Patents by Inventor Makoto Ito

Makoto Ito 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: 20140174795
    Abstract: A printed wiring board has a heat transfer pattern facing a heat sink of an electronic component, on a first surface layer on which the electronic component having the heat sink is mounted. The printed wiring board has a through hole conductor formed in a through hole penetrating the printed wiring board corresponding to the heat transfer pattern, and thermally connected to the heat transfer pattern. The heat transfer pattern has a plurality of connecting lands exposed so as to be connectable to the heat sink of the electronic component by solder while being divided by a solder resist. The plurality of the connecting lands include lands adjacent to the through holes, and lands not adjacent to the through holes. The heat dissipation of the electronic component is enhanced while enhancing the connectability of the heat transfer pattern with the heat sink of the electronic component, at being mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keigo Nakazawa, Makoto Ito
  • Patent number: 8731412
    Abstract: An amplifier implementing with a common base circuit is disclosed. The amplifier includes the common base circuit, a current shunt, and a current supplement. The common base circuit receives an input current. The current shunt shunts the input current based on the average of the output of the pre-amplifier. The current supplement supplements a current shunted by the current shunt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Taizo Tatsumi
  • Publication number: 20140106631
    Abstract: A marine vessel includes a plurality of turning mechanisms provided respectively in correspondence to a plurality of outboard motors. Each turning mechanism includes a hydraulic pump, an electric motor to drive the hydraulic pump, a hydraulic cylinder including two cylinder chambers partitioned by a piston, and a normally-closed bypass valve to put the two cylinder chambers of the hydraulic cylinder into communication with each other. Upon judging that there is a malfunction in the turning angle control of at least one of the outboard motors, a main ECU displays on a display an operation guidance screen to urge a marine vessel operator to open the bypass valve of the turning mechanism corresponding to the malfunctioning outboard motor. Also, the main ECU keeps a power transmission between an engine and a propeller in the malfunctioning outboard motor in an interrupted state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto ITO
  • Patent number: 8682515
    Abstract: A marine vessel control system includes a control unit, a first communication bus, a second communication bus, and an auxiliary device connection section. The control unit includes a main output section arranged to output marine vessel maneuvering control information including starting information of a marine vessel propulsion device, and a sub output section arranged to output backup information including the starting information of the marine vessel propulsion device. The first communication bus is connected to the marine vessel propulsion device and the control unit, and is arranged to transmit the marine vessel maneuvering control information to the marine vessel propulsion device. The second communication bus is connected to the marine vessel propulsion device and the control unit, and is arranged to transmit the backup information to the marine vessel propulsion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Ito
  • Patent number: 8616624
    Abstract: In a seat, in a state in which tilting of a back main frame around a tilting center is locked by a reclining mechanism, a lower end of a back joint link is turnably joined to a vehicle side. Thus, turning of a first link, a back sub frame and the back joint link is locked, and operation of a back link mechanism is locked. Therefore, a supporting rigidity from rear side of a back side portion can be enhanced by the back link mechanism (the back sub frame), and a crew sitting in the seat can be thoroughly retained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamada, Hideki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tokai, Masaki Mori, Keisuke Onoda, Makoto Ito
  • Patent number: 8608242
    Abstract: In a seat, in a state in which tilting of a back main frame around a tilting center is locked by a reclining mechanism, a lower end of a back joint link is turnably joined to a vehicle side. Thus, turning of a first link, a back sub frame and the back joint link is locked, and operation of a back link mechanism is locked. Therefore, a supporting rigidity from rear side of a back side portion can be enhanced by the back link mechanism (the back sub frame), and a crew sitting in the seat can be thoroughly retained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamada, Hideki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tokai, Masaki Mori, Keisuke Onoda, Makoto Ito
  • Publication number: 20130316693
    Abstract: A mobile station includes a time information reception determining unit configured to determine whether time information is received from a residing network, a table configured to associate networks where the mobile station may reside with time zones for areas where the networks are operated, and a time adjustment unit configured to, in the case where it is not determined by the time information reception determining unit that the time information is received, refer to the table, and perform time adjustment based on the time zone corresponding to the network where the mobile station resides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Kazufumi Yunoki, Takehiro Ida
  • Publication number: 20130309772
    Abstract: To provide a transformation method for producing a stramenopile organism having an improved unsaturated fatty acid production capability by disrupting a gene of the stramenopile organism or inhibiting the expression of the gene in a genetically engineering manner. [Solution] A method for transforming a stramenopile organism, which comprises disrupting a gene of the stramenopile organism or inhibiting the expression of the gene in a genetically engineering manner, and which is characterized in that the stramenopile organism is selected from Thraustochytrium aureum, Parietichytrium sarkarianum, Thraustochytrium roseum and Parietichytrium sp. and the gene to be disrupted or of which the expression is to be inhibited is a gene associated with the biosynthesis of a fatty acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicants: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, NIPPON SUISAN KAISHA, LTD., KONAN GAKUEN, UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI
    Inventors: Keishi Sakaguchi, Rie Hamaguchi, Takanori Matsuda, Makoto Ito, Naoki Nagano, Masahiro Hayashi, Daisuke Honda, Yuji Okita, Shinichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20130292980
    Abstract: In a seat, in a state in which tilting of a back main frame around a tilting center is locked by a reclining mechanism, a lower end of a back joint link is turnably joined to a vehicle side. Thus, turning of a first link, a back sub frame and the back joint link is locked, and operation of a back link mechanism is locked. Therefore, a supporting rigidity from rear side of a back side portion can be enhanced by the back link mechanism (the back sub frame), and a crew sitting in the seat can be thoroughly retained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamada, Hideki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tokai, Masaki Mori, Keisuke Onoda, Makoto Ito
  • Patent number: 8568942
    Abstract: A porous gas diffusion electrode provided on a polymer electrolyte such that a gas can be introduced, for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, includes a carbon fiber, and an electric conductive polymer and a thermoset resin that bond the carbon fibers to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Hirokazu Ishimaru
