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).

  • 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
  • Publication number: 20190314996
    Abstract: A machine learning device includes: a state observation unit that observes component arrangement data representing an arrangement of components on a component serving place, component data representing information of the components, and operator status data representing status information of an operator, as state variables representing a current state of an environment; a determination data acquisition unit that acquires product quality determination data for determining quality of the product which is assembled based on an arrangement of the components and takt time determination data for determining takt time for assembly of the product as determination data; and a learning unit that performs learning based on the state variables and the determination data in a manner to associate information of the components used for assembling the product and status information of the operator with respect to an arrangement of the components on the component serving place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Otsuki, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10441857
    Abstract: An iron golf club head comprises a clubface with score lines, a top, a sole, a hosel with a shaft inserting hole. In a standard state of the head set on a horizontal plane such that the score lines become horizontal and the axis of the club shaft inserting hole lies within a vertical plane, the head satisfies the following condition (1) in the cross section of the head taken orthogonally to the vertical plane at any position in the toe-heel direction between the heel-side most end of the score lines and the position at which the clubface height becomes maximum: (1) the horizontal distance A from the lower edge of the clubface to a backmost end of the head on the sole-side is not more than the horizontal distance B from the lower edge of the club face to a backmost end of the head on the top-side. The depth of the center of gravity is 5.5 mm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20190310115
    Abstract: A measurement operation parameter adjustment apparatus that enables efficient measurement of the placement position of an object to be measured even in the case where there are variations in the placement positions, the sizes, and the product types of objects to be measured includes a machine learning device. The machine learning device observes measurement operation parameter data representing the measurement operation parameter of the measurement operation and measurement time data representing time taken to perform the measurement operation as a state variable representing a current environmental state and performs learning or decision-making using a learning model obtained by modeling adjustment of the measurement operation parameter based on the state variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroshi ABE
  • Patent number: 10429233
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Hiroshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20190292538
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a single-chain circular RNA having a sustained or slow-releasing RNA interference effect, characterized in that the single-chain circular RNA comprises a sense strand sequence, an antisense strand sequence complementary to the sense strand sequence, identical or different two loop sequences between the sense strand and the antisense strand, connecting both strands, wherein the sense strand and the antisense strand are paired to form a stem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicants: Riken, OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroshi ABE, Yoshihiro ITO, Naoko ABE, Hidekazu TOYOBUKU
  • Publication number: 20190282862
    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: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyoshi UEDA, Masahiko UEDA, Shimpei OYAMA, Yuki NAGANO, Satoru HANAMITSU, Tomoya HIRANO, Kenji KII, Hiroshi ABE, Yasushi SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190237322
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a liquid film forming step of forming a liquid film of the processing liquid on the upper surface of the substrate; a liquid filling heating step of supplying a heating medium to a space between a heater unit and the substrate to thereby fill the space with the heating medium, and heating the heating medium by the heater unit, an opening defining step of defining an opening in the central region of the liquid film in a state where the substrate is heated in the liquid filling heating step such that the temperature of the substrate is the boiling point of the processing liquid or higher, and an opening enlarging step of enlarging the opening while rotating the base to thereby rotate the substrate. The liquid filling heating step is executed in parallel with the opening enlarging step at least during part of a period of the opening enlarging step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Manabu OKUTANI, Hiroshi ABE
  • Publication number: 20190209126
    Abstract: An object information acquiring apparatus, comprises a photoacoustic image acquiring unit configured to generate a first image related to optical characteristics within the object; an ultrasonic image acquiring unit configured to generate a second image related to acoustic characteristics within the object; a region of interest designating unit configured to receive designation of a region of interest with regard to the first image; an image processing unit configured to perform image processing on the first image inside the region of interest and outside the region of interest, respectively, using different image processing parameters; and an image synthesizing unit configured to superimpose and synthesize the first image, which has been image processed, and the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20190176179
