Patents by Inventor Kenji Masuda

Kenji Masuda 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: 20240125731
    Abstract: A gas sensor (1) including a sensor element (10); a metallic shell (138); a tubular outer surface member (190) attached directly or indirectly to the metallic shell, constitutes an outer surface of the gas sensor, and extends toward a rear end side in relation to the metallic shell; and a tubular protection member (210, 220) which is detachably fixed to a fixation region C1, C2 of an outer circumference of the outer surface member. The protection member includes a first arc portion (212), a second arc portion (222), and a fixation portion (214,224) brought into contact with and is fixed to the fixation region. When the protection member fixed to the outer circumference of the outer surface member by fixing the fixation portion to the fixation region is viewed in the axial O direction, the first arc portion and the second arc portion cover in total at least 90% of the entire circumference of the outer surface of the outer surface member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunchao LIU, Kazuhiro KOUZAKI, Takehiro OBA, Motohiko NAKAMURA, Kenji MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20230257767
    Abstract: The present invention provides an approach to enhancing the production of a foreign protein serving as a protein-based pharmaceutical product in host cells such as cultured cells derived from a mammal. The present invention provides transformed cells having a novel Hspa5 gene promoter, and a method for secreting and producing a foreign protein at high levels using the transformed host cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Masuda, Koichi Nonaka, Hiroki Tanemura
  • Patent number: 11555204
    Abstract: The present invention provides an approach to enhancing the production of a foreign protein serving as a protein-based pharmaceutical product in host cells such as cultured cells derived from a mammal. The present invention provides transformed cells having a novel Hspa5 gene promoter, and a method for secreting and producing a foreign protein at high levels using the transformed host cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Masuda, Koichi Nonaka, Hiroki Tanemura
  • Publication number: 20230005612
    Abstract: A physical condition detection method executed by a computer includes: obtaining body motion data of a subject over a given current time period including a current time; generating a current state model representing a current state of physical condition of the subject from the body motion data of the subject over the current time period, by using a mathematical model constructed using body motion data of the subject over a past period during which the physical condition of the subject was in a normal state; and outputting the current state model for detecting a change in the physical condition of the subject based on one or more differences obtained by comparing the current state model and a normal state model representing the normal state of the physical condition of the subject and generated from the body motion data of the subject over the past period using the mathematical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Kenji MASUDA
  • Patent number: 11457875
    Abstract: An event prediction system according to an aspect includes an acquisition unit and a symptom detection unit. The acquisition unit acquires body movement data about a subject's body movement from a measuring device that outputs the body movement data. The symptom detection unit makes, based on a subset, acquired during a past reference period, of the body movement data, a decision about whether or not there are any symptoms of an onset of a particular event related to the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masaru Yamaoka, Toshiaki Tanaka, Kenji Masuda, Atsushi Takahashi, Hidehiko Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11313962
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor processing system including an acquisition unit, a time series analysis unit, and a decision unit. The acquisition unit acquires measurement data from a measuring unit. The measuring unit measures a physical quantity, of which a value varies depending on whether a human is present in, or absent from, an object space. The time series analysis unit obtains an analysis model for a time series analysis in which the measurement data acquired at a predetermined timing is represented by multiple items, acquired before the predetermined timing, of the measurement data. The decision unit decides, depending on a decision condition including a condition concerning a coefficient of the analysis model, whether the human is present or absent at the predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTV CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masaru Yamaoka, Toshiaki Tanaka, Kenji Masuda, Atsushi Takahashi, Hidehiko Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11235425
    Abstract: At a time of carrying out a laser cutting processing in a direction intersecting with a processing line at which the laser cutting processing for a work has been carried out, a laser cutting speed is decelerated before a laser beam reaches the processing line at an initial laser cutting speed, and the laser cutting speed is accelerated when an axial center of the laser beam is positioned within a prescribed range in vicinity of a central position of the processing line, and the laser cutting speed is returned to the initial laser cutting speed, in vicinity of a position at which the axial center of the laser beam crosses the processing line. Also, when the axial center of the laser beam and the central position of the processing line almost coincide, the laser output is made to be almost zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Masuda
  • Patent number: 11231871
    Abstract: The present invention detects a battery abnormality during a driving cycle or self-shutdown even when a battery voltage sensor is not mounted. In the present invention, a first storage region is provided with a failure information storage region and a second storage region management information storage region, a second storage region is provided with a failure information storage region and a first storage region management information storage region, and a management information access flag storage region for storing access information indicating a presence or absence of an access to management information of the first storage region and management information of the second storage region is provided separately from the first storage region and the second storage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Masuda
  • Patent number: 11197641
    Abstract: Communication device includes first sensor configured to measure a state of a sensing target person to acquire first measurement data, second sensor configured to measure a body temperature to acquire second measurement data, and memory unit configured to store a reference body temperature for a single or each of a plurality of predetermined states of the sensing target person. Communication device further includes state determiner configured to determine whether or not the sensing target person is in the single or any one of the plurality of predetermined states, and abnormality determiner configured to compare the reference body temperature with the body temperature of the sensing target person to determine whether or not the sensing target person has a body temperature abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tanaka, Masaru Yamaoka, Kenji Masuda, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11185235
    Abstract: An information processing device obtains measurement data for calculating biological information of a measurement subject from a sensor that performs measurement without contact. Based on content of the measurement data, the measurement data is classified into a group associated with at least a position of the measurement subject, the biological information is calculated from the classified measurement data, and the calculated biological information is compared with a reference value associated with a group to which the measurement data belongs. Then, a notification is made based on the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Tomohiko Kitamura, Yasuo Kohashi, Masaru Yamaoka, Toshiaki Tanaka, Kenji Masuda
  • Patent number: 11176798
    Abstract: Anomaly notification system that notifies of an anomaly of cared person in room includes sensor, sound collecting unit, first determination unit that determines whether a volume of the collected sound is more than or equal to a reference volume, second determination unit that determines whether a target sound is a predetermined activity sound generated by an activity of cared person, and third determination unit that determines whether an anomaly occurs in cared person, based on the activity amounts, which are measured before and after the target sound is collected, and notification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kenji Masuda, Toshiaki Tanaka, Masaru Yamaoka, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210317498
    Abstract: The present invention provides an approach to enhancing the production of a foreign protein serving as a protein-based pharmaceutical product in host cells such as cultured cells derived from a mammal. The present invention provides transfected cells having a novel Hspa8 gene promoter, and a method for secreting and producing a foreign protein at high levels using the transfected cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Masuda, Yuto Nakazawa, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Maui Nishio, Takeshi Okumura, Koichi Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11141096
    Abstract: A method includes: acquiring body motion data related to body motions of a target person; generating, based on the body motion data, sleep state data related to a sleep state of the target person; storing the sleep state data into a sleep state database; predicting a future change in a physical condition of the target person from the sleep state data by referencing a physical condition prediction information database; and when the physical condition data indicating the physical condition of the target person is acquired, reading past sleep state data over a past period from the sleep state database, collating the physical condition data with the past sleep state data to generate physical condition prediction information for predicting a particular change in the physical condition from particular sleep state data, and registering the physical condition prediction information into the physical condition prediction information database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Masaru Yamaoka, Toshiaki Tanaka, Kenji Masuda
  • Patent number: 11052489
    Abstract: In a laser processing method, laser lights of fiber lasers or direct diode lasers is irradiated onto an iron-based plate material from a nozzle, a nozzle with a nozzle opening whose opening diameter is preliminarily set according to a thickness of the plate material is selected from plural nozzles whose nozzle openings have different opening diameters from each other, and the plate material is cut while irradiating the laser lights onto the plate material and injecting assist gas from the nozzle opening toward the plate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya Mizoguchi, Hiroaki Ishiguro, Ryohei Ito, Ryo Kobayashi, Kenji Masuda
  • Publication number: 20210072919
    Abstract: The present invention detects a battery abnormality during a driving cycle or self-shutdown even when a battery voltage sensor is not mounted. In the present invention, a first storage region is provided with a failure information storage region and a second storage region management information storage region, a second storage region is provided with a failure information storage region and a first storage region management information storage region, and a management information access flag storage region for storing access information indicating a presence or absence of an access to management information of the first storage region and management information of the second storage region is provided separately from the first storage region and the second storage region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20200254570
    Abstract: In a laser processing method, laser lights of fiber lasers or direct diode lasers is irradiated onto an iron-based plate material from a nozzle, a nozzle with a nozzle opening whose opening diameter is preliminarily set according to a thickness of the plate material is selected from plural nozzles whose nozzle openings have different opening diameters from each other, and the plate material is cut while irradiating the laser lights onto the plate material and injecting assist gas from the nozzle opening toward the plate material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya MIZOGUCHI, Hiroaki ISHIGURO, Ryohei ITO, Ryo KOBAYASHI, Kenji MASUDA
  • Patent number: 10598628
    Abstract: A gas sensor includes a sensor element having electrode pads, metal terminal members connected to the respective electrode pads, separators, and lead wires connected to the rear ends of the metal terminal members. Each metal terminal member has a forward locking portion and a rear locking portion provided at the forward and rear ends, respectively. The separator is composed of a forward separator and a rear separator connected to each other. The forward separator includes a first locking portion having a rearward-facing surface, and the rear separator includes a second locking portion having a forward-facing surface. The metal terminal member is held between the forward separator and the rear separator in a state in which the forward locking portion is in locking engagement with the rearward-facing surface and the rear locking portion is in locking engagement with the forward-facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Nagata, Takehiro Oba, Shunya Mihara, Kenji Masuda
  • Publication number: 20200005618
    Abstract: Anomaly notification system that notifies of an anomaly of cared person in room includes sensor, sound collecting unit, first determination unit that determines whether a volume of the collected sound is more than or equal to a reference volume, second determination unit that determines whether a target sound is a predetermined activity sound generated by an activity of cared person, and third determination unit that determines whether an anomaly occurs in cared person, based on the activity amounts, which are measured before and after the target sound is collected, and notification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji MASUDA, Toshiaki TANAKA, Masaru YAMAOKA, Kazuhiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190357857
    Abstract: Communication device includes first sensor configured to measure a state of a sensing target person to acquire first measurement data, second sensor configured to measure a body temperature to acquire second measurement data, and memory unit configured to store a reference body temperature for a single or each of a plurality of predetermined states of the sensing target person. Communication device further includes state determiner configured to determine whether or not the sensing target person is in the single or any one of the plurality of predetermined states, and abnormality determiner configured to compare the reference body temperature with the body temperature of the sensing target person to determine whether or not the sensing target person has a body temperature abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tanaka, Masaru Yamaoka, Kenji Masuda, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10446092
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that can protect user's eyes by reducing harmful blue light in a mode that matches the characteristics of an image to be displayed and the preference of the user who causes the image to be displayed. The image processing apparatus includes a blue light reduction control unit that acquires image information Sin corresponding to an image to be displayed on a display and a pixel value update unit that generates update image information Sbc by reducing at least luminance corresponding to a blue component in the acquired image information Sin so that a reduction rate of the luminance corresponding to the blue component is greater than or equal to reduction rates of luminance corresponding to the other color components in the acquired image information Sin and outputs the update image information Sbc to the display to cause the display to display the update image information Sbc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Aragane, Kenji Masuda, Kenichi Matsumura