Patents by Inventor Masaaki Inoue

Masaaki Inoue 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).

  • Patent number: 11945937
    Abstract: A modified conjugated diene-based polymer is produced by a method reacting a conjugated diene-based polymer having an active terminal, which is a polymer obtained by polymerizing a monomer including a conjugated diene compound in the presence of an alkali metal compound, with a compound [A] represented by formula (1). In formula (1), each of R1 and R2 represents a C1 to C8 hydrocarbyl group and the like; each of R5 and R6 represents a C1 to C8 hydrocarbyl group and the like; each of R3 and R4 represents a C1 to C6 hydrocarbylene group; R7 represents a C1 to C10 hydrocarbylene group; X1 represents a C1 to C4 hydrocarbyloxy group; each of X2 and X3 represent a C1 to C4 hydrocarbyl group or hydrocarbyloxy group; m is an integer of 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ENEOS MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Nonoyama, Masaaki Inoue
  • Patent number: 11948319
    Abstract: A structure detection device according to an embodiment includes: a reading processing unit that reads, as three-dimensional point group data on an object present in a three-dimensional space, data including three-dimensional position information and color information at a point on a surface of the object; a filtering processing unit that performs filtering processing for extracting three-dimensional point group data on a detection-target structure from the three-dimensional point group data on the object present in the three-dimensional space based on the color information; and a generation processing unit that generates three-dimensional model data in which the detection-target structure is represented as a three-dimensional model based on the three-dimensional point group data on the detection-target structure, the three-dimensional point group data being extracted by the filtering processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Inoue, Tomoya Shimizu, Ryuji Honda, Hiroyuki Oshida
  • Publication number: 20240079296
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first conductive plate, a second conductive plate, first switching elements, second switching elements, a first supply terminal and a second supply terminal. The first and second conductive plates are spaced apart from each other in a first direction. The first switching elements are bonded to the first conductive plate, and are electrically connected to the second conductive plate. The second switching elements are bonded to the second conductive plate. The first supply terminal is bonded to the first conductive plate. The second supply terminal has a region that overlaps with the first supply terminal as viewed in a plan view. The second supply terminal is spaced apart from the first conductive plate and the first supply terminal in a thickness direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second supply terminal is electrically connected to the second switching elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Takumi KANDA, Masaaki MATSUO, Soichiro TAKAHASHI, Yoshitoki INAMI, Kaito INOUE
  • Patent number: 11922650
    Abstract: It is possible to estimate a slack level accurately in consideration of a shape of a deformed cable. A point cloud analysis device sets a plurality of regions of interest obtained by window-searching a wire model including a quadratic curve model representing a cable obtained from a point cloud consisting of three-dimensional points on an object, the region of interest being divided into a first region and a second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Niigaki, Masaki Waki, Masaaki Inoue, Yasuhiro Yao, Tomoya Shimizu, Hiroyuki Oshida, Kana Kurata, Shingo Ando, Atsushi Sagata
  • Patent number: 11823330
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique for creating a three-dimensional model of a line-like structure from a point cloud obtained using three-dimensional laser measuring equipment and detecting a three-dimensional model of a cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Inoue, Hitoshi Niigaki, Yukihiro Goto, Shigehiro Matsuda, Toshiya Ohira, Ryuji Honda, Tomoya Shimizu, Hiroyuki Oshida
  • Publication number: 20230033674
    Abstract: A valve block for hydrogen gas includes a valve block body having an outer surface on which an aluminum anodizing treatment has been performed, and a flow channel for hydrogen gas formed in the valve block body, and the flow channel has a sealing face in an inner face, and the sealing face is a machined face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka SUZUKI, Makoto NINOMIYA, Masayoshi OKAMOTO, Hiroshi YAMASHITA, Masaaki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220327779
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique for creating a three-dimensional model of a line-like structure from a point cloud obtained using three-dimensional laser measuring equipment and detecting a three-dimensional model of a cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki INOUE, Hitoshi NIIGAKI, Yukihiro GOTO, Shigehiro MATSUDA, Toshiya OHIRA, Ryuji HONDA, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220289952
    Abstract: A polymer composition includes a polymer (A) having, when composition ratios (molar ratios) of a structural unit represented by formula (1), a structural unit represented by formula (2), a structural unit represented by formula (3), and a structural unit represented by formula (4) in the polymer (A) are p, q, r, and s, respectively, a value ? represented by formula (i) of 0.60 or more: with a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 1.0×105 to 2.0×106 in terms of polystyrene measured by gel permeation chromatography, and a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond; and a paraffin wax (B) having a melting point of 70° C. or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: ENEOS MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220230347
    Abstract: It is possible to estimate a slack level accurately in consideration of a shape of a deformed cable. A point cloud analysis device sets a plurality of regions of interest obtained by window-searching a wire model including a quadratic curve model representing a cable obtained from a point cloud consisting of three-dimensional points on an object, the region of interest being divided into a first region and a second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi NIIGAKI, Masaki WAKI, Masaaki INOUE, Yasuhiro YAO, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki OSHIDA, Kana KURATA, Shingo ANDO, Atsushi SAGATA
  • Publication number: 20220215572
    Abstract: Provided is a point cloud analysis device that curbs a decrease in model estimation accuracy due to a laser measurement point cloud. A clustering unit (30) clusters a point cloud representing a three-dimensional point on an object obtained by a measurement unit mounted on a moving body and performing measurement while scanning a measurement position, within a scan line, to obtain a point cloud cluster. A central axis direction estimation unit (32) estimates a central axis direction based on the point cloud cluster. A direction-dependent local effective length estimation unit (34) estimates a local effective length based on an estimated central axis direction and an interval of scan lines, the local effective length being a length when a length of projection of the point cloud cluster in a central axis direction for each of the point cloud clusters is interpolated by an amount of a loss part of the point cloud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi NIIGAKI, Yasuhiro YAO, Masaaki INOUE, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Yukihiro GOTO, Shigehiro MATSUDA, Ryuji HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA, Kana KURATA, Shingo ANDO, Atsushi SAGATA
  • Publication number: 20220172389
    Abstract: A structure detection device according to an embodiment includes: a reading processing unit that reads, as three-dimensional point group data on an object present in a three-dimensional space, data including three-dimensional position information and color information at a point on a surface of the object; a filtering processing unit that performs filtering processing for extracting three-dimensional point group data on a detection-target structure from the three-dimensional point group data on the object present in the three-dimensional space based on the color information; and a generation processing unit that generates three-dimensional model data in which the detection-target structure is represented as a three-dimensional model based on the three-dimensional point group data on the detection-target structure, the three-dimensional point group data being extracted by the filtering processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki INOUE, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Ryuji HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11319347
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel cyclic peptide compound excellent in cell membrane permeability, a method for producing the same, a composition for screening use, and a method for selecting a cyclic peptide compound that binds to a target substance. According to the present invention, a peptide compound represented by Formula (1) or a salt thereof is provided. In the formula, the symbols have the meanings as defined in the specification of the present application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Inoue, Takashi Tamura, Yuji Yoshimitsu, Takahiro Hohsaka, Takayoshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220073710
    Abstract: A modified conjugated diene-based polymer is produced by a method reacting a conjugated diene-based polymer having an active terminal, which is a polymer obtained by polymerizing a monomer including a conjugated diene compound in the presence of an alkali metal compound, with a compound [A] represented by formula (1). In formula (1), each of R1 and R2 represents a C1 to C8 hydrocarbyl group and the like; each of R5 and R6 represents a C1 to C8 hydrocarbyl group and the like; each of R3 and R4 represents a C1 to C6 hydrocarbylene group; R7 represents a C1 to C10 hydrocarbylene group; X represents a C1 to C4 hydrocarbyloxy group; each of X2 and X3 represent a C1 to C4 hydrocarbyl group or hydrocarbyloxy group; m is an integer of 1 to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: JSR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki NONOYAMA, Masaaki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220064414
    Abstract: Provided is a rubber composition containing: (A) a polymer which has a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond and in which a value ? represented by the following equation (i) is 0.70 or more and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: JSR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20210407227
    Abstract: An on-vehicle recording control apparatus includes a video data acquiring unit to acquire video data of surroundings of a vehicle; a voice data acquiring unit to acquire outside-vehicle-cabin voice data from an outside-vehicle-cabin voice collecting unit; an event detecting unit to detect an event for the vehicle; a stop detecting unit to detect a stop of the vehicle; a person detecting unit to detect a person in a vicinity of the vehicle from the video data; and a recording control unit to store, when the event is detected, first event recording data based on the video data and to store, when the person is detected after the stop of the vehicle is detected within a predetermined time period after the event is detected, second event recording data based on the video data and the outside-vehicle-cabin voice data until a predetermine time period has elapsed after the person is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Masaaki Inoue
  • Patent number: 11209778
    Abstract: A movement includes a first wheel which includes a wheel main body which is configured by a resin material and a conductive layer which is configured by a material containing a conductive polymer and is provided on an outer surface of the wheel main body, and a second wheel which is configured by a metal material, in which the movement transmits a drive force of an electric motor module which is driven using a battery as an electrical power source. It is preferable that the conductive polymer is a material selected from polythiophene, polyacetylene, polyaniline, polyparaphenylene, and polyparaphenylenevinylene which is doped with an impurity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Shuichi Tamura, Tsunenobu Endo, Masaaki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20210385407
    Abstract: A vehicular recording control device includes a capture-data acquisition unit configured to acquire capture data captured by a first capturing unit that captures a vicinity of a vehicle, an event detection unit configured to detect an event to the vehicle, a stop detection unit configured to detect a stop of the vehicle after the event detection unit detects the event, and a recording control unit configured to save, in a case where the event is detected by the event detection unit, as event record data, at least capture data corresponding to a first period resulting from the detection of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventor: Masaaki Inoue
  • Patent number: 11112026
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve as a fluid device is provided with a valve seat and a valve body midway of a flow path where a liquid flows, and closes the valve with the valve body pressed onto the valve seat and opens the valve by causing a gap between the valve seat and the valve body. The electromagnetic valve includes, as electrodes for measuring a degree of electrical conductivity between a liquid on an upstream side and a liquid on a downstream side of the valve seat and the valve body in the flow path, a first electrode electrically conductive to the liquid on the upstream side and a second electrode electrically conductive to the liquid on the downstream side. By using the first and second electrodes, detection of liquid leakage can be easily performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TAKASAGO ELECTRIC, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugiura, Yutaka Hayashi, Ken Naito, Masaaki Inoue
  • Patent number: 10934897
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanical lash adjuster including a plunger, a housing put into thread engagement with the plunger in an axial direction to form a thread engagement portion, the plunger engaging member fixed and retained in a circumferential direction of the thread engagement portion, and a coil spring urging the plunger in a direction opposite to a urging-force acting direction of a coil spring. A lead and flank angles of threads forming the thread engagement portion are set such that when an axial load acts on the plunger in either of a plunger extension and contraction directions, the plunger is made self-sustaining, and when the plunger swings by an amount corresponding to a backlash due to a lateral load, the plunger slides and rotates at the thread engagement portion to move in an axial-load acting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NITTAN VALVE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihiro Kameda, Hiroyuki Ozawa, Masaaki Inoue
  • Patent number: 10648164
    Abstract: A flush toilet comprises a bowl portion including a rim portion and a shelf portion; a water discharge path for discharging waste; a water spouting portion for spouting flush water onto the shelf portion of the bowl portion to form a swirl flow; and a water conduit for supplying the flush water to the water spouting portion; wherein the bowl portion includes a front region and a rear region, and the rim portion of the bowl portion is such that a curvature radius in the front region is equal to or smaller than a curvature radius of the rear region, and wherein the water spouting portion is formed on either a left or right side in the front region and spouts the flush water toward a front of the rim portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Yamasaki, Kenji Watanabe, Masaaki Inoue, Masahiro Nakamura