Patents by Inventor Hideki Mori

Hideki Mori 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).

  • Publication number: 20260151692
    Abstract: Provided is a controller device including a support body 10 that includes a grip section 11 held by a user, and a kinesthetic sense presentation section 30 that is coupled to the support body 10 via a joint and presents a kinesthetic sense to the user through use of a movable weight relatively movable with respect to a position to which this joint is coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2026
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventors: Yuhu Liu, Masaomi Nishidate, Yuri Ishikawa, Yusuke Nakagawa, Makoto Wakabayashi, Hideki Mori
  • Publication number: 20260086661
    Abstract: There is provided a manipulating device that is capable of expressing pseudo-weights. The manipulating device includes a plurality of link shafts, a plurality of node mechanisms that cooperate with the plurality of link shafts in providing a grid shape, the plurality of node mechanisms holding ends of at least two or more of the link shafts of the plurality of link shafts such that the at least two of the link shafts are variable in posture, a rest base on which the plurality of node mechanisms are placed, and a pulling mechanism for pulling each of the node mechanisms in a direction to return to a predetermined reference position on the rest base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki MORI, Yuta KODA, Yoshihisa TAKAHASHI, Koichi SHIONO
  • Publication number: 20260084048
    Abstract: There is provided a manipulating device that is capable of expressing force-like tactile senses. The manipulating device includes a plurality of link shafts, a plurality of node mechanisms that cooperate with the plurality of link shafts in providing a grid shape, the plurality of node mechanisms holding ends of at least two or more of the link shafts of the plurality of link shafts such that the at least two or more of the link shafts are variable in posture, and a vibrating structure for vibrating the manipulating device, depending on a state of at least either one of the plurality of node mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki MORI, Hiroya MATSUGAMI, Masaomi NISHIDATE, Yoshihisa TAKAHASHI, Koichi SHIONO, Hirofumi KANEKO
  • Patent number: 12528015
    Abstract: An operation information acquisition section acquires operation information indicating movement of an operation apparatus being held by a user's hand. The operation apparatus includes a kinesthetic sense presentation section that presents a kinesthetic sense to the user's hand and a tactile sense presentation section that presents a tactile sense to the user's hand. A control section controls movement of a virtual device corresponding to the operation apparatus in a space where a virtual object exists, according to the operation information. The control section generates first driving data for driving the kinesthetic sense presentation section and second driving data for driving the tactile sense presentation section, on the basis of a relation between the virtual device and the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Wakabayashi, Hideki Mori
  • Publication number: 20250325900
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that is connected to an operation device having an operation member that can be operated while being tilted and a driving unit for driving the operation member, that accepts operation information including at least one of a tilt direction and tilt angle of the operation member from the operation device, that sets a scene including at least one operation target object to be operated on the basis of the operation information, and that issues a driving instruction to drive the operation member according to a state of the operation target object in the set scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hirotomo YUNOKI, Takayuki KATSUMA, Koji HAMADA, Keiji TOGAWA, Yoshio MIYAZAKI, Kouji KURODA, Hideki MORI, Yusuke WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20250303283
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus connected to a display apparatus that captures images of one or more user candidates around the display apparatus and sets a selected one of the imaged user candidates as a user. The information processing apparatus includes a processor, acquires the images of the user candidates, which are captured by the display apparatus, transmits the acquired images to an additional information processing apparatus, accepts, from the additional information processing apparatus, information identifying one user candidate selected from the user candidates imaged by the display apparatus, and controls the display apparatus to set the user candidate identified by the accepted information as the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki MORI, Masaomi NISHIDATE, Hiroya MATSUGAMI
  • Publication number: 20250303288
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that is connected to a display device of a first type and that is communicably connected to another information processing device which is connected to a display device of a type different from the display device of the first type. The information processing device includes a processor which accesses setting information regarding a virtual space shared with the other information processing device, executes a process of arranging a virtual character in the virtual space represented by the setting information, and, in the process of arranging the virtual character, arranges the virtual character by using a parameter determined according to the type of the display device connected to the information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki MORI, Masaomi NISHIDATE, Hiroya MATSUGAMI
  • Patent number: 12412756
