Patents by Inventor Masaru Kimura
Masaru Kimura 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: 20140321668Abstract: A signal processing device includes an excessive input estimating unit 102 that estimates excessive input of a target signal, a controller 105 that calculates frequency characteristics which will lessen the excessive input of the target signal from the excessive input information estimated by the excessive input estimating unit 102, and a frequency characteristic modification unit 103 that modifies the frequency characteristics of the target signal in accordance with the frequency characteristics the controller 105 calculates.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaru Kimura, Kohei Teramoto, Takashi Yamazaki, Takuya Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20140225621Abstract: Until an elapse of a predetermined time changed in accordance with a temperature of the secondary battery from the time of IG-off, the battery voltage is detected cyclically, and an open circuit voltage in a state where the polarization is cancelled is sequentially estimated based on a shift of the battery voltage. In a case where the IG switch is turned on after the elapse of the predetermined time, the battery voltage detected at the time of IG-on is assumed to be the open circuit voltage, and then an initial SOC at the time of starting use of the secondary battery is estimated. In a case where the IG switch is turned on before the elapse of the predetermined time, the estimated opening circuit voltage at that time point is regarded as the open circuit voltage, and the initial SOC of the secondary battery is estimated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2011Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaru Kimura, Ryo Mano
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Publication number: 20140159736Abstract: An estimation apparatus of estimating a deterioration state of a secondary battery has a current sensor measuring an electric current of the secondary battery, a current estimating section estimating the electric current of the secondary battery by using a battery model, and a deterioration estimating section estimating a second deterioration component produced in association with a salt concentration imbalance in the secondary battery. The deterioration estimating section estimates the second deterioration component by using the measured current obtained from the current sensor, the estimated current obtained from the current estimating section, and a first deterioration component produced in association with wear of the secondary battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2011Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichi Morimoto, Teruo Ishishita, Masaru Kimura, Takashi Ogura
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Patent number: 8704496Abstract: A charge control system (10) includes an electric power storage device (102), a variation suppression coefficient setting section (214) which sets a variation suppression coefficient, a variation suppression operation processing section which operates a charged state estimation operation value, and a charged state estimation section which estimates a charged state of the electric power storage device.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaru Kimura
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Publication number: 20140086435Abstract: Filters 106-1-106-N divide an input signal 100 into N band-limited signals 107-1-107-N, and multipliers 108-1-108-N carry out dynamic range control of the N band-limited signals 107-1-107-N, respectively. After that, filters 111-1-111-N eliminate odd harmonics caused by the dynamic range control, and a signal synthesis unit 113 combines the signals passing through the filters 111-1-111-N into a single output signal 114.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2011Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaru Kimura, Hirohisa Tasaki
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Patent number: 8594873Abstract: A power supply system for a hybrid vehicle includes a main power storage device and a plurality of sub power storage devices used selectively. When an SOC of one of the plurality of sub power storage devices decreases to a predetermined value or smaller, an ECU selects this sub power storage device as a sub power storage device to be charged. The ECU controls a connecting unit such that the sub power storage device to be charged is connected to a second converter. Furthermore, the ECU selects the HV mode as the travel mode. In the HV mode, electrical energy stored in an electric powered vehicle is maintained because of electric power generation by an engine.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaru Kimura, Junta Izumi
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Patent number: 8583717Abstract: A signal processing circuit has two types of filters: an IIR filter 11 and an FIR filter 12 having an equivalent transfer function at all times. In an adjustment mode in which the signal processing circuit is adjusted to have an arbitrary transfer function, the signal processing circuit makes a configuration setting to use the IIR filter 11. When completing the adjustment or in a signal processing mode, the signal processing circuit makes a configuration setting change to switch to the FIR filter 12 having the equivalent transfer function.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kohei Teramoto, Masaru Kimura, Tsuyoshi Nakada, Fuminori Saito
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Patent number: 8528304Abstract: The present invention provides a method and device for producing a content filling bottle including a bottom part that is inverted between a concave shape and a convex shape to prevent a body part from being subjected to reduced pressure deformation, the method and device being capable of efficiently producing a sanitary and high-quality content filling bottle. Contents are filled into an empty bottle 1 with an inversion part 11 projecting outwardly from the body part. A cap 6 is fitted onto an opening of the bottle 1 to seal the bottle 1. An auxiliary tool 27 is then installed on the bottom part 5 of the bottle 1. Then, the bottom part of the bottle 1 with the auxiliary tool 27 installed thereon is supported via the auxiliary tool 27. The downwardly projecting inversion part 11 is pressed up so as to be inverted and recessed inwardly into the bottle 1. Subsequently, with the opening of the bottle 1 gripped, the auxiliary tool 27 is separated from the bottle 1.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2007Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Graham Packaging Company, L.P.Inventors: Shunzo Miyazaki, Yasuhiro Sato, Akio Watanabe, Masaru Kimura
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Patent number: 8472778Abstract: A video player and a video-playback control method which are capable of easily performing a selection operation on a display object in a moving image are disclosed. The video player predicts the occurrence of the selection operation of the display object, which is an area for which an action is defined in the moving image, by the start of a move operation of the cursor 51 or the proximity of a hand to a touch panel, and changes the playback state of the title to pause or slow playback. Description information defined for the display object may be automatically displayed. Also, the areas of the display objects may be visualized by displaying figures.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Masaru Kimura, Shinji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 8442177Abstract: A signal receiving apparatus 2 has a memory circuit 22, writing of data contained in a digital input signal transmitted from a signal transmitting apparatus 1 is performed using a clock signal separated and created by a PLL circuit 21 from the digital input signal received, and reading is performed using a reference clock signal with quartz accuracy from a reference clock generating circuit 24. To reproduce the digital input signal by correcting the shift between the clock signal and the reference clock signal, the signal receiving apparatus detects the shift between the two clock signals. When the signal receiving apparatus 2 side lags behind the signal transmitting apparatus 1, the data contained in the digital input signal undergoes thinning out, and when it leads, a signal generated from previous and subsequent digital input signal is interpolated.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kohei Teramoto, Masaru Kimura, Tsuyoshi Nakada, Fuminori Saito
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Publication number: 20130069599Abstract: A charge control system (10) includes an electric power storage device (102), a variation suppression coefficient setting section (214) which sets a variation suppression coefficient, a variation suppression operation processing section which operates a charged state estimation operation value, and a charged state estimation section which estimates a charged state of the electric power storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2010Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaru Kimura
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Patent number: 8358790Abstract: A band-splitting time compensation signal processing device 2 includes a band-splitting circuit 211 for extracting, after extracting a signal of a high-frequency band component or low-frequency band component from an input signal, a signal of the low-frequency band component or high-frequency band component by subtracting the signal of the high-frequency band component or low-frequency band component from the input signal; a delay circuit 212 for delaying, for adjusting arrival time, at least one of the high-frequency band component and low-frequency band component output from the band-splitting circuit 211; and a mixing circuit 213 for combining the high-frequency band component or low-frequency band component output from the delay circuit 212 with the low-frequency band component or high-frequency band component output from the band-splitting circuit 211.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kohei Teramoto, Masaru Kimura, Tsuyoshi Nakada
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Patent number: 8311396Abstract: In a DVD video playback system adapted to transmit data in the form of a PS (program stream) from a source device to each sink device, a navigation manager of the source device stores system parameters, which are necessary for each sink device to decode the PS, in an unused area of a NV_PACK received from a PS demultiplexer and transmits it to a PS multiplexer. The navigation manager of the source device also produces an ORG_PACK in which navigation data necessary for each sink device to decode the PS, and transmits it to the PS multiplexer. The PS multiplexer produces a PS by multiplexing ORG_PACK and NV_PACK received from the navigation manager, V_PACK received from a video transcoder, and A_PACK and SP_PACK received from the PS demultiplexer, and the PS multiplexer transmits the resultant PS to each sink device via an in-vehicle LAN interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Masaru Kimura
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Patent number: 8306243Abstract: A signal processing section 3 is set up which provides an anti-phase component signal S extracted by an anti-phase component extracting section 2 with a transfer characteristic (Hd+Hx)/(Hd?Hx); an adder 4 adds the phase-inverted signal of the anti-phase component signal S provided with the transfer characteristic by the signal processing section 3 and an in-phase component signal M extracted by an in-phase component extracting section 1; and an adder 5 adds the anti-phase component signal S provided with the transfer characteristic by the signal processing section 3 and the in-phase component signal M extracted by the in-phase component extracting section 1.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaru Kimura, Bunkei Matsuoka
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Patent number: 8295676Abstract: A video reproducing apparatus performs continued reproduction of a video title in association with continued reproduction of applications. When a Power-OFF or Reproduction-Stop of the video reproducing apparatus event occurs at a time point when the video title is reproduced to a midpoint of a chapter, continued reproduction information of an HD DVD disk is identified, such as a title and a chapter being reproduced, and is stored in a memory at that point in time. When the power is turned ON without replacing the HD DVD disk, the application displays a chapter menu of the title, and a script including a command for starting reproduction of the chapter is activated by the application according to an operation of a button of the chapter menu.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Masaru Kimura, Takeshi Ochiai
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Patent number: 8180071Abstract: A multiplier 3 multiplies a square wave signal A(?,t) by a low frequency component signal L(?,t) to generate an even-order harmonic component signal B(?,t). A multiplier 4 multiplies the even-order harmonic component signal B(?,t) by the low frequency component signal L(?,t) to generate an odd-order harmonic component signal C(?,t). An adder 5 adds the even-order harmonic component signal B(?,t) and the odd-order harmonic component signal C(?,t) to generate the harmonic component signal D(?,t).Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takashi Yamazaki, Masaru Kimura
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Patent number: 8154124Abstract: A semiconductor chip has a main surface, a back surface and a plurality of side surfaces. A plurality of electrodes is provided on the main surface of the semiconductor chip so as to be arranged in a plurality of lines. An insulating film is formed on the main surface of the semiconductor chip so as to expose at least one of the plurality of electrodes. A plurality of leads are formed on the insulating film, each of the plurality of leads having a first end and a second end, and the first end of the lead being connected to the one of the plurality of electrodes. A base resin film is formed on the insulting film and the plurality of leads, the base resin film having a plurality of electrodes holes exposing a part of the second end of each of the leads and a device hole in which the first end of the lead and the one of the plurality of electrodes are located.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2007Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshikazu Takahashi, Masami Suzuki, Masaru Kimura
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Publication number: 20120065827Abstract: A power supply system for a hybrid vehicle includes a main power storage device and a plurality of sub power storage devices used selectively. When an SOC of one of the plurality of sub power storage devices decreases to a predetermined value or smaller, an ECU selects this sub power storage device as a sub power storage device to be charged. The ECU controls a connecting unit such that the sub power storage device to be charged is connected to a second converter. Furthermore, the ECU selects the HV mode as the travel mode. In the HV mode, electrical energy stored in an electric powered vehicle is maintained because of electric power generation by an engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2009Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaru Kimura, Junta Izumi
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Publication number: 20120014485Abstract: A prediction error calculating unit 13 calculates an error signal 103 between a left signal l(n) 101 and a prediction signal of the left signal l(n) 101 predicted from a right signal r(n) 102, a gain adjusting unit 17 makes a gain adjustment and outputs an error signal 107, a first adder 14 adds the left signal l(n) 101 and the error signal 107 and outputs, and a second adder 15 adds the right signal r(n) 102 and the error signal 107 in opposite phase and outputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru Kimura, Bunkei Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20120010738Abstract: An audio signal processing device 100 includes a period detecting unit 102 for detecting the fundamental period of an input audio signal 101; a square wave generating unit 106 for generating, according to the fundamental period the period detecting unit 102 detects, a square wave 107 whose period is an integer multiple of the fundamental period; an amplitude correction coefficient generating unit 103 for calculating an amplitude correction coefficient 109 approximately equal and proportional to the intensity of the input audio signal 101; a first multiplier 108 for generating an amplitude-corrected square wave 110 by multiplying the square wave 107 by the amplitude correction coefficient 109; and an adder 104 for adding the amplitude-corrected square wave 110 to the input audio signal 101.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2010Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru Kimura, Bunkei Matsuoka, Takashi Yamazaki, Asako Omote