Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki TO

Hiroyuki TO 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: 10654331
    Abstract: A vehicle height adjustment device includes front forks, a rear suspension, a weight estimation unit, and a front wheel-side target movement amount determination unit. The front fork includes a front wheel-side suspension spring and a front wheel-side support member, which supports one end of the front wheel-side suspension spring, and moves toward another end of the front wheel-side spring to change the front wheel-side suspension spring length. The rear suspension includes a rear wheel-side suspension spring and a rear wheel-side support member, which supports one end of the rear wheel-side suspension spring, and moves toward another one end of the rear wheel-side spring to change the rear wheel-side suspension spring length. The weight estimation unit estimates a weight applied to a vehicle. The front wheel-side target movement amount determination unit decreases, a movement amount of the front wheel-side support member as the estimated weight increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Murakami, Hiroyuki Miyata, Fumiaki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20200151971
    Abstract: A ledger management system includes multiple ledger management devices communicably connected to each other. The ledger management devices have a same distributed ledger. Each ledger management device includes the distributed ledger, an agreement determination unit, and a ledger storage unit. The distributed ledger stores ledger information, including specific information specific to a previous ledger information and present vehicle information obtained from a vehicle, that is generated by one of the ledger management devices. The agreement determination unit determines whether the ledger information generated by the one of the ledger management devices satisfies an agreement rule. The ledger storage unit stores the ledger information in the distributed ledger when the ledger information satisfies the agreement rule, and does not store the ledger information in the distributed ledger when the ledger information does not satisfy the agreement rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoya OGAWA, Hiroyuki KISHITA, Takashi UEFUJI, Tsuneo NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20200148765
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel molecule which has high specificity to CLDN-5 and recognizes an extracellular domain of CLDN-5. The object is achieved by an antibody which specifically recognizes a three-dimensional structure or a primary structure of an extracellular domain of a Claudin-5 protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION EHIME UNIVERSITY, FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Masuo KONDOH, Kiyohito YAGI, Takefumi DOI, Yoshiaki OKADA, Yosuke HASHIMOTO, Tatsuya SAWASAKI, Hiroyuki TAKEDA, Kohki ENDO, Maki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200150473
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a circuit technique which enables reduction in power consumption and high definition of a display device. A switch controlled by a start signal is provided to a gate electrode of a transistor, which is connected to a gate electrode of a bootstrap transistor. When the start signal is input, a potential is supplied to the gate electrode of the transistor through the switch, and the transistor is turned off. The transistor is turned off, so that leakage of a charge from the gate electrode of the bootstrap transistor can be prevented. Accordingly, time for storing a charge in the gate electrode of the bootstrap transistor can be shortened, and high-speed operation can be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Atsushi Umezaki, Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20200152581
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device having excellent heat transferring performance and electromagnetic wave suppression effect. A semiconductor device 1 comprises: a semiconductor element 30 formed on a substrate 50; a conductive shield can 20 having an opening 21, covering at least a part of the semiconductor element 30, and connected to a ground 60; a cooling member 40 located above the conductive shield can 20; and an electromagnetic wave absorbing thermal conductive sheet 10 formed between the semiconductor element 30 and the cooling member 40 at least through the opening 21 of the conductive shield can 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo KUMURA, Hiroyuki RYOSON
  • Publication number: 20200152385
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminated body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes alternately laminated, and an external electrode provided on the surface of the laminated body and connected to the internal electrodes. The internal electrode includes a facing electrode portion facing another internal electrode with the dielectric layer provided therebetween, and an extended electrode portion extended from the facing electrode portion to the surface of the laminated body and connected to the external electrode. At least one layer of the internal electrodes includes a bent portion in the extended electrode portion. The distance between extended electrode portions adjacent to each other in the lamination direction narrows from the end portion of the facing electrode portion toward the bent portion, and widens from the bent portion toward the end portion of the extended electrode portion on the external electrode side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Akira ISHIZUKA, Hiroyuki HIRANO, Takatoshi SUETO, Masatoshi YANAGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200149560