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing liquid supply device includes: a tank that stores the processing liquid; a supply path that supplies the processing liquid to the processing device; a heater that heats the processing liquid; a thermometer that measures a temperature of the processing liquid; a densitometer that measures a concentration of the processing liquid; and a controller including an inspecting unit that inspects the densitometer. The inspecting unit includes: a temperature setting device that sets a boiling point temperature at which a predetermined concentration is reached as a predetermined temperature; a heating controller that heats the processing liquid by the heater so as to reach a target temperature within a predetermined range; and a determination device that determines whether or not the concentration of the processing liquid is a target concentration within a predetermined range based on the predetermined concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Furuya, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Hideki Mori
  • Patent number: 12353641
    Abstract: Provided is a display control system that can express various display modes. The display control system has a display control section that causes a display object to be displayed, which includes a plurality of elements respectively associated in advance with a plurality of lattice points included in a lattice-shaped operating device, and acquiring means that acquires position coordinates of each of the plurality of lattice points, and the display control section determines a display mode of each of the plurality of elements on the basis of the position coordinates of the plurality of lattice points associated in advance with the plurality of elements, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Mori, Koichi Shiono, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Hirofumi Kaneko, Hiroya Matsugami
  • Patent number: 12347699
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a supply tank a supply device, and a supply system that stabilizes the liquid temperature of a process liquid to be supplied to a substrate processing device. A supply tank that supplies a process liquid to a substrate processing device includes a container that stores the process liquid, a first dividing plate that divides the container into a first region where the process liquid is introduced, and a second region that supplies the process liquid to the substrate processing device, first piping that feeds, to the second region, the process liquid introduced in the first region, and a first heater which is provided on a path through the first piping, and which heats the process liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Furuya, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Hideki Mori
  • Patent number: 12318803
    Abstract: A supply device includes a collect tank which collects a process liquid from a substrate processing device and heats the collected liquid, and a supply tank connected to the collect tank and which supplies, to the substrate processing device, the process liquid heated in the collect tank. The collect tank includes a collect container that stores the process liquid, a first dividing plate that divides the collect container into a first region where the process liquid is introduced from the substrate processing device, and a second region that introduces the process liquid to the supply tank, piping that feeds, to the second region, the process liquid introduced in the first region, a first heater provided on a path through the piping and which heats the process liquid, and feed piping that feeds, to the supply tank, the process liquid in the second region and heated by the first heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Furuya, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Hideki Mori
  • Patent number: 12257595
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing liquid supply device includes a plurality of tanks, a supply path that supplies a processing liquid to a processing device, a heating unit that heats the processing liquid, a dilution unit that dilutes the processing liquid, a new-liquid supply unit that supplies a new liquid, a common flow path through which the processing liquid of the plurality of tanks passes, a switching unit that switches between the plurality of tanks so that at least a tank is selected from which the processing liquid passes to the common flow path, a densitometer provided in the common flow path, and a control device that controls at least one of the heating unit, the dilution unit, and the new-liquid supply unit so that the concentration reaches a target value set in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Furuya, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Hideki Mori
  • Patent number: 12211412
    Abstract: An App image includes a display target area displayed on a cylindrical screen, a left margin area, and a right margin area. When a particle comes into contact with a boundary of the display target area and the right margin area, a display apparatus arranges, in the left margin area, a particle in the same mode as the mode of the particle such that the particle comes into contact with a boundary of the display target area and the left margin area. The display apparatus generates a plurality of images such that as the particle moves out to the right margin area from the display target area, the particle enters the display target area from the left margin area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masaomi Nishidate, Hideki Mori
  • Publication number: 20250010178
    Abstract: Provided is an operating device having a high degree of freedom of operation by a user. The operating device outputs a signal to a computer according to a change of the posture by an operation of a user, and includes a plurality of link shafts, a plurality of node mechanism sections which form a lattice shape together with the plurality of link shafts, and each of which holds one ends of at least two or more link shafts among the plurality of link shafts such that the postures of the two or more link shafts can be changed, and a three-dimensional magnetic sensor that detects respective directions in which the two or more link shafts extend relative to the node mechanism sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki MORI, Koichi SHIONO, Yoshihisa TAKAHASHI, Hirofumi KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20240402835
    Abstract: Provided is a display control system that can express various display modes. The display control system has a display control section that causes a display object to be displayed, which includes a plurality of elements respectively associated in advance with a plurality of lattice points included in a lattice-shaped operating device, and acquiring means that acquires position coordinates of each of the plurality of lattice points, and the display control section determines a display mode of each of the plurality of elements on the basis of the position coordinates of the plurality of lattice points associated in advance with the plurality of elements, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki MORI, Koichi SHIONO, Yoshihisa TAKAHASHI, Hirofumi KANEKO, Hiroya MATSUGAMI
  • Patent number: 12117239
    Abstract: A reformer configured to generate hydrogen gas by reforming a hydrocarbon; a hydrogen liquefier configured to generate liquid hydrogen by liquefying the hydrogen gas; a reservoir for storing the liquid hydrogen; and a heat exchanger configured to cause heat exchange between boil-off gas that occurs in the reservoir and carbon dioxide that occurs during a process of generating the hydrogen gas to liquefy the carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomonori Takase, Shoichiro Hayashi, Hideki Mori
  • Publication number: 20240252924
    Abstract: An operation information acquisition section 212 acquires operation information indicating movement of an operation apparatus being held by a user's hand. The operation apparatus includes a kinesthetic sense presentation section that presents a kinesthetic sense to the user's hand and a tactile sense presentation section that presents a tactile sense to the user's hand. A control section 230 controls movement of a virtual device corresponding to the operation apparatus in a space where a virtual object exists, according to the operation information. The control section 230 generates first driving data for driving the kinesthetic sense presentation section and second driving data for driving the tactile sense presentation section, on the basis of a relation between the virtual device and the virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Wakabayashi, Hideki Mori
  • Patent number: 12024379
    Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a sheet supporting unit, a sheet feeding unit, and a regulating member. The regulating member includes a supporting surface portion on which the sheet is placed, and a regulation surface portion provided continuously with the supporting surface portion and configured to regulate the position of the sheet in a width direction. The supporting surface portion includes a supporting surface color indicating portion including an end portion of the supporting surface portion on a side of the regulation surface portion and having a color with brightness of 7 or less in the Munsell color system. The regulation surface portion includes a regulation surface color indicating portion including an end portion of the regulation surface portion on a side of the supporting surface portion and having a color with brightness higher than the brightness of the supporting surface color indicating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Mori
  • Patent number: 11943519
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device coupled to a device which a user operates with a hand of the user and on the surface of which a plurality of sensors that each output information associated with a spatial positional relation with the surface of the hand of the user are arranged, the information processing device being configured to receive output from each of the sensors included in the device and generate an image in which an image element having been drawn with a pixel value determined on the basis of a value represented by the output from each of the sensors is arranged at a position corresponding to a position at which each of the sensors is arranged, on a mapping space obtained by plane-unfolding a portion that constitutes the surface of the device and on which the sensors are arranged, Further, the information processing device is configured to, upon receipt of input of the generated image, estimate information associated with the position of each of joints of the hand of the user who operat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Arimatsu, Hideki Mori
  • Patent number: RE50035
    Abstract: By stably separating a melting location of a fuse (3) from conductive layers (5A, 5B), reliable melting of the fuse (3) is enabled. A fuse (3) including a fuse body (3A) and two pads (3Ba, 3Bb) connected by this and two conductive layers (5A, 5B) individually connected to the two pads (3Ba, 3Bb) are formed in a multilayer structure on a semiconductor substrate (1). A length of the fuse body (3A) is defined so that the melting location of the fuse (3) becomes positioned in the fuse body (3A) away from the region overlapped on the conductive layer (5A or 5B) when an electrical stress is applied between two conductive layers (5A, 5B) and the fuse (3) is melted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Mori, Hirokazu Ejiri, Kenji Azami, Terukazu Ohno, Nobuyuki Yoshitake