Patents by Inventor Naoki Saito

Naoki Saito 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).

  • Publication number: 20220307876
    Abstract: In the physical quantity detection device, the occurrence of the measurement error is reduced by suppressing the flow bias in the sub-passage and reducing the resistance in the passage. A physical quantity detection device 30 of the present invention includes a measuring portion 310 disposed in a main passage, a sub-passage 330 that takes a gas to be measured from the main passage, a support member 603 that divides a part of the sub-passage into two flow paths of one surface side and the other surface side in a direction intersecting a passage width direction, and a flow rate detection element 602 disposed on one surface of the support member. The sub-passage includes a straight portion 321 in which the support member is disposed and a downstream curved portion 322 that is curved to one side in the passage width direction of the straight portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Masamichi NAKAMURA, Akira UENODAN, Takahiro MIKI, Nobuaki GORAI, Naoki SAITO, Takayuki ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11442951
    Abstract: Optimal information in consideration with time series environmental factors is provided to users. The information processing apparatus includes a retrieve module configured to retrieve environmental information indicating an ultraviolet ray exposure amount indicating an amount of ultraviolet rays exposed to a user, a temperature of an environment where the user stays, and a humidity of the environment where the user stays, a present module configured to present first information relating to the skin condition of the user based on the environmental information, and a present module configured to present second information relating to the skin condition of the user based on environmental log information including a plurality of environmental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Shiseido Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Mori, Naoki Saito
  • Patent number: 11432464
    Abstract: A harvesting machine includes a harvesting part provided forward of a machine body, and harvests crops in a farm field; and a plurality of crop sensors provided in the harvesting part at intervals in a left-right direction, and detect the presence of crops upon coming into contact with the crops. The harvesting machine may also include a harvesting width detector that detects a harvesting width corresponding to crops harvested through harvesting work that has actually been performed, included in a workable width within which harvesting work can be performed by the harvesting part; and a travel transmission unit that changes the travel speed of the machine body. The harvesting machine may also include a speed controller that shifts the travel transmission unit to a lower speed as the harvesting width increases, and shifts the travel transmission unit to a higher speed as the harvesting width decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Sotaro Hayashi, Mao Kitahara, Takashi Nakabayashi, Kyosuke Yamaoka, Shoma Deguchi, Sadanori Hida, Kazuhiro Takahara, Naoki Saito, Masayuki Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20220256223
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a generator configured to generate control information to be used to perform light emission control of a light-emitting unit provided in an operation terminal; and a transmitter configured to transmit the control information to the operation terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: NATSUKI ISHIMOTO, TARO SUNADA, SATOSHI YAMADA, YUSUKE AOSHIMA, KOZO MORITA, NAOKI SAITO
  • Patent number: 11409823
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a means for storing coating material information on coating material, and tactile sensation information in which the tactile sensation when each coating material is applied to the skin is recorded, the coating material information and the tactile sensation information is associated with each other, a means for acquiring search criteria for at least one of tactile sensations and textures, identifying at least one tactile sensation information corresponding to the acquired search criteria, and a means for presenting the coating material information associated with the identified tactile sensation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Shiseido Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Ryuta Okazaki, Naomi Kitamura, Kohei Matsumori, Yuichiro Mori
  • Patent number: 11401899
    Abstract: To obtain a physical quantity detection device capable of reducing an intake amount of air accompanied by foreign matter. A physical quantity detection device (20) of the invention includes a housing arranged in a main passage through which a measurement target gas (2) flows. The housing is provided with a second sub-passage (B) that takes in a part of the measurement target gas (2) flowing in the main passage, a circuit chamber (135) that accommodates a pressure sensor (320) that detects a pressure of the measurement target gas (2), and a pressure introduction passage (170) having one end opened in the middle of the second sub-passage (B) and the other end opened in the circuit chamber (135) and capable of introducing the pressure of the measurement target gas (2) from the second sub-passage (B) into the circuit chamber (135). In the pressure introduction passage (170), an introduction port (171) is arranged at a position offset outward from a side wall surface (152b) of the second sub-passage (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Gorai, Takahiro Miki, Akira Uenodan, Naoki Saito
