Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20240279737
    Abstract: Provided herein, among other things, is a method of determining a transgene copy number in a biological sample, the method comprising: (a) extracting genomic DNA (gDNA) from the biological sample using an automated process, thus isolating gDNA; (b) performing digital droplet PCR (ddPCR) on the isolated gDNA using one or more primers to amplify a transgene of interest and to amplify a reference gene, thus normalizing gDNA input; and (c) determining transgene copy number in the biological sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Xiaodong FANG
  • Publication number: 20240275350
    Abstract: A variable gain amplifier circuit includes a main circuit including a differential current circuit, a current divider circuit connected to a high potential side of the differential current circuit, and a load circuit connected to a high potential side of the current divider circuit, the main circuit being configured to generate differential output voltage signals by the load circuit in accordance with either differential input voltage signals or first differential current signals; and a gain adjustment circuit configured to adjust a gain of the main circuit. The gain adjustment circuit includes a generation circuit configured to generate a first control voltage and a second control voltage in accordance with a setting signal, and a limit circuit configured to limit, by detecting an amplitude of the differential output voltage signals, the voltage difference to a limit value or greater so that the amplitude does not become lower than a setting voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki SUGIMOTO, Keiji TANAKA, Hiroshi UEMURA
  • Patent number: 12063324
    Abstract: When an SIP server receives a call signal addressed to a callee side terminal, the SIP server transmits a warning signal to the callee side terminal before transmitting the call signal to the callee side terminal when an international call identifier indicating that the call signal passes through a foreign country is set in the call signal. In addition, when the SIP server receives the call signal addressed to the callee side terminal, the SIP server includes a warning that the caller number is disguised in a warning signal when an international call identifier indicating that the call signal passes through a foreign country is set in the call signal and the caller number of the call signal is a number from a country in which the callee side terminal is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Sugimoto, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240255866
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus to which a toner container is detachably mountable includes a mounting portion to which the toner container is detachably mountable and which includes a receiving port for receiving toner supplied from the toner container, a passage for permitting passing of the toner received through the receiving port and provided with a through hole, and a filter portion provided so as to cover the through hole and for permitting passing of air; and an accommodating portion configured to accommodate the toner received through the receiving port. At least a part of the through hole overlaps with the receiving port as viewed in a horizontal direction perpendicular to a direction of gravitation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Shinjiro Toba, Hiroshi Takarada, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Goshi Ozaki, Sohta Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Sato, Shinichi Nishida, Yuichi Fukui, Yukio Kubo
  • Patent number: 11882639
    Abstract: An illumination control system includes an illumination device including light sources, and an illumination control device which is capable of individually controlling light emission of the light sources and includes: a measurer which obtains space information regarding a space in which the illumination device is to be installed and position information indicating a position at which the illumination device is to be installed inside the space; an information transmitter which transmits control information to the illumination device; and an information processor which optimizes control information for controlling a lighting mode of each of the light sources, according to an installation condition of the illumination device indicated in the space information and the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Yoshihiko Ishida, Hisao Kataoka, Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11547051
    Abstract: A hydrostatic transaxle includes: a casing that is provided with an openable and closable filter insertion port and is filled with hydraulic oil; a hydraulic continuously variable transmission that is arranged inside the casing; a filter holding member that includes a support base that is a hollow cylindrical portion and oil-tightly partitions an inside of a cylinder and an outside of the cylinder, and a filter connection port that is a hollow cylindrical portion extending from a peripheral side surface of the support base and communicating with the inside of the cylinder, the support base communicating the inside of the cylinder to the port, and arranged between the center section and the casing facing the port; and a filter body that is freely inserted to and removed from the casing via the filter insertion port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: KANZAKI KOKYUKOKI MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yasuda, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Daisuke Murashima, Masaru Iida, Koji Iwaki
  • Patent number: 11508921
    Abstract: Provided is an organic EL display device including a resin substrate layer, a TFT layer provided on the resin substrate layer, and a light-emitting element that is provided on the TFT layer and constitutes a display region. The resin substrate layer includes a first resin layer, an inorganic layer, and a second resin layer, which are provided in that order from a side opposite to the TFT layer. The interior of the first resin layer contains a plurality of air bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Fujita, Yukinobu Nakata, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Takehisa Sakurai, Masaki Fujiwara, Tokuo Yoshida, Shoji Okazaki, Tetsunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11440401
