Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Matsumoto
Toshihiro Matsumoto 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).
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Publication number: 20170082744Abstract: There is provided a radar device. A transmitting unit transmits first and second transmission signals generated based on first and second parameters for computing relative velocities in first and second detection velocity ranges, respectively. The second detection velocity range is narrower than the first detection velocity range. A receiving unit receives the reflected waves of the first and second transmission signals from a target as first and second reception signals, respectively. A velocity measuring unit computes first and second relative velocities in the first and second detection velocity ranges based on the first and second reception signals, respectively and obtains the velocity measurement result of the relative velocity of the target based on the combination of the first and second relative velocities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITEDInventors: Toshihiro MATSUMOTO, Junko KAJIKI
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Publication number: 20160197530Abstract: Insulator that forms an insulating layer on a surface of a plurality of stacked stator cores includes protruding part extending from an outer circumference of stator cores on a substantially same face as one end face of stator cores in a stacking direction. Protruding part includes hooks that fixedly holds connector having a plurality of connector terminals for feeding power from outside. Connector is fixedly held by hooks, winding is wound around each slot of stator cores via insulator, and connector terminals are fixedly press-fitted to connector. A tip of each of connector terminals on a side of winding is bent into a substantially L-shape, winding end in each phase of winding is directly tied to L-shaped tip of connector terminal and connected thereto by soldering.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2014Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: KENJI FUJII, TOSHIHIRO MATSUMOTO, SATORU MURAO
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Patent number: 9274375Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a metal electrode, a transparent electrode, an interlayer insulating film, and a comb-shaped electrode. Distorted horizontal electric fields are generated in order to distort the orientation of liquid crystal molecules. Accordingly, it is possible to achieve a transflective liquid crystal display device that has high transmittance, reflectance, and yield, and that can suppress display defects such as screen burn-in without using a panel gap adjusting structure, a driving method that respectively applies different electric fields to the reflective region and the transmissive region, or a multi-L/S structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Murata, Yosuke Iwata
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Patent number: 9240575Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a formed article having two or more separate accommodating cavities and an electrode group that comprises a rolled up laminate and is accommodated in each of the accommodating cavities, the laminate composed of a cathode and an anode, each having a current collector and mixture layers disposed on the current collector, and a separator sandwiched between the cathode and the anode. An electrolytic solution is accommodated in each of the accommodating cavities, the electrolytic solution, and the anode or the cathode contact the formed article.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshio Kanata, Toshihiro Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9153825Abstract: A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrolyte assembly which includes a polymer electrolyte membrane and a pair of catalyst electrodes between which the polymer electrolyte membrane is held and separators between which the membrane electrolyte assembly is held. The first separator includes first gas flow channels and second gas flow channels which are adjacent to the first gas flow channels, the first and second gas flow channels supplying an oxidizing gas or a fuel gas to the membrane electrolyte assembly. The first and second gas flow channels are parallel to each other and are alternately arranged, the first gas flow channels are larger in cross sectional area than the second gas flow channels.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Nakagawa, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Shinsuke Takeguchi, Miyuki Yoshimoto
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Publication number: 20150180383Abstract: Air blower equipped with a brushless DC motor includes an inverter circuit, a drive logic controller, a duty indicator, a motor voltage detector, a motor current detector, and a correlation detector. A duty indicating value of the duty indicator is determined according to a value of the correlation detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventor: Toshihiro Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9034567Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device that includes a photoalignment film. The photoalignment film is formed from a liquid crystal alignment agent, and aligns liquid crystal molecules horizontally to the main face of the at least one of the substrates. The liquid crystal alignment agent contains a solvent and at least two kinds of polyamic acids or their derivatives obtained by reacting diamine and tetracarboxylic dianhydride. At least two of the diamines and at least one of the tetracarboxylic dianhydrides are compounds represented by predetermined formulas. The method includes the steps of: (1) forming the film of the liquid crystal alignment agent; (2) pre-baking the film; (3) irradiating the pre-baked film with light; and (4) post-baking the irradiated film, the step (4) including an operation of post-baking the film multiple times at temperatures ranging from low to high temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, JNC CorporationInventors: Isamu Miyake, Hiroaki Asagi, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Koichi Miyachi, Youichiro Ooki, Fumitaka Kondo
