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).

  • Patent number: 11496618
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a mobile terminal device that can limit the use of the application by detecting the user position of the mobile terminal device and the speed of the vehicle by itself. To this end, provided is a function limitation method of a mobile terminal device with function limitation capable of limiting a use of an application, including, a step of determining whether or not a limitation target application of the mobile terminal device is in activation, a usage position check step of determining, by the mobile terminal device, a user of the mobile terminal device is on a driver seat, and a speed check step of calculating, by the mobile terminal device, a vehicle in which the user of the mobile terminal device is riding is traveling, in which the use of the application is limited or terminated when the user of the mobile terminal device is on the driver seat, and the vehicle is traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Nomura, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hirokazu Ishii
  • Patent number: 11496692
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Motoyuki Suzuki, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Tomonori Nomura, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 11497117
    Abstract: Provided are a metal-clad laminate, a printed circuit board, and a semiconductor package, wherein the warps therein are effectively suppressed. Specifically the metal-clad laminate comprises a prepreg, wherein the prepreg has a resin composition attached to a fiber base material and satisfies a following formula (1) as well as a Mowing formula (2), provided that in the formulae, a1 represents an average thickness of the resin composition after being cured which is present on one surface of the fiber base material; a2 represents an average thickness of the resin composition after being cured which is present on other surface of the fiber base material; and B represents an average thickness of the fiber base material. 0.12<{(a1+a2)/2}/B??(1) 0.8?a1/a2?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Tosaka, Takeshi Saitoh, Yukio Nakamura, Ryohta Sasaki, Hiroshi Shimizu, Ryoichi Uchimura
  • Patent number: 11488167
    Abstract: In payment using biometric authentication, a customer-friendly technology with a high degree of freedom for customers to select a payment destination is provided. The present invention provides a biometric authentication payment system including: a biometric information acquisition device that acquires biometric information of a customer; a reception section that receives designation of a payment system of a payment destination; a transmission section that transmits the biometric information and a payment amount to the payment system; an authentication section that performs authentication using the transmitted biometric information, and a payment section that performs the payment of the payment amount when the authentication result is successful in authentication, and when a payment destination is designated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11489270
    Abstract: A terminal block includes a lower bus bar and an upper bus bar that overlap each other at overlap portions and an insulating middle cover disposed between the overlap portion of the lower bus bar and the overlap portion of the upper bus bar. The lower bus bar and the upper bus bar are provided with their respective ones of first to fourth terminals exposed from the middle cover, at positions different from the overlap portions and the first to fourth terminals are disposed at positions radially spaced apart from the overlap portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Ryoya Okamoto, Hitoshi Takeda
  • Patent number: 11483483
    Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a first imaging unit that images a user, a first distance detector that identifies an eye of the user and measure a first distance that is a distance from the identified eye to the first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that images an object, a second distance detector that measures a second distance that is a distance from the second imaging unit to the object, an image processor that processes the images, and a display unit, the image processor calculating a display imaging range, extracting the calculated display imaging range from the image imaged by the second imaging unit, and causing the display unit to display it, and the display imaging range being such a range that the object displayed and an external scenery not interrupted by the display unit seen from a viewpoint of the user have the same size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Ikuya Arai, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Tomonori Nomura, Osamu Kawamae, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Naohisa Takamizawa
  • Patent number: 11470377
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes two cameras and detects a second point and a third point with respect to a first point from photographed video, the first point indicating a camera reference position, the second point indicating a user reference position, the third point indicating a position of a finger of the user; sets a virtual plane space to a fourth point in a space, the fourth point being positioned apart from the second point by a predetermined length in a first direction; determines a predetermined operation on a basis of a degree of entrance of the finger with respect to the virtual plane space; controls an operation of the display apparatus on a basis of operational input information; determines an adjusting operation against the virtual plane space by the user; and changes at least one of a position, a size, or inclination of the virtual plane space in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shimizu, Tomonori Nomura, Kaneyuki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11448317
    Abstract: Provided is a side rail 1 having an outer peripheral surface 14, an inner peripheral surface 13, a first axial side surface 11, and a second axial side surface 12 parallel to the first axial side surface 11, in which, a beveled portion 30 is provided between the outer peripheral surface 14 and the second axial side surface 12, the beveled portion 30 is formed in a tapered surface having a diameter gradually decreasing from the first axial side surface 11 toward the second axial side surface in an axial direction; a tapered surface 30a is provided between a first tapered surface portion 30a1 with an angle of 10° or more to the axial direction and a second tapered surface portion 30a2 provided between the first tapered surface portion 30a1 and the outer peripheral surface 14 and having a smaller angle of inclination to the axial direction than that of the first tapered surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA RIKEN
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Iwata, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yuichiro Takezawa
  • Publication number: 20220291512
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Mitsunobu WATANABE, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Osamu KAWAMAE, Nobuo MASUOKA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11445233
    Abstract: For establishing cooperation among an external device 30, a video display device 10 and a remote control terminal 20 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 10 to which an external device 30 and a remote control terminal 20 that remotely operates the external device can be connected, comprising: a connection detection section 140 configured to detect a connection of the external device 30 to the video display device 10; a cooperation establishment section 120 configured to generate a start signal for initiate an application software accepting an operation instruction to the external device 30 on the remote control terminal 20 when the connection detection section 140 detects the connection of the external device 30; and a communication interface 18 configured to transmit the start signal to the remote control terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Akira Ishiyama, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shimizu, Mitsunobu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11400633
    Abstract: An extruder screw includes a screw body. The screw body is rotated about an axis parallel to a direction of conveyance of a raw material. A conveyance portion having a flight is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the screw body. The flight is configured to convey the raw material along the axis of the screw body when the screw body is rotated. A passage for permitting the raw material fed by the flight to pass therethrough to the outer peripheral surface of the screw body is provided in the screw body in a position deviated from the axis of the screw body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha, HSP Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Fujii, Takafumi Sameshima, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11400632
    Abstract: An extruder includes a screw for extruder provided with a screw element for kneading a raw material, and a barrel including a cylinder portion in which the screw is inserted so as to be rotatable. A plurality of screw elements identical with the screw element are provided in a longitudinal direction of the screw under a certain rule. The barrel is integrated by combining a plurality of barrel blocks blocked. Each of the plurality of barrel blocks is configured in accordance with a length of the screw element provided in the longitudinal direction of the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha, HSP Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Fujii, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220239984
    Abstract: There is provided a portable terminal device 2 that notifies a television receiver 1 of a received phone call or mail. The portable terminal device 2 includes a communication unit 210 that receives a phone call or mail and communicates with the television receiver, a notification execution unit 203c that performs control in a case where information of the phone call or the mail received by the communication unit is notified to the television receiver, and a posture detection execution unit 203e that detects a posture of the portable terminal device. In a case where the communication unit receives a phone call or mail, the notification execution unit changes content of the information of the received phone call or mail according to a detection result of the posture detection execution unit and notifies the television receiver of the changed content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Motoyuki SUZUKI, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Mitsunobu WATANABE, Tomonori NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20220230661
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided is an optical element holder which makes it possible to demount an optical element such as a lens therefrom without taking a lot of time and effort. [Solution] A lens holder 30 for holding a lens 50 comprises: a frame 32; a lens holding part attached to the frame 32 and configured to hold the lens 50; and a holder mounting part (34, 35) attached to the frame 32 and formed of a magnet-attractable material, wherein the lens holder 30 is mountable to a pallet 16 comprising a pallet-side mounting part formed of a magnet 26, by a magnetic force between the holder mounting part (34, 35) and the pallet-side mounting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11394138
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal block that electrically connects a terminal connection portion provided at a terminal end of a covered wire and a device-side connection portion provided in a device to each other, the terminal block including: a contact placement portion on which the terminal connection portion and the device-side connection portion are disposed in contact with each other; a wire installation portion that is provided continuously with the contact placement portion and on which the covered wire is disposed; and a stress relaxation portion that is disposed between the wire installation portion and the covered wire so as to be elastically displaceable, and that bends and holds the covered wire in a state in which a clearance is provided between the covered wire and the wire installation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES. LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Yusuke Isaji, Hitoshi Takeda
  • Patent number: 11394210
    Abstract: A charging system charges, through an external charger, a first voltage source and a second voltage source that supply electric power to a rotating electric machine that includes coils of phases. A first inverter is connected to respective first ends of the coils and the first voltage source. A second inverter is connected to respective second ends of the coils and the second voltage source. A first switch is provided on a first power supply line that connects a high potential side of the first voltage source and a first external connection terminal that is connected to a high potential side of the external charger. A second switch is provided on a second power supply line that connects a low potential side of the second voltage source and a second external connection terminal that is connected to a low potential side of the external charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Ryuji Omata, Daigo Nobe, Makoto Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220217283
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Akira ISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11377702
    Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel sheet comprises: a predetermined chemical composition, wherein a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of Vickers hardness in a thickness direction is HV 50 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawabe, Mitsuyuki Fujisawa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Tomohiko Uchino
  • Patent number: 11378805
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunobu Watanabe, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Osamu Kawamae, Nobuo Masuoka, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11364181
    Abstract: An inorganic-organic composite medical material includes a two-phase co-continuous structure of an inorganic substance having open pores and an organic polymer filling the open pores, wherein the open pores have an average pore diameter of 1 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and the inorganic substance has a specific surface area of 100 m2/g or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SUN MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hideyuki Ueki