Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Moriyama
Hiroyuki Moriyama 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: 11929529Abstract: The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a first injection device associated with a supply of a fuel to the fuel cell, and a second injection device provided on an upstream side of the first injection device in a fuel flow passage from a fuel storage unit to the first injection device. The first and second injection devices switch a flow passage extending downstream from the fuel flow passage, between a first flow passage via the first injection device and second flow passage via the second injection device. The second injection device operates at a lower frequency than the first injection device during an operation of the fuel system.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Maeshima, Akinobu Moriyama, Tatsuya Yaguchi, Masashi Sato, Tadaki Mano, Hiroyuki Wada
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Publication number: 20240068548Abstract: Drive device includes first housing, second housing configured to move relatively with respect to first housing, drive section, spindle member, nut member, moving member, coil spring, and spring guide member. First housing includes inner peripheral surface, housing portion housing drive section, and protruding portion protruding toward the center from inner peripheral surface. Spring guide member includes spring support portion and flange portion protruding outward in the radial direction of spring support portion. Flange portion of spring guide member is held between protruding portion and drive section in the axis X direction of spindle member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2020Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki INAGAKI, Ryosuke MORIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230381791Abstract: Provides a dust collector capable of being installed even in small spaces and capable of collecting dust efficiently. A dust collector 1 includes a first electrode layer 12 formed of a conductor, a second electrode layer 14 formed of a conductor, having sufficient size to cover the first electrode layer 12 in planar view, having lacking parts (through holes 14H, slits 14S) piercing therethrough in a thickness direction, having sufficient size to cover the first electrode layer 12 in planar view, and placed interfacing the first electrode layer 12, and an insulating layer (a first insulating layer 13, a second insulating layer 15) formed of an insulative material, insulating the first electrode layer 12 and the second electrode layer 14, and forming a single merged layer structure with the first electrode layer 12 and the second electrode layer 14.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Takaaki HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki MORIYAMA
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Patent number: 10488340Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for extracting an image of a target fluorophore in a biological material, which involve inducing both autofluorescence of the biological material and fluorescence of the fluorophore, acquiring an image arising from both the autofluorescence of the biological material and the fluorophore, and an image arising only from the autofluorescence, subtracting the two images to produce an image representing only the fluorophore, wherein relative intensities of the excitation light used to induce the autofluorescence and the fluorescence are modulated prior to acquiring the images.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Novadaq Technologies ULCInventors: Eduardo Hiroyuki Moriyama, Chun Ho Sze
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Patent number: 10180399Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for extracting an image of a target fluorophore in a biological material, which involve inducing both autofluorescence of the biological material and fluorescence of the fluorophore, acquiring an image arising from both the autofluorescence of the biological material and the fluorophore, and an image arising only from the autofluorescence, subtracting the two images to produce an image representing only the fluorophore, wherein relative intensities of the excitation light used to induce the autofluorescence and the fluorescence are modulated prior to acquiring the images.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Novadaq Technologies ULCInventors: Eduardo Hiroyuki Moriyama, Chun Ho Sze
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Publication number: 20180120230Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for extracting an image of a target fluorophore in a biological material, which involve inducing both autofluorescence of the biological material and fluorescence of the fluorophore, acquiring an image arising from both the autofluorescence of the biological material and the fluorophore, and an image arising only from the autofluorescence, subtracting the two images to produce an image representing only the fluorophore, wherein relative intensities of the excitation light used to induce the autofluorescence and the fluorescence are modulated prior to acquiring the images.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: Novadaq Technologies ULCInventors: Eduardo Hiroyuki MORIYAMA, Chun Ho SZE
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Patent number: 9941063Abstract: A limit switch having a housing having a box, an attachment hold made in a side surface of the box, having a cylindrical bearing section, a rotating shaft rotatably inserted through the cylindrical bearing section, a cam unit provided in a leading end portion of the rotating shaft, and an operation lever provided in the other end portion of the rotating shaft. Rotational action of the operation lever is converted into vertical action by the cam unit in the box. A contact of a switch main body accommodated in and fixed to the housing is opened and closed. An outer diameter of the cam unit is smaller than an inner diameter of the attachment hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Manabu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Shigenobu Fukui, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Yuichi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 9816930Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for extracting an image of a target fluorophore in a biological material, which involve inducing both autofluorescence of the biological material and fluorescence of the fluorophore, acquiring an image arising from both the autofluorescence of the biological material and the fluorophore, and an image arising only from the autofluorescence, subtracting the two images to produce an image representing only the fluorophore, wherein relative intensities of the excitation light used to induce the autofluorescence and the fluorescence are modulated prior to acquiring the images.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Inventors: Eduardo Hiroyuki Moriyama, Chun Ho Sze
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Patent number: 9697960Abstract: A switch has a rotary shaft that rotates in response to an external force, a cam provided on the rotary shaft and including a cam action section, wherein the cam rotates in response to the rotation of the rotary shaft, a displacement member including a cam support section that contacts the cam action section, wherein the displacement member is displaced in response to the cam support section being pressed by the cam action section rotating, and a switch module that performs an on-off action in response to the displacement of the displacement member. The cam action section is made of a metal. The cam support section is made of a resin softer than the cam action section.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Manabu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Shinya Katsube, Yuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9634582Abstract: Provided is a detachable generator device which can change the installation location with ease and which can effectively use a solar cell to generate electric power. The detachable generator device includes: a film-like solar cell; and attaching/detaching means for allowing the film-like solar cell to be attached to and detached from an attachment object at an installation location. The attaching/detaching means includes an adhesive film having an attaching/detaching surface which develops Van der Waals force to enable repeated affixation, or an electrostatic chuck for forming an attaching/detaching surface by turning on/off a voltage source connected to an attraction electrode sandwiched between two insulating layers to freely develop electrostatic attraction on a surface of at least one of the insulating layers.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Tatsumi, Megumu Kawae, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Toshifumi Sugawara
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Patent number: 9523997Abstract: A fixing component for a switch including a flange, a ring attachment, and a screw attachment, the flange including a projection provided on an outer peripheral surface, the screw attachment including, on an inner peripheral surface, an insertion area into which the projection of the flange is inserted, a projection engaging part into which the projection of the flange is fitted, and an interference projection which is formed between the projection engaging part and the insertion area and has a smaller inner diameter than diameters of the projection engaging part and the insertion area, the projection of the flange including a first projecting portion and a second projecting portion where the first projecting portion is fitted into a guiding groove, and the second projecting portion is configured to traverse the interference projection to be fitted into a fitting groove when the flange and the screw attachment are rotated relatively.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Moriyama
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Patent number: 9490081Abstract: A limit switch has a housing having an opening in a front surface of the housing, and a connection hole in which a lead wire is drawn made in a bottom surface of the housing, a switch main body fixed in the housing, a front surface of which is vertically partitioned into a plurality of stages, a pair of fixed contact terminals embedded at each of the stages, an operation shaft exposed from a ceiling surface of the switch main body, a contact that is opened and closed by driving the operation shaft in a shaft center direction, and a projection provided between the fixed contact terminals embedded at the stages of the front surface of the switch main body.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Manabu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Shigenobu Fukui
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Publication number: 20160110870Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for extracting an image of a target fluorophore in a biological material, which involve inducing both autofluorescence of the biological material and fluorescence of the fluorophore, acquiring an image arising from both the autofluorescence of the biological material and the fluorophore, and an image arising only from the autofluorescence, subtracting the two images to produce an image representing only the fluorophore, wherein relative intensities of the excitation light used to induce the autofluorescence and the fluorescence are modulated prior to acquiring the images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Eduardo Hiroyuki MORIYAMA, Chun Ho SZE
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Patent number: 9171682Abstract: An operation switch where a switch unit can be separated from an operation unit in a simple manner even when the operation switches are densely fitted is disclosed herein. The operation switch of the invention includes an operation unit that is disposed on a front surface side of a panel and operated by external pressing force, a switch unit that can be separated from a rear surface side of the panel from the operation unit, a latching unit formed on an external circumferential surface of the operation unit along an axial center direction, a latching receiving unit which is formed along an external circumferential surface of the switch unit and to which the latching unit is latched, and a release lever that releases a latching state of the latching unit and the latching receiving unit so that the switch unit is separated from the operation unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masaki Sugihara, Hiroshi Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Moriyama
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Publication number: 20150114805Abstract: A switch has a rotary shaft that rotates in response to an external force, a cam provided on the rotary shaft and including a cam action section, wherein the cam rotates in response to the rotation of the rotary shaft, a displacement member including a cam support section that contacts the cam action section, wherein the displacement member is displaced in response to the cam support section being pressed by the cam action section rotating, and a switch module that performs an on-off action in response to the displacement of the displacement member. The cam action section is made of a metal. The cam support section is made of a resin softer than the cam action section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Manabu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Shinya Katsube, Yuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20140360849Abstract: A limit switch having a housing having a box, an attachment hold made in a side surface of the box, having a cylindrical bearing section, a rotating shaft rotatably inserted through the cylindrical bearing section, a cam unit provided in a leading end portion of the rotating shaft, and an operation lever provided in the other end portion of the rotating shaft. Rotational action of the operation lever is converted into vertical action by the cam unit in the box. A contact of a switch main body accommodated in and fixed to the housing is opened and closed. An outer diameter of the cam unit is smaller than an inner diameter of the attachment hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Manabu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Shigenobu Fukui, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Yuichi Ishikawa
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Patent number: D718257Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Manabu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Shigenobu Fukui, Shinya Katsube
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Patent number: D725050Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Masaki Sugihara
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Patent number: D753070Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Masaki Sugihara
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Patent number: D753611Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Masaki Sugihara