Patents by Inventor Manabu Kato
Manabu Kato 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: 20240126877Abstract: A malware detection method for a home network system including one or more home appliances that are connected to a home network includes: obtaining a plurality of setting values including at least information indicating a device type and an operating state of a target device subject to malware detection; selecting one detection model out of a plurality of detection models according to the plurality of setting values obtained; obtaining power consumption or current consumption of the target device; and detecting whether the target device is infected with malware, using the one detection model selected in the selecting and based on the power consumption or the current consumption obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Ryo KATO, Manabu MAEDA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Naohisa NISHIDA
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Patent number: 11960272Abstract: A production line monitoring system for monitoring a production line including a plurality of production devices is provided. The production line monitoring system includes: a plurality of terminals attached to a plurality of workers; and a server configured to communicate with the plurality of terminals via a wireless network. The server performs processing of receiving operation information about the production device and generating event information based on the operation information, processing of transmitting the event information to a first terminal and a second terminal of the plurality of terminals, and processing of transmitting event stop information to the second terminal when receiving response information transmitted from the first terminal after performing the processing of transmitting the event information.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazufumi Kato, Atsushi Imai, Tomonori Ishii, Koichi Saito, Manabu Saito
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Publication number: 20240034060Abstract: A novel inkjet recording device that allows occurrence of scattering to be suppressed without limiting the size of a printed character (font size) is provided. The novel inkjet recording device is so configured that a deflection positive electrode, a deflection negative electrode, or both the deflection positive electrode and the deflection negative electrode constituting a print head can be moved along a direction of ejection of ink droplets in correspondence with the size of a printed character.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoichiro KISANUKI, Manabu KATO, Koma SATO, Taisuke SUGII
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Publication number: 20240018345Abstract: This rubber composition contains from 1 to 150 parts by mass of a mixed resin in 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber, where the mixed resin contains from 1 to 99 mass % of a hydrogenated styrene resin and from 99 to 1 mass % of an aromatic modified terpene resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Ryosuke TAKAGI, Manabu KATO, Rie NAKAJIMA, Misa KONDO
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Publication number: 20230336876Abstract: A gated camera for dividing a field of view into a plurality of ranges in a depth direction and generating a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges, the gated camera includes: an illumination device configured to irradiate the field of view with pulse illumination light; an image sensor; a camera controller configured to control a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of the image sensor; and an arithmetic processing device configured to process image data generated by the image sensor. The arithmetic processing device is configured to acquire information on weather based on the image data obtained for a predetermined range in a weather detection mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicants: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., BRIGHTWAY VISION LTD.Inventors: Yoshihisa ENDO, Jun KANO, Manabu KATO, Yuichi WATANO
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Publication number: 20230328353Abstract: A gated camera for dividing a field of view into a plurality of ranges in a depth direction and generating a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges, the gated camera includes: an illumination device configured to irradiate the field of view with pulse illumination light; an image sensor; and a camera controller configured to control a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of the image sensor. The camera controller is configured to switch between a first imaging mode in which performance is relatively high and power consumption is relatively high, and a second imaging mode in which performance is relatively low and power consumption is relatively low.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicants: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., BRIGHTWAY VISION LTD.Inventors: Yoshihisa ENDO, Jun KANO, Manabu KATO, Yuichi WATANO
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Publication number: 20230311897Abstract: A sensing system is used for driving assistance or automatic driving. A gating camera is controlled to be in an enabled state/disabled state according to a traveling environment. The gating camera divides a field of view into a plurality of ranges in a depth direction and generates a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges in the enabled state. A main controller processes an output of a main sensor group and an output of the gating camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicants: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., BRIGHTWAY VISION LTD.Inventors: Yoshihisa ENDO, Jun KANG, Manabu KATO, Yuichi WATANO
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Patent number: 11560288Abstract: To make it possible to comprehensively predict the movement of people by associating an elevator control system in a facility such as a building and an external system other than this system with each other and thereby provide a new service that has not existed before.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Hatori, Masayasu Fujiwara, Akira Omachi, Takamichi Hoshino, Satoru Toriyabe, Manabu Kato, Atsuya Fujino, Wataru Toriumi
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Patent number: 11376848Abstract: To realize high-quality printing with less printing distortion by reducing an influence of a Coulomb force that acts between ink particles which are ejected in an inkjet recording device. The inkjet recording device is configured to charge ink particles ejected from a nozzle, deflect the charged ink particles, and print a character in a shape of an object to be printed. In the inkjet recording device, dots of each column of the character to be printed are divided into a plurality of blocks in a column direction. In addition, charging voltage data in which the order of the ink particles corresponding to the dots is switched in the divided block unit is stored, and a predetermined charging voltage is applied to the charging electrode on the basis of the charging voltage data.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: An Kyu, Takashi Kawano, Tsuneaki Takagishi, Manabu Kato
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Patent number: 11316331Abstract: A lead line routing structure includes: a lead line having an elliptical section; a bracket having a routing surface; and a guide portion. The guide portion includes a holding wall portion having a first principal surface and a second principal surface. The holding wall portion is provided with: a lead-out hole for leading a lead line to the second principal surface; and a slit extending from an end of the holding wall portion to the lead-out hole. The width of the slit is set to be larger than the minor axis of the lead line and smaller than the major axis thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro Sakata, Manabu Kato
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Publication number: 20210323304Abstract: To realize high-quality printing with less printing distortion by reducing an influence of a Coulomb force that acts between ink particles which are ejected in an inkjet recording device. The inkjet recording device is configured to charge ink particles ejected from a nozzle, deflect the charged ink particles, and print a character in a shape of an object to be printed. In the inkjet recording device, dots of each column of the character to be printed are divided into a plurality of blocks in a column direction. In addition, charging voltage data in which the order of the ink particles corresponding to the dots is switched in the divided block unit is stored, and a predetermined charging voltage is applied to the charging electrode on the basis of the charging voltage data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: An KYU, Takashi KAWANO, Tsuneaki TAKAGISHI, Manabu KATO
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Patent number: 11027540Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an inkjet recording device capable of adjusting a clearance between prints formed by two nozzles (114, 115), and capable of printing a print content at a high speed. In order to achieve the object, there is provided an inkjet recording device which has two sub-print heads including nozzles (114, 115), charging electrodes (116, 117), deflection electrodes (118, 119), and gutters (120, 121), in which the two nozzles are disposed in a deflection direction of ink particles, and which performs printing on a printed object (124) while moving the printed object (124) relative to the ink particles in a direction substantially perpendicular to the deflection direction of the ink particles, the inkjet recording device having a function for reducing a clearance between print results (125, 126), printed by the two nozzles (114, 115), by controlling a voltage applied to the charging electrodes (116, 117) and a voltage applied to the deflection electrode (118, 119).Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsuneaki Takagishi, Manabu Kato, An Kyu
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Patent number: 10957925Abstract: First, a reaction gas is supplied to a fuel cell stack including a laminate of solid polymer electrolyte fuel cells and power generation is performed so that a temperature of the fuel cell stack reaches 65° C. or higher (heating power generation step). Next, the reaction gas is supplied to the fuel cell stack and the power generation is performed under a condition in which relative humidity is 100% or more (cleaning power generation step). Cooling water of room temperature may be supplied to the fuel cell stack from the outside before the cleaning power generation step is performed after the heating power generation step is completed, or after the cleaning power generation step is completed (quenching step).Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime Murata, Kensaku Kodama, Manabu Kato, Toshiaki Kusakari
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Patent number: 10854892Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes: a membrane electrode assembly; and first and second separators joined to each other, wherein first and third fluid groove portions face each other in a stacking direction in which the membrane electrode assembly and the first and second separators are stacked, second and fourth fluid groove portions face each other in the stacking direction, and first and second coolant groove portions face each other in the stacking direction and define a common coolant flow path.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Kato, Haruyuki Aono
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Patent number: 10826084Abstract: A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly; and a separator disposed on one side of the membrane electrode assembly, wherein the separator includes flow path grooves through which reactant gas flows between the separator and the membrane electrode assembly, the flow path grooves include: wavy grooves wavily extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a linear groove linearly extending in the first direction, the wavy grooves include: a first wavy groove located closest to the linear groove among the wavy grooves; and a second wavy groove located opposite to the linear groove with respect to the first wavy groove, and amplitude of the first wavy groove is smaller than that of the second wavy groove.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Okabe, Manabu Kato
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Publication number: 20200299099Abstract: To make it possible to comprehensively predict the movement of people by associating an elevator control system in a facility such as a building and an external system other than this system with each other and thereby provide a new service that has not existed before.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Takahiro HATORI, Masayasu FUJIWARA, Akira OMACHI, Takamichi HOSHINO, Satoru TORIYABE, Manabu KATO, Atsuya FUJINO, Wataru TORIUMI
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Publication number: 20200270929Abstract: A lead line routing structure includes: a lead line having an elliptical section; a bracket having a routing surface; and a guide portion. The guide portion includes a holding wall portion having a first principal surface and a second principal surface. The holding wall portion is provided with: a lead-out hole for leading a lead line to the second principal surface; and a slit extending from an end of the holding wall portion to the lead-out hole. The width of the slit is set to be larger than the minor axis of the lead line and smaller than the major axis thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro SAKATA, Manabu KATO
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Patent number: 10703108Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus, which can enhance the reliability of the phase search result to detect the optimal timing when the ink particles are electrically charged by the electrification electrode and secure the stable printing quality, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Arima, Tsuneaki Takagishi, Manabu Kato, Shoki Yamaguchi, Satoshi Hasegawa, Mamoru Okano
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Publication number: 20200094545Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an inkjet recording device capable of adjusting a clearance between prints formed by two nozzles (114, 115), and capable of printing a print content at a high speed. In order to achieve the object, there is provided an inkjet recording device which has two sub-print heads including nozzles (114, 115), charging electrodes (116, 117), deflection electrodes (118, 119), and gutters (120, 121), in which the two nozzles are disposed in a deflection direction of ink particles, and which performs printing on a printed object (124) while moving the printed object (124) relative to the ink particles in a direction substantially perpendicular to the deflection direction of the ink particles, the inkjet recording device having a function for reducing a clearance between print results (125, 126), printed by the two nozzles (114, 115), by controlling a voltage applied to the charging electrodes (116, 117) and a voltage applied to the deflection electrode (118, 119).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Tsuneaki TAKAGISHI, Manabu KATO, An KYU
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Patent number: D1019768Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeaki Isobe, Manabu Kawahara, Hideki Kato