Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Abe

Hiroshi Abe 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: 20200205749
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image display method with which a structure of an imaging object can be understood on the basis of volume data. An image display method according to an aspect of the present invention includes obtaining photoacoustic image data, generating a first photoacoustic image corresponding to a first spatial region on the basis of photoacoustic image data, generating a second photoacoustic image corresponding to a second spatial region having a different thickness in a viewing direction of rendering from a thickness of the first spatial region and having a spatial region overlapped with the first spatial region on the basis of the photoacoustic image data, and displaying the first photoacoustic image and the second photoacoustic image in a superimposing manner on each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Satoru Fukushima, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10695792
    Abstract: A processing liquid is supplied to an upper surface of a horizontally-held substrate to form a liquid film of the processing liquid that covers an entirety of the substrate upper surface. The substrate is heated to evaporate the processing liquid in contact with the upper surface of the substrate to form a gas phase layer between the upper surface of the substrate and the liquid film of the processing liquid. After the gas phase layer has been formed, a gas is blown onto the liquid film above the substrate to open a hole in the liquid film. The gas is blown onto a region inside the hole in the liquid film to move the liquid film on the gas phase layer. A direction of a gas stream at a substrate outer peripheral portion is changed to remove the liquid film at the substrate outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Okutani, Takashi Ota, Hiroshi Abe, Naohiko Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20200158833
    Abstract: A light receiver array according to the present invention is constituted by array-aligning plural receivers having slow light waveguides of photonic crystals, and a LiDAR device according to the present invention is constituted by linearly arranging a light receiver array and a transmitter. An arranging relationship of plural receivers of the light receiver array is an array-like element formed by array-aligning plural receivers having the slow light waveguides of photonic crystals, and the array alignment is defined by alignment for defining a position relationship between the plural receivers constituting the light receiver array, and orientation for defining a direction of each receiver. A relationship p=?/sin ??r is satisfied between the alignment pitch p, wavelength ? of the reception light, and an arrival angle ??r when a phase difference between reception lights received by waveguide ends of adjacent receivers is one wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Toshihiko BABA, Keisuke KONDO, Hiroshi ABE
  • Patent number: 10639525
    Abstract: A golf club set includes a plurality of golf clubs 1 having different loft angles. The golf clubs 1 include at least one 1st golf club 1A having a loft angle of less than 34 degrees, and at least one 2nd golf club 1B having a loft angle of not less than 34 degrees. Each of the at least one 1st golf club 1A and the at least one 2nd golf club 1B comprises a clubface 3 provided with a plurality of face grooves 8 having a depth. The depth of the face grooves 8 of the at least one 2nd golf club 1B is larger than the depth of the face grooves 8 of the at least one 1st golf club 1A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyoshi Ueda, Masahiko Ueda, Shimpei Oyama, Yuki Nagano, Satoru Hanamitsu, Tomoya Hirano, Kenji Kii, Hiroshi Abe, Yasushi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10644561
    Abstract: A stator structure according to an embodiment includes a stator core having a plurality of teeth; insulators configured to cover the teeth; a coil wound around each of the teeth with the insulators interposed therebetween; and first and second coil covers configured to cover the coil, each of the first and second coil covers being formed in an annular shape. The insulators have respective flange parts configured to cover respective distal end portions of the teeth. Each of the first and second coil covers has a first peripheral wall. The first peripheral wall of the first coil cover and the flange part located on one side of the insulator are arranged to face each other with a space therebetween. The first peripheral wall of the second coil cover and the flange part located on the other side of the insulator are arranged to face each other with a space therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Naohiro Yamada, Mutsumi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20200129820
    Abstract: A head includes a hitting face. The hitting face has a face center and a sweet spot. The hitting face has a face height that is denoted by Hf (mm), the face height being measured at a toe-heel direction position of the face center. The sweet spot has a vertical height that is denoted by Hs (mm). The face center has a vertical height that is denoted by Hc (mm). The vertical height Hc is greater than or equal to 20 mm and less than or equal to 26 mm. The face height Hf is greater than or equal to 40 mm and less than or equal to 52 mm. The head satisfies an expression 1 as follows: Hs<0.06*Hf+16 (expression 1). The head is an iron type golf club head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi ABE
  • Publication number: 20200128187
    Abstract: An apparatus in related art has a problem in a presentation method of data to a user or a usability. A subject information obtaining apparatus includes a plurality of transducer elements that receive acoustic waves generated in a subject irradiated with light from a light source and transduce the acoustic waves into a plurality of reception signals, a processing unit configured to obtain a characteristic distribution indicating a distribution of characteristic information respectively corresponding to a plurality of positions in the subject by using the plurality of reception signals, in which the processing unit outputs image information for displaying a distribution image created by using the characteristic distribution and data indicating a time fluctuation of the characteristic information in a predetermined region of the distribution image within a same screen of a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Ayumi Kabata, Masae Torii
  • Patent number: 10594198
    Abstract: A stator structure includes a stator core, insulators, a coil, and shield plates. The stator core includes a plurality of teeth extending from a body part of the stator core in a radial direction thereof. The body part is formed in an annular shape. The insulators cover the teeth from both sides in an axial direction of the stator core. The coil is wound around each of the teeth with the insulators interposed therebetween. The coil covers cover the coil from both sides in the axial direction. Each of the coil covers is formed in an annular shape. The shield plates are attached to the stator core from both sides in the axial direction of the stator core with the respective coil covers interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Nakano, Mutsumi Matsuura, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10593587
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a spin base on which a chuck member that holds a peripheral edge of a substrate is disposed, a motor which rotates the spin base, a heater unit which is positioned between the substrate held by the chuck member and an upper surface of the spin base, a processing liquid supply unit which supplies a processing liquid toward a surface of the substrate held by the chuck member, and a microwave generating unit which generates microwaves to a lower surface of the substrate from the heater unit. The microwave generating unit may include a microwave generating member which includes a waveguide disposed in the heater unit, microwave oscillator which is disposed outside the heater unit and a coaxial cable which connects the waveguide to the microwave oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Toyohide Hayashi, Kenji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10571882
    Abstract: To provide a controller for reducing a burden to be imposed on an operator in applying force with a finger during operation on a machine tool or a robot, and for associating an operation history with identification information about the operator. A controller for a robot or a machine tool comprises a fingerprint detection unit and a control unit. The control unit comprises: a key information receiving part that receives input key information; a key information transmission part that transmits the input key information linked in advance with the fingerprint detection unit to the key information receiving part if an operator makes a finger touch the fingerprint detection unit; and an individual identification information specification part that specifies identification information about the operator based on fingerprint information about the finger having touched the fingerprint detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10570385
    Abstract: A non-enzymatic method is provided for binding a first nucleic acid chain to a second nucleic acid chain without introducing a sulfur atom into the combined nucleic acid chain, the method comprising reacting a first nucleic acid chain having a phosphorothioate group at the 3? or 5? terminus with a second nucleic acid chain having a hydroxyl group or an amino group at the 3? or 5? terminus in the presence of an electrophile that has a leaving group and is configured to leave the leaving group and bind to a sulfur atom of the phosphorothioate group of the first nucleic acid chain at the site to which the leaving group had been bound, and remove the sulfur atom from the phosphorothioate group of the first nucleic acid chain and a hydrogen atom from the hydroxyl group or from the amino group of the second nucleic acid chain via a nucleophilic substitution with an oxygen atom of the hydroxyl group or a nitrogen atom of the amino group of the second nucleic acid chain, and thereby form a bond between a phosphorus a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Hideto Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10547789
    Abstract: An apparatus in related art has a problem in a presentation method of data to a user or a usability. A subject information obtaining apparatus includes a plurality of transducer elements that receive acoustic waves generated in a subject irradiated with light from a light source and transduce the acoustic waves into a plurality of reception signals, a processing unit configured to obtain a characteristic distribution indicating a distribution of characteristic information respectively corresponding to a plurality of positions in the subject by using the plurality of reception signals, in which the processing unit outputs image information for displaying a distribution image created by using the characteristic distribution and data indicating a time fluctuation of the characteristic information in a predetermined region of the distribution image within a same screen of a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Ayumi Kabata, Masae Torii
  • Patent number: 10540837
