Patents by Inventor Nobuaki Ito

Nobuaki Ito 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: 11329494
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a driving circuit, a first accommodation section configured to accommodate a first battery which supplies electric power to the driving circuit and which is an all-solid-state battery having a solid electrolyte, a control circuit configured to control the driving circuit such that driving is performed in one of a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode in which power consumption is smaller than the first mode, and a determination circuit configured to determine whether electric power is supplied from an external power source to the first battery. When the determination circuit determines that the electric power is supplied from the external power source to the first battery, the control circuit performs switching from the second mode to the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei Horita, Nobuaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11326530
    Abstract: A temperature acquisition apparatus for an internal combustion engine is configured to acquire a temperature of a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. The apparatus includes: an electronic control unit having a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to perform: acquiring an intake air amount of the internal combustion engine; calculating a cumulative intake air amount based on the intake air amount; and acquiring a temperature of the internal combustion engine based on the cumulative intake air amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki Yamazaki, Hidekazu Hironobu, Masatoshi Nakajima, Ryuichi Hata, Nobuaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11306677
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating injection target values per a combustion cycle, controlling a fuel injector so as to inject fuel in accordance with the injection target values, instructing a switching between a first mode injecting the fuel and a second mode stopping the fuel injection, determining whether it is possible to inject the fuel in accordance with the injection target values when the switching from the second mode to the first mode is instructed, and modifying the injection target values by reducing a target injection frequency when it is determined to be impossible to inject the fuel in accordance with the injection target values, and the controlling including controlling the fuel injector, when the injection target values are modified, so as to inject the fuel in accordance with modified injection target values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakajima, Masahiro Takeuchi, Hidekazu Hironobu, Daiki Yamazaki, Nobuaki Ito, Ryuichi Hata, Yasunori Shinmi
  • Patent number: 11273633
    Abstract: The control section outputs a first output value as an output value which corresponds to the first nozzle group when a first input value is input as an input value which corresponds to the first nozzle group, and outputs a second output value as an output value which corresponds to the second nozzle group when the first input value is input as an input value which corresponds to the second nozzle group, the second output value being larger than the first output value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hagiwara, Nobuaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11273168
    Abstract: A heterocyclic compound represented by the general formula (1) or a salt thereof: wherein m, l, and n respectively represent an integer of 1 or 2; X represents β€”Oβ€” or β€”CH2β€”; R1 represents hydrogen, a lower alkyl group, a hydroxy-lower alkyl group, a protecting group, or a tri-lower alkylsilyloxy-lower alkyl group; R2 and R3, which are the same or different, each independently represent hydrogen or a lower alkyl group; or R2 and R3 are bonded to form a cyclo-C3-C8 alkyl group; and R4 represents an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group, wherein the aromatic or heterocyclic group may have one or more arbitrary substituent(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Ito, Hirofumi Sasaki, Kuninori Tai, Tomoichi Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11264816
    Abstract: A mobile device includes: a drive circuit driven based on power output from a battery; a first coupling portion configured to electrically couple a first battery being an electrolyte battery having a liquid electrolyte as the battery to the drive circuit; and a second coupling portion configured to electrically couple a second battery being an all-solid battery having a solid electrolyte as the battery to the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei Horita, Nobuaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11254125
    Abstract: A first flow path is provided between the first layer and the second layer, a second flow path is provided between the second layer and the third layer, a filter chamber is provided inside the third layer, and the second layer is thinner than each of the first layer and the third layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Okubo, Nobuaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20220032617
    Abstract: A drive waveform determination method for determining a drive waveform being a waveform of a drive pulse to be applied to a drive element to discharge liquid from a liquid discharge head, the method including: a first step of notifying a user of first information for the user to determine whether to use a first determination method of determining the drive waveform based on a user operation or a second determination method of determining the drive waveform without any user operation; and a second step of determining the drive waveform in accordance with the first determination method or the second determination method determined by the user based on an instruction on the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiro MURAYAMA, Nobuaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20220032640
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejecting head including: first and second nozzle rows extending in a first direction; a first supply flow path; a first filter chamber having a first inlet; and a second filter chamber having a second inlet, in which the first and second nozzle rows are shifted from each other in both the first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first supply flow path has a branch flow path for distributing the liquid between the first filter chamber and the second filter chamber at a branch position, the branch position is disposed between the first filter chamber and the second filter chamber in a plan view, and the first and second inlets are disposed at a part where the first filter chamber and the second filter chamber overlap each other when viewed in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro KANEGAE, Katsuhiro OKUBO, Hiroyuki HAGIWARA, Nobuaki ITO, Shun KATSUIE
  • Publication number: 20220032641
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejecting head which is long in a first direction and short in a second direction, including: a first introduction section; a second introduction section; a first filter chamber group having a first filter chamber and a second filter chamber; a second filter chamber group having a third filter chamber and a fourth filter chamber; a first supply flow path for supplying the liquid from the first introduction section to the first filter chamber group; and a second supply flow path for supplying the liquid from the second introduction section to the second filter chamber group, in which the first introduction section, the second introduction section, the first filter chamber group, and the second filter chamber group are arranged side by side in this order in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro KANEGAE, Katsuhiro OKUBO, Hiroyuki HAGIWARA, Nobuaki ITO, Shun KATSUIE
  • Patent number: 11236693