  • Publication number: 20220217911
    Abstract: A threshing apparatus 1 includes a threshing unit 41 that has a receiving net 23 and threshes crops, and a sorting unit 42 that is provided below the threshing unit 41 and sorts grain from a threshed product that has leaked from the receiving net 23. The sorting unit 42 includes a sorter 24 that sorts grain as a sorted product from the threshed product, a first product collector 26 that collects the sorted product as a first product, a second product collector 27 that collects, as a second product, the threshed product that was not sorted as the sorted product, a second product returner 32 that returns the second product collected by the second product collector 27 to the sorter 24, and a return amount detector 71 that detects the return amount of the second product to be returned to the sorter 24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Sotaro Hayashi, Toshiaki Fujita, Naoki Saito, Shun Matsunaga, Haruyuki Teranishi, Takanori Hori, Masayuki Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20220214198
    Abstract: An object is to improve measurement accuracy of a flow rate measurement device. A flow rate measurement device including: a first void which is formed of one surface of the support body and one surface of the circuit board; a second void which is formed of a surface opposite to the one surface of the circuit board and the housing; and a third void which is formed of a surface opposite to the one surface of the support body and a cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Akira UENODAN, Nobuaki GARAI, Shigeto HIROHATA, Naoki SAITO, Takahiro MIKI
  • Publication number: 20220210973
    Abstract: A combine including: a grain tank that stores grains sorted by a sort unit that swings to sort grains fallen from a threshing cylinder unit; a yield measuring device that measures the amount of grain put in the grain tank; a unit yield calculation unit that calculates a unit yield per unit plot in a cultivated field; an opening degree adjustment unit that adjusts the opening degree of a chaff sheave of the sort unit in accordance with a threshing state of the threshing apparatus; a mode setting unit that sets a yield accuracy priority mode in which priority is given to accuracy of the unit yield calculation performed by the unit yield calculation unit; and a yield accuracy maintenance unit that in response to the mode setting unit setting the yield accuracy priority mode, forcibly fixes the opening degree of the chaff sheave at a specific opening degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Takanori Hori, Naoki Saito, Yuya Suga
  • Publication number: 20220128389
    Abstract: Provided is a physical quantity detection device capable of improving noise performance of a flow rate detection unit as compared with the related art. The physical quantity detection device 20 includes a plate-like chip package 208 that is arranged to protrude from the flow path of the measurement target gas and has a width W along the flow direction of the measurement target gas. The chip package 208 includes a flow rate detection unit 205, an accelerating flow path 208c, a measurement surface 208a, a non-measurement surface 208b, and a separation flow portion 208d. The cross sectional area of the accelerating flow path 208c is reduced, and the flow rate detection unit 205 is arranged. The separation flow portion 208d partitions the second sub-passage 234b into a measurement flow path facing the measurement surface 208a and a non-measurement flow path facing the non-measurement surface 208b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Akira UENODAN, Satoshi NODA, Naoki SAITO, Masamichi NAKAMURA, Takahiro MIKI, Nobuaki GORAI, Takayuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220074375
    Abstract: To obtain a physical quantity detection device capable of reducing an intake amount of air accompanied by foreign matter. A physical quantity detection device (20) of the invention includes a housing arranged in a main passage through which a measurement target gas (2) flows. The housing is provided with a second sub-passage (B) that takes in a part of the measurement target gas (2) flowing in the main passage, a circuit chamber (135) that accommodates a pressure sensor (320) that detects a pressure of the measurement target gas (2), and a pressure introduction passage (170) having one end opened in the middle of the second sub-passage (B) and the other end opened in the circuit chamber (135) and capable of introducing the pressure of the measurement target gas (2) from the second sub-passage (B) into the circuit chamber (135). In the pressure introduction passage (170), an introduction port (171) is arranged at a position offset outward from a side wall surface (152b) of the second sub-passage (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuaki GORAI, Takahiro MIKI, Akira UENODAN, Naoki SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220057989
    Abstract: Provided is a display control device including: a voice receiver configured to receive a voice utterance from a user; a communication unit configured to receive information for the voice utterance from a server via a network; and a controller configured to select an item corresponding to the voice utterance on the basis of the information that has been received, and configured to control an action in response to the item that has been selected, in which the item includes a first item in an inside of a display screen and a second item that becomes displayable by scrolling, and the controller selects either the first item or the second item on the basis of the information that has been received. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a television receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo Watanabe, Nobuhiro Ozu, Tsuyoshi Yamada, Shunichi Sugiura, Naoki Saito
