWA, Masahiro IDE
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Patent number: 9720767Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a channel control unit, a storage device, and a processor. The channel control unit includes a plurality of operation units. The processor specifies, when receiving a request for read of a plurality of pieces of element data from a host computer, the plurality of pieces of element data to the plurality of operation units, respectively. The plurality of operation units respectively reads the plurality of pieces of element data from the storage device, calculates a plurality of partial codes that is a plurality of guarantee codes on the basis of the plurality of pieces of element data, and transmits the plurality of partial codes to the processor. The processor calculates, on the basis of the plurality of partial codes, a sequence code that is a guarantee code of sequence data including the plurality of pieces of element data which is concatenated.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Kasahara, Masahiro Ide, Tetsuya Kojima
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Publication number: 20170017540Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to process a plurality of commands included in a series of communication processes in a shared manner by a plurality of circuit parts, thereby improving reliability and processing performance. A semiconductor integrated circuit for communication (212) includes: a plurality of first circuit parts (2121) that are responsible for communicating with a higher-level apparatus (4); a plurality of second circuit parts (2122), which analyze a command included in a series of communication processes, and which share the processing of a plurality of commands included in the series of processes with another second circuit part; a common connector (2123) for connecting the first circuit parts to the second circuit parts; and a failure management part (2124), which, when a failure has occurred in any circuit part, causes the stoppage of processing by a stop-target circuit part that must stop processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2014Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWATO, Shinichi KASAHARA, Masahiro IDE, Osamu TORIGOE
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Publication number: 20150339184Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a channel control unit, a storage device, and a processor. The channel control unit includes a plurality of operation units. The processor specifies, when receiving a request for read of a plurality of pieces of element data from a host computer, the plurality of pieces of element data to the plurality of operation units, respectively. The plurality of operation units respectively reads the plurality of pieces of element data from the storage device, calculates a plurality of partial codes that is a plurality of guarantee codes on the basis of the plurality of pieces of element data, and transmits the plurality of partial codes to the processor. The processor calculates, on the basis of the plurality of partial codes, a sequence code that is a guarantee code of sequence data including the plurality of pieces of element data which is concatenated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2013Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Shinichi KASAHARA, Masahiro IDE, Tetsuya KOJIMA
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Patent number: 8860321Abstract: Provided are an LED control device and a liquid crystal display apparatus, wherein energy loss or noise (humming sound) to be generated upon switching the control of power supplying from a power supply device to a plurality of LED groups, between constant current control and constant voltage control, can be alleviated.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Ide, Motoyuki Oniki, Tomoyuki Ichiza
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Patent number: 8723449Abstract: An LED drive circuit (10) for driving an LED circuit (220) includes: a constant current driver (110) including transistors (111-114) whose collector terminals are respectively connected with LED rows (221-224) connected with each other in parallel and whose emitter terminals are grounded; and an LED drive control section (120) for setting a voltage to be commonly applied on the LED rows (221-224), the setting being performed in accordance with a maximum base current out of base currents of the transistors (111-114).Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Ide, Hideki Shioe
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Publication number: 20140097762Abstract: An LED drive circuit (10) for driving an LED circuit (220) includes: a constant current driver (110) including transistors (111-114) whose collector terminals are respectively connected with LED rows (221-224) connected with each other in parallel and whose emitter terminals are grounded; and an LED drive control section (120) for setting a voltage to be commonly applied on the LED rows (221-224), the setting being performed in accordance with a maximum base current out of base currents of the transistors (111-114).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Ide, Hideki Shioe
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Publication number: 20130057165Abstract: Provided are an LED control device and a liquid crystal display apparatus, wherein energy loss or noise (humming sound) to be generated upon switching the control of power supplying from a power supply device to a plurality of LED groups, between constant current control and constant voltage control, can be alleviated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Ide, Motoyuki Oniki, Tomoyuki Ichiza
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Patent number: 4761350Abstract: One or more defective fuel cells in fuel cell stacks are shortcircuited by a process comprising the steps of making plural holes in bipolar plates adjacent to the defective cell from at least one end of their process gas channels, inserting corrosion-resisting conductive wire rods into resultant holes to shortcircuit between the bipolar plates, and then closing the process gas channels of the bipolar plates at both ends with a heat-resisting sealing material to stop the supply the process gases to the defective cells.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1987Date of Patent: August 2, 1988Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Ide, Nobuyoshi Nishizawa, Nobuya Inoue, Akio Inoue, Osamu Takehara
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Patent number: 4615107Abstract: A method for assembling fuel cell stack comprises the steps of alternately stacking the prescribed number of fuel cells and bipolar plates to form a plurality of substacks, arranging the laid substacks on a supporting base so that the central axes of the substacks parallel to the stacking direction of the fuel cell stack are on a horizontal straight line to form a complete fuel cell stack, tying up the fuel cell stack to apply a predetermined compressive load to the fuel cell components, making the fuel cell stack vertical, and then removing said supporting base from the fuel cell stack. The supporting base on which a plurality of fuel cell substacks is provided at its both end with a pair of side plates, and a pressure plate is slidably arranged on the base and connected to driving means.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1985Date of Patent: October 7, 1986Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masao Kumeta, Masahiro Ide, Nobuyoshi Nishizawa, Nobuya Inoue, Hideki Goto