Patents by Inventor Makoto Takeuchi
Makoto Takeuchi 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: 20240309016Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof has an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity, and is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of narcolepsy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Mitsunori KONO, Yusuke SASAKI, Yuya OGURO, Zenichi IKEDA, Osamu KUBO, Masaki SETO, Toru YAMASHITA, Makoto KAMATA, Kenjiro SATO, Matthew Thomas REYNOLDS, Kazuaki TAKAMI, Asato KINA, Takafumi YUKAWA, Minoru NAKAMURA, Taku KAMEI, Hiroyuki KAKEI, Fumie YAMAGUCHI, Tomohiro OHASHI, Keiko KAKEGAWA, Takuto KOJIMA, Florian PÜNNER, Masataka MURAKAMI, Takahiko TANIGUCHI, Tatsuki KOIKE, Yuichi KAJITA, Yuhei MIYANOHANA, Kohei TAKEUCHI, Yoshiteru ITO, Norihito TOKUNAGA, Yasushi HATTORI, Eiji KIMURA, Martin Alexander PAWLICZEK, Marilena PIRA, Shuhei IKEDA, Noriyuki TEZUKA, Yoshikazu WATANABE, Kevin CURRAN, Nicolle DOERING, Maria HOPKINS, Ben JOHNSON, Andre KIRYANOV, Jon LAM, Sean MURPHY, Natasha O'ROURKE, Holly REICHARD, Paul TANIS, Yunlong ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240300743Abstract: Provided are a motor unit and a conveyance device. In a motor unit having a motor portion and a gear portion, the motor portion is formed by accommodating a most part of a drive motor in a housing member. The gear portion is formed by arranging at least a part of a drive gear and a plurality of small gear portions in a space surrounded by an inner tooth train portion, and the plurality of small gear portions is positioned around the drive gear in the space. Each of the plurality of small gear portions meshes with one of the drive gear and the inner tooth train portion, and each of the plurality of small gear portions rotates by rotation of the drive gear. At least a part of the gear portion is at a position overlapping the motor portion in plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Kazuo ITOH, Tatsuhiko NAKAMURA, Koji UEDA, Tomoya TAKEUCHI, Hideo NAIKI, Makoto MITSUYOSHI, Kazuwo MIKI
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Publication number: 20240306040Abstract: A classification module classifies, based on a degree of correlation identified for each pair of base station systems, a plurality of base station systems into a plurality of base station system groups. An operation control module executes operation control of a leader base station system based on a degree of operation of the leader base station system being a prediction result. The operation control module executes operation control of a follower base station system based on the degree of operation of the leader base station system being the prediction result, and on a ratio of the degree of operation of the follower base station system with respect to the degree of operation of the leader base station system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Makoto ONO, Kazushige TAKEUCHI, Masahiro KOJIMA
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Publication number: 20240296075Abstract: A job relay module acquires job data which is stored in a job data storage unit, and satisfies a condition associated with the job relay module. The job relay module outputs a job execution request in accordance with the acquired job data to a job execution module. A monitoring management module executes control so that, in response to occurrence of a predetermined event in a job execution system, the job relay module is executed by one or a plurality of other job execution systems which are alternative execution systems determined in accordance with a determination rule set for the job execution system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2021Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: Kazushige TAKEUCHI, Makoto ONO
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Publication number: 20240278697Abstract: An attachment member allowing a connected state between the attachment member and a guide member to be more easily checked is provided. The attachment member for attaching a stay cloth, which guides a deployment direction of an airbag module, to a seat back frame has a holding portion which includes a holding space for housing an attachment portion of the stay cloth. The holding portion is inserted into an attachment hole to be fitted into the attachment hole that is formed in the seat back frame. A through-hole which allows the attachment portion of the stay cloth in the holding space to be exposed in a penetrating direction of the attachment hole is formed in the holding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventors: Jinichi TANABE, Hiroshi BABA, Makoto TAKEUCHI, Hiroshi IZAWA, Yoshihisa KUROSAKI
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Patent number: 12005819Abstract: An attachment member allowing a connected state between the attachment member and a guide member to be more easily checked is provided. The attachment member for attaching a stay cloth, which guides a deployment direction of an airbag module, to a seat back frame has a holding portion which includes a holding space for housing an attachment portion of the stay cloth. The holding portion is inserted into an attachment hole to be fitted into the attachment hole that is formed in the seat back frame. A through-hole which allows the attachment portion of the stay cloth in the holding space to be exposed in a penetrating direction of the attachment hole is formed in the holding portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinichi Tanabe, Hiroshi Baba, Makoto Takeuchi, Hiroshi Izawa, Yoshihisa Kurosaki
