Patents by Inventor Hiroki HORI

Hiroki HORI 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: 20250188561
    Abstract: Provided is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet including a base metal having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.0050% or less, Si: more than 3.70% and 4.60% or less, Mn: more than 0.20% and 0.50% or less, Al: 0.23-0.75%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0018% or less, N: 0.0040% or less, Sn: 0.005-0.040%, Sb: 0-0.040%, with a balance of Fe and impurities, and satisfying [4.2?Si+Al+0.5×Mn?4.9], wherein [N]s, an N content from the surface to 20 ?m in depth of the base metal, is 0.0060% or less, an average crystal grain size of the base metal is 50 to 120 ?m, a saturation magnetic flux density is 1.945T or more, a tensile strength is 600 MPa or more, and a sheet thickness is 0.10 to 0.30 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi YASHIKI, Yoshiaki NATORI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Ichiro TANAKA, Hiroki HORI
  • Patent number: 12325444
    Abstract: A mobile warning apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a velocity calculator, a position determiner, and an eliminator. The velocity calculator calculates one or more relative velocities of one or more observed points. The position determiner determines whether the observed points are in a predetermined proximity extent. The eliminator eliminates, in response to determination that the observed points are in the predetermined proximity extent, all the observed points from a warning target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Onozawa, Mai Sakamoto, Hiroki Hori
  • Publication number: 20250037912
    Abstract: This non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base material having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0 to 0.0050%, Si: 3.8 to 4.9%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.20%, sol. Al: more than 0.02% and 0.50% or less, P: 0 to 0.030%, S: 0 to 0.0030%, N: 0 to 0.0030%, Ti: 0% or more and less than 0.0050%, Nb: 0% or more and less than 0.0050%, Zr: 0% or more and less than 0.0050%, V: 0% or more and less than 0.0050%, Cu: 0% or more and less than 0.200%, Ni: 0% or more and less than 0.500%, Sn: 0 to 0.100%, Sb: 0 to 0.100%, and the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein the non-oriented electrical steel sheet satisfies [4.3?Si+sol. Al+0.5×Mn?5.0], [B50(0°)?B50(45°)?0.16], and [B50(0°)+2×B50(45°)+B50(90°)/4?1.57], and has tensile strength of 580 MPa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi YASHIKI, Yoshiaki NATORI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Ichiro TANAKA, Yoshihiro ARITA, Hiroki HORI, Wataru OHASHI
  • Patent number: 12204020
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus is mounted to a vehicle and detects an object by a reflected wave of a probe wave. The object detection apparatus calculates a relative velocity of the object to the vehicle, estimates an azimuth of the object relative to the vehicle, and corrects the estimated azimuth. The object detection apparatus generates a velocity-azimuth curve that indicates a relationship between the relative velocity of the object and the azimuth of the object that is calculated based on a theoretical mounting angle of the object detection apparatus, supplies a weight to an azimuth error that is an error between the velocity-azimuth curve and the estimated azimuth, based on the estimated azimuth, and calculates a correction value of the estimated azimuth by calculating, as an actual mounting angle deviation of the object detection apparatus, a weighted average value of the azimuth error to which the weight is supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Onozawa, Hiroki Hori, Koji Takeuchi, Iwao Izumikawa, Hiroki Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20240084415
    Abstract: This non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base material having a chemical composition including Si: 3.7 to 4.8%, wherein a recrystallization rate is less than 100% in terms of an area fraction, the following Formula (i) and Formula (ii) are satisfied, and the tensile strength is more than 700 MPa. 4.3?Si+sol. Al+0.5×Mn?4.9??(i) (B50(0°)+2×B50(45°)+B50(90°))/4?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi YASHIKI, Yoshiaki NATORI, Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Ichiro TANAKA, Yoshihiro ARITA, Hiroki HORI, Wataru OHASHI
  • Patent number: 11837095
    Abstract: The alarm device includes an acquisition part, an alarm judging part, a notification part, a static extraction part, a shielding boundary setting part, and a suppression part. The acquisition part acquires reflection point information and object information. The alarm judging part determines whether the object is an alarm candidate for each of the objects. The notification part issues a notification regarding the alarm candidates. The static extraction part extracts static reflection points. The shielding boundary setting part sets an approximate straight line as a shielding boundary by robust estimation. The suppression part suppresses notification of alarm candidates that are on the opposite side of the shielding boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mai Sakamoto, Hiroki Hori
  • Patent number: 11798417
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes an object detection unit, an acquisition unit acquiring a first value of a relative speed of an approaching object with respect to an own vehicle, a ghost determination unit, and an assistance determination unit. The ghost determination unit calculates a second value of the relative speed of the approaching object in accordance with a speed of the own vehicle and a value of the relative speed of a following object located between the own vehicle and the approaching object; calculates, as a speed difference, an absolute difference between the first value of the relative speed and the second value of the relative speed; calculates, as an azimuth difference, an absolute difference between an azimuth of the following object and an azimuth of the approaching object; and determines whether the approaching object is the ghost target based on the speed difference and the azimuth difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Hori, Takayuki Kitamura, Koji Takeuchi, Iwao Izumikawa, Hiroki Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20220371384
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a first sound damper fixed to a tire inner surface and being made of a sponge material; a second sound damper disposed on a tire internal space side of the first sound damper, and being made of a sponge material; and a communication device retained between the first sound damper and the second sound damper. The second sound damper has a hardness in a range of greater than 25N and no greater than 55N. The first sound damper has a hardness in a range of no less than 25N and less than 55N. The hardness of the second sound damper is greater than the hardness of the first sound damper. The hardness is measured in accordance with the Method A in Section 6.4 of the test methods as defined under the Hardness Tests in Section 6 of JIS K6400-2 (2012).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao SHIBATA, Jun WATANABE, Shin SUKEGAWA, Takayuki OHARA, Suguru YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki HORI, Sho MITSUDA
  • Patent number: 11446967
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire in accordance with the present disclosure comprises a first sound damper fixed to a tire inner surface and being made of a sponge material; a second sound damper disposed on a tire internal space side of the first sound damper, and being made of a sponge material; and a communication device retained between the first sound damper and the second sound damper, wherein the second sound damper has a hardness greater than a hardness of the first sound damper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao Shibata, Jun Watanabe, Shin Sukegawa, Takayuki Ohara, Suguru Yamaguchi, Hiroki Hori, Sho Mitsuda
  • Publication number: 20220252719
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus is mounted to a vehicle and detects an object by a reflected wave of a probe wave. The object detection apparatus calculates a relative velocity of the object to the vehicle, estimates an azimuth of the object relative to the vehicle, and corrects the estimated azimuth. The object detection apparatus generates a velocity-azimuth curve that indicates a relationship between the relative velocity of the object and the azimuth of the object that is calculated based on a theoretical mounting angle of the object detection apparatus, supplies a weight to an azimuth error that is an error between the velocity-azimuth curve and the estimated azimuth, based on the estimated azimuth, and calculates a correction value of the estimated azimuth by calculating, as an actual mounting angle deviation of the object detection apparatus, a weighted average value of the azimuth error to which the weight is supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Masato ONOZAWA, Hiroki HORI, Koji TAKEUCHI, Iwao IZUMIKAWA, Hiroki SHIMAZU
  • Publication number: 20220242439
    Abstract: A mobile warning apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a velocity calculator, a position determiner, and an eliminator. The velocity calculator calculates one or more relative velocities of one or more observed points. The position determiner determines whether the observed points are in a predetermined proximity extent. The eliminator eliminates, in response to determination that the observed points are in the predetermined proximity extent, all the observed points from a warning target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Masato ONOZAWA, Mai SAKAMOTO, Hiroki HORI
  • Patent number: 11332831
    Abstract: An insulating coating for an electrical steel sheet is provided that is formed on a surface of a base metal of the electrical steel sheet and that contains a polyvalent metal phosphate of one or more elements selected from Al, Zn, Mg and Ca, and has an enriched layer of a divalent metal at an interface with the surface of the base metal. An enrichment of the divalent metal contained in the enriched layer is 0.01 g/m2 or more and less than 0.2 g/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Yamazaki, Masaru Takahashi, Kazutoshi Takeda, Hiroyasu Fujii, Akira Akagi, Hiroki Hori
  • Patent number: 11279985
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.0015% to 0.0040%; Si: 3.5% to 4.5%; Al: 0.65% or less; Mn: 0.2% to 2.0%; Sn: 0% to 0.20%; Sb: 0% to 0.20%; P: 0.005% to 0.150%; S: 0.0001% to 0.0030%; Ti: 0.0030% or less; Nb: 0.0050% or less; Zr: 0.0030% or less; Mo: 0.030% or less; V: 0.0030% or less; N: 0.0010% to 0.0030%; O: 0.0010% to 0.0500%; Cu: less than 0.10%; Ni: less than 0.50%; and a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which a product sheet thickness is 0.10 mm to 0.30 mm, an average grain size is 10 ?m to 40 ?m, an iron loss W10/800 is 50 W/Kg or less, a tensile strength is 580 MPa to 700 MPa, and a yield ratio is 0.82 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Natori, Kazutoshi Takeda, Hiroyoshi Yashiki, Miho Tomita, Hiroshi Fujimura, Takeaki Wakisaka, Tesshu Murakawa, Takuya Matsumoto, Hiroki Hori, Yuuya Gohmoto, O Uyama
  • Publication number: 20220005352
    Abstract: The alarm device includes an acquisition part, an alarm judging part, a notification part, a static extraction part, a shielding boundary setting part, and a suppression part. The acquisition part acquires reflection point information and object information. The alarm judging part determines whether the object is an alarm candidate for each of the objects. The notification part issues a notification regarding the alarm candidates. The static extraction part extracts static reflection points. The shielding boundary setting part sets an approximate straight line as a shielding boundary by robust estimation. The suppression part suppresses notification of alarm candidates that are on the opposite side of the shielding boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Mai SAKAMOTO, Hiroki HORI
  • Publication number: 20210327274
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes an object detection unit, an acquisition unit acquiring a first value of a relative speed of an approaching object with respect to an own vehicle, a ghost determination unit, and an assistance determination unit. The ghost determination unit calculates a second value of the relative speed of the approaching object in accordance with a speed of the own vehicle and a value of the relative speed of a following object located between the own vehicle and the approaching object; calculates, as a speed difference, an absolute difference between the first value of the relative speed and the second value of the relative speed; calculates, as an azimuth difference, an absolute difference between an azimuth of the following object and an azimuth of the approaching object; and determines whether the approaching object is the ghost target based on the speed difference and the azimuth difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki HORI, Takayuki KITAMURA, Koji TAKEUCHI, Iwao IZUMIKAWA, Hiroki SHIMAZU
  • Publication number: 20200376889
    Abstract: A tire which includes a carcass which extends from a pair of bead portions through a sidewall portion to reach a tread portion and an inner liner disposed at an inner circumferential surface of a tire main body is provided. The tire further includes a sound control layer which covers at least a part of an inner circumferential surface of the tire. The inner liner includes an end in a tire width direction annularly extending in a tire circumferential direction on the inner circumferential surface of the tire main body. The sound control layer is fixed on the end in a tire width direction to cover at least a part of a periphery of the end in a tire width direction of the inner liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao SHIBATA, Jun WATANABE, Shin SUKEGAWA, Takayuki OHARA, Suguru YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki HORI, Sho MITSUDA
  • Publication number: 20200215858
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire in accordance with the present disclosure comprises a first sound damper fixed to a tire inner surface and being made of a sponge material; a second sound damper disposed on a tire internal space side of the first sound damper, and being made of a sponge material; and a communication device retained between the first sound damper and the second sound damper, wherein the second sound damper has a hardness greater than a hardness of the first sound damper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao SHIBATA, Jun WATANABE, Shin SUKEGAWA, Takayuki OHARA, Suguru YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki HORI, Sho MITSUDA
  • Patent number: 10706998
    Abstract: An electrical steel sheet has an insulation coating on a steel sheet surface. The insulation coating includes: a binder consisting of 100 parts by mass of a metal phosphate and 1 to 50 parts by mass of an organic resin having an average particle size of 0.05 to 0.50 ?m; and a carboxylic acid-containing compound with a carbon number of 2 to 50 in an amount of 0.1 to 10.0 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of solids content of the binder. The organic resin is at least one selected from the group consisting of acrylic resins, epoxy resins, and polyester resins. The insulation coating of this electrical steel sheet shows good edge corrosion resistance after blanking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Takeda, Hiroyasu Fujii, Masaru Takahashi, Shuichi Yamazaki, Hiroki Hori
  • Publication number: 20200164702
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire in accordance with the present disclosure comprises a first sound damper fixed to a tire inner surface and being made of a sponge material; a second sound damper disposed on an inner-tire space side of the first sound damper, and being made of a sponge material; and a sensor retained to at least the first sound damper, the sensor being configured to detect a displacement of the tire inner surface or a physical quantity calculable based on the displacement of the tire inner surface, wherein the first sound damper has a hardness greater than a hardness of the second sound damper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao SHIBATA, Jun WATANABE, Shin SUKEGAWA, Takayuki OHARA, Suguru YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki HORI, Sho MITSUDA
  • Publication number: 20200139768
    Abstract: A tire includes a pair of bead portions, a pair of sidewall portions arranged at an outer side in a tire radial direction of the bead portions and a tread portion arranged between the sidewall portions, and a reinforcing rubber layer is provided to the sidewall portions. The reinforcing rubber layer extends over at least a part of the tread portion from the sidewall portions. The tire further includes a sound control layer which covers at least a part of an inner circumferential surface of the tire. The sound control layer is not laminated on the reinforcing rubber layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao SHIBATA, Jun WATANABE, Shin SUKEGAWA, Takayuki OHARA, Suguru YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki HORI, Sho MITSUDA