Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Kato
Hiroyuki Kato 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: 11878690Abstract: A start control device, which is a control device, includes: a first adjustment processing unit configured to execute a first adjustment process of instructing at least one of a brake device and a drive device to increase a braking/driving force when the braking/driving force is negative and the vehicle is stopped; and a second adjustment processing unit configured to start a second adjustment process of instructing at least one of the brake device and the drive device to increase the braking/driving force at a speed lower than an increasing speed of the braking/driving force before end of the first adjustment process on condition that the braking/driving force has become greater than or equal to a determination braking/driving force by the increase in the braking/driving force accompanying the execution of the first adjustment process.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yosuke Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11843342Abstract: A motor drive control device capable of driving a motor at high efficiency is provided. A control unit (3) of a motor drive control device (1) outputs a control signal to a motor drive unit (2) to control operation of an inverter circuit (21) for energizing a motor (7). The control unit (3) detects an actual rotational speed of the motor (7), detects a power-supply voltage, detects a magnitude of current flowing in the motor (7), and calculates a magnitude of driving torque of the motor (7) based on detection results. The control unit (3) compares a reference rotational speed obtained based on the calculated magnitude of the driving torque of the motor (7) and the actual rotational speed of the motor (7), and determines an advance angle value based on a comparison result. The control unit (3) outputs the control signal based on the determined advance angle value.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Takamichi Kitano
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Publication number: 20230388428Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a voice input interface and a processor. The voice input interface is configured to acquire an input voice input through a microphone. The processor is configured to recognize a content of a job instructed by voice from the input voice acquired by the voice input interface and to identify a speaker from the input voice and, if voices output from a plurality of speakers in the same period are acquired, configured to set an execution order of a plurality of jobs that are recognized from the voices output from the speakers and to execute the jobs in the set execution order.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: Hiroyuki Kato
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Publication number: 20230382029Abstract: An injection molding device includes a stationary mold provided with a first gate opening, and a second gate opening, a movable mold configured to be mold-clamped against the stationary mold, a first hot runner configured to inject a first molding material in a cavity compartmented by the stationary mold and the movable mold, via the first gate opening, a second hot runner configured to inject a second molding material in the cavity via the second gate opening, and a cooler configured to cool the stationary mold. An end surface of the stationary mold opposed to the movable mold has a first region located between the first gate opening and the second gate opening, and a second region different from the first region. The cooler is configured so that a cooling performance with respect to the first region becomes higher than a cooling performance with respect to the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Takuro FUSHIMI, Hiroyuki KATO
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Publication number: 20230375470Abstract: A gas sensor includes a light receiving element, a light emitting element, an integrated circuit, a lead frame, and a sealing member configured to seal these into a package. The lead frame includes at least one die pad portion and a plurality of terminal portions, the die pad portion includes a first region having a first thickness and a second region having a second thickness thinner than the first thickness, the integrated circuit is arranged on the second region of the die pad portion, the light emitting element is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of terminal portions, the light receiving element is electrically connected to the integrated circuit and is arranged on the opposite side to the light emitting element with the integrated circuit interposed therebetween, and the integrated circuit is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of terminal portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: ASAHI KASEI MICRODEVICES CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki FUKUNAKA, Hiroyuki KATO
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Patent number: 11769934Abstract: A bus bar module includes: a case attached to a battery assembly including a plurality of single cells; a bus bar supported by the case and electrically connected to electrodes of the plurality of single cells of the battery assembly; and a plurality of electric wires routed in the case. The plurality of electric wires include: a plurality of voltage detection electric wires connected to the bus bar, and a temperature measurement electric wire connected to a thermistor configured to measure a temperature of at least one of the plurality of single cells. The case includes: an electric wire routing groove portion in which the plurality of voltage detection electric wires are routed, and a thermistor attachment portion to which the thermistor is attached. The thermistor attachment portion is provided in the electric wire routing groove portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaro Okazaki, Hiraku Tanaka, Shinsuke Azuma, Hiroyuki Kato, Shigeyuki Inoue, Takenori Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20230286480Abstract: A disc brake device includes a pad, a caliper including a cylinder, a piston, and a rotary-to-linear motion conversion mechanism. The piston is divided into two parts that are a piston main body and a piston cap. The rotary-to-linear motion conversion mechanism includes a rotary member and a linear motion member. A unidirectional rotation regulating portion between the piston main body and the piston cap is configured to regulate relative rotation of the piston main body in a forward rotation direction with respect to the piston cap when the rotary member is driven to rotate in the forward rotation direction, and to allow relative rotation of the piston main body in a reverse rotation direction with respect to the piston cap when the rotary member is driven to rotate in the reverse rotation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki KATO, Michio SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11747273Abstract: A gas sensor includes a light receiving element, a light emitting element, an integrated circuit, a lead frame, and a sealing member configured to seal these into a package. The lead frame includes at least one die pad portion and a plurality of terminal portions, the die pad portion includes a first region having a first thickness and a second region having a second thickness thinner than the first thickness, the integrated circuit is arranged on the second region of the die pad portion, the light emitting element is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of terminal portions, the light receiving element is electrically connected to the integrated circuit and is arranged on the opposite side to the light emitting element with the integrated circuit interposed therebetween, and the integrated circuit is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of terminal portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Fukunaka, Hiroyuki Kato
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Patent number: 11709130Abstract: Signal output apparatus and concentration measurement system has a light receiving unit and an interface unit provided at a support unit. Light receiving unit receives infrared rays emitted to a measurement target substance, and outputs a detection signal according to received infrared rays. Storage unit stores a parameter according to a characteristic of at least one of a plurality of components including the light receiving unit, the parameter being used for concentration computation of the measurement target substance, as a calibration parameter. Interface unit outputs an output signal including a calibration parameter signal according to the calibration parameter input from the storage unit and a signal based on the detection signal input from the light receiving unit to a signal computation processing unit, without executing the concentration computation.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Asahi Kasel Microdevices CorporationInventors: Edson Gomes Camargo, Hiroyuki Kato
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Patent number: 11695268Abstract: A protection function of an electronic device is realized with a lower cost. A load drive circuit 102 includes: transistors Qa and Qb for protection of an N-channel type connected between a power source terminal P1 and a power source end P7 for driving; an inverter circuit 14 that drives a load based on an input drive control signal Sd, the inverter circuit 14 being disposed between the power source end P7 for driving and a ground potential; and a booster unit 16 including a capacitor C1 having one terminal connected to an output end of the inverter circuit 14, the booster unit 16 generating, across another terminal of the capacitor C1, a voltage exceeding a power source voltage Vdc, and applying the voltage to control electrodes of the transistors Qa and Qb for protection.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Toshikazu Koshiba
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Patent number: 11650734Abstract: A list of a plurality of objects to be displayed, which corresponds to page images to be operated, respectively, is displayed; it is determined which object is selected as an object to be moved among the plurality of displayed objects to be displayed; it is determined which object is selected as a movement destination object among the plurality of displayed objects to be displayed; and allocation page images are displayed in a state where a page image corresponding to the object determined as the object to be moved and a page image corresponding to the object determined as the movement destination object are allocated to a single page.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki Kato
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Patent number: 11547769Abstract: To provide a light source module device capable of controlling the light distribution of ultraviolet light with a small and simple structure. A light source module device 7 includes a substrate 4, a light source 3 mounted on the substrate 4 and emitting ultraviolet light, a reflector 8 mounted on the substrate 4 so as to surround the light source 3 and reflecting the ultraviolet light by its inner surface to guide the ultraviolet light toward an irradiation target, and a cap-like optical member 9 mounted so as to cover the outer circumference of the reflector 8 and condensing or diffusing the ultraviolet light.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Kato, Kazuhisa Shinno
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Publication number: 20230007135Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a voice input interface and a processor. The voice input interface is configured to acquire an input voice input through a microphone. The processor is configured to recognize a content of a job instructed by voice from the input voice acquired by the voice input interface and to identify a speaker from the input voice and, if voices output from a plurality of speakers in the same period are acquired, configured to set an execution order of a plurality of jobs that are recognized from the voices output from the speakers and to execute the jobs in the set execution order.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventor: Hiroyuki Kato
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Patent number: 11515828Abstract: A motor drive control device 1 includes a drive voltage generation circuit 13 configured to generate a drive voltage Vin based on a first supply voltage Vdc inputted to a first terminal P1 and generate the drive voltage Vin based on a second supply voltage inputted to a second terminal P2 when a supply of the first supply voltage Vdc is stopped, a control circuit 21 configured to be operable by the drive voltage Vin, generate a drive control signal Sd based on a drive command signal Sc, generate a motor driving information signal So and output the motor driving information signal So from a third terminal P3 and a motor drive circuit 10 configured to output a drive signal to the motor 3, in which the control circuit 21 monitors the first supply voltage Vdc and outputs history information 300 relating to operation of the motor 3 from the third terminal P3 as the motor driving information signal So upon detecting that the supply of the first supply voltage Vdc is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: MlNEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Toshikazu Koshiba, Katsunori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20220362419Abstract: A fluid sterilization device includes a cylindrical body of a housing having a flow passage through which fluid flows in an axial direction, an inflow port through which the fluid flows into the cylindrical body, an outflow port on the outer circumference of the cylindrical body, a light source provided on an end section on an opposite side to the inflow port, and a quartz cap including a cylindrical section and a leading end section. The quartz cap transmits, collects, or scatters ultraviolet light. The cylindrical section of the quartz cap is fitted to an inner wall of the cylindrical body, and a boundary section of the quartz cap is disposed a position coinciding with an end surface of the outflow port on a side close to the first light source or at a position where the boundary section protrudes beyond the end surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki TANAKA, Hiroyuki KATO, Kazuhisa SHINNO
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Publication number: 20220350454Abstract: A list of a plurality of objects to be displayed, which corresponds to page images to be operated, respectively, is displayed; it is determined which object is selected as an object to be moved among the plurality of displayed objects to be displayed; it is determined which object is selected as a movement destination object among the plurality of displayed objects to be displayed; and allocation page images are displayed in a state where a page image corresponding to the object determined as the object to be moved and a page image corresponding to the object determined as the movement destination object are allocated to a single page.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventor: Hiroyuki Kato
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Publication number: 20220330580Abstract: Provided is a heat-sterilized and packed beverage containing a high concentration of a medium chain triglyceride (MCT) and obtained by heat sterilization, wherein issues of poor aftertaste and throat discomfort caused by a combination of a high concentration of the MCT and heat sterilization are resolved. The heat-sterilized and packed beverage is obtained by causing 10-120 mg/100 ml of caffeine to coexist with a beverage containing 1.2-32 g/100 ml of the MCT.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Shota Nonaka, Akira Soguchi, Hiroyuki Kato
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Patent number: D975845Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignees: HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY, OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY, INC.Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Hiroki Maita, Hiroyuki Kato, Takashi Akimoto, Takehito Hayashi, Koichi Takeda, Toshimitsu Terao, Tomoki Morita, Shinichiro Ito, Tadashi Komuro, Teruyuki Iwama
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Patent number: D982545Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Kentaro Tsukamoto, Masahiro Ichikawa, Hanako Kondo, Tetsuya Okuda, Satoshi Akatsuka, Takumi Aikawa, Yusuke Ueda
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Patent number: D987594Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Tetsuya Okuda, Kentaro Tsukamoto, Masahiro Ichikawa, Hanako Kondo, Taku Kondo, Koji Uchimura