Patents by Inventor Makoto Abe
Makoto Abe 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).
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Publication number: 20240121533Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel circuit, a detection and selection circuit, and an AD conversion circuit. The pixel circuit outputs a plurality of pixel signals corresponding to mutually different gains or sensitivities. The detection and selection circuit compares one or more of the plurality of pixel signals with a reference value to generate a signal selection signal that instructs selection of a pixel signal among the plurality of pixel signals. The detection and selection circuit includes a sample and hold circuit that holds the plurality of pixel signals, and selects at least one pixel signal among the plurality of pixel signals held in the sample and hold circuit based on the signal selection signal. The detection and selection circuit is arranged in a stage before the AD conversion circuit that AD converts the at least one pixel signal selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Makoto IKUMA, Yutaka ABE, Takayasu KITO
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Publication number: 20240109512Abstract: A vehicle management apparatus is configured to manage a vehicle for delivery loaded with one or more packages. The vehicle management apparatus includes a controller configured to, upon detecting that the vehicle has stopped, determine, based on vehicle data indicating a status of the vehicle, whether a driver of the vehicle is making a delivery, and control a door of the vehicle to lock in a case in which it has been determined that the driver is making a delivery.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroto TOMIDA, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Tetsuya IDE, Mayuko ABE, Makoto AKAHANE, Haruki OGURI
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Publication number: 20240110803Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to extract roads that are difficult for a particular truck to travel based on a travel history of one or more trucks and generate route guidance such that roads that are easy for the particular truck to travel are given priority by avoiding at least one road among the extracted roads.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroto TOMIDA, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Tetsuya IDE, Mayuko ABE, Makoto AKAHANE, Haruki OGURI
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Publication number: 20240102240Abstract: A fibrous body processing apparatus includes a coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a humidifying unit that generates humidified air and supplies the humidified air to the coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a weight measurement unit that measures a weight of the coarsely crushed pieces let out of the coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a fixed amount supplying unit that supplies a fixed amount of the coarsely crushed pieces measured by the weight measurement unit; a defibrating unit that defibrates the coarsely crushed pieces supplied from the fixed amount supplying unit; a first transportation portion through which the coarsely crushed pieces are sent from the coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit to the weight measurement unit; a second transportation portion through which the coarsely crushed pieces are sent from the fixed amount supplying unit to the defibrating unit; and a generated at the humidifying unit is supplied to the defibrating unit while bypassing the weight measurement unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Jun SAKURADA, Makoto SATO, Koji MOTOHASHI, Karen HASEBE, Toshihiko YAMAZAKI, Takashi ABE
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Publication number: 20240102239Abstract: A fibrous body processing apparatus includes a humidifying unit, a first processing unit, a second processing unit, a first supply passage, a second supply passage, and a returning passage. The humidifying unit generates humidified air. The first processing unit processes a material that contains fibers. The second processing unit processes the material that was processed at the first processing unit. Humidified air is supplied from the humidifying unit to the first processing unit through the first supply passage. Humidified air is supplied from the first processing unit to the second processing unit, together with the material, through the second supply passage. The returning passage includes an upstream-side end portion and a downstream-side end portion. Humidified air is returned from the second supply passage or the second processing unit to the humidifying unit through the returning passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Karen HASEBE, Makoto SATO, Koji MOTOHASHI, Jun SAKURADA, Toshihiko YAMAZAKI, Takashi ABE
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Publication number: 20240104488Abstract: A delivery support apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to acquire information about a vehicle used for delivery of a package, the information having been acquired on the vehicle, determine, based on the information about the vehicle, a loading/unloading location at which the package was loaded or unloaded, and generate, based on the loading/unloading location, information about a location at which packages can be loaded/unloaded.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroto TOMIDA, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Tetsuya IDE, Mayuko ABE, Makoto AKAHANE, Haruki OGURI
