Patents by Inventor Shoichi Hasegawa

Shoichi Hasegawa 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: 10758939
    Abstract: A wearable vibration presentation apparatus includes a weight saving and simplified electric-mechanical vibration converter that has a mechanism that is quite different. The vibration presentation apparatus includes a transmitting member and a control unit, wherein a side portion of the transmitting member abuts a portion of a vibration presentation object or is wound to the vibration presentation object. Vibration is transmitted to the vibration presentation object via the transmitting member by applying predetermined tension to the transmitting member and varying the predetermined tension based on a driving signal on a basis of a vibration presentation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shoichi Hasegawa, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10737627
    Abstract: A luggage room assembly mounted in a vehicle includes a deck board configured to be movable between a laid state and a lifted state and including a handle member on a floor surface thereof, the handle member being movable between a projected state in which the handle member projects from the floor surface and a non-projected state in which the handle member does not project from the floor surface, and a package tray disposed above the deck board and having a rear surface that is opposite the floor surface of the deck board and to which the handle member in the projected state is connected when the deck board is in the lifted state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuhei Abe, Mitsuaki Eshima, Shoichi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20200230651
    Abstract: A wearable vibration presentation apparatus includes a weight saving and simplified electric-mechanical vibration converter that has a mechanism that is quite different. The vibration presentation apparatus includes a transmitting member and a control unit, wherein a side portion of the transmitting member abuts a portion of a vibration presentation object or is wound to the vibration presentation object. Vibration is transmitted to the vibration presentation object via the transmitting member by applying predetermined tension to the transmitting member and varying the predetermined tension based on a driving signal on a basis of a vibration presentation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shoichi HASEGAWA, Yusuke YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10466271
    Abstract: A scanning probe microscope includes: a cantilever; a cantilever supporting portion; a movement mechanism that moves a position of the cantilever; a light source that emits detection light; a detector that receives the detection light reflected on a reflecting surface of the cantilever; an objective lens; and a controller that controls the movement mechanism to perform a process including: detecting a spot position of a spot light of the detection light; detecting a position of the cantilever from an image captured by the imaging device; and controlling the movement mechanism based on the spot position, the position of the cantilever, an incident angle of the detection light, and the attachment angle such that the detection light is reflected on the reflecting surface when the cantilever is attached to the cantilever supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Watanabe, Toshihiro Ueno, Susumu Ito, Shoichi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20190152400
    Abstract: A luggage room assembly mounted in a vehicle includes a deck board configured to be movable between a laid state and a lifted state and including a handle member on a floor surface thereof, the handle member being movable between a projected state in which the handle member projects from the floor surface and a non-projected state in which the handle member does not project from the floor surface, and a package tray disposed above the deck board and having a rear surface that is opposite the floor surface of the deck board and to which the handle member in the projected state is connected when the deck board is in the lifted state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuhei ABE, Mitsuaki ESHIMA, Shoichi HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180299404
    Abstract: A sensor control apparatus (1) calculates the concentration of oxygen using a gas sensor (3) including a sensor element (11) and a heater (12). The sensor control apparatus (1) repeatedly obtains internal resistance data representing an internal resistance value Rpvs of an oxygen-ion-conductive solid electrolyte body (14) and pump current data representing the value of pump current Ip which flows between a pair of pump electrodes (15) and (16) and whose value varies with the concentration of oxygen. The sensor control apparatus (1) corrects the value of the pump current Ip based on the internal resistance value Rpvs, a target internal resistance value, and a derivative value dRpvs/dt calculated based on a plurality of the repeatedly obtained internal resistance values Rpvs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori NUNOME, Satoshi TERAMOTO, Shoichi HASEGAWA, Tomomi IMAIDA
  • Publication number: 20170059609
    Abstract: A scanning probe microscope includes: a cantilever; a cantilever supporting portion; a movement mechanism that moves a position of the cantilever; a light source that emits detection light; a detector that receives the detection light reflected on a reflecting surface of the cantilever; an objective lens; and a controller that controls the movement mechanism to perform a process including: detecting a spot position of a spot light of the detection light; detecting a position of the cantilever from an image captured by the imaging device; and controlling the movement mechanism based on the spot position, the position of the cantilever, an incident angle of the detection light, and the attachment angle such that the detection light is reflected on the reflecting surface when the cantilever is attached to the cantilever supporting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Masafumi WATANABE, Toshihiro UENO, Susumu ITO, Shoichi HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150130812
