Patents by Inventor Hiroaki In

Hiroaki In 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: 20220146471
    Abstract: A waveform processing assistance device includes an acquirer that acquires a correspondence relationship between a plurality of values of a waveform processing parameter and a plurality of results of waveform processing as a plurality of peak separation information pieces in regard to a plurality of peaks that are separated from one or a plurality of waveform data pieces based on the plurality of values of the waveform processing parameter, a determiner that determines robustness of each value of the waveform processing parameter based on a plurality of peak separation information pieces acquired by the acquirer, and a display controller that causes the display to display a plurality of peak separation information pieces acquired by the acquirer and a robustness information piece representing robustness of each value of the waveform processing parameter that is calculated by the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Hiroaki KOZAWA, Takeshi YOSHIDA, Yuji KATSUYAMA, Toshinobu YANAGISAWA
  • Patent number: 11325120
    Abstract: This specimen treatment chip includes: a first fluid module having a first flow channel for performing a first treatment step on an object component in a specimen; a second fluid module having a second flow channel for performing a second treatment step on the object component subjected to the first treatment step; a substrate; and a connection flow channel for connecting the first fluid module and the second fluid module disposed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayato Tagawa, Tsuyoshi Nakano, Yasuko Kawamoto, Koya Yamawaki, Hiroaki Tobimatsu
  • Patent number: 11328925
    Abstract: An upper surface of a substrate is supplied with a pre-drying processing liquid which is a solution of a sublimable substance and a solvent. Thereafter, the solvent is evaporated from the pre-drying processing liquid on the substrate and a solid of the sublimable substance is precipitated in the pre-drying processing liquid on the substrate. Thereafter, at least a portion of the solid of the sublimable substance is dissolved in the pre-drying processing liquid on the substrate. Thereafter, the solvent is evaporated from the pre-drying processing liquid in which the solid of the sublimable substance has been dissolved and the solid of the sublimable substance is precipitated onto the substrate. Thereafter, the solid of the sublimable substance is sublimated and removed from the upper surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yuta Sasaki, Hiroaki Takahashi, Masayuki Otsuji
  • Patent number: 11326729
    Abstract: The present invention provides a socket and a pipe joint which facilitate coupling and uncoupling of the socket and a plug and which can prevent the plug from jumping out of the socket in the uncoupling. In a socket 10 of the present invention, fluid in a built-in plug part 22 is released to the outside via communication holes 40 of a second base portion 18 and a through hole 51 of a third base portion 19 in a semi-inserted state. Accordingly, the pressure in a hole portion 34 does not become excessively high and an engaged part 42 is not unexpectedly pushed upward. Thus, an engagement portion 38 and a second engaged portion 26 can surely engage with each other. Hence, the plug 12 can be prevented from jumping out toward the front end side in the semi-inserted state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: DAISEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Taguchi, Toshiharu Horikoshi
  • Patent number: 11329152
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device of one embodiment includes the steps of: forming a drift region in a first surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a body region having a first portion disposed in the first surface, and a second portion disposed in the first surface so as to surround the first portion and the drift region; forming a hard mask, having an opening over the drift region, in the first surface; forming a reverse conductivity region in the first surface by ion implantation using the hard mask; forming a trench in the first surface by anisotropic etching using the hard mask; and embedding an isolation film in the trench. The ion implantation is performed obliquely to the first surface such that ions are implanted below a first edge part, which is located on a first portion side of the opening, of the hard mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sekikawa, Takahiro Mori, Yuji Ishii
  • Patent number: 11328176
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to determine a plurality of initial image processing programs and to add the initial image processing programs to an image processing program group, extract at least two image processing programs from the image processing program group, generate a candidate of a next-generation image processing program from the extracted image processing programs, based on genetic programming, calculate a fitness of the candidate of the next-generation image processing program, using a learning data item including an input image and a target processing result, and determine the next-generation image processing program or update the image processing program group based on the calculated fitness, wherein the processor is configured to determine, as some of the initial image processing programs, at least some of first image processing programs included in the image processing program group upon previous determination of a next-generation image proc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nagato, Hiroaki Okamoto, Tetsuo Koezuka
  • Patent number: 11326871
