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: 12117392Abstract: 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: August 4, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Fukunaka, Hiroyuki Kato
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Publication number: 20240274964Abstract: A bus-bar module include an electrical-wire routing body to be assembled with a battery module configured of plural battery cells, plural bus-bars that are stored in the electrical-wire routing body and are to be electrically connected between electrodes of the battery cells, respectively, and plural electrical-wires to be connected with the battery cells via the bus-bars. The electrical-wire routing body includes a pair of electrical-wire routing passages that are divided by a slit and in which the electrical-wires are routed. Each of the electrical-wire routing passages is provided with a pair of side walls. In at least one of the pair of electrical-wire routing passages that are divided by the slit, a cut-off is formed at an upper-end corner, which faces to the slit, of one of the pair of side walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kazuaki SAITO, Hiroyuki KATO, Hajime NAKATANI
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Publication number: 20240265716Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus has a first interface for communicating with a server, a second interface for communicating with a label printer, and a third interface for acquiring an image including a label image. A processor of the apparatus is configured to receive the image via the third interface, extract the label image from the received image, perform image processing on the extracted label image, transmit the processed extracted label image to the server via the first interface along with a request to generate label data based on processed extracted label image, receive the generated label data from the server via the first interface, and transmit the received label data to the label printer along with a request to print a label corresponding to the label data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventor: Hiroyuki KATO
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Publication number: 20240150202Abstract: A liquid sterilization device includes: an outer tube through which a fluid to be sterilized flows from one end side to the other end side in the axial direction; a flow-regulating plate that has a plurality of tapered holes having diameters thereof increasing from one end side toward the other end side in the axial direction; and a light source that applies ultraviolet light to a sterilization space on the other end side relative to the flow-regulating plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Hideaki TANAKA, Hiroyuki KATO, Kazuhisa SHINNO
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Publication number: 20240088523Abstract: A terminal holding structure includes a detection terminal having a through hole penetrating in an attaching direction to an object to be conductively connected, a resin case including an insertion portion to be inserted into the through hole and configured to hold the detection terminal, and a restricting member configured to restrict movement of the detection terminal in the attaching direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yoshikazu Ezuka, Ryota Kataoka
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Publication number: 20240059588Abstract: A fluid sterilizing apparatus includes: a cylindrical inner pipe which has cutouts penetrating in a radial direction and an outlet pipe projecting in the radial direction; an outer pipe which has, between itself and the inner pipe, an annular space in communication with the cutouts and which houses the inner pipe; an inflow pipe which allows a fluid to flow into the outer pipe; an outflow pipe which is provided coaxially with the inflow pipe and which is connected with the outlet pipe to allow the fluid having passed through the annular space to flow out; and a light source which irradiates the fluid passing through the interior of the inner pipe with ultraviolet light via an ultraviolet light transmitting window.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Hideaki TANAKA, Hiroyuki KATO, Kazuhisa SHINNO
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Publication number: 20240047834Abstract: An attachment structure for a sheet material includes an attachment hole portion that is provided in a sheet material and in which a large-diameter hole and a small-diameter hole communicate with each other through a communication portion, a locking portion provided in a member to be attached corresponding to the attachment hole portion, and configured to lock the attachment hole portion to attach the sheet material to the member to be attached, and a projecting piece that is provided in the communication portion and in which a width of the communication portion is narrower than an inner diameter of the small-diameter hole. The locking portion includes an insertion guide portion having an inclined face formed on a side face of a column portion, and configured to bend the projecting piece in contact with the column portion in a thickness direction of the sheet material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Ryota Kataoka
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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: 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: 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: 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: D1016031Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yorimasa Yasuda, Satoru Kozuka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Nichika Moriguchi, Keisuke Tada, Kenichi Oi, Masaaki Kadoyanagi, Toshio Nakayama, Shinichiro Ando, Akihiro Gonda
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Patent number: D1016032Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yorimasa Yasuda, Satoru Kozuka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Nichika Moriguchi, Keisuke Tada, Kenichi Oi, Masaaki Kadoyanagi, Toshio Nakayama, Shinichiro Ando, Akihiro Gonda
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Patent number: D1016033Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yorimasa Yasuda, Satoru Kozuka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Nichika Moriguchi, Keisuke Tada, Kenichi Oi, Masaaki Kadoyanagi, Toshio Nakayama, Shinichiro Ando, Akihiro Gonda
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Patent number: D1020742Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Hiroyuki Onojima, Kazuma Takahata, Takashi Ando, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Atsutomo Hayamizu