Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Morimoto

Hiroyuki Morimoto 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: 11976857
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device according to the present disclosure includes: a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, a first expansion device, and a load-side heat exchanger, refrigerant cycling through the compressor, the heat-source-side heat exchanger, the first expansion device, and the load-side heat exchanger; a plurality of controllers configured to control the refrigerant circuit; a bypass pipe branching from a high pressure pipe on a discharge side of the compressor and connected to a low pressure pipe on a suction side of the compressor; a second expansion device provided to the bypass pipe, and configured to adjust a flow rate of the refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe; and a plurality of refrigerant coolers provided to the bypass pipe, and configured to cool the plurality of controllers by using the refrigerant the flow rate of which is adjusted by the second expansion device, each of the plurality of refrigerant coolers including a refrigerant coolin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Koike, Naomichi Tamura, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20240085591
    Abstract: To provide a novel polarizing plate that suppresses poor appearance caused by thermal shrinkage of a polarizing film and is excellent in durability. There is provided a polarizing plate including: a polarizing film composed of a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin; and a translucent support substrate laminated on at least one surface of the polarizing film through a bonding layer, in which the bonding layer is composed of a molecular bonding agent that bonds the polarizing film and the support substrate by a chemical bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Keisuke GOTO, Kazunori NOMA, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO, Takahisa YANO
  • Publication number: 20240069372
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device with an optical sensor includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first to third signal lines, an optical sensor including a photoelectric conversion element, first to third power feeding lines supplying first to third voltages to operate the optical sensor, and a sensor signal line outputting the detection signal. The first to third power feeding lines are located between the first to third signal lines and the sensor signal line in a thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ABE, Akihiko SAITOH, Masateru MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230339044
    Abstract: A processing apparatus that processes a workpiece by irradiating the workpiece with laser light, the apparatus including a rotation unit configured to rotate with a rotation axis as a center, thereby rotating an intensity distribution of the laser light emitted therefrom with the rotation axis as a center, a scanning unit configured to scan the laser light applied to the workpiece, and a control unit configured to irradiate the workpiece with the laser light while reducing at least one of an angular shift and a positional shift of the laser light entering the workpiece, which occur due to a shift between the rotation axis and a barycentric line of the laser light entering the rotation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Ryo IKUTA, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230226641
    Abstract: A laser processing device includes an optical scanning unit that scans laser light; a condenser lens that condenses the laser light onto a workpiece; a plasma light sensor that detects plasma light from the workpiece; and a control unit configured to generate processing position data for the laser light for processing the workpiece, wherein the control unit causes the optical scanning unit to scan the laser light and causes the plasma light sensor to acquire a detection result of detecting the plasma light from the workpiece, and the control unit generates the processing position data for the laser light for processing the workpiece on the basis of the detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventor: HIROYUKI MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230168040
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchange body having a plurality of flat tubes arranged and spaced from each other in a horizontal direction; an upper header provided at an upper end of the heat exchange body; a lower header provided at a lower end of the heat exchange body; and a partition plate provided in at least one of the upper and lower headers to partition the heat exchange body into a plurality of regions in a horizontal direction. The partition plate is provided such that in each of the regions, refrigerant flows in the opposite direction to the flow direction of the refrigerant in an adjacent one of the regions, and is provided such that regarding the regions, the more downward the region in the flow of the refrigerant when the heat exchanger operates as a condenser, the smaller a flow passage cross-sectional area of the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Yoji ONAKA, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Rihito ADACHI, Tetsuji SAIKUSA, Yuki NAKAO, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230156384
    Abstract: A loudspeaker to be attached to an attachment member, the loudspeaker including: a temporary joint pin which is inserted into a temporary joint hole and temporarily holds the loudspeaker in a suspended state. The temporary joint pin includes a rod-like portion backwardly projects from a rear end surface of a frame; a tilted surface portion which is part of an inner circumferential surface of a circumferential surface of the rod-like portion to be brought into contact with the temporary joint hole, and is tilted to become closer to the central axis of the rod-like portion from a base end toward a distal end of the rod-like portion in a direction of projection; and a flanged portion which is adjacent to the tilted surface portion at the distal end of the rod-like portion, protrudes in a direction crossing the direction of projection, and catches onto the attachment member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MORIMOTO, Yuuki IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20230148118
