Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Ito

Hiroshi Ito 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: 11529126
    Abstract: An ultrasonic device includes: a substrate provided with a first opening and a second opening; a support film that is provided on the substrate and blocks the first opening and the second opening; a transmitting piezoelectric film that is provided on the support film at a position which overlaps the first opening when viewed in a thickness direction of the substrate and is interposed between a pair of electrodes in the thickness direction of the substrate; and a receiving piezoelectric film that is provided on the support film at a position which overlaps the second opening when viewed in the thickness direction of the substrate and is interposed between a pair of electrodes in the thickness direction of the substrate. In the thickness direction of the substrate, a thickness dimension of the transmitting piezoelectric film is smaller than a thickness dimension of the receiving piezoelectric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hiromu Miyazawa, Hiroshi Ito, Tomoaki Nakamura, Masayoshi Yamada, Kanechika Kiyose, Tsukasa Funasaka
  • Publication number: 20220379492
    Abstract: Provided is a configuration for generating pseudo sensor data from a plurality of pieces of existing sensor data. This information processing device which generates time-series learning data on the basis of time-series original data acquired from a robot device comprises: a memory that stores at least one extended data generation rule comprising at least one velocity change value, at least one phase change value, at least one position change value, or at least one magnitude change value; and a processor that generates time-series extended data by data expansion of the original data using at least one change value of the extended data generation rule, and outputs time-series learning data including the time-series extended data and the time-series original data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi ITO, Kenjiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220382938
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a material design system and a material design method, which each reduce computational complexity and enable efficient material design. A material design system according to the present invention, which designs a material that can achieve a desired material function, includes an input device receiving the desired material function, and an arithmetic unit calculating a constitutional material. The arithmetic unit includes a structure calculation part that calculates a molecular characteristic amount meeting the desired material function using a method that can express molecular characteristic amount exhibited by a set of two or more atoms or molecules, and a molecular calculation part that calculates the constituent material, which achieves the molecular characteristic amount calculated by the structure calculation part, using a method that can express a molecule itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi ITO, Shigenori MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220316363
    Abstract: Provided is a startup control device for adjusting a startup schedule during startup of a power generation plant. This startup control device is provided with: a determining unit which, for a prescribed physical quantity that restricts the startup of the power generation plant, determines, on the basis of a predicted value of a physical quantity corresponding to the elapsed time from startup when the power generation plant has started up on the basis of a prescribed optimal startup schedule, and an observed value of the physical quantity acquired during the startup of the power generation plant, whether the observed value will exceed the predicted value; a speed adjusting unit which, if the determining unit determines that the observed value will exceed the predicted value, issues an instruction to decelerate the speed of progress of elapsed time from the startup in the optimal startup schedule; and a startup timer which progresses the elapsed time from the startup at a speed based on the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Takaharu HIROE, Kazunari IDE, Ryo SASE, Yoshito NAGAHAMA, Hiroshi ITO, Yukihito OKUDA, Nobuhiro OSAKI, Shoichiro HOSOMI
  • Patent number: 11440185
    Abstract: A multi-operation unit integration device having scale expandability and includes a plurality of operation units each of which includes a movable unit; and an integration module. The integration module includes an operation timing unit that gives operation timings of the plurality of operation units based on an operation instruction input from an outside, and the operation unit includes: a plurality of operation learning units that generate a control signal given to the movable unit according to an operation timing signal from the operation timing unit of the integration module; drive means for driving the movable unit of the operation unit according to the control signal; and a sensor that detects a state quantity of the movable unit driven by the drive means. An autonomous learning type robot device is configured using the multi-operation unit integration device as a control portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ito, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Yusuke Hieida
  • Patent number: 11433706
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composite that has good initial adhesion and good adhesion after high temperature and high humidity aging. Provided is a composite including: a topping rubber composition having a fatty acid content of 0.8% by mass or less; and an adherend plated with a copper-containing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Natsuki Maekawa, Koji Fujisawa, Hiroshi Ito, Ryosuke Harada, Daiko Fujimori
  • Publication number: 20220273517
    Abstract: An injection formulation includes a medical container having an oxygen-permeable container that is filled with a sugammadex sodium aqueous solution containing sugammadex sodium as an effective component and sterilized with high-pressure steam and a poorly oxygen-permeable packaging container, in which (i) the medical container is accommodated and sealed in the poorly oxygen-permeable packaging container together with an oxygen absorber or (ii) the medical container is accommodated and sealed in the poorly oxygen-permeable packaging container purged with an inert gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki YOSHIKAWA, Hiroshi ITO, Satoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11428525
    Abstract: A method of estimating an internal state of a thermal component of the invention includes a measurement step of measuring state quantity of the thermal component, an analysis-condition creation step of creating an analysis condition, a data assimilation step of obtaining probability distribution of each temperature distribution and displacement distribution through data assimilation calculation using a contraction model, a measured value, and the analysis condition, a post-processing step of obtaining the internal state of the thermal component, an analysis step of obtaining solution vectors of the temperature distribution and the displacement distribution, and a contraction-model construction step of extracting a subspace characterizing a linear space of a vector set and constructing a contraction model using the subspace, wherein, in the data assimilation step, the probability distribution is calculated using the contraction model, and, in the analysis step and the contraction-model construction step, the c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11419579
    Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor includes a vibration plate, a first electrode, a piezoelectric body, and a second electrode. The first electrode is laminated on the vibration plate, that has a length along a surface of the vibration plate in a first direction, and that has a width Wbe along the surface of the vibration plate in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. The width Wbe is not more than the length. The piezoelectric body is laminated on the first electrode and has a width Wpz in the second direction. The second electrode is laminated on the piezoelectric body. A ratio Wbe/Wpz between the width Wbe of the first electrode and the width Wpz of the piezoelectric body is not less than 0.1 and not more than 0.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yamada, Hiroshi Matsuda, Tomoaki Nakamura, Hiroshi Ito, Hiromu Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20220250621
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a vehicle control apparatus mounted on a lead vehicle sets a smaller value of a first acceleration limit value determined based on specifications regarding running of a first following vehicle and a basic acceleration limit value determined based on specifications regarding running of the lead vehicle as a set acceleration limit value of the lead vehicle, and outputs an acceleration instruction for controlling a braking apparatus or a driving apparatus after limiting it according to the set acceleration limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Tatsuya IBA, Kentaro UENO, Hiroshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20220228096
    Abstract: A cell scaffold material comprising a copolymer having a polylactic acid structural unit (A) and a polycarbonate structural unit (B). The polycarbonate structural unit (B) may include at least one unit having an alkoxyalkyloxycarbonyl group as a substituent. Also provided is a cell culture support comprising this cell scaffold material and a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Johmen, Masashi Oji, Hiroshi Ito, Kazuki Fukushima, Mai Sano
  • Patent number: 11390320
    Abstract: An EPS controller reduces a turning angle of front wheels when it is determined that a normative yaw rate is larger than an actual yaw rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Ueno, Hiroshi Ito, Takashi Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20220204777
    Abstract: A method of producing a coloring material dispersion is a method of producing a coloring material dispersion that contains water and a coloring material, including a polymerization step of performing a polymerization reaction in a liquid phase that contains an organic solvent containing two or more hydroxyl and/or ether groups in a molecule, a hydrophobic monomer having an aromatic ring or a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester structure, and a hydrophilic monomer containing a carboxylic acid group or a sulfonic acid group to synthesize a dispersion resin. The dispersion resin has a weight-average molecular weight of 5,000 or greater and less than 100,000. A content of a constituent unit A corresponding to the hydrophobic monomer in all constituent monomers contained in the dispersion resin is 50 mol % or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Harunobu KOMATSU, Toshihiro OTAKE, Hiroshi ITO, Koji HORIBA
  • Publication number: 20220194791
    Abstract: A method for producing an aqueous solution of purified orthoperiodic acid with a reduced Cr content; a method for producing a semiconductor device that includes etching a Ru layer on a semiconductor substrate with an etchant obtained by the method; and an aqueous solution of orthoperiodic acid with a reduced Cr content. The method includes bringing an aqueous solution of crude orthoperiodic acid into contact with a metal removing agent including a chelating resin, the aqueous solution of crude orthoperiodic acid containing orthoperiodic acid and water and having an orthoperiodic acid content of 15% by mass or less and a Cr content of 1 ppb by mass or more based on the total mass of the aqueous solution of crude orthoperiodic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi ITO, Yukihisa WADA
  • Publication number: 20220186062
    Abstract: A dispersion liquid includes water, a coloring material, a dispersion resin that disperses the coloring material, and a compound having s sulfonate group and a polymerizable group. The dispersion resin has a constituent unit A containing a hydrophobic monomer and a constituent unit B containing a monomer having a sulfonate group. The weight-average molecular weight of the dispersion resin is 5,000 to 100,000, and the molecular weight of the compound is 300 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Hajime KAKISHITA, Mami TOJINO, Toshihiro OTAKE, Koichi TERAO, Hiroshi ITO, Koji HORIBA
  • Publication number: 20220154021
    Abstract: A dispersion liquid includes water, a coloring material, and a dispersing resin which disperses the coloring material, in which the dispersing resin has a predetermined constituent unit A, a predetermined constituent unit B, and a predetermined constituent unit C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Koichi TERAO, Mami TOJINO, Toshihiro OTAKE, Hiroshi ITO, Koji HORIBA
  • Publication number: 20220154022
    Abstract: A dispersion liquid includes water, a coloring material, and a dispersing resin which disperses the coloring material, in which the dispersing resin has a predetermined constituent unit A, a predetermined constituent unit B, and a predetermined constituent unit C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Koichi TERAO, Mami TOJINO, Toshihiro OTAKE, Hiroshi ITO, Koji HORIBA
  • Publication number: 20220125136
    Abstract: A mask includes a main body portion, a pair of ear strings, and an upper locking portion. The main body portion covers the mouth and has an upper end fixing point that is a part where the upper end part of ear string is fixed, and a lower end fixing point that is where the lower end part of each ear string is fixed. The pair of ear strings are on the right and left sides of the main body portion, and are put on the ears. The upper locking portion attaches to the main body portion. An intermediate part of each ear string is locked detachably to the upper locking portion. The upper locking portion is nearer the upper end fixing point than the lower end fixing point, and is inside the upper end fixing point with respect to the right/left direction of the main body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: MUYU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20220128549
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for labeling particles with magnetic particles and an apparatus for labeling particles with magnetic particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ito, Masahiro Kozuka, Takahide Inouchi, Shigeru Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11312191
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 comprises a carcass 6 extending between bead cores of bead portions via a tread portion 2 and sidewall portions, and a belt layer 7 arranged on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the carcass 6 and inside of the tread portion 2. The pneumatic tire 1 further comprises a damping rubber body 30 arranged between the carcass 6 and the belt layer 7, and a noise damper 20 arranged on an inner cavity surface of the tread portion 2. A width W1 in a tire axial direction of the damping rubber body 30 is in a range of from 60% to 130% of a width W2 in the tire axial direction of the belt layer 7, and a water absorption rate of the noise damper 20 is in a range of from 10% to 25%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masako Nakatani, Takahiro Kawachi, Ayuko Yamada, Takuya Horiguchi, Masataka Hiro, Takayuki Nagase, Hiroshi Ito, Fumiya Kato, Subaru Toya