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a first processing liquid supplying step of supplying a first processing liquid to an upper surface of the substrate, a holding layer forming step of solidifying or curing the first processing liquid to form a particle holding layer on the upper surface of the substrate, a holding layer removing step of peeling and removing the particle holding layer from the upper surface of the substrate, a liquid film forming step of forming, after removing the particle holding layer from the substrate, a liquid film of the second processing liquid, a solidifying step of cooling the liquid film to a temperature not more than a melting point of the sublimable substance to make the liquid film solidify on the substrate and form a solid film, and a sublimating step of sublimating and thereby removing the solid film from the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Yukifumi YOSHIDA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Masayuki OTSUJI, Manabu OKUTANI, Chikara MAEDA, Hiroshi ABE, Shuichi YASUDA, Yasunori KANEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190172733
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a first processing liquid supplying step of supplying a first processing liquid to an upper surface of a substrate, a holding-layer forming step of solidifying or curing the first processing liquid to form a particle holding layer on the upper surface of the substrate, a holding-layer removing step of peeling and removing the particle holding layer from the upper surface of the substrate, a liquid film forming step of forming, after removal of the particle holding layer from the substrate, a liquid film of a second processing liquid, a gas phase layer forming step of forming a gas phase layer for holding the liquid film between the upper surface of the substrate and the liquid film, and a liquid film removing step of removing the second processing liquid from the upper surface of the substrate by moving the liquid film on the gas phase layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Yukifumi YOSHIDA, Manabu OKUTANI, Hiroshi ABE, Shuichi YASUDA, Yasunori KANEMATSU, Hitoshi NAKAI
  • Publication number: 20190152055
    Abstract: A control device and a machine learning device enable control for gripping an object having small reaction force. The machine learning device included in the control device includes a state observation unit that observes gripping object shape data related to a shape of the gripping object as a state variable representing a current state of an environment, a label data acquisition unit that acquires gripping width data, which represents a width of the hand of the robot in gripping the gripping object, as label data, and a learning unit that performs learning by using the state variable and the label data in a manner to associate the gripping object shape data with the gripping width data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10282731
    Abstract: The present invention includes acquiring purchase history information related to a product purchased by a user, from a storage means that stores the purchase history information (S2), generating and acquiring an image object indicating a display mode which changes in response to purchase history information (S3), generating a web page which displays the image object, and transmitting the web page to a terminal device through a network and displaying the web page (S5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Soh Masuko, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 10279230
    Abstract: Provided is a golf club head that is able to suppress lowering of the pitch of a ball hitting sound. The golf club head according to the present invention includes a crown portion, a face portion, and a sole portion having at least one recessed portion. The recessed portion is configured to house a weight member such that the weight member does not protrude externally. The sole portion is provided with a placement region connected to the face portion and to be at least partially placed on a placement surface in a reference state, and a rear region arranged further to a back side in a face-back direction than the placement region and in which the recessed portion is arranged. The rear region inclines upward relative to the placement region toward the back side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Naruhiro Mizutani, Daisuke Kohno
  • Patent number: 10277799
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image sensor configured to capture an object image; a first focus detection unit configured to perform focus detection based on a pair of image signals generated by the image sensor; a second focus detection unit configured to image the object image on a focus detection element as a pair of images, and perform focus detection based on a pair of image signals; a setting unit configured to set an AF correction value used in correction of a focus detection result by the second focus detection unit; and a determining unit configured to determine accuracy of the AF correction value, based on a difference between a focus detection result by the first focus detection unit and a focus detection result by the second focus detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Takuya Izumi
  • Patent number: 10272301
    Abstract: The golf club head includes a decoration member to be attached in the recessed portion, and a fixing member for fixing the decoration member in the recessed portion. A fixing hole is formed in a bottom surface of the recessed portion, and the fixing member is provided with a tubular head portion and a shaft portion that is attached to the head portion, has a smaller diameter than the head portion and is to be fixed in the fixing hole. The decoration member has a through hole. The through hole includes a shaft portion insertion portion and a head portion in which the head portion is to be arranged, with a gap being formed at least in a portion that is externally exposed between the inner wall surface of the head portion arrangement portion and the outer peripheral surface of the head portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Daisuke Kohno
  • Patent number: 10266189
    Abstract: An interlocking device performs route control for trains based on: first operation diagram information as train operation diagram information on a train which runs between stations; second operation diagram information as train operation diagram information on a train which moves in a station yard; and on-track position information on the trains. The interlocking device performs control with time on a signal and/or a switch on a route of a train based on different information according to whether a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Echizen, Hiroshi Abe, Katsuichiro Awano