    Abstract: A measured data digitization apparatus digitizes measured data based on image data obtained by reading paper data including the measured data indicated on an X-Y plane, and includes a straight line extracting unit extracting straight lines from the image data, an X-Y axis obtaining unit obtaining two orthogonal straight lines as X and Y axes, respectively, a numerical value obtaining unit obtaining numerical values around the X and Y axes from the image data, an area setting unit setting an area on the X-Y plane defined by the X and Y axes based on minimum and maximum values of the numerical values that are respectively obtained for the X and Y axes and a measured data obtaining unit obtaining the measured data in the area as numerical value data on the X and Y axes from the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH SCIENCE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoichi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 6950141
    Abstract: An automatic exposure control camera always permits a subject to be photographed with appropriate brightness regardless of a front-lighted, back-lighted, or over-front-lighted condition. The area to be photographed is divided into 64 regions. The camera determines the average Yav64 of brightness over all the regions, the average YavU32 of brightness in the regions constituting the upper half, the average YavL32 of brightness in the regions constituting the lower half, the average YavD1 of brightness in regions in which brightness is lower than the average Yav64, the average YavD2 of brightness in regions in which brightness is lower than the average YavD1, the average YavB1 of brightness in regions in which brightness is higher than the average Yav64, and the average YavB2 of brightness in regions in which brightness is higher than the average YavB1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., LTD
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Seiji Okada, Tetsuo Mise, Shoichi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 6937271
    Abstract: A camera signal processor having a motion detection component for dividing an image picked up by an imaging device into a plurality of motion detection areas, and detecting the motion of the image for each or the motion detection areas, an extracting component for extracting, on the basis of the motion of the image for each of the motion detection areas which has been detected by the motion detection component, the motion detection area where an object making abnormal motion exists, and an image enlarging component for enlarging the image picked up by the imaging device, centered on the motion detection area where an object making abnormal motion exists which has been extracted by the extracting component and displaying the enlarged image on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Seiji Okada, Shoichi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20020006283
    Abstract: An automatic exposure control camera always permits a subject to be photographed with appropriate brightness regardless of a front-lighted, back-lighted, or over-front-lighted condition. The area to be photographed is divided into 64 regions. The camera determines the average Yav64 of brightness over all the regions, the average YavU32 of brightness in the regions constituting the upper half, the average YavL32 of brightness in the regions constituting the lower half, the average YavD1 of brightness in regions in which brightness is lower than the average Yav64, the average YavD2 of brightness in regions in which brightness is lower than the average YavD1, the average YavB1 of brightness in regions in which brightness is higher than the average Yav64, and the average YavB2 of brightness in regions in which brightness is higher than the average YavB1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Seiji Okada, Tetsuo Mise, Shoichi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 4324764
    Abstract: A process for the continuous leaching of ores and an apparatus for practising this continuous leaching process are disclosed. According to this process, a plurality of unit layers composed of a pulverized uranium ore or other ore are continuously laminated while a minimum necessary amount of an acid, alkali or organic solvent (hereinafter referred to as "solvent") is uniformly sprinkled on the flat surfaces of these unit layers. In the state where the concentration of the solvent mixed into the ore is maintained at a high level, the heat generated by exothermic reaction caused by contact among the solvent, ore and water is effectively stored and used for thermally curing the ore. According to this process, the speed of extraction of the intended metal component can be increased, the leaching time shortened and the filtration characteristics improved, whereby a highly concentrated pregnant liquor can be recovered at a high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1982
    Assignee: International Resources Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Hasegawa, Thoru Yamashita, Mitsuo Kameda
  • Patent number: 4225563
    Abstract: A process for the continuous leaching of ores and an apparatus for practicing this continuous leaching process are disclosed. According to this process, a plurality of unit layers composed of a pulverized uranium ore or other ore are continuously laminated while a minimum necessary amount of an acid, alkali or organic solvent (hereinafter referred to as "solvent") is uniformly sprinkled on the flat surfaces of these unit layers. In the state where the concentration of the solvent mixed into the ore is maintained at a high level, the heat generated by exothermic reaction caused by contact among the solvent, ore and water is effectively stored and used for thermally curing the ore. According to this process, the speed of extraction of the intended metal component can be increased, the leaching time shortened and the filtration characteristics improved, whereby a highly concentrated pregnant liquor can be recovered at a high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: International Resources Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Hasegawa, Thoru Yamashita, Mitsuo Kameda
  • Patent number: 4065599
    Abstract: Down-like synthetic filler material comprises a spherical object made up of filamentary material with a denser concentration of filaments near the surface of the spherical object than the filament concentration spaced apart from the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shiro Nishiumi, Shoichi Hasegawa, Toshiyuki Mizoguchi, Sachiko Furuta