Patents by Inventor Hiroki Matsuoka

Hiroki Matsuoka 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: 20240348115
    Abstract: A rotor core has a magnet insertion hole. The magnet insertion hole has a first hole portion located at a center thereof, and two second hole portions extending from both ends of the first hole portion toward the outer circumference of the rotor core. A first permanent magnet is disposed in the first hole portion, and a second permanent magnet is disposed in each second hole portion. The rotor core has a first slit formed between each second hole portion and the magnetic pole center line and having a length in the circumferential direction, and a second slit formed between the first slit and the magnetic pole center line and having a length in the radial direction. The shortest distance C [mm] from the first slit to the magnet insertion hole and the shortest distance S [mm] from the first slit to the outer circumference satisfy S??0.7517 C2+0.2021 C+1.1395.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki IWATA, Tomoki MASUKO, Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Patent number: 12075581
    Abstract: There is provided a supporting body that is able to select a form of support to a display unit in accordance with a user's purpose or preference, an installation environment, or the like. The supporting body supports the display unit, and includes a first supporting unit and a second supporting unit that are detachably provided on the display unit, and a first form and a second form are configured to be selectable. In the first form, the first supporting unit is mounted at a first position of the display unit and the second supporting unit is mounted at a second position of the display unit. In the second form, the second supporting unit is mounted at the first position or a third position of the display unit, and the first supporting unit is mounted at the second position or a fourth position of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuoka, Masaki Fukano, Toshiaki Takahashi, Hiroyuki Takayama, Makoto Kikuchi, Tsuyoshi Iwatsuki, Hiroaki Yokota, Shigeya Kuwao, Hiroyuki Suzukawa
  • Publication number: 20240197546
    Abstract: An attachable-type disposable wearing article including a waist stretchable region having waist elastic members and a first and second sheet layers sandwiching the same, and stretchable in the width direction and contracting in the width direction, the wearing article further including joined zones of the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer and unjoined zones of the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer provided continuously from forward of the waist stretchable region to backward thereof, with the joined zones and the unjoined zones arranged alternately and repeatedly in the width direction, wherein at least one of the unjoined zones has opposed lateral edges with oblique portions extending at an inclination angle of 5 to 45 degrees with respect to the front-back direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11953425
    Abstract: A core inspection device for inspecting a core, the device including a color sensor configured to detect a measured value of each color component of the color of the surface of the core, and a determination unit configured to compare the measured value of at least one color component detected by the color sensor with a threshold prepared corresponding to the at least one color component, thereby determine if a strength property of the core is acceptable or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hanai, Hiroki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11893723
    Abstract: Provided is a technique that allows an operator or the like to easily perceive a tendency of defects which are present in molds or patterns. A display device displays a result of inspection of a plurality of molds or a plurality of patterns which are inspection target objects. The display device classifies the inspection target objects into a plurality of groups, generates, for each of the plurality of groups, a heat map image from a result of defect inspection of one or more of inspection target objects which are classified into the each of the plurality of groups, the heat map image representing a spatial distribution of defect occurrence frequencies; and causes a display to display one or more of the heat map images generated, the one or more heat map images corresponding to one or more groups specified by a user from among the plurality of groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ota, Takeshi Sonohara, Hiroki Matsuoka, Takehiro Sugino
  • Publication number: 20230194563
    Abstract: An inertial measurement device includes: a first inertial sensor; a first inertial sensor module in which the first inertial sensor is stored in a first package made of resin; a base having a concave portion and made of ceramic; and a lid body. The first inertial sensor module is accommodated in an accommodation space between the base and the lid body and is hermetically sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Toru Watanabe, Masayasu Sakuma, Hiroki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11659309
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a thin plate-shaped display cell that displays image and a plurality of exciters disposed on a back surface of the display cell and causing the display cell to vibrate. The plurality of exciters is such configured that the plurality of exciters is regarded as one exciter when the plurality of exciters generates vibration in the display cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Toshihiko Masuda, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Hideyuki Taguchi, Hiroki Matsuoka, Shinpei Kondo
