Patents by Inventor Masahiro Hojo

Masahiro Hojo 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: 20230399544
    Abstract: Provided is a vulcanized rubber surface treatment agent that enables firm adhesion between vulcanized rubbers without heating and has little effect on rubber deterioration. The vulcanized rubber surface treatment agent is used for adhering vulcanized rubbers to each other, which is an aqueous solution of hypochlorous acid having a pH value of 2 or more and 7 or less and an effective chlorine concentration of 100 ppm or more and 13000 ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya OZAKI, Shinichiro SUGI, Masahiro HOJO
  • Publication number: 20230272249
    Abstract: Provided is a thin film with good durability that is easy to handle during storage and use. The film contains, as a rubber component, at least a copolymer having a conjugated diene unit, a non-conjugated olefin unit, and an aromatic vinyl unit, and having a proportion of a butylene unit of 0 mol %, where a filler content is 15 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, no cross-linking agent is contained, and the thickness is 300 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya OZAKI, Shinichiro SUGI, Masahiro HOJO
  • Patent number: 11498306
    Abstract: A sound-absorbing panel to be used affixed to a jet engine of an aircraft, provided with: a resin core layer having a first surface, a second surface disposed on the side opposite from the first surface, and multiple partitions extending between the first surface and second surface so as to partition multiple cells; a resin first skin layer laminated on the first surface of the core layer; and a resin second skin layer laminated on the second surface of the core layer. The first skin layer is disposed so as to face the external space while in use, and has multiple through-holes for providing communication between internal spaces of the multiple cells and external space faced by the first skin layer. The core layer has openings for providing communication between the internal spaces of the multiple cells and external space of the core layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY, GIFU PLASTIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Oishi, Masahiro Hojo, Shingo Shibagaki
  • Patent number: 11396844
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a fan blade, an engine, and a structure with anti-icing and de-icing functions, which are capable of efficiently performing anti-icing or de-icing with a simple structure. [Solving Means] A fan blade 8 is disposed on an air inlet 4 side of a jet engine 1 of an aircraft. The fan blade 8 includes a fan blade main body 21 made of a carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), and a pair of energizing units 31 and 32 that are provided on a leading edge 24 side and a trailing edge 25 side of a heating region 36 of the fan blade main body 21 and pass current through the fan blade main body 21. Voltage is applied between the pair of energizing units 31 and 32 and current passes through the fan blade main body 21 to heat the fan blade main body 21, thus performing anti-icing or de-icing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Takuya Mizuno, Masahiro Hojo, Masaya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200386159
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a fan blade, an engine, and a structure with anti-icing and de-icing functions, which are capable of efficiently performing anti-icing or de-icing with a simple structure. [Solving Means] A fan blade 8 is disposed on an air inlet 4 side of a jet engine 1 of an aircraft. The fan blade 8 includes a fan blade main body 21 made of a carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), and a pair of energizing units 31 and 32 that are provided on a leading edge 24 side and a trailing edge 25 side of a heating region 36 of the fan blade main body 21 and pass current through the fan blade main body 21. Voltage is applied between the pair of energizing units 31 and 32 and current passes through the fan blade main body 21 to heat the fan blade main body 21, thus performing anti-icing or de-icing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Takuya MIZUNO, Masahiro HOJO, Masaya SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200101690
    Abstract: A sound-absorbing panel to be used affixed to a jet engine of an aircraft, provided with: a resin core layer having a first surface, a second surface disposed on the side opposite from the first surface, and multiple partitions extending between the first surface and second surface so as to partition multiple cells; a resin first skin layer laminated on the first surface of the core layer; and a resin second skin layer laminated on the second surface of the core layer. The first skin layer is disposed so as to face the external space while in use, and has multiple through-holes for providing communication between internal spaces of the multiple cells and external space faced by the first skin layer. The core layer has openings for providing communication between the internal spaces of the multiple cells and external space of the core layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Tsutomu OISHI, Masahiro HOJO, Shingo SHIBAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20190249684
    Abstract: A fan rotor blade comprises an outer covering member and a metal core body. The outer covering member is made of a composite material including a thermoplastic resin and reinforcing fibers. The outer covering member has a shape of a blade surface having a positive pressure surface and a negative pressure surface. The metal core body is arranged between the positive pressure surface and the negative pressure surface. The metal core body has a hollow structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Hiroshi KUROKI, Masahiro HOJO
  • Patent number: 9854167
    Abstract: A frame skipping process suited to a scene is achieved by providing an encoder which encodes input image data, an encoding determination unit which compares image movement information with a threshold to determine whether or not encoding is to be performed, a frame skipping controller which performs a frame skipping control if encoding is not to be performed, and a threshold correction unit which corrects the encoding determination threshold based on the result of the encoding process. The image movement information used in the encoding determination unit is any one or a combination of pixel movement information obtained by a representative point matching scheme performed by a pixel movement calculation unit, angular velocity sensor information obtained from a lens controller, and frequency information obtained from an image processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Uchida, Masahiro Hojo
  • Patent number: 8624993
