Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Inoue

Hiroshi Inoue 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: 11472530
    Abstract: A ship maneuvering system includes a propulsion unit to steer the ship body, a trim adjuster on the ship body, a detector to detect a traveling state of the ship, and a controller. The controller operates the trim adjuster in a state in which the steering angle of the propulsion unit is set to a first steering angle. The controller sets the steering angle of the propulsion unit to a second steering angle different from the first steering angle to correct a change of the traveling state of the ship due to an operation of the trim adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Takeshi Ohata
  • Patent number: 11463745
    Abstract: A system control device that transmits a manifest file describing information necessary for acquiring video data to a viewing client in a system that performs distribution of the video data via a network includes: generation means for generating the manifest file on the basis of at least one of identification information indicating a viewer attribute, a time zone, and a state of the system according to a prescribed control policy; and transmission means for transmitting the manifest file generated by the generation means to the viewing client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Okuyama, Hiroyuki Kitada, Hiroshi Inoue, Kenichi Endo, Toshiaki Tsuchiya, Seisho Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 11453467
    Abstract: A control system for posture control tabs of a marine vessel prevents posture control tabs from coming into contact with a foreign object. The posture control tabs are mounted on a stern to control a posture of a hull. Actuators actuate the respective posture control tabs. When it is judged that that the hull is being loaded onto a trailer or it is detected that the hull has entered a speed restriction zone, a controller controls the actuators to position the posture control tabs at retracted positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220299960
    Abstract: A selection unit configured to select, when receiving a first request in which a first power amount requested to be supplied and a timing when the first power amount is needed are specified, a group with a supply characteristic that enables power supply at the timing, among a plurality of groups into which a plurality of power supply sources are classified in accordance with power supply characteristics, and a request unit configured to transmit, to each of one or more of the power supply sources classified into the group selected by the selection unit or a device that controls power supply of the power supply source, a second request in which a second power amount to be supplied by the power supply source and the timing are specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi INOUE, Hidetoshi TAKADA
  • Patent number: 11414162
    Abstract: A control system for a marine vessel that has a propulsion device including an engine. The control system has an opening angle adjustment device configured to adjust a throttle opening angle of the engine, and a controller including a computing device and a non-transitory storage medium containing program instructions. The execution of the program instructions by the computing device causes the controller to judge whether or not a hull of the marine vessel has entered a planing state, set a predetermined mode in which the planing state is maintained, and upon determining that the predetermined mode is set and that the hull has entered the planing state, control the opening angle adjustment device to keep the hull in the planing state even when the hull has decelerated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Jun Nakatani
  • Patent number: 11383802
    Abstract: A trim tab control system for a ship includes a trim tab and a controller. The trim tab is able to swing on a ship body. The controller is configured or programmed to swing the trim tab at a first swing speed when the trim tab is not at a time of landing based on operation state data indicating the operation state of the ship. The controller is configured or programmed to swing the trim tab at a second swing speed less than the first swing speed when the trim tab is at the time of landing based on the operation state data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11372929
    Abstract: Sorting an array consisting of large number of elements. The present invention provides an apparatus for executing a multiway merging process which generates one output sequence from N input sequences on an array consisting of a large number of elements. The apparatus includes: an execution unit configured to execute the multiway merging process on N input sequences without rearranging the elements based on a plurality of input sequences; and a generation unit configured to rearrange the elements constituting the input sequences according to an output sequence that has been generated by the multiway merging process in the execution unit so as to generate a sorted array of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220190568
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a flexible exterior member for wire guide 12 including a hollow tubular portion 34 to be sheathed on a wire guide 10 bendable and deformable into a predetermined shape, a slit 36 provided over an entire length in an axial direction of the tubular portion 34, and a pair of joining portions 48, 48 respectively provided on a pair of circumferential end surfaces 50, 50 of the tubular portion 34 divided by the slit 36, the pair of joining portions 48, 48 being put together and joined to each other, and a wire guide device G using this flexible exterior member for wire guide 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Kousuke YOSHIDA, Hiroki UNO, Hiroshi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220173582
    Abstract: A cable guide includes a plurality of link frame bodies arranged in a row and pivotably joined together, each of the link frame bodies including a pair of link plates 18 that are spaced apart from and opposed to each other in an orthogonal direction B that is orthogonal to an arrangement direction A, a first plate portion that joins together end portions of the pair of link plates on one side in a height direction C, and a second plate portion that joins together end portions on another side in the direction C, and at least one of two side edge portions of the first plate portion is provided with a notch portion 16 due to which a width of the first plate portion is smaller in a central portion in the direction B thereof than two end portions in the direction B of the first plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuma ISODA, Hiroshi INOUE, Hiroki UNO
  • Publication number: 20220161762
    Abstract: A sensor is configured to output a signal corresponding to information in an outside area of the vehicle. A defogging device is configured to supply at least one of water, a compound, hot air, charged particles, ultrasonic waves, and infrared radiations to at least a portion of a detection area of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220144190
    Abstract: Provided is a wire harness apparatus 80 that uses a protector 10 for a wire harness that includes a body portion 16 into which a wire harness W is to be inserted; a cover body 18 that covers an opening portion 56 of the body portion 16; a joining portion 20 with flexibility that is formed thinner than the body portion 16 and the cover body 18 and rotatably joins the cover body 18 to a first side wall 22a of the body portion 16; a body contact portion 40 provided on the first side wall 22a of the body portion 16; and a cover body contact portion 58 provided on the cover body 18 that transfers a load applied to the cover body 18 to the body portion 16 by the cover body contact portion 58 coming into contact with the body contact portion 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuma ISODA, Hiroki UNO, Hiroshi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11313692
    Abstract: Provided is a navigation server or the like capable of promoting enhancement of convenience in traffic of moving bodies with a comprehensive consideration of various factors of each link. There is found a server route R configured by link groups that connect a starting point p1 and a destination point p2 of a navigation client 2 of interest, the server route R having a minimum total value ?C2 of second moving costs C2 in the link groups. The second costs C2 result from first moving costs C1 corrected based on various factors, such as combinations of “static factors” and “dynamic factors”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aiko Sugawara, Takuro Masuda, Hiroshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11307509
    Abstract: An electro-conductive layer of an electrophotographic electro-conductive member has a matrix-domain structure. The matrix contains a first rubber. The domain contains a second rubber and electro-conductive particles. Where ? represents an average of ratios of the cross-sectional area of the electro-conductive particles contained in each of the domains to the cross-sectional area of each of the domains appearing on a cross-section of the electro-conductive layer in a thickness direction, and ? represents a standard deviation of the ratios, ?/? is 0 or more and 0.4 or less, and ? is 20% or more and 40% or less. At least eight of samples with a first cubic shape 9 ?m on a side, which are sampled at arbitrary nine positions on the electro-conductive layer, satisfy the specified condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Hino, Yasuhiro Fushimoto, Norifumi Muranaka, Masafumi Kyogaku, Masaki Yamada, Hiroshi Inoue, Takumi Furukawa, Hiroaki Watanabe, Kenya Terada, Yuya Tomomizu, Toshimitsu Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11308975
    Abstract: A mixing device of a first signal and a second signal on a time-frequency plane, includes a control signal generation unit to generate a control signal indicating whether to perform prioritized mixing that includes amplification of the first signal and attenuation of the second signal; and a gain derivation unit to derive a first gain for amplifying the first signal and a second gain for attenuating the second signal based on the control signal. The control signal takes at least a first value and a second value different from the first value, wherein the first value is not continuous beyond a predetermined bandwidth on a frequency axis. The mixing device applies the prioritized mixing to the first and second signals when the control signal indicates the first value, and applies simple addition to the first and second signals when the control signal indicates the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: The University of Electro-Communications, Hibino Corporation
    Inventors: Kota Takahashi, Tsukasa Miyamoto, Yoshiyuki Ono, Yoji Abe, Hiroshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11294829
