Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Komori

Hirofumi Komori 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: 11939450
    Abstract: A resin composition for a circuit board, containing a melt-fabricable fluororesin and a particulate boron nitride. The particulate boron nitride has a ratio (b)/(a) of 1.0 or higher, wherein (a) represents a proportion of particles having a particle size of 14.6 to 20.6 ?m and (b) represents a proportion of particles having a particle size of 24.6 to 29.4 ?m. Also disclosed is a molded article for a circuit board obtained from the resin composition, a laminate for a circuit board including a metal layer (A1) and a layer (B) obtained from the resin composition, and a circuit board including a metal layer (A2) and a layer (B) obtained from the resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Mukae, Hirokazu Komori, Masaji Komori, Hideki Kono, Ayane Nakaue
  • Publication number: 20240077056
    Abstract: A wind power generation device control system includes: a blade wind detecting device for detecting at least one of a wind direction or a wind speed on at least one blade of a wind power generation device; and a blade control device for controlling at least one of (i) a pitch angle of the at least one blade or (ii) a yaw angle of the wind power generation device, based on at least one of the wind direction or the wind speed detected by the blade wind detecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Osamu NOHARA, Hirofumi KOMORI
  • Publication number: 20230407847
    Abstract: A backlash measuring method is provided for measuring backlash at a plurality of different times. The backlash measuring method includes: a rotation amount calculating step of braking a ring gear relative to a second portion while contact between a target tooth and the ring gear achieved in a contacting step is maintained, causing a target pinion to rotate toward a second side in a rotation direction opposite to the first side with a driving force less than a braking force applied to brake the ring gear relative to the second portion until the target tooth touches the ring gear at a tooth surface facing the second side, and calculating an amount of rotation of the target pinion; and a measuring step of measuring backlash between the ring gear and the target pinion based on the amount of rotation of the target pinion calculated in the rotation amount calculating step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Osamu NOHARA, Hirofumi KOMORI
  • Patent number: 11732689
    Abstract: A wind turbine drive control device according to one aspect of the present invention is a wind turbine drive control device for controlling a plurality of drive devices for moving two structures included in a wind power generation device relative to each other, the wind turbine drive control device including: an obtaining unit for obtaining a plurality of information items related to loads occurring between each of the plurality of drive devices and one of the two structures that receives forces generated by the plurality of drive devices; and a control unit for controlling the plurality of drive devices in such a manner that, in a state where each of the plurality of drive devices is controlled to generate a predetermined braking force, the braking force of at least one first drive device among the plurality of drive devices is increased, based on the plurality of information items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Nabtesco Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Kodama, Hirofumi Komori
  • Patent number: 11678063
    Abstract: A high dynamic range sensing device is disclosed. The device includes an array of Bayer pattern units. Each of the Bayer pattern units comprises a plurality of pixels and each of the plurality of pixels comprises a plurality of photodiodes. At least one of the plurality of photodiodes in each pixel is configured to detect near infrared (NIR) light and at least one of the plurality of photodiodes in each of the plurality of pixels is configured to detect visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Cista System Corp.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Komori, Zhaojian Li
  • Publication number: 20220349384
    Abstract: A method of adjusting a drive mechanism includes measuring backlashes between the ring gear and the plurality of drive devices, and determining about positions of the plurality of drive devices with reference to the ring gear based on the backlashes measured in the measurement step. The measurement step includes: aligning the pinion of one of the plurality of drive devices to face a reference position in a circumferential direction of the ring gear and measuring a backlash between the ring gear and the said one drive device; and aligning the pinion of another one of the plurality of drive devices to face the reference position of the ring gear by revolving the plurality of the drive devices relative to the ring gear, and measuring a backlash between the ring gear and the said another drive device different from the said one drive device whose backlash has been measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventor: Hirofumi KOMORI
  • Patent number: 11204193
    Abstract: Leakage of a heating medium from a condenser or an evaporator can be quickly detected by a simple structure. A refrigeration apparatus 1 according to the present invention is formed by connecting a compressor 11, a condenser 12, an expansion valve 13 and an evaporator 14 by a pipe 15 such that a heating medium circulates therethrough in this order. The refrigeration apparatus 1 further includes a pressure detection unit 31, 32 that detects a pressure of the heating medium flowing through the pipe 15, and a control unit 41 that determines that leakage of the heating medium from the condenser 12 or the evaporator 14 has occurred, when a pressure detected by the pressure detection unit 31, 32 becomes not more than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Daisuke Aikawa, Hirofumi Komori
  • Publication number: 20210199089
    Abstract: A wind turbine drive control device according to one aspect of the present invention is a wind turbine drive control device for controlling a plurality of drive devices for moving two structures included in a wind power generation device relative to each other, the wind turbine drive control device including: an obtaining unit for obtaining a plurality of information items related to loads occurring between each of the plurality of drive devices and one of the two structures that receives forces generated by the plurality of drive devices; and a control unit for controlling the plurality of drive devices in such a manner that, in a state where each of the plurality of drive devices is controlled to generate a predetermined braking force, the braking force of at least one first drive device among the plurality of drive devices is increased, based on the plurality of information items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Haruo KODAMA, Hirofumi KOMORI
  • Patent number: 10986316
    Abstract: A high dynamic range sensing device is disclosed. The device may comprise an array of Bayer-pattern units of color filters, each of the color filters corresponding to a pixel of the sensing device, and each of the color filters overlapping with a plurality of photodiodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Cista System Corp.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Komori, Dennis Tunglin Lee, Guangbin Zhang, Jingzhou Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210084213
    Abstract: A high dynamic range sensing device is disclosed. The device includes an array of Bayer pattern units. Each of the Bayer pattern units comprises a plurality of pixels and each of the plurality of pixels comprises a plurality of photodiodes. At least one of the plurality of photodiodes in each pixel is configured to detect near infrared (NIR) light and at least one of the plurality of photodiodes in each of the plurality of pixels is configured to detect visible light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Hirofumi KOMORI, Zhaojian LI
  • Patent number: 10868971
    Abstract: A high dynamic range sensing device is disclosed. The device includes an array of Bayer pattern units. Each of the Bayer pattern units comprises a plurality of pixels and each of the plurality of pixels comprises a plurality of photodiodes. At least one of the plurality of photodiodes in each pixel is configured to detect near infrared (NIR) light and at least one of the plurality of photodiodes in each of the plurality of pixels is configured to detect visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Cista System Corp.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Komori, Zhaojian Li
  • Patent number: 10741602
    Abstract: An image sensor including at least one pixel for collecting charge in its photodiode is provided. The image sensor comprises: a substrate having a first surface on a front side and a second surface on a back side, a photodetector formed in the silicon substrate and having a light-receiving surface on the second surface, and a first layer with positive charges disposed on the second surface, the first layer being configured to form an electron accumulation region at the light-receiving surface of the photodetector for suppressing a dark current at a back side interface of the image sensor. A method for fabricating an image sensor including a first layer with positive charges is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Cista System Corp.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Komori, Jingyi Bai
  • Publication number: 20200221011
    Abstract: A high dynamic range sensing device is disclosed. The device includes an array of Bayer pattern units. Each of the Bayer pattern units comprises a plurality of pixels and each of the plurality of pixels comprises a plurality of photodiodes. At least one of the plurality of photodiodes in each pixel is configured to detect near infrared (NIR) light and at least one of the plurality of photodiodes in each of the plurality of pixels is configured to detect visible light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Hirofumi KOMORI, Zhaojian LI
  • Patent number: 10698142
    Abstract: A multispectral sensing device is disclosed. The sensing device may comprise an array of pixel units. Each of the pixel units may comprise four pixels in a two by two configuration. Each of the pixels may comprise a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the pixel units may include at least one pixel that includes at least two sub-pixels configured to detect light of different wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Cista System Corp.
