Patents by Inventor Naoki Mizuno

Naoki Mizuno 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).

  • Patent number: 11975716
    Abstract: A device for setting a target vehicle that sets a target vehicle to be subjected to driving assistance control of a host vehicle includes: a detection signal acquisition device capable of acquiring a first detection signal representing an object by an image, and a second detection signal representing the object by a reflection point; and setting control unit, which determines whether to set a forward object as a target vehicle, wherein if a movement history is not associated with the forward object, and a combination history is associated with the forward object, then as a selection threshold of a first determination parameter for determining whether to set the forward object as the target vehicle, a selection threshold is used such that the forward object is less likely to be selected as the target vehicle than with the selection threshold which would be used if a movement history is associated with the forward object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Masui, Ryo Mizuno, Takashi Maeda, Naoki Kusumoto, Yuki Tezuka
  • Patent number: 11960925
    Abstract: A program generating device comprising circuitry configured to: display a schedule screen, in which, for each of a plurality of processes executed in a system including a plurality of industrial devices, at least a name of a process is associated with a variable that is at least either referenced or changed in a process program representing an operation of one or more of the plurality of industrial devices and executed in the process, a plurality of names of the plurality of processes obtained from a process database that is stored as process information are included, and an execution order of the plurality of processes can be specified; receive a specification of the execution order on the schedule screen; and generate a system program based on the execution order and the variable of each process included in the execution order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Yosuke Kamiya, Shinichiro Obata, Aya Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11738564
    Abstract: An inkjet printer has a nozzle surface on a head and having nozzle rows each having nozzles, manifolds suppling ink to the nozzles in each nozzle row, supply flow paths connected to the manifold and suppling the ink, circulation flow paths connected to the manifold and circulating the ink from the manifold to which the ink is supplied through the supply flow path, a cap to be in contact with the nozzle surface on an outside of the nozzles respectively in two nozzle rows, and a controller executing circulation processing where circulation of the ink through one supply flow path, one manifold and one circulation flow path is performed, and circulation of the ink through another supply flow path, another manifold and another circulation flow path is not performed, in a state where the ink or a cleaning liquid supplied in the cap is contacted with the nozzle surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsunori Nishida, Naoki Mizuno, Shunsuke Okai, Eiji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11703830
    Abstract: Provided is a production system including: an industrial machine configured to execute each of a plurality of processes; and a circuitry, the circuitry being configured to: detect an abnormality that has occurred in the industrial machine; receive, when the abnormality is detected, a specification of one or more processes to be executed in order to perform recovery, based on process information associating, for each of the plurality of processes, at least a name of the each of the plurality of processes with a variable representing an operation of the industrial machine and indicating that at least one of refer or change is to be performed by a process program to be executed in the each of the plurality of processes; and record recovery process information indicating the received one or more processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Takahiko Suzuki, Shinichiro Obata, Takaaki Shogaki, Megumi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11520315
    Abstract: Provided is a production system including: a plurality of industrial machines each configured to execute a process program for executing a predetermined process, and to perform at least one of refer or change of a machine variable; a controller configured to execute a system program for causing each of the plurality of industrial machines to operate based on an execution order specified for a plurality of predetermined processes, and to perform at least one of refer or change of a system variable; a storage configured to store conversion data for converting between the machine variable of each of the plurality of industrial machines and the system variable; and a circuitry configured to perform conversion between the machine variable of the each of the plurality of industrial machines and the system variable based on the conversion data of the each of the plurality of industrial machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Shinichiro Obata, Jongbeom Park, Aya Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20220328928
