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: 10962859
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus has: an imaging optical system; an imaging element configured to receive light transmitted through the imaging optical system to generate an electric signal; a main body; a display device provided on a back face of the main body and capable of displaying an image generated on the basis of the electric signal generated by the imaging element; and an electronic viewfinder provided inside the main body and capable of displaying the image generated on the basis of the electric signal generated by the imaging element, wherein an eyepiece part of the electronic viewfinder is provided to a transmissive region of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Shimizu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Ryuji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20210079172
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin composition including an acrylic polymer (A) and a thermosetting resin (B), wherein a phase separation structure of a first phase containing the acrylic polymer (A) and a second phase containing the thermosetting resin (B) is formed, and an average domain size of the second phase is 20 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Yuya HIRAYAMA, Takayo KITAJIMA, Kenichi TOMIOKA, Keisuke KUSHIDA, Minoru KAKITANI, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10940674
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resin varnish, a prepreg, a laminate and a printed wiring board, using a thermosetting resin composition having high heat resistance, low relative permittivity, high metal foil adhesion, high glass transition temperature and low thermal expansion and excellent in moldability and platability. Specifically, the resin varnish contains (A) a maleimide compound, (B) an epoxy resin, (C) a copolymer resin having a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and a structural unit derived from a maleic anhydride, (D) a silica treated with an aminosilane coupling agent, and (G) an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Shiraokawa, Minoru Kakitani, Hiroshi Shimizu, Keisuke Kushida, Tatsunori Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10923292
    Abstract: Provided is a wiring module configured to be attached to a plurality of power storage elements that are arranged side-by-side, the wiring module including a plurality of electric wires, and a plurality of coupling units in which the plurality of electric wires are routed. A left coupling unit of the plurality of coupling units has a left routing portion in which at least one of the plurality of electric wires is routed, and a center coupling unit adjacent to the left coupling unit of the plurality of coupling units has a center routing portion in which at least one of the plurality of electric wires is routed. The left routing portion is provided with a left engagement portion, and the center routing portion is provided with a center engagement receiving portion that engages with the left engagement portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Idota, Ryouya Okamoto, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hitoshi Takeda
  • Patent number: 10915220
    Abstract: This input terminal device 1 for receiving a user operation via a position input object PS is provided with: a position detection unit 106 which detects the position of the position input object; a display unit 109a which displays a cursor; and an operation processing control unit 1024 which causes operation processing to be performed. The operation processing control unit has a plurality of operation modes and one of these modes includes a state M0 in which the operation processing control unit does not cause any operation processing to be performed, except for movement of the cursor in accordance with the position of the position input object. The operation processing control unit is configured to switch between the plurality of operation modes when the user has performed a specific operation by means of the position input object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Suzuki, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Nobuo Masuoka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mitsunobu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210024741
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Yuya HIRAYAMA, Keisuke KUSHIDA, Kenichi TOMIOKA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10893616
    Abstract: Disclosed is a production method of a multi-layered printed wiring board, including the following steps 1 to 3: Step 1: a step of laminating, on a substrate with inner layer circuit, a metal foil with adhesive layer including a support, a metal foil having a thickness of 3 ?m or less and ? or less relative to the thickness of the inner layer circuit, and an organic adhesive layer having a thickness of 10 ?m or less in this order, via an organic insulating resin layer such that the organic insulating resin layer and the organic adhesive layer are opposed to each other, and then releasing the support to form a laminated sheet (a) having the metal foil as an outer layer metal foil layer; Step 2: a step of irradiating the laminated sheet (a) with a laser to bore the outer layer metal foil layer, the organic adhesive layer, and the organic insulating resin layer to form a bored laminated sheet (b) having a blind via hole; and Step 3: a step of forming an outer layer circuit connected with the inner layer circui
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Onozeki, Tsubasa Inoue, Katsuji Yamagishi, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200411075
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus according to an embodiment includes a voltage dividing resistor circuit formed on a semiconductor substrate and including first and second resistors and first and second selector switches. The first and second resistors and the first and second selector switches are arranged with one of first and second layouts. The first layout is such that the first and second selector switches are placed between the first and second resistors. The second layout is such that the first and second resistors are placed between the first and second selector switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayori Hamada, Yuki Miura, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200389691
    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: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Tomonori NOMURA, Kaneyuki OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200377980