    Abstract: A method configures a cache to implement a LRU management technique. The cache has N entries divided into B buckets. Each bucket has a number of entries equal to P entries*M vectors, wherein N=B*P*M. Any P entry within any M vector is ordered using an in-vector LRU ordering process. Any entry within any bucket is ordered in LRU within the vectors and buckets. The LRU management technique moves a found entry to a first position within a same M vector, responsive to a lookup for a specified key, and permutes the found entry and a last entry in a previous M vector, responsive to the found entry already being in the first position within a vector and the same one of the M vectors not being a first vector in the bucket in the moving step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11285889
    Abstract: A harness guide includes: a plurality of first link members each including a first side plate configured to face one side face of a wire harness and a pair of upper and lower first coupling plates that extend from the first side plate and are configured to face an upper and lower faces of the wire harness, and a plurality of second link members each including a second side plate configured to face another side face of the wire harness and a pair of upper and lower second coupling plates that extend from the second side plate and are configured to face the upper and lower faces of the wire harness, and an elongated housing space for housing the wire harness is formed by alternately arranging the plurality of first link members and the plurality of second link members and coupling the first coupling plates and the second coupling plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Enomoto, Hiroshi Inoue, Hiroki Uno
  • Patent number: 11277661
    Abstract: A quality information collecting system acquiring video data distributed in response to a viewing request and collecting quality-related information regarding video viewing from a viewing client playing back a video includes a quality information control functional unit configured to determine whether or not to request the viewing client having made a viewing request to report quality-related information, based on a network communication situation in which the video data is distributed, and a quality information collecting and analysis functional unit configured to receive, in accordance with a determination of the quality information control functional unit, the quality-related information transmitted from the viewing client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Toshiaki Tsuchiya, Takafumi Okuyama, Seisho Yasukawa, Kenichi Endo, Hiroyuki Kitada
  • Publication number: 20220077700
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure discloses a charging system including a battery pack and a charger. The battery pack includes a first battery pack terminal, a second battery pack terminal, and a third battery pack terminal. The second battery pack terminal is spaced apart from the first battery pack terminal in an intersecting direction. The intersecting direction intersects a removal direction of the battery pack from the charger. The charger includes a first charger terminal, a second charger terminal, and a third charger terminal. The second battery pack terminal is arranged so as to pass through an area spaced apart from the third charger terminal in a process of removing the battery pack from the charger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi INOUE, Yoshihiro ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11269955
    Abstract: A method includes generating, using a processor, a graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of paths between the nodes, the graph representing a system comprising an arrangement of elements, and a data structure in which, for each node pair of the plurality of nodes, a count of the number of paths of length S between the node pair is stored in association with the length S. The method includes modifying the graph, using the processor, to obtain a modification of the graph related to the count of the number of paths of length S, and estimating, based on the data structure and the modification, an objective function that is quantitatively representative of the connections between the nodes and being indicative of performance of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220042480
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump includes a pressurizing chamber forming portion, a suction passage forming portion, a seat member, a valve member, a cylindrical member, a needle, a movable core, a biasing member, a fixed core, and a coil including a winding portion. The coil generates an attractive force between the fixed core and the movable core when the winding portion is energized. The coil includes an outer cylindrical surface and multiple inner cylindrical surfaces that have different diameters. The multiple inner cylindrical surfaces are arranged in order of increasing diameter in a direction toward a pressurizing chamber. The movable core has an end surface that faces the fixed core, and the end surface of the movable core is located between a center, in an axial direction, of a smallest diameter one of the plurality of inner cylindrical surfaces and a center, in an axial direction, of the outer cylindrical surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Keita KURIGAMI, Shinichiro KOSHIMOTO, Yoshihito SUZUKI, Hiroshi INOUE, Tatsumi OGURI, Keigo OHATA, Takayuki MAKIHARA, Taiki KUKITA