    Abstract: A battery separator includes: a polyolefin porous film; and a heat-resistant porous layer provided on at least one surface of the polyolefin porous film. The heat-resistant porous layer contains barium sulfate particles and an organic synthetic resin component. The barium sulfate particles are contained in the heat-resistant porous layer in an amount of 70 volume % or more and 96 volume % or less, and are contained in the heat-resistant porous layer in an amount of 1.8 g/m2 or more and 19.8 g/m2 or less. An amount of increase in an air permeability resistance per 1 ?m thickness of the heat-resistant porous layer is 10.0 sec/100 ccAir or less, a shrinkage rate when the heat-resistant porous layer has been left under an atmosphere of 130° C. for 1 hour is 8.0% or less, and a concentration of hydrogen sulfide is 0.3 ppm by volume or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsunori HAGIHARA, Kenji ECHIZEN, Hirokazu NINOMIYA, Naoki MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220212476
    Abstract: An inkjet printer has a nozzle surface on a head and having nozzle rows each having nozzles, manifolds suppling ink to the nozzles in each nozzle row, supply flow paths connected to the manifold and suppling the ink, circulation flow paths connected to the manifold and circulating the ink from the manifold to which the ink is supplied through the supply flow path, a cap to be in contact with the nozzle surface on an outside of the nozzles respectively in two nozzle rows, and a controller executing circulation processing where circulation of the ink through one supply flow path, one manifold and one circulation flow path is performed, and circulation of the ink through another supply flow path, another manifold and another circulation flow path is not performed, in a state where the ink or a cleaning liquid supplied in the cap is contacted with the nozzle surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Katsunori NISHIDA, Naoki MIZUNO, Shunsuke OKAI, Eiji TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11226607
    Abstract: An abnormality determination system includes motor control circuitry that controls a motor of a motor-driven machine based on a motor control command, and compares operation data of the motor obtained in controlling the motor with reference data stored in a storage to determine whether the motor driven machine has an operation abnormality, upper-level control circuitry that transmits the motor control command to the motor control circuitry, and data transceiver circuitry that transmits and receives the reference data and the operation data to and from the motor control circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Takaaki Shogaki, Takeshi Nagata, Tadashi Okubo, Naoki Mizuno, Atsunobu Sakata
  • Publication number: 20210182101
    Abstract: A program generating device comprising circuitry configured to: display a schedule screen, in which, for each of a plurality of processes executed in a system including a plurality of industrial devices, at least a name of a process is associated with a variable that is at least either referenced or changed in a process program representing an operation of one or more of the plurality of industrial devices and executed in the process, a plurality of names of the plurality of processes obtained from a process database that is stored as process information are included, and an execution order of the plurality of processes can be specified; receive a specification of the execution order on the schedule screen; and generate a system program based on the execution order and the variable of each process included in the execution order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Naoki MIZUNO, Yosuke KAMIYA, Shinichiro OBATA, Aya MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20210181723
    Abstract: Provided is a production system including: a plurality of industrial machines each configured to execute a process program for executing a predetermined process, and to perform at least one of refer or change of a machine variable; a controller configured to execute a system program for causing each of the plurality of industrial machines to operate based on an execution order specified for a plurality of predetermined processes, and to perform at least one of refer or change of a system variable; a storage configured to store conversion data for converting between the machine variable of each of the plurality of industrial machines and the system variable; and a circuitry configured to perform conversion between the machine variable of the each of the plurality of industrial machines and the system variable based on the conversion data of the each of the plurality of industrial machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Naoki MIZUNO, Shinichiro OBATA, Jongbeom Park, Aya MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20210181717
    Abstract: Provided is a production system including: an industrial machine configured to execute each of a plurality of processes; and a circuitry, the circuitry being configured to: detect an abnormality that has occurred in the industrial machine; receive, when the abnormality is detected, a specification of one or more processes to be executed in order to perform recovery, based on process information associating, for each of the plurality of processes, at least a name of the each of the plurality of processes with a variable representing an operation of the industrial machine and indicating that at least one of refer or change is to be performed by a process program to be executed in the each of the plurality of processes; and record recovery process information indicating the received one or more processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Naoki MIZUNO, Takahiko SUZUKI, Shinichiro OBATA, Takaaki SHOGAKI, Megumi YASUDA
  • Patent number: 10978721
    Abstract: A battery separator includes a polyolefin microporous membrane and a porous layer placed on at least one surface of the polyolefin microporous membrane. The polyolefin microporous membrane has a variation range of an F25 value in a longitudinal direction of 1 MPa or less. The F25 value indicates a value obtained by dividing a load value measured at 25% elongation of a specimen with use of a tensile tester by a cross-sectional area of the specimen. The porous layer contains a fluorine-based resin and an inorganic particle and has an average thickness T(ave) of 1 to 5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Masami Sugata
