Patents by Inventor Masahiro Endo

Masahiro Endo 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: 11971792
    Abstract: A device management system (1) includes a common certification information acquirer, a certifier, an identification information generator, and a setter. The common certification information acquirer acquires common certification information from a device (10) including a storage for storing the common certification information. The common certification information stored in the storage is shared with another device. The certifier certifies the device (10) based on the common certification information. The identification information generator generates identification information for identification of the device (10) certified by the certifier. The setter sets the identification information to the device (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Endo, Masahiro Ishihara, Yoshitaka Otaki
  • Patent number: 11923999
    Abstract: Provided is a management apparatus that assigns identification information to an onboard apparatus connected to an onboard network including a reception unit configured to receive, from an onboard apparatus, a request frame with identification information assigned including a unique ID for the onboard apparatus; a generation unit configured to generate a response frame including identification information allocated to the request frame received by the reception unit; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the response frame generated by the generation unit to the onboard apparatus which is a transmission source of the request frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Endo
  • Patent number: 11891461
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method for producing a vinyl ether polymer containing a hydrocarbon group in a stable and efficient manner, wherein decomposition of the monomer and generation of polyacetal are suppressed. [Means for solving problem] The method for producing a vinyl ether polymer containing a hydrocarbon group according to the present invention comprises the step of polymerizing vinyl ether represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbons or an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 10 carbons, in the presence of water as a polymerization solvent and an organic azo-based compound as a radical polymerization initiator, under pH of 6 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Sugihara, Masahiro Endo
  • Patent number: 11827729
    Abstract: A method for producing a polyvinylphosphonic acid copolymer may control a rise in internal temperature in the reaction system during polymerization and may allow synthesis of a copolymer as a polymer solution. A method for producing a polyvinylphosphonic acid copolymer may include polymerizing a compound of formula (1) and a compound of formula (2) in presence of a radical polymerization initiator and in a water-containing solvent: wherein R1 and R2 are independently —OH, —O?, or —O?M+ (M+ being a counter ion), R3 is —OH, —O?, —O?M+, or an optionally substituted alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms (M+ being a counter ion), and R4 is an optionally substituted alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R3 and R4 optionally forming a ring together with an adjacent phosphorus atom when both R3 and R4 are alkoxy groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MARUZEN PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamazaki, Masahiro Endo
  • Publication number: 20230129401
    Abstract: Provided is a repetitive moment generating device that can be used for a fatigue testing machine and allows for a change in an amplitude of a repetitive moment to be imparted on a test piece even during rotation of an eccentric weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventor: Masahiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20230058027
    Abstract: Provided is a management apparatus that assigns identification information to an onboard apparatus connected to an onboard network including a reception unit configured to receive, from an onboard apparatus, a request frame with identification information assigned including a unique ID for the onboard apparatus; a generation unit configured to generate a response frame including identification information allocated to the request frame received by the reception unit; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the response frame generated by the generation unit to the onboard apparatus which is a transmission source of the request frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventor: Masahiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20230052810
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control apparatus, a control system, and a method for determining a function or operation of the control apparatus, according to which the manufacturing cost can be reduced. A control apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store associated information in which a designator that designates a function or operation of a control apparatus and a data identifier that identifies a transmission source device that is a transmission source of data are associated with each other for each of a plurality of designators; a receiving unit configured to receive the data identifier from the transmission source device via a communication line; and a control unit, wherein the control unit determines a designator for the control apparatus based on the data identifier received by the receiving unit and the associated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventor: Masahiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20230035932