    Inventors: Zhaojian Li, Hirofumi Komori
  • Patent number: 10656110
    Abstract: A temperature control system includes first and second temperature control devices. In the first temperature control device, a refrigeration circuit of a refrigeration device, which is positioned downstream of an expansion valve and upstream of an evaporator, and a brine circulation path of a brine circulation device, which is positioned on a heating unit, constitutes a refrigeration capacity adjustment mechanism, and cooling is performed by the evaporator of the refrigeration circuit. In the second temperature control device, a refrigeration device includes an injection circuit that bypasses a condensed refrigerant upstream of a compressor, and a hot gas circuit that bypasses a compressed high-temperature refrigerant upstream of a compressor. A part of the brine circulation path of the brine circulation device and an evaporator of the refrigeration device constitute a heating capacity adjustment heat exchanger, and heating or cooling is performed by a load unit of the brine circulation path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunari Higashida, Hirofumi Komori, Yoshiyuki Okamoto, Hideaki Furumoto, Tomoaki Ito, Hiroki Mori, Go Shiotsuki, Kouji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10655886
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes: a cooling unit having a compressor operated at a variable operating frequency to adjust a revolving speed thereof, a condenser, an expansion valve and a cooling coil; and a heating unit for causing the heating medium flowing from the compressor toward the condenser to diverge, and to return to flow into the condenser, through a heating coil and a thermal dose adjusting valve disposed on the downstream side thereof; so as to control a temperature of air by the cooling and heating coils. When an opening manipulated variable of the thermal dose adjusting valve exceeds a first threshold value over a period of time, an operating frequency of the compressor is decreased, and when the opening manipulated variable of the thermal dose adjusting valve falls below a smaller, second threshold value, over the said period of time, the operating frequency of the compressor is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Shinwa Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Ikeda, Hideaki Furumoto, Hirofumi Komori, Takuya Ishimatsu
  • Patent number: 10638054
    Abstract: A high dynamic range sensing device is disclosed. The device includes an array of Bayer pattern units. Each of the Bayer pattern units comprises a plurality of pixels and each of the plurality of pixels comprises a plurality of photodiodes. At least one of the plurality of photodiodes in each pixel is configured to detect near infrared (NIR) light and at least one of the plurality of photodiodes in each of the plurality of pixels is configured to detect visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Cista System Corp.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Komori, Zhaojian Li
  • Publication number: 20190391306
    Abstract: A multispectral sensing device is disclosed. The sensing device may comprise an array of pixel units. Each of the pixel units may comprise four pixels in a two by two configuration. Each of the pixels may comprise a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the pixel units may include at least one pixel that includes at least two sub-pixels configured to detect light of different wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Zhaojian LI, Hirofumi KOMORI
  • Publication number: 20190338993
    Abstract: Leakage of a heating medium from a condenser or an evaporator can be quickly detected by a simple structure. A refrigeration apparatus 1 according to the present invention is formed by connecting a compressor 11, a condenser 12, an expansion valve 13 and an evaporator 14 by a pipe 15 such that a heating medium circulates therethrough in this order. The refrigeration apparatus 1 further includes a pressure detection unit 31, 32 that detects a pressure of the heating medium flowing through the pipe 15, and a control unit 41 that determines that leakage of the heating medium from the condenser 12 or the evaporator 14 has occurred, when a pressure detected by the pressure detection unit 31, 32 becomes not more than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: SHINWA CONTROLS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke AIKAWA, Hirofumi KOMORI
  • Patent number: 10444415
    Abstract: A multispectral sensing device is disclosed. The sensing device may comprise an array of pixel units. Each of the pixel units may comprise four pixels in a two by two configuration. Each of the pixels may comprise a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the pixel units may include at least one pixel that includes at least two sub-pixels configured to detect light of different wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Cista System Corp.
    Inventors: Zhaojian Li, Hirofumi Komori