Patents by Inventor Kazunori Suzuki

Kazunori Suzuki 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: 20240094820
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and an input device, where the input device includes a vibrating unit, the information processing apparatus includes a touch sensor and a display unit, and the touch sensor and the display unit are superimposed on each other. A controller of the information processing apparatus or the input device monitors input operation of the input device to the touch sensor to enable a sound mode when detecting a sound output request, and to enable a vibration mode when detecting the input operation, the sound mode is a drive mode to cause the vibrating unit to present sound, and the vibration mode is a drive mode to vibrate the vibrating unit in response to contact of the input device with the touch sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yamazaki, Keiichi Yoshitomi, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Kazunori Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20240088864
    Abstract: A piezoelectric bulk wave device includes a support including a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the support and including first and second principal surfaces, an IDT electrode on the first principal surface and including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes each including electrode fingers and a busbar connecting the electrode fingers, and a frequency adjustment film on the second principal surface and overlapping at least a portion of the IDT electrode. The support includes a hollow portion overlapping at least a portion of the IDT electrode. d/p is less than or equal to about 0.5. Via holes are provided to the piezoelectric layer and the frequency adjustment film. Wiring electrodes are provided in the via holes and on the frequency adjustment film and electrically connected to the busbars of the comb-shaped electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazunori INOUE, Katsumi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240071337
    Abstract: An unevenness correction data generation device suppressing the appearance of color unevenness when turning on R, G and B together includes a pattern generation unit causing red, green and blue images, in which display panel subpixels are turned on at the same gray level, to be displayed, a monochrome camera, a control unit generating first red, green and blue luminance correction data based on shooting data of the monochrome camera, a pattern generation unit causing the display panel to display a white image by causing red, green and blue images corrected with the respective luminance correction data to be displayed simultaneously, a color camera shooting the white image in color, and a control unit generating color correction data for correcting color unevenness based on shooting data of the color camera and generates unevenness correction data based on the red, green and blue luminance correction data and the color correction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: IIX INC.
    Inventors: Makoto HATAKENAKA, Takashi SAKAMOTO, Hiroshi MURASE, Mitsuo HAGIWARA, Hideaki SUZUKI, Kazunori YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230302697
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus includes a defining portion, a plunger, and a valve member. The defining portion defines a supply port, a discharge port, and a resin channel. The resin channel includes a reserving portion, a first partial channel connecting the supply port and the reserving portion, a second partial channel connecting the reserving portion and the discharge port, a relay channel connecting the first partial channel, the reserving portion and the second partial channel, and a connecting channel connecting the first partial channel and the second partial channel. The plunger discharges the molten resin reserved in the reserving portion. The valve member is provided in the connecting channel and the second partial channel. The first partial channel and the relay channel are connected to the connecting channel so as to intersect with the connecting channel. The valve member includes a first valve portion and a second valve portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: NOBUHARU HOSHI, KAZUNORI SUZUKI, AKIRA SUZUKI, TOSHITERU YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 11518577
    Abstract: A liquid container includes a container portion and a lid. The container portion includes a plurality of storage portions separated by at least one partition rib and storing liquid respectively in an isolated state. The lid bonded with the container portion so as to cover an opening region of the container portion. A plurality of project portions engaging with the partition rib so as to sandwich the partition rib from both sides of the partition rib is integrally molded with the lid. In a state in which the partition rib is engaged with the project portions, a bonding portion is filled with bonding resin so as to seal a cavity between an edge end of the partition rib and the lid and a cavity between an edge end of an outer circumference of the container portion and the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunori Suzuki, Norio Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20210221665
    Abstract: There is provided a dart collecting device to easily collect darts from a dartboard, even from a relatively low position with respect to the dartboard. The dart collecting device includes: a pair of first gap forming portions that forms a first gap extending in the vertical direction so as to receive a tip of the dart from above at a first interval capable of preventing a barrel of a dart from passing; a pair of second gap forming portions that forms a second gap extending in the vertical direction so as to receive a barrel of a dart from above at a second interval wider than the first interval; a bottom portion that forms a lower end of the second gap; and a shaft that extends downward from the bottom portion. The first gap and the second gap are configured to capable of receiving a dart stuck into a dartboard and capable of stacking and holding a plurality of darts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventor: Kazunori SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11009379
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal flow rate measurement device that is capable of highly accurate correction of the temperature of an intake gas flow rate using a two-dimensional correction map that stores a correction value in association with temperature and intake gas flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Suzuki, Keiji Hanzawa, Junichi Horie, Akira Kotabe
  • Patent number: 10942050
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a thermal flowmeter that prevents erroneous detection of backflow by suppressing circulation of air flow from a flow detection unit side to a back side or from the back side to the flow detection unit side and measures a gas flow rate with high accuracy. A thermal flowmeter of the present invention includes a bypass passage through which a gas to be measured passes; a dividing portion which divides the inside of the bypass passage into a first passage portion and a second passage portion; and a flow detection unit which is provided on a surface of the dividing portion on the first passage portion side and detects a flow rate of the gas to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Suzuki, Akira Uenodan, Junichi Horie
  • Publication number: 20200198839
    Abstract: A liquid container includes a container portion and a lid. The container portion includes a plurality of storage portions separated by at least one partition rib and storing liquid respectively in an isolated state. The lid bonded with the container portion so as to cover an opening region of the container portion. A plurality of project portions engaging with the partition rib so as to sandwich the partition rib from both sides of the partition rib is integrally molded with the lid. In a state in which the partition rib is engaged with the project portions, a bonding portion is filled with bonding resin so as to seal a cavity between an edge end of the partition rib and the lid and a cavity between an edge end of an outer circumference of the container portion and the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Kazunori Suzuki, Norio Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10591332
    Abstract: Provided is an airflow meter with good precision. In the airflow meter, which is provided with an arithmetic circuit that incorporates air temperature and a sensor module temperature as adjustment elements for the output characteristics of the airflow meter, corrects the output characteristics in accordance with the temperature difference between the air temperature and the sensor module temperature and reduces the correction amount when the absolute value of the difference between the air temperature and the sensor module temperature is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sato, Masahiro Matsumoto, Satoshi Asano, Akira Kotabe, Kazunori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190353509
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal flow rate measurement device that is capable of highly accurate correction of the temperature of an intake gas flow rate using a two-dimensional correction map that stores a correction value in association with temperature and intake gas flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori SUZUKI, Keiji HANZAWA, Junichi HORIE, Akira KOTABE
  • Patent number: 10317814
    Abstract: A powder supply device that includes a powder reservoir including a rotator having a rotation shaft, to store powder supplied from a powder container; and a powder amount detector. The powder amount detector includes a detected member disposed in the powder reservoir, a contact member attached to the rotation shaft, to contact the detected member to vibrate or move the detected member, a detector to detect vibration or a displacement of the detected member, and a detection result processor to detect the amount of the powder in the powder reservoir based on detection by the detector. The powder supply device further includes a controller to supply the powder from the powder container to the powder reservoir based on detection by the powder amount detector. The controller rotates the rotator in discharging the powder from the powder reservoir and supplying the powder from the powder container to the powder reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Takami, Tetsuro Hirota, Kenji Kikuchi, Koichi Yamazaki, Atsushi Nakamoto, Naohiro Kawashima, Tatsuya Kubo, Shinnosuke Koshizuka, Kazunori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190128716
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a thermal flowmeter that prevents erroneous detection of backflow by suppressing circulation of air flow from a flow detection unit side to a back side or from the back side to the flow detection unit side and measures a gas flow rate with high accuracy. A thermal flowmeter of the present invention includes a bypass passage through which a gas to be measured passes; a dividing portion which divides the inside of the bypass passage into a first passage portion and a second passage portion; and a flow detection unit which is provided on a surface of the dividing portion on the first passage portion side and detects a flow rate of the gas to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Kazunori SUZUKI, Akira UENODAN, Junichi HORIE
  • Patent number: 10260921
    Abstract: A connection terminal is on a flange of a thermal flow meter. A terminal connection part has a first and a second bent part. The first bent part is bent from a first direction to a second direction. The second bent part has is bent from the first bent part to a third direction. The first and second bent parts are formed such that when connection pin parts of a plurality of the connection terminals and terminal connection parts of the plurality of connection terminals are projected onto a first imaginary plane, an imaginary line L extending along a first direction passing through the projection areas of each of the terminal connection parts of the plurality of connection terminals passes between the projection areas of the connection pin parts from among the connection pin parts of the plurality of connection terminals, that are positioned on both sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Jiro Taniguchi, Keiichi Nakada, Yasuhiro Asano, Hiroshi Hirayama, Kazunori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10228739