    Abstract: A height detection apparatus successively changes the brightness of white light from a first level to a second level in accordance with a position of a Z stage and captures an image of interference light while moving a two-beam interference objective lens relative to a paste film in an optical axis direction, detects, as a focus position, a position of the Z stage where the intensity of interference light is highest in a period during which the brightness of white light is set to the first or second level, for each pixel of the captured image, and obtains the height of the paste film based on a detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ohba
  • Patent number: 11325586
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible for an infrastructure facility to temporarily acquire control authority for the likes of moving of an automatic driving vehicle while suppressing security risks, and to realize simple operations when loading or unloading vehicles. This control device is for controlling a vehicle that moves autonomously, and comprises a function for controlling the movement of the vehicle in accordance with instructions from an external system. When the function for controlling the movement of the vehicle in accordance with instructions from the external system is activated, the control device recognizes the validity of the external system by communicating with the external system and the vehicle, recognizes that encrypted communication with the external system has been established, recognizes that the user of the vehicle is permitted by the external system to move the vehicle, and recognizes that the user is an authorized user of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Nakata
  • Patent number: 11330188
    Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takao, Kentaro Tokiwa, Hirofumi Horii, Yuichi Fujimura, Takeshi Misawa, Atsushi Misawa
  • Patent number: 11325581
    Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle configured to start an engine promptly during propulsion in an electric vehicle mode. Electric power generation resulting from cranking the engine by a first motor is greater in the first electric vehicle mode compared to a second electric vehicle mode. A controller that is configured to determines whether an acceptable input power to an electric storage unit is smaller than a threshold value. If the acceptable input power to the electric storage unit is smaller than the threshold value, selection of the first electric vehicle mode is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ebuchi, Tatsuya Imamura, Soichiro Shimura, Yoichiro Isami, Takuya Hirata, Shogo Sakatani, Taiga Hagimoto
  • Patent number: 11327661
    Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a plurality of storage devices, and a control unit for providing a predetermined storage area of the plurality of storage devices to the host computer as a virtual volume group including one or more virtual volumes. The control unit configures one or more data sets having one or more redundancy levels from the plurality of storage devices, provides a storage area of a storage pool including the plurality of data sets to a part of a storage area of the virtual volume, limits a combination of the storage devices configuring the data sets to be assigned to the virtual volume to a given number of combinations of two combinations or more, uniformly distributes the storage devices, and uses a given number of different combinations of the storage devices to be assigned to the virtual volume in units of the virtual volume group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Akutsu, Mikio Fukuoka, Eijyu Katsuragi
  • Patent number: 11327031
    Abstract: A photon counting X-ray CT apparatus according to an embodiment includes: data acquiring circuitry, and processing circuitry. The data acquiring circuitry is configured to allocate energy measured by signals output from a photon counting detector in response to incidence of X-ray photons to any of a plurality of first energy bins so as to acquire a first data group as count data of each of the first energy bins. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a plurality of second energy bins obtained by grouping the first energy bins in accordance with a decomposition target material that is a material to be decomposed in a imaging region, allocate the first data group to any of the second energy bins so as to generate a second data group, and use the second data group to generate an image representing a distribution of the decomposition target material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Moriyasu, Taichiro Shiodera, Shuhei Nitta, Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Hidenori Takeshima, Toshiyuki Ono, Takashi Ida, Hiroaki Nakai
  • Patent number: 11329033
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a base substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements; a plurality of color conversion layers being in contact with each upper portion of the plurality of light emitting elements adjacent to each other; and a light shielding layer disposed between the plurality of light emitting elements adjacent each other and between the color conversion layers adjacent to each other, and separating the plurality of light emitting elements and a plurality of color conversion layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Onuma, Hiroyoshi Higashisaka, Tsuyoshi Ono, Takashi Ono, Takashi Kurisu, Yuhsuke Fujita, Toshio Hata, Katsuji Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11328189
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs acquiring measurement results obtained by measuring a characteristic of a recording medium a plurality of times; inputting information corresponding to a type of the recording medium; acquiring an extraction range of the type indicated by the information, among extraction ranges set to respective types of recording media for determination of a type; setting, based on the measurement results and the type, a parameter for correcting the measurement results to reduce difference between the measurement results and the extraction range; correcting, by using the parameter, measurement results obtained by measuring a characteristic of a recording medium to be recorded; and extracting a candidate type of the recording media, the measurement results, based on the corrected measurement results and the extraction range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ayuko Ishii, Hiroaki Ono, Ryosuke Uemura, Ryutaro Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20220140502
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical connection cassette with which it is possible to freely expand a device and add functions in accordance with the size of free space. An electrical connection cassette is provided with: a circuit board; and first connection terminals and second connection terminals mounted on the circuit board and having terminal shapes that can be engaged with each other. In a state with a terminal connection direction oriented in a predetermined direction with respect to the circuit board, the first connection terminals are disposed on the side of one main surface of the circuit board, and in a state with a terminal connection direction oriented in a direction parallel to the predetermined direction, the second connection terminals are disposed near the other main surface of the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Hisao HONMA, Hiroaki RIKIHISA
  • Publication number: 20220134278
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon dioxide recovery system that separates CO2 from a CO2-containing gas containing CO2 by an electrochemical reaction, and comprises an electrochemical cell comprising a working electrode containing a CO2 adsorbent, and a counter electrode. Application of a voltage between the working electrode and the counter electrode causes electrons to be supplied from the counter electrode to the working electrode, and enables the CO2 adsorbent to bind to CO2 as electrons are supplied. The CO2 adsorbent is a crystalline porous body, and has a molecular structure in which a functional group that exchanges electrons and binds to CO2 is regularly arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroaki UMEDA, Youhei MORIMOTO, Hiroki TAKEZAKI, Satoshi HORIKE
  • Publication number: 20220136747
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor configured to compress and discharge a refrigerant containing oil, a refrigerant radiator configured to heat the ventilation air using the refrigerant discharged from the compressor as a heat source during a room interior heating, a refrigerant decompression unit configured to decompress the refrigerant having passed through the refrigerant radiator, an evaporator configured to evaporate the refrigerant and to function as a heat absorber during the room interior heating; and a controller configured to control the refrigerant decompression unit and to perform a fluctuation operation at least during the room interior heating. In the fluctuation operation, a throttle opening degree of the refrigerant decompression unit is changed such that a refrigerant state on a refrigerant outlet side of the evaporator is alternately changed to a superheated state having a superheat degree and a wet state containing the wet vapor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Kouji INAGAKI, Daiki KATOU, Hiroaki KAWANO, Yoshiki KATOH, Naoya MAKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220139893
    Abstract: A light emitting device including a plurality of element structures each including a submount, a light emitting element, and a light transmissive member, in this order. The light emitting device further includes a first cover member holding the element structures by covering lateral faces of each of the element structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi ISHII, Dai WAKAMATSU, Hiroaki KAGEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220141414
    Abstract: An analog-to-digital conversion circuit includes a comparator circuit configured to perform processing of comparison between an analog signal and a ramp signal, and a counter configured to perform count processing in parallel with the comparison processing by the comparator circuit. The analog-to-digital conversion circuit acquires digital data, which is a count value corresponding to the comparison processing, and subjects the analog signal to analog-to-digital conversion. A period from the start to the end of the analog-to-digital conversion of the one analog signal includes a first period and a second period following the first period. The first and the second periods are switched based on an output of the counter. The count processing is performed at a high speed during the first period and performed at a low speed during the second period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Kohichi Nakamura, Hiroaki Kameyama, Koichiro Iwata, Yu Arishima
  • Publication number: 20220137664
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a chassis, an input device provided on a top surface of the chassis and configured to receive an input operation, and a pen holder provided so as to project from a side surface of the chassis and configured to be able to hold a pen device in a posture along the side surface. The pen holder has a pen holding part composed of stretchy fabric formed into a loop and configured to be able to hold the pen device by insertion of the pen device through its inner periphery part, and a bracket having a cutout part in which a part of the pen holding part is disposed and to be fixed to the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Muneki Sugiyama, Hiroaki Kinoshita, Yoshiyuki Shibayama, Tatsuya Ushioda