Patents by Inventor Kanemaru

Kanemaru 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: 20250098120
    Abstract: A cooling module includes a substrate, a heat radiation member fixed to the substrate with a gap between the heat radiation member and the substrate, a guide member that is disposed at a surface of the heat radiation member on a side of the substrate and that allows an electronic device to be inserted between the guide member and the substrate, a fixing mechanism that fixes the guide member to the heat radiation member so as to be movable in a direction in which the substrate and the guide member face each other, and a compressively deformable heat conductive member that is disposed between the heat radiation member and the guide member and overlaps with an opening provided in the guide member in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kubo, Yasuhisa Kanemaru
  • Publication number: 20250051442
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a humanized anti-DNAM-1 antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, including: a heavy chain variable region containing an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 as HCDR1, an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 as HCDR2, and an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 as HCDR3; and a light chain variable region containing an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 as LCDR1, an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 as LCDR2, and an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 as LCDR3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Akira Shibuya, Kazuko Shibuya, Yumi Kanemaru, Fumie Abe
  • Publication number: 20250051439
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a humanized anti-DNAM-1 antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, including: a heavy chain variable region containing an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 as HCDR1, an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 as HCDR2, and an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 as HCDR3; and a light chain variable region containing an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 as LCDR1, an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 as LCDR2, and an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 as LCDR3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Akira Shibuya, Kazuko Shibuya, Yumi Kanemaru, Fumie Abe
  • Publication number: 20250055448
    Abstract: First and second semiconductor devices include a first side and first to sixth terminals, couples the first terminal to the second terminal while the sixth, fourth and fifth terminals are receiving first, second and third voltages, and couples the first terminal to the third terminal while the sixth, fourth and fifth terminals are receiving fourth, third and second voltages. A first delay circuit supplies, to the third terminal of the second semiconductor device, a delayed signal at an input end coupled to the second terminal of the first semiconductor device. The first conductor is coupled to the fourth terminal of the first semiconductor device and the fifth terminal of the second semiconductor device. The second conductor is coupled to the fifth terminal of the first semiconductor device and the fourth terminal of the second semiconductor device. The first sides of the first and second semiconductor devices face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Hideki OKU, Tadashi KANEMARU
  • Publication number: 20250033105
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming a curved portion with a small curvature radius in an original tube while suppressing wrinkles and buckling. The method includes placing the original tube between a first die and a second die, and pressing one or more times on the original tube by bringing the first die and the second die closer together and pressing the first die and second die against the original tube, wherein the original tube has a circular cross-sectional shape in at least a portion thereof, the first die has a first curved surface, the second die has a second curved surface, in one of the pressing, cross-sectioning and bending are simultaneously performed on at least the portion of the original tube by pressing the first die and second die against at least the portion of the original tube; in the cross-sectioning, the circular cross-sectional shape of the original tube is reduced in diameter, and a diameter reduction rate in one time of the pressing is more than 0% and less than 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei TAMURA, Minoru KANEMARU, Rikuo KITAYAMA, Akira SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20240395008
    Abstract: An obstruction detection method includes: determining an exclusion depth pixel; and detecting an obstruction, based on depth pixel(s) other than the exclusion depth pixel. The determining includes performing the following: calculating an average value related to a depth pixel, based on the depth-pixel value of the depth pixel and the depth-pixel value of each of first surrounding depth pixels, and associating the average value with the depth pixel; calculating a normal line, based on the average value associated with the depth pixel and an average value associated with each of second surrounding depth pixels; determining whether an angle formed by the normal line calculated and the normal line of a predetermined reference plane is smaller than or equal to a predetermined angle; and determining the depth pixel as the exclusion depth pixel when the angle is determined to be smaller than or equal to the predetermined angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kei UEDA, Masaki KANEMARU, Tetsuro OKUYAMA, Yoshinao KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20240385245
    Abstract: A diagnosis device for an electric motor driven by an inverter includes a current detection circuit for detecting current of an electric motor, and a calculation processing unit which receives an output of the current detection circuit and performs winding short-circuit abnormality determination for the electric motor. The calculation processing unit includes an operation state determination unit for performing determination for an operation state of the electric motor, an initial negative-phase-sequence current analysis unit for analyzing initial negative-phase-sequence current in a normal state, and an inverter driving frequency calculation unit, and performs electric motor winding short-circuit determination in accordance with an inverter driving frequency using, as an evaluation value, difference between initial negative-phase-sequence current and negative-phase-sequence current calculated from electric motor current during driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto KANEMARU, Toshihiko MIYAUCHI, Yoshiki MATSUI
  • Patent number: 12140806
    Abstract: An optical module includes a first optical splitting element to split a signal beam into a first polarization component and a second polarization component, a first element having a first introduction port, a second element having a second introduction port, a first condensing part disposed between the first optical splitting element and the first introduction port and configured to condense the first polarization component toward the first introduction port, and a second condensing part disposed between the first optical splitting element and the second introduction port and configured to condense the second polarization component toward the second introduction port. An average refractive index of the second condensing part in an optical axis direction is larger than an average refractive index of the first condensing part in an optical axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC DEVICE INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Satoru Kanemaru
  • Patent number: 12116953
    Abstract: A thermal regenerator apparatus is disclosed including a regenerator medium having a plurality of flow passages extending between first and second ports, the flow passages facilitating back and forth fluid flow in a generally transverse direction between the first and second ports while the medium alternatively receives thermal energy from and delivers thermal energy to the fluid. The regenerator medium includes a plurality of overlying foils, each foil having a plurality of channels extending through the foil, the channels having beveled sidewalls. The channels have a width and spacing in the transverse direction and channels in each adjacent overlying foil are transversely offset such that each channel spans between and is in fluid communication with a pair of channels in the adjacent foils and the beveled sidewalls of the channels redirect fluid flow between channels in adjacent foils to form the flow passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ETALIM INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Walter Steiner, Geoffrey Donald Stalker Archibald, Timothy John Henthorne, Michael Peter Hoy, Takao Kanemaru
  • Publication number: 20240302435
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis device performs determination for at least one of abnormality of an electric motor driven by an inverter driven at a predetermined operation frequency and abnormality of a motive power transmission mechanism which transmits motive power from the electric motor to a load, wherein spectrum peaks extracted through FFT analysis of detected current of the electric motor are analyzed, and frequencies of spectrum peaks due to noise of the inverter are acquired in advance using the operation frequency and the frequencies of sideband waves with respect to the operation frequency. In abnormality diagnosis, abnormality determination is performed after spectrum peaks due to noise of the inverter are extracted from spectrum peaks extracted through FFT analysis of detected current of the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: c/o Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko MIYAUCHI, Makoto KANEMARU
  • Publication number: 20240302806
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a summary request storage unit that stores a summary request created in advance; a summary request management unit that receives a summary request acquisition request, that reads, from the summary request storage unit, a summary request included in the summary request acquisition request, and that provides the summary request thus read; a command execution unit that executes a command read from an application program; and a summary request execution unit that, in a case where the command is a summary request execution command, issues, to the summary request management unit, the summary request included in the summary request execution command, and executes the summary request acquired as a response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Akira KANEMARU
  • Publication number: 20240283332
    Abstract: This failure symptom detection device includes: a diagnosis calculation circuitry which calculates index values for abnormality-presence/absence determination for electric motor-provided equipment, from a detection result of current flowing from a driving device to an electric motor; and a diagnosis determination circuitry which determines presence/absence of abnormality of the electric motor-provided equipment from a calculation result of the diagnosis calculation circuitry. The diagnosis calculation circuitry includes a starting current extraction circuitry which, from detected current, extracts current in an acceleration period until a constant rotational speed is reached after starting of the electric motor, a data generation circuitry which divides current data in the acceleration period extracted by the starting current extraction circuitry, into pieces of data, and a frequency analysis circuitry which performs frequency analysis on each piece of data divided by the data generation circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ken HIRAKIDA, Hiroshi INOUE, Makoto KANEMARU, Yoshiki MATSUI, Takaharu NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 12047754
    Abstract: A sound source localization apparatus 2 includes a sound signal vector generation part 21 that generates a sound signal vector based on a plurality of electrical signals outputted from a plurality of microphones 11 that receive a sound generated by a sound source, a subspace identification part 22 that identifies a signal subspace corresponding to a signal component included in the sound signal vector and a noise subspace corresponding to a noise component included in the sound signal vector, a candidate identification part 23 that identifies one or more candidate vectors indicating a plurality of candidates of a direction of the sound source, and a direction identification part 24 that identifies, as the direction of the sound source, a direction, on the basis of an optimization objective function including a sum of squares of an inner product of the signal subspace and the noise subspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: AUDIO-TECHNICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinken Kanemaru
  • Patent number: 12047751
