Patents by Inventor Atsushi Shimada
Atsushi Shimada 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: 20220252402Abstract: A management server according to the present invention comprises: a position confirmation unit which confirms a via point of a vehicle and the position of the vehicle; an objective function determination unit which determines an objective function; a vehicle assessment unit which assesses for each of a plurality of vehicles whether the vehicle is a moving vehicle that is currently moving or is scheduled to move or a stopped vehicle that is currently stopped, on the basis of information collected from the plurality of vehicles; and a computation allocation determination unit which determines that a computational process for planning a route for a moving vehicle moving by consuming energy supplied to a drive source from an energy storage unit is to be allocated to a stopped vehicle able to compute the objective function, and which, via a server-side communication unit, directs a controller of the stopped vehicle to perform the computation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Atsushi SHIMADA, Taizou MIYAZAKI
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Publication number: 20220204387Abstract: Provided is a titanium-containing quartz glass having excellent UV absorption. The quartz glass absorbs ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of 250 nm or less, ozone generation-related adverse effects on the human body, are prevented, a decrease in transmittance of the quartz glass in the range from near-ultraviolet to visible light due to being colored when irradiated with ultraviolet rays does not occur, absorption build-up or lamp burst-inducing deformation build-up, which is caused by a structural change in the quartz glass that occurs in the range of 200-300 nm when irradiated with ultraviolet rays, is suppressed, and a decrease in transmittance at intended wavelength ranges does not occur even when exposed to ultraviolet rays. The titanium-containing quartz glass having excellent UV absorption is colorless, wherein the average concentration of titanium is 10-500 ppm, the concentration of OH group is 10-350 ppm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicants: Shin-Etsu Quartz Products Co., Ltd., Heraeus Quarzglas Gmbh & Co. KGInventors: Atsushi SHIMADA, Katsuhide ORIKASA, Makoto TANAKA, Tomoichi KUMATA, Hiromi TARUKAWA
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Publication number: 20220178014Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes a processing container, a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate inside the processing container, a cathode unit disposed above the substrate holder, and a gas introducing mechanism configured to introduce a plasma generating gas into the processing container. The cathode unit includes a target, a power supply configured to supply electric power to the target, a magnet provided on a rear side of the target, and a magnet driving part configured to drive the magnet. The magnet driving part includes an oscillation driver configured to oscillate the magnet along the target, and a perpendicular driver configured to drive the magnet in a direction perpendicular to a main surface of the target independently of driving performed by the oscillation driver. Sputtered particles are deposited on the substrate by magnetron sputtering.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Koji MAEDA, Atsushi SHIMADA, Katsushi OIKAWA, Tetsuya MIYASHITA
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Publication number: 20220115032Abstract: A technique capable of detecting harmful behavior such as power harassment, sexual harassment, or bullying in work environment to support handling is provided. A harmful behavior detecting system includes a computer that executes observation and detection regarding harmful behavior including power harassment, sexual harassment, and bullying among people in work environment. The computer obtains voice data into which voice around a target person is inputted; obtains voice information containing words and emotion information from the voice data; and obtains data such as vital data, date and time, or a location of the target person. The computer uses five elements including words and an emotion of the other person, words, an emotion, and vital data of the target person to calculate an index value regarding the harmful behavior; estimate a state of the harmful behavior based on the index value; and output handling data for handling the harmful behavior in accordance with the estimated state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Satoshi IWAGAKI, Atsushi SHIMADA, Masumi SUEHIRO, Hidenori CHIBA, Kouichi HORIUCHI
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Publication number: 20220098708Abstract: A tungsten wire contains tungsten or a tungsten alloy. An average width of surface crystal grains in a direction perpendicular to an axis of the tungsten wire is at most 76 nm. The tungsten wire has a tensile of at least 4800 MPa, and a diameter of at most 100 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro KANAZAWA, Yoshihiro IGUCHI, Naoki KOHYAMA, Atsushi SHIMADA, Kenshi TSUJI, Yui NAKAI
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Patent number: 11236824Abstract: A continuously variable transmission has a variator (4) structured to be able to continuously vary a transmission ratio and a control unit (100). The control unit (100) continuously varies a transmission ratio of the variator (4) in a continuously variable shift mode. In a manual mode in which a manual mode switch (36c) is ON, the transmission ratio is maintained. When a shift switch (36a, 36b) is operated by a driver during the manual mode, the control unit (100) performs shift of the variator (4) so as to change an input rotation speed of the variator (4) by a predetermined rotation speed (?N1) regardless of a vehicle speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: JATCO LTDInventors: Ken Okahara, Atsushi Shimada
