Patents by Inventor Satoshi Ando

Satoshi Ando 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: 9889745
    Abstract: A slip determination system for a vehicle, which is capable of improving the determination accuracy by avoiding erroneous determination of excessive slip of wheels when a state of the wheels, driven/braked by motors, is switched. In the slip determination system according to the present invention, when first and second motor rotational speeds NMOT1 and NMOT2, which are rotational speeds of rear motors which brake/drive rear wheels WRL and WRR, reach a reference rotational speed NMREF set based on wheel rotational speeds NWFL, NWFR, NWRL, and NWRR, it is determined that excessive slip has occurred in the rear wheels WRL and WRR. When the sign of a target torque TROBJ of the rear motors is inverted, the reference rotational speed NMREF is changed to a value more difficult to be reached by the first and second motor rotational speeds NMOT1 and NMOT2, or the excessive slip determination is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakaguchi, Satoshi Ando, Masatoshi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20170336749
    Abstract: An relay connector fitting structure has a connector, a relay connector, and a chassis. The relay connector is removably fitted with the connector. The chassis has a fitting surface. The chassis has, formed integrally with it, a first stopper restricting movement of the relay connector in a first direction, a second stopper restricting movement of the relay connector in a second direction, and an opposite surface stopper restricting movement of the relay connector to the side opposite from the fitting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi ANDO, Ryo MATSUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9810136
    Abstract: A coolant-control valve that performs initialization learning using a stopper and provides an efficient structure by an initialization learning stopper within an actuator which drives a valve body. The coolant-control valve is equipped with a rotor driven to control a flow rate of coolant for cooling an engine, a casing that houses the rotor, and a rotary drive device that drives the rotor. Control means of the rotary drive device have an initialization learning function of an operating range of the rotor. The rotary drive device is equipped with a motor and a reduction gear. The operating range of the rotor is restricted by the operating range of an output gear among power transmission elements in the reduction gear. A groove of the output gear and a fixed-angle stopper inserted into the groove are restricting means for use during initialization learning by the control means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Tsuchiya, Takumi Oikawa, Yoshiyuki Kanesaka, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9783852
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for assessing embryotoxicity of a chemical comprising: (1) a first step of measuring the expression level of one or more genes selected from among genes each comprising any of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 78 and 101 to 230 and orthologous genes thereof in a sample from a non-human mammal or mammalian cell which has come into contact with a test chemical; and (2) a second step of comparing the measured value of the expression level of the gene in the sample obtained in the first step with a control value of the expression level of the gene and based on the difference assessing the level of the embryotoxicity of the test chemical in the sample; and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Noriyuki Suzuki, Koichi Saito, Satoshi Ando, Nobuyuki Horie
  • Publication number: 20170282928
    Abstract: A vehicle drive system includes a slip acquisition unit that acquires that an excessive slip of front wheels or rear wheels has occurred, an addition slip point calculating unit that calculates addition slip points in a time-discrete manner, based on the slip acquisition unit having acquired that the excessive slip has occurred, a cumulative slip point calculating unit that accumulates the addition slip points and calculates a cumulative slip point over time, a drive state switching unit that, switches between 2WD and AWD based on cumulative slip points, and an increase forbidding determination unit that forbids addition or accumulation of the addition slip points, or increase of the cumulative slip points, in a case where a lateral acceleration correlation value that has correlation with lateral acceleration of the vehicle exceeds a lateral acceleration threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakaguchi, Satoshi Ando, Masatoshi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20170282929
    Abstract: A vehicle drive system includes a slip acquisition unit that acquires occurrence of excessive slip, an addition slip point calculating unit that calculates addition slip points in a time-discrete manner, based on having acquired that the excessive slip has occurred, a cumulative slip point calculating unit that accumulates the addition slip points and calculates a cumulative slip point over time, a drive state switching unit that switches between 2WD and AWD based on cumulative slip points and a drive state switching threshold value, and a cumulative slip point resetting unit triggered by a lateral acceleration correlation value of the vehicle reaching a lateral acceleration threshold value or higher, or a drive force correlation value of the drive wheels reaching a drive force correlation threshold value or higher, to reset the cumulative slip point to a value smaller than the drive state switching threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakaguchi, Masatoshi Noguchi, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9769298
