Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Ando

Hiroshi Ando 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: 10520930
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes a component mounting line, a storage device, and a display device. The component mounting line is formed by connecting a plurality of mounting board manufacturing machines. The storage device is connected to the component mounting line via a network to acquire information from each of the plurality of mounting board manufacturing machines. The display device is connected to the storage device via the network and displays a progress status of set-up work executed when changing a type of a mounting board manufactured by the component mounting line based on information stored in the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Harada, Takuya Yamazaki, Atsushi Nakazono, Hiroshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20190337454
    Abstract: An image synthesizer apparatus for vehicle includes an image generator and an error detector. From multiple cameras arranged to a vehicle so that an imaging region of each camera partially overlaps with an imaging region of an adjacent camera, the image generator acquires images of areas allocated to the respective cameras, and synthesizes the acquired images to generate a synthetic image around the vehicle viewed from a viewpoint above the vehicle. The error detector detects errors in the cameras. When the error detector detects a faulty camera in the cameras, the image generator acquires, from the image captured by the camera adjacent to the faulty camera, an overlap portion overlapping with the image captured by the faulty camera, uses the overlap portion to generate the synthetic image, and applies image reinforcement to the overlap portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi TAKAZAWA, Makoto SAKAI, Hiroshi ANDO
  • Patent number: 10391862
    Abstract: In a head-up display, a cover member includes a first transmissive member and a second transmissive member that transmit a light beam including an image generated by an image generation unit. The first transmissive member is formed to face upward from a front end to a rear end. Likewise, the second transmissive member is formed to face upward from a front end to a rear end. The rear end of the first transmissive member is offset to an upper side from the front end of the second transmissive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Onda, Hiroshi Ando, Takashi Takazawa, Makoto Sakai
  • Patent number: 10345792
    Abstract: In two component mounting lines or more each including the plurality of the component mounters, a set-up changing work time, necessary for executing set-up changing work in the two component mounting lines or more based on the number of workers assigned for production in the two component mounting lines or more in each time zone, and the number of workers necessary for the set-up changing work necessary when the mounting board is changed in the two component mounting lines or more, is calculated; and a production completion time, which includes a set-up changing work time and at which the production of all the mounting boards that are the production targets is completed, is calculated; and a group is determined so that the production completion time is shortened within a predetermined time period in the two component mounting lines or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Yamazaki, Atsushi Nakazono, Hiroshi Ando, Kazuyoshi Harada
  • Patent number: 10258263
    Abstract: A rectangular parallelepiped-shaped cartridge main body having a protective cap removably attached to a first end side thereof has a puncture needle retainer that retains a puncture needle provided at the back of a puncture opening provided on the first end side of the cartridge main body such that the puncture needle is slidable toward the puncture opening. Furthermore, a sensor unit having a depositing opening is provided on the first end side of the cartridge main body. The sensor unit has an introduction promoting hole that communicates with an introduction channel communicating with the depositing opening and that opens to the surface of the cartridge main body. The protective cap is provided with a puncture needle protector that covers the puncture needle, a sensor protector that covers the depositing opening of the sensor unit, and a sensor protector that covers the introduction promoting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20190107714
    Abstract: An image projection device includes an emitting unit, a shaping unit, an adjusting unit, a scanning unit, and a projection optical system. The projection optical system is disposed such that a position of a front side principal plane of the projection optical system is at a position which is separated from the scanning unit by a focal length of the projection optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuyuki ISHIHARA, Hiroshi ANDO
  • Patent number: 10156720
    Abstract: An information display apparatus reflects light representing information off a projection target to display the information as a virtual image, and includes a projector, at least two image forming devices and a focus adjusting device. The projector projects the light representing information. The image forming devices, to which the light from the projector is projected, are on an optical path from the projector to the projection target. At least one of the image forming devices is at a distance from the projector different from that of other image forming devices. The focus adjusting device adjusts a focal length of one optical system on an optical path from the projector to each of the image forming devices such that the light from the projector is in focus at each of the image forming devices. An image of information on each of the image forming devices is reflected off the projection target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ando, Shinji Kashiwada
  • Publication number: 20180315361
    Abstract: A scanning unit scans laser light emitted from a laser light emitting unit. A condensing lens condenses the laser light scanned with the scanning unit and forms a beam. A screen forms the display image thereon upon incidence of the beam formed with the condensing unit. A projection unit projects the display image formed on the screen onto the display member. The screen includes a micromirror array or a microlens array. When the beam is incident on any point of the micromirror array or the microlens array, two or more components forming the micromirror array or the microlens array overlap with a spot of the beam. When a center of the beam and a center of any component among the components are matched, a center of a neighboring component next to the component of interest is outside the spot of the beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhisa ONDA, Hiroshi ANDO
  • Patent number: 10095039
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a display unit displaying images in a display region defined on a vehicle windshield, a vehicle information acquisition unit acquiring vehicle information, a forward view information acquisition unit acquiring forward view information, a display object detection unit detecting a display object for which guidance information is required to be displayed in the display region, a display control unit, and a display form setting unit. The display control unit generates a guidance image indicating the guidance information of the detected display object and displays the generated guidance image over the display object in superimposed manner on the windshield. The display form setting unit calculates an annoyance value indicative of an annoyance level felt by a vehicle occupant when displaying the guidance image in superimposed manner, and sets a display form of the guidance image so that the calculated annoyance value is within a predetermined appropriate range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Onda, Hiroshi Ando, Makoto Sakai
  • Publication number: 20180203436
    Abstract: In two component mounting lines or more each including the plurality of the component mounters, a set-up changing work time, necessary for executing set-up changing work in the two component mounting lines or more based on the number of workers assigned for production in the two component mounting lines or more in each time zone, and the number of workers necessary for the set-up changing work necessary when the mounting board is changed in the two component mounting lines or more, is calculated; and a production completion time, which includes a set-up changing work time and at which the production of all the mounting boards that are the production targets is completed, is calculated; and a group is determined so that the production completion time is shortened within a predetermined time period in the two component mounting lines or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: TAKUYA YAMAZAKI, ATSUSHI NAKAZONO, HIROSHI ANDO, KAZUYOSHI HARADA
  • Publication number: 20180206372
    Abstract: A group determination method includes an external set-up work time calculation step of calculating an external set-up work time for an external set-up work by which a component supplier used in a group that is a next production target of a group under production in a component mounting line, including a plurality of the component mounters capable of attaching and detaching a component supply carriage which can arrange a plurality of the component suppliers (tape feeders), is removed from the component mounting line and arranged in the component supply carriage; and a production completion time calculation step of calculating a production completion time at which the production of all the mounting boards that are the production targets is completed in consideration of the external set-up work time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: TAKUYA YAMAZAKI, ATSUSHI NAKAZONO, HIROSHI ANDO, KAZUYOSHI HARADA
  • Patent number: 9999698
    Abstract: An olfactory display includes a housing and a plurality of fragrance chambers formed in the housing. In each fragrance chamber, a solid-like fragrance source is accommodated and an airflow source is provided to send air into the fragrance chamber from an air intake port. An auxiliary airflow source that emits odorless air is also provided in the housing. The airflow source and the auxiliary airflow source are operated alternately or simultaneously. In response to a user operating an adjustment knob of a controller, operating time periods and stopping time periods of the airflow source and the auxiliary airflow source are changed, or the number of operating times is changed within a predetermined operating time period. A mixing ratio of the fragrance and the odorless air may also be adjusted by changing a voltage value of an alternating voltage to be applied to a piezoelectric device of the airflow source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dong Wook Kim, Hiroshi Ando
  • Patent number: 10001646
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a concave mirror actuator that changes, based on external instructions, a reflection angle by which a concave mirror reflects display light. A drawing unit includes a beam generator, a scanner, an optical actuator, and a controller, The beam generator emits a beam, and the scanner scans the beam in two dimensions by moving a reflection surface to draw an image. The optical actuator changes an angle of incidence of when the beam is emitted to the scanner. The controller drives the optical actuator to change the angle of incidence such that display light distortions generated at the concave mirror are offset by display light distortions generated at the scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ando, Makoto Sakai
  • Publication number: 20180120937
