Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Suzuki

Hiroshi Suzuki 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).

  • Jack
    Patent number: 9343857
    Abstract: There is provided a jack that can be easily applied to an electronic device adopting a design where an outer edge portion of a casing is formed in an arc or tapered shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Information providing system
    Patent number: 9344802
    Abstract: An information providing system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an acoustic signal transmitter 10 for transmitting data in the form of sound waves, a portable telephone 20 serving as an acoustic signal receiver (terminal) for receiving the sound waves and reproducing the data, and a server 50 connected through the Internet 40 to the acoustic signal transmitter 10. The acoustic signal transmitter 10 may transmit the data as sound waves in one-way fashion at a timing determined by the acoustic signal transmitter 10 without reliance on transmission control signals or the like received from the acoustic signal receiver 20. The data which is transmitted as sound waves may employ data frame(s) which may contain information for error detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Field System, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Ichiro Okuyama, Takashige Tsukuma, Yoshimaru Maruno
  • Method for cultivating plant
    Patent number: 9326454
    Abstract: A plant-cultivating method is provided which comprises a red light irradiation step (A) and a blue light irradiation step (B), wherein the step (A) and the step (B) are independently carried out for a predetermined period of time under cultivation conditions such that amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium as fertilizer ingredients as used at the step (B) are smaller than amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium as fertilizer ingredients, respectively, as used at the step (A). Preferably, fertilizer ingredients are applied in amounts such that a growth medium at the step (B) contains 10-15 me/L of nitrogen, 1-4 me/L of phosphorus and 2-6 me/L of potassium, and a growth medium at the step (A) contains 15-20 me/L of nitrogen, 3-6 me/L of phosphorus and 6-9 me/L of potassium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Molded interior material for vehicle and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 9321412
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a molded interior material for a vehicle. A press molded decorative layer that faces a vehicle compartment and a buffer material layer that faces a vehicle body panel are at least press molded, the buffer material layer formed by press molding a fiber structure in which fibers are oriented in a thickness direction. On the decorative layer, a convex portion corresponding to a convex surface of the vehicle body panel is formed. On the buffer material layer, a compression molded portion, which is recessed away from the convex surface of the vehicle body panel toward the convex portion of the decorative layer so that a thickness is 0.03 to 0.5 times of a thickness of a surrounding area and a density is higher than that of the surrounding area, is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: HAYASHI TELEMPU Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ikeji, Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Single-Stranded Nucleic Acid Molecule for Controlling Gene Expression
    Publication number: 20160108400
    Abstract: Provided is a novel nucleic acid molecule that is a single-stranded nucleic acid molecule including an expression inhibitory sequence that inhibits expression of a target gene. The single-stranded nucleic acid molecule includes, in sequence from the 5? side to the 3? side: a 5? side region (Xc); an inner region (Z); and a 3? side region (Yc). The inner region (Z) is composed of an inner 5? side region (X) and an inner 3? side region (Y) that are linked to each other. The 5? side region (Xc) is complementary to the inner 5? side region (X). The 3? side region (Yc) is complementary to the inner 3? side region (Y). At least one of the inner region (Z), the 5? side region (Xc), and the 3? side region (Yc) includes the expression inhibitory sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: BONAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadaaki Ohgi, Hirotake Hayashi, Hisao Shirohzu, Tomohiro Hamasaki, Akihiro Itoh, Hiroshi Suzuki
  • ELECTRIC SUPERCHARGING DEVICE AND MULTI-STAGE SUPERCHARGING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160102677
    Abstract: It is intended to provide: an electric supercharging apparatus wherein, with a simple structure, rotor windage loss in an electric motor for driving a compressor is reduced and good cooling performance is produced; and a multi-stage supercharging system using the electric supercharging device. This electric supercharging apparatus is provided with: a first cooling passage formed in a stator along a motor coil and communicating a gas supply port with a gas discharge port in a motor housing; and a first intake passage connecting the gas discharge port to an intake port of a compressor. This electric supercharging apparatus is configured to introduce outside air into the first cooling passage via the gas supply port by applying negative pressure to the first cooling passage via the first intake passage, thereby cooling the inside of the motor housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Byeongil AN, Motoki EBISU, Hiroshi SUZUKI
  • Polymer electrolyte membrane, method for producing polymer electrolyte membrane, and solid polymer fuel cell