    Abstract: Provided is a hot-rolled and annealed ferritic stainless steel sheet excellent in surface quality after bending work has been performed. A hot-rolled and annealed ferritic stainless steel sheet has a thickness of 5.0 mm or more and a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.001% to 0.025%, Si: 0.05% to 0.70%, Mn: 0.05% to 0.50%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 10.0% to 18.0%, Ni: 0.01% to 1.00%, Al: 0.001% to 0.10%, N: 0.001% to 0.025%, Ti: 0.01% to 0.40%, and a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, in which a difference between maximum and minimum values of an average crystal grain diameter determined by using measuring method 1 is 50 ?m or less, and in which a difference between maximum and minimum values of a crystal grain elongation rate determined by using measuring method 2 is 5.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawabe, Mitsuyuki Fujisawa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Tomohiko Uchino
  • Patent number: 10856423
    Abstract: Provided are a prepreg including two or more fiber substrate layers and one or more resin composition layers, in which at least one of the one or more resin composition layers has a fiber substrate layer on each of both surfaces thereof, a printed circuit board using the prepreg and a method of producing the printed circuit board, and a semiconductor package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Tosaka, Takeshi Saitoh, Yukio Nakamura, Ryohta Sasaki, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10851079
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a compound having excellent antibacterial activity against mycobacterium tuberculosis, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria, and/or non-tuberculous acid-fast bacteria. A compound represented by formula [I]: (in the formula, each symbol is as described in the attached specification), or a salt thereof can be used to diagnose, prevent, and/or treat tuberculosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kawano, Hiroshi Shimizu, Shunpei Ishikawa, Isao Takemura, Norimitsu Hariguchi, Miki Matsuba, Makoto Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20200349212
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a suitable user-friendliness to a user regarding a recommendation of application software on a portable information terminal. In order to accomplish the purpose, this portable information terminal is configured to set an application as a recommendation candidate when the status of the portable information terminal matches a condition corresponding to the application, and recommend the application when the application further matches a pre-set recommendation permitting condition. Hence, the portable information terminal and the application recommending method thereof capable of providing a preferable user-friendliness to the user can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Nobuo Masuoka, Motoyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hideyuki Kuwajima
  • Publication number: 20200351431
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Akira ISHIYAMA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Mitsunobu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200344412
    Abstract: The portable device is provided with a photograph unit to acquire, at a first time interval, images with a super wide angle of which a maximum value reaches all peripheral directions around the portable device; a traveling direction calculation unit to calculate a traveling direction of the portable device at a second time interval; an image segmentation unit to segment, as a traveling direction image, an image of a predetermined range where the traveling direction is positioned at a center thereof, from a latest acquired image every time the traveling direction calculation unit calculates the traveling direction; and a display control unit to display the traveling direction image on a predetermined traveling direction display region of a display of the portable device. The display control unit displays a video image designated by a user on a first display region, which is different from the traveling direction display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Ikuya ARAI
  • Publication number: 20200329031
    Abstract: A user authentication system 100 includes: a main body device 200 including: an authentication code transmission requesting unit that generates an authentication code transmission request including a first value, and transmits the authentication code transmission request to an authentication device 300; a verification unit 272 that decides that authentication is successful if an authentication code transmitted from the authentication device 300 in response to the authentication code transmission request is included in a verification authentication code generated in response to the first value; and an unlocking unit 273 that enables a predetermined functionality if the verification unit 272 decides that the authentication is successful; and an authentication device 300 including an authentication code reply unit that generates the authentication code in response to the first value included in the authentication code transmission request, and transmits the authentication code as a reply to the main body device
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Osamu KAWAMAE, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Nobuo MASUOKA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10803922
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus according to an embodiment includes a voltage dividing resistor circuit formed on a semiconductor substrate and including first and second resistors and first and second selector switches. The first and second resistors and the first and second selector switches are arranged with one of first and second layouts. The first layout is such that the first and second selector switches are placed between the first and second resistors. The second layout is such that the first and second resistors are placed between the first and second selector switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayori Hamada, Yuki Miura, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200323078
    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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji TOSAKA, Takeshi SAITOH, Yukio NAKAMURA, Ryohta SASAKI, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Ryoichi UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200301248
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus has: an imaging optical system; an imaging element configured to receive light transmitted through the imaging optical system to generate an electric signal; a main body; a display device provided on a back face of the main body and capable of displaying an image generated on the basis of the electric signal generated by the imaging element; and an electronic viewfinder provided inside the main body and capable of displaying the image generated on the basis of the electric signal generated by the imaging element, wherein an eyepiece part of the electronic viewfinder is provided to a transmissive region of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Takuya SHIMIZU, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Ryuji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200296275
    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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Tomonori NOMURA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA