Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Hirano

Hiroyuki Hirano 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: 9777376
    Abstract: Provided is a film-forming apparatus capable of cleaning a discharge apparatus under a state in which a film-forming space and a cleaning gas ambience are separated from each other while continuing to form a film on an object to be film-formed having a film-like shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: ULVAC, INC.
    Inventors: Yixin Yang, Yoshiyuki Mitsuhashi, Masayuki Iijima, Sadatsugu Wakamatsu, Kazuhiko Saito, Tomoharu Fujii, Tsuyoshi Yoshimoto, Togo Hosoya, Takayoshi Hirono, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Nobuaki Kakutani, Naoki Sunagawa, Isao Tada, Hiroyuki Hirano
  • Publication number: 20170225435
    Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which the HIC can be effectively lowered. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention includes a thermoplastic resin and a plasticizer, and when the interlayer film is sandwiched between two sheets of clear glass in accordance with JIS R3202 to obtain a sheet of laminated glass, the flexural modulus at 23° C. of the resulting sheet of laminated glass is 5000 MPa or more and 10000 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirano, Yuji Uchimura, Shougo Yoshida, Akira Mizumori
  • Publication number: 20170122777
    Abstract: A magnetic position detection device that can detect position even if there is only one object magnet. A magnetic position detection device includes a bias magnet, a magnetic detection element, an object magnet, and a mobile object. Opposite poles of the bias magnet and of the object magnet face each other. The magnetic detection element is disposed between pole surfaces of the bias magnet and of the object magnet. The magnetic detection element is fixed to the bias magnet and has a fixed positional relationship to the bias magnet. The orientation of the magnetic field at the magnetic detection element changes in accordance with the position of the object magnet. The magnetic detection element detects the orientation of the magnetic field applied to the magnetic detection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirano, Seiji Fukuoka, Keiji Suzuki, Takahiro Moriya, Kaoru Narita
  • Patent number: 9470535
    Abstract: Provided is a center device that enables a navigation device to conduct guidance according to a route on the basis of the latest map information, without imposing a heavy load on a communication network. The center device calculates a guide route as a center route on the basis of the latest of the map information and information received from the navigation device, specifies the map information that is available to the navigation device, and calculates a guide route as a navigation route on the basis of the specified map information and the information received from the navigation device. On the basis of the center route and the navigation route, the center device specifies, from the map information, different map information necessary for the navigation device to give guidance on the center route, and transmits the specified map information to the navigation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Yano, Motohiro Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Hirano, Takamitsu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160020678
    Abstract: An electromechanical integrated motor has a motor housing for housing a stator and a rotor, and a power-converter housing for housing a power conversion module integrally joined to the motor housing. The power-converter housing has a radiator wall including the power conversion module attached to a surface on the motor-housing side of the radiator wall, and an outer-peripheral wall having a cylindrical shape, extending further toward the motor-housing side rather than the radiator wall, and being disposed on an outer-peripheral side of the power conversion module. The radiator wall and the outer-peripheral wall are separate members. The radiator wall is supported by the motor housing being capable of rotational movement. A plurality of power conversion modules are attached to the surface on the motor-housing side of the radiator wall, being arranged along a virtual circle having a rotation center of the rotational movement as a center thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirano, Kenta Suzuki, Hiroyuki Nakayama, Kensuke Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20150247732
    Abstract: Provided is a center device that enables a navigation device to conduct guidance according to a route on the basis of the latest map information, without imposing a heavy load on a communication network. The center device calculates a guide route as a center route on the basis of the latest of the map information and information received from the navigation device, specifies the map information that is available to the navigation device, and calculates a guide route as a navigation route on the basis of the specified map information and the information received from the navigation device. On the basis of the center route and the navigation route, the center device specifies, from the map information, different map information necessary for the navigation device to give guidance on the center route, and transmits the specified map information to the navigation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Makoto Yano, Motohiro Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Hirano, Takamitsu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9103380
