Patents by Inventor Hideki Miyamoto
Hideki Miyamoto 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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Patent number: 7979595Abstract: An external apparatus function extension application system in a host computer is provided. The host computer sets a property value of an external apparatus into firmware that controls the external apparatus connected to the host computer and that is downloaded from the host computer to the external apparatus, and the external apparatus function extension application system includes a unit configured to register a sequence process for setting the property value as a hook function that is called when a predetermined object is generated.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Hideki Miyamoto
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Patent number: 7410649Abstract: Personal care compositions comprise visible beads, cationic polymer, and surfactant. The visible beads in the personal care compositions can be utilized to provide an aesthetically pleasing appearance to the product. The visible beads can also be utilized to encapsulate and deliver skin benefit agents to the skin or hair. The visible beads can also encapsulate materials that are otherwise incompatible with the personal care composition matrix to preserve product stability.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Naohisa Yoshimi, Hideki Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20070260762Abstract: An external apparatus function extension application system in a host computer is provided. The host computer sets a property value of an external apparatus into firmware that controls the external apparatus connected to the host computer and that is downloaded from the host computer to the external apparatus, and the external apparatus function extension application system includes a unit configured to register a sequence process for setting the property value as a hook function that is called when a predetermined object is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2007Publication date: November 8, 2007Inventor: Hideki Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20060083761Abstract: Personal care compositions comprise visible beads, cationic polymer, and surfactant. The visible beads in the personal care compositions can be utilized to provide an aesthetically pleasing appearance to the product. The visible beads can also be utilized to encapsulate and deliver skin benefit agents to the skin or hair. The visible beads can also encapsulate materials that are otherwise incompatible with the personal care composition matrix to preserve product stability.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2005Publication date: April 20, 2006Inventors: Naohisa Yoshimi, Hideki Miyamoto
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Patent number: 6998821Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply comprises a power supply unit for generating DC power at a predetermined voltage from AC power supplied from the outside to supply the DC power to an electronic device, and a rechargeable battery unit including rechargeable battery cells for storing the power supplied thereto from the power supply unit for supplying the electronic device with the power stored in the rechargeable battery upon service interruption of the AC power. Particularly, the rechargeable battery unit comprises a battery state monitoring unit for monitoring a state of the rechargeable battery cells, and communicating means for notifying the electronic device of information indicative of the state of the rechargeable battery detected by the battery state monitoring unit, thereby securely guaranteeing the operation of the electronic device upon power failure, and sufficiently improve the operational reliability of the entire system.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2004Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Toshiba Battery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirotaka Sakai, Hideki Miyamoto, Yasushi Mori, Yukinori Akamoto, Nobuo Shiojima
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Patent number: 6971379Abstract: There is provided a combustion chamber structure in an internal combustion engine in which, at a peripheral portion of a combustion chamber, a gap between a cylinder head lower face and a piston upper face is small in intake-to-intake and exhaust-to-exhaust zones and gradually increases toward an intake-to-exhaust zone. According to such design, the mixture in the peripheral portion of the combustion chamber can smoothly flow from the intake-to-intake and exhaust-to-exhaust zones to the intake-to-exhaust zone along the peripheral face of the cylinder. The flow of air-fuel mixture from the intake-to-intake zone collides at the center of the intake-to-exhaust zone with the flow of mixture from the exhaust-to-exhaust zone, and the combined flow goes over a conical tapered portion in the upper face of the piston and vigorously enters a central recessed portion thereof. Therefore, it is possible to satisfactorily mix an air-fuel mixture with a simplified configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoharu Sakai, Takeshi Hasegawa, Takafumi Shigemori, Toshiaki Umemura, Yoshiyuki Hoshiba, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Kiyotaka Hosono, Hideki Miyamoto, Yu Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20050109328Abstract: There is provided a combustion chamber structure in an internal combustion engine in which, at a peripheral portion of a combustion chamber, a gap between a cylinder head lower face and a piston upper face is small in intake-to-intake and exhaust-to-exhaust zones and gradually increases toward an intake-to-exhaust zone. According to such design, the mixture in the peripheral portion of the combustion chamber can smoothly flow from the intake-to-intake and exhaust-to-exhaust zones to the intake-to-exhaust zone along the peripheral face of the cylinder. The flow of air-fuel mixture from the intake-to-intake zone collides at the center of the intake-to-exhaust zone with the flow of mixture from the exhaust-to-exhaust zone, and the combined flow goes over a conical tapered portion in the upper face of the piston and vigorously enters a central recessed portion thereof. Therefore, it is possible to satisfactorily mix an air-fuel mixture with a simplified configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2004Publication date: May 26, 2005Applicant: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoharu Sakai, Takeshi Hasegawa, Takafumi Shigemori, Toshiaki Umemura, Yoshiyuki Hoshiba, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Kiyotaka Hosono, Hideki Miyamoto, Yu Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20040232885Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply comprises a power supply unit for generating DC power at a predetermined voltage from AC power supplied from the outside to supply the DC power to an electronic device, and a rechargeable battery unit including rechargeable battery cells for storing the power supplied thereto from the power supply unit for supplying the electronic device with the power stored in the rechargeable battery upon service interruption of the AC power. Particularly, the rechargeable battery unit comprises a battery state monitoring unit for monitoring a state of the rechargeable battery cells, and communicating means for notifying the electronic device of information indicative of the state of the rechargeable battery detected by the battery state monitoring unit, thereby securely guaranteeing the operation of the electronic device upon power failure, and sufficiently improve the operational reliability of the entire system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Applicant: TOSHIBA BATTERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Sakai, Hideki Miyamoto, Yasushi Mori, Yukinori Akamoto, Nobuo Shiojima
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Patent number: 6784641Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply includes a power supply unit for generating DC power at a predetermined voltage from AC power supplied from the outside to supply the DC power to an electronic device, and a rechargeable battery unit including rechargeable battery cells for storing the power supplied thereto from the power supply unit for supplying the electronic device with the power stored in the rechargeable battery upon service interruption of the AC power. The rechargeable battery unit includes a battery state monitoring unit for monitoring a state of the rechargeable battery cells and a communicating unit for notifying the electronic device of information indicative of the state of the rechargeable battery detected by the battery state monitoring unit. The rechargeable battery cells include nickel-metal hydride rechargeable batteries.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Toshiba Battery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirotaka Sakai, Hideki Miyamoto, Yasushi Mori, Yukinori Akamoto, Nobuo Shiojima
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Patent number: 6768313Abstract: The present invention relates to method for a detecting tracking short. In some embodiments, the method may include detecting current flowing on an electric circuit. In other embodiments, the method may include calculating the frequency distribution of the variation of the current detected in a predetermined period. In an embodiment, the method may include outputting a detecting signal in case the frequency of variations included in the predetermined range satisfies a judgement reference.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2002Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Tempearl Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasunori Hamai, Takeshi Kamada, Hideki Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20020033692Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply comprises a power supply unit for generating DC power at a predetermined voltage from AC power supplied from the outside to supply the DC power to an electronic device, and a rechargeable battery unit including rechargeable battery cells for storing the power supplied thereto from the power supply unit for supplying the electronic device with the power. stored in the rechargeable battery upon service interruption of the AC power. Particularly, the rechargeable battery unit comprises a battery state monitoring unit for monitoring a state of the rechargeable battery cells, and communicating means for notifying the electronic device of information indicative of the state of the rechargeable battery detected by the battery state monitoring unit, thereby securely guaranteeing the operation of the electronic device upon power failure, and sufficiently improve the operational reliability of the entire system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Applicant: TOSHIBA BATTERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Sakai, Hideki Miyamoto, Yasushi Mori, Yukinori Akamoto, Nobuo Shiojima
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Patent number: 6140928Abstract: A remaining battery capacity measuring device having a microprocessor and an integrated circuit is packaged together with a secondary battery to form a battery pack. The integrated circuit includes a current measuring circuit for charging and discharging currents of a secondary battery, an overcurrent detection circuit for detecting overcurrent in the secondary battery, a driver circuit for driving a semiconductor switch for change and discharge control of the secondary battery, and a power switch circuit for power-saving operation. The current measuring circuit includes an operational amplifier for detecting a voltage across a resistor for current detection, and has a function to apply a variable offset voltage to the amplifier and a function to vary the gain of another operational amplifier for amplifying the output of the former operational amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1998Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Toshiba Battery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuo Shibuya, Hideki Miyamoto, Hirotaka Sakai, Makoto Tsuchihata
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Patent number: 5441020Abstract: In a valve-moving apparatus for an internal combustion engine, lever members are integrally formed with rocker shaft parts and arm parts, the lever members are provided with large-diameter parts larger in diameter than support parts, disposed between support parts of the rocker shaft parts supported by support members of the engine and the arm parts; rocker arms driven by cams are rotatably supported on the large-diameter parts; and change-over mechanisms for selectively engaging the large-diameter parts and the rocker arms are disposed in the large-diameter parts, thereby improving rigidity of the large-diameter parts and achieving improved reliability of the change-over mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1993Date of Patent: August 15, 1995Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyou Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Murata, Setsuo Nishihara, Tetsuo Kataoka, Hideki Miyamoto, Noriyuki Miyamura, Masahiko Kubo, Hirofumi Higashi
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Patent number: 5429079Abstract: An internal combustion engine of the present invention comprises at least first and second cylinder banks each including a plurality of cylinders or a single cylinder, a first valve operating mechanism provided for each of the cylinders of the first cylinder bank for operating an intake valve or an exhaust valve of the cylinder to open and close, and a second valve operating mechanism having a valve operating characteristic different from that of the first valve operating mechanism and provided for each of the cylinders of the second cylinder bank for operating an intake valve or an exhaust valve of the cylinder to open and close.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1993Date of Patent: July 4, 1995Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Murata, Noriyuki Miyamura, Hirofumi Higashi, Setsuo Nishihara, Michiyasu Yoshida, Tetsuo Kataoka, Nobuaki Murakami, Hiroshi Kamada, Hideki Miyamoto
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Patent number: 5427064Abstract: In a valve-moving apparatus for an internal combustion engine, lever members are integrally formed with rocker shaft parts and arm parts, the lever members are provided with large-diameter parts larger in diameter than support parts, disposed between support parts of the rocker shaft parts supported by support members of the engine and the arm parts; rocker arms driven by cams are rotatably supported on the large-diameter parts; and change-over mechanisms for selectively engaging the large-diameter parts and the rocker arms are disposed in the large-diameter parts, thereby improving rigidity of the large-diameter parts and achieving improved reliability of the change-over mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1994Date of Patent: June 27, 1995Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Murata, Setsuo Nishihara, Tetsuo Kataoka, Hideki Miyamoto, Noriyuki Miyamura, Masahiko Kubo, Hirofumi Higashi
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Patent number: 5320082Abstract: In a valve-moving apparatus for an internal combustion engine, cam shafts having a low-speed cam and a high-speed cam and rocker shaft parts are provided; arm parts 33 having rocking ends opposing the intake valve or the exhaust valve are integrally mounted on the rocker shaft parts; a low-speed rocker arm and a high-speed rocker arm are rotatably mounted; engaging means for selectively attaching the rocker arms are disposed in the rocker shaft parts; and arm springs for endowing the rocker arms 35 with biasing forces are disposed, wherein the low-speed and high-speed arm springs are set to low-speed spring specifications to achieve interchangeability.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1993Date of Patent: June 14, 1994Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Murata, Hideki Miyamoto
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Patent number: 5213073Abstract: The cylinder head of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention comprises a head base portion and an extended head portion connected to the head base portion. The extended head portion allows to arrange a variable valve timing mechanism in the cylinder head of the present invention, together with the valve system of the engine itself. The head base portion has the same interior as that of a prior cylinder head of DOHC type and a height equal to that of an another prior cylinder head of SOHC. The DOHC and SOHC cylinder head can be processed in a common manufacturing line whereby the head base portion can be also processed in the common manufacturing line.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1991Date of Patent: May 25, 1993Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Murata, Michiyasu Yoshida, Hideki Miyamoto, Noboru Nakamura
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Patent number: RE35662Abstract: A valve operating apparatus, which transmits the rotation of the crankshaft of an automotive engine to the intake and exhaust valves to open and close the valves, can selectively vary the timing to open and close the valves and ther lifts of the valves. The valve operating apparatus includes a camshaft with low- and high-speed cams and low- and high-speed rocker arms, one of which is fixed to and the other rotatably supported on a rocker shaft. The valves can be opened and closed by the low-speed rocker arm. The other rocker arm and the rocker shaft can be engaged and disengaged by an engaging mechanism that is actuated by an actuating mechanism depending on the operating condition of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1995Date of Patent: November 18, 1997Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Murata, Noboru Nakamura, Michiyasu Yoshida, Hideki Miyamoto