  • Patent number: 11178462
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a user information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on presence of one or more users who are using same content as output content, a user position decision unit configured to decide display positions of the presence of the users with the information on the presence of the users acquired by the user information acquisition unit, and a display control unit configured to exert control to display the information on the presence of the users on the basis of the display positions decided by the user position decision unit in a manner that the users appear to be using the content together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Takayuki Kaneko, Yukihito Ono, Naoki Saito, Seiji Suzuki, Osamu Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20210333502
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus communicably mountable with a lens apparatus including a driver configured to drive a driven member includes an acquirer configured to acquire information on a noise source, and a determiner configured to determine a control over the driver using the information on the noise source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Naoki Saito
  • Publication number: 20210306549
    Abstract: In a lens apparatus, a CS terminal is disposed adjacent to a DGND terminal, and a DCA terminal is disposed on the other side of the CS terminal from the DGND terminal. The terminals on the accessory correspond to terminals on an imaging apparatus where a CS terminal is disposed adjacent to a DGND terminal, and a DCA terminal is disposed on the other side of the CS terminal from the DGND terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Yasuyuki Watazawa, Naoto Fujihashi
  • Patent number: 11126343
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect a user's operation, and a display control unit configured to display content in a part including a middle of a display screen and display thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen. The display control unit moves the displayed thumbnails in a vertical direction with respect to the one direction according to an operation which is detected by the operation detection unit and is an operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the displayed thumbnails belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Naoki Saito, Kazuto Nishizawa, Masao Kondo
  • Publication number: 20210286854
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a means for storing coating material information on coating material, and tactile sensation information in which the tactile sensation when each coating material is applied to the skin is recorded, the coating material information and the tactile sensation information is associated with each other, a means for acquiring search criteria for at least one of tactile sensations and textures, identifying at least one tactile sensation information corresponding to the acquired search criteria, and a means for presenting the coating material information associated with the identified tactile sensation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki SAITO, Ryuta OKAZAKI, Naomi KITAMURA, Kohei MATSUMORI, Yuichiro MORI
  • Patent number: 11064105
    Abstract: In a lens apparatus, a CS terminal is disposed adjacent to a DGND terminal, and a DCA terminal is disposed on the other side of the CS terminal from the DGND terminal. The terminals on the accessory correspond to terminals on an imaging apparatus where a CS terminal is disposed adjacent to a DGND terminal, and a DCA terminal is disposed on the other side of the CS terminal from the DGND terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Yasuyuki Watazawa, Naoto Fujihashi
  • Publication number: 20210175017
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes external electrodes having conductive resin layers thereinside on respective two ends opposed to each other in a rectangular parallelepiped ceramic component body. Each of the external electrodes includes an underlying metal layer, an intermediate metal layer, a conductive resin layer, an external metal layer. A tip angle ? between an outer face of a tip portion of the wraparound portion of the underlying metal layer and a surface of the ceramic component body is 20° or smaller, and a tip angle ? between an outer face of a tip portion of the wraparound portion of the intermediate metal layer and a surface of the ceramic component body is 20° or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: SATOSHI KOBAYASHI, TAKAHISA FUKUDA, TOMOAKI NAKAMURA, MIKIO TAHARA, NAOKI SAITO, KIYOSHIRO YATAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10998135
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes external electrodes having conductive resin layers thereinside on respective two ends opposed to each other in a rectangular parallelepiped ceramic component body. Each of the external electrodes includes an underlying metal layer, an intermediate metal layer, a conductive resin layer, an external metal layer. A tip angle ? between an outer face of a tip portion of the wraparound portion of the underlying metal layer and a surface of the ceramic component body is 20° or smaller, and a tip angle ? between an outer face of a tip portion of the wraparound portion of the intermediate metal layer and a surface of the ceramic component body is 20° or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Satoshi Kobayashi, Takahisa Fukuda, Tomoaki Nakamura, Mikio Tahara, Naoki Saito, Kiyoshiro Yatagawa