    Abstract: The present invention allows the number of components to be reduced and assembly work to be easily performed. A cylinder drive manifold device that constitutes a cylinder drive apparatus is provided with a block-shaped manifold in which a plurality of holes are formed for circulating a fluid used for driving a plurality of fluid pressure cylinders. The manifold is configured such that a plurality of switching valves for supplying a fluid alternately to a first cylinder chamber and a second cylinder chamber of each of the fluid pressure cylinders are attachable. A plurality of check valves and a plurality of throttle valves are incorporated into the plurality of holes of the manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Kazutaka SOMEYA
  • Publication number: 20200150430
    Abstract: To improve brightness of an image to be perceived by a user and enhance visibility there is provided a light guide plate including an incident diffraction grating which diffracts incident imaging light, an exit diffraction grating through which the imaging light goes out, and an intermediate diffraction grating existing in optical paths from the incident diffraction grating to the exit diffraction grating. In this light guide plate, a periodic linear corrugated pattern is formed as the incident diffraction grating, and when an imaginary line is established that passes through an incident point of imaging light onto the incident diffraction grating and is parallel with a periodic direction of the corrugated pattern, the intermediate diffraction grating has a first region on one side of the imaginary line and a second region on another side of the imaginary line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MINEMURA, Yumiko ANZAI
  • Publication number: 20200149189
    Abstract: Provided is an SiC composite substrate 10 having a monocrystalline SiC layer 12 on a polycrystalline SiC substrate 11, wherein: some or all of the interface at which the polycrystalline SiC substrate 11 and the monocrystalline SiC layer 12 are in contact is an unmatched interface I12/11 that is not lattice-matched; the monocrystalline SiC layer 12 has a smooth obverse surface and has, on the side of the interface with the polycrystalline SiC substrate 11, a surface that has more pronounced depressions and projections than the obverse surface; and the close-packed plane (lattice plane 11p) of the crystals of the polycrystalline SiC in the polycrystalline SiC substrate 11 is randomly oriented with reference to the direction of a normal to the obverse surface of the monocrystalline SiC layer 12. The present invention improves the adhesion between the polycrystalline SiC substrate and the monocrystalline SiC layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicants: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., CUSIC INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kubota, Shoji Akiyama, Hiroyuki Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20200151033
    Abstract: A programmable controller includes a plurality of processor cores, an input unit, an allocating unit, a transmitting unit, a power controlling unit, an updating unit, and an executing unit. The allocating unit allocates any one of the plurality of processing to each of the plurality of processor cores. The transmitting unit transmits an allocation result of the processing to a management device. The power controlling unit restarts when the allocation of the processing is changed in the management device and the input unit inputs the changed setup data. The updating unit updates the allocation to the plurality of processor cores based on the setup data after the restart. The executing unit executes the plurality of processing based on the allocation, and when the allocation is changed, executes the plurality of processing based on the changed allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naruhiko ARAMAKI, Hiroyuki FUJIEDA
  • Publication number: 20200153282
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided with a housing, a circuit board included in the housing and having a thickness direction normal to a plane of the circuit board, a battery pack included in the housing, and a non-contact charging module included in the housing. The non-contact charging module includes a charging coil formed of a wound conducting wire; a communication coil arranged adjacent to the charging coil; and a magnetic sheet on which the charging coil and the communication coil are arranged. The magnetic sheet has four edges that collectively define a rectangular profile of the magnetic sheet, and at most three pairs of adjacent edges respectively meet to form at most three corners. At least a portion of the non-contact charging module overlaps with the circuit board as viewed in the thickness direction of the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshio Koyanagi, Koichi Yamamoto, Takanori Hirobe, Hiroyuki Uejima, Kenichiro Tabata, Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Munenori Fujimura, Akio Hidaka, Takumi Naruse
  • Publication number: 20200148545
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to novel particulate composite materials comprising a graphitic core particle associated with SiOX nanoparticles (0.2?X?1.8), and coated by a layer of non-graphitic carbon, e.g., pyrolytic carbon deposited by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Also included are processes for making such particles as well as uses and downstream products for the novel composite material, in particular as an active material in negative electrodes in Li-ion batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Michael SPAHR, Michal GULAS, Tatsuo UMENO, Hiroyuki TAKI, Pascual PEREZ
  • Publication number: 20200147834
    Abstract: A sampling apparatus is provided, which includes a pressing-up unit configured to press up a sheet piece that is being conveyed by a conveying unit, from a lower side of a conveyance course of the sheet piece to above the conveyance course; and a holding unit configured to hold the sheet piece pressed up by the pressing-up unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichi HIROOKA, Takahide YAMASATO, Kenichi HASHIKURA, Hiroyuki SOMENO
  • Publication number: 20200148041
    Abstract: A door service hole cover includes a cover component that is configured to cover a service hole, and a shock absorption component that is integral to the cover component. The shock absorption component includes a cabin inner component, at least a portion of which projects from the cover component toward the inside of the cabin and which is hollow and open toward the outside of the cabin; and a fragile portion formed on a side surface of the cabin inner component and configured to allow the cabin inner component to crush and deform upon application of a force acting in the direction of projection of the cabin inner component. Upon application of a force acting in the direction of projection, the cabin inner component crushes inwardly and deforms while being twisted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Mori
  • Publication number: 20200152475
    Abstract: There is provided a method of fabricating a semiconductor device by performing a process on a substrate, which includes: forming a masking film made of a polymer having a urea bond by supplying polymerizing raw materials to a surface of the substrate on which an etching target film formed; forming an etching pattern on the masking film; subsequently, etching the etching target film with a processing gas using the etching pattern; and subsequently, removing the masking film by heating the substrate to depolymerize the polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Koichi YATSUDA, Takashi HAYAKAWA, Hiroshi OKUNO, Reiji NIINO, Hiroyuki HASHIMOTO, Tatsuya YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200151863
    Abstract: A high-frequency component removing part removes high-frequency components from a first object image obtained by picking up an image of an object and a first reference image, to acquire a second object image and a second reference image, respectively. A correction part corrects a value of each pixel of at least one of the first object image and the first reference image on the basis of a discrepancy, which is a ratio or a difference, between a value of the corresponding pixel of the second object image and a value of the corresponding pixel of the second reference image. A comparison part compares the first object image with the first reference image, to thereby detect a defect area in the first object image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Onishi
  • Publication number: 20200147584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silica powder storage package that stores a silica powder, in which the silica powder storage package preferably includes a bottomed container that has an opening portion, and a lid member that closes the opening portion, and further relates to a test kit including the silica powder storage package of the present invention, and the test kit being for allowing the silica powder to adsorb at least one part of the components in a liquid sample by injecting the liquid sample into the bottomed container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanobu KATSUKI, Hiroyuki YANO, Kohshi HONDA, Kouichi ADACHI, Atsushi WADA, Takahiro INOUE, Yuriko KOREKANE, Masaru SHIMOYAMA, Naoya KENBOU
  • Publication number: 20200152997
    Abstract: An electrode for a redox flow battery includes a substrate, a conductive portion applied to a surface of the substrate, and a catalytic portion held by the conductive portion, the conductive portion containing one or more types of elements selected from the group ?1 consisting of Sn, Ti, Ta, Ce, In, and Zn, the catalytic portion containing one or more types of elements selected from the group ? consisting of Ru, Ir, Pd, Pt, Rh, and Au.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakaishi, Hirokazu Kaku, Shinichiro Mukobata, Tomomi Utsumi, Megumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20200152374
    Abstract: A surface-mount inductor includes an element assembly having a core, a coil, and a magnetic material; and a pair of external terminals on a mounting surface of the element assembly. The core has a base portion and a columnar portion on an upper surface of the base portion. The coil is disposed on the base portion, and has a wound portion on the columnar portion, and a pair of extended portions extended from the wound portion. The base portion has at least one ridge portion at which the upper surface and a side surface are in linear contact with each other. The pair of extended portions are each disposed such that a flat surface portion connected to a flat surface portion disposed at an inner side portion of a conductive wire located at an outer peripheral portion of the wound portion is close to the ridge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo SATO, Mikiya AOKI, Hiroyuki AOKI, Kazuhisa KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200153061
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery coolant for an electric vehicle that has a low conductivity, a low ion elution performance, a low viscosity at a very low temperature, and a cooling performance equivalent to that of an aqueous coolant composition in a driving temperature range. The present disclosure relates to a battery coolant for an electric vehicle containing at least one kind of carbonates selected from the group consisting of propylene carbonate and butylene carbonate in an amount of 90 mass % or more with respect to a total mass of the coolant and water in an amount of 3 mass % or less with respect to the total mass of the coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ARAI, Yasuaki KODAMA, Masayuki NAGASAWA, Yoshimichi UMEHARA, Yoichiro YOSHII, Yu SASAKI