Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Shimizu
Hiroshi Shimizu 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: 20250148883Abstract: A terminal apparatus (10) is used when target processing being at least one of product registration processing and settlement processing is performed, and includes a first support portion (300), a first display (130), a second support portion (200), and an interlocking portion (400). The first support portion (300) rotatably supports, in a horizontal direction, an input device (120) operated by a user of the terminal apparatus (10). The first display (130) faces a user of the terminal apparatus (10). The second support portion (200) rotatably supports the first display (130) in the horizontal direction. The interlocking portion (400) interlocks the first support portion (300) and the second support portion (200) with each other, and rotates the input device (120) and the first display (130) in the same direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Takashi SHIMIZU, Hiroshi MORIMITSU, Takahiro AMBE
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Publication number: 20250148884Abstract: A terminal apparatus (10) is used when at least one of product registration processing and settlement processing is performed, and includes a housing (110), a first input device (172), and a shielding portion (300). The first input device (172) is provided on an upper surface of the housing (110), and receives an input of at least one of a character and a number from a user. The shielding portion (300) is provided on the housing (110), and shields a line of sight of the first input device (172) from a person other than a user. The shielding portion (300) includes a first member (302) and a second member (304). The first member (302) is located on one side of the first input device (172) when viewed from a user. The second member (304) is located on another side of the first input device (172) when viewed from a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Takashi SHIMIZU, Hiroshi MORIMITSU, Takahiro AMBE
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Patent number: 12294240Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and stator. The stator includes a stator iron core having a substantially annular yoke, and a plurality of teeth extending from the yoke toward the rotor. Each tooth includes an extending portion with a winding wire wound in a concentrated manner to form a coil, and flange portions extending circumferentially from a tip end portion of the extending portion. The plurality of teeth include adjacent first second teeth with coils having identical phases, and adjacent third and fourth teeth with coils having different phases. A first magnetic resistance circumferentially from a tip end portion of the first flange portion to a center of the extending portion of the first tooth is higher than a second magnetic resistance circumferentially from a tip end portion of the second flange portion to a center of the extending portion of the third tooth.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Shimizu, Masaki Hirano, Hiroshi Hibino, Yoshitaka Okuyama
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Patent number: 12294188Abstract: Provided is a fuse-equipped connector including: a housing; a fuse terminal configured to be attached to the housing; a holder configured to be attached to the housing; and a fuse configured to be attached to the holder, and be electrically connected to the fuse terminal, wherein the housing includes a lock portion, and the holder includes a lock receiving portion configured to be elastically locked to the lock portion, the holder includes a fuse accommodating portion in which the fuse is to be removably accommodated, the fuse includes a terminal portion, and the fuse terminal includes a fuse elastic contact portion configured to come into elastic contact with the terminal portion of the fuse.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Hitoshi Takeda
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Publication number: 20250132422Abstract: A battery pack includes a heat insulating member between adjacent cells, and a side surface member disposed in contact with side surfaces of the plurality of cells excluding a site including the heat insulating member, with thermal conductivity higher than the heat insulating member. When ?a denotes thermal conductivity of the heat insulating member, and Ca denotes a product value of a specific heat and a density, 0.001 W/(m×K)<?a<0.05 W/(m×K) and 0<Ca<2.5 J/(cm3×K) are satisfied. When ?b denotes thermal conductivity of the side surface member, and Cb denotes a product value of a specific heat and a density, 0.1 W/(m×K)<?b<1.0 W/(m×K) and 1.75<Cb<3.25 J/(cm3×K) are satisfied or 1.0 W/(m×K)<?b<1000 W/(m×K) and 0.75<Cb<3.25 J/(cm3×K) are satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: KEISUKE SHIMIZU, YASUAKI SAKAGAWA, KATSUSHI ISHIZAKA, HIROSHI ARIKAWA, SHINSUKE FUKUDA
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Publication number: 20250130750Abstract: An image processing apparatus for executing a plurality of functions related to image processings includes an operation panel and a controller. The operation panel includes a display configured to display a first history screen on which a menu region and a history region are arranged. In the menu region, function buttons corresponding to a plurality of functions are arranged. In the history region, history buttons corresponding to completed image processings are arranged. The controller is configured to control the display to switch from the first history screen to a second history screen on which the history region is expanded, in response to user operation on the operation panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: Daisuke HOZUMI, Kai SHIMIZU, Hiroshi ITOH, Hirofumi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20250126345Abstract: An imaging method is provided that includes: taking an image of an object to generate an image signal of the object; generating a taken image of the object on a basis of the image signal; detecting motion information of the object on the basis of the image signal; taking an image of the object on a basis of the motion information multiple times so as to differentiate an exposure amount thereof; and generating an HDR synthetic image of the object on the basis of a plurality of image signals whose exposure amounts are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Akira ISHIYAMA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Mitsunobu WATANABE
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Patent number: 12276899Abstract: The present invention provides an image pickup device that recognizes the object that the user is attempting to capture as the subject, tracks the movement of that subject, and can continue tracking the movement of the subject even when the subject leaves the capturing area so that the subject can always be reliably brought into focus. The image pickup device includes a main camera that captures the subject; an EVF that displays the captured image captured by the main camera, a sub-camera that captures the subject using a wider capturing region than the main camera, and a processing unit that extracts the subject from the captured images captured by the main camera and the sub-camera, tracks the extracted subject, and brings the subject into focus when an image of the subject is actually captured. When the subject moves outside of a capturing region of the main camera, the processing unit tracks the subject extracted from the captured image captured by the sub-camera.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Nobuo Masuoka
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Patent number: 12272829Abstract: A battery including: a battery can including a cylinder portion including an opening edge portion at one end portion of the cylinder portion and a bottom portion that closes the other end portion of the cylinder portion; an electrode body; a sealing member that seals an opening of the opening edge portion. The sealing member includes: a sealing plate; a cap connected to the sealing plate and electrically insulated from the sealing plate; and a sealing portion sealing a space between the cylinder portion and the cap. The cap includes: a ring-shaped top plate portion opposing the opening edge portion in an axial direction of the cylinder portion; and a side wall portion covering an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder portion. The sealing portion may be a gasket provided between the cap and the cylinder portion in a compressed state. The cap is electrically connected to the cylinder portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazutoshi Kohira, Keisuke Naito, Shinya Geshi, Hiroshi Takasaki, Kazumichi Shimizu
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Patent number: 12274002Abstract: A multilayer circuit board includes a board body including insulator layers stacked upon each other, a first land pattern at the board body to mount a passive component, a second land pattern at the board body to mount an active component, and a heat-dissipation layer between the insulator layers and extending along main surfaces of the insulator layers. The heat-dissipation layer includes a hole extending therethrough in a stacking direction of the insulator layers. In a plan view from the stacking direction, an outer edge of the hole of the heat-dissipation layer is on an outer side of the first land pattern, or overlaps the first land pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Kishimoto, Takumi Masaki, Masato Inaoka, Takashi Shimizu, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Takahiro Takada
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Publication number: 20250104538Abstract: A terminal apparatus (10) is used when at least one of product registration processing and settlement processing is performed, and includes a first display (150), a second display (140), and an input device (172). The first display (150) is located next to the second display (140). A lower end of the first display (150) is located higher than a lower end of the second display (140). The input device (172) is disposed in a region located below the first display (150).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Takashi SHIMIZU, Hiroshi MORIMITSU, Takahiro AMBE
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Patent number: 12261839Abstract: A user authentication system includes a main body device and an authentication device. The main body device has an authentication code transmission requesting unit, a verification unit, and an unlocking unit. The authentication code transmission requesting unit generates an authentication code transmission request including a first value, and transmits the authentication code transmission request to the authentication device. The authentication device generates an authentication code in response to the first value in the authentication code transmission request, and transmits the authentication code to the main body device. The verification unit determines that authentication is successful if the authentication code is received from the authentication device. When the verification unit determines that the authentication is successful, the unlocking unit enables a predetermined functionality.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Osamu Kawamae, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Nobuo Masuoka, Hiroshi Shimizu
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Patent number: 12260014Abstract: A virtual object display device comprises a display and a display control device configured to perform display control of the display. The display control device includes: a coordinate system calculation unit configured to detect movement and rotation of the virtual object display device in a real world, and use an inertial coordinate system in which a coordinate origin thereof follows the movement of the virtual object display device and an effective field of view of the display is rotated therein in accordance with the rotation of the virtual object display device so as to define an arrangement position of an inertial coordinate system virtual object; and a display control unit configured to, when the inertial coordinate system virtual object is included in the effective field of view of the display, display the inertial coordinate system virtual object within the effective field of view.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Naohisa Takamizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu
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Patent number: 12258468Abstract: To provide a thermosetting resin composition that has low elasticity, high heat resistance, high elongation under an ordinary temperature environment and a high temperature environment, high electric insulation reliability, and high adhesion strength to a metal foil, and is capable of providing a prepreg that is excellent in crack resistance; a prepreg including the thermosetting resin composition; a metal foil with a resin including the thermosetting resin composition and a metal foil laminated on each other; a laminate including the prepreg or the metal foil with a resin; a printed wiring board including the laminate; and a semiconductor package including the printed wiring board. Specifically, the thermosetting resin composition contains (A) a phenol-based resin, and the component (A) contains (A-1) a phenol-based resin having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 10 to 25 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Resonac CorporationInventors: Yuya Hirayama, Keisuke Kushida, Kenichi Tomioka, Hiroshi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20250080667Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes imaging units that image a subject, a title generation executing unit that generates title images each including a display title for classifying a plurality of captured images acquired by the imaging unit and inserts the title image into the captured images, a storage unit that stores the captured images and the title images, a display unit that displays the captured images and the title images stored in the storage unit in the form of a list, and an image search executing unit that searches for a desired captured image from the plurality of captured images and the title images displayed on the display unit in the form of the list. The title generation executing unit hierarchically generates the title images in accordance with a priority set in each type of display title for classifying the captured images.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Akira ISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20250081866Abstract: A new variety of apple tree ‘BENITSURUGI’ that has columnar tree type, bearing on spurs only, thick to very thick shoot thickness, short internode length, long leaf blade length, long petiole length, short to medium fruit stalk length, medium size and short to medium height fruit with fully open locules.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Yutaka Sawamura, Shigeki Moriya, Kazuyuki Abe, Kazuma Okada, Taku Shimizu, Hiroshi Iwanami, Nobuhiro Kotoda, Takashi Haji, Sae Takahashi, Yuki Moriya, Hirohisa Nesumi, Ayato Hori, Takashi Baba
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Patent number: 12239619Abstract: The object is to provide a method for inducing pili formation in bacterium of genus Bifidobacterium and a method for promoting intestinal colonization of the bacterium. 3-Phenylpropionic acid and/or 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propionic acid are an active ingredient of a composition for inducing the pili formation in the bacterium of genus Bifidobacterium and a composition for promoting the intestinal colonization of the bacterium.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignees: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., National University Corporation Kobe University, The Kitasato InstituteInventors: Kanetada Shimizu, Ro Osawa, Keita Nishiyama, Nobuhiko Okada, Nobuhiro Koyama, Takao Mukai, Hiroshi Tomoda
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Publication number: 20250067988Abstract: A head-mounted display comprises: a wearing body; a display; a communication module configured to perform communication connection with a mobile information terminal; a field of view (FOV) sensor configured to output status data used for determining whether the mobile information terminal is included in a user's FOV through the wearing body; and a controller connected to each of the display, the communication module, and the FOV detection sensor. The controller determines whether the mobile information terminal is included in the user's FOV based on the status data, and performs display control with respect to the display so as to display an application screen of the mobile information terminal on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is not included in the FOV, and not to display the application screen on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is included in the FOV.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Mitsunobu WATANABE, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Osamu KAWAMAE, Nobuo MASUOKA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20250071362Abstract: For establishing cooperation among an external device 30, a video display device and a remote control terminal and to achieve cooperative operation among these devices that affords a high level of operability to a user with less burden, the video display device to which an external device and a remote control terminal that remotely operates the external device can be connected, comprising: a connection detection section configured to detect a connection of the external device to the video display device; a cooperation establishment section configured to generate a start signal for initiate an application software accepting an operation instruction to the external device on the remote control terminal when the connection detection section detects the connection of the external device; and a communication interface configured to transmit the start signal to the remote control terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Akira ISHIYAMA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Mitsunobu WATANABE
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Publication number: 20250065750Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a power reception coil mounted to a moving object, a plurality of relay coils, and a power reception circuit connected with the power reception coil. The relay coils are configured to successively relay supply of electric power from a power transmission coil, which is arranged along a surface on which the moving object moves, to the power reception coil during movement of the moving object. Each of the relay coils includes a first coil and a second coil, which are configured to be magnetic-field-coupled respectively to the power transmission coil and the power reception coil, and a connection circuit that connects the first and second coils. The connection circuit includes at least one resonance capacitor involved in setting of a resonance frequency of at least one of the first and second coils. The at least one resonance capacitor has a parallel characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, The University of TokyoInventors: Hayato SUMIYA, Eisuke TAKAHASHI, Nobuhisa YAMAGUCHI, Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Osamu SHIMIZU