  • Publication number: 20230100231
    Abstract: An inertial sensor device includes a first interface, a second sensor, a second interface, a host interface, and a processing circuit. The first interface is an interface for a first sensor configured to detect a first physical quantity in a first detection axis, a second physical quantity in a second detection axis, and a third physical quantity in a third detection axis. The second sensor is configured to detect the physical quantity in the third detection axis as a high-accuracy third physical quantity with a higher accuracy than the first sensor. The processing circuit is configured to output the first physical quantity and the second physical quantity to a host via the host interface, and output the high-accuracy third physical quantity instead of the third physical quantity to the host via the host interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroki MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20230074638
    Abstract: A mold strength measuring device according to an aspect obtains information about strength of a mold having a product surface and a back surface opposite to the product surface. The mold strength measuring device comprising a cutting tool and a measurement probe. The cutting tool form a bottomed hole extending from the back surface toward the product surface in the mold. The measurement probe to be inserted into the hole to measure a reaction force received from a bottom of the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUOKA, Takato ISHII
  • Publication number: 20230030565
    Abstract: There is provided a supporting body that is able to select a form of support to a display unit in accordance with a user's purpose or preference, an installation environment, or the like. The supporting body supports the display unit, and includes a first supporting unit and a second supporting unit that are detachably provided on the display unit, and a first form and a second form are configured to be selectable. In the first form, the first supporting unit is mounted at a first position of the display unit and the second supporting unit is mounted at a second position of the display unit. In the second form, the second supporting unit is mounted at the first position or a third position of the display unit, and the first supporting unit is mounted at the second position or a fourth position of the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: HIROKI MATSUOKA, MASAKI FUKANO, TOSHIAKI TAKAHASHI, HIROYUKI TAKAYAMA, MAKOTO KIKUCHI, TSUYOSHI IWATSUKI, HIROAKI YOKOTA, SHIGEYA KUWAO, HIROYUKI SUZUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11516425
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a display cell that displays an image and has a thin-plate shape; one or more vibration exciters that are disposed on rear-surface side of the display cell and cause the display cell to vibrate; and an opposing plate opposed to the display cell with an air gap in between. The display apparatus further includes a sound-spreading adjustment member that is disposed between the display cell and the two or more vibration exciters, and controls spreading of a sound generated by vibration caused by the two or more vibration exciters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki Maeshiba, Daisuke Yamaoka, Shinpei Kondo, Hiroki Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20220280356
    Abstract: A configuration in which an upper auxiliary layer of an absorber includes a super absorbent nonwoven fabric having a surface exposed on an uppermost surface of the absorber and having a Klemm water absorptiveness of 100 mm or more, first super absorbent polymer particles adjacent to a back surface of the super absorbent nonwoven fabric. The main absorption layer of the absorber is a cell absorbing sheet including second super absorbent polymer particles contained in the cells arranged at intervals. A convex bulging upward is formed at each cell in an upper sheet. The first super absorbent polymer particles are fixed to the upper surface of the upper sheet. An adhesion amount of the first super absorbent polymer particles on the upper surface of the upper sheet increases from the top of a convex toward the bottom of a valley between a convex and a convex adjacent each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11400722
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus including: a liquid ejecting portion configured to eject a liquid from a nozzle disposed in a nozzle surface; a wiping mechanism configured to perform a wiping operation of wiping the nozzle surface by moving a strip-shaped member configured to absorb the liquid relative to the nozzle surface in a state in which the strip-shaped member is in contact with the nozzle surface; and a control portion configured to perform a pre-wiping operation of moving the strip-shaped member relative to the nozzle surface at a speed higher than a speed for the relative movement during the wiping operation in a state in which the strip-shaped member is not in contact with the nozzle surface and is configured to be brought into contact with the liquid adhering to the nozzle surface, prior to the wiping operation of wiping the nozzle surface with the strip-shaped member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Murayama, Atsushi Yoshida, Hiroki Matsuoka, Kazushi Arafuka
  • Patent number: 11396332
    Abstract: A front body structure of a vehicle includes a pair of left and right hinge pillars, a pair of left and right front suspension dampers that are provided in desired positions on an inner side in a vehicle width direction of the hinge pillars and on a vehicle front side of the hinge pillars, a pair of left and right suspension housings that have damper mount parts, and a pair of left and right apron reinforcements to which upper ends of the suspension housings are joined. The apron reinforcements are formed in shapes extending substantially linearly from the rear ends thereof toward the vehicle front side and an inner side in the vehicle width direction through an outer side in the vehicle width direction of the damper mount parts in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11389343
    Abstract: An absorber, a liquid impervious sheet covering a back surface side of the absorber and having air permeability, and a cover nonwoven fabric covering a back surface side of the liquid impervious sheet are provided. The cover nonwoven fabric has a large number of holes penetrating the front surface and back surface at intervals in a region overlapping with the liquid impervious sheet. Edge portions of the holes bend-up toward a front surface side. In a region having the holes in the cover nonwoven fabric, rows of the holes, which are aligned in the front-back direction at intervals in the front-back direction narrower than the dimension in the front-back direction of each of the holes, are repeatedly formed at predetermined intervals in the width direction, and the interval of the adjacent two holes in the width direction is wider than the dimension in the front back-direction of the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Seno, Hiroki Matsuoka, Akie Moritani
  • Patent number: 11356759
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a thin plate-shaped display cell that displays image and a plurality of exciters disposed on a back surface of the display cell and causing the display cell to vibrate. The plurality of exciters is such configured that the plurality of exciters is regarded as one exciter when the plurality of exciters generates vibration in the display cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventors: Toshihiko Masuda, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Hideyuki Taguchi, Hiroki Matsuoka, Shinpei Kondo
  • Patent number: 11225288
    Abstract: A suspension having a first link member that is coupled to a front wheel and a second link member that is located on a rear side of the first link member is mounted to a suspension housing. The suspension housing has a first supporting part that supports the first link member and a second supporting part that is provided on a rear side of the first supporting part and supports the second link member. The front frame has a first fixing portion to which the first supporting part is fixed and a second fixing portion to which the second supporting part is fixed, and the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion are provided at positions different from each other in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeaki Watanabe, Kuniyoshi Tashiro, Hiroki Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20220011206
    Abstract: The strength measuring apparatus includes: a strength measuring instrument measuring the strength of the mold on the basis of a reaction force received from the mold; a moving unit moving the strength measuring instrument; a distance sensor measuring a distance to an object on the conveyance line; and a control unit controlling the moving unit, wherein the control unit determines a measurement position of the strength measuring instrument in a horizontal direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the conveyance line on the basis of the distance detected by the distance sensor and controls the moving unit to move the strength measuring instrument to a position above the measurement position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takato ISHII, Hiroki MATSUOKA, Takehiro SUGINO
  • Patent number: 11135849
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejector that ejects a liquid from a nozzle, a wiping mechanism that wipes a nozzle surface on which a plurality of nozzles is disposed with a wiping member, and a wiping-liquid supply mechanism that supplies a wiping liquid to the wiping member. The liquid ejecting apparatus is configured to perform wet-wiping of wiping the nozzle surface in a state where the wiping member has absorbed the wiping liquid and is configured to change a supply amount of the wiping liquid when the wiping member wipes the nozzle surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuoka, Chikashi Nakamura, Shunsuke Kuramata, Shuhei Harada, Hitotoshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210304393
    Abstract: Provided is a technique that allows an operator or the like to easily perceive a tendency of defects which are present in molds or patterns. A display device displays a result of inspection of a plurality of molds or a plurality of patterns which are inspection target objects. The display device classifies the inspection target objects into a plurality of groups, generates, for each of the plurality of groups, a heat map image from a result of defect inspection of one or more of inspection target objects which are classified into the each of the plurality of groups, the heat map image representing a spatial distribution of defect occurrence frequencies; and causes a display to display one or more of the heat map images generated, the one or more heat map images corresponding to one or more groups specified by a user from among the plurality of groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro OTA, Takeshi SONOHARA, Hiroki MATSUOKA, Takehiro SUGINO