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Patent number: 11934022Abstract: A photoelectric fiber includes a fiber including a core through which light is guided; an electrical unit formed continuously with the fiber, the electrical unit being configured to house a photoelectric conversion chip including a photoelectric conversion element; and an external electrode formed on a front surface of at least one of the fiber or the electrical unit, wherein the photoelectric conversion chip is optically connected to the core and electrically connected to the external electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Norio Sato, Atsushi Aratake, Makoto Abe, Takuya Tanaka, Kota Shikama, Takao Fukumitsu, Hiroshi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20240089625Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel circuit that outputs a pixel signal and a negative feedback circuit. The negative feedback circuit includes a sample and hold circuit (hereinafter “SH circuit”) that samples and holds the pixel signal, and a feedback amplifier that negatively feeds back, to the SH circuit, a feedback signal according to a difference between the pixel signal from the pixel circuit and an output signal from the SH circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Makoto IKUMA, Yutaka ABE
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Patent number: 11927004Abstract: The present invention provides a flush water tank device (4) that supplies flush water to an upper and lower spout port of a flush toilet (2) including; a flush water tank (10); a discharge valve (12); a first on-off valve (19) that performs switching between ejection and stopping of the flush water from the upper spout port; a first on-off valve driving mechanism (16) that is moved from a stopped position to an ejection position based on an user operation; a biasing mechanism (17) that causes the first on-off valve driving mechanism to move to the stopped position; a holding mechanism (20) that holds, at the ejection position, the first on-off valve driving mechanism at the ejection position against the bias force; and a releasing mechanism (21) that releases the holding of the first on-off valve driving mechanism, using the flush water flowing out from the first on-off valve.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Hideki Tanimoto, Koki Shinohara, Kenji Hatama, Makoto Abe, Seika Tatsuoka
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Patent number: 11918372Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit that obtains utterance data indicating a voice of an evaluatee uttering a sentence as instructed; a calculation unit that calculates, from the utterance data obtained by the obtainment unit, a feature based on the utterance data; an evaluation unit that compares the feature calculated by the calculation unit to reference data indicating a relationship between voice data indicating a voice of a person and a cognitive function of the person to evaluate the cognitive function of the evaluatee; and an output unit that outputs the sentence to be uttered by the evaluatee and outputs a result of evaluation by the evaluation unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadayuki Sumi, Ryosuke Nagumo, Kengo Abe, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takashi Nishiyama, Hirobumi Nakajima, Kohji Sasabe, Makoto Kariyasu, Takako Yoshimura, Minoru Toyama
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Patent number: 11899920Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle lighting device intended to improve convenience and safety. A vehicle lighting device includes a light disposed in a vehicle interior, a controller controlling the light, and a detecting unit detecting position or motion of a detecting object by detecting a detection object at a plurality of positions, and the controller controls the light when the position or motion of the detection object is detected by the detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventors: Makoto Abe, Satoshi Suzuki, Kenji Kawamura, Shingo Tsuji
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Patent number: 11881420Abstract: A ring support is attached to an inner wall surface of a chamber that houses a semiconductor wafer to support a susceptor. When the semiconductor wafer is placed on the susceptor, an inner space of the chamber is separated into an upper space and a lower space. Particles are likely to accumulate on a lower chamber window as a floor part of the chamber. However, since the upper space and the lower space are separated, the semiconductor wafer can be prevented from being contaminated by the particles flowing into the upper space and adhering to a surface of the semiconductor wafer even when the particles on the lower chamber window are blown up by irradiation with flash light.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Yamada, Makoto Abe, Kazuhiko Fuse, Jun Watanabe, Shinji Miyawaki
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Publication number: 20230407693Abstract: A control apparatus includes a selection input unit for receiving a selection operation to select either a first or second operation target provided in a vehicle as an operation target; an operation input unit for receiving an operation input for operating the operation target; and a control unit for operating the operation target according to either one of a first operation input that operates the operation target only while the operation input is being performed or a second operation input that causes the operation target to perform a continuous operation until a maximum or minimum operation amount. The control unit changes the continuous operation of the first operation target when the second operation target is selected while the first operation target is performing the continuous operation, or the second operation target is selected and the first or second operation input is performed with respect to the second operation target.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Toshiki NAKAMURA, Makoto ABE
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Publication number: 20230361691Abstract: Please substitute the new Abstract submitted herewith for the original Abstract: This power conversion unit includes a cooling path positioned between an input-side power converter and an output-side power converter arranged separately on two sides that face each other. The input-side and output-side power converters include: a mold resin filled into a space on the inside of housings; a switching element covered by the mold resin, an upper electrode plate connected to the switching element, and a heat dissipation plate having insulating properties connected to the upper electrode plate; and a lower electrode provided near the cooling path. The mold resin is an organopolysiloxane having a three-dimensionally crosslinked structure after curing, in which the elastic modulus at room temperature is 0.1 MPa or greater, and the value when the hardness after curing is 10 or greater as measured using a durometer type E.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Ryou MOTEKI, Hisashi MOROOKA, Shintarou TAKEDA, Makoto ABE, Hiroshi KAMIZUMA, Kinya NAKATSU
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Publication number: 20230317980Abstract: An energy recovery system includes the following: a first cooling water circulation path for allowing circulation of first cooling water to supply the first cooling water to a fuel cell; a first radiator that cools the first cooling water heated by the fuel cell, and is provided in the first cooling water circulation path; and a first thermoelectric converter that converts heat radiated from the first radiator into electricity, and is provided in the first radiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventor: Makoto ABE
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Patent number: 11730460Abstract: The present invention relates to a therapeutic substance delivery device for delivering a therapeutic substance to a desired site in a bodily duct, characterized in that the therapeutic substance delivery device is provided with: a therapeutic substance loading portion; a connector which is connected to the therapeutic substance loading portion; and a supplying/discharging pipe connected to the connector; and in that the therapeutic substance loading portion includes a main body portion in which a recessed portion is formed, a resilient film, and a connecting pipe; the connector is provided with a joint main body, a flange portion fixed to the other end portion side of the joint main body, and a fixing nut through which the joint main body passes; the joint main body is provided with a tube fastening portion; and at least part of the inner wall of the fixing nut is provided with a thread.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Masanori Maeda, Nobuo Kanai, Yusuke Fujii, Masayuki Yamato, Makoto Abe
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Publication number: 20230229298Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle lighting device intended to improve convenience and safety. A vehicle lighting device includes a light disposed in a vehicle interior, a controller controlling the light, and a detecting unit detecting position or motion of a detecting object by detecting a detection object at a plurality of positions, and the controller controls the light when the position or motion of the detection object is detected by the detecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Makoto ABE, Satoshi SUZUKI, Kenji KAWAMURA, Shingo TSUJI
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Publication number: 20230207348Abstract: A plurality of substrate support pins are erected on a susceptor that holds a semiconductor wafer that is an object being treated. The plurality of substrate support pins are set in a ring shape at equal intervals. A flash lamp irradiates the semiconductor wafer supported by the plurality of substrate support pins with flash light to heat the semiconductor wafer. The radius of a setting circle in which the plurality of substrate support pins are set is made larger as the pulse width of flash light emitted from the flash lamp decreases. To irradiate the semiconductor wafer with flash light while having the semiconductor wafer supported by the plurality of substrate support pins can prevent cracking of the semiconductor wafer despite possible abrupt deformation of the semiconductor wafer due to the flash-light irradiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Yukio ONO, Takahiro YAMADA, Makoto ABE
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Publication number: 20230197890Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes a first n-side semiconductor layer, a first active layer located on the first n-side semiconductor layer, a first p-side semiconductor layer located on the first active layer, a second n-side semiconductor layer located on the first p-side semiconductor layer, a second active layer located on the second n-side semiconductor layer, and a second p-side semiconductor layer located on the second active layer. The second n-side semiconductor layer has a tunnel junction with the first p-side semiconductor layer. The first active layer includes a first well layer and a first barrier layer alternately arranged in a stacking direction. The second active layer includes a second well layer and a second barrier layer alternately arranged in the stacking direction. The second well layer is thinner than the first well layer. The second barrier layer is thicker than the first barrier layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota FUNAKOSHI, Makoto ABE
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Patent number: D1015392Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Christoph Zeiner, Makoto Abe, Andreas Widmann