Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Morino

Hiroaki Morino 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: 11718053
    Abstract: A stitcher device presses a carcass ply to be pressure-bonded to a rubber member after that the carcass ply is wound around an outer periphery of a building drum movable along a drum guide path via a rubber member. The stitcher device includes an annular frame that is able to surround the outer periphery of the building drum by inserting the building drum thereinto, and a pressure-bonding device provided in the annular frame so as to be able to press the carcass ply from its outer periphery and pressure-bond the carcass ply to the rubber member. The annular frame is provided so as to be openable and closable by being divided into a plurality of parts in a peripheral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morino
  • Publication number: 20220219419
    Abstract: A stitcher device presses a carcass ply to be pressure-bonded to a rubber member after that the carcass ply is wound around an outer periphery of a building drum movable along a drum guide path via a rubber member. The stitcher device includes an annular frame that is able to surround the outer periphery of the building drum by inserting the building drum thereinto, and a pressure-bonding device provided in the annular frame so as to be able to press the carcass ply from its outer periphery and pressure-bond the carcass ply to the rubber member. The annular frame is provided so as to be openable and closable by being divided into a plurality of parts in a peripheral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Morino
  • Patent number: 11045967
    Abstract: A front end feeding device 23 between a cutter 10 and a fixed-length feeding hand 30 that feeds a strip member 5 on an upstream side of the cutter 10 feeds a front end of the strip member 5 a short distance to a downstream side of the cutter 10, a front end grasping hand 60 on the downstream of the cutter 10 holds the front end of the strip member 5 fed the short distance, the fixed-length feeding hand 30 holds a part of the strip member 5 fed the short distance on the upstream side of the cutter 10, the front end grasping hand 60 and the fixed-length feeding hand 30 synchronously feed the strip member 5 a long distance to the downstream side, and the cutter 10 cuts the strip member 5 having been fed the long distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji Ogose, Hiroaki Morino, Yu Hatayama
  • Publication number: 20210060883
    Abstract: A tire molding apparatus includes: a moving body which moves and stops along a rail; and a position information acquiring device which acquires information of a stop position of the moving body, in which the position information acquiring device includes at least a reflector and a sensor as components, in which one component of the reflector and the sensor is provided facing the moving body in a stopped state, in which the moving body is provided with the other component of the reflector and the sensor, in which the one component is disposed at a position outside a movable range of the moving body, in which a reflection surface of the reflector is inclined with respect to an extension direction of the rail, and in which the information of the stop position of the moving body is acquired on the basis of the distance measured by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Morino, Katsuji Niwa
  • Publication number: 20200198275
    Abstract: In an apparatus for manufacturing a green tire in which after a supply part 30 supplies a tip portion 3a of a rubber member 3 to a molding drum 10 in a stationary state, the molding drum 10 rotates to wind the rubber member 3 onto the molding drum 10 and to thereby manufacture a green tire, a pressing member 52 configured to press the rubber member 3 to the molding drum 10 presses the tip portion 3a of the rubber member 3 supplied to the molding drum 10 to the molding drum 10 in the stationary state, and moves in a tangential direction of the molding drum 10 and separates from the rubber member 3 after rotation of the molding drum 10 starts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki MORINO
  • Publication number: 20190358842
    Abstract: A front end feeding device 23 between a cutter 10 and a fixed-length feeding hand 30 that feeds a strip member 5 on an upstream side of the cutter 10 feeds a front end of the strip member 5 a short distance to a downstream side of the cutter 10, a front end grasping hand 60 on the downstream of the cutter 10 holds the front end of the strip member 5 fed the short distance, the fixed-length feeding hand 30 holds a part of the strip member 5 fed the short distance on the upstream side of the cutter 10, the front end grasping hand 60 and the fixed-length feeding hand 30 synchronously feed the strip member 5 a long distance to the downstream side, and the cutter 10 cuts the strip member 5 having been fed the long distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Ogose, Hiroaki Morino, Yu Hatayama
  • Patent number: 9191590
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a signal processing device that processes a signal output from an imaging sensor. The device includes a lead integration unit, a main integration unit, and a correction unit. The lead integration unit integrates and averages, in a first integration region, signals of a plurality of first light-shielded pixels in a light-shielded area. The main integration unit integrates and averages, in a second integration region that is determined based on a result integrated and averaged by the lead integration unit, signals of a plurality of second light-shielded pixels in the light-shielded area. The correction unit determines a reference black level based on a result integrated and averaged by the main integration unit and corrects a black level of a signal of a light receiving pixel using the determined reference black level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroaki Morino, Naoki Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20150163424
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a signal processing device that processes a signal output from an imaging sensor. The device includes a lead integration unit, a main integration unit, and a correction unit. The lead integration unit integrates and averages, in a first integration region, signals of a plurality of first light-shielded pixels in a light-shielded area. The main integration unit integrates and averages, in a second integration region that is determined based on a result integrated and averaged by the lead integration unit, signals of a plurality of second light-shielded pixels in the light-shielded area. The correction unit determines a reference black level based on a result integrated and averaged by the main integration unit and corrects a black level of a signal of a light receiving pixel using the determined reference black level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroaki MORINO, Naoki OZAKI
  • Patent number: 8854534
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus has a focus control unit. The focus control unit retrieves a focusing point by setting a cutback threshold as a first value. The focus control unit executes a driving operation of an image pickup lens depending on a contrast evaluation value in the case in which the cutback threshold is set to be a second value. The second value is smaller than the first value. The focus control unit executes a driving operation of the image pickup lens depending on a contrast evaluation value in the case in which the cutback threshold is changed from the second value to the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: You Yoshioka, Hiroaki Morino
  • Patent number: 8743769
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio communication device capable of improving the usage efficiency of resources in multi-stage relay to reduce the amount of delay of a relay signal and improving the reception quality of signals by a relay station or a base station. A transmission determining unit 16 determines whether to transmit the relay signal and whether to transmit ACK/NACK on the basis of whether there is an error in the relay signal, and on the basis of ACK/NACK received from a one-hop-downstream radio communication device. An MCS determining unit 17 provided in the transmission determining unit 16 determines an MCS for the relay signal. A transmission instruction generated by the transmission determining unit 16 is output to a buffer 11 and an ACK/NACK generating unit 19. The determined MCS is output to an error correction coding unit 12 and a modulation unit 13. The ACK/NACK generating unit 19 generates ACK when there is no error in the relay signal, and generates NACK when there is an error in the relay signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Seigo Nakao, Kenichi Miyoshi, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Hiroaki Morino
  • Publication number: 20140028879
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a vertical contour extraction unit, a horizontal contour extraction unit, an edge strength judgment unit, and a dynamic adjustment unit. The edge strength judgment unit outputs an edge strength signal by judgment of strength of an edge included in a pixel block. The dynamic adjustment unit performs dynamic adjustment on a vertical contour signal and a horizontal contour signal in accordance with the edge strength signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroaki MORINO, Junichi Hosokawa, Ryuki Sato
  • Patent number: 8515341
    Abstract: To prevent relaying wrong information by determining whether a radio signal is to be relayed in accordance with a function of error detection in the radio signal. A relay station apparatus according to an aspect of the invention is a relay station apparatus which relays a radio signal between a transmission station and a reception station, including: a receiver which is configured to receive the radio signal from the transmission station; and a relay determination section which is configured, in accordance with a function of error detection in the radio signal received by the receiver, to determine whether the signal is to be relayed or not, based on a first channel quality indicating a channel quality from the transmission station to the relay station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yuda, Seigo Nakao, Ayako Horiuchi, Daichi Imamura, Hiroaki Morino, Megumi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 8452229
    Abstract: Provided is a relay transmission method capable of obtaining the diversity effect even when a relay station has detected an error in a relay signal when performing communication between a base station and a mobile station via a relay station. In the relay station used in this method, a decoding unit (104) performs error-correction-decoding of a systematic bit by performing repeated decoding such as a turbo decoding by using a parity bit and obtains a decoding result formed by a systematic bit after the error-correction-decoding. An error judging unit (105) judges whether the decoded result has an error by using CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check). An encoding unit (106) performs error-correction-encoding of the decoded result and obtains a systematic bit after error-corrected-encoded and a parity bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Kenichi Miyoshi, Hiroaki Morino
  • Publication number: 20130063651
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus has a focus control unit. The focus control unit retrieves a focusing point by setting a cutback threshold as a first value. The focus control unit executes a driving operation of an image pickup lens depending on a contrast evaluation value in the case in which the cutback threshold is set to be a second value. The second value is smaller than the first value. The focus control unit executes a driving operation of the image pickup lens depending on a contrast evaluation value in the case in which the cutback threshold is changed from the second value to the first value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: You Yoshioka, Hiroaki Morino
  • Publication number: 20120108164
    Abstract: To prevent relaying wrong information by determining whether a radio signal is to be relayed in accordance with a function of error detection in the radio signal. A relay station apparatus according to an aspect of the invention is a relay station apparatus which relays a radio signal between a transmission station and a reception station, including: a receiver which is configured to receive the radio signal from the transmission station; and a relay determination section which is configured, in accordance with a function of error detection in the radio signal received by the receiver, to determine whether the signal is to be relayed or not, based on a first channel quality indicating a channel quality from the transmission station to the relay station apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yuda, Seigo Nakao, Ayako Horiuchi, Daichi Imamura, Kenichi Miyoshi, Megumi Ichikawa, Hiroaki Morino
  • Patent number: 8050619
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication system capable of obtaining a diversity effect even when a signal received by a relay station has an error in a corporate relay to which time space encoding is applied. In this mobile communication system, when S1 has no error and S2 has an error, a relay station (1) does not perform relay transmission at time t (Null) and relay-transmits S1* to a base station at time t+T. That is, in this case, the relay station (1) relay-transmits at time t+T only S1 to be transmitted at time t when no error is contained in either S1 or S2. Moreover, when S1 has an error and S2 has no error, the relay station (1) relay-transmits S2 at time t and does not perform relay transmission at time t+T (Null). That is, in this case, the relay station (1) relay-transmits only S2 to be transmitted at time t+T at time t if no error is contained in either S1 or S2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Kenichi Miyoshi, Tomohiro Imai, Hiroaki Morino
  • Publication number: 20110170425
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio communication device capable of improving the usage efficiency of resources in multi-stage relay to reduce the amount of delay of a relay signal and improving the reception quality of signals by a relay station or a base station. A transmission determining unit 16 determines whether to transmit the relay signal and whether to transmit ACK/NACK on the basis of whether there is an error in the relay signal, and on the basis of ACK/NACK received from a one-hop-downstream radio communication device. An MCS determining unit 17 provided in the transmission determining unit 16 determines an MCS for the relay signal. A transmission instruction generated by the transmission determining unit 16 is output to a buffer 11 and an ACK/NACK generating unit 19. The determined MCS is output to an error correction coding unit 12 and a modulation unit 13. The ACK/NACK generating unit 19 generates ACK when there is no error in the relay signal, and generates NACK when there is an error in the relay signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Seigo Nakao, Kenichi Miyoshi, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Hiroaki Morino
  • Patent number: RE44200
    Abstract: A wireless communication system enabling multihop communication while maintaining the system throughput and preventing degradation of the user throughput. In the system, a BS (base station) determines the relaying method (whether an RS performs reproduction relay or nonreproduction relay) of the RS (relaying station) and the MCS of multihop communication according to the reception quality (the line quality among an MS2, the RS, and the BS) of the pilot for nonreproduction relay, the reception quality (the line quality between the RS and the BS) of the pilot 2 for reproduction relay, and the line quality (the line quality between the MS2 and the RS) measured at the RS. The determination result is transmitted as relay information to the RS and to the MS2 (a mobile station (2)) through the RS. The MS2 encodes and modulates the uplink data with the MCS based on the relay information and transmits the data to the RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Imai, Ayako Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishio, Kenichi Kuri, Hiroaki Morino
  • Patent number: RE45125
    Abstract: A wireless communication system enabling multihop communication while maintaining the system throughput and preventing degradation of the user throughput. In the system, a BS (base station) determines the relaying method (whether an RS performs reproduction relay or nonreproduction relay) of the RS (relaying station) and the MCS of multihop communication according to the reception quality (the line quality among an MS2, the RS, and the BS) of the pilot for nonreproduction relay, the reception quality (the line quality between the RS and the BS) of the pilot 2 for reproduction relay, and the line quality (the line quality between the MS2 and the RS) measured at the RS. The determination result is transmitted as relay information to the RS and to the MS2 (a mobile station (2)) through the RS. The MS2 encodes and modulates the uplink data with the MCS based on the relay information and transmits the data to the RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomohiro Imai, Ayako Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishio, Kenichi Kuri, Hiroaki Morino
  • Patent number: RE45171
    Abstract: A wireless communication system enabling multihop communication while maintaining the system throughput and preventing degradation of the user throughput. In the system, a BS (base station) determines the relaying method (whether an RS performs reproduction relay or nonreproduction relay) of the RS (relaying station) and the MCS of multihop communication according to the reception quality (the line quality among an MS2, the RS, and the BS) of the pilot for nonreproduction relay, the reception quality (the line quality between the RS and the BS) of the pilot 2 for reproduction relay, and the line quality (the line quality between the MS2 and the RS) measured at the RS. The determination result is transmitted as relay information to the RS and to the MS2 (a mobile station (2)) through the RS. The MS2 encodes and modulates the uplink data with the MCS based on the relay information and transmits the data to the RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomohiro Imai, Ayako Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishio, Kenichi Kuri, Hiroaki Morino