Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Morimoto

Hiroshi Morimoto 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: 11946655
    Abstract: A heating and hot-water supply apparatus includes a combustion means, a heat exchanger, a circulation passage, a circulation means, a bypass passage, a distribution means, a hot-water supply heat exchanger, a water entry passage, a hot-water supply passage, and a control means. The circulation passage connects an external heating terminal and the heat exchanger. The water entry passage supplies water of an external hot-water supply pipe and an external water supply pipe to the hot-water supply heat exchanger. The control means controls the distribution means to be adaptable to each of a heating operation and a hot-water supply operation. The control means prioritizes the hot-water supply operation when there is a hot-water supply request for warm water use in addition to a heating request, and prioritizes the heating operation when there is a temperature-maintaining request for maintaining a temperature of the hot-water supply pipe in addition to the heating request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20240101133
    Abstract: With reference to a message table associating a plurality of messages to be notified to a driver of a vehicle with a first condition, a second condition, last notification time of the message, and renotification requirement, a notification device selects messages associated with an identified first condition corresponding to a situation of surroundings of a vehicle or a state of a driver, selects, from among the messages associated with the identified first condition, messages associated with an identified second condition corresponding to a state of the driver, specifies, from among the messages associated with the identified second condition, a message without a record of last notification time or a message with a record of last notification time and with a renotification requirement requiring a renotification, and notifies the specified message to the driver through an output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuhiro OMI, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Kenta YAMADA, Udara Eshan MANAWADU
  • Publication number: 20240067201
    Abstract: A notification device detecting a predetermined action of a driver of a vehicle in which travel is controlled by an autonomous driving system from a driver image including a face region representing a face of the driver and outputting a confidence rate indicating a certainty in the detection, specifying a message for inhibiting a control ending action which possibly follows the detected action and corresponds to an ending condition of control by the autonomous driving system, and notifying the driver of the specified message through an output device when an effectiveness level is higher than a predetermined notification threshold, the effectiveness level calculated by multiplying the confidence rate by a first probability of the control ending action being inhibited when notifying the driver of the specified message or by a second probability of the control ending action being performed when not notifying the driver of the specified message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta YAMADA, Takuhiro OMI, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Udara Eshan MANAWADU
  • Publication number: 20240067054
    Abstract: A position displacing device has a processor configured to set a recommendation range of the seat position, capable of displacing the seat position to a manual control position representing the seat position when a driver is operating a vehicle manually within a predetermined time, based on the manual control position, set an intermediate position between the manual control position and an automatic control position set within the recommendation range, and determine whether a level to which the driver is contributing to driving is equal to or below a predetermined reference threshold based on information that describes physical condition of the driver, wherein the seat position is displaced from the automatic control position to the intermediate position when the seat position is at the automatic control position and it is determined that the level to which the driver is contributing to driving is equal to or below the reference threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuhiro OMI, Udara Eshan MANAWADU, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Kenta YAMADA, Kenichiroh HARA
  • Patent number: 11788735
    Abstract: A heating and hot-water supply device includes a combustion means, a heat exchanger, a circulation passage, a circulation means, a bypass passage, a distribution means, a hot-water supply heat exchanger, a water supply passage, a hot-water supply passage, and a control means. The heat exchanger heats a heating heat-medium to a target heat medium temperature. The distribution means distributes the heating heat-medium to the circulation passage and the bypass passage. The control means is capable of adjusting a distribution ratio of the distribution means to be adaptable to a heating operation, a hot-water supply operation, and a simultaneous heating and hot-water supply operation. At the time of transition from the heating operation to the simultaneous heating and hot-water supply operation, in a case where the heating terminal for performing heating is a warm air heater, the control means raises the target heat medium temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihisa Kageyama, Hiroshi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11760359
    Abstract: A state determination device to determine that a driver driving a vehicle is in a driving difficult state detects an abnormality in a state of the driver, and detects at least one of an abnormality in a driving operation input by the driver or an abnormality in a traveling state of the vehicle. In response to detecting the abnormality in the state of the driver alone, the state determination device does not determine that the driver is in the driving difficult state but determines that the driver is in the driving difficult state in response to detecting the abnormality in the state of the driver and additionally detecting the at least one of the abnormality in the driving operation input by the driver or the abnormality in the traveling state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiyasu Yoshimura, Hiroshi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20230110801