    Abstract: A method for determining microphone position is a method for determining positions of a plurality of microphones in a microphone array having the plurality of microphones arranged in a plurality of concentric circles. The method for determining microphone position includes a constraint condition acquiring step of acquiring constraint conditions including the maximum number of the plurality of microphones; and a selecting step of selecting, from among a plurality of combinations of (i) the number of microphones included in each of the plurality of concentric circles and (ii) the radius of each of the plurality of concentric circles, a combination indicating directional characteristics with the smallest difference from a target value of the directional characteristics of the microphone array, where the plurality of combinations satisfy the constraint conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: AUDIO-TECHNICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinken Kanemaru
  • Patent number: 12030305
    Abstract: A recording apparatus including a recording head that performs recording, a feed roller that feeds out a set medium, a transport driving roller that transports the medium, which is fed out by the feed roller, towards an opposing position that opposes the recording head, and an auxiliary roller provided between the feed roller and the transport driving roller, the auxiliary roller assisting transportation of the medium. When the apparatus is seen from a side of the apparatus, the auxiliary roller overlaps the feed roller in a height direction of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Sasaki, Shinji Kanemaru, Katsumi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240159876
    Abstract: A distance measuring device includes: a light source that emits irradiation light; a solid-state imaging device that generates, for each of pixels, a plurality of packets that hold signal charges generated at different exposure timings for the irradiation light; and a signal processing circuit that calculates a distance value based on the plurality of packets. For each of the pixels, the signal processing circuit: determines presence or absence of stray light using the plurality of packets corresponding to the pixel; when it is determined that there is no stray light, calculates a distance value of the pixel using a first process; and when it is determined that there is stray light, calculates a distance value of the pixel using a second process different from the first process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Masaki KANEMARU, Yoshinao KAWAI, Toshiaki HIRAOKA
  • Patent number: 11978811
    Abstract: A solar cell covered with a transparent plate through a predetermined gap includes a flexible power generating layer which photoelectrically converts light incident thereon through the transparent plate, a resin layer covering a light receiving surface of the power generating layer, and an adhesion preventing layer covering the surface of the resin layer and facing the transparent plate through the gap. The adhesion preventing layer is made of an inorganic material and has a surface roughness Sz of 1 nm or more and 500 nm or less. Thus, the outermost surface of the solar cell is constituted by the adhesion preventing layer, so that no tack mark occurs even when partial contact occurs between the solar cell and the transparent plate which face each other through the gap. As a result, it is possible to prevent deterioration in appearance due to the tack mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kanemaru, Kouhei Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20240142628
    Abstract: An object detection device includes: a light emitter that emits light; a sensor that generates a first pixel signal by exposure to reflected light according to a combination of emission by the light emitter and first exposure and a second pixel signal by exposure to reflected light according to a combination of the emission and second exposure; and a distance calculator that generates a distance image by ratio operation using the first pixel signal and the second pixel signal. Timing of the first exposure is set to timing during which the sensor is not exposed to reflected waves from an object included in a first section in which a distance from the object detection device is from 0 to a predetermined value. A time difference between the emission and the second exposure is greater than a time difference between the emission and the first exposure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuro OKUYAMA, Yoshinao KAWAI, Masaki KANEMARU
  • Publication number: 20240120870
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis device includes: a feature quantity calculation unit which calculates a plurality of feature quantities from the time-series data of the current values; an operation mode determination unit which determines an operation mode of a compressor on the basis of the load torque and the drive frequency; a feature quantity distribution generation unit which generates a feature quantity distribution from values of the plurality of feature quantities; a reference region generation unit which generates a reference region on the basis of the feature quantity distribution that is obtained in a normal case; and a determination unit which compares the feature quantity distribution that is obtained during an abnormality diagnosis and the reference region corresponding to the operation mode that is applied during the abnormality diagnosis, to determine whether an abnormality is present or absent in either of the compressor and the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi INOUE, Ken HIRAKIDA, Makoto KANEMARU, Takaharu NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240118962
    Abstract: A sharing system includes an operation channel of a block chain that shares operation data including information on a construction failure of a resource used in a service provided to a customer among a plurality of nodes, a provision channel of the block chain for sharing provision data used for providing information on a predetermined construction failure for the resource to the customer among a plurality of nodes, a monitoring unit that participates in the operation channel and the provision channel and monitors for construction failures of the resource, a maintenance node including an update unit configured to update a detection state of construction failures in the provision data when detecting update of the state of the construction failure related to the provision channel to be participated, and a provision node that participates in the provision channel and includes a notification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Haruka OSANAI, Sho KANEMARU, Kensuke TAKAHASHI, Tsuyoshi TOYOSHIMA