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat exchange units each including a plurality of flat tubes, a plurality of fins, an upper header, and a lower header. In the plurality of heat exchange units, the upper headers are connected such that the upper headers communicate with each other, and the lower headers are connected such that the lower headers communicate with each other through an opening-closing valve. The heat exchanger has a configuration in which when the heat exchanger serves as a condenser, the opening-closing valve is controlled such that refrigerant in at least one of the plurality of heat exchange units flows in an upward direction, and refrigerant in the other one or the other ones of the plurality of heat exchange units flows in a downward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Takanao KIMURA, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230146747
    Abstract: A refrigerant distributor includes an outer pipe, an inner pipe, and a structural part. The refrigerant outflow hole is provided such that an angle ? between a lower end of the inner pipe on a vertical line passing through a center of the inner pipe and a position of presence of the refrigerant outflow hole as seen from the center of the inner pipe falls within a range of 10 degrees???80 degrees. The refrigerant outflow hole comprises a sole refrigerant outflow hole provided in a vertical cross-section of the inner pipe at a position where the refrigerant outflow hole is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Yoji ONAKA, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Rihito ADACHI, Tetsuji SAIKUSA, Yuki NAKAO, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO, Atsushi KIBE
  • Publication number: 20230133411
    Abstract: Provided is a detection device which is able to accurately detect position information on an optical axis of laser light and reduce a measurement error, including a first split unit configured to split laser light output from a light source into a plurality of light beams, a detection unit configured to detect a position of each of the plurality of light beams, a light guide unit configured to guide the plurality of split light beams to the detection unit with optical path lengths different from each other, and a control unit configured to calculate an angular deviation or a positional deviation of the laser light on the basis of a difference in the position of each of the plurality of light beams detected by the detection unit, wherein the detection unit is one sensor that detects the position of each of the plurality of light beams guided by the light guide unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Yukihiro Inoue, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11591695
    Abstract: A surface coated member having improved stability and a longer service life is provided. The surface coated member includes a base member and a hard coating formed on a surface thereof. The hard coating is constituted of one or more layers. At least one layer among the layers is a layer including hard particles. The hard particles include a multilayer structure having a first unit layer and a second unit layer being layered alternately. The first unit layer includes a first compound. The second unit layer includes a second compound. The first compound and the second compound are respectively made of one or more kind of element selected from the group consisting of a group 4 element, a group 5 element, a group 6 element of a periodic table, and Al, and one or more kind of element selected from the group consisting of B, C, N, and O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Anongsack Paseuth, Kazuo Yamagata, Susumu Okuno, Hideaki Kanaoka, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Minoru Itoh
  • Patent number: 11552441
    Abstract: A display device includes a laser irradiation device and a control device. The laser irradiation device is configured to irradiate an irradiation point located at a display position in air, with a laser beam having a wavelength equal to or larger than 380 nm and equal to or smaller than 780 nm and produce plasma at the display position. The control device is configured to control intensity of the laser beam emitted from the at least one laser irradiation device so that a relationship between intensity of plasma light emitted from the plasma at the display position and intensity of scattered light produced from the laser beam and scattered by the plasma becomes a predetermined relationship to display a color pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsunenori Ashibe, Hidehiko Fujimura, Katsuhiro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Shunsuke Kuboyama, Toshiji Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 11536474
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes a refrigerant system in which an outdoor unit, one or more indoor units, and one or more ventilators are connected by a refrigerant pipe and in which refrigerant circulates, and a control device configured to control the refrigerant system. The control device includes a target temperature adjustment unit configured to adjust a target evaporating temperature based on a detection value detected by a temperature and humidity detection unit provided to at least one of the indoor unit and the ventilator that satisfies a specific criterion, and an air-conditioning control unit configured to control the refrigerant system such that the evaporating temperature of each of the indoor unit and the ventilator is equal to the target evaporating temperature adjusted by the target evaporating temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Morishita, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20220237016
    Abstract: One or more storage devices store resource migration schedule information including a plurality of records. Each of the plurality of records indicating a migration source node and a migration destination node of each of one or more resources. One or more processors are configured to determine a priority of each of the plurality of records such that a record having locality after migration has a higher priority than a priority of a record without locality after migration. The locality is determined based on whether a virtual machine and a volume associated with each other in advance exist in the same node. The one or more processors are configured to determine a migration schedule of each of the plurality of records based on the priority of each of the plurality of records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yuushi KAMIYA, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO, Hideo SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220011028
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device according to the present disclosure includes: a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, a first expansion device, and a load-side heat exchanger, refrigerant cycling through the compressor, the heat-source-side heat exchanger, the first expansion device, and the load-side heat exchanger; a plurality of controllers configured to control the refrigerant circuit; a bypass pipe branching from a high pressure pipe on a discharge side of the compressor and connected to a low pressure pipe on a suction side of the compressor; a second expansion device provided to the bypass pipe, and configured to adjust a flow rate of the refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe; and a plurality of refrigerant coolers provided to the bypass pipe, and configured to cool the plurality of controllers by using the refrigerant the flow rate of which is adjusted by the second expansion device, each of the plurality of refrigerant coolers including a refrigerant coolin
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Takanori KOIKE, Naomichi TAMURA, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200300489
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes a refrigerant system in which an outdoor unit, one or more indoor units, and one or more ventilators are connected by a refrigerant pipe and in which refrigerant circulates, and a control device configured to control the refrigerant system. The control device includes a target temperature adjustment unit configured to adjust a target evaporating temperature based on a detection value detected by a temperature and humidity detection unit provided to at least one of the indoor unit and the ventilator that satisfies a specific criterion, and an air-conditioning control unit configured to control the refrigerant system such that the evaporating temperature of each of the indoor unit and the ventilator is equal to the target evaporating temperature adjusted by the target evaporating temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Yuya MORISHITA, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10746418
    Abstract: An outdoor unit including a compressor is configured to compress refrigerant, a heat source-side air sending device is configured to suck air, a heat source-side heat exchanger is configured to exchange heat between the refrigerant and the air, and a controller is configured to control the compressor, the heat source-side air sending device, and the heat source-side heat exchanger, in which the heat source-side air sending device is provided in an upper part of the outdoor unit, the controller is provided in a lower part of the outdoor unit, the heat source-side heat exchanger is provided along outer peripheral side surfaces of the outdoor unit, and a part of the heat source-side heat exchanger is provided along a working plane used by an engineer for maintenance work and is provided above the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Morishita, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Keisuke Hokazono
  • Publication number: 20200184861
    Abstract: A display device includes a laser irradiation device and a control device. The laser irradiation device is configured to irradiate an irradiation point located at a display position in air, with a laser beam having a wavelength equal to or larger than 380 nm and equal to or smaller than 780 nm and produce plasma at the display position. The control device is configured to control intensity of the laser beam emitted from the at least one laser irradiation device so that a relationship between intensity of plasma light emitted from the plasma at the display position and intensity of scattered light produced from the laser beam and scattered by the plasma becomes a predetermined relationship to display a color pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Tsunenori Ashibe, Hidehiko Fujimura, Katsuhiro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Shunsuke Kuboyama, Toshiji Nishiguchi
  • Publication number: 20200040462
    Abstract: A surface coated member having improved stability and a longer service life is provided. The surface coated member includes a base member and a hard coating formed on a surface thereof. The hard coating is constituted of one or more layers. At least one layer among the layers is a layer including hard particles. The hard particles include a multilayer structure having a first unit layer and a second unit layer being layered alternately. The first unit layer includes a first compound. The second unit layer includes a second compound. The first compound and the second compound are respectively made of one or more kind of element selected from the group consisting of a group 4 element, a group 5 element, a group 6 element of a periodic table, and Al, and one or more kind of element selected from the group consisting of B, C, N, and O.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Anongsack Paseuth, Kazuo YAMAGATA, Susumu OKUNO, Hideaki KANAOKA, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO, Minoru ITOH
  • Patent number: 10477290
    Abstract: A loudspeaker device includes a loudspeaker unit and an enclosure. The loudspeaker unit outputs sounds mainly in a first direction, upon receiving an electric signal. The enclosure is configured with at least a part of an interior member of a movable-body device, and secures and accommodates the loudspeaker unit in the inside of the enclosure. The interior member includes a body part, and an accommodation part that accommodates the loudspeaker unit therein and is formed integrally with the body part. The accommodation part is larger in dimension along the first direction than the body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Kuribayashi, Takayumi Daikoku, Tetsushi Itano, Hirofumi Higashi, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Yohei Jin