    Abstract: An image processor detects an on-screen motion of a photographic subject in video image data generated by an image sensor provided in a camera body and outputs a photographic subject motion information. A sensor detects a motion of the camera body and outputs the detected motion as a camera body motion information. A scene decision encoding controller decides an image pickup condition of the video image data based on the photographic subject motion information and the camera body motion information, and performs an encoding amount regulation control suitable for the decided image pickup condition to an image compression processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokazu Uchida, Masahiro Ogawa, Masahiro Hojo
  • Patent number: 8488892
    Abstract: A compression controller is capable of executing prediction mode selection for selecting any one of forward prediction, backward prediction, or bidirectional prediction as a prediction mode used for encoding based on spatial frequencies of an image to be encoded. The compression controller determines whether or not to execute the prediction mode selection based on image mobility information indicating an amount of motion in the image to be encoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke Uematsu, Masahiro Hojo, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20120328008
    Abstract: A frame skipping process suited to a scene is achieved by providing an encoder which encodes input image data, an encoding determination unit which compares image movement information with a threshold to determine whether or not encoding is to be performed, a frame skipping controller which performs a frame skipping control if encoding is not to be performed, and a threshold correction unit which corrects the encoding determination threshold based on the result of the encoding process. The image movement information used in the encoding determination unit is any one or a combination of pixel movement information obtained by a representative point matching scheme performed by a pixel movement calculation unit, angular velocity sensor information obtained from a lens controller, and frequency information obtained from an image processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu UCHIDA, Masahiro HOJO
  • Publication number: 20120321208
    Abstract: A compression controller is capable of executing prediction mode selection for selecting any one of forward prediction, backward prediction, or bidirectional prediction as a prediction mode used for encoding based on spatial frequencies of an image to be encoded. The compression controller determines whether or not to execute the prediction mode selection based on image mobility information indicating an amount of motion in the image to be encoded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke UEMATSU, Masahiro Hojo, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20110298942
    Abstract: An image processor detects an on-screen motion of a photographic subject in video image data generated by an image sensor provided in a camera body and outputs a photographic subject motion information. A sensor detects a motion of the camera body and outputs the detected motion as a camera body motion information. A scene decision encoding controller decides an image pickup condition of the video image data based on the photographic subject motion information and the camera body motion information, and performs an encoding amount regulation control suitable for the decided image pickup condition to an image compression processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu UCHIDA, Masahiro OGAWA, Masahiro HOJO
  • Publication number: 20110181744
    Abstract: When an input image is received from an imaging element, a detection circuit detects frequency information of the input image, and an electronic shake processing circuit detects shake information (motion amount) of the input image. A CPU receives the frequency information and the shake information via an image processing circuit. The CPU increases a compression ratio of the input image when high frequency components are dominant, and decreases the compression ratio when low frequency components are dominant. The CPU also increases the compression ratio when the input image is moving, and decreases the compression ratio when the input image is not moving. A compression/decompression circuit compresses the image based on the compression ratio thus set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro HOJO, Masahiro Ogawa, Tomokazu Uchida
  • Patent number: 7344777
    Abstract: A powder rubber obtained by crushing a waste rubber comprising various kinds of rubbers is subjected to treatment of making unevenness on a surface thereof. A method in which a microorganism growing with a rubber being an only carbon source and powder rubber having an average particle diameter of 1 mm or less are added to a culture medium to cultivate the microorganism can be applied as treatment of making the unevenness. The powder rubber is decomposed by this method, and the surface area is increased, whereby a rubber composition which is excellent in abrasion resistance, fracture characteristics and crack growth resistance can be obtained. A WU-YS05 strain (Patent Microorganism Depository Center: Accession number: FERM P-18660) belonging to Pseudonocardiaceae is effective as the microorganism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniki Kino, Kohtaro Kirimura, Masahiro Hojo, Yuichi Ishino
  • Patent number: 7060757
    Abstract: A rubber composition comprises (1) a rubber component including at least one of polybutadiene rubber and a styrene-butadiene copolymer rubber having a content of vinyl bond of not less than 30%, (2) at least one specified compound as a vulcanization accelerator, and (3) a specified organic thiosulfate compound as a vulcanizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Hojo, Kumi Fujiki
  • Publication number: 20050213453
    Abstract: When servo lock cannot be achieved because the number of disk revolutions cannot reach the vicinity of its regular number of disk revolutions, a table value is increased to prolong the disk acceleration time. In case of success in servo lock, the table value is reduced to shorten the disk acceleration time. Accordingly, it is possible to set the disk acceleration time optimized in accordance with a variation of torque in the disk motor. As a result, it is possible to save an unnecessary current which would be otherwise consumed till disk servo lock is achieved, so that it is possible to suppress the power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Masahiro Hojo, Norio Hatanaka
  • Patent number: D772971
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Hojo, Kazuyoshi Kamekawa
  • Patent number: D782926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Hojo, Kazuyoshi Kamekawa
  • Patent number: D822512
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Hojo, Kazuyoshi Kamekawa