    Abstract: Provided is a repeated moment generation device that includes: a principal shaft; principal bearing members; lever members; principal eccentric weight rotors; auxiliary eccentric weight rotors; and drive means (such as a motor) for causing the principal eccentric weight rotors and the auxiliary eccentric weight rotors to synchronously rotate. Eccentricity directions of the principal eccentric weight rotors are different from each other by 180 degrees around shaft centers of shaft bodies thereof, eccentricity directions of the auxiliary eccentric weight rotors are different from each other by 180 degrees around shaft centers of shaft bodies thereof, and the eccentricity direction of the principal eccentric weight rotor and the eccentricity direction of the auxiliary weight rotor located on the same side as the principal eccentric weight rotor with respect to the principal shaft 1 are different from each other by 180 degrees around the shaft centers of the shaft bodies thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventor: Masahiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20220332874
    Abstract: A core-shell type polymeric particle may exhibit good dispersibility in an aqueous medium and excellent flame retardance. A core-shell type polymeric particle may include a core including a hydrophobic polymer (c) and a shell including a copolymer having a repeating unit (a) derived from vinyl phosphonic acid or a vinyl phosphonic acid ester and a repeating unit (b) of formula (?): wherein Ra is H or a methyl group, Rb is a single bond or a carbonyl group, and ring Q1 is a substituted or unsubstituted 4 to 10 membered nitrogen-containing heterocycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: MARUZEN PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji SUGIHARA, Masahiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20220306788
    Abstract: A method for producing a polyvinylphosphonic acid copolymer may control a rise in internal temperature in the reaction system during polymerization and may allow synthesis of a copolymer as a polymer solution. A method for producing a polyvinylphosphonic acid copolymer may include polymerizing a compound of formula (1) and a compound of formula (2) in presence of a radical polymerization initiator and in a water-containing solvent: wherein R1 and R2 are independently —OH, —O?, or —O?M+(M+ being a counter ion), R3 is —OH, —O?, —O?M+, or an optionally substituted alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms (M+ being a counter ion), and R4 is an optionally substituted alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R3 and R4 optionally forming a ring together with an adjacent phosphorus atom when both R3 and R4 are alkoxy groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: MARUZEN PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi YAMAZAKI, Masahiro ENDO
  • Patent number: 11377507
    Abstract: A method for producing a vinyl ether polymer containing an oxyethylene chain is provided, including a the step of polymerizing vinyl ether represented by formula (1) in the presence of water as a polymerization solvent, a basic compound as an additive, and an organic azo-based compound as a radical polymerization initiator, and in pH of 5 or more, and the amount of the basic compound used is 0.01 to 0.5 mol % based on an amount of the vinyl ether. Formula (1) is wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbons, and n represents an integer from 1 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Sugihara, Masahiro Endo
  • Publication number: 20210122847
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method for producing a vinyl ether polymer containing a hydrocarbon group in a stable and efficient manner, wherein decomposition of the monomer and generation of polyacetal are suppressed. [Means for solving problem] The method for producing a vinyl ether polymer containing a hydrocarbon group according to the present invention comprises the step of polymerizing vinyl ether represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbons or an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 10 carbons, in the presence of water as a polymerization solvent and an organic azo-based compound as a radical polymerization initiator, under pH of 6 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: MARUZEN PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji SUGIHARA, Masahiro ENDO
  • Patent number: 10892716
    Abstract: An amplifier applied to TIA is provided to suppress the noise caused by a current source. An amplifier constituting a transimpedance amplifier includes an inductor element inserted between a current source connected to an input terminal of an amplification stage and a power source voltage line. The current source includes a first transistor in which a base terminal is connected to a current control bias and a collector terminal is connected to the input terminal. The inductor element is inserted between the emitter terminal of the first transistor and the power source voltage line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Nakano, Hiroaki Katsurai, Masafumi Nogawa, Shunji Kimura, Masatoshi Tobayashi, Shigehiro Kurita, Masahiro Endo
  • Patent number: 10804857
