Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Matsuo
Hiroshi Matsuo 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: 5954986Abstract: A heating apparatus includes a central support axle positioned within a heating chamber of the heating apparatus. The heating apparatus provides both hot-air heating and micro-wave heating. A turntable has a central portion supported by the central support axle so that the turntable is rotated around the central support axle. A driving source is positioned at an upper side of the heating chamber for generating a rotating torque, and a connecting shaft for transmitting the rotating torque generated by the driving source to the turntable is provided in the heating chamber. The turntable has an entirely flat shaped section including a plane on which food products to be heated are mounted. A central portion of the flat shaped section is defined at a concave which is downwardly recessed into the plane and arranged to be fixed to and supported by the central support axis.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1998Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignee: Fujimak CorporationInventors: Hideki Tsukamoto, Akio Ueoka, Hiroshi Matsuo
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Patent number: 5928541Abstract: A heating apparatus of the present invention relates to a high speed oven having a turntable mechanism for heating food products by utilizing a combination of jet impingement of heated air (a jet impingement) and microwaves or either of them, the apparatus comprising a safety device and an exhaust device.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1998Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Fujimak CorporationInventors: Hideki Tsukamoto, Akio Ueoka, Hiroshi Matsuo
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Patent number: 5919593Abstract: The invention relates to a carrier for electrophotography comprising a carrier core material covered with a polymeric polyolefin-based resin. Such a carrier is used that the carrier core material content accounts for 90% by weight or more of the carrier and he carrier surface has a shape factor S(smoothness) satisfying the relation, 100.ltoreq.S<130, when represented by the following equation (I):S=(L.sup.2 /A).times.(1/4.pi.).times.100 (I),(where L designates an average value of an outer periphery of a projection of the carrier and A designates an average value of a projected area of the carrier).Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1998Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Karima, Kazuo Murakata, Hiroshi Matsuo
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Patent number: 5901383Abstract: The slide support base 62 protrudes from the supporting wall 56 of the support recess 52 in the casing main body 14 and the tube-shaped support part 122 on the side of the toilet lid 100 is supported by and capable of sliding over its cylindrical surface 65a. The rotational pin 70 of the viscous resistance mechanism 80 protrudes from slide support base 62 and the rotational pin 70 fits in the fitting recess 132 on the side of the toilet lid 100. That is, the toilet lid 100 is pivotably supported to the casing main body 14 by two support structures. To remove the toilet lid 100 from the casing main body 14, the toilet lid is raised to the upright position and then applied with upward force to be pulled out. Since the opening 124 and the opening 136 are formed in the tube-shaped support part 122 and the fitting recess 132, the toilet lid 100 is removed from the casing main body through them.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1996Date of Patent: May 11, 1999Assignees: Toto Ltd., Koito Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yanagawa, Tetsuo Nishimoto, Hiroshi Matsuo, Akio Fujii, Akihiko Nakajima, Takao Sakama
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Patent number: 5831323Abstract: There are provided a semiconductor device, which includes an element isolating oxide film having a good upper flatness, and a method of manufacturing the same. Assuming that t.sub.G represents a thickness of a gate electrode layer 6, a height t.sub.U to an upper surface of a thickest portion of element isolating oxide film 4 from an upper surface of a gate insulating film 5 and an acute angle .theta.i defined between the upper surfaces of element isolating oxide film 4 and gate insulating film are set within ranges expressed by the formula of {.theta.i, t.sub.U .linevert split.0.ltoreq..theta.i.ltoreq.56.6.degree., 0.ltoreq.t.sub.U .ltoreq.0.82t.sub.G }. Thereby, an unetched portion does not remain at an etching step for patterning the gate electrode layer to be formed later. This prevents short-circuit of the gate electrode. Since the element isolating oxide film has the improved flatness, a quantity of overetching in an active region can be reduced at a step of patterning the gate electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1996Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kaoru Motonami, Shigeru Shiratake, Hiroshi Matsuo, Yuichi Yokoyama, Kenji Morisawa, Ritsuko Gotoda, Takaaki Murakami, Satoshi Hamamoto, Kenji Yasumura, Yasuyoshi Itoh
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Patent number: 5783047Abstract: A monotube or multitube 2 is coupled to a body shell 1 via tube plates 3a and 3b at both ends, so that a tube interior 4 and a tube exterior 5 of the monotube or multitube 2 are isolated from each other. A difference is made in operating pressure between the tube interior 4 and the tube exterior 5, so that one of the tube interior 4 and the tube exterior 5 is used as a lower-pressure column and the other is used as a higher-pressure column. A wall of the tube is used as a heat transfer surface, so that heat is transferred from the higher pressure side (higher temperature side) to the lower pressure side (lower temperature side).Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1996Date of Patent: July 21, 1998Assignees: Kimura Chemical Plants Co., Ltd., Kansai Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd., Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazumasa Aso, Hiroshi Matsuo, Hideo Noda, Tomoaki Takada, Nobuyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5747843Abstract: An improved semiconductor memory device in which an electric circuit operates normally is provided. A block of memory cells of a dynamic random access memory is provided on a semiconductor substrate. A dummy storage node is provided near a corner portion of the memory cell block. A dummy cell plate is provided such that it covers the dummy storage node and is electrically insulated from a main cell plate of the DRAM.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1996Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Ryoden Semiconductor System Engineering CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Matsuo, Shinya Watanabe, Yuichi Yokoyama, Shinya Inoue
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Patent number: 5747775Abstract: A heating apparatus of the present invention relates to a high speed oven having a turntable mechanism for heating food products by utilizing a combination of jet impingement of heated air (a jet impingement) and microwaves or either of them, the apparatus comprising a safety device and an exhaust device.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1995Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: Fujimak CorporationInventors: Hideki Tsukamoto, Akio Ueoka, Hiroshi Matsuo
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Patent number: 5621849Abstract: A voice recognizing method apparatus in which an input voice is recognized by obtaining a similar pattern by comparing the input voice and voice standard patterns. Voice standard patterns are stored into a memory. A voice is inputted. Voice duration lengths and distances are calculated by performing matching processes between the input voice and the standard patterns. The distance is corrected in accordance with the voice duration length so that the voice duration length having the best matching result is used as a reference, or such that the distance is small as the voice duration length is long. A recognition result is determined in accordance with the corrected distance. The matching is executed by a word spotting method. The input voice to be matched and the voice standard patterns are expressed by voice characteristic parameters.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1995Date of Patent: April 15, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Sakurai, Junichi Tamura, Tetsuo Kosaka, Hiroshi Matsuo
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Patent number: 5369728Abstract: An apparatus and method for recognizing speech includes a memory for storing data representing a reference pattern composed of the combination of a word reference pattern and a silence pattern, and a calculator for calculating the differences between data representing the reference pattern and data representing input speech. The use of such a silence pattern in the reference pattern permits a word such as "other" to be distinguished from the word "mother".Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1992Date of Patent: November 29, 1994Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Kosaka, Atsushi Sakurai, Junichi Tamura, Hiroshi Matsuo
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Patent number: 4989046Abstract: An image forming apparatus stores copy sheets and developer sheets in separate cassettes, picks up one sheet each from these cassettes, stack them one on top of the other and delivers the stacked sheets together to an image transfer device. One surface of the developer sheet is covered with a thermally fusible adhesive development layer. The image transfer device applies heat, pressure or both to the stacked sheets such that selected portions of the development layer stick to the copy sheet.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1989Date of Patent: January 29, 1991Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Matsuo
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Patent number: 4672651Abstract: An object is irradiated with respective cone-beam like X-rays from first and second directions. For each of the first and second directions are produced mask and live images as respective projection images of the object before and after a contrast medium reaches an interested part of the object. Then, subtraction of the mask image from the live image is made in conjunction with each of the first and second directions. The resulting subtraction image assumes a projection image of the distribution of the contrast medium in the interested part taken in the corresponding direction. The respective projection widths of such projection images of the contrast medium distribution are determined to generate an ellipse defined by the projection widths. The shape of this ellipse is corrected in accordance with individual data values in the projection images of the contrast medium, thereby providing a corrected shape accurately resembling the actual shape of the interested part of the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1986Date of Patent: June 9, 1987Assignee: Hitachi Medical CorporationInventors: Isao Horiba, Akira Iwata, Nobuo Suzumura, Hiroshi Matsuo
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Patent number: 4667584Abstract: A coffee kettle of this invention comprises a filter case (8, 80), a water tank (7, 79) having a heater (6, 78), power supply and control means for supplying power to the heater (6, 78), a steam sensing element (52, 128) to operate upon sensing steam generated from water heated to boiling in the water tank (7, 79), wherein hot water in the water tank (7, 79) is supplied to the filter case (8, 80) by operating the hot water supply valve (38, 100) in association with the movement of the steam sensing element (52, 128).Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1985Date of Patent: May 26, 1987Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Koyama, Kengi Kinoshita, Hiroshi Matsuo, Katsuro Okada
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Patent number: 4394666Abstract: A time recorder comprising, in combination, read-out means for reading out a personal code shown on a time card inserted; print line number storage means provided correspondingly to each personal code for storing data expressing a print line number on the time card; positioning control means for reading out the data from said print line number storage means corresponding to a personal code previously read out at the time of insertion of the time card, and for positioning a print line of the time card in conformity with said data; and data update means for updating data in said print line number storage means in accordance with predetermined criteria.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1981Date of Patent: July 19, 1983Assignee: Amano CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kato, Hisataka Ato, Osamu Inagaki, Hiroshi Matsuo
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Patent number: 4342135Abstract: The movement of a lid such as for a cassette holder in a cassette tape recorder is moderated by a device comprising only two component parts. At least one disc which is interlocked with a roller held in frictional engagement with part of the lid is contained together with damping oil within a housing composed of a pair of halved portions connected to each other through the medium of a hinge. The moderation of the lid movement is accomplished by the damping oil functioning to slow the rotation of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1980Date of Patent: August 3, 1982Assignees: Sharp Corporation, Nifco Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Matsuo, Nobuaki Omata