Patents by Inventor Hiroki Matsunaga

Hiroki Matsunaga 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: 12141043
    Abstract: An utterance test method for an utterance device, an utterance test server, an utterance test system, and a program perform an utterance test on a test device (20). The utterance test system includes at least one utterance device (20) capable of uttering, a terminal device (30), and an utterance test server (10). The utterance test server (10) receives an utterance test start command from the terminal device (30), sets at least one utterance device (20) to be a test device (20) as a target of an utterance test, sets test content of the utterance test, and causes the test device (20) to utter the test content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Urabe, Kentaro Nakai, Satoru Matsunaga, Yoshiki Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20240346921
    Abstract: A mobile object monitoring system including a terminal unit installed in a vehicle and a monitoring unit configured to monitor an unknown mobile object around the vehicle. The terminal unit includes: an information acquisition component that acquires unknown mobile object information including information on presence or absence of an unknown mobile object; a determination component that determines presence or absence of an unknown mobile object regarding a blind spot; a time-of-absence information generation component that generates a time-of-absence information set concerning an unknown mobile object that includes absence information of an unknown mobile object in the blind spot and time information on a time of determination; and a communication component that transmits the time-of-absence information set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Shigeru INOUE, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Kenji KOMORI, Takahiro KUREHASHI, Hiroki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 12084250
    Abstract: In a generator including a fuel tank that stores liquid fuel, the fuel tank includes a fuel inlet and a breather passage formed by a pipe member through which an inside and outside of the fuel tank communicate with each other, and the pipe member is provided with a valve that blocks the breather passage at normal time and opens the breather passage by a pressure of a predetermined value or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Kawano, Makoto Yamada, Hiroki Iikura, Keita Inamura, Yoshihiro Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 12057012
    Abstract: A mobile object monitoring system including a terminal unit installed in a vehicle and a monitoring unit configured to monitor an unknown mobile object around the vehicle. The terminal unit includes: an information acquisition component that acquires unknown mobile object information including information on presence or absence of an unknown mobile object; a determination component that determines presence or absence of an unknown mobile object regarding a blind spot; a time-of-absence information generation component that generates a time-of-absence information set concerning an unknown mobile object that includes absence information of an unknown mobile object in the blind spot and time information on a time of determination; and a communication component that transmits the time-of-absence information set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Inoue, Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Kenji Komori, Takahiro Kurehashi, Hiroki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230285914
    Abstract: A liquid mixing device and a liquid mixing method are provided, which can suppress air from being mixed into liquids to generate air bubbles, and the structure is easy to clean, so that a high-quality mixed liquid can be obtained. The liquid mixing device is suitable for mixing multiple liquids and includes a stirring chamber; a supply portion, disposed on an inner surface of the stirring chamber to supply the liquids into the stirring chamber; a stirring component, disposed in the stirring chamber to stir the liquids supplied into the stirring chamber; and an opposing plate, disposed on the stirring component and disposed opposite to the supply portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUNAGA, Masaki SHIGEKURA, Yuma Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11471842
    Abstract: A liquid-mixing apparatus used in a liquid-mixing method comprises a plurality of supply valves provided to a cylinder. The supply valves make it possible to individually supply a plurality of types of liquids into a retention chamber. Each of the supply valves is configured so as to be switchable between an open state, in which the interior of a supply channel via which a liquid is supplied and the interior of the retention chamber intercommunicate, and a closed state, in which communication between the supply channel and the retention chamber is blocked. A piston moves in the direction in which the volume of the retention chamber increases while at least one of the supply valves is in the open state, whereby a liquid is drawn into the storage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsunaga, Masaki Shigekura, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Takashi Wakimoto, Yusuke Kawaguchi, Satoshi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20200230560
    Abstract: A liquid-mixing apparatus used in a liquid-mixing method comprises a plurality of supply valves provided to a cylinder. The supply valves make it possible to individually supply a plurality of types of liquids into a retention chamber. Each of the supply valves is configured so as to be switchable between an open state, in which the interior of a supply channel via which a liquid is supplied and the interior of the retention chamber intercommunicate, and a closed state, in which communication between the supply channel and the retention chamber is blocked. A piston moves in the direction in which the volume of the retention chamber increases while at least one of the supply valves is in the open state, whereby a liquid is drawn into the storage chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsunaga, Masaki Shigekura, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Takashi Wakimoto, Yusuke Kawaguchi, Satoshi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20200230630
    Abstract: A painting system used in a painting method in which a plurality of colors of paint supplied from a paint supply device are mixed and toned with a mixing device and applied to a workpiece, the painting system comprising a storage unit that can store the paint that is mixed and toned with the mixing device, and a cleaning unit that can clean the mixing device. When applying the paint in the storage unit to the workpiece, the cleaning unit cleans the mixing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsunaga, Masaki Shigekura, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Takashi Wakimoto, Yusuke Kawaguchi, Satoshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 9366372
    Abstract: In an electrostatic coating apparatus, an electrically conductive coating material is supplied through a coating material supplying path to a coating gun to which a high voltage is applied. The electrostatic coating apparatus is provided with an insulating and separating valve capable of electrically insulating and separating the coating material supplying path into an application side in which the high voltage is applied and a non-application side. The insulating and separating valve is provided with a female coupling member having a first connecting portion and a male coupling member having a second connecting portion. A supplying hole for supplying a cleaning fluid to the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion and a discharging hole for discharging the cleaning fluid supplied to the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are provided on one of the female coupling member disposed on the non-application side and the male coupling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazono, Hiroki Matsunaga, Masashi Honma, Norihiko Sudo
  • Publication number: 20140217721
    Abstract: In an electrostatic coating apparatus, an electrically conductive coating material is supplied through a coating material supplying path to a coating gun to which a high voltage is applied. The electrostatic coating apparatus is provided with an insulating and separating valve capable of electrically insulating and separating the coating material supplying path into an application side in which the high voltage is applied and a non-application side. The insulating and separating valve is provided with a female coupling member having a first connecting portion and a male coupling member having a second connecting portion. A supplying hole for supplying a cleaning fluid to the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion and a discharging hole for discharging the cleaning fluid supplied to the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are provided on one of the female coupling member disposed on the non-application side and the male coupling member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazono, Hiroki Matsunaga, Masashi Honma, Norihiko Sudo
  • Publication number: 20120111268
    Abstract: In an electrostatic coating apparatus (1), an electrically conductive coating material is supplied through a coating material supplying path (11) to a coating gun (13) to which a high voltage is applied. The electrostatic coating apparatus (1) is provided with an insulating and separating valve (32) capable of electrically insulating and separating the coating material supplying path (11) into an application side in which the high voltage is applied and a non-application side. The insulating and separating valve (32) is provided with a female coupling member (32U) having a first connecting portion (54) and a male coupling member (32D) having a second connecting portion (64).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazono, Hiroki Matsunaga, Masashi Honma, Norihiko Sudo
  • Patent number: 8146840
    Abstract: An electrostatic painting method is disclosed in which air inside a paint feed channel is expelled when a color for painting is changed. An electrically conductive paint is channeled into a discharge channel of a fluid pathway, and the flow rate of the paint is measured. The fluid pathway is provided, via a paint valve, to a color changing valve mechanism, and communicates with a paint cartridge. The changing valve mechanism is provided in a distant position relative to a painting gun. Electrically conductive paint is channeled through a paint feed channel, which extends from the color changing valve mechanism to the painting gun, and air inside the paint feed channel is expelled. The paint feed channel is then filled with the electrically conductive paint according to the value measured for the flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazono, Takashi Wakimoto, Hiroki Matsunaga, Kouichi Tanizaki
  • Patent number: 8068102
    Abstract: A drive voltage supply circuit has a first wire line, a second wire line, a first drive circuit, a plurality of second drive circuits, a control circuit for driving the first drive circuit and the plurality of second drive circuits, and an impedance element connected between the first wire line and each of output terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seiya Yoshida, Hiroki Matsunaga, Akihiro Maejima, Jinsaku Kaneda, Hiroshi Ando