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Patent number: 9005840Abstract: A fuel cell separator pair has first and second separators having front and back surfaces, a corrugated plate portion shaped in a wave form at the central portion, and a flat plate portion formed in the peripheral portion and surrounding the corrugated plate portion, wherein the corrugated plate portion of the front surface constitutes a reaction gas channel and the corrugated plate portion of the back surface constitutes a coolant channel. The back surfaces of the first and second separators are facing each other. The flat plate portions of the first and second separators are arranged on top of each other so as to be in contact with each other. The flat plate portion of the second separator protrudes toward the outside beyond the flat plate portion of the first separator.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Morimoto, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Atusi Murata, Mitsuo Yoshimura, Yoko Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20150056544Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device that includes a photoalignment film. The photoalignment film is formed from a liquid crystal alignment agent, and aligns liquid crystal molecules horizontally to the main face of the at least one of the substrates. The liquid crystal alignment agent contains a solvent and at least two kinds of polyamic acids or their derivatives obtained by reacting diamine and tetracarboxylic dianhydride. At least two of the diamines and at least one of the tetracarboxylic dianhydrides are compounds represented by predetermined formulas. The method includes the steps of: (1) forming the film of the liquid crystal alignment agent; (2) pre-baking the film; (3) irradiating the pre-baked film with light; and (4) post-baking the irradiated film, the step (4) including an operation of post-baking the film multiple times at temperatures ranging from low to high temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Isamu MIYAKE, Hiroaki ASAGI, Toshihiro MATSUMOTO, Koichi MIYACHI, Youichiro OOKI, Fumitaka KONDO
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Patent number: 8962212Abstract: A polymer electrolyte fuel cell-use gasket, included in a polymer electrolyte fuel cell including a fuel cell stack is provided. In the fuel cell stack, a plurality of unit cell modules is stacked, and each of the unit cell modules includes sealing members disposed at circumference portions of respective front and back surfaces of a membrane electrode assembly, and paired separators sandwiching the membrane electrode assembly and the sealing members. The sealing members are integrally molded with the circumference portions of the respective front and back surfaces of the membrane electrode assembly. In each sealing member of the gasket, two rows of sealing lips are continuously provided in parallel to each other in an in-plane manner, and at least an outer one of the two rows of sealing lips is integrally formed, having a top side bell-shaped portion overlaid on a bottom side bell-shaped portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2010Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoko Yamamoto, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Takashi Morimoto, Mitsuo Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8962104Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel that suppresses the temperature dependence of transmittance-gradation characteristics and thus overcomes problems in which significant changes in transmittance-gradation characteristics are caused by the effects of environmental temperature and a light source to lead to the degradation of display performance, and a liquid crystal display device including the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a liquid crystal medium containing a plurality of liquid crystal compounds each having a negative dielectric constant anisotropy, the liquid crystal medium being held between a first substrate and a second substrate that are located opposite each other, and a side of each of the substrates in contact with the liquid crystal medium having vertical alignment properties for the liquid crystal compounds.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, DIC CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Matsumoto, Yuichi Kawahira, Masayuki Kanehiro, Shoutarou Kawakami, Gou Sudou
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Publication number: 20150042922Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a metal electrode, a transparent electrode, an interlayer insulating film, and a comb-shaped electrode. Distorted horizontal electric fields are generated in order to distort the orientation of liquid crystal molecules. Accordingly, it is possible to achieve a transflective liquid crystal display device that has high transmittance, reflectance, and yield, and that can suppress display defects such as screen burn-in without using a panel gap adjusting structure, a driving method that respectively applies different electric fields to the reflective region and the transmissive region, or a multi-L/S structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Murata, Yosuke Iwata
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Patent number: 8860916Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of preventing occurrence of flickers.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuhiro Murata, Shoichi Ishihara, Takehisa Sakurai, Shuichi Kozaki, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Yosuke Iwata
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Patent number: 8728682Abstract: A fuel cell of the present invention includes: four fastening bolts which extend in a stack direction of a stack structure so as to penetrate through openings of end plates and nuts which are disposed at both ends of the fastening bolts and can adjust fastening forces applied by the fastening bolts to the stack structure sandwiched between the end plates. Each fastening bolt is disposed in the vicinity of an intermediate point of each side of the end plate. In an electrode facing region of the end plate, one or more springs are disposed on a first straight line passing through two fastening bolts one or more springs are disposed on a second straight line passing through two fastening bolts one or more springs are disposed on a third straight line passing through two fastening bolts and one or more springs are disposed on a fourth straight line passing through two fastening bolts.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2008Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hiroki Kusakabe, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Norihiko Kawabata, Yoshiki Nagao
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Patent number: 8703360Abstract: In an electrode-membrane-frame assembly production method, a principal part is formed by an electrolyte membrane, first and second catalyst layers and first and second gas diffusion layers, with the first and second gas diffusion layers arranged with their outer circumferences at different positions. The principal part is arranged in a molding die with a circumferential region of the principal part disposed on a flat region of a primary molded body. A circumferential portion of one of the gas diffusion layers is arranged to oppose a flat region of the primary molded body so that the membrane is interposed between the circumferential portion and the flat region. Subsequently, a secondary molded body is formed to integrate with the primary molded body and the principal part.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Tsuji, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Hiroki Kusakabe, Takashi Morimoto
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Patent number: 8642230Abstract: An electrode-membrane-frame assembly for a polyelectrolyte fuel cell including of a membrane electrode assembly, a first frame body which has a separator-side surface on which a sealing member for sealing between the member and one separator and a membrane-side surface located on one surface of the peripheral edge portion of the membrane electrode assembly and is formed of a thermoplastic resin material, and a second frame body that has a separator-side surface on which a sealing member for sealing between the member and the other separator and a membrane-side surface located on the other surface of the peripheral edge portion of the membrane electrode assembly and is formed of a thermoplastic resin material and fitted to the first frame body holding the peripheral edge portion of the membrane electrode assembly between the second frame body and the first frame body.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2008Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tsutomu Kawashima, Norihiko Kawabata, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Atsushi Murata, Takashi Morimoto
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Patent number: 8610653Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device in which a position of a singular point of pinwheel alignment is controlled, thereby suppressing rough-grained image and generation of image retention, and in which the response time is improved. A pair of substrates each include an electrode, at least one of the pair of substrates includes a vertical alignment film and a photopolymerized polymer, the electrode on one of the pair of substrates has such a shape as to provide pinwheel alignment of the liquid crystal molecules upon application of a voltage and is partly provided with openings for surrounding a singular point of the pinwheel alignment and keeping the singular point within the electrode.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2008Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Takahiro Sasaki, Takayuki Hayano, Toshihiro Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20130293817Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (10) includes an array substrate (20), a counter substrate (22), and a liquid crystal layer (60). Liquid crystal molecules (62) are initially aligned in the vertical direction, and the liquid crystal display device displays an image by controlling the liquid crystal molecules with a transverse electric field. A convex projection (42) is disposed on the array substrate (20), and a pixel electrode (24) is disposed to cover at least a part of a side surface (44) of the convex projection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Mitsuhiro Murata, Toshihiro Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20130208213Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel that suppresses the temperature dependence of transmittance-gradation characteristics and thus overcomes problems in which significant changes in transmittance-gradation characteristics are caused by the effects of environmental temperature and a light source to lead to the degradation of display performance, and a liquid crystal display device including the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a liquid crystal medium containing a plurality of liquid crystal compounds each having a negative dielectric constant anisotropy, the liquid crystal medium being held between a first substrate and a second substrate that are located opposite each other, and a side of each of the substrates in contact with the liquid crystal medium having vertical alignment properties for the liquid crystal compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihiro Matsumoto, Yuichi Kawahira, Masayuki Kanehiro, Shoutarou Kawakami, Gou Sudou
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Publication number: 20130201434Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of preventing occurrence of flickers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2010Publication date: August 8, 2013Inventors: Mitsuhiro Murata, Shoichi Ishihara, Takehisa Sakurai, Shuichi Kozaki, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Yosuki Iwata