    Abstract: An amplifier typically exemplified by a TIA is realized that provides an optimal band characteristic, that reduces the possibility of the oscillation, and that achieves a reduced dispersion of the band characteristics. An amplifier for amplifying an electric signal, comprising: a first buffer for amplifying the electric signal; a filter that is connected to an output of the first buffer and that includes a parallel circuit consisting of an inductor and a first capacity; and a second buffer connected to an output of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NTT ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Nogawa, Shinsuke Nakano, Hiroaki Sanjoh, Masatoshi Tobayashi, Yoshikazu Urabe, Masahiro Endo
  • Publication number: 20200190234
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method for producing a vinyl ether polymer containing an oxyethylene chain in a stable and efficient manner, wherein decomposition of the monomer and generation of polyacetal are suppressed. [Means for solving problem] The method for producing a vinyl ether polymer containing an oxyethylene chain according to the present invention comprises the step of polymerizing vinyl ether represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbons, and n represents an integer from 1 to 10, in the presence of water as a polymerization solvent, a basic compound as an additive, and an organic azo-based compound as a radical polymerization initiator, and in pH of 5 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: MARUZEN PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji SUGIHARA, Masahiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20200036344
    Abstract: An amplifier applied to TIA is provided to suppress the noise caused by a current source. An amplifier constituting a transimpedance amplifier includes an inductor element inserted between a current source connected to an input terminal of an amplification stage and a power source voltage line. The current source includes a first transistor in which a base terminal is connected to a current control bias and a collector terminal is connected to the input terminal. The inductor element is inserted between the emitter terminal of the first transistor and the power source voltage line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Shinsuke Nakano, Hiroaki Katsurai, Masafumi Nogawa, Shunji Kimura, Masatoshi Tobayashi, Shigehiro Kurita, Masahiro Endo
  • Publication number: 20190393841
    Abstract: An amplifier typically exemplified by a TIA is realized that provides an optimal band characteristic, that reduces the possibility of the oscillation, and that achieves a reduced dispersion of the band characteristics. An amplifier for amplifying an electric signal, comprising: a first buffer for amplifying the electric signal; a filter that is connected to an output of the first buffer and that includes a parallel circuit consisting of an inductor and a first capacity; and a second buffer connected to an output of the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Masafumi Nogawa, Shinsuke Nakano, Hiroaki Sanjoh, Masatoshi Tobayashi, Yoshikazu Urabe, Masahiro Endo
  • Patent number: 10430905
    Abstract: Image search conditions that are past search conditions are displayed in an image search history area, and text search conditions are displayed in a text search history area. When a user selects a desired image search condition out of the search conditions displayed in the image search history area, and selects a desired text search condition out of the search conditions displayed in the text search history area, case data that matches the selected image search condition and the text search condition is extracted from a database and displayed in a search result display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: FUJIFILM CORPORATION, SHIZUOKA PREFECTURE
    Inventors: Ryuji Hisanaga, Masahiro Endo
  • Patent number: 10179005
    Abstract: A medical knife that can be assembled with different blade spacings, provided with only one handle includes a pair of side walls on respective sides of the handle, at least in the forward portions of the handle the side walls being formed individually on different handle-constituting parts and a pair of blades separately mounted on the insides of these side walls; and the handle before being assembled to constitute a medical knife is configured such that the two handle-constituting parts forward of a connecting part can be spread apart and closed together, centered on the connecting part, and such that the spacing distance between the two side walls is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Kai R & D Center Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Endo
  • Patent number: 10087265
    Abstract: A method for producing poly(dimethyl vinylphosphonate) from a monomer component mainly containing dimethyl vinylphosphonate by anionic polymerization in the presence of an anionic polymerization initiator, the method being characterized in that an aliphatic ether is used as a polymerization solvent, and a method for producing poly(vinylphosphonic acid) characterized in that the poly(dimethyl vinylphosphonate) obtained by the former method is hydrolyzed in the presence of an acid are provided. The methods make it possible to easily produce a poly(dimethyl vinylphosphonate) which has a high molecular weight and in which the molecular weight is controlled, and make it possible to produce a poly(vinylphosphonic acid) which has a high molecular weight and in which the molecular weight is controlled corresponding to the poly(dimethyl vinylphosphonate).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Takahashi, Keisuke Matsushita, Masaki Sugiyama, Norihiro Yoshida, Eiichi Ikawa, Takahito Mita, Masahiro Endo