    Abstract: A transaxle casing has a fluid sump having a gear top cover, an HST, a reduction gear train and at least one axle disposed in the transaxle casing. The gear top cover accommodates a part of a rotation portion of the reduction gear train. An air supply and exhaust hole is disposed on an upper surface of the gear top cover facing an air sump and is arranged at a position different from a point above a bevel gear. A breather is attached at the air supply and exhaust hole, and a first inner wall extending downward from the upper surface of the upper casing member, is positioned between the part of the bevel gear and the air supply and exhaust hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: KANZAKI KOKYUKOKI MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mai Terada, Koji Kiyooka
  • Publication number: 20220201822
    Abstract: An illumination control system includes an illumination device including light sources, and an illumination control device which is capable of individually controlling light emission of the light sources and includes: a measurer which obtains space information regarding a space in which the illumination device is to be installed and position information indicating a position at which the illumination device is to be installed inside the space; an information transmitter which transmits control information to the illumination device; and an information processor which optimizes control information for controlling a lighting mode of each of the light sources, according to an installation condition of the illumination device indicated in the space information and the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta WATANABE, Yoshihiko ISHIDA, Hisao KATAOKA, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11338671
    Abstract: A hydraulic transaxle of the present invention includes an axle, a hydraulic static transmission (“HST”), a center case that has pair of oil passages for circulating the hydraulic oil between the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor, and a gear mechanism that transmits an output of the HST to the axle. A case supports the axle and accommodates the HST while also forming an oil reservoir. A hydraulic motor of the HST includes a motor shaft, a cylinder block with a plurality of cylinders fixed to the motor shaft, a plurality of pistons inserted into the cylinders, a fixed swash plate abutted by the plurality of pistons, and a fixed swash plate holder that supports the fixed swash plate with respect to the case. The motor shaft of the hydraulic motor is supported by the center case and the fixed swash plate holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Daisuke Murashima, Tetsuya Kawatani
  • Patent number: 11207977
    Abstract: An axle drive apparatus of the present invention includes an adapter unit that has an adapter case connectable to an axle drive case while supporting a first motor, an adapter input member connected to an output shaft of the first motor by connection of the first motor to the adapter case, an adapter output member that is connected to an axle drive input member of the axle drive apparatus by connection of the adapter case to an axle drive case, and an adapter power transmission mechanism that operatively transmits the rotational power of the adapter input member to the adapter output member. The axle drive apparatus is connectable to a vehicle frame through an axle drive case side frame connecting part and an adapter case side frame connecting part respectively provided at the axle drive case and the adapter case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: KANZAKI KOKYUKOKI MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Akihiro Ima, Toshifumi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20210086609
    Abstract: A transaxle casing has a fluid sump having a gear top cover, an HST, a reduction gear train and at least one axle disposed in the transaxle casing. The gear top cover accommodates a part of a rotation portion of the reduction gear train. An air supply and exhaust hole is disposed on an upper surface of the gear top cover facing an air sump and is arranged at a position different from a point above a bevel gear. A breather is attached at the air supply and exhaust hole, and a first inner wall extending downward from the upper surface of the upper casing member, is positioned between the part of the bevel gear and the air supply and exhaust hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Mai TERADA, Koji KIYOOKA
  • Publication number: 20210028378
    Abstract: Provided is an organic EL display device including a resin substrate layer, a TFT layer provided on the resin substrate layer, and a light-emitting element that is provided on the TFT layer and constitutes a display region. The resin substrate layer includes a first resin layer, an inorganic layer, and a second resin layer, which are provided in that order from a side opposite to the TFT layer. The interior of the first resin layer contains a plurality of air bubbles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: TETSUO FUJITA, YUKINOBU NAKATA, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO, TAKEHISA SAKURAI, MASAKI FUJIWARA, TOKUO YOSHIDA, SHOJI OKAZAKI, TETSUNORI TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200408293
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle may include an engine, a drive wheel, a CVT for driving the drive wheel by continuously changing an engine power, an electric motor for driving the drive wheel, and a transaxle mechanically linked to the drive wheel. The transaxle may include an input shaft having first and second ends axially opposite each other and a clutch interposed between the motor and the input shaft. The first end of the input shaft is structured to receive power from the CVT and the second end of the input shaft is structured to receive power from the electric motor, The clutch, the second end of the input shaft and a motor shaft serving as a rotary axis of the motor are coaxially disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Yoshitaka KOCHIDOMARI, Hongkun WANG, Fumiaki ITO