    Abstract: An axle support structure includes a drive source output shaft, an axle, a vehicle body-side member, a vehicle wheel bearing and a floating shaft. The drive source output shaft is configured to be rotated by a drive source. The axle is disposed coaxially with the drive source output shaft to rotate integrally with a vehicle wheel. The vehicle wheel bearing is coupled to the axle for rotatably supporting the axle on a vehicle body-side member. The floating shaft has a first linking part linked with the drive source output shaft with a degree of freedom in a non-rotational direction, and a second linking part linked with the axle with a degree of freedom in a non-rotational direction, such that power is transmitted from the drive source output shaft to the axle. The vehicle wheel bearing is disposed axially between the first and second linking parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 8986590
    Abstract: Provided are a polymer article excellent in mechanical strength, toughness, and stretchability and a production method of the polymer article. The polymer article of the present invention is formed of a polymer material and is a polymer blank or a formed polymer body. The polymer article of the present invention has a crystallinity of not less than 50% but less than 90% and a tensile strain at fracture of not less than 60%. A method for producing a polymer article of the present invention includes: a heating step of heating the polymer material to a temperature of not lower than (Tm?70)° C. but lower than Tm(° C.) where Tm is the melting point (° C.) of the polymer material; and a compression step of cooling the polymer material heated in the heating step and compressing the polymer material in the course of the cooling to obtain a polymer article having a crystallinity of not less than 50% but less than 90% and a tensile strain at fracture of not less than 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Tabata, Hiroyuki Hirano, Kazuho Uchida, Akira Nakasuga
  • Patent number: 8920917
    Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition which can produce an expansion-molded article showing excellent low-temperature impact properties even when expanded at an increased expansion rate; an expansion-molded article using the polypropylene resin composition, which has excellent low-temperature impact properties, is light in weight, and has good appearance; and a process for producing the expansion-molded article. Using a polypropylene resin composition comprising 100 weight of a polypropylene resin and 1 to 4 parts by weight of a polyethylene wax having a viscosity average molecular weight of 2400 to 3400, an expansion-molded article which is expanded at an expansion rate of 1.5 to 3 times is produced by injection expansion molding by means of a gas counter pressure technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sekisui Techno Molding Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Kanamitsu, Kiminori Sato, Satoru Tominaga, Atsushi Wada, Hiroyuki Hirano
  • Publication number: 20140353056
    Abstract: An axle support structure includes a drive source output shaft, an axle, a vehicle body-side member, a vehicle wheel bearing and a floating shaft. The drive source output shaft is configured to be rotated by a drive source. The axle is disposed coaxially with the drive source output shaft to rotate integrally with a vehicle wheel. The vehicle wheel bearing is coupled to the axle for rotatably supporting the axle on a vehicle body-side member. The floating shaft has a first linking part linked with the drive source output shaft with a degree of freedom in a non-rotational direction, and a second linking part linked with the axle with a degree of freedom in a non-rotational direction, such that power is transmitted from the drive source output shaft to the axle. The vehicle wheel bearing is disposed axially between the first and second linking parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 8892361
    Abstract: An information center calculates, from a specific departure point to a specific destination, (i) an optimal route for an in-vehicle terminal when a request terminal of a route search request is the in-vehicle terminal and (ii) an optimal route for a mobile terminal when the request terminal of the route search request is the mobile terminal, respectively. The calculated optimal route for the in-vehicle terminal is different from the calculated optimal route for the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Kanno, Masamiki Andoh, Hiroyuki Hirano, Hiroki Ukai
  • Publication number: 20140311410
    Abstract: Provided is a film-forming apparatus capable of cleaning a discharge apparatus under a state in which a film-forming space and a cleaning gas ambience are separated from each other while continuing to form a film on an object to be film-formed having a film-like shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Yixin YANG, Yoshiyuki MITSUHASHI, Masayuki IIJIMA, Sadatsugu WAKAMATSU, Kazuhiko SAITO, Tomoharu FUJII, Tsuyoshi YOSHIMOTO, Togo HOSOYA, Takayoshi HIRONO, Nobuhiro HAYASHI, Nobuaki KAKUTANI, Naoki SUNAGAWA, Isao TADA, Hiroyuki HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20140254120
    Abstract: Provided is a device packaging structure including: an interposer substrate including a substrate, and a plurality of through-hole interconnections formed inside a plurality of through-holes passing through the substrate from a first main surface toward a second main surface, the first main surface being one main surface of the substrate, the second main surface being the other main surface thereof; a first device which includes a plurality of electrodes and is arranged so that these electrodes face the first main surface; and a second device which includes a plurality of electrodes of which an arrangement is different from an arrangement of each of the electrodes of the first device, and is arranged so that these electrodes face the second main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki HIRANO, Takanao SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20140245956
