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).

  • Publication number: 20150330376
    Abstract: [Problem] In a swash plate of a swash plate type compressor, adhesion resistance of the swash plate will be greatly improved as compared with that achieved in the prior art by optimizing the average aspect ratio and the average particle size of the fluororesin particles contained in a lubrication film provided on the swash plate. [Solution] In a swash plate of a swash plate type compressor, a lubrication film composed of a binder resin, the fluororesin particles having an average aspect ratio of 1 to 1.5 and an average particle size of 7 to 13 micron-meters, and the graphite is provided at a sliding portion against a shoe of the swash plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Norio TANIYAMA, Takeo TOMITA, Hiromitsu SHISHIDO, Satoshi ANDO
  • Patent number: 9154060
    Abstract: A rear wheel driving device includes left and right electric motors connected to left and right rear wheel, respectively; and a control device for controlling the electric motors such that a third relationship is satisfied as the first priority based on at least either a first relationship or a second relationship, and the third relationship. The first relationship includes sum of right and left wheel torques, sum of right and left motor torques, sum of right and left wheel driving forces, or sum of right and left motor driving forces. The second relationship includes difference between right and left wheel torques, difference between right and left motor torques, difference between right and left wheel driving forces, or difference between right and left motor driving forces. The third relationship includes sum of left and right electric powers generated or consumed by the electric motors, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Noguchi, Satoshi Ando, Masayuki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9150118
    Abstract: A motor controller obtains: a first motor target rotation number, a first motor actual rotation number of a first motor, a second motor target rotation number, and a second motor actual rotation number of a second motor; determines a first rotation number difference between the first motor target rotation number and the first motor actual rotation number of the first motor, and a second rotation number difference between the second motor target rotation number and the second motor actual rotation number of the second motor, determines first and second rotation control torques based on a smaller one of the first rotation number difference and the second rotation number difference; and determines a first motor torque of the first motor and a second motor torque of the second motor based on the first and second rotation control torques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sei Shinohara, Satoshi Ando, Masatoshi Noguchi, Masakatsu Hori, Makoto Tsuchihashi
  • Publication number: 20150239008
    Abstract: [Problems to be Solved] The object of the present invention is to provide a method of providing a paint film even in a film thickness excluding a masking operation which can efficiently coat a paint just on a sliding portion, and can provide a paint film having an even film thickness over the entire area of the sliding portion when the lubrication paint is coated on a disk-shaped substrate such as a swash plate of a swash-plate compressor. [Means to Solve the Problem] The coating method includes: supplying of the lubrication paint on the sliding portion of the disk-shaped substrate from a paint supply nozzle while rotating the disk-shaped substrate such as the swash plate of the swash-plate compressor in a horizontal direction; and leveling of the lubrication paint supplied on the sliding portion, by a doctor knife that is arranged at a downstream position in a rotative direction of the disk-shaped substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Takeo Tomita, Norio Taniyama, Hiromitsu Shishido, Satoshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20150132787
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a cell aggregate containing a ciliary marginal zone-like structure by culturing a cell aggregate containing a retinal tissue in which Chx10 positive cells are present in a proportion of 20% or more of the tissue in a serum-free medium or serum-containing medium, each containing a substance acting on the Wnt signal pathway for only a period before the appearance of a RPE65 gene expressing cell, followed by culturing the “cell aggregate in which a RPE65 gene expressing cell does not appear” thus obtained in a serum-free medium or serum-containing medium, each not containing a substance acting on the Wnt signal pathway and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: RIKEN
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sasai, Satoshi Ando, Mototsugu Eiraku, Tokushige Nakano
  • Publication number: 20150083057
    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: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru TSUCHIYA, Takumi OIKAWA, Yoshiyuki KANESAKA, Satoshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20150065293
    Abstract: A vehicle driving system includes: a left wheel driving system having a first motor and a first speed changer; a right wheel driving system having a second motor and a second speed changer; a motor controller which controls the first motor and the second motor, a rotation restricting unit which can be shifted between a released state and an applied state; and a rotation restricting unit controller which controls the rotation restricting unit. When the rotation restricting unit controller shifts the rotation restricting unit from the applied state to the released state, the motor controller controls the first motor and the second motor so that a torque sum of the first motor and the second motor approaches zero while maintaining a torque difference between the first motor and the second motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Ando, Sei Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20150042245
    Abstract: A motor controller obtains: a first motor target rotation number, a first motor actual rotation number of a first motor, a second motor target rotation number, and a second motor actual rotation number of a second motor; determines a first rotation number difference between the first motor target rotation number and the first motor actual rotation number of the first motor, and a second rotation number difference between the second motor target rotation number and the second motor actual rotation number of the second motor, determines first and second rotation control torques based on a smaller one of the first rotation number difference and the second rotation number difference; and determines a first motor torque of the first motor and a second motor torque of the second motor based on the first and second rotation control torques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sei Shinohara, Satoshi Ando, Masatoshi Noguchi, Masakatsu Hori, Makoto Tsuchihashi
  • Publication number: 20150036671
    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: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hikaru FUKUDA, Eiichi HATAE, Satoshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20140362839