    Abstract: A coin processing apparatus eliminates quickly and surely a coin congestion in the cases where (a) a Tawara state and/or a Keirin phenomenon of coins is/are generated on a conveying surface, (b) additional coins are overlapped or stacked on existing coins having a Tawara state or a Keirin phenomenon, and (c) additional coins are placed on the conveying surface on the upstream side of the existing coins. A conveying belt has a protrusion on its conveying surface. A reversing roller is provided opposite to the conveying surface. Screw-like members with spiral projections on their outer surfaces are respectively provided at two sides of the conveying surface. Coins placed on the conveying surface in their standing state are moved backward due to engagement with the screw-like members to topple down naturally toward the conveying surface during conveyance and then, moved forward due to engagement with the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: ASAHI SEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Masayoshi Umeda
  • Patent number: 10527348
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a substrate holding step of horizontally holding a substrate, a substrate rotating step of rotating the substrate held horizontally around a rotational axis along a vertical direction, a liquid-film forming step of forming a liquid film of a first organic solvent that is used to process an upper surface of the substrate on the upper surface of the substrate by supplying the first organic solvent to the upper surface of the substrate held horizontally, a vapor supplying step of supplying a vapor of a second organic solvent to a space between a facing surface of a heater unit that has the facing surface facing a lower surface of the substrate held horizontally and the lower surface of the substrate, a substrate heating step of heating the substrate being in a rotational state by means of the vapor of the second organic solvent in parallel with the substrate rotating step and the liquid-film forming step, and a substrate drying step of, after the substrate heating step, exc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiko Yoshihara, Manabu Okutani, Takashi Ota, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10505435
    Abstract: A stator structure includes a stator section, coil cover, terminal block section, plurality of terminals and terminal-block cover section. Stator section includes stator core including first main body section and plurality of teeth sections extending on inner circumference side of first main body section and coils configured by winding wires wound around teeth sections via an insulator. Coil cover covers coils from axial direction of stator core. Terminal block section extends from insulator outward in radial direction of stator core. Plurality of terminals are provided in terminal block section, ends of winding wires configuring coils are bound to terminals. Terminal-block cover section is provided in coil cover, terminal-block cover section covers terminal block section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Mutsumi Matsuura, Hiroshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20190368920
    Abstract: An object information obtaining device includes a light source which emits light, an acoustic wave detecting unit which detects a photoacoustic wave generated by irradiation of an object with the light, and outputs an electric signal in response to detection of the photoacoustic wave, and a processing unit configured to perform two or more types of processing to photoacoustic signal data based on the electric signal to obtain object information corresponding to each of the two or more types of processing, and to display on a display unit the object information corresponding to at least one processing selected by a user out of the two or more types of processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10493338
    Abstract: A golf club set includes golf clubs having different loft angles and including weight-embedded golf clubs. Each of the weight-embedded golf clubs comprises a club head composed of a head main body having a club face for hitting a ball, and an internal weight member disposed in the head main body. The internal weight members of the weight-embedded golf clubs are arranged such that the loft angle is lager, the center of gravity of the internal weight member is positioned more on the toe side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10491799
    Abstract: A focus detection apparatus includes a first acquirer configured to acquire a first distance as a distance between a pair of object images in the first direction based on the pair of phase difference image signals, a second acquirer configured to acquire a correction value corresponding to a second distance as the distance in the second direction, and a calculator configured to calculate the phase difference using the first distance and the correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ichimiya
  • Publication number: 20190356014
    Abstract: The lithium ion secondary battery includes an electrode body and a nonaqueous electrolyte liquid. The negative electrode active material in the negative electrode includes a materials S including Si. Assuming that a total of all negative electrode active materials included in the negative electrode is 100 mass %, a content of the material S is higher than 5 mass %. The nonaqueous electrolyte liquid comprises propylene carbonate and a chain carbonate as a solvent. A volume content of the propylene carbonate in the solvent is 10 to 50 volume %. The positive electrode comprises a positive electrode composition layer comprising a metal oxide comprising Li and a metal M except for Li as a positive electrode active material provided on at least one surface of a positive electrode current collector. The lithium ion secondary battery has an upper limit voltage in charge is 4.35 V of more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Susumu Yoshikawa, Tomohito Sekiya
  • Patent number: 10451442
    Abstract: A stator structure includes a stator core including a plurality of tooth sections, coils wound around the respective plurality of tooth sections via an insulator, and a first coil cover and a second coil cover that cover the coils from both sides in an axial direction of the stator core. The first coil cover and the second coil cover being coupled via the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Naohiro Yamada, Mutsumi Matsuura