Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Hashimoto

Hiroshi Hashimoto 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).

  • CALCIFICATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20170200267
    Abstract: To enable compactness of pixel regions representing possibly micro-calcified tissue in an image to be intuitively recognizable. There is provided a calcification display apparatus comprising: identifying means for identifying pixel regions representing possibly calcified tissue in an image; dilating means for dilating, for each identified pixel region, a corresponding region including that pixel region; grouping means for combining the pixel regions pertaining to the dilated corresponding regions contiguously adjoining one another into one group; and display means for displaying, for each group, at least one of the following: the pixel regions belonging to that group, dilated corresponding regions for the pixel regions, and a border enclosing the pixel regions, with color or brightness according to the number of the pixel regions belonging to that group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hashimoto
  • Industrial equipment management system, industrial equipment management server, industrial equipment management method, and information storage medium
    Patent number: 9703975
    Abstract: An individual area controller of an industrial equipment management system controls access to an individual area which is a storage area that is associated with an individual ID on a server, based on the individual ID. A group area controller controls access to a group area which is a storage area that is associated with a group ID on a server, based on the individual ID that belongs to the group ID. A copy restrictor restricts copying of equipment information about an industrial equipment that is stored in the group area to the individual area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Ayaka Hashimoto, Tadashi Okubo, Hiroshi Hashimoto
  • Ceramide production enhancer and moisturizer
    Patent number: 9682029
    Abstract: A ceramide production enhancer and a moisturizer containing, as an active ingredient, an extract of at least one plant selected from the group consisting of Chenopodium hybridum, Melia toosendan, Indigofera tinctoria, Cirsium japonicum, Catalpa ovata, and Tagetes erecta, or a compound represented by the following Formula (1): wherein, R represents an acyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atom(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshie Shimotoyodome, Shotaro Ito, Yoshiya Sugai, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Junko Ishikawa
  • ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20170055939
    Abstract: To provide an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus enabling one to easily know the correspondence between a needle in an ultrasonic image and an actual needle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Saika Nagai, Naohisa Kamiyama, Hiroshi Hashimoto
  • Brain cooling apparatus and brain cooling device suitable thereto
    Patent number: 9522244
    Abstract: A brain cooling apparatus is provided that can circulate a fluid between a containing unit of a brain cooling device and the brain cooling apparatus while maintaining an appropriate pressure of the fluid in the containing unit, and a brain cooling device suitable thereto also is provided. A control device circulates a physiological saline solution between a storage tank and a cuff by driving a first pump in a direction in which the physiological saline solution flows toward the cuff, and driving a second pump in a direction in which the physiological saline solution flows toward the storage tank. In this state, the control device adjusts the rotation speed of at least the second pump, so that the pressure of the physiological saline solution in the cuff becomes a preset target pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: KAIKEN IKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Takeda, Kiyoshi Morita, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Hidekazu Tsuji, Masatomo Kokubu
  • System, relay server apparatus, information processing method and computer-readable medium
    Patent number: 9507789
    Abstract: A system in which an information processing apparatus, relay server apparatus, and management server apparatus are connected via the network, wherein the said information processing apparatus possesses a unit to send a request to merge files managed by the said management server to the said relay server apparatus, and the said relay server apparatus possesses a unit to receive the said merge request from the said information processing apparatus, to determine whether the merged file created based on the said merge request received using the said receiving unit is stored in the memory area of the said relay server apparatus, and to retrieve the said merged file from the said memory area if it is determined that the merged file is stored in the said memory area using the said determination unit solves the problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignees: Canon Information and Imagin Solutions, Inc., Canon U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Satoshi Kanemune
  • Ceramide Production Enhancer and Moisturizer
    Publication number: 20160338933
    Abstract: A ceramide production enhancer and a moisturizer containing, as an active ingredient, an extract of at least one plant selected from the group consisting of Chenopodium hybridum, Melia toosendan, Indigofera tinctoria, Cirsium japonicum, Catalpa ovata, and Tagetes erecta, or a compound represented by the following Formula (1): wherein, R represents an acyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atom(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshie SHIMOTOYODOME, Shotaro Ito, Yoshiya Sugai, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Junko Ishikawa
  • LIQUID SURFACE SENSING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160327424
    Abstract: A liquid surface sensing device is installed in a fuel tank having an opening in a ceiling part. The opening is closed by a flange with a gasket constituted by an elastomer providing a seal between the flange and a peripheral edge of the opening. The liquid surface sensing device being assembled to the flange includes a sensing unit disposed vertically below the flange and sensing a liquid surface of a liquid, a lead wire connecting the sensing unit to an external device via the flange, and a guide bending the lead wire extending diagonally downward from the flange to form a valley portion to direct the lead wire diagonally upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Isao MIYAGAWA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
  • System and method for updating an attachment
    Patent number: 9473434
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided. Some embodiments include receiving, at a first server from a client, a request to access a data object associated with an application on a second server. The first server sends a request for the data object to the second server and the first server receives the data object from the second server. The first server receives a first file from the client and determines whether a second file is attached to the data object. In response to determining that the second file is attached to the data object, the first server obtains the second file and generates a third file by merging the first file and the second file, and an update process is performed such that the third file is attached to the data object and the second file is not attached to the data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignees: Canon Information and Imaging Solutions, Inc., Canon U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Lessa Philip
  • Method for manufacturing synthetic fiber
    Patent number: 9458557
    Abstract: There is provided a dry-wet spinning device for an acrylic precursor fiber bundle for manufacturing carbon fibers, the device enabling stable spinning by making the coagulability of spun yarn (2) uniform by suppressing the vibration of the coagulating liquid surface to make the spun yarn (2) spun downward from a spinneret (1) without the liquid surface being in contact with the spinning surface of the spinneret less susceptible to an accompanying flow reflected by the bottom surface of a spinning bath. To this end, in the present invention, a horizontal flow straightening plate (8) produced from a porous plate or a plate material extending in the direction approximately perpendicular to the direction in which the spun yarn (2) is spun is disposed in a coagulation bath so as to surround the circumference of the yarn spun downward from the spinneret (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Inada, Tomotaka Yoshimori, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Atsushi Kawamura, Kazuma Okumura
  • Ceramide production enhancer and moisturizer
    Patent number: 9445987
    Abstract: A ceramide production enhancer and a moisturizer containing, as an active ingredient, an extract of at least one plant selected from the group consisting of Chenopodium hybridum, Melia toosendan, Indigofera tinctoria, Cirsium japonicum, Catalpa ovate, and Tagetes erecta, or a compound represented by the following Formula (1): wherein, R represents an acyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atom(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshie Shimotoyodome, Shotaro Ito, Yoshiya Sugai, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Junko Ishikawa
  • ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASURING ELASTICITY
    Publication number: 20160249884
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and method includes controlling, with a transmission control section, a transmission of an ultrasonic push pulse to biological tissue in a subject. The apparatus and method includes controlling, with the transmission control section, transmission of an ultrasonic detecting pulse for detecting shear waves generated in said biological tissue by said push pulse. The apparatus and method includes calculating, with a measurement-value calculating section, a measurement value regarding elasticity of said biological tissue based on echo signals of said ultrasonic detecting pulse. The apparatus and method includes creating, with a Doppler processing section, Doppler data based on said echo signals of said ultrasonic detecting pulse. The apparatus and method includes displaying an image based on the Doppler data on a display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Shunichiro Tanigawa
  • MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE, MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160241170
    Abstract: A motor control device includes DC voltage circuitry which obtains a DC voltage, an inverter which converts the DC voltage obtained by the DC voltage circuitry into an AC voltage that is output to a motor, a voltage detector which detects the DC voltage obtained by the DC voltage circuitry, and regenerative controller circuitry which controls actuation of the regenerative circuit based on the DC voltage detected by the voltage detector. The regenerative controller circuitry waits until a predetermined waiting time period has elapsed and thereafter actuates a regenerative circuit in the DC voltage circuitry, independently of actuation control by second regenerative controller circuitry in a second motor control device that also obtains the DC voltage, after the voltage detector detects that the DC voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Yusuke OKA, Tadashi OKUBO, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
  • Reactor
    Patent number: 9330834
    Abstract: A core member (2) of the disclosed reactor (Da) comprises a magnetic wire material and is arranged outside a plurality of coils (1). As the core member (2) in the reactor (Da) having this structure is a wire material and is arranged outside the plurality of coils (1), the core member (2) can be formed by the winding of the wire material, simplifying manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Kobe Steel Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Morimoto, Kenichi Inoue, Koji Inoue, Hiroshi Hashimoto
  • SANITARY WASHING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20160108610
    Abstract: When a water discharge start operation section is operated, a control unit executes, before executing a main washing mode in which wash water is discharged at a set flow rate selected in a water force selection operation section, a stored water generating mode in which required wash water is stored in a bubble mixture section by discharging wash water at a set flow rate smaller than the flow rate selected in the water force selection operation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya OTOWA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Satoshi KAWADA
  • SANITARY WASHING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20160102448
    Abstract: An amount of air mixed in a bubble mixture section 18fb is adjusted such that wash water reaches a height corresponding to a bottom surface of a toilet seat before a plurality of bubbles mixed in the bubble mixture section 18fb collect into a single bubble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya OTOWA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Satoshi KAWADA
  • Water discharge device
    Patent number: 9267276
    Abstract: A water discharge device generates a large air bubble having a cross sectional area larger than a channel sectional area of a jetting port when the inside of a water storage chamber is viewed from the jetting port. The water discharge device intermittently forms the large air bubble to change a flow speed of a jet flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Minoru Sato, Shuhei Hayata, Akihiro Uemura, Yukihiro Kozono
  • ULTRASOUND IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ULTRASOUND IMAGE
    Publication number: 20150379700
    Abstract: An ultrasound image displaying apparatus includes: a composite data generating unit which generates composite data in which data based on echo signals obtained by transmitting ultrasound to a subject are multiple-frame combined; a display unit on which an ultrasound image based on the composite data is displayed; and an index calculating unit which calculates an index related to the amount of motion artifacts in the ultrasound image for each frame, based on the data. The composite data generating unit generates composite data combined using data of some or all frames in each of which the index satisfies a prescribed reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: GE Healthcare Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Naohisa KAMIYAMA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
  • ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20150374344
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising an image display control section for displaying a first image representing positions of first ultrasonic scan planes at certain intervals of time based on information on positions of the first scan planes at certain intervals of time stored in a storage section, and displaying, based on detected information from a movement detecting section, a second image representing positions of second scan planes at certain intervals of time formed by performing a second 3D ultrasonic scan on a subject by an operator moving the ultrasonic probe, the image display control section displaying the first and second images so that the first scan planes and second scan planes have mutually corresponding positional relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsuo KOIDE, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Masashi SEKI
  • ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF
    Publication number: 20150366537
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus that can identify the angle of a received ultrasonic beam with respect to the predetermined biopsy path of a biopsy needle. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is characterized by including a received beam forming unit that forms received ultrasonic beams based on the echo signals of ultrasonic waves transmitted into a subject, and a display control unit that displays, in a B-mode image formed based on the received ultrasonic beams, a biopsy guide line in a display mode corresponding to an angle between the beam direction of the received ultrasonic beam and the predetermined biopsy path of a biopsy needle to be inserted into the subject. The biopsy guide line is displayed as, for example, a broken line having a width corresponding to the angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO