Patents by Inventor Hoshino

Hoshino 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: 20240108986
    Abstract: A game system that contributes to a team not through an inter-person battle but through an action in a game and can provide an exciting fight even in a final stage of the game is provided. The game system includes processing circuitry configured to control assignment of a predetermined point associated with a neutral character to a player; set points assigned to the player as a score of the ally team; and determine a victory or a defeat by comparing a score of the ally team with a score of the enemy team, wherein the display, before a victory or a defeat is determined, does not display totals of scores of the ally team and the enemy team and, after a victory or a defeat is determined, displays a total of scores of each team and displays a score progress of a predetermined player character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: The Pokémon Company
    Inventors: Masaaki HOSHINO, Yuki GABE, Naoya OIKAWA, Norihiro SERA, Yixiang LI
  • Publication number: 20240114253
    Abstract: The imaging device images a wide range with high resolution, in a movable apparatus, an imaging device including an optical system forming an optical image having a low resolution region near an optical axis and a high resolution region outside the low resolution region on a light reception surface of an imaging element is installed at an installation position for imaging at least one of a horizontal direction in a rear of one side of the movable apparatus, one direction in a left-right horizontal direction behind a driver seat of the movable apparatus, and a downward direction behind the movable apparatus, with the high resolution region of the optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Hironobu HOSHINO, Tomoaki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20240109021
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon dioxide removal apparatus capable of reducing heat loss that can be caused when carbon dioxide is desorbed from an adsorbent. The carbon dioxide removal apparatus includes a frame, and an adsorption-desorption part supported by the frame. A clearance is provided between the frame and the adsorption-desorption part, and an air guide having flexibility is provided in the clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiyuki INABA, Shumon HOSHINO, Masanobu TAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240112835
    Abstract: An electronic component that includes: a base body having an outer surface defining a recess with an inner surface, wherein, when the recess is viewed in a direction orthogonal to the outer surface, at least a part of an outer edge of the recess is curved, and when the recess is viewed in a section orthogonal to the outer surface, at least a part of the inner surface of the recess is curved; a wiring inside the base body; and a glass film covering the outer surface of the base body and not covering the inner surface of the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoya OOSHIMA, Yuuta HOSHINO, Koichi YAMADA, Miki SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11948740
    Abstract: To provide an electrode for an electricity storage device, which electrode employs a porous conductor having conductive nanostructures formed on its surface and makes it possible to provide a less expensive electricity storage device having a high discharge capacity and high charge/discharge cycle resistance. A porous conductor which is used as an electrode for an electricity storage device has a plurality of conductive nanostructures on a surface of the porous conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: National University Corporation Chiba University, TOMOEGAWA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Hoshino, Yousuke Sugawara, Rio Yamada, Aoi Magori, Nobuyuki Aoki, Keiichiro Haji, Daisuke Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 11949626
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a terminal device that allows constraints on user allocation to be prevented and spread codes to be allocated in a scheduler when non-adaptive HARQ is employed using a PHICH. A codeword generator generates code words by encoding data, a layer mapping unit places each CW in one or a plurality of layers, a DMRS generator generates a reference signal for each layer in which a CW is placed by using any resource among a plurality of resources defined by a mutually orthogonal plurality of OCCs, and an ACK/NACK demodulator receives a response signal indicating a retransmission request. When a response signal requesting retransmission of only a CW placed in a plurality of layers is received, the DMRS generator uses each resource having the same OCC among the plurality of resources for the reference signals generated in the corresponding layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11946226
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine capable of achieving both low fuel consumption and ensuring of workability. The work machine is configured to, in a state where an output of an engine or hydraulic pump has increased to an increase threshold (S12: Yes) with the rotational speed being at a first rotational speed (S11: Yes), raise the rotational speed from the first rotational speed to a second rotational speed (S13); in a process of raising the rotational speed to the second rotational speed, output, to a regulator, a signal instructing reduction in the discharge rate (S14) so as to keep the output of the engine or hydraulic pump constant; and after the rotational speed has reached the second rotational speed, output, to the regulator, a signal instructing increase in the discharge rate (S16) so as to make the output of the engine or hydraulic pump have a value corresponding to a request load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Hoshino, Seiji Hijikata, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Ryou Yagisawa, Shou Furukawa
  • Patent number: 11946492
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a hydraulic actuator that is driven by a hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic pump; an open-center directional control valve that is arranged on a center bypass line, and controls a flow of the hydraulic fluid to be supplied to the hydraulic actuator; a CB cut valve arranged between a directional control valve and a hydraulic working fluid tank on the center bypass line; and a machine controller that controls an opening of the CB cut valve. The machine controller restricts the opening of the CB cut valve when operation on the hydraulic actuator is in a fine operation state in which the operation on the hydraulic actuator is within a predetermined range representing a region of fine operation, and the fine operation state is continued longer than a predetermined period, and fully opens the CB cut valve otherwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Hoshino, Seiji Hijikata, Yasutaka Tsuruga
  • Patent number: 11946224
    Abstract: The object of the present invention resides in provision of a construction machine in which a hydraulic cylinder can be driven in a high efficiency by an accumulator. To this end, the construction machine including: a hydraulic cylinder; a first accumulator that accumulates return fluid from the hydraulic cylinder with a first set pressure; a tank that stores hydraulic fluid therein; a first hydraulic pump that delivers the hydraulic fluid sucked from the tank; a hydraulic actuator that is driven by the first hydraulic pump; and a second accumulator that accumulates return fluid from the hydraulic actuator with a second set pressure, includes a first control valve placed in a first hydraulic line that connects the first accumulator and the hydraulic cylinder to each other, and a second control valve placed in a second hydraulic line that connects the second accumulator and the hydraulic cylinder to each other. The second set pressure is set to a value higher than that of the first set pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Hijikata, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Kenji Hiraku, Masatoshi Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20240102413