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Patent number: 11218661Abstract: A signal processing apparatus includes an analog-to-digital conversion unit, a determination unit including a comparator, and a data calculation unit that performs calculation. The data calculation unit generates a first calculation result by performing calculation including processing for averaging a first digital signal and a second digital signal or processing for adding the first and second digital signals. The data calculation unit generates a second calculation result based on a difference between the first digital signal and first noise digital data. The data calculation unit switches whether to output the first calculation result or output the second calculation result, based on a comparison result of the comparator.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Shimada, Noriyuki Shikina, Shintaro Takenaka
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Patent number: 11105282Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, which can control an injection amount of water injected into each cylinder of the internal combustion engine to a minimum injection amount that allows knock to be suppressed for each cylinder. Therefore, in a control device 1 that controls water supply valves 35 (water supply devices) that supply water into each of combustion chambers of a plurality of cylinders R (cylinders R1 to R3 in the embodiment) of an internal combustion engine 100, the control device 1 includes a water supply amount calculation unit 2 that calculates a supply amount of water supplied to each of the combustion chambers of the plurality of cylinders R1 to R3 for each cylinder, and a water supply control unit 3 that controls the water supply valves 35 based on the supply amount of water calculated by the water supply amount calculation unit 2 for each cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Atsushi Shimada, Masayuki Saruwatari
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Publication number: 20210195131Abstract: A signal processing apparatus includes an analog-to-digital conversion unit, a determination unit including a comparator, and a data calculation unit that performs calculation. The data calculation unit generates a first calculation result by performing calculation including processing for averaging a first digital signal and a second digital signal or processing for adding the first and second digital signals. The data calculation unit generates a second calculation result based on a difference between the first digital signal and first noise digital data. The data calculation unit switches whether to output the first calculation result or output the second calculation result, based on a comparison result of the comparator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Atsushi Shimada, Noriyuki Shikina, Shintaro Takenaka
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Publication number: 20210173299Abstract: A quartz glass plate has a quartz glass plate body and a quartz glass member adhered to the quartz glass plate body through an adhesive layer, where the adhesive layer contains silica, and a sum of concentrations of Li, Na, and K ions, being alkali metal ions and Ca ions, being alkaline earth metal ions contained in the adhesive layer is 10 ppm by mass or less. Consequently, a step with a uniform thickness can be formed, and a quartz glass plate is not easily damaged by irradiation with a light containing an ultraviolet ray.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: Shin-Etsu Quartz Products Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya MORI, Akira SATO, Atsushi SHIMADA, Yuya YOKOSAWA, Nobumasa YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20210095608Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, which can control an injection amount of water injected into each cylinder of the internal combustion engine to a minimum injection amount that allows knock to be suppressed for each cylinder. Therefore, in a control device 1 that controls water supply valves 35 (water supply devices) that supply water into each of combustion chambers of a plurality of cylinders R (cylinders R1 to R3 in the embodiment) of an internal combustion engine 100, the control device 1 includes a water supply amount calculation unit 2 that calculates a supply amount of water supplied to each of the combustion chambers of the plurality of cylinders R1 to R3 for each cylinder, and a water supply control unit 3 that controls the water supply valves 35 based on the supply amount of water calculated by the water supply amount calculation unit 2 for each cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2019Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Atsushi SHIMADA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
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Publication number: 20210051286Abstract: A driving apparatus that outputs a drive signal for driving, per row, a plurality of pixels arranged to form a plurality of rows, the driving apparatus comprising a plurality of row driving units arranged to correspond to the respective rows, wherein each of the row driving units includes: a memory unit that holds a signal for controlling the pixels in a corresponding row to be set to a charge accumulation state or a reset state; and a selection unit that selects whether to cause a state of the signal held in the memory unit to transition when a signal for readout from the pixels is input.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Taichi Kasugai, Atsushi Shimada
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Publication number: 20210025492Abstract: A continuously variable transmission has a variator (4) structured to be able to continuously vary a transmission ratio and a control unit (100). The control unit (100) continuously varies a transmission ratio of the variator (4) in a continuously variable shift mode. In a manual mode in which a manual mode switch (36c) is ON, the transmission ratio is maintained. When a shift switch (36a, 36b) is operated by a driver during the manual mode, the control unit (100) performs shift of the variator (4) so as to change an input rotation speed of the variator (4) by a predetermined rotation speed (?N1) regardless of a vehicle speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: JATCO LtdInventors: Ken OKAHARA, Atsushi SHIMADA
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Patent number: 10850387Abstract: An automatic workpiece transfer machine including multiple conveyance robots configured to convey a workpiece with respect to multiple processing sections; and a control device configured to control driving of the conveyance robots, wherein the conveyance robots are provided with a transfer device configured to perform transfer of the workpiece between the processing sections, a traveling device configured to move the transfer device that is loaded on a traveling table with respect to the processing sections, and a workpiece holding device loaded on the traveling table and configured to hold the workpiece received from the transfer device, and the control device is provided with a workpiece transfer control section configured to, with respect to two adjacent of the conveyance robots, perform transfer of the workpiece between the transfer device of one of the two adjacent conveyance robots and the workpiece holding device of the other of the two adjacent conveyance robots.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Ito, Takashi Nakane, Atsushi Shimada
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Publication number: 20200291914Abstract: Provided is a control device and a control method of a high-efficiency internal combustion engine capable of stabilizing combustion and suppressing NOx emissions without unnecessarily increasing a mounting load on an ECU. Therefore, the control device of the internal combustion engine for controlling the internal combustion engine includes an ignition plug that ignites an air-fuel mixture of fuel and air in the combustion chamber, a combustion pressure estimation sensor that detects a combustion pressure in the combustion chamber, and a crank angle sensor that detects a crank angle of a crankshaft. An MBT region is set based on an ignition delay period from an ignition timing of the ignition plug calculated from a detection value of the combustion pressure estimation sensor and a detection value of the crank angle sensor to a combustion start timing in the combustion chamber, and a combustion period from the combustion start timing to a set amount combustion end timing when a set amount of combustion ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Atsushi SHIMADA, Toshihiro AONO, Masayuki SARUWATARI
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Patent number: 10567747Abstract: Provided is an imaging device including a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each of the plurality of pixels generates signals in accordance with an incident light; a first output line and a second output line that are arranged corresponding to each of the plurality of columns of the pixel array and transmit signals output from the pixels arranged on a corresponding column; a scanning unit that drives the pixel array so as to output signals from at least two of the pixels arranged on different rows of a single column respectively to the first output line and the second output line; and an output line control unit that provide potentials that are different from each other to the first output line and the second output line, respectively, in a test mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidetoshi Hayashi, Atsushi Shimada
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Publication number: 20190247997Abstract: An automatic workpiece transfer machine including multiple conveyance robots configured to convey a workpiece with respect to multiple processing sections; and a control device configured to control driving of the conveyance robots, wherein the conveyance robots are provided with a transfer device configured to perform transfer of the workpiece between the processing sections, a traveling device configured to move the transfer device that is loaded on a traveling table with respect to the processing sections, and a workpiece holding device loaded on the traveling table and configured to hold the workpiece received from the transfer device, and the control device is provided with a workpiece transfer control section configured to, with respect to two adjacent of the conveyance robots, perform transfer of the workpiece between the transfer device of one of the two adjacent conveyance robots and the workpiece holding device of the other of the two adjacent conveyance robots.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi ITO, Takashi NAKANE, Atsushi SHIMADA
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Patent number: 10309005Abstract: A deposition device according to one embodiment includes a processing container. A mounting table is installed inside the processing container, and a metal target is installed above the mounting table. Further, a head is configured to inject an oxidizing gas toward the mounting table. This head is configured to move between a first region that is defined between the metal target and a mounting region where a target object is mounted on the mounting table and a second region spaced apart from a space defined between the metal target and the mounting region.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yasuhiko Kojima, Hiroshi Sone, Atsushi Gomi, Kanto Nakamura, Toru Kitada, Yasunobu Suzuki, Yusuke Suzuki, Koichi Takatsuki, Tatsuo Hirasawa, Keisuke Sato, Chiaki Yasumuro, Atsushi Shimada
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Patent number: 10197019Abstract: An ethanol engine system stabilizes components of reformed gas generated by a reformer and a calorific value of fuel supplied to an engine. The ethanol engine system includes a reservoir tank for an aqueous ethanol solution, a first supply device that supplies the aqueous ethanol solution to the reformer, a separator that cools mixed gas fed from the reformer, including the reformed gas, condenses water vapor included in the mixed gas and separates into gas and liquid, a reformed gas supply device that supplies the reformed gas separated by the separator to the engine, a recovery tank that collects a recovery solution separated by the separator, and a first recovery solution supply device that supplies the recovery solution in the recovery tank to the reformer or a second recovery solution supply device that supplies the recovery solution in the recovery tank to a combustion chamber of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Shimada, Takao Ishikawa, Yuzo Shirakawa
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Patent number: 10189230Abstract: A method for forming a copper film is provided. In the method, a base film that is a titanium nitride film, a tungsten film or a tungsten nitride film is formed along a surface of an insulating film of an object. A copper film is formed on the base film of the object cooled to a temperature of 209 K or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Hiroyuki Toshima, Atsushi Shimada, Tatsuo Hirasawa, Tatsuo Hatano, Shinji Furukawa