Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Higuchi
Hiroaki Higuchi 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: 20220297556Abstract: A power distribution device is connected to a power source connector connected to a battery pack, a front connector connected to a front PCU that supplies power to a front MG, and a rear connector connected to a rear PCU that supplies power to a rear MG. Further, the power distribution device has a DC power connector which may be connected to an external DC power source and an AC power connector which may be connected to an external AC power source. The power source connector, the front connector, and the rear connector are provided on an inner side of the vehicle than the DC power connector and the AC power connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroaki HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 9946613Abstract: An instrumentation system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of field devices, in which each of the field devices is configured to perform at least one of measuring and operation of a target, a connection device including a plurality of slots, in which I/O modules are respectively attachable to the slots and the field devices are connectable to the I/O module, and a host control device configured to individually set the I/O modules attached to the slots to have a redundant configuration or a non-redundant configuration and to operate a first I/O module having the non-redundant configuration, among the I/O modules attached to the slots, in a pseudo redundant configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Masahisa Goto, Tatsuzou Sakuramoto, Koji Nagatomi, Hiroaki Higuchi, Ryuichiro Hoshina
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Patent number: 9548484Abstract: A battery unit is provided which includes a control board, a storage case, a water detector, and an electrical conductor. The storage case is made of an assembly of a first and a second casing member. The first casing member has an upright wall which extends from the bottom thereof and surrounds the battery. The second casing member also has an extension which extends toward the bottom of the first casing member. The water detector is located close to the lower end of the extension of the second casing member. The electric conductor extends upward from the upper end of the extension and are electrically joined to the water detector. The electric conductor is also mechanically and electrically joined to the control board. This structure facilitates the ease with which the water detector is installed electrically and mechanically in the battery unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Yoshinori Yamaguchi, Hidehiro Kinoshita, Hiroaki Higuchi
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Patent number: 9543551Abstract: A battery unit is provided which includes a battery and a storage case in which the battery is mounted. The storage case is made up of a base, a cover, and an intermediate case. The cover is jointed to the base with an interspace therebetween. The intermediate case is disposed between the cover and the base and has a peripheral wall which occupies the interspace. The intermediate case is lower in stiffness than the cover and the base, thereby realizing a lightweight structure of the storage case without sacrificing the mechanical strength thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Yoshinori Yamaguchi, Hidehiro Kinoshita, Hiroaki Higuchi
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Patent number: 9087423Abstract: A bill validator of an automated teller machine includes a magnetic detector for detecting magnetism of bills. The magnetic detector has pressing members of resin material having bearings bored therein. The bearings rotatably hold a shaft for a guide roller which presses bills against the lower surface of a magnetic sensor. The guide roller rotates as bills run on a conveyance path. However, since the bearings consist of fixed parts of resin material and the shaft is formed of non-magnetic material, the rotation does not cause changes in a magnetic field. Thus, when the guide roller rotates, the surrounding magnetic field does not change, so that, although the magnetic detector locates in the vicinity of the guide roller, the magnetic head of the magnetic sensor can well accurately sense the magnetism of bills.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kinya Maekawa, Hiroaki Higuchi
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Publication number: 20150199245Abstract: An instrumentation system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of field devices, in which each of the field devices is configured to perform at least one of measuring and operation of a target, a connection device including a plurality of slots, in which I/O modules are respectively attachable to the slots and the field devices are connectable to the I/O module, and a host control device configured to individually set the I/O modules attached to the slots to have a redundant configuration or a non-redundant configuration and to operate a first I/O module having the non-redundant configuration, among the I/O modules attached to the slots, in a pseudo redundant configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masahisa GOTO, Tatsuzou SAKURAMOTO, Koji NAGATOMI, Hiroaki HIGUCHI, Ryuichiro HOSHINA
