Patents by Inventor A. Osawa

A. Osawa 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: 11972243
    Abstract: Examples include updating firmware for a persistent memory module in a computing system during runtime. Examples include copying a new version of persistent memory module firmware into an available area of random-access memory (RAM) in the persistent memory module, and transferring processing of a current version of persistent memory module firmware to the new version of persistent memory module firmware during runtime of the computing system, without a reset of the computing system and without quiesce of access to persistent memory media in the persistent memory module, while continuing to perform critical event handling by the current version of persistent memory module firmware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp.
    Inventors: Murugasamy K. Nachimuthu, Mohan J. Kumar, Muthukumar P. Swaminathan, Daniel K. Osawa, Maciej Plucinski
  • Patent number: 11971339
    Abstract: A particle size distribution measurement device includes a cell holding body 31 that holds a measurement cell 2 containing a measurement sample and a dispersion medium and a reference cell 6 containing a reference sample and is rotated by a motor 322, and a cell discrimination mechanism 7 that discriminates the cells 2, 6 passing through a predetermined rotation position by using a magnetic force or electrostatic capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Horiba, Ltd., Eppendorf Himac Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Watanabe, Hidetaka Osawa, Ken Asakura, Kenichi Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20240137657
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a first exposure control unit configured to perform first exposure control to suppress overexposure of a captured image; an image processing unit configured to perform image processing to suppress drop in brightness of a low brightness region of the image on a basis of a control amount of the first exposure control; and a second exposure control unit configured to perform second exposure control to bring a brightness of a high brightness region of a captured image closer to a target brightness which is set by a user, wherein in a case where the second exposure control is performed, the first exposure control unit does not perform the first exposure control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shinnosuke OSAWA, Hideki KADOI
  • Publication number: 20240134223
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a color separation element configured to disperse light from a light source and to emit, to the display panel, a plurality of rays of separated light with wavelengths different from each other, and an adhesive portion that contains a gap member of a given size and that bonds the display panel to the color separation element. The adhesive portion has a recessed portion that is separated from one of the display panel and the color separation element in side view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shuichi OSAWA, Yoshikatsu IMAZEKI, Yoichi KAMIJO, Koichi MIYASAKA, Yoshifumi KAMEI
  • Publication number: 20240135310
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires mobile object information, parcel information, pickup delivery information as information regarding at least one of pickup and delivery, map information, weather information, and traffic information, a calculation control unit that calculates a delivery company burden, as a cost defrayment by a delivery company, in regard to each combination of target parcels and a mobile object by using the mobile object information, the parcel information, the pickup delivery information, the map information, the weather information and the traffic information, a determination unit that determines an optimum combination out of a plurality of combinations based on the delivery company burden calculated in regard to each combination of target parcels and a mobile object, and an output unit that outputs the optimum combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshie IMAI, Kentaro ISHIKAWA, Shunya OSAWA, Masato TSUCHIYA, Yoshiki MITSUI, Nobuaki MOTOYAMA, Satoru FURUTA, Masahiro ABUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240131911
    Abstract: A vehicle sealing material to be mounted between a front windshield and a headlamp includes: a seal base section installed along the periphery of the front windshield; and a seal lip section extending from one end of the seal base section, contacting a part of the headlamp, and having a hollow cross-sectional shape that is elastically deformable. The seal lip section is the same elastic deformation shape during installing the front windshield to the vehicle body along the front windshield installing direction, and during replacing the headlamp along the headlamp replacing direction, being different from the front windshield installing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: KASEI KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu OSAWA
  • Publication number: 20240131830
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device includes applying an adhesive to a display panel having a display surface where an image is displayed and an opposite surface on an opposite side of the display surface, on the opposite surface, sprinkling a gap member of a given size on the opposite surface of the display panel to which the adhesive has been applied, and sticking together a board surface of a color separation element and the opposite surface of the display panel on which the gap member has been sprinkled, with the adhesive between the board surface and the opposite surface, the color separation element dispersing light from a light source and emitting a plurality of rays of separated light with wavelengths different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shuichi OSAWA, Yoshikatsu IMAZEKI, Yoichi KAMIJO, Koichi MIYASAKA, Yoshifumi KAMEI
  • Publication number: 20240134231
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a color separation element configured to disperse light from a light source and to emit, to the display panel, a plurality of rays of separated light with wavelengths different from each other, and an outer adhesive portion that bonds a side surface of the display panel and the color separation element to each other over an entire perimeter of the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shuichi OSAWA, Yoshikatsu IMAZEKI, Yoichi KAMIJO, Koichi MIYASAKA, Yoshifumi KAMEI
  • Patent number: 11963759
    Abstract: A state determination device includes: an extraction unit that extracts a face region representing a region corresponding to a face from each of a plurality of frames successively obtained by capturing images of a user's face, extracts face feature points representing parts of the face from the face region, calculates a face feature value extraction region as a region where a change occurs in the face region when the user is in an unawakened state based on the face feature points, and extracts a face feature value as a feature value from the face feature value extraction region; a state determination unit that determines whether the user is in the unawakened state or not based on the face feature value in each of the plurality of frames and previously generated determination information; and an output unit that outputs a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shunya Osawa, Takahiro Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20240126395
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes: drive electrodes; detection electrodes; and dummy electrodes in a floating state. The drive electrodes include a first electrode extending in a first direction, and a second electrode disposed at a predetermined interval from the first electrode in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The detection electrodes include a third electrode extending in the second direction. The dummy electrodes include a fourth electrode disposed at a predetermined interval from the third electrode in the first direction. The first electrode includes a first extension part, a second extension part, and a first coupling part. The second electrode includes a third extension part, a fourth extension part, and a second coupling part. The third electrode includes a fifth extension part, a sixth extension part, and a third coupling part. The fourth electrode includes a seventh extension part, and an eighth extension part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Koichi MIYASAKA, Yoshikatsu IMAZEKI, Yoichi KAMIJO, Shuichi OSAWA, Toshinori UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20240123663
    Abstract: In an injection device according to an embodiment, each of a plurality of outer peripheral protrusions of a screw is formed with an outer peripheral protrusion inclined surface, and each of a plurality of inner peripheral protrusions of a through-hole of a bush is formed with an inner peripheral protrusion inclined surface. The injection device advances the bush until a linear-motion torque exceeds a linear-motion torque threshold, and, if a rotation torque exceeds a rotation torque threshold before the linear-motion torque exceeds the linear-motion torque threshold, ends control processing when the linear-motion torque exceeds the linear-motion torque threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Takuya OSAWA, Shoutarou SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240122465
    Abstract: A visual field testing method is a visual field testing method of testing a visual field range divided into at least a first partial area and a second partial area, the method including: a step of measuring sensitivities of a plural first test points that are included in the first partial area: and a step of performing a process of estimating sensitivities of a plural second test points that are included in the first partial area and are test points other than the first test points, by using the sensitivities of the plural first test points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikara NAKAMURA, Taishi AOKI, Teruo HORIKAWA, Hisao OSAWA
  • Publication number: 20240128020
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a laminated coil component, in which a laminated coil component is manufactured by laminating insulator sheets in order on which conductors having predetermined patterns are formed, the insulator sheets are laminated such that a distance in a lamination direction between a first lead-out conductor laminated first and a first coil conductor laminated next is larger than a distance in the lamination direction between a second lead-out conductor laminated last and a second coil conductor laminated immediately before the second lead-out conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya OSHIMA, Junichi OTSUKA, Yohei TADAKI, Shinichi KONDO, Koki ITO, Yoji TOZAWA, Shigeshi OSAWA, Tsubasa OZAWA, Makoto YOSHINO
  • Patent number: 11957708
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition that controls pharmacokinetics. Specifically, the present invention provides: a composition for controlling pharmacokinetics, the composition containing a polyvalent cation as an active ingredient; and a method for controlling pharmacokinetics using the polyvalent cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION
    Inventors: Kazunori Kataoka, Shigehito Osawa, Satoshi Uchida, Kotaro Hayashi, Anjaneyulu Dirisala, Kazuko Toh
  • Patent number: 11961997
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, containing negative electrode active material particles, including silicon compound particles each containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6) and at least one or more of Li2SiO3 and Li2Si2O5, the material includes a phosphate, the negative electrode active material particles each have a surface containing lithium element, and a ratio mp/ml satisfies 0.02?mp/ml?3, where ml represents a molar quantity of the lithium element and contained per unit mass of the particles, and mp represents a molar quantity of phosphorus element contained per unit mass of the particles. Thereby, a negative electrode active material is capable of stabilizing an aqueous negative electrode slurry prepared in producing a negative electrode of a secondary battery, and capable of improving initial charge-discharge characteristics when the negative electrode active material is used for a secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Matsuno, Hidekazu Awano, Takakazu Hirose, Kohta Takahashi, Yusuke Osawa
  • Patent number: 11962061
    Abstract: A directional coupler includes a main line, a sub-line, a coupling terminal, a terminal circuit, a first switching circuit, and a second switching circuit. The first switching circuit and the second switching circuit respectively connects the first end and the second end of the sub-line alternately to the coupling terminal and to the terminal circuit. The first switching circuit connects the first end to the coupling terminal at a time that differs from a time at which the first switching circuit disconnects the first end from the terminal circuit. The first switching circuit disconnects the first end from the coupling terminal at a time that differs from a time at which the first switching circuit connects the first end to the terminal circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Seki, Ryangsu Kim, Kazuhito Osawa, Katsuya Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11958494
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires pieces of information including information related to a vehicle, information related to the environment inside and outside the vehicle, and information related to a driver on board the vehicle. A determination unit determines priorities of the pieces of information acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of a service or the like used by the driver among services or the likes provided using information accumulated in a server device. A selection unit selects a piece of information to be transmitted to the server device from among the pieces of information acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of the priorities determined by the determination unit. A communication unit transmits the piece of information selected by the selection unit to the server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu Osawa, Daisuke Fushiki, Takuji Morimoto, Takumi Sato, Hiroyoshi Shibata, Tetsuro Nishioka, Mizuki Higuchi, Shogo Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20240118569
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel and a drive circuit configured to drive the pixel, a light source device configured to emit emitted light toward the display panel, and a color separation element placed between the display panel and the light source device, the color separation element being configured to disperse the emitted light and to emit, to the pixel, a plurality of rays of separated light with wavelengths different from each other. The color separation element includes a separation region configured to emit the separated light and a light-shielding region configured to block the emitted light heading toward the drive circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventor: Shuichi OSAWA
  • Publication number: 20240116484
    Abstract: Provided is a brake control device which reliably generates wheel cylinder fluid pressure in all the wheels FR to RR even at the time of failure of the brake control device, can reliably decelerate or stop a vehicle, has a simplified system configuration, and has high reliability for automatic driving. A brake device 101 of the present invention includes a first fluid pressure unit 102p which supplies brake fluid to first wheel cylinders 118a and 118d, a second fluid pressure unit 102s which supplies brake fluid to second wheel cylinders 118b and 118c, and a connection pipe 119 which connects the first fluid pressure unit and the second fluid pressure unit to allow the brake fluid to flow. The first fluid pressure unit and the second fluid pressure unit open a first shut-off valve 104p and a second shut-off valve 104s, respectively, in a case where a failure is detected in at least one of the first fluid pressure unit and the second fluid pressure unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Asahi WATANABE, Toshiya OSAWA, Masaru KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20240120693
    Abstract: A connector with a floating mechanism includes a socket movable shell configured to cover an outside of a socket movable housing and to move together with the socket movable housing, and a conductive shell connecting unit configured to constantly provide connection between the socket movable shell and a socket fixing shell, the shell connecting unit being interposed between the socket movable shell and the socket fixing shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hirotaka TSUCHIYA, Yoji OCHI, Fumio OSAWA