Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Shibata

Hiroshi Shibata 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: 9801069
    Abstract: A communication apparatus may receive a first wireless profile and a second wireless profile from an access point after a wireless connecting operation for establishing a wireless connection in accordance with a predetermined wireless connection scheme has been performed, the first wireless profile being used in a first wireless network, and the second wireless profile being used in a second wireless network; may select a particular wireless profile from among the first wireless profile and the second wireless profile, the particular wireless profile being used in a wireless network having a relatively high security level among the first wireless network and the second wireless network; and may try to establish the wireless connection with the access point using the particular wireless profile. The particular wireless connection scheme may be a scheme for establishing the wireless connection without an identifier for authentication for establishing the wireless connection being inputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20170287954
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device including: a light receiving portion provided in a semiconductor layer of a first conductor type, the light receiving portion being of a second conductor type that is different from the first conductor type a buffer layer provided at a light incidence side of the light receiving portion, the buffer layer being of the first conductor type: and a low refractive index layer provided at a light incidence side of the buffer layer, the low refractive index layer having a lower refractive index than refractive indices of the semiconductor layer and the buffer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventor: HIROSHI SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20170227071
    Abstract: A one-way clutch 1 includes: an inner race 3; an outer race 5; a plurality of cams 7 interposed between an inner race outer peripheral surface 11 and an outer race inner peripheral surface 13 and serving to transfer a torque to between the inner race 3 and the outer race 5; a retaining mechanism retaining the plurality of cams 7; and a spring member 15 biasing the plurality of cams 7 to torque non-transfer positions, and the retaining mechanism includes a first retainer 9 fixed to the outer race 5 and having a cylindrical retaining portion 21 retaining the plurality of cams 7 at a predetermined interval in a circumferential direction, and a second retainer 29 disposed on an inner diametrical side of the cylindrical retaining portion 21, retaining the plurality of cams 7 in a swingable manner, and elastically deformable corresponding to the swings of the plurality of cams 7 when swinging in a torque transferring direction upon engagements of the plurality of cams 7 with the inner race outer peripheral surface
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIBATA, Tomoharu ANDOU, Hiroki SEGAWA, Hirobumi SHIRATAKI
  • Patent number: 9723857
    Abstract: An effervescent beverage containing a grain degradation product which contains creamy and tasty foam having a refreshing texture and a new texture of a prolonged creamy-foam retention is formed on the effervescent beverage upon drinking, a method for dispensing and a dispenser of such effervescent beverage are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: KIRIN BEER KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norio Endo, Shinobu Ueno, Daiju Mizumoto, Takafumi Asakura, Hiroshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20170219089
    Abstract: A detecting device includes a shift selector, a magnet disposed in the shift selector, four or more sensors arranged at positions facing the magnet and an ECU. The ECU is configured to (i) determine a shift position based on signals output from the four or more sensors when the magnet is relatively displaced with respect to the four or more sensors in response to an operation of the shift selector, (ii) determine the shift position based on signals output from three or more of the four or more sensors determined to be normal when any one of the four or more sensors is abnormal, and (iii) determine the abnormality based on whether or not the three or more sensors output, during the traveling of the vehicle, a signal to a shift position pertaining to a case of traveling in the direction opposite to a traveling direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiko TSUTSUMI, Masato TATENO, Koki UENO, Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20170204958
    Abstract: A drive plate having a plate portion and a ring portion is shaped integrally by pressing using dies. The ring gear portion has inner recessed portions positioned on the inner side of a plurality of outer teeth. The inner peripheral surface of each of the inner recessed portions includes an inner bottom surface having a pair of curved corner surfaces, a pair of first side surfaces inclined so as to become closer to each other as the first side surfaces extend from the opening end of the inner recessed portion toward the inner bottom surface, and a pair of second side surfaces formed in a band shape between the corner surfaces and the first side surfaces. The degree of inclination of the second side surfaces with respect to a center line is smaller than the degree of inclination of the first side surfaces with respect to the center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Ken SHIMIZU, Kenta ITAYAMA, Shuji YAMAGUCHI, Gen HAMADA, Hiroshi SHIBATA, Hiroki YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9703510
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus may send a first inquiry signal to two or more function executing apparatuses; receive a first response signal from each of the two or more function executing apparatuses; and determine whether the function executing apparatus is a first type of function executing apparatus or a second type of function executing apparatus based on the first response signal. The terminal apparatus may send a second inquiry signal to each first type of function executing apparatus; and receive a second response signal from each first type of function executing apparatus; select a target function executing apparatus, by using at least one of first information and second information. The terminal apparatus may establish a wireless connection with the target function executing apparatus via the wireless interface; and send an executing instruction to the target function executing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20170138464
    Abstract: An operator is a momentary operator. An electronic control unit is configured to when the operator does not pass through any one of traveling operation positions while the operator is operated from an initial position to an neutral operation position and then returned to the initial position, and when the operator is continuously held at the neutral operation position for a first predetermined time or longer, change a shift range of an automatic transmission to the neutral range, and when the operator passes through at least one of the traveling operation positions while the operator is operated from the initial position to the neutral operation position and then returned to the initial position, prohibit a change of the shift range to the neutral range even when the operator is continuously held at the neutral operation position for the first predetermined time or longer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazumi SHINE, Yusuke NAKADE, Taiyo UEJIMA, Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 9609690
    Abstract: A communication device may receive first information from a terminal device in a case where a first communication link is established via a first type of interface between the communication device and the terminal device. The communication device may determine whether a communication via a second type of interface between the communication device and the terminal device is performable, establish a second communication link via the first type of interface between the communication device and the terminal device, and perform a two-way communication of second information with the terminal device by using the second communication link in a case where it is determined that the communication via the second type of interface is performable. The communication device may not perform the two-way communication of the second information with the terminal device in a case where it is determined that the communication is not performable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9560794
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling a rack-type server of which a housing includes a plurality of electronic devices includes an interior cooling unit and an exterior cooling unit. The interior cooling unit includes a heat-receiving unit, a heat dissipation unit, an outward path pipe, and a return path pipe. The interior cooling unit allows working fluid to be circulated through the heat-receiving unit, the outward path pipe, the heat dissipation unit, the return path pipe, and the heat-receiving unit to thereby move the heat from the heat-receiving unit to the heat dissipation unit. The exterior cooling unit has a heat exchange unit abutted on the heat dissipation unit and allows, by a circulated cooling medium, the heat of the working fluid discharged from the heat dissipation unit to be dissipated to external air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Sato, Makoto Sugiyama, Wakana Nogami, Shunji Miyake, Ayaka Suzuki, Mutsuhiko Matsumoto, Masafumi Matsui, Hiroshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20170005876
    Abstract: A communication apparatus may receive a first specific signal including a specific wireless identifier from an external apparatus; determine whether the specific wireless identifier is a first wireless identifier; in a case where it is determined that the specific wireless identifier is the first wireless identifier, shift an operating state of the communication apparatus to one state of a first parent state and a child state, and form the first wireless network to which both the communication apparatus and the external apparatus belong. In a case where it is determined that the specific wireless identifier is not the first wireless identifier, the communication apparatus is maintained in a first non-belonging state. The communication apparatus may receive specific wireless setting information from the external apparatus by using the first wireless network; and belong to the specific wireless network by using the specific wireless setting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20160350036
    Abstract: The terminal apparatus may send a first inquiry signal to one or more function executing apparatuses; receive a first response signal from each of the two or more function executing apparatuses; and determine whether the function executing apparatus is a first type of function executing apparatus or a second type of function executing apparatus based on the first response signal. The terminal apparatus may send a second inquiry signal to the first type of function executing apparatus; and receive one or more second response signals from the one or more first type of function executing apparatus; select a target function executing apparatus, by using at least one of two or more first information and the second information. The terminal apparatus may establish a wireless connection with the target function executing apparatus via the wireless interface; and send an executing instruction to the target function executing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9465279
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus where a grip mounting portion to detachably mount a grip is formed, the image pickup apparatus includes a locking member configured to move between a locking position where the grip attached to the grip mounting portion is locked and a release position where locking to the grip is released, and a holding member partially arranged in a projection surface of the grip mounting portion and configured to engage with the locking member so as to hold the locking member at the release position. Mounting the grip to the grip mounting portion releases engagement between the holding member and the locking member so that the locking member moves from the release position to the locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuya Fujiwara, Hiroshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9466622
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device having high quality display by obtaining a high aperture ratio while securing a sufficient storage capacitor (Cs), and at the same time, by dispersing a load (a pixel writing-in electric current) of a capacitor wiring in a timely manner to effectively reduce the load. A scanning line is formed on a different layer from a gate electrode and the capacitor wiring is arranged so as to be parallel with a signal line. Each pixel is connected to the individually independent capacitor wiring via a dielectric. Therefore, variations in the electric potential of the capacitor wiring caused by a writing-in electric current of a neighboring pixel can be avoided, whereby obtaining satisfactory display images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shibata, Atsuo Isobe
  • Patent number: 9447090
    Abstract: An excellent drug for treating or preventing cardiovascular diseases, based on cGMP production enhancing action due to soluble guanylate cyclase activating action, is provided. It was found that imidazopyridine compounds having a carbamoyl group at the 3-position and a substituent bonded at the 8-position via an oxygen atom in an imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine skeleton exhibits a cGMP production enhancing action by a potent soluble guanylate cyclase activating action, and is useful as a drug for treating or preventing various soluble guanylate cyclase-related cardiovascular diseases, thereby completing the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Koga, Kyoichi Maeno, Ippei Sato, Yoshimasa Imamura, Takeshi Hanazawa, Maiko Iida, Kazuhiko Ohne, Kenichiro Imamura, Tsubasa Watanabe, Eisuke Nozawa, Hiroshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9410616
    Abstract: A shift lever position determination device is for a vehicle and includes an electronic control device. The electronic control device is configured to perform a majority determination in a case where more than half of the signals from the plurality of position sensors correspond to the same operating position, and configured to determine whether the operating position of the shift lever is on a M operating position side or a N operating position side in a select direction based on the magnitude relationship of the signals in a case where the majority determination is not satisfied. The electronic control device is configured to determine, in the majority determination, that the operating position corresponding to more than half of the signals is the operating position of the shift lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shibata, Taiyo Uejima
  • Publication number: 20160211278
    Abstract: A multi-gate structure is used and a width (d1) of a high concentration impurity region sandwiched by two channel forming regions in a channel length direction is set to be shorter than a width (d2) of low concentration impurity regions in the channel length direction. Thus, a resistance of the entire semiconductor layer of a TFT which is in an on state is reduced to increase an on current. In addition, a carrier life time due to photoexcitation produced in the high concentration impurity region can be shortened to reduce light sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIBATA, Shinji MAEKAWA
  • Patent number: 9365045
    Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes: a head; an ink tank which is connected with the head through a supply channel and a collection channel; a deaeration module which is provided on a side of the supply channel; a main tank; and a supply control unit which controls supply and collection of the ink, where: a supplement flow rate from the main tank to the ink tank is assumed as L1 (ml/sec), a consumption flow rate of ejection from the head is assumed as L2 (ml/sec), and, in the case of L1<L2, print time limit n is calculated by equation: n?(?T/L2)+[T0/(L2?L1)]; and, when printing does not end within the print time limit n, the printing is interrupted and the ink is deaerated by circulating the ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9367273
    Abstract: An MFP stores identification information and address information in correlation with each other for each interface. The MFP sends first identification information to a PC when receiving an inquiry of identification information from the PC through a first interface in preparation communication such as installation of a printer driver. In addition, when a request of address information using the first identification information is acquired from the PC, the MFP sends first address information corresponding to the first identification information in a case where the request of address information is acquired through the first interface, and sends second address information corresponding to second identification information in a case where the request of address information is acquired through a second interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9362410
    Abstract: A multi-gate structure is used and a width (d1) of a high concentration impurity region sandwiched by two channel forming regions in a channel length direction is set to be shorter than a width (d2) of low concentration impurity regions in the channel length direction. Thus, a resistance of the entire semiconductor layer of a TFT which is in an on state is reduced to increase an on current. In addition, a carrier life time due to photoexcitation produced in the high concentration impurity region can be shortened to reduce light sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shibata, Shinji Maekawa