Patents by Inventor Chihiro Kato

Chihiro Kato 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: 12252634
    Abstract: Disclosed are a polyurethane for use in a polishing layer, and a polishing layer and a polishing pad using the same, the polyurethane including a terminal group represented by the following formula (I): R—(OX)n— (I) wherein R represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms that may be substituted with a heteroatom or may be interrupted by a heteroatom, X represents an alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, 90 to 100% of the alkylene group being an ethylene group, and n represents a number from 8 to 120.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kato, Chihiro Okamoto, Shinya Kato
  • Patent number: 12227179
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; a driving controller; an acquirer configured to acquire map information including lane information near the vehicle and reference information for identifying a position of the vehicle; and an identifier configured to identify a traveling lane of the vehicle out of one or more lanes included in a road on which the vehicle is traveling from the map information. The identifier is configured to set a reference lane on which the vehicle travels based on the number of lanes acquired from the map information and type information of lane markings near the vehicle recognized or information of an object capable of identifying a lane position and to identify the traveling lane of the vehicle based on the set reference lane, behavior of the vehicle, and an increase or decrease in the number of lanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chihiro Oguro, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20250010694
    Abstract: To provide a window glass for a vehicle window, capable of suppressing generation of sink marks in a resin molding while securing the design property of a design member. A window glass for a vehicle window according to the present disclosure includes a glass plate; and a resin molding provided in a peripheral edge portion of the glass plate. The glass plate and the resin molding constitute an integrated article. The window glass for a vehicle window further includes a design member that covers a corner of the resin molding. The design member is arranged at a vehicle outside of the resin molding when the window glass for a vehicle window is attached to a vehicle. The corner has a sharp angle. An insert member or a gas bubble portion is provided inside the corner of the resin molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Naonori HATTA, Chihiro Kato
  • Patent number: 12168076
    Abstract: To prevent or suppress roughness of the skin of a wearer by configuring an absorbent article so as to quickly absorb a body fluid into an absorber, for example, configuring a diaper so as to quickly absorb loose stool into an absorber. An absorbent article includes a liquid-holding absorber and a liquid pervious top sheet on a skin-facing surface side of the absorber. An absorbent Q mainly containing glycerin is provided on an intermediate sheet that transfers at least a body fluid that has passed through the top sheet to the absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventor: Chihiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20240260931
    Abstract: A non-contact type eyeball physical property measurement device according to the present invention comprises: an excitation unit which excites at least one excitation point on an eyeball of a subject's eye using an irradiation wave in order to generate a surface wave on the surface of the eyeball; a detection unit which detects the surface wave generated by the excitation unit at at least one detection point on the eyeball different from the excitation point; a surface wave processing unit which analyzes the surface wave detected by the detection unit; and an eyeball physical property calculation unit which calculates physical properties of the eyeball on the basis of a result of the analysis conducted by the surface wave processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventor: Chihiro KATO
  • Publication number: 20240145349
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first element for one of upper and lower arm circuits; a second element for the other of the upper and lower arm circuits; a first wiring having a first mounting portion on which the first element is disposed and a first power supply terminal portion connected with the first mounting portion; a second wiring having a second mounting portion on which the second element is disposed and an output terminal portion connected with the second mounting portion; a clip configured to electrically connect a main electrode of the first element and the second mounting portion; and a third wiring having a connection portion to which a main electrode of the second element is connected and a second power supply terminal portion connected with the connection portion. The third wiring is extended parallel to the first wiring and the clip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO HIRANO, MASAYOSHI NISHIHATA, CHIHIRO KATO
  • Publication number: 20230281332
    Abstract: An access control method is performed by a computer. The method includes: when detecting generation of a process in any of one or more containers, registering an association relationship between the generated process and an address for network communication in the container having the generated process in management information; when detecting an output of an access request to a database, identifying a transmission source process using a transmission source port number of the access request from among one or more processes associated with a transmission source address of the access request in the management information; identifying transmission source software executed by the identified transmission source process; and determining whether access to the database according to the access request from the identified transmission source software is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Chihiro KATO
  • Patent number: 11642019
    Abstract: An ophthalmic device includes a two-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a two-dimensional image by photographing the front of an eye to be examined with a color camera; a three-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a three-dimensional image of the eye to be examined by optical coherence tomography; and a correspondence definition data generation unit that generates correspondence definition data in which the position of a predetermined site of the eye to be examined in the three-dimensional image when the predetermined site is photographed as the three-dimensional image is associated with the position of the predetermined site in the two-dimensional image when the predetermined site is photographed as the two-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Tomey Corporation
    Inventors: Naoko Hara, Chihiro Kato, Keiichiro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11617507
    Abstract: An ophthalmic device includes a two-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a two-dimensional image by photographing the front of an eye to be examined with a color camera; a three-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a three-dimensional image of the eye to be examined by optical coherence tomography; and a correspondence definition data generation unit that generates correspondence definition data in which the position of a predetermined site of the eye to be examined in the three-dimensional image when the predetermined site is photographed as the three-dimensional image is associated with the position of the predetermined site in the two-dimensional image when the predetermined site is photographed as the two-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Tomey Corporation
    Inventors: Naoko Hara, Chihiro Kato, Keiichiro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11363947
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomographic device configured to acquire a tomographic image of a subjected eye is disclosed herein. The optical coherence tomographic device may include a light source of wavelength sweeping type; and a measurement optical system configured to irradiate the subjected eye with light outputted from the light source, where D/S×?>1.61 may be satisfied, with a diameter of the light outputted from the light source at an incident position to the subjected eye is D, a wavelength swept frequency of the light source is S, and a center wavelength of the light outputted from the light source is ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: TOMEY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Nozawa, Chihiro Kato, Takashi Kamo
  • Publication number: 20220160927
    Abstract: To prevent or suppress roughness of the skin of a wearer by configuring an absorbent article so as to quickly absorb a body fluid into an absorber, for example, configuring a diaper so as to quickly absorb loose stool into an absorber. An absorbent article includes a liquid-holding absorber and a liquid pervious top sheet on a skin-facing surface side of the absorber. An absorbent Q mainly containing glycerin is provided on an intermediate sheet that transfers at least a body fluid that has passed through the top sheet to the absorber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chihiro Kato
  • Patent number: 11202562
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: a light source; a measurement optical system that irradiates an eye with light from the source and guides reflected light from the eye; a reference optical system that guides the light from the source to use the light from the source as reference light; an abnormality detection optical system that has an optical path length of a predetermined length and to guide the light from the source to use the light from the source as abnormality detection light; a light receiving element that receives measurement interference light being combination of the reflected light from the eye and the reference light and abnormality detection interference light being combination of the abnormality detection light and the reference light, and the ophthalmic apparatus determines whether the measurement interference light is abnormal based on waveform of an abnormality detection interference signal outputted from the light receiving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Tomey Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Nozawa, Chihiro Kato, Takashi Kamo
  • Publication number: 20210374119
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes determining, when an update of data in a first database of a data supply source is detected, whether or not first data of an update target after the update is second data of an access control target, and changing a query related to the first data to be output to a second database of a data supply destination, based on a result of the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Chihiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20210161377
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomographic device configured to acquire a tomographic image of a subjected eye is disclosed herein. The optical coherence tomographic device may include a light source of wavelength sweeping type; and a measurement optical system configured to irradiate the subjected eye with light outputted from the light source, where D/S×?>1.61 may be satisfied, with a diameter of the light outputted from the light source at an incident position to the subjected eye is D, a wavelength swept frequency of the light source is S, and a center wavelength of the light outputted from the light source is ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Nozawa, Chihiro Kato, Takashi Kamo
  • Publication number: 20210059519
    Abstract: An ophthalmic device includes a two-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a two-dimensional image by photographing the front of an eye to be examined with a color camera; a three-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a three-dimensional image of the eye to be examined by optical coherence tomography; and a correspondence definition data generation unit that generates correspondence definition data in which the position of a predetermined site of the eye to be examined in the three-dimensional image when the predetermined site is photographed as the three-dimensional image is associated with the position of the predetermined site in the two-dimensional image when the predetermined site is photographed as the two-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Tomey Corporation
    Inventors: Naoko HARA, Chihiro KATO, Keiichiro OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10925483
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomographic device configured to acquire a tomographic image of a subjected eye is disclosed herein. The optical coherence tomographic device may include a light source of wavelength sweeping type; and a measurement optical system configured to irradiate the subjected eye with light outputted from the light source, where D/S×?>1.61 may be satisfied, with a diameter of the light outputted from the light source at an incident position to the subjected eye is D, a wavelength swept frequency of the light source is S, and a center wavelength of the light outputted from the light source is ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOMEY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Nozawa, Chihiro Kato, Takashi Kamo
  • Patent number: 10881288
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus that includes a light source of wavelength sweeping type; a measurement optical system; a reference optical system; a light receiving element that receives interference light; a sample clock signal generator that generates a sample clock signal from the light from the light source, the sample clock signal cyclically changing at equal frequency intervals; a signal processor that samples an interference signal based on the sample clock signal, the interference signal being outputted from the light receiving element when the light receiving element receives the interference light. The ophthalmic apparatus generates period data based on the sample clock signal, the period data indicating a relationship between a period of the sample clock signal and time; and determines a processing duration of the interference signal sampled at the signal processor based on the period data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: TOMEY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Nozawa, Takashi Sugaya, Chihiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20200205654
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus that includes a light source of wavelength sweeping type; a measurement optical system; a reference optical system; a light receiving element that receives interference light; a sample clock signal generator that generates a sample clock signal from the light from the light source, the sample clock signal cyclically changing at equal frequency intervals; a signal processor that samples an interference signal based on the sample clock signal, the interference signal being outputted from the light receiving element when the light receiving element receives the interference light. The ophthalmic apparatus generates period data based on the sample clock signal, the period data indicating a relationship between a period of the sample clock signal and time; and determines a processing duration of the interference signal sampled at the signal processor based on the period data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Nozawa, Takashi Sugaya, Chihiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20200077882
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: a light source; a measurement optical system that irradiates an eye with light from the source and guides reflected light from the eye; a reference optical system that guides the light from the source to use the light from the source as reference light; an abnormality detection optical system that has an optical path length of a predetermined length and to guide the light from the source to use the light from the source as abnormality detection light; a light receiving element that receives measurement interference light being combination of the reflected light from the eye and the reference light and abnormality detection interference light being combination of the abnormality detection light and the reference light, and the ophthalmic apparatus determines whether the measurement interference light is abnormal based on waveform of an abnormality detection interference signal outputted from the light receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Nozawa, Chihiro Kato, Takashi Kamo
  • Patent number: 10405744
    Abstract: An ophthalmological device emits light from a measurement optical system to an eye to be examined and calculates a dimension along the eye axis of a target portion of the eye from interfering light composed of reflected light from the eye and reference light. The measurement optical system includes incidence position changing member that changes the incidence position of light emitted to the eye, and driving unit that drives the incidence position changing member so as to scan at the incidence position of emitted light in a predetermined region of the eye. The predetermined region is a region where a straight line passes through when the straight line radially extended from the cornea apex of the eye is circumferentially moved over a predetermined angle range in the case of the eye is viewed from the front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: TOMEY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chihiro Kato, Yuji Nozawa