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).

  • 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
  • Patent number: 10375478
    Abstract: A loudspeaker diaphragm includes a cone having a curved surface from the outer to the inner periphery, and an annular edge of which inner peripheral part is bonded to the front side of the outer peripheral part of the cone. When seen from the front, the outer periphery of the cone is defined by smooth connection of three larger-diameter parts tangent to a first circle with a larger diameter, and three smaller-diameter parts each located between adjacent two of the three larger-diameter parts and tangent to a second circle with a smaller diameter. In the cone, a shape defined by connecting together points at the same position on the central axis is more circular as the points approach the inner periphery from the outer periphery. The inner periphery of the edge has a smaller radius than the second circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Konno, Ryo Kuribayashi, Kazutaka Kubo, Hiroyuki Amada, Yohei Jin, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10338741
    Abstract: A failure detection device according to the present disclosure is a failure detection device that detects a failure of an input interface device detecting a position on a screen, the position being selected by an input operation. The failure detection device includes a memory, and a controller connectable to the input interface device. The controller acquires position information of a predetermined selected region on a screen, calculates a counted number of determinations that the predetermined selected region is not present on a selected position on the screen, and determines that an input interface device is in an abnormal state in a case where the counted number satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10248511
    Abstract: A primary storage system is equipped with a local storage subsystem having a mirror volume of a volume in a primary storage subsystem, and a remote storage subsystem having a mirror volume of the volume in the primary storage subsystem at a secondary site. When storing a write data from a host to a volume, the primary storage subsystem determines an SEQ# to be stored in a journal corresponding to the write request, creates a journal including the relevant SEQ# and a replica of the write data, and transmits the relevant SEQ# to the local storage subsystem, which creates a journal including the relevant SEQ# and stores it in its own journal volume. But when creation of the journal including the relevant SEQ# is stopped, the local storage subsystem creates a dummy journal including the relevant SEQ# but not including the write data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryunosuke Kamimoto, Hideo Saito, Azusa Jin, Keishi Tamura, Takahiko Takeda, Takashi Sakaguchi, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10222115
    Abstract: Provided are a refrigeration cycle that is formed by connecting a compressor, a condenser, expansion means, and an evaporator and that performs cooling operation; an evaporator heating device that heats the evaporator; a drain pan that receives drain-water from the evaporator and drains the drain-water; a drain-pan heating device that heats the drain pan; frost detecting means including a light-emitting element that emits light to the evaporator and a light-receiving element that receives reflected light from the evaporator and outputs a voltage according to the reflected light; and a control device that controls on-off operation of the evaporator heating device and the drain-pan heating device. The control device determines a frosting condition on the evaporator from an output of the frost detecting means and individually controls the evaporator heating device and the drain-pan heating device in accordance with the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Hamada, Fumitake Unezaki, Akira Morikawa, Satoshi Ueyama, Koji Yamashita, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Yuji Motomura, Tetsuya Yamashita, Yusuke Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20180310084
    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: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: RYO KURIBAYASHI, TAKAYUMI DAIKOKU, TETSUSHI ITANO, HIROFUMI HIGASHI, HIROYUKI MORIMOTO, YOHEI JIN
  • Publication number: 20180274799
    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: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Yuya MORISHITA, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO, Keisuke HOKAZONO
  • Publication number: 20180167734
    Abstract: A loudspeaker diaphragm includes a cone having a curved surface from the outer to the inner periphery, and an annular edge of which inner peripheral part is bonded to the front side of the outer peripheral part of the cone. When seen from the front, the outer periphery of the cone is defined by smooth connection of three larger-diameter parts tangent to a first circle with a larger diameter, and three smaller-diameter parts each located between adjacent two of the three larger-diameter parts and tangent to a second circle with a smaller diameter. In the cone, a shape defined by connecting together points at the same position on the central axis is more circular as the points approach the inner periphery from the outer periphery. The inner periphery of the edge has a smaller radius than the second circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi KONNO, Ryo KURIBAYASHI, Kazutaka KUBO, Hiroyuki AMADA, Yohei JIN, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9958175
    Abstract: To provide an air-conditioning apparatus that is safer and has small conveying power for such as water at the indoor unit side can be made small. It is characterized in that a compressor 10 and a heat source side heat exchanger 12 are accommodated in a heat source apparatus 1, an intermediate heat exchanger 15 and a pump 21 in a relay unit 3, a use side heat exchanger 26 in an indoor unit 2, respectively, and when a controller 60 makes the compressor 10 stop based on the thermo-off due to decrease in the heat load in the use side heat exchanger 26 or an operation stop instruction, the controller 60 makes the pump 21 stop after the compressor 10 is stopped or almost at the same time as the stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Yamashita, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Yuji Motomura, Takeshi Hatomura
  • Patent number: 9958170
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes indoor units including a plurality of use side heat exchangers that exchange heat between air and a heat medium, and a heat medium relay unit having a plurality of heat exchangers related to heat medium. A plurality of pumps deliver the heat medium involved in heating or cooling performed by the plurality of heat exchangers related to heat medium to each passage and circulate the heat medium. A plurality of heat medium flow switching devices perform switching so that the heat medium from a selected passage flows into and flows out of each use side heat exchanger. An expansion tank is connected to a passage alleviates a pressure change caused by a volumetric change of the heat medium, and a pressure equalizing pipe connects each inlet passage or each outlet passage of the heat medium sending devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Yamashita, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Yuji Motomura
