Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Harada
Hiroshi Harada 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).
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Patent number: 9945019Abstract: Disclosed herein is a nickel-based heat-resistant superalloy produced by a casting and forging method, the nickel-based heat-resistant superalloy comprising 2.0 mass % or more but 25 mass % or less of chromium, 0.2 mass % or more but 7.0 mass % or less of aluminum, 19.5 mass % or more but 55.0 mass % or less of cobalt, [0.17×(mass % of cobalt content?23)+3] mass % or more but [0.17×(mass % of cobalt content?20)+7] mass % or less and 5.1 mass % or more of titanium, and the balance being nickel and inevitable impurities, and being subjected to solution heat treatment at 93% or more but less than 100% of a ?? solvus temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Yuefeng Gu, Toshio Osada, Yong Yuan, Tadaharu Yokokawa, Hiroshi Harada
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Patent number: 9908481Abstract: A vehicle forward information acquiring device includes a bracket fixed to a windshield, a cover mounted to the bracket by being moved along the bracket in one direction, and a vehicle forward information acquiring sensor accommodated between the bracket and the cover. The cover is mounted to the bracket while being pressed against the bracket by a first elastic force and a second elastic force generated when a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion formed on the cover are respectively engaged with a first engaged portion and a second engaged portion formed on the bracket. A position of the cover on the bracket when the first elastic force becomes a maximum value is different from a position of the cover on the bracket when the second elastic force becomes a maximum value.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideaki Hayashi, Atsutoshi Sakaguchi, Tomohiko Futatsugi, Masaaki Uechi, Naoki Taki, Akio Kimura, Kumiko Kondo, Hiroshi Harada, Toshifumi Kawasaki
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Patent number: 9900785Abstract: A wireless device capable of enabling improvement in reliability of communication, enlargement of cell regions, improvement in PER and improvement in system performance is provided. The wireless device according to an embodiment is a wireless device which transmits information for a counterpart wireless device, and includes a signal processing unit which generates a symbol sequence; a transmission vector calculating unit which converts the symbol sequence into a plurality of transmission symbol sequences, and controls phases of the transmission symbol sequences to be a same phase or an opposite phase based on a channel estimation to the counterpart wireless device; and a plurality of antennas each of which transmits the plurality of transmission symbol sequences.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Gabriel Porto Villardi, Hiroshi Harada
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Publication number: 20180043885Abstract: A vehicular braking/driving-force control apparatus includes an accelerator operation detection part configured to detect an accelerator operation; a driving-force limiting apparatus configured to carry out driving-force limiting control of limiting driving force of an own vehicle in such a manner that an upper-limit speed that is set will not be exceeded; an automatic braking control apparatus configured to carry out automatic braking control of automatically generating braking force in the own vehicle based on a relative distance or a relative speed between an obstacle in front of the own vehicle and the own vehicle, and have a cancellation function of inhibiting a start of the automatic braking control based on the accelerator operation; and a control part configured to inhibit the cancellation function from being executed when the driving-force limiting apparatus is in an activated state where the driving-force limiting apparatus is allowed to carry out the driving-force limiting control.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi HARADA, Naoki TAKI, Masaaki UECHI, Kumiko KONDO, Hideaki HAYASHI, Akio KIMURA, Atsutoshi SAKAGUCHI, Toshifumi KAWASAKI, Tomohiko FUTATSUGI
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Patent number: 9891138Abstract: A pressure sensor including a rod-shaped member, a tubular housing, a variable member and a pressure measuring element. The variable member is entirely disposed within the housing, is connected to the housing and the rod-shaped member, and deforms when the rod-shaped member is displaced relative to the housing along an axial direction. The variable member includes a first portion connected to the rod-shaped member, a second portion connected to the housing, and a bent portion which connects the first portion and the second portion to each other and has a bent shape. A portion of the second portion is a pressure receiving portion which displaces the rod-shaped member in the axial direction when receiving a pressure. The pressure receiving portion of the second portion has a substantially uniform thickness, and the thickness of the pressure receiving portion of the second portion is larger than that of the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiki Hirokawa, Hiroshi Harada
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Publication number: 20180031756Abstract: An illumination device of a vehicle, including: a light source; a bar-shaped light guide member; and a diffusion member having a lens unit, the lens unit having an L-shaped cross-section, and a light-emitting portion and a light-receiving portion, wherein the light guide member has a light-emitting surface, and the light guide member and the lens unit are disposed such that a light-receiving surface of the light-receiving portion of the lens unit is opposed to the light-emitting surface of the light guide member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Hiroshi HARADA, Hiroshi SAKUMA, Yousuke USUI