    Abstract: A masking portion (recessed portion) 20 is provided at the center of a rear surface of a carbonaceous substrate 10. The masking portion 20 includes a first bore portion 20a and a second bore portion 20b. The first bore portion 20a has an inner wall in which a female screw portion 21 is formed. A male screw portion 7a of a masking jig 7 is screw-fitted to the female screw portion 21. The masking jig 7 is fixed to a film forming jig 2. The carbonaceous substrate is thus supported in a standing posture, and the carbonaceous substrate is provided, on a surface, with a firm such as a SiC film or a TaC film except for the recessed portion by introducing gas into the apparatus in this supported state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: TOYO TANSO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Kita, Takeshi Kubota, Hiroyuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 8755792
    Abstract: A vehicular communication apparatus communicably connected to a portable communication terminal, includes: an information acquisition device that acquires facility information about a facility from the portable communication terminal; an information storage device that controls a storage to store the facility information in association with the portable communication terminal; and an information display device that controls a display to display the facility information stored in the storage when the portable communication terminal providing the facility information is reconnected to the vehicular communication apparatus, and that controls the display not to display the facility information stored in the storage when a new portable communication terminal different from the portable communication terminal providing the facility information is connected to the vehicular communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirano, Yoshitaka Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20130041124
    Abstract: Provided are a polymer article excellent in mechanical strength, toughness, and stretchability and a production method of the polymer article. The polymer article of the present invention is formed of a polymer material and is a polymer blank or a formed polymer body. The polymer article of the present invention has a crystallinity of not less than 50% but less than 90% and a tensile strain at fracture of not less than 60%. A method for producing a polymer article of the present invention includes: a heating step of heating the polymer material to a temperature of not lower than (Tm?70)° C. but lower than Tm(° C.) where Tm is the melting point (° C.) of the polymer material; and a compression step of cooling the polymer material heated in the heating step and compressing the polymer material in the course of the cooling to obtain a polymer article having a crystallinity of not less than 50% but less than 90% and a tensile strain at fracture of not less than 60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Hironori Tabata, Hiroyuki Hirano, Kazuho Uchida, Akira Nakasuga
  • Publication number: 20120322441
    Abstract: A vehicular communication apparatus communicably connected to a portable communication terminal, includes: an information acquisition device that acquires facility information about a facility from the portable communication terminal; an information storage device that controls a storage to store the facility information in association with the portable communication terminal; and an information display device that controls a display to display the facility information stored in the storage when the portable communication terminal providing the facility information is reconnected to the vehicular communication apparatus, and that controls the display not to display the facility information stored in the storage when a new portable communication terminal different from the portable communication terminal providing the facility information is connected to the vehicular communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirano, Yoshitaka Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20120310520
    Abstract: An information center calculates, from a specific departure point to a specific destination, (i) an optimal route for an in-vehicle terminal when a request terminal of a route search request is the in-vehicle terminal and (ii) an optimal route for a mobile terminal when the request terminal of the route search request is the mobile terminal, respectively. The calculated optimal route for the in-vehicle terminal is different from the calculated optimal route for the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Kanno, Masamiki Andoh, Hiroyuki Hirano, Hiroki Ukai
  • Publication number: 20120261177
    Abstract: Provided is a device packaging structure including: an interposer substrate including a substrate, and a plurality of through-hole interconnections formed inside a plurality of through-holes passing through the substrate from a first main surface toward a second main surface, the first main surface being one main surface of the substrate, the second main surface being the other main surface thereof; a first device which includes a plurality of electrodes and is arranged so that these electrodes face the first main surface; and a second device which includes a plurality of electrodes of which an arrangement is different from an arrangement of each of the electrodes of the first device, and is arranged so that these electrodes face the second main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki HIRANO, Takanao SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20120205148
    Abstract: Provided is a device packaging structure including: an interposer substrate including a substrate, and a plurality of through-hole interconnections formed inside a plurality of through-holes passing through the substrate from a first main surface toward a second main surface, the first main surface being one main surface of the substrate, the second main surface being the other main surface thereof; a first device which includes a plurality of electrodes and is arranged so that these electrodes face the first main surface; and a second device which includes a plurality of electrodes of which an arrangement is different from an arrangement of each of the electrodes of the first device, and is arranged so that these electrodes face the second main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki HIRANO, Takanao SUZUKI