    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: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20140347594
    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: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi ANDO, Tatsuji SUDO, Yasuhiro MORI
  • Publication number: 20140342346
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of cryopreserving a tissue derived from a pluripotent stem cell, including the steps of (1) bringing a tissue derived from a pluripotent stem cell into contact with a cell protection solution that contains sulfoxide and chain polyol, (2) maintaining, in a cryopreservation solution, the pluripotent stem cell-derived tissue that was brought into contact with the cell protection solution in the first step, and (3) cryopreserving, in the presence of a coolant, the pluripotent stem cell-derived tissue that was maintained in the cryopreservation solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Satoshi Ando, Tokushige Nakano, Yoshiki Sasai, Mototsugu Eiraku
  • Publication number: 20140341864
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a retinal tissue by (1) subjecting pluripotent stem cells to floating culture in a serum-free medium containing a substance inhibiting the Wnt signal pathway to form an aggregate of pluripotent stem cells, (2) subjecting the aggregate to floating culture in a serum-free medium containing a basement membrane preparation, and then (3) subjecting the aggregate to floating culture in a serum-containing medium. The invention also provides a method for producing an optic-cup-like structure, a method for producing a retinal pigment epithelium, and a method for producing a retinal layer-specific neural cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Tokushige Nakano, Satoshi Ando, Yoshiki Sasai, Mototsugu Eiraku
  • Publication number: 20140289799
    Abstract: A communication apparatus transmits an authentication frame to an authentication apparatus and receiving a response frame for response to the authentication frame from the authentication apparatus so that an authentication process is performed for the communication apparatus by the authentication apparatus. The communication apparatus includes a receiving section which receives a communication frame transmitted from another apparatus, and an authentication processing section which determines whether the received communication frame is a frame of EAP-response (Extensible Authentication Protocol-response) or not. The authentication processing section discards the received communication frame if it is determined that the received communication frame is the frame of EAP-response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Satoshi ANDO, Kazuhide SAWABE, Satoshi ARITA
  • Patent number: 8782742
    Abstract: A communication apparatus transmits an authentication frame to an authentication apparatus and receives a response frame for response to the authentication frame from the authentication apparatus so that an authentication process is performed for the communication apparatus by the authentication apparatus. In the communication apparatus, a transmitting section transmits an authentication frame to the authentication apparatus using a multicast address as a transmission destination address, and if a reception determining section determines that the response frame is not received from the authentication apparatus, a transmission destination address changing section changes the transmission destination address from the multicast address to a broadcast address, and the transmitting section transmits the authentication frame that has the transmission destination address changed to the broadcast address to the authentication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Ando, Kazuhide Sawabe, Satoshi Arita
  • Publication number: 20140191689
    Abstract: The rear wheel driving device 1 includes: an electric motor 2A connected to a left rear wheel LWr; an electric motor 2B connected to a right rear wheel RWr; and a control device 8 for controlling the electric motors 2A and 2B. The control device 8 controls the electric motors 2A and 2B such that a third relationship is satisfied as the first priority based on at least either a first relationship or a second relationship, and the third relationship. The first relationship is defined as including a sum of right and left wheel torques, a sum of right and left motor generator torques, a sum of right and left wheel driving forces, or a sum of right and left motor generator driving forces. The second relationship is defined as including a difference between right and left wheel torques, a difference between right and left motor generator torques, a difference between right and left wheel driving forces, or a difference between right and left motor generator driving forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Noguchi, Satoshi Ando, Masayuki Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20140192290
    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: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MORI, Satoshi ANDO, Yuki KITA, Kazuya TANAKA, Yuki OGINO, Nobuhiro MATSUTANI
  • Publication number: 20140099662
    Abstract: The present invention provides a phototoxicity test method using human retinal pigment epithelial cells, and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Ando, Koichi Saito
  • Patent number: 8655563
    Abstract: In a braking/driving force control apparatus, a vehicle target braking/driving force and a vehicle target yaw moment through the control of braking/driving forces of wheels are calculated, and when the target braking/driving force and the target yaw moment cannot be achieved through the control of the braking/driving forces of the wheels, the vehicle target braking/driving force after the modification and the vehicle target yaw moment after the modification are calculated such that, within the range where the ratio of the vehicle target braking/driving force after the modification and the vehicle target yaw moment after the modification coincides with the ratio of the target braking/driving force and the target yaw moment, the vehicle braking/driving force and the vehicle yaw moment by the target braking/driving forces of the wheels take the greatest values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Maeda, Kazuya Okumura, Michitaka Tsuchida, Yoshio Uragami, Kensuke Yoshizue, Satoshi Ando, Koji Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8590822
    Abstract: A welding-wire-storing pail pack is provided in which a pressing member includes an annular body positioned on a coil of welding wire, a pressing margin extending from a position on an underside of the body at an inner peripheral edge of the coil toward an axis of the coil, and a projection provided on an inner peripheral edge of the pressing margin in such a manner as to project downward. The body has an inner diameter of 200 to 470 mm. A gap of 10 mm at the minimum is provided between an inner shell and the body. The pressing member weighs 600 to 2000 g. Thus, the wire is prevented from being tangled and/or kinked when being pulled out, and the occurrence of decoiling failure is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Arita, Satoshi Ando, Keishuku Araki