Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Mizuno
Hiroshi Mizuno 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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Publication number: 20240151311Abstract: A butterfly valve 100 provided in a flow path for a first fluid flowing through a heat exchanger. The butterfly valve 100 includes: a valve plate 110 provided in the flow path; a shaft 120 for rotatably supporting the valve plate 110 in the flow path; and at least one valve plate auxiliary member 130 in contact with at least one plate surface 111a, 111b of the valve plate 100, the valve plate auxiliary member 130 having an extending portion 131 extending radially outwardly from an outer peripheral surface 112 of the valve plate 110. The valve plate auxiliary member 130 is made of a material having a lower Young's modulus than that of the valve plate 110.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Ryushiro AKAISHI, Tatsuo KAWAGUCHI, Hiroshi MIZUNO, Fumitaka TAKEUCHI, Shinnosuke IWASAKI, Yui HONDA KURIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240138430Abstract: To provide a vegetable molded cheese-like food product having a sufficiently high hardness with a low saturated fatty acid content and suitable for an intended use. Provided is a vegetable molded cheese-like food product which is an oil-in-water emulsion containing oils and fats of 10 to 40 wt %, starches, and a vegetable protein, in which SFC of the oils and fats in the oil-in-water emulsion is 5% to 50% at 20° C., saturated fatty acid content is 2.5 to 10 wt %, and a ratio of saturated fatty acids to all constituent fatty acids in the oils and fats in the oil-in-water emulsion is less than 70 wt %.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi MIZUNO, Masanobu YANAGISAWA, Echim CAMELIA, Verbeeck SABRINA
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Publication number: 20240123106Abstract: Space cleaning device includes: hypochlorous acid water generator; mixing bath storing a mixture of the hypochlorous acid water and water; hypochlorous acid water supply unit; water supply unit; water level sensor detecting a water level of the water mixture; humidifying purifier micronizing the water mixture and releases the water mixture micronized into air; and control unit controlling operations of hypochlorous acid water supply unit and water supply unit. Control unit is configured, after supplying the hypochlorous acid water and the water to fill mixing bath with the water mixture, controls an operation of hypochlorous acid water supply unit to supply a predetermined amount of the hypochlorous acid water to mixing bath once in every predetermined time period, and controls an operation of water supply unit to supply the water to mixing bath based on information related to the water level of the water mixture received from water level sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Yuki MIZUNO, Shinji YOSHIDA, Tomohiro HAYASHI, Takeshi KINOSHITA, Yuichi KANBARA, Mayumi SASAI, Hiroshi KOHARA
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Patent number: 11923803Abstract: According to one embodiment, an anomaly factor diagnosis apparatus includes an identifier configured to identify a first measurement data item corresponding to a first time point when an anomaly factor occurs in a power generation apparatus, among measurement data items in the power generation apparatus, based on anomaly factor occurrence data identifying the first time point; a distribution generator configured to calculate a first distribution function representing a distribution of a feature value of the first measurement data item; and an evaluator configured to calculate an evaluation value of possibility of occurrence of the anomaly factor in the power generation apparatus, based on the first distribution function, and measurement data items to be tested in the power generation apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Koiso, Hiroshi Mizuno
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Publication number: 20240042784Abstract: The laminate includes: a base material; an intermediate layer provided on the base material and having an accommodation part; a recording medium provided in the accommodation part; and an overlay layer provided on the intermediate layer. The accommodation part is provided in a part of a plane of the intermediate layer, and the accommodation part is a through hole penetrating in the thickness direction of the intermediate layer or a recess recessed in the thickness direction of the intermediate layer. The recording medium includes a color development layer containing: a coloring compound having an electron donating property; a developer having an electron accepting property; and a matrix resin. The base material, the intermediate layer, and the overlay layer contain the same type of resin material. The base material and the intermediate layer are bonded to each other by fusion, and the intermediate layer and the overlay layer are bonded to each other by fusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Maho WATANABE, Hirohisa AMAGO, Yuriko KAINO, Kenji TAKAGI, Ryota YAMANO, Hiroshi MIZUNO, Aya TEJIMA
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Publication number: 20230244725Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transcoding and providing resources. A query is received. A resource is generated, and the resource, when processed by a client device, causes the client device to perform various operations. The operations include displaying a search result having an associated landing page and detecting user interaction with the search result. The operations include, in response to detecting user interaction with the search result, displaying a first portion of the landing page that is embedded within the resource and requesting, over a network, a second portion of the landing page. The operations include receiving the second portion of the landing page, and loading the second portion of the landing page. The generated resource is provided in response to the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuno, Ryoichi Imaizumi
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Publication number: 20230100784Abstract: A recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a recording layer including a leuco dye as a coloring compound; a first barrier film that is provided on each of one surface and another surface opposed to the one surface of the recording layer, and suppresses intrusion of moisture, oxygen, or both; and a second barrier film having chemical resistance and provided on a side surface of the recording layer continuously at least from a peripheral part of the one surface to a peripheral part of the other surface of the recording layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Hirohisa AMAGO, Hiroshi MIZUNO, Yuriko KAINO
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Patent number: 11580175Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transcoding and providing resources. A query is received. A resource is generated, and the resource, when processed by a client device, causes the client device to perform various operations. The operations include displaying a search result having an associated landing page and detecting user interaction with the search result. The operations include, in response to detecting user interaction with the search result, displaying a first portion of the landing page that is embedded within the resource and requesting, over a network, a second portion of the landing page. The operations include receiving the second portion of the landing page, and loading the second portion of the landing page. The generated resource is provided in response to the query.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Hiroshi Mizuno, Ryoichi Imaizumi
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Publication number: 20220103568Abstract: An authentication management method includes: generating an authentication state based on an authentication result by an authentication terminal, an authentication rule or rules and identity information, and notifying a vehicle application of the generated authentication state. An authentication rule stored in a storage defines a plurality of authentication levels according to security levels, and authentication by an authentication element in at least one of the authentication levels includes possession authentication by a hardware encryption module with physical security.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Yuri SUENAGA, Hiroyuki SATO, Hiroshi MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20220049997Abstract: A pressure sensor is a pressure sensor that includes: a capacitive sensor electrode layer that includes a plurality of sensing units; a first reference electrode layer that faces a first surface of the sensor electrode layer; a second reference electrode layer that faces a second surface of the sensor electrode layer; an elastic layer disposed between the first reference electrode layer and the sensor electrode layer; and a gap layer disposed between the second reference electrode layer and the sensor electrode layer. In the pressure sensor, the sensor electrode layer, the first reference electrode layer, and the second reference electrode layer have a slit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Tomoko KATSUHARA, Kei TSUKAMOTO, Hiroshi MIZUNO, Taizo NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 11154068Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for producing a vegetable cheese-like food product which exhibits suitability for a shaping process, such as shredding, and which has natural cheese-like meltiness (melting and oil-release when heated) and a milky flavor similar to that of natural cheese. This vegetable cheese-like food product is obtained by adjusting, through organic acid fermentation and/or lactic acid fermentation, the pH of an emulsified oil or fat composition to 3.5-5.7, said composition including a specific soybean protein, an acid-treated starch, and an oil or fat in which the solid fat content (SFC) account for at least 45% at 10° C. and at least 20% at 20° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: FUJI OIL HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuno, Naoki Shirotani, Setsuo Tsujii
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Publication number: 20210268822Abstract: A reversible recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a recording layer including a leuco pigment as a coloring compound; and a first barrier film that is provided on one surface and a side surface of the recording layer and suppresses mixing of at least one of water or oxygen.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi MIZUNO, Hirohisa AMAGO, Kazumasa NOMOTO, Nobukazu HIRAI, Takehisa ISHIDA
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Patent number: 11079182Abstract: A heat exchanger according to the present invention includes: a pillar shaped honeycomb structure having a plurality of cells, the cells providing first flow paths through which a first fluid is passed; an inner cylinder attached to an outer periphery of the honeycomb structure; and an outer cylinder disposed on an outer periphery of the inner cylinder, the outer cylinder providing a second flow path through which a second fluid is passed, the second flow path being arranged between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder. The second flow path includes: an intermediate flow path extending in an axial direction of the honeycomb structure so as to include an outer peripheral position of the honeycomb structure; and side flow paths located on both sides of the intermediate flow path in the axial direction. The intermediate flow path has a height lower than that of each of the side flow paths.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Takeshi Sakuma, Daisuke Kimura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Makoto Yoshihara, Takafumi Hamada
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Publication number: 20210132704Abstract: A sensor includes: a sensor layer including a capacitive sensing section; and a metal layer facing a surface on one side of the sensor layer, in which the metal layer has projected portions provided at peripheral edges of regions facing the sensing sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomoki Kawabata, Hiroshi Mizuno, Ken Kobayashi, Akira Ebisui, Taizo Nishimura
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Patent number: 10936128Abstract: The sensor device includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, an electrode substrate, a first support, and a second support. The first conductive layer is formed to be deformable sheet-shaped. The second conductive layer is disposed to be opposed to the first conductive layer. The electrode substrate includes multiple first electrode wires and multiple second electrode wires and is disposed to be deformable between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, the multiple second electrode wires being disposed to be opposed to the multiple first electrode wires and intersecting with the multiple first electrode wires. The first support includes multiple first structures, the multiple first structures connecting the first conductive layer and the electrode substrate. The second support includes multiple second structures, the multiple second structures connecting the second conductive layer and the electrode substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroto Kawaguchi, Shogo Shinkai, Kei Tsukamoto, Tomoko Katsuhara, Hayato Hasegawa, Fumihiko Iida, Takayuki Tanaka, Tomoaki Suzuki, Taizo Nishimura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Yasuyuki Abe
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Publication number: 20200412298Abstract: According to one embodiment, an anomaly factor diagnosis apparatus includes an identifier configured to identify a first measurement data item corresponding to a first time point when an anomaly factor occurs in a power generation apparatus, among measurement data items in the power generation apparatus, based on anomaly factor occurrence data identifying the first time point; a distribution generator configured to calculate a first distribution function representing a distribution of a feature value of the first measurement data item; and an evaluator configured to calculate an evaluation value of possibility of occurrence of the anomaly factor in the power generation apparatus, based on the first distribution function, and measurement data items to be tested in the power generation apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi KOISO, Hiroshi MIZUNO
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Patent number: 10871846Abstract: A sensor panel includes a sensor section that detects magnetic force of a contacting surface or a region in the vicinity of the contacting surface on a basis of a change in capacitance and is allowed to output a signal depending on the change in capacitance along with information on a position where the change in capacitance has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Taizo Nishimura, Hiroto Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Mizuno, Shogo Shinkai, Fumihiko Iida, Akira Ebisui, Kei Tsukamoto, Tomoko Katsuhara
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Publication number: 20200285675Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transcoding and providing resources. A query is received. A resource is generated, and the resource, when processed by a client device, causes the client device to perform various operations. The operations include displaying a search result having an associated landing page and detecting user interaction with the search result. The operations include, in response to detecting user interaction with the search result, displaying a first portion of the landing page that is embedded within the resource and requesting, over a network, a second portion of the landing page. The operations include receiving the second portion of the landing page, and loading the second portion of the landing page. The generated resource is provided in response to the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuno, Ryoichi Imaizumi
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Patent number: 10671180Abstract: Provided are an input device and an electronic apparatus each including capacitive elements and being capable of allowing a plurality of information items to be separately input by simple operations. The input device includes: a capacitive element; a conductor that can be electrostatically coupled to the capacitive element; an operation portion that allows a load to be applied to the conductor; and a retaining portion that retains the conductor apart from the capacitive element. The retaining portion is capable of displacing the conductor with respect to the capacitive element in a stepwise manner in accordance with the load that is applied to the conductor through intermediation of the operation portion, and is capable of retaining the conductor at a plurality of positions with respect to the capacitive element.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Taizo Nishimura, Hiroto Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Mizuno, Takashi Itaya, Akira Ebisui, Tomoko Katsuhara, Yoshiteru Taka
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Patent number: 10627297Abstract: A sensor includes a base layer and a pressing unit protruding with respect to the base layer. The pressing unit includes a first structure unit and a hollow second structure unit disposed on the first structure unit and having a bottom side opened. The second structure unit has a shape portion on a surface facing the base layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Ebisui, Hiroshi Mizuno, Tomoko Katsuhara, Taizo Nishimura, Yoshiaki Sakakura, Toshio Kano, Toshiyuki Onodera, Takeshi Takahashi, Toru Takahashi, Tatsuo Suzuki