Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Yoshioka

Hiroshi Yoshioka 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: 11115740
    Abstract: A flat panel speaker according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a flat panel and a plurality of vibrators that are disposed on a back surface of the flat panel. The plurality of vibrators are disposed to avoid a location that most easily vibrates in an entire range of audio frequencies when vibration is generated in the flat panel by the plurality of vibrators. A large stationary wave with respect to the flat panel therefore does not easily occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventors: Toshihiko Masuda, Hiroki Matsuoka, Hideyuki Taguchi, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Shinpei Kondo
  • Patent number: 11058075
    Abstract: Prior art technology has a problem in that when a plant is cultivated for a long period of time on a PVA film having its lower surface positioned in contact with a nutrient fluid, plant roots that have formed penetrate through the film. A plant cultivation system wherein the PVA film has an equilibrium degree of swelling in the range of from 125 to 250% as measured in water at 30° C. and has a loss tangent (tan ?) in the range of from 0.005 to 0.2 as measured in an equilibrium swollen state in water at 30° C., and a method for cultivating a plant by using this plant cultivation system. Plant cultivation can be performed for a long period of time while avoiding infection by bacteria and the like causative of plant diseases. Therefore, the present invention is useful in, e.g., agriculture and the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MEBIOL INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshioka, Yuichi Mori, Akihiro Okamoto, Shigeki Miura, Tomoyoshi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 11048465
    Abstract: An imaging unit includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a processing unit, and a display unit. The processing unit processes a signal transmitted from the imaging unit. The display unit displays an image based on the signal transmitted from the processing unit. The imaging unit acquires first image information at a first time. The processing unit generates first prediction image information at a second time later than the first time based on the first image information. Moreover, the display unit displays an image based on the first prediction image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yosuke Nishide, Takeshi Ichikawa, Akira Okita, Toshiki Tsuboi, Nao Nakatsuji, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20210165214
    Abstract: A head mounted system includes an eye imaging device configured to image an eye of a wearer of the head mounted system, a periphery imaging device configured to image a periphery of the wearer, a display device configured to display, toward the wearer, a peripheral image of the periphery of the wearer imaged by the periphery imaging device, and a control device configured to adjust display of the peripheral image on the display device based on an eye image of the eye of the wearer imaged by the eye imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hosokawa, Osamu Nomura, Shinichi Yamashita, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Takeshi Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20210151827
    Abstract: The present invention relates to: a shape correction device for a frame body; and a method for manufacturing an electrolyte film/electrode structure that is provided with a resin frame for a fuel cell. A shape correction device, which corrects the shape of a frame body that is provided with a rectangular opening, is equipped with a pressing mechanism that applies, to each side of the frame body, a pressing force directed from the inner side to the outer side of the opening. The pressing mechanism may have a first bar and a second bar, which apply the pressing force by being in contact with inner wall surfaces of each side of the frame body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Ken Harada, Satoshi Hasegawa, Sachio Suzuki, Kouya Shimada, Nobuyoshi Muromoto, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20210118481
    Abstract: Each pre-sense amplifier produces, in a read operation, an output potential obtained by resistively dividing a power supply voltage based on a potential of one of two first bit lines or one of a plurality of second bit lines. The two first bit lines are connected to a first memory cell holding data of a first and a second logic values. The second bit lines are individually connected to one of a plurality of second memory cells each holding data of the first or the second logic value. Each twin sense amplifier outputs, in the read operation, data determination results based on two reference potentials and a data potential. The two reference potentials are the output potentials produced based on the potentials of the two first bit lines. The data potential is the output potential produced based on the potential of one of the second bit lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY SOLUTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20200374634
    Abstract: A display panel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a flexible organic electroluminescent panel, and one or a plurality of piezoelectric films provided on a rear surface of the organic electroluminescent panel and vibrating the organic electroluminescent panel as a flat speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Ohashi, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20200330375
    Abstract: [Object] The present invention is intended to provide a urethral stricture treatment agent and a urethral stricture treatment method capable of avoiding restenosis by a less invasive transurethral endoscopic procedure in urethral stricture treatment. [Solution] A urethral stricture treatment agent including at least a hydrogel-forming polymer, and having a storage elastic modulus of 50 Pa or less at 10° C. and a storage elastic modulus of 100 Pa or more at 37° C. A urethral stricture treatment method at least including injecting the urethral stricture treatment agent cooled to 10° C. or lower into an inner surface of urethra which has been incised with a transurethral endoscopic procedure, and holding the urethral stricture treatment agent in the inner surface of urethra at a temperature not lower than a room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi YOSHIOKA, Samuel Abraham J.K.
  • Publication number: 20200260671
    Abstract: Prior art technology has a problem in that when a plant is cultivated for a long period of time on a PVA film having its lower surface positioned in contact with a nutrient fluid, plant roots that have formed penetrate through the film. A plant cultivation system wherein the PVA film has an equilibrium degree of swelling in the range of from 125 to 250% as measured in water at 30° C. and has a loss tangent (tan ?) in the range of from 0.005 to 0.2 as measured in an equilibrium swollen state in water at 30° C., and a method for cultivating a plant by using this plant cultivation system. Plant cultivation can be performed for a long period of time while avoiding infection by bacteria and the like causative of plant diseases. Therefore, the present invention is useful in, e.g., agriculture and the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: MEBIOL INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi YOSHIOKA, Yuichi MORI, Akihiro OKAMOTO, Shigeki MIURA, Tomoyoshi MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20200260168
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a thin plate-shaped display cell that displays image and a plurality of exciters disposed on a back surface of the display cell and causing the display cell to vibrate. The plurality of exciters is such configured that the plurality of exciters is regarded as one exciter when the plurality of exciters generates vibration in the display cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Masuda, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Hideyuki Taguchi, Hiroki Matsuoka, Shinpei Kondo
  • Patent number: 10660280
    Abstract: Prior art technology has a problem in that when a plant is cultivated for a long period of time on a PVA film having its lower surface positioned in contact with a nutrient fluid, plant roots that have formed penetrate through the film. A plant cultivation system wherein the PVA film has an equilibrium degree of swelling in the range of from 125 to 250% as measured in water at 30° C. and has a loss tangent (tan ?) in the range of from 0.005 to 0.2 as measured in an equilibrium swollen state in water at 30° C., and a method for cultivating a plant by using this plant cultivation system. Plant cultivation can be performed for a long period of time while avoiding infection by bacteria and the like causative of plant diseases. Therefore, the present invention is useful in, e.g., agriculture and the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MEBIOL INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshioka, Yuichi Mori, Akihiro Okamoto, Shigeki Miura, Tomoyoshi Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20200089456
    Abstract: An imaging unit includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a processing unit, and a display unit. The processing unit processes a signal transmitted from the imaging unit. The display unit displays an image based on the signal transmitted from the processing unit. The imaging unit acquires first image information at a first time. The processing unit generates first prediction image information at a second time later than the first time based on the first image information. Moreover, the display unit displays an image based on the first prediction image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yosuke Nishide, Takeshi Ichikawa, Akira Okita, Toshiki Tsuboi, Nao Nakatsuji, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20190268681
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a thin plate-shaped display cell that displays image and a plurality of exciters disposed on a back surface of the display cell and causing the display cell to vibrate. The plurality of exciters is such configured that the plurality of exciters is regarded as one exciter when the plurality of exciters generates vibration in the display cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Masuda, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Hideyuki Taguchi, Hiroki Matsuoka, Shinpei Kondo
  • Publication number: 20190071312
    Abstract: Provided are activated carbon, a method for treating activated carbon, an ammonia synthesis catalyst, and a method for producing ammonia synthesis catalyst such that catalytic activity can be improved over the prior art. Activated carbon is activated by being subjected to heat treatment at a temperature of 800 to 1100° C. for 10 to 50 hours in an inert gas into which oxygen is mixed in a concentration of 0.05 to 900 ppm, and the activated carbon is used to improve the catalytic activity of an ammonia synthesis catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Tanaka, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Haruaki Hirayama
  • Publication number: 20190028787
    Abstract: A flat panel speaker according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a flat panel and a plurality of vibrators that are disposed on a back surface of the flat panel. The plurality of vibrators are disposed to avoid a location that most easily vibrates in an entire range of audio frequencies when vibration is generated in the flat panel by the plurality of vibrators. A large stationary wave with respect to the flat panel therefore does not easily occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Masuda, Hiroki Matsuoka, Hideyuki Taguchi, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Shinpei Kondo
  • Patent number: 10146671
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. There can be provided inputting a set of test transactions into a shadow production system, wherein providing of a set of test transactions includes modifying of a set of transactions of a production system, and obtaining a result of the inputting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Seiei Fujiwara, Kazumasa Kawaguchi, Reona Kondoh, Kenji Sasaki, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20170137345
    Abstract: A system (1, 1A) for manufacturing an aromatic compound according to the present invention includes: a first manufacturing device (2) that synthesizes a target substance from natural gas; a second manufacturing device that synthesizes an aromatic compound by a catalytic reaction from the natural gas and supplies a mixed gas mainly including unreacted methane and by-product hydrogen to the first manufacturing device (2) to manufacture the target substance; and a hydrogen separation device (3, 3A) that separates hydrogen from purge gas generated from the first manufacturing device (2) and supplies the same to the second manufacturing device (4, 4A) to regenerate the catalyst used for the catalytic reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyori Hagimoto, Haruaki Hirayama, Yukio Tanaka, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20170091069
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. There can be provided inputting a set of test transactions into a shadow production system, wherein providing of a set of test transactions includes modifying of a set of transactions of a production system, and obtaining a result of the inputting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Seiei Fujiwara, Kazumasa Kawaguchi, Reona Kondoh, Kenji Sasaki, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 9604206
    Abstract: A method for regenerating a carbonyl sulfide (COS) hydrolysis catalyst for hydrolyzing COS which is contained in a gas obtained by gasifying a carbon material, wherein a spent COS hydrolysis catalyst is immersed in an acid solution for a prescribed time thereby removing poisoning substances adhering to the surface of the COS hydrolysis catalyst; and thus regenerating the COS hydrolysis catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masanao Yonemura, Akihiro Sawata, Yukio Tanaka, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Toshinobu Yasutake
  • Patent number: 9506442
    Abstract: A direct injector unit includes a fuel pipe and injectors fixed to the fuel pipe. The direct injector unit is assembled to a cylinder head by: mounting the cylinder head in a predetermined posture; holding the direct injector unit while positioning a reference injector and guiding remaining injectors such that their leading end portions are movable; and inserting the injectors into injector mounting holes of the cylinder head by relatively moving the direct injector unit toward the cylinder head in a state in which the reference injector is positioned with respect to a corresponding injector mounting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Watanabe, Takeshi Hara, Yusuke Miho, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Kenichi Yokoo