Patents by Inventor Akira Maruyama
Akira Maruyama 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: 20240286492Abstract: A control system for a vehicle (1) provided with a differential mechanism (3) that applies a torque difference to left and right wheels (5) and two electric motors (2) coupled to the differential mechanism (3), the control system including: two control units (11, 12) being connected to each other via high-speed communication means and each controlling one of the two electric motors (2); a first rotation speed sensor (26R) that detects a first rotation speed of a first electric motor (2R) of the two electric motors (2) and outputs the first rotation speed to the two control units (11, 12); a second rotation speed sensor (26L) that detects a second rotation speed of a second electric motor (2L) of the two electric motors (2) and outputs the second rotation speed to the two control units (11, 12); and a superordinate control unit (10) that calculates demanded torques of the two electric motors (2) based on vehicle information of the vehicle (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicants: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, The University of TokyoInventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Hiroyuki FUSE, Ryota TAKAHASHI, Yutaro OKAMURA, Ryosuke KOGA, Tetsuya FURUICHI, Akira MARUYAMA
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Publication number: 20240111198Abstract: An object of present invention is to provide an optical laminate that can be used for a reflective circular polarizer with little occurrence of a ghost in a case of being used in a virtual reality display device, an electronic finder, or the like; a laminated optical film including the reflective circular polarizer; an optical article including the optical laminate; and a virtual reality display device including the optical article.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Ryuji SANETO, Yujiro YANAI, Yohei HAMACHI, Akira MARUYAMA
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Patent number: 11860338Abstract: Provided is an optical film with a resin substrate adhered to an optically anisotropic layer and suppression of occurrence of optical defects in the optically anisotropic layer. The optical film has a resin substrate having an alignment regulating force and an optically anisotropic layer arranged thereon, in which the optically anisotropic layer contains a liquid crystal compound and a compound having a heteroatom different from the liquid crystal compound, and in a case where a surface of the optical film on an optically anisotropic layer side thereof is a first surface and a surface of the optical film on a resin substrate side thereof is a second surface, and components of the optical film in a depth direction are analyzed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry while irradiating the optical film with an ion beam from the first surface toward the second surface, the obtained profile satisfies a predetermined requirement.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akira Maruyama, Keisuke Kodama, Tetsuro Otsuka, Hiroyuki Hagio, Yuta Takahashi, Shinpei Yoshida, Satoshi Yanokuchi
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Patent number: 11834600Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition capable of forming an optically anisotropic layer, and method thereof, in which a variation in a twisted angle of liquid crystal compound in an in-plane direction is suppressed an optical film, and a circularly polarizing plate for an organic EL display. The liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal, optically active compound A which is a photosensitive optically active compound whose helical twisting power changes upon irradiation with light and has a molar absorption coefficient of 5,000 M?1·cm?1 or more with respect to light having a wavelength of 365 nm, and an optically active compound B having a molar absorption coefficient with respect to light having a wavelength of 365 nm smaller than the molar absorption coefficient of the optically active compound A, in which a mass content ratio of the optically active compound A to the liquid crystal compound is less than 0.01.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Keisuke Kodama, Yuki Fukushima, Shunya Katoh, Yuta Takahashi, Shinpei Yoshida, Satoshi Yanokuchi, Akira Maruyama, Hiroyuki Hagio
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Publication number: 20230182579Abstract: In a drive control device for an electric vehicle that includes brake devices (30a to 30d) provided for each of left and right wheels of the vehicle, a front motor (4) and a rear motor (6) for driving and regeneratively braking the wheels of the vehicle, a vehicle motion control unit (37) for calculating a brake application demanded amount corresponding to a yaw moment application amount to be applied to the vehicle based on the traveling state of the vehicle, a brake ECU (31) for controlling the brake devices (30a to 30d) on the left and right sides independently of each other based on the brake application demanded amount to control the yaw moment of the vehicle, and a motor torque control unit (39) for controlling driving torques and regenerative braking torques of a front motor (4) and a rear motor (6), the motor torque control unit (39) executes correction for increasing the driving torque or reducing the regenerative braking torque according to the increase of the braking torques of the brake devices (3Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryosuke KOGA, Akira MARUYAMA, Tetsuya FURUICHI
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Patent number: 11592703Abstract: Provided are an optical film, a circularly polarizing plate, and an image display apparatus in each of which the occurrence of cracks is suppressed in the obtained film in a case of being punched. The optical film includes a stretched resin film and a liquid crystal layer formed by fixing a liquid crystal compound twist-aligned along a helical axis extending along a direction in thickness, in which a ?a value calculated using a three-dimensional solubility parameter of a resin in the stretched resin film is 8.0 MPa1/2 or less, the liquid crystal layer contains a cured substance of a polyfunctional compound having two or more polymerizable groups in one molecule, and an absolute value of a difference between the ?a value calculated using the three-dimensional solubility parameter of the polyfunctional compound and the ?a value calculated using the three-dimensional solubility parameter of the resin is 4.0 MPa1/2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuta Fukushima, Keisuke Kodama, Yoshinori Maeda, Akira Maruyama, Yuki Nakamura, Shunya Katoh, Yuta Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230004044Abstract: Provided are an optical film, a circularly polarizing plate, and an image display apparatus in each of which the occurrence of cracks is suppressed in the obtained film in a case of being punched. The optical film includes a stretched resin film and a liquid crystal layer formed by fixing a liquid crystal compound twist-aligned along a helical axis extending along a direction in thickness, in which a ?a value calculated using a three-dimensional solubility parameter of a resin in the stretched resin film is 8.0 MPa1/2 or less, the liquid crystal layer contains a cured substance of a polyfunctional compound having two or more polymerizable groups in one molecule, and an absolute value of a difference between the ?a value calculated using the three-dimensional solubility parameter of the polyfunctional compound and the ?a value calculated using the three-dimensional solubility parameter of the resin is 4.0 MPa1/2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuta FUKUSHIMA, Keisuke KODAMA, Yoshinori MAEDA, Akira MARUYAMA, Yuki NAKAMURA, Shunya KATOH, Yuta TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220204855Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition capable of forming an optically anisotropic layer, and method thereof, in which a variation in a twisted angle of liquid crystal compound in an in-plane direction is suppressed an optical film, and a circularly polarizing plate for an organic EL display. The liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal, optically active compound A which is a photosensitive optically active compound whose helical twisting power changes upon irradiation with light and has a molar absorption coefficient of 5,000 M?1·cm?1 or more with respect to light having a wavelength of 365 nm, and an optically active compound B having a molar absorption coefficient with respect to light having a wavelength of 365 nm smaller than the molar absorption coefficient of the optically active compound A, in which a mass content ratio of the optically active compound A to the liquid crystal compound is less than 0.01.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Keisuke KODAMA, Yuki FUKUSHIMA, Shunya KATOH, Yuta TAKAHASHI, Shinpei YOSHIDA, Satoshi YANOKUCHI, Akira MARUYAMA, Hiroyuki HAGIO
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Publication number: 20220171109Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an optically anisotropic layer, with a polarizer, which has a plurality of regions in which alignment states of a liquid crystal compound are fixed and different from one another; laminate, with a polarizer; and a composition. The method includes: 1) forming a composition layer containing a chiral agent containing at least a photosensitive chiral agent and a polymerizable liquid crystal compound on a substrate, 2) subjecting the composition layer to a heat treatment, 3) subjecting the composition layer to light irradiation under oxygen concentration of 1% by volume or more, after step 2), and 4) subjecting the composition layer to a curing treatment to form an optically anisotropic layer, and 5) carrying out step 3) under heating conditions, or subjecting the composition layer to a heat treatment between step 3) and step 4), with a predetermined amount of chiral agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuta TAKAHASHI, Shinpei YOSHIDA, Satoshi YANOKUCHI, Akira MARUYAMA, Keisuke KODAMA, Yuta FUKUSHIMA, Shunya KATOH, Yuki FUKUSHIMA, Hiroyuki HAGIO
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Publication number: 20220171096Abstract: Provided is an optical film with a resin substrate adhered to an optically anisotropic layer and suppression of occurrence of optical defects in the optically anisotropic layer. The optical film has a resin substrate having an alignment regulating force and an optically anisotropic layer arranged thereon, in which the optically anisotropic layer contains a liquid crystal compound and a compound having a heteroatom different from the liquid crystal compound, and in a case where a surface of the optical film on an optically anisotropic layer side thereof is a first surface and a surface of the optical film on a resin substrate side thereof is a second surface, and components of the optical film in a depth direction are analyzed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry while irradiating the optical film with an ion beam from the first surface toward the second surface, the obtained profile satisfies a predetermined requirement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akira MARUYAMA, Keisuke KODAMA, Tetsuro OTSUKA, Hiroyuki HAGIO, Yuta TAKAHASHI, Shinpei YOSHIDA, Satoshi YANOKUCHI
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Patent number: 11276920Abstract: Provided is an antenna structure that can be attached with ease and is likely to blend into environments. An antenna structure 1 includes: plural antenna elements 10 configured individually and arranged discretely; and a base 60 which adheres to at least side surfaces of the antenna elements 10, in which the plural antenna elements 10 are embedded and fixed, and which forms a plate-like outer shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Tomoyuki Soga, Akira Maruyama, Hiroki Hagiwara, Akihiko Yazaki, Takaya Yamauchi, Shingo Moriyasu
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Patent number: 11145969Abstract: An antenna structure as an example of a structure including a transparent conductor includes: an antenna as an example of the transparent conductor; a film transmitting a visible light; a positioning structure configured to position the film from an invisible side of a ceiling as an example of a facility; and a flange transmitting the visible light and configured to position the film from a visible side of the ceiling and including a lens part at a position facing the positioning structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: NIHON DENGYO KOSAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Maruyama, Yukio Sato, Hiroki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 11101555Abstract: The antenna structure as an example of a structure including a mesh-like transparent conductor includes: a film made of an electrical insulating material transmitting visible light; a surface section provided on one face of the film, made of a mesh-like conductive material, and having a predetermined shape; and a bordering section provided on the one face of the film and configured to border at least a part of edges of the surface section ? with a conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: NIHON DENGYO KOSAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Hagiwara, Akira Maruyama
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Publication number: 20210075099Abstract: Provided is an antenna structure that can be attached with ease and is likely to blend into environments. An antenna structure 1 includes: plural antenna elements 10 configured individually and arranged discretely; and a base 60 which adheres to at least side surfaces of the antenna elements 10, in which the plural antenna elements 10 are embedded and fixed, and which forms a plate-like outer shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Tomoyuki Soga, Akira Maruyama, Hiroki Hagiwara, Akihiko Yazaki, Takaya Yamauchi, Shingo Moriyasu
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Patent number: 10938085Abstract: An antenna structure to which the present invention is applied includes: a film that transmits visible light and has antennas formed thereon; a feeding part to which coaxial cables for feeding power to the antennas are connected; a flange that transmits visible light and is used for positioning the film from a visible side of equipment; and positioning structures for positioning the film from an invisible side of the equipment.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: NIHON DENGYO KOSAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Maruyama, Hiroki Hagiwara, Yukio Sato
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Patent number: 10816073Abstract: In a strain wave gearing, a flexible externally toothed gear flexed by a wave generator meshes with a flexible internally toothed gear while in an overlapping meshing state. A floating ring, which supports the internally toothed gear from the outer circumferential side, maintains the overlapping state of the meshing and supports the internally toothed gear in a floating state that allows displacement following a state of radial flexion in the tooth trace direction of the internal teeth of the internally toothed gear. Differences between the meshing states of both gears can be alleviated at each position in the tooth trace direction. Degradation in the transmission characteristics and the strength characteristics of the strain wave gearing caused by manufacturing dimensional accuracy of each component and assembly accuracy can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Masaru Kobayashi, Akira Maruyama
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Publication number: 20200194883Abstract: An antenna structure as an example of a structure including a transparent conductor includes: an antenna as an example of the transparent conductor; a film transmitting a visible light; a positioning structure configured to position the film from an invisible side of a ceiling as an example of a facility; and a flange transmitting the visible light and configured to position the film from a visible side of the ceiling and including a lens part at a position facing the positioning structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: NIHON DENGYO KOSAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira MARUYAMA, Yukio SATO, Hiroki HAGIWARA
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Publication number: 20200194868Abstract: An antenna structure to which the present invention is applied includes: a film that transmits visible light and has antennas formed thereon; a feeding part to which coaxial cables for feeding power to the antennas are connected; a flange that transmits visible light and is used for positioning the film from a visible side of equipment; and positioning structures for positioning the film from an invisible side of the equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: NIHON DENGYO KOSAKU CO.,LTD.Inventors: Akira MARUYAMA, Hiroki HAGIWARA, Yukio SATO
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Publication number: 20200083600Abstract: The antenna structure as an example of a structure including a mesh-like transparent conductor includes: a film made of an electrical insulating material transmitting visible light; a surface section provided on one face of the film, made of a mesh-like conductive material, and having a predetermined shape; and a bordering section provided on the one face of the film and configured to border at least a part of edges of the surface section a with a conductive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: NIHON DENGYO KOSAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki HAGIWARA, Akira MARUYAMA
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Publication number: 20200032891Abstract: In a strain wave gearing, a flexible externally toothed gear flexed by a wave generator meshes with a flexible internally toothed gear while in an overlapping meshing state. A floating ring, which supports the internally toothed gear from the outer circumferential side, maintains the overlapping state of the meshing and supports the internally toothed gear in a floating state that allows displacement following a state of radial flexion in the tooth trace direction of the internal teeth of the internally toothed gear. Differences between the meshing states of both gears can be alleviated at each position in the tooth trace direction. Degradation in the transmission characteristics and the strength characteristics of the strain wave gearing caused by manufacturing dimensional accuracy of each component and assembly accuracy can be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Masaru KOBAYASHI, Akira MARUYAMA