    Patent number: 9312556
    Abstract: A polymer electrolyte membrane having good resistance to radicals is provided. A polymer electrolyte membrane is characterized of containing organic/inorganic hybrid particles in which a surface of an inorganic particle, which is a radical scavenger, is modified with organic compounds in a polymer electrolyte. As the organic/inorganic hybrid particles in which a surface of an inorganic particle is modified with organic compounds, a radical scavenger prepared by reacting inorganic particles with organic compounds in a solvent by supercritical or subcritical hydrothermal synthesis is preferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Takeshita, Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Charging apparatus for vehicles
    Patent number: 9296305
    Abstract: Provided is a charging apparatus for vehicles which charges a vehicle provided with a charging control circuit via a charging cable, comprising a charging control device which controls electrical charging to the vehicle by transmitting a charging control signal to the charging control circuit on the vehicle side, a charging control signal transmission restricting device which restricts transmission of the charging control signal, and a resetting device which forcibly resets the charging control signal when said restriction on transmission of the charging control signal is withdrawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Nitto Kogyo Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Naomi Okamura, Satoshi Tanaka, Atsuhisa Ando, Hiroyuki Okada, Hiroshi Suzuki, Yoshinori Aikawa, Shougo Inamori
  • RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD AND RECEPTION PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20160072560
    Abstract: A reception apparatus that receives a transmission signal, which is transmitted from a transmission apparatus by using a MIMO transmission scheme, includes a stream selection unit that divides streams transmitted by the transmission apparatus into a first stream group and a second stream group; and a transmission candidate search unit that generates at least one candidate of the first stream group, generates a linear detection signal of the second stream group based on the candidate of the first stream group to generate transmission candidates, calculates metrics of the transmission candidates, and selects a transmission candidate, a metric of which is minimum, of the transmission candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicants: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko FUKAWA, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Katsuya KATO, Ryota YAMADA
  • FLEXIBLE RECIRCULATION BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20160065484
    Abstract: A method for managing recirculation path traffic in a network node comprises monitoring an input packet stream received at an input port of the network node and monitoring a recirculation packet stream at a recirculation path of the network node. A priority level associated with individual packets of the monitored input packet stream is detected and low priority packets are stored in a virtual queue. The method also includes determining an average packet length associated with packets of the monitored recirculation packet stream. The method further comprises queuing one or more of the low priority packets or the recirculation packets for transmission based on the average packet length and a weighted share schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Surendra Anubolu, Andrew Michael Robbins, Steve Scheid
  • Electric supercharging device and multi-stage supercharging system
    Patent number: 9273598
    Abstract: It is intended to provide: an electric supercharging apparatus wherein, with a simple structure, rotor windage loss in an electric motor for driving a compressor is reduced and good cooling performance is produced; and a multi-stage supercharging system using the electric supercharging device. This electric supercharging apparatus (1) is provided with: a first cooling passage (17) formed in a stator (9) along a motor coil (11) and communicating a gas supply port (13) with a gas discharge port (14) in a motor housing (8); and a first intake passage (15) connecting the gas discharge port to an intake port (5) of a compressor (2). This electric supercharging apparatus is configured to introduce outside air into the first cooling passage via the gas supply port by applying negative pressure to the first cooling passage via the first intake passage, thereby cooling the inside of the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Byeongil An, Motoki Ebisu, Hiroshi Suzuki
  • DUST COVER FOR BALL JOINT
    Publication number: 20160053804
    Abstract: A dust cover for a ball joint is structured such that a spherical head portion formed in one end of a ball stud is retained within a socket, a shaft in the other end of the ball stud is fastened and fixed to a knuckle, a one end large-diameter opening portion having an embedded reinforcing ring is fixed and retained to an outer peripheral surface of the socket, the other end small-diameter opening portion having an embedded reinforcing ring is retained to the shaft, a film portion connecting the large-diameter opening portion and the small-diameter opening portion is provided, and the dust cover is made of an elastic material. A maximum inner diameter of the film portion is larger than an inner diameter of the reinforcing ring which is embedded in the one end large-diameter opening portion. Therefore, a functional advantage and an assembling advantage can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Takayoshi IWASAKA, Junichi ISHIMORI, Toshikazu KUMAZAWA, Hiroshi SUZUKI
  • Method for cultivating plant
    Patent number: 9241445
    Abstract: A plant-cultivating method is provided which comprises a red light irradiation step (A) and a blue light irradiation step (B), wherein the step (A) and the step (B) are independently carried out for a predetermined period of time under cultivation conditions such that the temperature in a cultivation atmosphere at the step (A) is lower than that at the step (B). Preferably, the temperatures in a cultivation atmosphere at the step (A) and the step (B) are in the ranges of 12° C. to 19° C. and 20° C. to 25° C., respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE USING SAME
    Publication number: 20160020309
    Abstract: The problem addressed by the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device capable of improving dv/dt controllability via a gate drive circuit during turn-on switching. The semiconductor device comprises a plurality of trench gate groups, each trench gate group including mutually adjoining three or more trench gates, and the distance between adjoining two trench gate groups is larger than the distance between adjoining two trench gates in one trench gate group. Thereby, gate-emitter capacity increases, and therefore the semiconductor device may improve dv/dt controllability via a gate drive circuit during turn-on switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Masaki Shiraishi, So Watanabe, Tetsuya Ishimaru
  • Infrared reflective film, infrared reflective paint and infrared reflective body
    Patent number: 9238725
    Abstract: Provided is infrared ray reflective paint which is used to form a film having a high reflectance in an infrared ray wavelength region, a high transmittance in a visible ray wavelength region, and a self-cleaning ability, and the infrared ray reflective paint contains: an acrylic resin that contains at least one of a silyl group and a silanol group, and a metal oxide-coated mica wherein one or more metal oxides selected from a tin oxide, a titanium oxide, and a silicon oxide is coated on a surface of mica, and the infrared ray reflective paint contains the metal oxide-coated mica in an amount of 0.4% to 1.5% in terms of PVC (Pigment Volume Concentration).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Nihon Tokushu Toryo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Yasufumi Saga, Masaki Hanaeda
  • PORT-BASED FAIRNESS PROTOCOL FOR A NETWORK ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20160006664
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable medium for providing a fairness protocol in a network element are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving one or more packets at each of a plurality of ingress ports of the network element, and scheduling the packets into a plurality of queues, wherein each of the queues is associated with packets that are sourced from one of the ingress ports. The method also includes monitoring a bandwidth of traffic sourced from each of the ingress ports, identifying a port among the ingress ports that sources a smallest bandwidth of traffic, and arbitrating among the queues when transmitting packets from an egress port of the network element by giving precedence to the identified port that sources the smallest bandwidth of traffic. Additionally, arbitrating among the queues distributes a bandwidth of the egress port equally among the ingress ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Simon Luigi Sabato, Hiroshi Suzuki
  • COOLING MECHANISM OF STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150382503
    Abstract: A cooling mechanism includes a plurality of first circuit boards arranged in parallel with each other, one or more first fans for generating a cooling wind in a first flow path formed along the plurality of first circuit boards, and a connection board arranged orthogonally to the first flow path and at a position different from a position of the first flow path, and coupling the plurality of first circuit boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Naoki OKADA, Toshio ASAI, Hiroshi SUZUKI
  • JACK
    Publication number: 20150380883
    Abstract: There is provided a jack that can be easily applied to an electronic device adopting a design where an outer edge portion of a casing is formed in an arc or tapered shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR
    Publication number: 20150354591
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to decrease a surging limit flow rate at a low flow rate time, by increasing the inflow velocity to the blade of the impeller wheel, by providing a resistive element that narrows in the radial direction a passage cross section of an air intake passage which communicates between a impeller wheel of a centrifugal compressor and an air intake opening. The centrifugal compressor includes: the compressor housing 9 having the air intake opening 13 opened in a rotary shaft direction, and the air intake passage 11; and the impeller wheel 7 for compressing the air flowing in from the air intake opening 13, inside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi IBARAKI, Isao TOMITA, Hiroshi SUZUKI
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D747813
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignees: Beckman Coulter, Inc., DHR Technologies Ireland Limited (DTIL)
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Onishi, Masato Kayahara, Hiroshi Suzuki, Ryusuke Furuya, Naoki Mukaiyama, Michael Cooney, Marcus O'Neill, Sean O'Mahony