  • Patent number: 8007872
    Abstract: An electrostatic coating method in which a coating material cartridge is used. When a coating material feeding path (68, 88) is cleaned by a liquid fed from a coating material feeding unit (20), the liquid is fed from the coating material feeding unit to a storage part (13) and stored. The liquid in the storage part is then fed to a fluid chamber (83) inside a coating material cartridge (19) via a fluid circuit (10A). The liquid in the fluid chamber pushes out the electrically conductive coating material inside a coating material chamber (84) via a free piston (82), and the electrically conductive coating material is fed to a coating gun (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazono, Takashi Wakimoto, Hiroki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 7989964
    Abstract: On a semiconductor chip in a semiconductor integrated circuit, a plurality of circuit cells each of which has a pad are formed along a first chip side of the semiconductor chip. Among the plurality of circuit cells, one or more circuit cells at least in the vicinity of an end portion on the first chip side are arranged having a steplike shift in a direction apart from the first chip side with decreasing distance from the center portion to the end portion on the first chip side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsunaga, Akihiro Maejima, Jinsaku Kaneda, Hiroshi Ando, Eisaku Maeda
  • Patent number: 7969429
    Abstract: The collector, emitter, and base of a bipolar transistor circuit are connected to a high side power supply terminal, the drain of a level shift transistor, and a floating power supply terminal, respectively. When a high side output transistor is on, the floating power supply terminal is at the potential of a high potential power supply terminal. The high side power supply terminal is at a potential higher than the potential of the floating power supply terminal by a constant voltage. Turning the level shift transistor on, its drain potential drops below the potential of the floating power supply terminal; The base current flows through the bipolar transistor circuit and the drain potential of the level shift transistor is clamped near the potential of the floating power supply terminal; The bipolar transistor circuit is turned on and its collector current supplies the drain current of the level shift transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Sasada, Hiroki Matsunaga, Masashi Inao, Hiroshi Ando, Jinsaku Kaneda, Eisaku Maeda, Akihiro Maejima
  • Patent number: 7855447
    Abstract: In a semiconductor integrated circuit device of the present invention, temperature increase of a bonding wire can be suppressed even when conductive leads are short-circuited with each other, and reliability of the semiconductor integrated circuit device is improved. The conductive leads of a resin package for supplying a power supply section of a semiconductor integrated circuit chip with power from an external power supply are connected with bonding pads of the semiconductor integrated circuit chip by a plurality of bonding wires. Furthermore, the conductive leads connected to a GND for supplying the power supply section of the semiconductor integrated circuit chip with a grounding potential are connected with the bonding pads of the semiconductor integrated circuit chip by a plurality of bonding wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Eisaku Maeda, Hiroshi Ando, Jinsaku Kaneda, Akihiro Maejima, Hiroki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20100264958
    Abstract: An output circuit includes a high-side transistor, a low-side transistor, a gate protection circuit, a level shift circuit, and a pre-driver circuit. The level shift circuit interrupts a current path from an output terminal to the level shift circuit after a predetermined time has passed since the high-side transistor was switched OFF.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Emi NAKAMURA, Hiroki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20100214197
    Abstract: In a row-electrode drive circuit of a PDP display device, an N-channel MOS low-side transistor of an output section is in an ON state while a light emission of a capacitive load is sustained. Now, if power to a driver section is lost due to, for example, a disconnection of a line from an external power supply to a low-voltage power terminal, this loss of power is detected by a detection section, and a current path via a parasitic diode of a P-channel MOS transistor, which has turned off, in the driver section to the low-voltage power terminal is interrupted. As a result, the N-channel MOS low-side transistor of the output section has the charged electric charge of the capacitive load stored in a parasitic capacity between its drain and gate, so maintains the ON state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUNAGA, Tomohiro EBIHARA
  • Publication number: 20100183817
    Abstract: An electrostatic coating method in which a coating material cartridge is used. When a coating material feeding path (68, 88) is cleaned by a liquid fed from a coating material feeding unit (20), the liquid is fed from the coating material feeding unit to a storage part (13) and stored. The liquid in the storage part is then fed to a fluid chamber (83) inside a coating material cartridge (19) via a fluid circuit (10A). The liquid in the fluid chamber pushes out the electrically conductive coating material inside a coating material chamber (84) via a free piston (82), and the electrically conductive coating material is fed to a coating gun (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakazono, Takashi Wakimoto, Hiroki Matsunaga