Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Kato
Masatoshi Kato 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: 11989954Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses monitor a physical state of an occupant in a vehicle in different methods. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more first processors and one or more first memories. Upon receiving data indicating that the vehicle is in a stopped state from the determination apparatus, the one or more first processors cooperate with one or more programs in the one or more first memories to: make assignment of a part to be monitored and data to be acquired, of the occupant in the vehicle, to be detected by the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses; and detect the physical state of the occupant on the basis of first and second occupant monitoring data from the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Nakamura, Tsukasa Mikuni, Takuya Homma, Yutaka Ishii, Masatoshi Tsuge, Kazuhiro Hayakawa, Toru Kato
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Publication number: 20240164119Abstract: A method for manufacturing a module including a predetermined number of multilayered memories includes a multilayered wafer formation step of forming a multilayered wafer by bumpless stacking of a plurality of memory wafers; a singulating step of singulating the multilayered wafer into multilayered memories; a rearranging step of rearranging the plurality of multilayered memories in a predetermined shape; a molding step of molding the rearranged multilayered memories; a wiring formation step of forming external wiring in the multilayered memories; and a separation step of separating into a memory module including a predetermined number of molded multilayered memories.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Shigeru NAKAHARA, Fumitake OKUTSU, Masatoshi HASEGAWA, Kazuhiko KAJIGAYA, Kazuo KATO
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Publication number: 20240139887Abstract: A bonding sheet according to the present invention contains a matrix resin; solder particles; and a fluxing agent. The bonding sheet has a surface with a surface roughness Sa of 2.5 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Ayumi NITTA, Masatoshi KATO, Naofumi KOSAKA
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Publication number: 20240132757Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including a base polymer and a material that is discolored by water or water vapor, a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, a method for producing the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, and a method for attaching the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet to an adherend and detecting presence of the water or the water vapor in the attached location.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Yosuke SHIMIZU, Sayaka YAMASHITA, Kyotaro YAMADA, Masatoshi KATO
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Publication number: 20240111244Abstract: An image forming apparatus, having a main housing, a first photosensitive drum, a second photosensitive drum, a first developing device to supply toner to the first photosensitive drum, a second developing device to supply toner to the second photosensitive drum, a first reloading device to reload the first developing device with the toner, and a second reloading device to reload the second developing device with the toner, is provided. The first reloading device has a first reloading port, which accepts the toner for reloading the first developing device. The first reloading port is openable to an outside of the main housing. The second reloading device has a second reloading port, which accepts the toner for reloading the second developing device. The second reloading port is openable to the outside of the main housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yasutada KATO, Shunsuke ISHII, Masatoshi SHIRAKI, Shougo SATO
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Publication number: 20240106265Abstract: A backup power supply control system includes: a first semiconductor switch that switches a main power supply line to an electrically conductive state or an electrically non-conductive state; and an auxiliary power supply switch that switches an auxiliary power supply line to the electrically conductive state or the electrically non-conductive state. A first driving unit controls, in a non-failure state, a second semiconductor switch, connected between a gate and source of a first semiconductor switch, OFF and thereby controls the first semiconductor switch ON. The first driving unit ensures, in the failure state, at least a gate-plateau voltage of the first semiconductor switch as a drive voltage for the second semiconductor switch. When a failure detection unit detects the failure state, the first driving unit controls the first semiconductor switch OFF by controlling the second semiconductor switch ON and a second driving unit controls the auxiliary power supply switch ON.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Hiroki AKASHI, Masafumi NAKAMURA, Masatoshi NAKASE, Yuta NAGATOMI, Kinya KATO
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Patent number: 11938945Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more vehicles, and a server communicable with the one or more vehicles. The vehicle acquires an image obtained by imaging a road on which a host vehicle is located. The vehicle or the server determines a degree of difficulty in traveling on the road due to snow cover from the image. The server stores the degree of difficulty in traveling for each of one or more roads, and provides information to a client by using the stored degree of difficulty in traveling for each of one or more roads.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