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for efficiently securing power when a predetermined natural phenomenon occurs. In order to solve such a problem, there is provided a power management apparatus (1) including an event information acquisition unit (10) that acquires event information indicating the occurrence of a predetermined event relating to a natural disaster and the detail of the event, a grouping unit (20) that divides a plurality of storage batteries as managing targets into a first group and a second group on the basis of the event information acquired by the event information acquisition unit (10), and a storage battery control unit (30) that controls an charging operation of the storage battery for each group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazunori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10190899
    Abstract: A thermal flow sensor with improved measurement accuracy is provided. The thermal flow sensor includes: an air flow rate detection element with a diaphragm having a thin-film portion in a semiconductor substrate; at least one heat generating resistor on the diaphragm; at least one temperature measuring resistor that detects temperature on each of an upstream side and a downstream side of the heat generating resistor; and a correction circuit portion that processes an output signal of the air flow rate detection element on the basis of temperature difference information of at least the two temperature measuring resistors on the upstream side and the downstream side, wherein a waveform of the output signal processed by the correction circuit portion is a waveform obtained by cutting a part of a mountain part or a valley part constituting a peak value by outputting of an arbitrary predetermined value when the peak value of the waveform exceeds the arbitrary predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Doi, Shinobu Tashiro, Kazunori Suzuki, Masahiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10148887
    Abstract: An imaging system 1 includes an imaging control device 10, an imaging device 20, and a light emitting device 30. The imaging control device 10 is provided for controlling the imaging device 20 and the light emitting device 30, and includes an evaluation unit 13, a light reception adjustment unit 14, and a light emission adjustment unit 15. The evaluation unit 13 evaluates respective brightnesses of the first image data and the second image data that are output from the imaging device 20. The light reception adjustment unit 14 adjusts any of an exposure time, a diaphragm value, and a gain that are to be used when the imaging device 20 captures an image, based on a brightness evaluation result. The light emission adjustment unit 15 causes the light emitting device 30 to emit light of either wavelength band of the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band, and adjusts a light emission intensity of the light, based on an evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: THINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Terada, Yoichi Tosaka, Tetsuji Uezono, Kazunori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180252565
    Abstract: Provided is an airflow meter with good precision. In the airflow meter, which is provided with an arithmetic circuit that incorporates air temperature and a sensor module temperature as adjustment elements for the output characteristics of the airflow meter, corrects the output characteristics in accordance with the temperature difference between the air temperature and the sensor module temperature and reduces the correction amount when the absolute value of the difference between the air temperature and the sensor module temperature is small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SATO, Masahiro MATSUMOTO, Satoshi ASANO, Akira KOTABE, Kazunori SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10048646
    Abstract: A structure includes a rotatable rotating member, a blade, a support member, and a frame body. The blade extends in an axial direction of the rotating member and is in contact with or disposed close to a surface of the rotating member. The support member supports the blade such that one end side of the blade projects toward the rotating member in a lateral direction that intersects the axial direction. The frame body is formed by insert molding in which resin is injected while the support member is secured to a mold. The frame body clamps part of the support member so as to support the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Suzuki, Hiroomi Matsuzaki, Kazunori Suzuki, Toshiteru Yamasaki, Shigeo Miyabe, Takahito Ueno, Shogo Satomura, Masatomi Yoshida, Nobuharu Hoshi
  • Patent number: 10007209
    Abstract: A developing device includes a developer bearer, a developer regulator disposed opposite the developer bearer across a first gap, and an opposing member having an opposing face disposed opposing the developer bearer across a second gap wider than the first gap. The opposing face is disposed adjacent to and upstream from the developer regulator in a direction of rotation of the developer bearer. The opposing face is inclined relative to an orthogonal plane direction orthogonal to a side face of the developer regulator. The opposing face is inclined to progressively reduce a distance from the developer bearer to the opposing face in a direction of rotation of the developer bearer. A difference between the second gap and the first gap is not greater than 1.75 times as large as the first gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Koshizuka, Koichi Yamazaki, Nobuo Takami, Atsushi Nakamoto, Kazunori Suzuki, Naohiro Kawashima