    Abstract: An internal device of a brain-machine interface system includes: an electrode group including N electrodes, N being 2 or more; an amplification element group including N amplification elements; a communicator communicating with an external device; and a controller selectively executing one of: a normal operation mode in which electroencephalogram signals acquired through the N electrodes are supplied to the amplification element group in a manner that each of the N electrodes corresponds to a respective one of the N amplification elements, and N amplified electroencephalogram signals are transmitted; and a noise-reduction operation mode in which an electroencephalogram signal acquired through an M electrode of the electrode group is supplied to the amplification element group in a manner that each M electrode corresponds to respective plural ones of the amplification elements, and an M amplified electroencephalogram signal is transmitted, M being smaller than N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicants: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIO NS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kaoru IMAJO, Katsuyoshi SUZUKI, Masayuki HIRATA, Seiji KAMEDA, Takafumi SUZUKI, Hiroshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20180113444
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes a component mounting line, a storage device, and a display device. The component mounting line is formed by connecting a plurality of mounting board manufacturing machines. The storage device is connected to the component mounting line via a network to acquire information from each of the plurality of mounting board manufacturing machines. The display device is connected to the storage device via the network and displays a progress status of set-up work executed when changing a type of a mounting board manufactured by the component mounting line based on information stored in the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: KAZUYOSHI HARADA, TAKUYA YAMAZAKI, ATSUSHI NAKAZONO, HIROSHI ANDO
  • Publication number: 20180017792
    Abstract: A head-up display device includes a housing, a projection unit projecting light representing an image, and an optical unit leading the light projected from the projection unit to a windshield of a vehicle. The optical unit includes a magnifying optical unit attached to the housing and reflecting the light toward the windshield, a screen attached to the housing and reflecting or transmitting the light toward the magnifying optical unit, and an incident angle changing unit changing an incident angle of the light that goes incident on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi TAKAZAWA, Hiroshi ANDO, Makoto SAKAI
  • Patent number: 9835774
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of optical elements that are arrayed in a lattice pattern in a screen member which diffuses a laser beam incident from a projector to guide the laser beam toward a projection surface has a curved surface on a side thereof, and the curved surface has a common convexly curved shape, and diffuses the laser beam which is emitted from the curved surface toward the projection surface. The respective optical elements include a plurality of reference elements which serve as a reference and a plurality of peripheral elements which are adjacent to the respective reference elements. The respective reference elements and the respective adjacent peripheral elements are formed by offsetting surface vertexes of the curved surfaces in a stepwise manner. Offset amounts generated between the respective reference elements and the respective adjacent peripheral elements are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamaguchi, Takayuki Fujikawa, Hiroshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20170329134
    Abstract: In a head-up display, a cover member includes a first transmissive member and a second transmissive member that transmit a light beam including an image generated by an image generation unit. The first transmissive member is formed to face upward from a front end to a rear end. Likewise, the second transmissive member is formed to face upward from a front end to a rear end. The rear end of the first transmissive member is offset to an upper side from the front end of the second transmissive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuhisa ONDA, Hiroshi ANDO, Takashi TAKAZAWA, Makoto SAKAI
  • Patent number: 9778461
    Abstract: A head-up display device is for projecting display light onto a projection member. The head-up display device includes a display, a reflecting member, an outside light prevention portion, and a state controller. The display emits the display light. The reflecting member reflects the display light emitted from the display in a reflection direction to project the display light onto the projection member. The outside light prevention portion changes between an entering state in which outside light is able to enter the display and a preventing state in which outside light is prevented from entering the display. The state controller controls the outside light prevention portion to be (i) in the entering state when the display light is projected onto the projection member and (ii) in the preventing state when the display light is not projected onto the projection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Sakai, Hiroshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9695237
    Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-human FOLR1 antibody against diseases associated with human FOLR1-expressing cells, which specifically recognizes and binds to an amino acid sequence of human FOLR1 or a conformational structure thereof and also has a high effector activity such as antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity activity (ADCC activity). The present invention can provide a monoclonal antibody which specifically recognizes and binds to the amino acid sequence of human FOLR1 or the conformational structure thereof and also has ADCC activity and CDC activity, or an antibody fragment thereof, a DNA encoding the antibody, a vector comprising the DNA, a transformant obtained by introducing the vector, a method for producing the antibody or the antibody fragment thereof using the transformant, and a therapeutic agent and a diagnostic agent comprising the antibody or the antibody fragment as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: KYOWA HAKKO KIRIN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Munetoshi Ando, Hiroshi Ando, Mariko Nakano, Naoya Kameyama, Tsuguo Kubota