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Publication number: 20240083346Abstract: A gating camera divides a field of view in a depth direction into multiple slices, and generates multiple slice images that correspond to the multiple slices. An illumination apparatus emits illumination light. A camera controller controls a light emission timing of the illumination apparatus and an exposure timing of an image sensor so as to generate slice images from a near slice to a farther slice. An arithmetic processing device judges whether a road surface appears for each of the slice images generated in sequence. Processing for a row judged to include a road surface in a given slice is simplified at the time of sensing of a slice farther than the given slice.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji ITABA, Masayuki TAKAHASHI, Daiki KATO, Shun TANEMOTO, Masatoshi SUZUKI, Keita KONDO
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Publication number: 20240079886Abstract: An electrical storage device control system includes a plurality of electrical storage devices and a plurality of charger circuits. The plurality of electrical storage devices are charged by a main power supply. The plurality of charger circuits are connected between the main power supply and the plurality of electrical storage devices. A mode of connection between the plurality of electrical storage devices being charged is switched to either a first connection mode or a second connection mode, depending on a voltage difference between an input voltage for the main power supply and a charging voltage based on respective voltages at the plurality of electrical storage devices. In the first connection mode, the plurality of electrical storage devices are connected together in series. In the second connection mode, the plurality of electrical storage devices are connected in parallel to the main power supply.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Kinya KATO, Yuta NAGATOMI, Masafumi NAKAMURA, Masatoshi NAKASE, Hiroki AKASHI
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Patent number: 11786785Abstract: A golf club head has a hollow portion therein. The golf club head includes a head main body comprising a striking face portion, a crown portion and a sole portion, the head main body being provided with a recess extending in a toe-heel direction of the club head on at least one of the crown portion and the sole portion, and a reinforcing rod being fixed to the recess and extending in the toe-heel direction of the club head.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi Kato
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Patent number: 11663799Abstract: Techniques for automatic image tagging and selection at a mobile device include generating a smart image tagging model by first training an initial model based on different angles of image capture of subject vehicles, and then re-training the trained model using weights discovered from the first training and images that have been labeled with additional tags indicative of different vehicle portions and/or vehicle parameters. Nodes that are training-specific are removed from the re-trained model, and the lightweight model is serialized to generate the smart image tagging model. The generated model may autonomously execute at an imaging device to predict respective tags associated with a stream of frames; select, capture and store respective suitable frames as representative images corresponding to the predicted tags; and provide the set of representative images and associated tags for use in determining vehicle damage, insurance claims, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: CCC INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Saeid Bagheri, Masatoshi Kato, Christoph Plenio
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Publication number: 20220358634Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques for utilizing image processing systems to measure damage to vehicles include utilizing an image processing system to generate a heat map of an image of a damaged vehicle, where the heat map is indicative of a damaged area of the vehicle, and determining at least one measurement of the damaged area based on the heat map and a depth of field indicator corresponding to the image. In some embodiments, the image processing system also determines one or more types of damage of the damaged area, and/or also generates a segmentation map of the depicted vehicle and utilizes the segmentation map in conjunction with the heat map to measure damaged areas and locations thereof on the vehicle depicted within the image. In some embodiments, the techniques include determining the depth of field indicator of the image or portions thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Steven Penny, Mohan Liu, Bahar Radfar, Neda Hantehzadeh, Bhadresh Dhanani, Sagar Bachwani, Ranjini Vaidyanathan, Masatoshi Kato, Srinivasan Krishnaswamy, Mina Haratiannezhadi
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Publication number: 20220358775Abstract: An image processing system analyzes each of a set of vehicle images to determine one or more vehicle segments present in the images. The image processing system uses a characterization engine in the form of a neural network based image model to process each of the pixels of each of the images to determine the particular pixels of the image (or of the object depicted within the image) within or associated with a particular vehicle segment, such as a vehicle door, bumper, right or left panel, rear panel, windshield, etc. The characterization engine or image model may be developed or trained using a training engine that analyzes a plurality of images of different vehicles damaged in various different manners which have been annotated, on a pixel by pixel basis, to indicate the segments of the vehicle to which the various pixels belong or depict, and which have also been annotated, on an image basis, to indicate the view and/or zoom level of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Neda Hantehzadeh, Bhadresh Dhanani, Sagar Bachwani, Ranjini Vaidyanathan, Masatoshi Kato, Srinivasan Krishnaswamy, Mina Haratiannezhadi
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Patent number: 11341379Abstract: Techniques for automatic image tagging and selection at a mobile device include generating a smart image tagging model by first training an initial model based on different angles of image capture of subject vehicles, and then re-training the trained model using weights discovered from the first training and images that have been labeled with additional tags indicative of different vehicle portions and/or vehicle parameters. Nodes that are training-specific are removed from the re-trained model, and the lightweight model is serialized to generate the smart image tagging model. The generated model may autonomously execute at an imaging device to predict respective tags associated with a stream of frames; select, capture and store respective suitable frames as representative images corresponding to the predicted tags; and provide the set of representative images and associated tags for use in determining vehicle damage, insurance claims, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: CCC INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Saeid Bagheri, Masatoshi Kato, Christoph Plenio
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Publication number: 20220032135Abstract: A golf club head has a hollow portion therein. The golf club head includes a head main body comprising a striking face portion, a crown portion and a sole portion, the head main body being provided with a recess extending in a toe-heel direction of the club head on at least one of the crown portion and the sole portion, and a reinforcing rod being fixed to the recess and extending in the toe-heel direction of the club head.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi KATO
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Patent number: 10987550Abstract: A golf club head has an inner cavity and comprises a face member and a head main body which a front opening, which are connected to each other. The head main body comprises a sole portion, and a weight member which has a specific gravity greater than that of the head main body is fixed to an inner surface of the sole portion. A weld which fix the weight member to the sole portion is disposed at the peripheral edge of the weight member. The weight member has the width in the toe-heel direction of the head, which is smaller on its rear side than its front side.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Masatoshi Kato
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Patent number: 10899292Abstract: A method of manufacturing an insulator is provided. The insulator includes a lower member and an upper member. The lower member is placed as a second flange of the lower member is fixed in position. The upper member is then disposed on the lower member as the second flange of the upper member is fixed in position. Accordingly, the first flange of the upper member and the first flange of the lower member abut each other, and the second flange of the upper member and the second flange of the lower member abut each other. Then, the first flange of the upper member and the first flange of the lower member are swaged, and then the second flange of the upper member and the second flange of the lower member are swaged.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouhei Yamamoto, Masatoshi Kato
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Patent number: 10850168Abstract: The golf club head according to the present invention is a golf club head including a face portion, a crown portion, a sole portion, and a hosel portion configured to accept insertion of a shaft. A reference sole line of intersection which is a line of intersection between a plane containing a central axis of the shaft and perpendicular to a setting surface and a surface of the sole portion with the golf club head in a reference state is prescribed, and a curvature radius of a circular arc that passes through three points on the reference sole line of intersection respectively corresponding to a face center, a position 25 mm from the face center on a toe side and a position 25 mm from the face center on a heel side is 5.0 to 6.0 inches.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi Kato
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Publication number: 20200094116Abstract: A golf club head has an inner cavity and comprises a face member and a head main body which a front opening, which are connected to each other. The head main body comprises a sole portion, and a weight member which has a specific gravity greater than that of the head main body is fixed to an inner surface of the sole portion. A weld which fix the weight member to the sole portion is disposed at the peripheral edge of the weight member. The weight member has the width in the toe-heel direction of the head, which is smaller on its rear side than its front side.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Masatoshi KATO
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Patent number: 10471311Abstract: The golf club head according to the present invention includes a face portion, a crown portion and a sole portion, the crown portion including a first region extending in a toe-heel direction along at least part of the face portion, a second region arranged further on a back side than the first region, and a step region extending in the toe-heel direction between the first region and the second region and extending downward toward the second region from the first region side, and the second region including a first part arranged in a vicinity of the middle in the toe-heel direction and contacting the step region, and a second part having a thinner wall thickness than the first part and arranged to surround a periphery of the first part on the back side, the toe side and the heel side of the first part.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi Kato