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).
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Patent number: 9777376Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: 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
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Publication number: 20170225435Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirano, Yuji Uchimura, Shougo Yoshida, Akira Mizumori
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Publication number: 20170122777Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirano, Seiji Fukuoka, Keiji Suzuki, Takahiro Moriya, Kaoru Narita
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Patent number: 9470535Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Yano, Motohiro Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Hirano, Takamitsu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20160020678Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2013Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirano, Kenta Suzuki, Hiroyuki Nakayama, Kensuke Sasaki
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Publication number: 20150247732Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2013Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Makoto Yano, Motohiro Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Hirano, Takamitsu Suzuki
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Patent number: 9103380Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Hirano
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Patent number: 8986590Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hironori Tabata, Hiroyuki Hirano, Kazuho Uchida, Akira Nakasuga
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Patent number: 8920917Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Sekisui Techno Molding Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuji Kanamitsu, Kiminori Sato, Satoru Tominaga, Atsushi Wada, Hiroyuki Hirano
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Publication number: 20140353056Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroyuki Hirano
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Patent number: 8892361Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Yasunori Kanno, Masamiki Andoh, Hiroyuki Hirano, Hiroki Ukai
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Publication number: 20140311410Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventors: 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
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Publication number: 20140254120Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki HIRANO, Takanao SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20140245956Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: TOYO TANSO CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Kita, Takeshi Kubota, Hiroyuki Hirano
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Patent number: 8755792Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Hirano, Yoshitaka Ozaki
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Publication number: 20130041124Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Inventors: Hironori Tabata, Hiroyuki Hirano, Kazuho Uchida, Akira Nakasuga
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Publication number: 20120322441Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Hirano, Yoshitaka Ozaki
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Publication number: 20120310520Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Kanno, Masamiki Andoh, Hiroyuki Hirano, Hiroki Ukai
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Publication number: 20120261177Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki HIRANO, Takanao SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20120205148Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki HIRANO, Takanao SUZUKI