    Abstract: A dump truck includes an engine, a cab floor disposed above the engine and configured to support a cab, a first aftertreatment device configured to treat exhaust gas discharged from a first exhaust pipe of the engine, and a second aftertreatment device configured to treat exhaust gas discharged from a second exhaust pipe of the engine. The first aftertreatment device and the second aftertreatment device are disposed side by side in a vehicle width direction behind the engine and below the cab floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Hoshino, Hidetoshi Namai
  • Publication number: 20240107428
    Abstract: A user equipment 100 to which a plurality of cell groups are configured by a base station 200, comprises the steps of: receiving a switching instruction for giving an instruction about switching of search space set groups (SSSGs) in serving cells belonging to any cell group of the plurality of cell groups from the base station 200; specifying a target cell group as a switching target of the SSSG from among the plurality of cell groups based on a cell identifier or a cell group identifier included in the switching instruction. The UE 100 is configured to simultaneously switch the SSSGs of all the serving cells in the specified target cell group in response to the reception of the switching instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki HOSHINO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240107539
    Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises a transmitter configured to transmit a scheduling request (SR), and a controller configured to control a state related to monitoring of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) based on the transmission of the SR or a trigger of the SR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki HOSHINO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240100910
    Abstract: A rear air-conditioning controller can execute limitation on the volume of air to a rear side of a vehicle cabin when a first condition is satisfied. The first condition is a condition where a grille shutter upper or a grille shutter lower is stuck in an open state and a defroster function is in an on state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Yu HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20240100467
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon dioxide removal apparatus that enables determination of whether or not carbon dioxide has desorbed from an adsorbent without using a carbon dioxide sensor. A carbon dioxide removal apparatus includes a carbon dioxide adsorption module, a first valve provided in an intake part of the carbon dioxide adsorption module, a second valve provided in a discharge part of the carbon dioxide adsorption module, a third valve connected to the discharge part, a vacuum pump connected to the carbon dioxide adsorption module via the third valve, and a controller. The carbon dioxide adsorption module includes a pressure meter and an adsorbent, and the controller is configured to perform, based on a pressure measured by the pressure meter, at least one of determining whether carbon dioxide has desorbed from the adsorbent or detecting an abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiyuki INABA, Shumon HOSHINO, Masanobu TAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240107518
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, comprises: a receiver configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) message including information for configuring a cell group from a base station; a transmitter configured to transmit a scheduling request (SR); and a controller configured to control a condition related to monitoring of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in each serving cell in the cell group based on the transmission of the SR or a trigger of the SR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11938226
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods comprising abiotic, synthetic polymers with affinity and specificity to proteins. The synthetic polymers are an improvement over biological agents by providing a simpler, less expensive, and customizable platform for binding to proteins. In one embodiment, the compositions and methods relate to synthetic polymers with affinity and specificity to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). In one embodiment, the compositions are useful for treating diseases and disorders related to the overexpression of VEGF. In one embodiment, the compositions are useful for treating cancer. In one embodiment, the compositions are useful for detecting VEGF levels from biological samples. In one embodiment, the compositions are useful for detecting overexpression of VEGF from biological samples. In one embodiment, the compositions are used to diagnose cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Shea, Hiroyuki Koide, Yoshiko Miura, Yu Hoshino, Yuri Nishimura, Naoto Oku
  • Patent number: 11943527
    Abstract: An image capturing and display apparatus comprises a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements for converting incident light from the outside of the image capturing and display apparatus to electrical charge signals, and a plurality of light-emitting elements for emitting light of an intensity corresponding to the electrical charge signals acquired by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. A pixel region is defined as a region in which the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are arranged in an array. Signal paths for transmitting signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements to the plurality of light-emitting elements lie within the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yosuke Nishide, Yu Maehashi, Masahiro Kobayashi, Katsuyuki Hoshino, Akira Okita, Takeshi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11938980
    Abstract: A RIO device mounted to a train includes an output unit that outputs a signal to a relay mounted to the train, and a controller that controls whether or not to cause the output unit to output the signal. The output unit includes a readback circuit that detects whether or not the signal is outputted from the output unit. The controller makes a signal stop request and a signal output request to the output unit before operation of the train starts, acquires a detection result of the readback circuit while each of the signal stop request and the signal output request is performed, and detects abnormality of the output unit using the detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Shibata, Tetsuo Komura, Hiromi Goda, Hiroshi Jota, Kentaro Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20240094570
    Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic layer used in a viewing angle control system which has high image visibility from a desired direction and can sufficiently block images from other directions, an optical film, a viewing angle control system, and an image display device using the light absorption anisotropic layer. The light absorption anisotropic layer is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystalline compound, a dichroic substance, and an alignment agent, in which a content of the dichroic substance is 8.0% by mass or more with respect to a total solid content mass of the liquid crystal composition, and an angle ? between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal direction of a surface of the light absorption anisotropic layer is 5° or more and less than 80°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru HOSHINO, Hiroshi MATSUYAMA, Shinichi YOSHINARI
  • Publication number: 20240096556
    Abstract: An electronic component that includes: a ceramic body; and an external electrode on a surface of the ceramic body, wherein the external electrode includes: a base layer in contact with the surface of the ceramic body, the base layer including a granulate of a metal material and a continuous phase of a titanium-containing oxide present around the granulate of the metal material; and a plating layer on the base layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Yuuta HOSHINO