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Publication number: 20140370367Abstract: A battery unit is provided which includes a battery made of a stack of a plurality of cells each of which is equipped with electrode tabs serving as a positive terminal and a negative terminal. The electrode tabs each have a bent portion which lies between a body of the cell and a joint of the electrode tab to a bus bar. The bent portion is so geometrically shaped as to function as a stress absorber to minimize a mechanical stress which arises from oscillation of or thermal shock on the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki HIGUCHI, Hidehiro KINOSHITA
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Publication number: 20140370366Abstract: A battery unit is provided which includes a battery made of a stack of a plurality of cells each of which is equipped with electrode tabs serving as a positive terminal and a negative terminal. The electrode tabs are broken down into first electrode tabs and second electrode tabs. The first electrode tabs are the electrode tabs of every adjacent two of the cells which are joined together through a weld. The second electrode tabs are the electrode tabs of the cells each of which is joined to a bus bar through a weld without being connected to any of the electrode tabs. The first and second electrode tabs each have a bent portion which lies between a body of the cell and the weld and works as a vibration absorber to ensure the stability in forming the weld during a welding operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki HIGUCHI, Yoshinori YAMAGUCHI, Hidehiro KINOSHITA, Tsuyoshi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20140242438Abstract: A battery unit is provided which includes a battery and a storage case in which the battery is mounted. The storage case is made up of a base, a cover, and an intermediate case. The cover is jointed to the base with an interspace therebetween. The intermediate case is disposed between the cover and the base and has a peripheral wall which occupies the interspace. The intermediate case is lower in stiffness than the cover and the base, thereby realizing a lightweight structure of the storage case without sacrificing the mechanical strength thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Tsuyoshi TANAKA, Yoshinori YAMAGUCHI, Hidehiro KINOSHITA, Hiroaki HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20140242427Abstract: A battery unit is provided which includes a control board, a storage case, a water detector, and an electrical conductor. The storage case is made of an assembly of a first and a second casing member. The first casing member has an upright wall which extends from the bottom thereof and surrounds the battery. The second casing member also has an extension which extends toward the bottom of the first casing member. The water detector is located close to the lower end of the extension of the second casing member. The electric conductor extends upward from the upper end of the extension and are electrically joined to the water detector. The electric conductor is also mechanically and electrically joined to the control board. This structure facilitates the ease with which the water detector is installed electrically and mechanically in the battery unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Tsuyoshi TANAKA, Yoshinori YAMAGUCHI, Hidehiro KINOSHITA, Hiroaki HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20140239904Abstract: A battery unit is provided which includes a storage case, a battery, a control board, and a pressing mechanism. The battery is disposed in the storage case and pressed by the pressing mechanism against the bottom of the storage case. The control board has mounted thereon electronic components to control charging or discharging of the battery and is located above the battery within the storage case. The pressing mechanism is disposed next to the control board without any physical interference with each other. Such a layout of the pressing mechanism and the control board permits the battery unit to be reduced in size thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi TANAKA, Yoshinori YAMAGUCHI, Hidehiro KINOSHITA, Hiroaki HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20140228297Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a preventive agent for atopic dermatitis and food products containing the agent. The present inventors conducted extensive studies and, as the result, found that atopic dermatitis can be prevented by orally ingesting collagen. The present invention provides a preventive agent for atopic dermatitis comprising collagen and food products containing the preventive agent for atopic dermatitis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: LOTTE CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki HIGUCHI, Atsushi NARISE, Kenji OSAWA, Katsumasa SHIMIZU, Masanori ITO
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Publication number: 20140116840Abstract: A bill validator of an automated teller machine includes a magnetic detector for detecting magnetism of bills. The magnetic detector has pressing members of resin material having bearings bored therein. The bearings rotatably hold a shaft for a guide roller which presses bills against the lower surface of a magnetic sensor. The guide roller rotates as bills run on a conveyance path. However, since the bearings consist of fixed parts of resin material and the shaft is formed of non-magnetic material, the rotation does not cause changes in a magnetic field. Thus, when the guide roller rotates, the surrounding magnetic field does not change, so that, although the magnetic detector locates in the vicinity of the guide roller, the magnetic head of the magnetic sensor can well accurately sense the magnetism of bills.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kinya Maekawa, Hiroaki Higuchi
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Publication number: 20140057840Abstract: Provision of an anti-androgenic agent which has a strong anti-androgenic action, is free of side effects and very safe, and a sebum secretion blocker and a hair growth stimulant containing the anti-androgenic agent as an active ingredient. Provided are the anti-androgenic agent comprising lactoferrin, the sebum secretion blocker containing the anti-androgenic agent as an active ingredient, the hair growth stimulant containing the anti-androgenic agent as an active ingredient, and a food or drink product comprising the anti-androgenic agent containing lactoferrin as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: LOTTE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yushi Kodama, Hiroaki Higuchi, Atsushi Narise, Koji Sakurai
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Patent number: 8534145Abstract: In an engine starting apparatus, together with a one-way clutch, a pinion is pushed toward a ring gear of an engine mounted in a vehicle. The one-way clutch has an idling torque smaller than a torque of the ring gear that tries to turn the pinion when the pinion is pushed to the ring gear. By a control device, a pinion pushing device is enabled to operate when i) the revolution speed of the ring gear is larger than a revolution speed of the pinion and ii) a relative revolution speed between the revolution speed of the ring gear and the revolution speed of the pinion is a desired value.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Masami Niimi, Mitsuhiro Murata, Kiyokazu Haruno, Hiroaki Higuchi
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Publication number: 20130224834Abstract: Provision of an anti-androgenic agent which has a strong anti-androgenic action, is free of side effects and very safe, and a sebum secretion blocker and a hair growth stimulant containing the anti-androgenic agent as an active ingredient. Provided are the anti-androgenic agent comprising lactoferrin, the sebum secretion blocker containing the anti-androgenic agent as an active ingredient, the hair growth stimulant containing the anti-androgenic agent as an active ingredient, and a food or drink product comprising the anti-androgenic agent containing lactoferrin as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2010Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Yushi Kodama, Hiroaki Higuchi, Atsushi Narise, Koji Sakurai
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Publication number: 20120253014Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a preventive agent for atopic dermatitis and food products containing the agent. The present inventors conducted extensive studies and, as the result, found that atopic dermatitis can be prevented by orally ingesting collagen. The present invention provides a preventive agent for atopic dermatitis comprising collagen and food products containing the preventive agent for atopic dermatitis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Lotte Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Higuchi, Atsushi Narise, Kenji Osawa, Katsumasa Shimizu, Masanori Ito
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Patent number: 8237524Abstract: A first coil constitutes a first coil unit by placing an iron core plate between the first coil and an auxiliary yokes and engaging stopping parts provided in two holding members to an end surface in an axial direction of the auxiliary yoke. A second coil constitutes a second coil unit by forming magnetic path members by insertion to a resin member provided in a second bobbin unitarily, and fixing two terminals to the resin member. The first and the second coil units are united by connecting one terminal lead line of the first coil taken out from holding members to the first terminal, and connecting another terminal lead line to a surface of the magnetic path member.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Masami Niimi, Kiyokazu Haruno, Tarou Okada, Hiroaki Higuchi
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Publication number: 20120015063Abstract: To provide a composition for treatment and/or prevention of skin disorder, intensive research has been conducted. As a result, a mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L.) pericarp extract has been found to have a reducing effect on the skin disorder. The present invention provides a composition for treatment and/or prevention of skin disorder, the composition including a mangosteen pericarp extract.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Inventors: Hiroaki Higuchi, Reiko Kuroda, Atsushi Narise, Katsumasa Shimizu, Kenji Osawa, Yoshihiro Nomura
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Publication number: 20110084786Abstract: A first coil constitutes a first coil unit by placing an iron core plate between the first coil and an auxiliary yokes and engaging stopping parts provided in two holding members to an end surface in an axial direction of the auxiliary yoke. A second coil constitutes a second coil unit by forming magnetic path members by insertion to a resin member provided in a second bobbin unitarily, and fixing two terminals to the resin member. The first and the second coil units are united by connecting one terminal lead line of the first coil taken out from holding members to the first terminal, and connecting another terminal lead line to a surface of the magnetic path member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masami NIIMI, Kiyokazu HARUNO, Tarou OKADA, Hiroaki HIGUCHI