  • Patent number: 10871178
    Abstract: A transaxle includes a braking unit disposed in the transaxle casing, the braking unit configured to brake the axle. The braking unit includes an operating shaft projecting from one side of the transaxle casing. A link mechanism of the transaxle is includes a relay arm rotatably pivoted on a shaft provided on the one side of the transaxle casing, a brake arm fixed to the operating shaft, the brake arm being configured to rotate between a braking position and an unbraking position of the braking unit together with the operating shaft, a first link configured to manipulate the relay arm, and a second link configured to join the relay arm to the brake arm. The link mechanism constrains motion of the brake arm through the second link such that an external force on the braking unit cannot cause an unexpected release from the braking state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Matsuura, Michio Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Masaru Iida, Takehiro Ota
  • Patent number: 10865872
    Abstract: A hydraulic transaxle includes a transaxle casing including an upper transaxle housing and a lower casing, hydrostatic transmission (“HST”), and an axle. The HST has a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor that are fluidly connected to each other. The hydraulic motor has a motor shaft that is drivingly connected to the axle through a reduction gear train that is disposed between the hydraulic pump and the axle. Reduction gear train has a gear shaft supported by the upper transaxle housing via a ball bearing. At least a part of the upper transaxle housing is formed by a gear top cover made of metal and covering the reduction gear train. Ball bearing is supported by the upper transaxle housing and the gear top cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: KANZAKI KOKYUKOKI MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Takehiro Ota, Toshifumi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20200376957
    Abstract: A hydraulic transaxle of the present invention includes an axle, a hydraulic static transmission (“HST”), a center case that has pair of oil passages for circulating the hydraulic oil between the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor, and a gear mechanism that transmits an output of the HST to the axle. A case supports the axle and accommodates the HST while also forming an oil reservoir. A hydraulic motor of the HST includes a motor shaft, a cylinder block with a plurality of cylinders fixed to the motor shaft, a plurality of pistons inserted into the cylinders, a fixed swash plate abutted by the plurality of pistons, and a fixed swash plate holder that supports the fixed swash plate with respect to the case. The motor shaft of the hydraulic motor is supported by the center case and the fixed swash plate holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Michio TSUKAMOTO, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Daisuke MURASHIMA, Tetsuya KAWATANI
  • Patent number: 10808813
    Abstract: A transaxle may include a motor, an input shaft, first and second output shafts, and first and second clutches. The input shaft has first and second ends. The first end of the input shaft is structured to receive an engine power from an engine. The second end of the input shaft is structured to receive motor power from the motor. The first output shaft is driven by power outputted from the input shaft. The second output shaft is driven by the motor power. The second output shaft is extended coaxially to the input shaft. The first clutch is interposed between the motor and the input shaft. The second clutch is interposed between the motor and the second output shaft. The first clutch and the second clutch are coaxially disposed between the second end of the input shaft and an axial end of the second output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: KANZAKI KOKYUKOKI MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yoshitaka Kochidomari, Hongkun Wang, Fumiaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20200198464
    Abstract: An axle drive apparatus of the present invention includes an adapter unit that has an adapter case connectable to an axle drive case while supporting a first motor, an adapter input member connected to an output shaft of the first motor by connection of the first motor to the adapter case, an adapter output member that is connected to an axle drive input member of the axle drive apparatus by connection of the adapter case to an axle drive case, and an adapter power transmission mechanism that operatively transmits the rotational power of the adapter input member to the adapter output member. The axle drive apparatus is connectable to a vehicle frame through an axle drive case side frame connecting part and an adapter case side frame connecting part respectively provided at the axle drive case and the adapter case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Akihiro IMA, Toshifumi YASUDA
  • Patent number: 10670127
    Abstract: A transaxle comprises a hydrostatic transmission (hereinafter, “HST”), an axle, a gear train transmitting power from the HST to the axle, a casing carrying the HST, the gear train and the axle and providing a fluid sump. The casing has an air space over the fluid sump of a gear chamber, a breather cap for ventilation of the air space and for an oil cap is installed on a top part of the casing, and a partition plate is installed right under the breather cap and prevents the fluid sup facing directly to the breather cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KANZAKI KOKYUKOKI MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Nobuhiro Shimobayashi, Toshifumi Yasuda, Takehiro Oota, Daisuke Murashima