  • Patent number: 9933205
    Abstract: An outdoor unit is configured to include a compressor and a heat source side heat exchanger. Indoor units are configured to include first expansion devices and use side heat exchangers, and air-condition an air-conditioned space. Branching devices, connected by pipes to the outdoor unit by a plurality of main pipes and connected by pipes to each indoor unit by a plurality of branch pipes, are configured to branch a refrigerant from a side of the main pipes and circulate the refrigerant to the branch pipes, and converge the refrigerant from a side of the branch pipes and circulate the refrigerant to the main pipes. A refrigerant concentration detecting device is installed in a non-air-conditioned space. A shutoff valve control device is configured, upon determining that the refrigerant has leaked, to control shutoff devices and to shut off the refrigerant flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hatomura, Koji Yamashita, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 9903601
    Abstract: To provide an air-conditioning apparatus capable of achieving energy saving, a pump control of controlling the operating capacity of a pump is performed such that an opening degree of a heat medium flow control device, controlled by a heat-medium-flow-control-device control, approaches a target opening degree, and a refrigeration cycle of a refrigerant circuit is controlled such that the temperature of a heat medium, whose flow rate is controlled by the heat-medium-flow-control-device control and the pump control, approaches a target temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Yamashita, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Yuji Motomura
  • Patent number: 9890974
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus achieves improvement of safety and further achieves saving of energy without allowing a refrigerant to circulate in or near an indoor unit. The air-conditioning apparatus is configured such that heat medium pipes have a larger inner cross-sectional area per unit capacity than that of refrigerant pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Yamashita, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Yuji Motomura, Takeshi Hatomura
  • Patent number: 9888321
    Abstract: A loudspeaker includes a frame, a magnetic circuit provided with a magnetic gap, a cone-shaped diaphragm, a voice coil, and an LED. The magnetic circuit is connected to a lower part of the frame. The diaphragm is connected to an outer periphery of the frame. A first end of the voice coil is connected to the diaphragm, and a second end thereof is inserted into the magnetic gap. The LED is provide on an upper part of the frame, and outputs light toward the center of the diaphragm. The LED is disposed such that the diaphragm reflects the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Kuribayashi, Kazutaka Kubo, Yohei Jin, Hitoshi Sato, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 9857113
    Abstract: A computing device calculates a quality of a refrigerant flowing out of a second expansion device on the basis of an inlet liquid enthalpy calculated on the basis of a temperature of the refrigerant flowing into the second expansion device and a saturated gas enthalpy and a saturated liquid enthalpy calculated on the basis of a temperature of the refrigerant flowing out of the second expansion device or a pressure of the refrigerant sucked into a compressor; calculates a liquid-phase concentration and a gas-phase concentration of the refrigerant flowing out of the second expansion device on the basis of the temperature of the refrigerant flowing out of the second expansion device and the pressure of the refrigerant sucked into the compressor; and calculates a composition of the refrigerant circulating in a refrigeration cycle on the basis of the calculated quality, liquid-phase concentration, and gas-phase concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Morimoto, Koji Yamashita, Yoshihiro Sumida, Yusuke Shimazu
  • Patent number: 9851134
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit formed by connecting a compressor that discharges a zeotropic refrigerant, an outdoor-side heat exchanger that exchanges heat between outside air and the refrigerant, a first expansion device that regulates the pressure of the refrigerant, and a load-side heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the air in an air-conditioning target space and the refrigerant. The air-conditioning apparatus includes a controller that has a composition computing function unit and a composition determining function unit The composition determining function unit is configured to adopt a predetermined value set in advance and related to composition as a circulating composition if the computation result is determined as incorrect, and adopt the computation result as the circulating composition if the computation result is determined as correct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ishimura, Koji Yamashita, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 9846555
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a process that requires for creating a backup at a designated time point is executed by sharing among a plurality of storage control apparatuses. An intermediate storage apparatus 2 reads journal data and a JNCB from a primary storage apparatus 1, and stores the journal data and the JNCB in an intermediate journal volume 28. A secondary storage apparatus 3 reads the journal data and the JNCB from the intermediate storage apparatus 2, and stores the journal data and the JNCB in a secondary journal volume 38. After the secondary storage apparatus 3 having a designated generation restores the journal data up to a designated time point into a secondary data volume 37, the secondary storage apparatus 3 splits a copy pair. Another secondary storage apparatus 3 executes a regular restoring process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironobu Inoue, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20170357372
    Abstract: A failure detection device according to the present disclosure is a failure detection device that detects a failure of an input interface device detecting a position on a screen, the position being selected by an input operation. The failure detection device includes a memory, and a controller connectable to the input interface device. The controller acquires position information of a predetermined selected region on a screen, calculates a counted number of determinations that the predetermined selected region is not present on a selected position on the screen, and determines that an input interface device is in an abnormal state in a case where the counted number satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventor: Hiroyuki MORIMOTO