Patents by Inventor Hiroki Masuda

Hiroki Masuda 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: 20200176816
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon material that can improve the cycle characteristic in charge and discharge of an all-solid-state battery. The carbon material is a carbon material to be contained in a positive electrode and/or a negative electrode of an all-solid-state battery comprising a group 1- or group 2-ionic conductive solid electrolyte, wherein in an X-ray diffraction spectrum of a mixture of the carbon material and Si in a weight ratio of 1:1, a ratio a/b is 0.2 or higher and 10.0 or lower, where a represents a height of the highest peak in the range of 2? of 24° or larger and smaller than 28° and b represents a height of the highest peak in the range of 2? of 28° or larger and smaller than 30°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Yuuki Sawada, Hiroki Masuda, Akira Nakasuga, Akihiko Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10671233
    Abstract: A file management apparatus includes the following elements: a representative image storage device storing representative image data of each of a plurality of content files in association with a creation time of the content file; a rendering unit rendering the representative image data at a position corresponding to the creation time with a calendar continuous over days, months, and years serving as a background; a display state maintaining unit maintaining, as a display state, a time-axis range of the calendar being displayed and a position thereof; an operation receiving unit receiving a change operation to change the display state, the change operation commonly being a scrolling operation in a time-series direction in any time-axis range; and a controller controlling, in response to the change operation, the rendering means to render the representative image data on the calendar on the basis of the display state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Masuda, Eriko Matsumura, Kensaku Ishizuka, Masakazu Hayashi, Masaru Nomura
  • Patent number: 10644318
    Abstract: Provided is a carbonaceous material capable of enhancing the initial charge and discharge efficiency and the cycle characteristics of lithium ion secondary batteries. The carbonaceous material is used as an electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery and has a volume resistivity of 0.7 ?·cm or less as measured at a pressure of 13 MPa in the form of a mixture of 5 wt % of the carbonaceous material and 95 wt % of lithium cobaltate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SEKESUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Wada, Hiroki Masuda, Naoki Sasagawa, Akira Nakasuga, Shoji Nozato
  • Publication number: 20200136143
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon material-containing dispersion liquid that is excellent in dispersibility when used as a slurry for electrode formation of a secondary battery, and is capable of enhancing the battery characteristics such as output characteristics of the secondary battery. A carbon material-containing dispersion liquid includes a carbon material and a dispersion medium for the carbon material. In the carbon material-containing dispersion liquid, a concentration of the carbon material in the carbon material-containing dispersion liquid is 0.01% by weight or more and 20% by weight or less, and a light transmittance at a wavelength of 650 nm of a supernatant of the carbon material-containing dispersion liquid when the carbon material-containing dispersion liquid is left to stand at 25° C. for 24 hours after preparation is 1% or more and 60% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki Masuda, Yuuki Sawada, Akira Nakasuga, Akihiko Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10511663
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The communication unit is configured to communicate with a plurality of devices. The control unit is configured to control the communication unit to receive a low-quality version of a content from the device, store the received low-quality version in the storage unit with the low-quality version of the content associated with an identifier which is identical with an identifier of the content, thereby registering the content, generate, in response to a request from the device, a content list including a thumbnail generated from the low-quality version, transmit the content list to the device, and when the content instructed to be reproduced by the device is not stored in any device on the basis of the content list, control the communication unit to transmit the low-quality version to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Masuda, Hideki Sato
  • Publication number: 20190361330
    Abstract: A light source unit of the present invention includes a luminescent material plate, a joining plate on one side of which the luminescent material plate is disposed, a heat dissipating member disposed on the other side of the joining plate, and a heat conductive layer configured to thermally connect the joining plate and the heat dissipating member together and disposed between the joining plate and the heat dissipating member, and a heat conductivity of an area of the heat conductive layer which corresponds to the luminescent material plate is lower than a heat conductivity of a periphery of the area of the heat conductive layer which corresponds to the luminescent material plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20190212639
    Abstract: A light source unit includes: a first light emitting element configured to emit a first wavelength band light; a second light emitting element configured to emit a second wavelength band light; a luminescent wheel configured to have a first fluorescent light emitting region irradiated with the second wavelength band light to emit a third wavelength band light, and a second fluorescent light emitting region that emits a fourth wavelength band light including a wavelength band of the first wavelength band light and the third wavelength band light having a wavelength band adjacent to the first wavelength band light being provided in parallel in a circumferential direction; a color wheel configured to have a second transmissive region that transmits the first wavelength band light to the fourth wavelength band light, and a third transmissive region that transmits only the first wavelength band light or transmits only the first wavelength band light and the second wavelength band light being installed in parallel
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroki MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20190173087
    Abstract: There is provided an electrode material for electricity storage devices, which enables suppression of heat generation in charge and discharge at large currents. The electrode material for electricity storage devices comprises a first carbon material having a graphite structure wherein graphite is partially exfoliated, and a second carbon material different from the first carbon material, wherein the ratio A/B, where A represents a weight of the first carbon material and B represents a weight of the second carbon material, is within the range of 0.01 or higher and 100 or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Yuuki Sawada, Hiroki Masuda, Akira Nakasuga, Akihiko Fujiwara, Takuya Wada
  • Publication number: 20190096303
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source unit having a first light source emitting first wavelength range light and a luminescent wheel having a first wavelength range light transmission area and a luminescent material area receiving the first wavelength range light and reflecting second different wavelength range light provided circumferentially end to end, a light source control unit controlling the light source unit, a display device receiving light from the light source unit to form image light, a pixel shifting unit shifting a display position of the image light for each of a plurality of sub-frame periods forming one image frame period, and a control unit controlling the light source control unit and the pixel shifting unit, the control unit synchronizing a timing the pixel shifting unit shifts the display position for each sub-frame period with a timing the emitted light from the light source unit is switched over.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroki Masuda
  • Patent number: 10089200
    Abstract: In a computer apparatus (100), an output management unit (200) determines for each data processing system configured with an OS (160), an application (170), and a management unit (180), depending on the state of the each processing system, whether or not a communication between each data processing system and a device is permitted. Further, the output management unit (200) controls for each data processing system the communication between each data processing system and the device in accordance with a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Masuda, Atsushi Settsu, Shinichi Ochiai
  • Publication number: 20180062179
    Abstract: Provided is a carbonaceous material capable of enhancing the initial charge and discharge efficiency and the cycle characteristics of lithium ion secondary batteries. The carbonaceous material is used as an electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery and has a volume resistivity of 0.7 ?·cm or less as measured at a pressure of 13 MPa in the form of a mixture of 5 wt % of the carbonaceous material and 95 wt % of lithium cobaltate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Takuya WADA, Hiroki MASUDA, Naoki SASAGAWA, Akira NAKASUGA, Shoji NOZATO
  • Patent number: 9599883
    Abstract: To provide a light source unit which can execute a projection with less consumed power and noise and a projector including this light source unit, a light source unit is provided which includes an excitation light source and a luminescent plate which includes a first luminescent light emitting area on which a resin mixed luminescent material layer containing a resin binder is provided and a second luminescent light emitting area on which a luminescent material containing no resin binder is provided, on to which first luminescent light emitting area and second luminescent light emitting area excitation light from the excitation light source is shone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Masuda
  • Patent number: 9593404
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a nitrocarburized crankshaft which is obtained by subjecting a bainitic microalloyed steel to a forging and a machining, and further subjecting the bainitic microalloyed steel to at least a strain releasing heat treatment and a subsequent nitrocarburizing treatment, the bainitic microalloyed steel containing, as essentially added elements, in terms of mass %: 0.10% to 0.40% of C; 0.10% to 1.0% of Si; 1.0% to 2.0% of Mn; 0.05% to 0.40% of Mo; and 0.05% to 0.40% of V, and the bainitic microalloyed steel optionally further containing, as arbitrarily added elements, in terms of mass %: 0.01% to 0.1% of S; 0.005% to 0.2% of Ti; 0.001% to 0.03% of Al; 0.50% or less of Cr; 0.5% or less of Cu; and 0.5% or less of Ni, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignees: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Masuda, Hideki Matsuda, Ayumi Yamazaki, Shinichiro Kato, Takahiro Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20160321149
    Abstract: In a computer apparatus (100), an output management unit (200) determines for each data processing system configured with an OS (160), an application (170), and a management unit (180), depending on the state of the each processing system, whether or not a communication between each data processing system and a device is permitted. Further, the output management unit (200) controls for each data processing system the communication between each data processing system and the device in accordance with a determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki MASUDA, Atsushi SETTSU, Shinichi OCHIAI
  • Patent number: 9335559
    Abstract: There is provided a light source unit having a light source which emits a laser beam, a plurality of diffusing plates on which the laser beam is incident and which emit the laser beam incident thereon as diffuse light, and a driving mechanism which moves the plurality of diffusing plates, wherein the laser beam from the light source is incident on one diffusing plate of the plurality of diffusing plates, and diffuse light emitted from the one diffusing plate is incident on the other diffusing plate of the plurality of diffusing plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Masuda
  • Publication number: 20160119614
    Abstract: A display apparatus of an embodiment of the present invention includes a display unit, an illumination condition acquiring unit for acquiring an illumination condition including at least the direction of an external light source with respect to the display unit, a corrected image generating unit for generating a corrected image based on the illumination condition and an image to be displayed, and a display control unit for performing control to display the corrected image on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroki Masuda, Akihito Iwadate
  • Patent number: 9316897
    Abstract: A projector is provided which includes a light source unit which can reduce the numbers of lenses and mirrors and which can control quantity of light of each color. A light source unit of the invention includes a laser light source unit 70 which has a plurality of red laser elements 71R and a plurality of blue laser elements 71B as two types of laser emitting elements 71 which emit light of wavelength bands which are different from each other and in which the pluralities of red and blue laser emitting elements 71R, 71B are arranged in a planar fashion, a diffusing unit which is disposed on an optical path of light emitted from the laser light source unit 70 to diffuse the light emitted from the laser light source unit 70, and a light source control unit for controlling the illumination of the laser emitting elements 71R, 71B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Masuda
  • Patent number: 9291332
    Abstract: There is provided a light source unit including an excitation light source emitting excitation light, and a luminescent member having a transmission portion transmitting excitation light from the excitation light source, a first luminescent material layer placed beside the transmission portion on one side of the luminescent member and a second luminescent material layer placed beside the transmission portion on the other side of the luminescent member, wherein the first luminescent material layer and/or the second luminescent material layer emits luminous light by being excited by the excitation light, and wherein a guiding optical system is provided which shines excitation light which has passed through the transmission portion from the excitation light source on to the first luminescent material layer and causes luminous light emitted from the first luminescent material layer to be incident on the transmission portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Masuda
  • Patent number: 9255692
    Abstract: There is provided a light source unit including an excitation light source which emits excitation light, a luminescent material which receives excitation light from the excitation light source to emit luminous light, a diffuse plate on which the luminous light is incident, and a driving device which moves the diffuse plate so as to change an entering position of the luminous light on the diffuse plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Masuda
  • Patent number: 9207522
    Abstract: The invention includes an excitation light source, a light distribution adjusting member on which excitation light from the excitation light source is incident, and a luminescent material which emits luminous light of a different wavelength from that of the excitation light by the excitation light which passes through the light distribution adjusting member being shone on thereto, wherein the excitation light source is disposed so that the excitation light is incident on a light incident surface of the light distribution adjusting member at a predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Masuda, Masahiro Ogawa, Osamu Umamine