  • Patent number: 10946514
    Abstract: A controller includes control function circuits that are connected to each other and control a multi-axis control machine. Each of the control function circuits performs a respective control function upon receipt of a control signal from another control function circuit of the control function circuits, and the control signal corresponds to a predetermined interface standard determined from the control function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Yumie Kubota, Shinichi Maehara, Hajime Kimura, Naoki Mizuno, Ken Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10790492
    Abstract: A polyolefin microporous membrane has a variation range of F25 value in a longitudinal direction of 1 MPa or less; a thickness of 3 ?m or more and less than 7 ?m; and a length of 1,000 m or more (wherein the F25 value is a value obtained by measuring a load value applied to a test specimen when the test specimen is stretched by 25% using a tensile tester; and dividing the load value by a value of a cross-sectional area of a test specimen).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Masami Sugata
  • Publication number: 20200303705
    Abstract: A polyolefin microporous membrane is suitable to provide thereon a porous layer having little variation in thickness, which has a fluctuation range of F25 value in the length direction of 1 MPa or less, and which has a length of 1,000 m or more (wherein the F25 value refers to a value obtained by: measuring a load value applied to a test specimen when the test specimen is stretched by 25% using a tensile tester; and dividing the load value by the value of the cross-sectional area of the test specimen).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Masami Sugata
  • Patent number: 10784482
    Abstract: A polyolefin microporous membrane is suitable to provide thereon a porous layer having little variation in thickness, which has a fluctuation range of F25 value in the length direction of 1 MPa or less, and which has a length of 1,000 m or more (wherein the F25 value refers to a value obtained by: measuring a load value applied to a test specimen when the test specimen is stretched by 25% using a tensile tester; and dividing the load value by the value of the cross-sectional area of the test specimen).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Masami Sugata
  • Patent number: 10770707
    Abstract: A battery separator includes a polyolefin microporous membrane having a width of 100 mm or more, and a porous layer laminated on at least one surface of the polyolefin microporous membrane. The polyolefin microporous membrane has a variation range of an F25 value in a width direction of 1 MPa or less, and the F25 value indicates a value obtained by dividing a load value measured at 25% elongation of a specimen with use of a tensile tester by a cross-sectional area of the specimen. The porous layer contains a fluorine-based resin and an inorganic particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Masami Sugata
  • Patent number: 10723136
    Abstract: An image formation device includes a plurality of nozzles, a processor which forms an image on the basis of print data, and a memory which stores computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform processes including, performing first ejection control which ejects a first amount of the ink at a timing of one of a forward path and a return path in the main scan direction, when printing is performed by a multi-pass method in which each of pixel arrays is printed by a plurality of main scans and, in each of the plurality of main scans, the ink is ejected onto the same pixel array from the respectively different nozzles, and performing second ejection control configured to eject a second amount of the ink at a timing different from the previous timing of the ejection of the ink, the second amount being smaller than the first amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kayanaka, Naoki Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20200188863
    Abstract: A polyolefin microporous membrane on which a porous layer has little fluctuations in thickness and a separator for batteries can adapt to the increase in capacity of a battery. A polyolefin microporous membrane having a range of fluctuation in a F25 value in the width direction of 1 MPa or less, a thickness of 3 ?m or more and less than 7 ?m and a width of 100 mm or more (wherein the term “F25 value” refers to a value produced by dividing the value of a load applied to a test specimen upon the stretching of the test specimen at a stretching ratio of 25% using a tension tester by the value of a cross-sectional area of the test specimen).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Masami Sugata
  • Patent number: 10603904
    Abstract: An image formation device includes a plurality of nozzles arranged in a sub scan direction and configured to eject ink, a processor, and a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform processes including, performing a determination control configured to determine whether an unstable ejection condition, under which the ejection of the ink from the nozzles becomes unstable, is satisfied, and performing a first print control configured to cause printing to be performed by a multi-pass method when it is determined that the unstable ejection condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kayanaka, Naoki Mizuno