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a target injection time, determining a first crank angle defining a start of fuel injection and a second crank angle defining an end of fuel injection, controlling a fuel injector in a first injection mode in which the fuel is injected for the first target injection time from a first time point corresponding to the first crank angle or a second injection mode in which the fuel is injected for the second target injection time from a second time point corresponding to a target crank angle, and the controlling including controlling the fuel injector so as to inject the fuel in the first injection mode first and in the second injection mode last when the fuel is injected multiple times between an intake stroke and a compression stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakajima, Hidekazu Hironobu, Nobuaki Ito, Yasunori Shinmi, Ryuichi Hata, Daiki Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20210402794
    Abstract: Wherein, in the first dither mask, when the first space is cut by the first plane, a plurality of threshold values in the first plane has a blue noise characteristic in the spatial frequency domain, and when the first space is cut by a second plane extending in a direction different from that of the first plane, a plurality of threshold values in the second plane has a blue noise characteristic in the spatial frequency domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Kohei UTSUNOMIYA, Satoshi YAMAZAKI, Nobuaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20210406620
    Abstract: A distribution portion that distributes an error based on quantization of a gradation value corresponding to the one pixel, to a first pixel located in a first direction of the one pixel at a first distribution rate, to a second pixel located in a second direction of the one pixel at a second distribution rate, and to a third pixel located in a third direction of the one pixel at a third distribution rate, the second direction is a direction that intersects the first direction, and the third direction is a direction different from an extension direction of a plane defined by the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Kohei UTSUNOMIYA, Nobuaki ITO, Satoshi YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210403456
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel heterocyclic compound represented by Formula [I] and a salt thereof: wherein the symbols are as defined in the specification, which is useful for treating, preventing and/or diagnosing seizure and the like in disease involving epileptic seizure or convulsive seizure (including multiple drug resistant seizure, refractory seizure, acute symptomatic seizure, febrile seizure and status epilepticus), as well as a medical use therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoichi SHINOHARA, Shin IWATA, Masaki SUZUKI, Kenta ARAI, Nobuaki ITO, Takuya CHIBA
  • Patent number: 11207902
    Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a transport section that transports a medium in a first direction; a printing section that makes a liquid adhere to the medium transported by the transport section; a heating section provided downstream of the printing section in the first direction, in which the heating section includes a first heater that extends to a first range in a second direction intersecting the first direction and a second range positioned on one side in the second direction from the first range and heats the medium, and a second heater that extends to the first range and a third range positioned on the other side in the second direction from the first range, and heats the medium, and heats the medium by the first heater and the second heater when the printing section made the liquid adhere to the first range on the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Fujimori, Hironori Endo, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Toru Matsuyama, Ryo Hirabayashi, Nobuaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11207891
    Abstract: In the first head unit, the first supply port is positioned on a first side, which is one side of the first direction, and the first exhaust port is positioned on a second side, which is the other side of the first direction with respect to a center of the plurality of first nozzles, and in the second head unit, the second supply port is positioned on the second side and the second exhaust port is positioned on the first side with respect to a center of the plurality of second nozzles. The first head unit and the second head unit are arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hagiwara, Nobuaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11198307
    Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a transport section that transports a medium in a first direction; a discharge section that discharges a liquid to the medium transported by the transport section; and a heater that is provided downstream of the discharge section in the first direction, and heats the medium, in which the heater includes a ceramic substrate, a heat generating resistor provided on the ceramic substrate, and a protection section that protects the heat generating resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventors: Masaaki Fujimori, Hironori Endo, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Toru Matsuyama, Ryo Hirabayashi, Nobuaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11162446
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a target injection time, determining a first crank angle defining a start of fuel injection and a second crank angle defining an end of fuel injection, controlling a fuel injector in a first injection mode in which the fuel is injected for the first target injection time from a first time point corresponding to the first crank angle or a second injection mode in which the fuel is injected for the second target injection time from a second time point corresponding to a target crank angle, and the controlling including controlling the fuel injector so as to inject the fuel in an intake stroke in the first injection mode, while inject the fuel in a compression stroke in the second injection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakajima, Hidekazu Hironobu, Nobuaki Ito, Yasunori Shinmi, Ryuichi Hata, Daiki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11162452
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine control apparatus including an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform switching an injection mode between a first injection mode in which the fuel is injected in a range including an intake stroke and a compression stroke of an internal combustion engine and a second injection mode in which the fuel is injected in the range so that an injection frequency in the compression stroke in the second injection mode is greater than an injection frequency in the compression stroke in the first injection mode; and determining whether the injection mode needs to be switched based on an ignition timing of the ignitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Hironobu, Daiki Yamazaki, Masatoshi Nakajima, Nobuaki Ito, Ryuichi Hata, Hiroaki Tone
  • Publication number: 20210301747
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a target injection time, determining a first crank angle defining a start of fuel injection and a second crank angle defining an end of fuel injection, controlling a fuel injector in an injection start priority mode in which the fuel is injected for the first target injection time from a first time point corresponding to the first crank angle or an injection end priority mode in which the fuel is injected for the second target injection time from a second time point corresponding to a target crank angle, and the controlling including controlling the fuel injector so as to inject the fuel in the injection start priority mode or the injection end priority mode in accordance with an injection mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakajima, Hidekazu Hironobu, Daiki Yamazaki, Ryuichi Hata, Nobuaki Ito, Yasunori Shinmi