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Patent number: 9816161Abstract: Provided is a Ni-based single crystal superalloy containing 6% by mass or more and 12% by mass or less of Cr, 0.4% by mass or more and 3.0% by mass or less of Mo, 6% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less of W, 4.0% by mass or more and 6.5% by mass or less of Al, 0% by mass or more and 1% by mass or less of Nb, 8% by mass or more and 12% by mass or less of Ta, 0% by mass or more and 0.15% by mass or less of Hf, 0.01% by mass or more and 0.2% by mass or less of Si, and 0% by mass or more and 0.04% by mass or less of Zr, and optionally containing at least one element selected from B, C, Y, La, Ce, and V, with a balance being Ni and inevitable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignees: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Kyoko Kawagishi, Hiroshi Harada, Tadaharu Yokokawa, Yutaka Koizumi, Toshiharu Kobayashi, Masao Sakamoto, Michinari Yuyama, Masaki Taneike, Ikuo Okada, Sachio Shimohata, Hidetaka Oguma, Ryota Okimoto, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Yoshitaka Uemura, Junichiro Masada, Shunsuke Torii
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Patent number: 9771475Abstract: A liquid crystal polyester composition contains: a liquid crystal polyester in an amount of 100 parts by mass as well as a fibrous filler and a plate-like filler in an amount of not less than 65 parts by mass and not more than 100 parts by mass in total. The fibrous filler in the composition has a number average fiber diameter of not less than 5 ?m and not more than 15 ?m and a number average fiber length of more than 200 ?m and less than 400 ?m. The mass ratio of the fibrous filler to the plate-like filler in the composition is not less than 3 and not more than 15. The flow starting temperature of the composition is not lower than 250° C. and lower than 314° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Shintaro Komatsu, Hiroshi Harada
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Patent number: 9775047Abstract: A plurality of consecutive frequency bands are used as a broadband and use efficiency thereof is improved. An available-frequency-band-information-list is retained such that the list is categorized into frequency-band-groups, each of the groups is a series of consecutive frequency bands, and a frequency-band-number-width is given to each of the groups. Determining a necessary-frequency-band-number, one group is selected from the groups whose width match the number as a first-type band group, when any of the width of each of the groups does not match the number, one group is selected from the groups whose width are next larger than the number as a frequency band group to be used, and a series of consecutive frequency bands corresponding to the number is selected from the frequency band group to be used as a second-type band group. Communication is controlled so as to use the first-type or the second-type band group.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kentaro Ishizu, Hiroshi Harada
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Patent number: 9759603Abstract: This is to provide a photometric apparatus improved in measurement precision by improving the state of light incident to a sensor, which photometric apparatus 1 comprises a photometric sensor 30 into which light which is an object to be measured is incident, a signal processing means for processing a sensor output by the photometric sensor, and optical systems 50, 100, 92, 93 and 150 which introduces external light into the photometric sensor, wherein a columnar fiber rod 100 in which a center axis is provided along a direction perpendicular to a light receiving surface of the photometric sensor is provided at a part of the optical system.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: SEKONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohide Kanzawa, Hiroshi Harada, Yasushi Fukazawa, Eigo Yoshikawa, Hirohiko Okabe
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Patent number: 9751528Abstract: An in-vehicle control device includes a first sensor that acquires obstacle information in a first detection range, a second sensor that acquires obstacle information in a second detection range, the second detection range is nearer to a host vehicle than the first detection range, and a processor configured to perform predetermined control for preventing collision with an obstacle or for reducing damage at collision time based on the obstacle information received from the first sensor and the second sensor and, when the obstacle is not detected by the first sensor and the second sensor after starting the predetermined control based on the obstacle information received from the first sensor, uses positional relation information to determine whether the predetermined control is to be continued wherein the positional relation information indicates a height-direction positional relation between a predetermined part of the obstacle and the first detection range or the second detection range.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Uechi, Yoji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Harada, Kumiko Kondo, Naoki Taki
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Patent number: 9718467Abstract: An in-vehicle control device includes a first sensor that acquires obstacle information in a first detection range, a second sensor that acquires obstacle information in a second detection range, the second detection range is nearer to a host vehicle than the first detection range, and a processor configured to perform predetermined control for preventing collision with an obstacle or for reducing damage at collision time based on the obstacle information received from the first sensor and the second sensor and, when the obstacle is not detected by the first sensor and the second sensor after starting the predetermined control based on the obstacle information received from the first sensor, uses positional relation information to determine whether the predetermined control is to be continued wherein the positional relation information indicates a height-direction positional relation between a predetermined part of the obstacle and the first detection range or the second detection range.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Uechi, Yoji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Harada, Kumiko Kondo, Naoki Taki
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Patent number: 9699726Abstract: A data transmitting/receiving method capable of effectively suppressing power consumption includes: establishing synchronization between a master device and a slave device; receiving a data frame; extracting payloads from the received data frame; generating a new payload section by combining the extracted payloads with another payload extracted from another data frame received from another device or a new payload generated by the device; generating a new synchronization section and a new header section; generating a new data frame by combining the new synchronization section and the new header section that are generated with the new payload section; and transmitting the generated new data frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Fumihide Kojima, Hiroshi Harada
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Publication number: 20170184575Abstract: Methods of screening for expression of an RNA associated with a post-kidney transplant complication include collecting vesicles from urine, isolating vesicle-associated RNA, and analyzing expression patterns. In particular, AIF1, BTN3A3, CCL5, CD48, HAVCR1, or SLC6A6 mRNA expression patterns are analyzed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Taku Murakami, Cindy Yamamoto, Masato Mitsuhashi, Hiroshi Harada
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Patent number: 9674780Abstract: A data transmitting/receiving method capable of effectively suppressing power consumption includes: establishing synchronization between a master device and a slave device based on predetermined synchronization information that is transmitted from the master device or the slave device; setting a contention access period (CAP) between the master device and the slave device at predetermined timing based on the established synchronization; starting data transmission/reception between the master device and the slave device within the CAP; and extending the data transmission/reception even after the CAP in a case where the data transmission/reception does not end within the CAP.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Fumihide Kojima, Hiroshi Harada
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Publication number: 20170136961Abstract: A camera captures an image of objects outside a vehicle through a window of the vehicle. An image processing unit determines whether a captured image captured by the camera is clear or blurred. A controller activates a window heater to raise a temperature of a window area if the image processing unit determines that the captured image is blurred. If a blurred state of the captured image is not reduced by a time that a predetermined period of time elapses since the window heater is activated, the controller suspends activation of the window heater when the predetermined period of time elapses and prohibits subsequent activation of the window heater.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2016Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi HARADA, Yoshifusa DEMIZU, Tomoyasu TAMAOKI, Hirotaka HATAKEYAMA
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Patent number: 9650690Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes: 0.03 to 0.20% of C, 0.08 to 1.5% of Si, 0.5 to 3.0% of Mn, 0.05% or less of P, 0.0005% or more of S, 0.008 to 0.20% of acid-soluble Ti, 0.0005 to 0.01% of N, more than 0.01% of acid-soluble Al, and 0.001 to 0.04% of one or both of Ce and La in terms of mass %; and the balance including Fe and inevitable impurities. The ratio of (Ce+La)/acid-soluble Al is equal to or more than 0.1 and the ratio of (Ce+La)/S is in the range of 0.4 to 50 in a mass base, and the density of the number of inclusions, having a circle equivalent diameter of 2 ?m or less, which are present in the steel sheet is equal to or more than 15/mm2.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2009Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Sasai, Hideaki Yamamura, Hiroshi Harada, Kaoru Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20170081750Abstract: Disclosed herein is a nickel-based heat-resistant superalloy produced by a casting and forging method, the nickel-based heat-resistant superalloy comprising 2.0 mass % or more but 25 mass % or less of chromium, 0.2 mass % or more but 7.0 mass % or less of aluminum, 19.5 mass % or more but 55.0 mass % or less of cobalt, [0.17×(mass % of cobalt content—23)+3] mass % or more but [0.17×(mass % of cobalt content—20)+7] mass % or less and 5.1 mass % or more of titanium, and the balance being nickel and inevitable impurities, and being subjected to solution heat treatment at 93% or more but less than 100% of a ?? solvus temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Yuefeng GU, Toshio OSADA, Yong YUAN, Tadaharu YOKOKAWA, Hiroshi HARADA
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Patent number: 9587112Abstract: According to the present invention, an aromatic polysulfone resin is offered which is suitable as film material, especially in porous membranes. The aromatic polysulfone resin of the present invention has a reduced viscosity of 0.55-0.65 dL/g, and preferably 0.58-0.62 dL/g, number average molecular weight (Mn) of 22000 or more, and preferably 23500 or more, and a value of the ratio of weight average molecular weight (Mw) relative to number average molecular weight (Mn) of 2.54 or less, and preferably 2.50 or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2010Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Yusaku Kohinata, Hiroshi Harada
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Publication number: 20170047775Abstract: A resource management system includes first and second opening/closing control mechanisms and a grid manager. The first and second control mechanisms each include: a controller to transmit a signal between a resource supply source and a load, a monitor to monitor a state of a resource from the source, a storage to store a policy defining the signal corresponding to the state of the resource from the source; and a path controller to generate the signal based on a monitoring result of the monitor and the policy. The grid manager includes: a third monitor to monitor the state of the resource from the first source; and a third path controller to generate at least one of the first and second signals by controlling at least one of the first path and second path controllers based on a monitoring result of the third monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Satoko ITAYA, Fumihide KOJIMA, Hiroshi HARADA