  • Publication number: 20130231111
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including: a storage unit configured to store a table of networks that a user desires to select; a selection unit configured, when a network included in the table is found from networks detected by cell search, to select the network that is detected by cell search and that is included in the table; and a processing unit configured to select a cell of the network selected by the selection unit, and performs position registration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Kazufumi Yunoki
  • Patent number: 8521347
    Abstract: A marine vessel steering apparatus includes a steering mechanism arranged to be operable by an operator, a steering unit arranged to turn a pivoting unit mounted pivotally on a marine vessel, a detecting unit arranged to detect if an actual pivoting angle, the turning angle of the pivoting unit, becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined angle, a locking unit arranged to lock the turning of the steering mechanism, and a control unit. The control unit is programmed to set a target pivoting angle based on the turning state of the steering mechanism and to drive the steering unit to make the actual pivoting angle equal to the target pivoting angle. The control unit is also programmed, when the detecting unit detects that the actual pivoting angle becomes equal to or greater than the predetermined angle, to drive the locking unit to lock the turning of the steering mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Toshiya Inai, Makoto Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20130196662
    Abstract: A mobile station includes a public land mobile network registration unit that registers public land mobile networks including a public land mobile network input by a manual operation, wherein the public land mobile network input by the manual operation is not detected, and a public land mobile network selecting unit that selects a public land mobile network specified by the manual operation, among the public land mobile networks registered in the public land mobile network registration unit, wherein the public land mobile networks registered in the public land mobile network registration unit include the public land mobile network which is not detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Kazufumi Yunoki
  • Patent number: 8469416
    Abstract: An impact absorbing device for a vehicle includes an impact-absorbing portion including an inner wall surface extending smoothly in an axial direction and configured to compressively deform in the axial direction for absorbing an impact energy, a first attaching portion closing an opening end of the impact-absorbing portion closer to a bumper reinforcement and configured to be attached to the bumper reinforcement, a second attaching portion extending from an opening end of the impact-absorbing portion closer to the side member and configured to be attached to a side member, a readily deformable portion provided at the impact-absorbing portion and formed by forming a plate thickness to be thinner in a partial range of the impact-absorbing portion in the axial direction, and an initial peak load restraining portion provided at the first attaching portion and set to be away from the bumper reinforcement in the axial direction, which are integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Keikinzoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Haneda, Shuji Inoue, Makoto Ito, Kenichi Adachi, Kiyoichi Kita, Jun Shobo
  • Patent number: 8460040
    Abstract: An outboard motor control device is arranged to control a plurality of outboard motors. The outboard motor control device includes a malfunction determination unit arranged to determine whether any of the outboard motors is malfunctioning in turning angle control, a turning angle control stop unit arranged to stop turning angle control of an outboard motor determined as malfunctioning in turning angle control by the malfunction determination unit, a turning angle range limitation unit arranged to limit a turning angle range of other normally functioning outboard motor according to a turning angle of the outboard motor malfunctioning in turning angle control, and a turning angle control unit arranged to perform turning angle control of the normally functioning outboard motor in the turning angle range limited by the turning angle range limitation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Ito
  • Publication number: 20130135454
    Abstract: An imaging device including an optical system having a lens; an imaging section that converts a subject image formed on the optical system to an electrical signal; a detecting section that detects a human body using an edge pattern of an image signal obtained by the imaging section; and a control section that drives the lens to perform focus control based on a change in a size of the human body detected in time series in a plurality of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventor: Makoto Ito
  • Patent number: 8437895
    Abstract: A marine vessel control apparatus is arranged and programmed to control a propulsion device including an engine and a propulsion device control unit. The marine vessel control apparatus includes a starter switch arranged to be operated by an operator to start the engine, and a main control unit arranged and programmed to receive a start command from the starter switch and to communicate with the propulsion device control unit. The main control unit includes a stand-by unit arranged to, when receiving the start command from the starter switch, stand by until information for determination of a predetermined start permission condition is acquired from the propulsion device control unit, a determining unit arranged to, after the information is acquired, determine if the start permission condition is met, and an engine start command unit arranged to, if the start permission condition is met, provide an engine start command to the propulsion device control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Ito
  • Publication number: 20130059580
    Abstract: There are included an information collecting unit that collects, for each of public land mobile network, public land mobile network selecting information to be used for selecting a public land mobile network to be preferentially selected, and a storing unit that stores, for each of the public land mobile networks, the public land mobile network selecting information collected by the information collecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Kazufumi Yunoki, Takehiro Ida
  • Patent number: 8362841
    Abstract: A differential amplifier showing a suppressed output offset is disclosed. The differential amplifier includes a pair of differential transistors, a pair of cascode transistors, and a reference generator. One of differential transistors receives an AC signal, while, the other of differential transistors receives an average voltage of the AC signal. The reference generator receives the average voltage of the AC signal and outputs a bias commonly provided to the cascode transistor. The bias is raised by a substantially constant level from the average voltage, which compensates the output offset of the differential amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Sosaku Sawada
  • Patent number: 8356546
    Abstract: A holding control valve of the present invention is configured such that: a spool is configured to perform strokes by a piston configured to operate by introduction of pilot pressure and have a larger diameter than the spool; the piston is divided into a pilot piston configured to receive the pilot pressure and a relief operation piston disposed adjacent to the spool to receive pressure of relief oil discharged when a relief valve operates; and the relief oil is introduced to between the pilot piston and the relief operation piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsuo, Makoto Ito, Noboru Ito