Patents by Inventor Yuki Matsuura

Yuki Matsuura 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: 11981152
    Abstract: There is provided a three-dimensional object printing apparatus including a first robot supporting a head having a nozzle for discharging a liquid and changing a position and a posture of the head, a second robot supporting a three-dimensional workpiece and changing a position and a posture of the workpiece, a curing unit that emits energy to cure or solidify the liquid discharged from the head, and a maintenance unit that performs maintenance on the head. The first robot has a first base portion fixed to a base. The second robot has a second base portion fixed to the base. In a plan view of the base, a virtual line segment connecting the first base portion and the second base portion passes between the curing unit and the maintenance unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Kumagai, Shinichi Nakamura, Tomonaga Hasegawa, Yuichiro Matsuura, Yuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 11981151
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes: a head having a nozzle surface; and a robot that has a base portion and an arm portion that supports the head, and changes a position of the head with respect to the base portion, in which the three-dimensional object printing apparatus is configured to execute: a first printing operation of causing the head to print an image to a three-dimensional first medium, and a second printing operation of causing the head to print a test pattern while causing the robot to change a position of the head with respect to the second medium, and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the first printing operation and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the second printing operation are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Yuta Abe, Yuichiro Matsuura, Keigo Sugai, Yuki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20240132714
    Abstract: To suppress the bias of the distribution of a filler dispersed in a sealing material (cured product) covering an electrode connection portion, provided is an epoxy resin composition, including: (A) an epoxy resin; (B) a curing agent; (C) a filler; and (D) an ionic compound in which at least one of a cation or an anion is organic matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NAMICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki MATSUURA, Ayako SATO, Tomoya YAMAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11957188
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a sensor device and a clothes to which the sensor device is attached. The clothes includes a clothes body and an insertion and extraction portion that has an opening formed in the clothes body and enables the sensor device to be inserted into or extracted from the clothes body. The sensor device includes a humidity sensor configured to measure humidity in the clothes body and a housing having a first region exposed to an inside of the clothes body and a second region exposed to an outside of the clothes body, while the sensor device is inserted from the insertion and extraction portion into the clothes body. The humidity sensor is accommodated in the first region of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Matsuoka, Nobuaki Matsuura, Kei Kuwabara, Yuki Hashimoto, Takako Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11932035
    Abstract: There is provided a three-dimensional object printing apparatus including an imaging device fixed to a base and imaging an object located inside an imaging range, a first robot supporting a head having a nozzle for discharging a liquid and changing a position and a posture of the head, and a second robot supporting a three-dimensional workpiece and changes a position and a posture of the workpiece. The three-dimensional object printing apparatus performs a material feeding step of causing the second robot to move the workpiece from an outside to an inside of the imaging range, and a printing step of causing the head to discharge the liquid to the workpiece while at least one of the first robot and the second robot relatively moves the head and the workpiece inside the imaging range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomonaga Hasegawa, Yuichiro Matsuura, Masaru Kumagai, Shinichi Nakamura, Yuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 11798552
    Abstract: An agent device includes a microphone configured to collect a speech sound inside a vehicle cabin, a speaker configured to output a speech sound inside the vehicle cabin, and a plurality of agent function elements having different functions. Each of the plurality of agent function elements generates a speech sound of an agent that speaks to an occupant of a vehicle on the basis of a meaning of the speech sound collected by the microphone, causes the speaker to output the generated speech sound of the agent. The agent function element serving as a main agent that has a dialogue with the occupant is switched on the basis of content of the speech sound collected by the microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Eisuke Soma, Wataru Endo, Ryosuke Tanaka, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Publication number: 20220312191
    Abstract: A setting apparatus includes: a CPU and a memory connected to the CPU. The memory is configured to store information regarding each of a plurality of users individually using a single space. The CPU is configured to perform: identifying a user to use the space; authenticating the user identified in the identifying; setting devices provided in the space based on the information stored in the memory. The information stored in the memory includes: first information; and second information given stricter restriction than the first information. The CPU is configured to perform: the setting including performing a predetermined setting of the devices provided in the space based on the first information of the user identified in the identifying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Matsugi, Kazune Furudo, Naoki Shibata, Naoki Kikuchi, Shigeki Takahashi, Yuki Matsuura, Shogo Usui, Koji Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11235723
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes: a camera that can capture an image of a vehicle occupant; and a state change unit that can change an image capturing state for the vehicle occupant by the camera to each of an image capturing permitted state where an image of the vehicle occupant is permitted to be captured and an image capturing limited state where capturing the image of the vehicle occupant is limited. The state change unit changes the image capturing state for each vehicle occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Okuma, Hiromi Sato, Yoshikazu Matsuo, Seungho Choi, Yuki Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20220005470
    Abstract: An agent device includes a microphone configured to collect a speech sound inside a vehicle cabin, a speaker configured to output a speech sound inside the vehicle cabin, and a plurality of agent function elements having different functions. Each of the plurality of agent function elements generates a speech sound of an agent that speaks to an occupant of a vehicle on the basis of a meaning of the speech sound collected by the microphone, causes the speaker to output the generated speech sound of the agent. The agent function element serving as a main agent that has a dialogue with the occupant is switched on the basis of content of the speech sound collected by the microphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Eisuke Soma, Wataru Endo, Ryosuke Tanaka, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 11176948
    Abstract: An agent device includes a display unit, a microphone configured to collect a voice in an occupant compartment, a plurality of speakers configured to enable localization of a sound image through a combination of outputs, and an agent controller configured to cause the display unit to display an agent image and cause the speakers to output sounds, wherein the agent controller is configured to identify a speaking person who has spoken the voice collected by the microphone among occupants in a vehicle and to cause the agent image to be displayed in a mode of talking to the occupant in a partial area of the display unit near the speaking person while causing a sound image to be localized at a display position of the agent image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Ryosuke Tanaka, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Wataru Endo, Eisuke Soma
  • Patent number: 10963064
    Abstract: A control device includes: a recognition unit that recognizes predetermined behavior of a user; an estimation unit that estimates a situation of the user on the basis of the predetermined behavior that is recognized by the recognition unit; an evaluation unit that evaluates certainty of an estimation result from the estimation unit; and an output unit that outputs to the control unit, an operation instruction in accordance with the certainty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kota Saito, Yoshihiro Matsugi, Yuki Matsuura, Seungho Choi, Yoshikazu Matsuo, Hiromi Sato
  • Patent number: 10870436
    Abstract: An operation assistance system includes: a motion recognition unit that recognizes predetermined motion of a hand of a vehicle occupant; a position recognition unit that recognizes a first relative position corresponding to a relative position of the hand of the vehicle occupant with respect to a first vehicle; a specifying unit that specifies a second on-vehicle device of a second vehicle that is operated by using an operation unit of the second vehicle provided at a second relative position that is a relative position with respect to the second vehicle and corresponds to the first relative position; and a control unit that assists an operation for a first on-vehicle device of the first vehicle, the first on-vehicle device including a function common with that of the second on-vehicle device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kota Saito, Yoshihiro Matsugi, Yuki Matsuura, Seungho Choi, Yoshikazu Matsuo, Hiromi Sato
  • Publication number: 20200152203
    Abstract: An agent device includes a display unit, a microphone configured to collect a voice in an occupant compartment, a plurality of speakers configured to enable localization of a sound image through a combination of outputs, and an agent controller configured to cause the display unit to display an agent image and cause the speakers to output sounds, wherein the agent controller is configured to identify a speaking person who has spoken the voice collected by the microphone among occupants in a vehicle and to cause the agent image to be displayed in a mode of talking to the occupant in a partial area of the display unit near the speaking person while causing a sound image to be localized at a display position of the agent image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Ryosuke Tanaka, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Wataru Endo, Eisuke Soma
  • Publication number: 20200047697
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes: a camera that can capture an image of a vehicle occupant; and a state change unit that can change an image capturing state for the vehicle occupant by the camera to each of an image capturing permitted state where an image of the vehicle occupant is permitted to be captured and an image capturing limited state where capturing the image of the vehicle occupant is limited. The state change unit changes the image capturing state for each vehicle occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji OKUMA, Hiromi SATO, Yoshikazu MATSUO, Seungho CHOI, Yuki MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20200031369
    Abstract: An operation assistance system includes: a motion recognition unit that recognizes predetermined motion of a hand of a vehicle occupant; a position recognition unit that recognizes a first relative position corresponding to a relative position of the hand of the vehicle occupant with respect to a first vehicle; a specifying unit that specifies a second on-vehicle device of a second vehicle that is operated by using an operation unit of the second vehicle provided at a second relative position that is a relative position with respect to the second vehicle and corresponds to the first relative position; and a control unit that assists an operation for a first on-vehicle device of the first vehicle, the first on-vehicle device including a function common with that of the second on-vehicle device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kota SAITO, Yoshihiro MATSUGI, Yuki MATSUURA, Seungho CHOI, Yoshikazu MATSUO, Hiromi SATO
  • Publication number: 20200026937
    Abstract: An information providing device can appropriately select how to provide information from the outside depending on the number of occupants in a vehicle. The information providing device includes an individual recognition function that recognizes the occupant in the vehicle, and performs individual recognition in the vehicle before the information is provided to the vehicle occupant. The vehicle includes the information providing device. In an information providing method, the individual recognition in the vehicle is performed prior to providing the occupant in the vehicle with the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Weifeng ZHANG, Hisumi ESAKI, Hiromi SATO, Yoshihiro MATSUGI, Yuki MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20190384410
    Abstract: A control device includes: a recognition unit that recognizes predetermined behavior of a user; an estimation unit that estimates a situation of the user on the basis of the predetermined behavior that is recognized by the recognition unit; an evaluation unit that evaluates certainty of an estimation result from the estimation unit; and an output unit that outputs to the control unit, an operation instruction in accordance with the certainty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Kota SAITO, Yoshihiro MATSUGI, Yuki MATSUURA, Seungho CHOI, Yoshikazu MATSUO, Hiromi SATO
  • Publication number: 20190157561
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a vapor deposition mask including forming a first film on a substrate, forming a mask member on the first film, forming a first pattern by etching the first film using the mask member, forming a vapor deposition mask member on a side surface of the first pattern and a side surface of the mask member, and removing the first film and the mask member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventor: Yuki MATSUURA
  • Patent number: 9958719
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an insulating substrate, a first insulating film, a second insulating film, a third insulating film, a fourth insulating film, a fifth insulating film, a sixth insulating film, a color filter layer, a semiconductor layer disposed between the second insulating film and the third insulating film, and a gate electrode disposed between the third insulating film and the fourth insulating film, wherein the first, fourth, and sixth insulating films are formed of a silicon nitride, and the second, third, and fifth insulating films are formed of a silicon oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsuura, Osamu Itou
  • Publication number: 20170232400
    Abstract: A ceramic filter 20 has a porous support formed from particles containing a metal oxide as a main component and a membrane layer coated on a surface of the porous support and formed from particles containing the same kind of metal oxide as that of the porous support, wherein the particles forming the membrane layer are loaded with a different kind of metal oxide from that of the particles forming the membrane layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideya SHIRAISHI, Hiroshi Noguchi, Akitoshi Nakakawa, Takayuki Ugajin, Satoru Seike, Toru Tsuchiya, Yuki Matsuura, Naoki Kato