    Abstract: A cordless phone apparatus is provided, which includes one or more slave devices and a master device. The master device includes: i) a LAN transmitter configured to transmit slave device information to a wireless IP terminal via a wireless LAN, wherein the slave device information includes identification information of each slave device registered to the master device, ii) a receiver configured to receive from the wireless IP terminal selection of the identification information of a destination slave device and selection of transfer data including at least one of ringtone data, wallpaper data, and phone book data, iii) a transfer data converter configured to convert at least one of the ringtone data, wallpaper data, and phone book data included in the transfer data into a data format usable in the destination slave device, and iv) a cordless phone transmitter configured to transmit the converted transfer data to the destination slave device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9678375
    Abstract: A display device includes a display component, a plastic frame, and a rear frame. The plastic frame supports the display component near an edge portion of the display component from a rear side of the display device relative to the display component. The rear frame is disposed on the rear side of the display device relative to the display component. The rear frame includes a fixing component that fixedly couples at least the plastic frame relative to the rear frame. The fixing component has an inner bent component that extends forward and inward of the display device from an edge part of the rear frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Mori, Satoshi Ando, Yuki Kita, Kazuya Tanaka, Yuki Ogino, Nobuhiro Matsutani
  • Publication number: 20170078467
    Abstract: Slave device information transmitter (127) of the present disclosure transmits slave device information to a mobile phone. Slave device transfer data receiver (122) receives slave device transfer data from the mobile phone, and stores the slave device transfer data in storage (103). Destination slave device determiner (123) extracts destination slave device information from slave device transfer data stored in storage (103), and selects a cordless phone slave device which is a destination of the slave device transfer data, based on destination slave device identification information which is set in the destination slave device information. Slave device transfer data transmitter (125) transmits slave device transfer data to a cordless phone slave device selected by destination slave device determiner (123).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20170070604
    Abstract: Cordless telephone equipment includes a portable unit and a base unit. The base unit includes: a portable unit control section controlling a communication protocol with the portable unit through a wireless interface wirelessly connecting with the non-IP terminal type portable unit; a wireless LAN interface section transmitting and receiving packet data to and from a wireless IP terminal and wireless LAN access point; a wireless LAN bridge control section forwarding the received packet data to the wireless IP terminal, or the wireless LAN access point, or within the base unit in accordance with a destination address of the packet data received through the wireless LAN interface section; and a base unit control section processing the packet data received from the wireless IP terminal and forwarded within the base unit, as data received from a portable unit under control of the base unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Hikaru FUKUDA, Eiichi HATAE, Satoshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20170070603
    Abstract: Disclosed is cordless telephone equipment allowing various kinds of data stored in a mobile telephone to be stored in a cordless handset in a state usable therein, without provision of a new device thereto. A handset transfer-data conversion section that executes a predetermined conversion process according to a type of handset transfer-data stored in a storage section. Specifically, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an audio format of ringtone data according to a use CODEC of a cordless handset. In addition, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of wallpaper data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset. Further, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of image data of the other party included in telephone directory data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9586230
    Abstract: A method for coating a lubrication paint on a disk-shaped substrate, comprising: applying the lubrication paint on a sliding portion of the disk-shaped substrate from a paint supply nozzle while rotating the disk-shaped substrate in the horizontal plane; and leveling the lubrication paint applied on the sliding portion by contacting the lubrication paint with a doctor knife that is arranged at a downstream position in the direction of rotation of the disk-shaped substrate. The disk-shaped substrate may be the swash plate of a swash plate compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Tomita, Norio Taniyama, Hiromitsu Shishido, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9588364
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a rear face housing, and a slender support member. The display panel is configured to display image. The rear face housing is disposed on a rear side of the display device with respect to the display panel. The support member is disposed between a peripheral edge portion of the display panel and a peripheral edge portion of the rear face housing. The support member supports the peripheral edge portion of the display panel from the rear side. The support member has a protruding portion that protrudes in a direction intersecting a lengthwise direction of the support member. The rear face housing includes an insertion component at the peripheral edge portion of the rear face housing, with the protruding portion of the support member being engaged with the insertion component of the rear frame housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Ando, Tatsuji Sudo, Yasuhiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20170006165
    Abstract: Slave device information transmitting unit of the present invention transmits slave device information to a mobile phone. Slave device transfer data receiving unit receives slave device transfer data from the mobile phone, and stores the slave device transfer data in storage unit. Destination slave device determining unit extracts destination slave device information from slave device transfer data stored in storage unit, and selects a cordless telephone slave device which is a destination of the slave device transfer data, based on destination slave device identification information which is set in the destination slave device information. Slave device transfer data transmitting unit transmits slave device transfer data to a cordless telephone slave device selected by destination slave device determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando, Takayoshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9531857
    Abstract: Cordless telephone equipment includes a portable unit and a base unit. The base unit includes: a portable unit control section controlling a communication protocol with the portable unit through a wireless interface wirelessly connecting with the non-IP terminal type portable unit; a wireless LAN interface section transmitting and receiving packet data to and from a wireless IP terminal and wireless LAN access point; a wireless LAN bridge control section forwarding the received packet data to the wireless IP terminal, or the wireless LAN access point, or within the base unit in accordance with a destination address of the packet data received through the wireless LAN interface section; and a base unit control section processing the packet data received from the wireless IP terminal and forwarded within the base unit, as data received from a portable unit under control of the base unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9525990
    Abstract: Disclosed is cordless telephone equipment allowing various kinds of data stored in a mobile telephone to be stored in a cordless handset in a state usable therein, without provision of a new device thereto. A handset transfer-data conversion section that executes a predetermined conversion process according to a type of handset transfer-data stored in a storage section. Specifically, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an audio format of ringtone data according to a use CODEC of a cordless handset. In addition, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of wallpaper data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset. Further, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of image data of the other party included in telephone directory data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20160318400
    Abstract: A slip determination system for a vehicle, which is capable of improving the determination accuracy by avoiding erroneous determination of excessive slip of wheels when a state of the wheels, driven/braked by motors, is switched. In the slip determination system according to the present invention, when first and second motor rotational speeds NMOT1 and NMOT2, which are rotational speeds of rear motors which brake/drive rear wheels WRL and WRR, reach a reference rotational speed NMREF set based on wheel rotational speeds NWFL, NWFR, NWRL, and NWRR, it is determined that excessive slip has occurred in the rear wheels WRL and WRR. When the sign of a target torque TROBJ of the rear motors is inverted, the reference rotational speed NMREF is changed to a value more difficult to be reached by the first and second motor rotational speeds NMOT1 and NMOT2, or the excessive slip determination is inhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakaguchi, Satoshi Ando, Masatoshi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20160288792
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a vehicle drive system that can improve drive efficiency while maintaining vehicle stability. The drive state switching unit (64) comprises: a step (S3, S105) in which a switch is made from 2WB to AWD on the basis of a cumulative slip point; a step (S12, S303) in which a switch is made from 2WD to AWD on the basis of a calculated lateral G; a step (S13, S109, S111) in which a switch is made from AWD to 2WD after the step (S3or S105) under a first switching condition; and a step (S13, S306, S308) in which a switch is made from AWD to 2WD after the step (S12 or S303) under a second switching condition. The first switching condition and the second switching condition are made to differ from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi ANDO, Masayuki KIKUCHI, Masatoshi NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150346541
    Abstract: A television includes a liquid crystal cell, a light source unit, a light guide plate that includes a light entrance surface containing a side end surface through which light emitted from the light source unit enters, and guides light emitted from the light source unit and entering the light entrance surface such that the light travels toward the liquid crystal cell, and a mold frame disposed between the light guide plate and the liquid crystal cell, and supporting the liquid crystal cell. The television includes an elastic member disposed between the light guide plate and the mold frame, brought into contact with the light guide plate in an elastically deformed state of the elastic member, and exhibiting non-translucency to prevent transmission of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi ANDO, Tatsuji SUDO
  • Publication number: 20150337824
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To improve the adhesion resistance of a swash plate in a swash plate type compressor. [Means to Solve the Problem] Lubrication film made of a cured coating film composed of a binder resin containing 100% by weight of polyamideimide resin and 2 to 18% by weight of bisphenol-A epoxy resin, and a solid lubricant containing polytetrafluoroethylene and graphite is provided on the surface of the swash plate substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Norio TANIYAMA, Takeo TOMITA, Hiromitsu SHISHIDO, Satoshi ANDO