    Abstract: An extraction apparatus is a sample removal apparatus that removes a sample collected from a living body. The extraction apparatus includes: a storage container holder that holds a storage container of a sample and is capable of being placed at a sample receiving section where the sample is supplied to the storage container, and a removal section that causes the sample to be discharged from the storage container to a predetermined place; a housing that covers the storage container holder and the removal section; and a supply section that allows for supply of the sample from the outside of the housing to the storage container in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kengo FUSHIYA, Takahiro HARA, Hiroshi MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11625927
    Abstract: An abnormality determination apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. A person is identified in a captured image acquired from a camera that captures a range including a driver seat of the vehicle. It is determined whether a person other than the driver of the vehicle is present in an operable range set as a range in which a steering wheel of the vehicle is enabled to be operated, based on a result from identifying a person. An abnormality process assuming that the driver of the vehicle is in an abnormal state is executed in response to determining that the person other than the driver is present in the operable range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morimoto, Yukiyasu Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11615632
    Abstract: An abnormality detection device is provided to detect an abnormal posture of a driver of a vehicle based on information of an image captured by an imaging unit for which an imaging region is defined to image a head of the driver. The abnormality detection device is configured to define at least one premonition region in a range in which the head is supposed to be positioned in process of transitioning from a normal posture to the abnormal posture in the imaging region. When the head stays in a premonition region, the abnormality detection device determines that the driver is in a state of the abnormal posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiyasu Yoshimura, Hiroshi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11549692
    Abstract: A heating and hot water supply system includes: a combustion means; a heat exchanger; a heating terminal; a circulation passage that connects the heat exchanger and the heating terminal; a circulation means; a bypass passage branched from the circulation passage and bypassing the heating terminal; a distribution means for distributing a heating medium to the circulation passage and the bypass passage; a hot water supply heat exchanger for the bypass passage; and a hot water supply passage; wherein the distribution means can adjust the distribution ratio so as to correspond to a heating operation, a hot water supply operation, and a simultaneous heating and hot water supply operation, and when the distribution ratio on the circulation passage side of the distribution means is smaller than a prescribed value during the simultaneous heating and hot water supply operation, the blowing operation of the blower at the heating terminal is prohibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morimoto, Naoki Tsuda, Akihisa Kageyama, Takehito Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11488295
    Abstract: An evaluation device evaluates an image clarity of a print image. The evaluation device includes: an object that is projected onto a measurement surface of a recording medium; an illuminator that makes the object projected onto the measurement surface; an imager that images the measurement surface on which the object has been projected to obtain image data; and a hardware processor that, based on a distribution of parameters related to a brightness of the image data, quantifies a degree of the image clarity into a numerical value and defines the numerical value as an evaluation value of the image clarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Natsuko Minegishi, Yoshiki Nakane, Takenobu Kimura, Hiroshi Morimoto, Kei Okamura, Takashi Akazawa
  • Publication number: 20220323951
    Abstract: An extraction device includes an extraction container including a discharge port and capable of storing a biological sample and an extractant, a discharge accelerator configured to discharge the biological sample extracted into the extractant in the extraction container from the discharge port, and a controller configured to instruct the discharge accelerator to discharge the biological sample from the discharge port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kengo FUSHIYA, Masahiro MATSUO, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Takahiro HARA
  • Patent number: 11332148
    Abstract: A driver abnormality detection device detects an abnormality in a driver of a vehicle. A first notification is performed in response to detecting the abnormality. It is determined whether a first input by the driver has been detected in a first input period set after a start of the first notification. A second notification is performed in response to determining that the first input has been detected in the first input period. It is determined whether a second input by the driver has been detected in a second input period set after a start of the second notification. A first abnormality condition process is executed in response to determining that the first input has not been detected in the first input period. A second abnormality condition process is executed in response to determining that the second input has not been detected in the second input period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morimoto, Yukiyasu Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11326785
    Abstract: A heating and hot-water-supply apparatus is provided with: a control unit that performs control on the basis of detection parameters of a plurality of detection means installed at the aforementioned locations and a setting parameter set in an operation unit. The distribution means can adjust the distribution ratio so as to correspond to a heating operation, a hot-water supply operation, and the simultaneous heating and hot-water-supply operation. The control unit prohibits the simultaneous heating and hot-water-supply operation in a case in which the required heating capacity for the hot-water supply operation calculated on the basis of the detection parameters and the setting parameter is equal to or greater than a predetermined standard capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihisa Kageyama, Hiroshi Morimoto, Takehito Yokoyama, Yasutaka Kuriyama, Yoshihisa Kitano, Yasushi Morita, Toshihiro Kawachi, Midori Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11255550
    Abstract: Provided is a heating and hot water supply device. The heating and hot water supply device includes: a combustion part; a heat exchanger; a circulation passage; a circulation part; a bypass passage; a distribution means for distributing the heating medium to the circulation passage and the bypass passage; a hot water supply heat exchanger; a water supply passage; and a hot water supply passage (21). The distribution ratio of the distribution means is adjustable so as to correspond to a heating operation, a hot water supply operation, and the simultaneous heating and hot water supply operation. The heating and hot water supply device includes an operation part, which heats the heating medium to one or more heating terminal setting temperatures and circulates the heating medium, and switches a setting of the one or more heating terminal setting temperatures to be increased by a prescribed temperature during the simultaneous heating and hot water supply operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morimoto, Naoki Tsuda, Akihisa Kageyama, Takehito Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20220026344
    Abstract: A detection device includes a support base having a rotation surface rotatable in a plane, a detector provided on the rotation surface and displaced with rotation of the rotation surface, a first supply port and a second supply port provided above the rotation surface, and an optical measurer measuring optical characteristics of a first supply material and a second supply material supplied from the first supply port and the second supply port to the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kengo FUSHIYA, Takahiro HARA, Dai SUWAMA, Hiroshi MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11222552
    Abstract: A driving teaching device is provided. The driving teaching device for a vehicle includes a visual attraction portion and a confirmation determination portion. The visual attraction portion guides, as an attractive display, a visual line of a driver to a confirmation object to which a safety confirmation is to be executed by the driver. The confirmation determination portion determines whether the driver executes the safety confirmation to the confirmation object. The driving teaching device further includes a reaction determination portion and a feedback portion. The reaction determination portion determines a reaction degree of the driver to the attractive display. The feedback portion provides information based on the reaction degree determined by the reaction determination portion when the confirmation determination portion determines that the driver executes the safety confirmation to the confirmation object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Tsunoda, Hiroshi Morimoto, Kaneyoshi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20220003431
    Abstract: A heating and hot-water supply device includes a combustion means, a heat exchanger, a circulation passage, a circulation means, a bypass passage, a distribution means, a hot-water supply heat exchanger, a water supply passage, a hot-water supply passage, and a control means. The heat exchanger heats a heating heat-medium to a target heat medium temperature. The distribution means distributes the heating heat-medium to the circulation passage and the bypass passage. The control means is capable of adjusting a distribution ratio of the distribution means to be adaptable to a heating operation, a hot-water supply operation, and a simultaneous heating and hot-water supply operation. At the time of transition from the heating operation to the simultaneous heating and hot-water supply operation, in a case where the heating terminal for performing heating is a warm air heater, the control means raises the target heat medium temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihisa KAGEYAMA, Hiroshi MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210372631
    Abstract: A heating and hot-water supply apparatus includes a combustion means, a heat exchanger, a circulation passage, a circulation means, a bypass passage, a distribution means, a hot-water supply heat exchanger, a water entry passage, a hot-water supply passage, and a control means. The circulation passage connects an external heating terminal and the heat exchanger. The water entry passage supplies water of an external hot-water supply pipe and an external water supply pipe to the hot-water supply heat exchanger. The control means controls the distribution means to be adaptable to each of a heating operation and a hot-water supply operation. The control means prioritizes the hot-water supply operation when there is a hot-water supply request for warm water use in addition to a heating request, and prioritizes the heating operation when there is a temperature-maintaining request for maintaining a temperature of the hot-water supply pipe in addition to the heating request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11167760
    Abstract: A vehicle alarming system is provided to include (i) an inter-vehicle distance detector and (ii) an alarm. The inter-vehicle distance detector is configured to detect an inter-vehicle distance between a host vehicle and a vehicle ahead of the host vehicle. The alarm is configured to issue an alarm signal to a manipulation applied to an in-vehicle device in response to that a driving load including the inter-vehicle distance detected by the inter-vehicle distance detector satisfies an alarming condition of enabling the alarm. An execution state of a cruise control function is excluded from the alarming condition of enabling the alarm. The alarm is enabled in response to determining an override state in which acceleration or deceleration is manipulated forcedly by a driver of the host vehicle under the execution of the cruise control function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youhei Okamoto, Shigeyuki Kato, Hiroshi Morimoto, Ayako Tsunoda, Kaneyoshi Ueda