Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Hattori

Hiroaki Hattori 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: 11260414
    Abstract: The present application discloses a coating method including: detecting a shape of an object over a coating zone which extends from a start point position to an end point position to generate first detection data before application of coating agent to the object; moving a bracket for holding a nozzle for discharging the coating agent with bringing the bracket into contact with the object to apply the coating agent to the object over the coating zone; detecting a shape of the object after application of the coating agent over the coating zone, to generate second detection data; extracting first extraction data and second extraction data in correspondence to detection positions intermittently set in the coating zone from the first detection data and the second detection data; and comparing the first extraction data with the second extraction data to detect a coating state of the coating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hattori, Masanori Takasaki, Masakazu Tsuji, Go Ishizaki, Yasuhide Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11161141
    Abstract: The present application discloses a coating device including: a coating gun configured to apply a coating agent to an object; a sensor device configured to form a detection area in which the coating agent is detected on the object; a bracket on which the coating gun and the sensor device are mounted; and a robot configured to hold and rotate the bracket about a predetermined first axis of rotation. When the robot rotates the bracket from a first rotational position, at which the coating gun applies the coating agent to a coating position on the object, to a second rotational position in which the bracket is angularly changed by a predetermined rotational angle about the first axis of rotation, the detection area overlaps with the coating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hattori, Masanori Takasaki, Masakazu Tsuji, Go Ishizaki, Yasuhide Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20200206773
    Abstract: The present application discloses a coating device including: a coating gun configured to apply a coating agent to an object; a sensor device configured to form a detection area in which the coating agent is detected on the object; a bracket on which the coating gun and the sensor device are mounted; and a robot configured to hold and rotate the bracket about a predetermined first axis of rotation. When the robot rotates the bracket from a first rotational position, at which the coating gun applies the coating agent to a coating position on the object, to a second rotational position in which the bracket is angularly changed by a predetermined rotational angle about the first axis of rotation, the detection area overlaps with the coating position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki HATTORI, Masanori TAKASAKI, Masakazu TSUJI, Go ISHIZAKI, Yasuhide FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20200078811
    Abstract: The present application discloses a coating method including: detecting a shape of an object over a coating zone which extends from a start point position to an end point position to generate first detection data before application of coating agent to the object; moving a bracket for holding a nozzle for discharging the coating agent with bringing the bracket into contact with the object to apply the coating agent to the object over the coating zone; detecting a shape of the object after application of the coating agent over the coating zone, to generate second detection data; extracting first extraction data and second extraction data in correspondence to detection positions intermittently set in the coating zone from the first detection data and the second detection data; and comparing the first extraction data with the second extraction data to detect a coating state of the coating agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki HATTORI, Masanori TAKASAKI, Masakazu TSUJI, Go ISHIZAKI, Yasuhide FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 9341108
    Abstract: A plate-shaped butterfly valve is rotatable to throttle intake airflow, which is to be drawn into an internal combustion engine, and to direct the intake airflow toward a specific periphery in a cross section of a passage. The passage has a passage wall defining a passage wall step. The passage wall step is located on the downstream side from a rotation locus of the butterfly valve relative to intake airflow. The passage wall step has a raised side and a depressed side, which are located on the downstream side and on the upstream side, respectively, relative to intake airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Hattori
  • Patent number: 9316129
    Abstract: An intake control valve has a body, a valve, and a shaft. The valve has a connecting portion, a first boss located at an end of the connecting portion in the rotation axial direction; and a second boss located at an other end of the connecting portion in the rotation axial direction. The body has first and second bearing portions supporting the first and second protruding portions, respectively, first and second projection portions projecting inward from inner surfaces of the first and second bearings, respectively, to slidably support the first and second bosses, respectively, and first and second insertion openings defined between one circumferential end and an other circumferential end of the first and second projection portions, respectively. The first and second projection portions partially cover the first and second bosses, respectively, in a circumferential direction of the first boss and the second boss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Hattori