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Publication number: 20240166024Abstract: This electric compressor control device comprises: a control unit of an inverter which controls a motor that drives a compressor; a physical quantity calculation unit which calculates, on the basis of one or a plurality of predetermined detection values acquired from the inverter, a physical quantity that varies depending on a workload of the compressor; a number-of-revolutions acquisition unit which acquires the number of revolutions of the motor; a storage unit which stores information representing a first threshold that varies depending on the number of revolutions of the motor, and defines whether or not the physical quantity is a normal value; and a refrigerant abnormality determination unit which determines whether or not there is an abnormality in a refrigerant system by comparing the calculated physical quantity with the first threshold, depending on the acquired number of revolutions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kyohei WATANABE, Akinori YOSHIOKA, Makoto TAKEUCHI, Tomoki HASE, Takashi MITSUMATA, Shinya HAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240134474Abstract: A display driver includes a driver circuit and a sensing controller. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel according to display information. The display panel defines a sensing region. The sensing controller interface circuit is configured to transmit an output vertical sync signal to a proximity sensing controller. The proximity sensing controller is configured to generate positional information of an input object based at least in part on a resulting signal received from a sensor electrode disposed in the sensing region. The output vertical sync signal comprises encoding the display information in the output vertical sync signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Hirokazu Hatayama, Masaaki Shiomura, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Takayuki Noto, Takashi Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11939977Abstract: A scroll compressor comprising a fixed scroll (15); an orbiting scroll (16) supported in a manner allowing for orbiting motion; a discharge port through which a fluid compressed by the two scrolls (15, 16) is discharged; an end plate step portion (16E) provided on an end plate of the orbiting scroll (16) formed so that a height of the end plate is higher on a center portion side in the direction of a spiral wrap and lower on an outer end side; and a wrap step portion (15E) provided on a wall portion of the fixed scroll (15) that corresponds to the end plate step portion (16E) so that a height of the wall portion is lower on the center portion side of the spiral and higher on the outer end side; wherein the orbiting scroll (16) is treated for surface hardening and the fixed scroll (15) is not treated for surface hardening.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Makoto Takeuchi, Genta Yoshikawa, Kazuhide Watanabe, Katsuhiro Fujita, Takayuki Hagita, Takayuki Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20240068472Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to suppress noise caused by contact between a depression and a ring. Provided is an electric compressor comprising: a housing that forms an outer shell; a fixed scroll that is housed in the housing and fixed on the housing side; a turning scroll that meshes with the fixed scroll and turns with respect to the fixed scroll; an autorotation inhibiting mechanism (30) that inhibits autorotation of the turning scroll; and a lubricant supply unit that supplies a lubricant to the autorotation inhibiting mechanism (30). The autorotation inhibiting mechanism (30) has: a ring hole (32) which is formed in the turning scroll; a ring (33) which is disposed in the ring hole (32), and the outer circumferential surface (33b) of which faces the inner circumferential surface 32a of the ring hole (32); and a pin (34) which is provided to the housing and which engages with the inner circumferential surface (33a) of the ring (33).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takayuki KUWAHARA, Akinori YOSHIOKA, Goshi IKETAKA, Makoto TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20240071319Abstract: A display driver includes a memory, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: in a first mode, update a display panel based at least in part on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; and in a second mode, update the display panel based at least in part on first image data stored in the memory in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal. The control circuit configured to: switch from the first mode to the second mode in response to a first command; and, in the second mode, adjust the display vertical sync signal based at least in part on an external vertical sync signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota
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Publication number: 20240069671Abstract: In general, in one aspect, one or more embodiments relate to an input device that includes a proximity sensing panel including sensor electrodes, and a proximity sensing circuit. The proximity sensing circuit configured to receive an indication of a transition from a first image refresh rate to a second image refresh rate, wherein the first image refresh rate is greater than a beacon signal rate and the second image refresh rate is equal to or lower than the beacon signal rate. The proximity sensing panel is also configured to align transmitting a beacon signal on the proximity sensing panel to a non-refresh period corresponding to the second refresh rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Masaaki Shiomura, Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Takayuki Noto, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Tomohiro Hirakawa
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Patent number: 11907453Abstract: A display driver includes a driver circuit and a sensing controller. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel according to display information. The display panel defines a sensing region. The sensing controller interface circuit is configured to transmit an output vertical sync signal to a proximity sensing controller. The proximity sensing controller is configured to generate positional information of an input object based at least in part on a resulting signal received from a sensor electrode disposed in the sensing region. The output vertical sync signal comprises encoding the display information in the output vertical sync signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Hirokazu Hatayama, Masaaki Shiomura, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Takayuki Noto, Takashi Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11861103Abstract: In general, in one aspect, one or more embodiments relate to an input device that includes a proximity sensing panel including sensor electrodes, and a proximity sensing circuit. The proximity sensing circuit is configured to determine that an image refresh rate to an equal or lower frequency than a beacon signal rate. The input-display device is configured to align transmitting a beacon signal on proximity sensing panel to during non-refresh period of a display or perform an additional image refresh frame on the display panel immediately before a next Vsync signal and a corresponding non-refresh period.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Masaaki Shiomura, Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Takayuki Noto, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Tomohiro Hirakawa
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Patent number: 11854491Abstract: A display driver includes a GRAM, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: update, in a first mode, display elements of a display panel based on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; update, in a second mode, the display elements based on image data stored in the GRAM in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal; and update, in a third mode, the display elements in synchronization with an external vertical sync signal. The control circuit is configured to: switch the display drive to a second mode in response to a first command; adjust, in the second mode, the display vertical sync signal based on an external vertical sync signal; and switch the display driver to the third mode after achieving synchronization of the display vertical sync signal with the external vertical sync signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota
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Patent number: 11839045Abstract: An electronic apparatus including a housing, an electronic component unit main body, an engagement lever, and an engaged member, in which the engagement lever includes a lever main body, an engagement groove, and a restricting member, the lever main body is displaceable between a first state in which the one end portion is inclined to protrude rearward with respect to the other end portion in an insertion direction of the electronic component unit main body with respect to the accommodating part and the engagement groove abuts against the engaged member from the rear in the insertion direction, and a second state in which the lever main body is vertical from the one end portion to the other end portion and the engagement groove engages with the engaged member, and the restricting member is able to restrict the lever main body to being in the second state.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Makoto Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20230358234Abstract: This scroll compressor comprises: a shaft that is capable of rotating about an axis; a motor that rotatably drives the shaft; a compressor body that is driven by the rotation of the shaft; a housing that covers the motor and the compressor body and that has a bottom surface facing the motor from the axial direction; an intake port that guides a refrigerant into the housing; and heat-dissipating fins that are formed on the bottom surface, that extend in the direction in which the refrigerant flows, and that are divided in the flow direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki SAKAI, Tatsuo ISHIGURO, Hitoshi TAMAKI, Hajime SATO, Hirofumi HIRATA, Makoto TAKEUCHI, Takuma KONDO
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Publication number: 20230325027Abstract: In general, in one aspect, one or more embodiments relate to an input device that includes a proximity sensing panel including sensor electrodes, and a proximity sensing circuit. The proximity sensing circuit is configured to determine that an image refresh rate to an equal or lower frequency than a beacon signal rate. The input-display device is configured to align transmitting a beacon signal on proximity sensing panel to during non-refresh period of a display or perform an additional image refresh frame on the display panel immediately before a next Vsync signal and a corresponding non-refresh period.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Masaaki Shiomura, Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Takayuki Noto, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Tomohiro Hirakawa
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Publication number: 20230315223Abstract: A display driver includes a driver circuit and a sensing controller. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel according to display information. The display panel defines a sensing region. The sensing controller interface circuit is configured to transmit an output vertical sync signal to a proximity sensing controller. The proximity sensing controller is configured to generate positional information of an input object based at least in part on a resulting signal received from a sensor electrode disposed in the sensing region. The output vertical sync signal comprises encoding the display information in the output vertical sync signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Hirokazu Hatayama, Masaaki Shiomura, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Takayuki Noto, Takashi Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20230306913Abstract: A display driver includes a GRAM, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: update, in a first mode, display elements of a display panel based on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; update, in a second mode, the display elements based on image data stored in the GRAM in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal; and update, in a third mode, the display elements in synchronization with an external vertical sync signal. The control circuit is configured to: switch the display drive to a second mode in response to a first command; adjust, in the second mode, the display vertical sync signal based on an external vertical sync signal; and switch the display driver to the third mode after achieving synchronization of the display vertical sync signal with the external vertical sync signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota