Patents by Inventor Masayuki Hashimoto
Masayuki Hashimoto 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: 20100301606Abstract: It is an object to enable stable operation of a wind turbine and to change a control parameter of the wind turbine at an appropriate timing. A dynamic-characteristics model of a wind turbine is identified for each of a plurality of ranges that are determined in accordance with wind speed, and the identified dynamic-characteristics model is monitored for each of the ranges.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Wakasa, Takatoshi Matsushita, Shinji Arinaga
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Publication number: 20100113703Abstract: This invention relates to a rubber composition capable of using in a tread rubber of a tire to improve both an initial gripping performance and a running stability of the tire as compared with those of conventional tires, and more particularly to a rubber composition formed by compounding an indene-containing C9-based resin having a softening point of 130° C.-190° C. and an indene content of 30-80 mass % into a rubber component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Houjo, Masayuki Hashimoto, Shigeki Kamo, Seiichi Kato, Masaki Toyoda
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Publication number: 20090212261Abstract: An anticaking agent for an iron and steel slag contains (A) at least one member selected from the group consisting of a phosphonic acid derivative and a salt thereof and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic hydroxycarboxylic acid and a salt thereof, at a mixing ratio (A)/(B) of the at least one member selected from the group consisting of a phosphonic acid derivative and a salt thereof (A) to the at least one member selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic hydroxycarboxylic acid and a salt thereof (B) of from 95/5 to 5/95 by mass, and the anticaking agent for an iron and steel slag may further contain (C) a sugar alcohol, thereby providing further high synergistic effect on anticaking capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2008Publication date: August 27, 2009Inventors: Masayuki Hashimoto, Kazunori Nakagawa
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Patent number: 7544158Abstract: An electroconductive rubber roller constituted of an electroconductive metal core and an electroconductive crosslinked rubber layer including an epichlorohydrin-based rubber, wherein the epichlorohydrin-based rubber is at least one copolymer selected from the group consisting of an epichlorohydrin-ethylene oxide copolymer and an epichlorohydrin-ethylene oxide-allyl glycidyl ether ternary copolymer. The ethylene oxide unit in the epichlorohydrin-based rubber is in a content of 40 to 90 mol %, and, the electroconductive crosslinked rubber layer has a heat quantity (enthalpy: ?H) 5 mJ/mg or less as measured by a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and indicated by a peak appearing within a range of ?20 to 150° C.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2006Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Canon Kasei Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihisa Yamada, Masayuki Hashimoto, Norihiro Harada, Mihoko Hyuga
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Publication number: 20080278970Abstract: An in-body information acquiring apparatus includes a function executing unit that realizes a predetermined function inside a body of a patient. A power-supply circuit includes a power unit that includes a cell and that outputs a first current and a first voltage; and a converter that converts the first current to a second current, which is a current required to operate the function executing unit for a predetermined time, and converts the first voltage to a second voltage, which is a voltage required to operate the function executing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2008Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takemitsu Honda, Toshiaki Shigemori, Seiichiro Kimoto, Ayako Nagase, Katsuyoshi Sasagawa, Hatsuo Shimizu, Tetsuo Minai, Tsutomu Nakamura, Hiroshi Suzushima, Noriyuki Fujimori, Tatsuya Orihara, Katsuya Suzuki, Masayuki Hashimoto, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi
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Publication number: 20080188712Abstract: A transmitting and receiving apparatus (2) that transmits a radio signal to a capsule endoscope includes: a transmitting level determining unit (25) disposed near a transmitting resonance circuit (22); a frequency controller (26) that controls an oscillation frequency based on a result of determination executed by the transmitting level determining unit (25); and a frequency variable oscillator (16) that changes the oscillation frequency, based on the control of the frequency controller (26). By changing the oscillation frequency so that a transmission level becomes large, the oscillation frequency can be changed so as to decrease a frequency difference between the oscillation frequency and the resonance frequency of the resonance circuit (22) that changes along a variation in a self inductance value of a coil (24).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2005Publication date: August 7, 2008Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Hatsuo Shimizu, Takemitsu Honda, Masayuki Hashimoto, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi
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Patent number: 7316647Abstract: In a capsule endoscope illuminating units are disposed around an image capturing unit in such a manner that an optical axis of the illuminating units do not intersect with an optical axis of the observation unit, and illumination areas of the illuminating units overlap at substantially a central portion of an image capturing area of the image capturing unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Seiichiro Kimoto, Noriyuki Fujimori, Hiroshi Suzushima, Toshiaki Shigemori, Tsutomu Nakamura, Ayako Nagase, Tetsuo Minai, Hatsuo Shimizu, Takemitsu Honda, Katsuyoshi Sasagawa, Katsuya Suzuki, Masayuki Hashimoto, Tatsuya Orihara, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi
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Patent number: 7254267Abstract: A volume data encoder with high encoding efficiency is provided. The object of the coding is volume data which contains a plurality of tomogram planes output from a CT and an MRI. A header analysis unit separates each plane image into header information and pixel information. A header compression unit compresses the separated header information. On the other hand, a two-dimensional transform unit conducts frequency decomposition on the pixel information. A skip portion detection and table generation unit detects skip portions that are the same in all coefficients in a z-direction, and stores them in a table. A one-dimensional transform unit conducts one-dimensional transform on the pixel information for coefficients except the skip portions. A unit block division unit divides each subband into unit blocks. An entropy encoding unit determines a parameter for entropy encoding according to statistical properties of all coefficients in all unit blocks included in each class.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2003Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: KDDI CorporationInventors: Masayuki Hashimoto, Kenji Matsuo, Atsushi Koike, Yasuyuki Nakajima
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Publication number: 20070049687Abstract: A reactive emulsifier for emulsion polymerization that does not have a polyoxyalkylene chain as a hydrophilic group, has good stability at the time of emulsion polymerization, and gives a polymer and a polymer film, having greatly improved various properties such as water resistance, adhesion, heat resistance and weather resistance is disclosed. The emulsifier for emulsion polymerization includes a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents a substituent represented by R or —CH2—O—R wherein R represents a hydrocarbon group; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; n represents from 1 to 200; X1 and X2 each represents a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or an anionic hydrophilic group.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventors: Masayuki Hashimoto, Yasunobu Hada, Toyoharu Matsubara, Tetsuya Mukai
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Publication number: 20060252619Abstract: An electroconductive rubber roller constituted of an electroconductive metal core and an electroconductive crosslinked rubber layer including an epichlorohydrin-based rubber, wherein the epichlorohydrin-based rubber is at least one copolymer selected from the group consisting of an epichlorohydrin-ethylene oxide copolymer and an epichlorohydrin-ethylene oxide-allyl glycidyl ether ternary copolymer. The ethylene oxide unit in the epichlorohydrin-based rubber is in a content of 40 to 90 mol %, and, the electroconductive crosslinked rubber layer has a heat quantity (enthalpy: ?H) 5 mJ/mg or less as measured by a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and indicated by a peak appearing within a range of ?20 to 150° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2006Publication date: November 9, 2006Applicant: CANON KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihisa Yamada, Masayuki Hashimoto, Norihiro Harada, Mihoko Hyuga
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Publication number: 20050054897Abstract: A capsule endoscope includes a function executing unit which executes predetermined functions including capturing an image in a subject where the capsule endoscope is introduced; a package which encloses the capsule endoscope, and has an opening; and a cover which covers the opening, and is made of a material reacting with a substance in the subject to expose the opening. The capsule endoscope also includes a sensor which detects that the capsule endoscope is located in the subject, through the opening; and a driving controller which controls the function executing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2004Publication date: March 10, 2005Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Hashimoto, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi, Noriyuki Fujimori
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Publication number: 20040236181Abstract: An in-body information acquiring apparatus includes a function executing unit that realizes a predetermined function inside a body of a patient. A power-supply circuit includes a power unit that includes a cell and that outputs a first current and a first voltage; and a converter that converts the first current to a second current, which is a current required to operate the function executing unit for a predetermined time, and converts the first voltage to a second voltage, which is a voltage required to operate the function executing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takemitsu Honda, Toshiaki Shigemori, Seiichiro Kimoto, Ayako Nagase, Katsuyoshi Sasagawa, Hatsuo Shimizu, Tetsuo Minai, Tsutomu Nakamura, Hiroshi Suzushima, Noriyuki Fujimori, Tatsuya Orihara, Katsuya Suzuki, Masayuki Hashimoto, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi
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Publication number: 20040225189Abstract: In a capsule endoscope illuminating units are disposed around an image capturing unit in such a manner that an optical axis of the illuminating units do not intersect with an optical axis of the observation unit, and illumination areas of the illuminating units overlap at substantially a central portion of an image capturing area of the image capturing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2004Publication date: November 11, 2004Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Seiichiro Kimoto, Noriyuki Fujimori, Hiroshi Suzushima, Toshiaki Shigemori, Tsutomu Nakamura, Ayako Nagase, Tetsuo Minai, Hatsuo Shimizu, Takemitsu Honda, Katsuyoshi Sasagawa, Katsuya Suzuki, Masayuki Hashimoto, Tatsuya Orihara, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi
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Publication number: 20040225190Abstract: A capsule endoscope has a front cover having a window for illuminating light and a window for capturing images. The window for illuminating light is flat. The window for capturing images is flat or convex. Because the window for illuminating light is flat, the light passes through the window without being reflected toward an image capturing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2004Publication date: November 11, 2004Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichiro Kimoto, Noriyuki Fujimori, Hiroshi Suzushima, Toshiaki Shigemori, Tsutomu Nakamura, Ayako Nagase, Tetsuo Minai, Hatsuo Shimizu, Takemitsu Honda, Katsuyoshi Sasagawa, Katsuya Suzuki, Masayuki Hashimoto, Tatsuya Orihara, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi
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Publication number: 20040208378Abstract: A volume data encoder with high encoding efficiency is provided. The object of the coding is volume data which contains a plurality of tomogram planes output from a CT and an MRI. A header analysis unit separates each plane image into header information and pixel information. A header compression unit compresses the separated header information. On the other hand, a two-dimensional transform unit conducts frequency decomposition on the pixel information. A skip portion detection and table generation unit detects skip portions that are the same in all coefficients in a z-direction, and stores them in a table. A one-dimensional transform unit conducts one-dimensional transform on the pixel information for coefficients except the skip portions. A unit block division unit divides each subband into unit blocks. An entropy encoding unit determines a parameter for entropy encoding according to statistical properties of all coefficients in all unit blocks included in each class.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2003Publication date: October 21, 2004Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Hashimoto, Kenji Matsuo, Atsushi Koike, Yasuyuki Nakajima
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Patent number: 6648807Abstract: In a conductive rubber roller including a conductive support and a rubber layer, the rubber layer includes a component (A), an epichlorohydrin rubber containing 40 mol % or more of ethylene oxide, and a component (B), an acrylonitrile butadiene rubber component having an acrylonitrile content of 20% by weight or less. The component (A) is in a proportion of 5 or more to less than 25 in weight ratio, based on a total weight of the components (A) and (B).Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Canon Kasei Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki Hashimoto, Masayuki Takahashi, Mitsuru Okuda
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Patent number: 6566199Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a film-forming method, a film-forming system, etc. capable of achieving adequate thickness repeatability and uniformity and sufficiently large film-forming rates in film formation of a thin film on a substrate to be treated and also capable of simplifying a system configuration. A thermal treatment system 1 according to the present invention is a system for forming a thin film of SiO2 on an Si wafer W and is provided with a reactant gas exhaust system 15 for reducing the pressure around the Si wafer W, a reactant gas supply system 14 for supplying hydrogen gas Gh and oxygen gas Go so as to mix them, onto the Si wafer W, and a chamber 2 having a lamp group 9G for heating the Si wafer W, and a wafer support member 3.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2001Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Nobuo Tokai, Yuji Maeda, Masayuki Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20020128139Abstract: In a conductive rubber roller comprising a conductive support and a rubber layer, the rubber layer comprises (A) an epichlorohydrin rubber containing 40 mol % or more of ethylene oxide and (B) an acrylonitrile butadiene rubber component having an acrylonitrile content of 20% by weight or less, and the component (A) is in a proportion of 5 or more to less than 25 in weight ratio, based on the total weight of said components (A) and (B).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2001Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: Masayuki Hashimoto, Masayuki Takahashi, Mitsuru Okuda
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Patent number: 6444957Abstract: The present invention provides a heating apparatus that displays a high heating efficiency and a long product life. In addition, present invention provides a heating apparatus that has no limitations with respect to the materials comprising its heat insulating material, which displays an even greater product life and, moreover, can be manufactured easily at low cost.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2001Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., LtdInventors: Takao Kitagawa, Masayuki Ishizuka, Kazunori Endou, Masayuki Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Nagata
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Publication number: 20020023914Abstract: The present invention provides a heating apparatus that displays a high heating efficiency and a long product life. In addition, present invention provides a heating apparatus that has no limitations with respect to the materials comprising its heat insulating material, which displays an even greater product life and, moreover, can be manufactured easily at low cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2001Publication date: February 28, 2002Inventors: Takao Kitagawa, Masayuki Ishizuka, Kazunori Endou, Masayuki Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Nagata