  • Publication number: 20150147572
    Abstract: A powder material of the present invention contains ceramic-metal composite particles, wherein at least a part of the composite particles exhibit no breaking point in a stress-strain diagram obtained by applying a compressive load that increases up to a maximum value of 10 mN or more at a loading rate of 15.0 mN/s or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuto Sato, Hiroaki Hattori, Junya Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150122206
    Abstract: An intake control valve has a body, a valve, and a shaft. The valve has a connecting portion, a first boss located at an end of the connecting portion in the rotation axial direction; and a second boss located at an other end of the connecting portion in the rotation axial direction. The body has first and second bearing portions supporting the first and second protruding portions, respectively, first and second projection portions projecting inward from inner surfaces of the first and second bearings, respectively, to slidably support the first and second bosses, respectively, and first and second insertion openings defined between one circumferential end and an other circumferential end of the first and second projection portions, respectively. The first and second projection portions partially cover the first and second bosses, respectively, in a circumferential direction of the first boss and the second boss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroaki HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20140174401
    Abstract: A plate-shaped butterfly valve is rotatable to throttle intake airflow, which is to be drawn into an internal combustion engine, and to direct the intake airflow toward a specific periphery in a cross section of a passage. The passage has a passage wall defining a passage wall step. The passage wall step is located on the downstream side from a rotation locus of the butterfly valve relative to intake airflow. The passage wall step has a raised side and a depressed side, which are located on the downstream side and on the upstream side, respectively, relative to intake airflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventor: Hiroaki Hattori
  • Publication number: 20130071251
    Abstract: The vibration damping blade for fluid of the present invention has an integrally formed wedge damper, in which a thickness h(x) at a distance x from an imaginary line outside of an outer edge is h(x)=?xn (where ? is a positive constant, and n is a real number of 1 or more). As a result, it is possible to offer a vibration damping blade for fluid which can be easily manufactured, and which obtains damping effects across a wide range of frequency regions without disturbing the flow of fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Jose Javier Bayod Relancio, Hisayuki Motoi, Hiroaki Hattori
  • Patent number: 7638078
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to make it possible that: a high-concentration hydrogel sheet, which is suitable for production of high-performance water-absorbent resin particles, is cut efficiently without involving the adhesion to such as cutting-blades; and the subsequent disintegration operation is also successfully carried out; and hydrogel particles excellent in the quality and performances are efficiently produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masazumi Sasabe, Kozo Nogi, Shigeru Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Fujita, Akihiro Morita, Hiroaki Hattori
  • Publication number: 20070148642
    Abstract: A method of detecting genes which comprises detecting gene polymorphisms in allergy-predisposition-related genes; i.e., interleukin 12 receptor IL-1 ?2 chain and ?1 chain genes, interleukin 18 receptor ? chain gene, interferon ? receptor 1 chain gene and interleukin 12.p40 subunit gene, to thereby detect allergic predisposition. Use of the present method enables contribution to the prevention of onset of allergic diseases and to the treatment of allergic diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Naomi Kondo, Eiko Matsui, Hideo Kaneko, Minako Aoki, Mizuho Nagao, Kimiko Kasahara, Koji Tatebayashi, Hiroaki Hattori, Toru Egashira
  • Patent number: 7089187
    Abstract: A voice synthesizing system can make necessary calculation amount satisfactorily small and can make necessary file size small. The system includes a compressed pitch segment database storing compressed voice waveform segments, a pitch developing portion reading out the voice waveform segment from the database and decompressing the compressed data for reproducing an original voice waveform segment when the voice waveform segment necessary for voice waveform synthesis is demanded, and a cache processing portion temporarily storing the voice waveform segment already used in voice waveform synthesis, and when voice waveform segment necessary for voice waveform synthesis is demanded, returning demanded voice waveform segment to a demander when demanded voice waveform segment is already stored, and obtaining the voice waveform segment from the database via the pitch developing portion to hold the obtained voice waveform segment and return to the demander when demanded voice waveform segment is not stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Reishi Kondo, Hiroaki Hattori
  • Publication number: 20060116881
    Abstract: Portable-type communication terminal device easy to use by a user is provided. Determination unit determines, based on whether electronic mail received by a communication unit contains contents identification information, whether the electronic mail is contents electronic mail. When determining that the electronic mail is contents electronic mail, the determination unit outputs an activation signal to a speech synthesis unit and an image processing unit. Upon receiving the activation signal, the speech synthesis unit executes speech synthesis based on text contained in the electronic mail to output voice through a speaker. Upon receiving the activation signal, the image processing unit executes image processing based on face marks contained in the text of the electronic mail to change a face expression of a face image displayed by the image display unit according to voice output by a voice output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Yohei Umezawa, Yoshio Nitta, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Hiroaki Hattori, Minako Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20050046069
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to make it possible that: a high-concentration hydrogel sheet, which is suitable for production of high-performance water-absorbent resin particles, is cut efficiently without involving the adhesion to such as cutting-blades; and the subsequent disintegration operation is also successfully carried out; and hydrogel particles excellent in the quality and performances are efficiently produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Masazumi Sasabe, Kozo Nogi, Shigeru Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Fujita, Akihiro Morita, Hiroaki Hattori
  • Publication number: 20040132018
    Abstract: A method of detecting a risk factor for the onset of arteriosclerosis in a subject on the basis of correlation of a gene mutation in the CETP gene (in particular, mutation at (1) guanine at the −69-position of the CETP gene; (2) the site encoding leucine at the 151-position of CETP encoded by the CETP gene; (3) the site encoding arginine at the 201-position and alanine at the 202-position of the same; or (4) the site encoding arginine at the 282-position of the same) with the risk for arteriosclerosis, thereby detecting arteriosclerosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Makoto Nagano, Mayumi Ito, Yukiko Sagehashi, Hiroaki Hattori, Toru Egashira, Shizuya Yamashita, Yuji Matsuzawa
  • Publication number: 20040101863
    Abstract: The intended object of the present invention is to provide a more widely applicable means of diagnosing familial hyperlipemia with certainty. It has been found that this object can be attained by providing a method of detecting abnormality of lipid metabolism, wherein risk factors concerning abnormalities of lipid metabolism are detected on the basis of the correlation of 65 specific types of LDL receptor gene mutations with the abnormalities of lipid metabolism, as well as a method of detecting disease(s) by detecting risk factors for arteriosclerosis and/or ischemic heart diseases by employing as indices the abnormalities of lipid metabolism thus detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hattori, Masahiro Tsuji, Tomoo Okada, Makoto Nagano, Tohru Egashira, Mitsuaki Ishihara, Tadao Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20040081981
    Abstract: Risk factors for diabetic onset in a subject are detected by using a gene coding for CD38 protein, which is originally identified as a human lymphocyte surface marker, as a risk gene, and detecting mutations in the gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventors: Toru Egashira, Makoto Nagano, Yukiko Sagehashi, Kana Matsui, Hiroaki Hattori, Azuma Kanatsuka, Shin Takasawa, Hiroshi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20030061051
    Abstract: A voice synthesizing system can make necessary calculation amount satisfactorily small and can make necessary file size small. The system includes a compressed pitch segment database storing compressed voice waveform segments, a pitch developing portion reading out the voice waveform segment from the database and decompressing the compressed data for reproducing an original voice waveform segment when the voice waveform segment necessary for voice waveform synthesis is demanded, and a cache processing portion temporarily storing the voice waveform segment already used in voice waveform synthesis, and when voice waveform segment necessary for voice waveform synthesis is demanded, returning demanded voice waveform segment to a demander when demanded voice waveform segment is already stored, and obtaining the voice waveform segment from the database via the pitch developing portion to hold the obtained voice waveform segment and return to the demander when demanded voice waveform segment is not stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reishi Kondo, Hiroaki Hattori
  • Publication number: 20030027134
    Abstract: Risk factors for diabetic onset in a subject are detected by using a gene coding for CD38 protein, which is originally identified as a human lymphocyte surface marker, as a risk gene, and detecting mutations in the gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Toru Egashira, Makoto Nagano, Yukiko Sagehashi, Kana Matsui, Hiroaki Hattori, Azuma Kanatsuka, Shin Takasawa, Hiroshi Okamoto