Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kato

Masahiro 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).

  • Patent number: 12044778
    Abstract: The measurement device acquires output data from a sensor unit for detecting road surface lines around, and determines a predetermined range based on an own position and positional information of broken-line type road surface lines. Then, the measurement device extract, from the output data, data corresponding to detection result of the predetermined range, and executes predetermined processing based on the extracted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazufumi Fujiya, Tomoaki Iwai, Masahiro Kato
  • Patent number: 12030426
    Abstract: A lever operation device includes an operation lever which rotates integrally with a steering wheel of a vehicle and receives operations at least in upward and downward directions and around which a predetermined region is set so as to prevent the operation lever from contacting with a leg of a user seated in a driver's seat when the steering wheel is rotated to a maximum steering angle, and an operation portion that is arranged on the operation lever so as not to be located out of the region and includes plural operating positions each assigned an executable function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Sato, Nobuyuki Ishigure, Tadashi Usuya, Akio Nishiyama, Masahiro Kato, Shinji Hara, Takayuki Aoki, Ryusuke Ohta, Toshihiko Kosugi, Shinji Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20240175687
    Abstract: A data structure of the voxel data VD according to this example is a map data structure which is a data structure of map data to be referred to by an information processing device 1, and includes position information indicating a position of a structural object and attribution information indicating whether or not the structural object is a floating object on a water surface. If the attribute information indicates that the structural object is a floating object on a water surface, the attribute information is used by the information processing device 1 to identify the position of the structural object by using the position information as relative position information relative to a position of the water surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi KODA, Masahiro KATO, Masahiro KATO, Akira GOTODA, Kunio SHIRATORI
  • Publication number: 20240175984
    Abstract: In the information processing device, the point cloud data acquisition means acquires point cloud data generated by a measurement device provided on a ship. The water-surface reflection data extraction means extracts data obtained by measuring a position which is a predetermined distance away from a shore and which is within a predetermined distance from a measurement position of the measurement device, as a water-surface reflection data measured by reflection at a water surface. Then, the water-surface height calculation means calculates a water-surface height based on the water-surface reflection data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiro KATO, Takeshi KODA, Masahiro KATO, Akira GOTODA, Kunio SHIRATORI
  • Publication number: 20240151849
    Abstract: In the information processing device, the object detection means detects an object based on point cloud data generated by a measurement device provided on a ship. The positional relationship acquisition means to acquires a relative positional relationship between the object and the ship. The display control means displays, on a display device, information related to the positional relationship in a display mode according to the positional relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiro KATO, Takeshi KODA, Masahiro KATO, Akira GOTODA, Kunio SHIRATORI
  • Patent number: 11976583
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reservoir tank for coolant that stores the coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine. The reservoir tank includes: a tank chamber that stores the coolant; an opening, which is disposed in an upper part of the tank chamber, through which the coolant flows in and flows out, and in a circumferential wall of which a breathing hole is formed; and a first communication passage, a second communication passage, and a third communication passage that respectively communicate with the opening and the tank chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miyo Kitamura, Shinji Shimoyama, Keijiro Koide, Masahiro Kato, Tatsuya Kurimoto, Tatsuki Tanaka, Koji Sato, Takumi Tokinoya
  • Publication number: 20240077015
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reservoir tank for coolant that stores the coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine. The reservoir tank includes: a tank chamber that stores the coolant; an opening, which is disposed in an upper part of the tank chamber, through which the coolant flows in and flows out, and in a circumferential wall of which a breathing hole is formed; and a first communication passage, a second communication passage, and a third communication passage that respectively communicate with the opening and the tank chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Miyo KITAMURA, Shinji SHIMOYAMA, Keijiro KOIDE, Masahiro KATO, Tatsuya KURIMOTO, Tatsuki TANAKA, Koji SATO, Takumi TOKINOYA
  • Patent number: 11915993
    Abstract: A two-pack curable composition set having: a first agent comprising an organopolysiloxane having a branched structure and having a vinyl group at least at an end or in a side chain, a thermally conductive filler, a silica powder, and a platinum catalyst, and having a viscosity at 25° C. at a shear rate of 10 s?1 of 20 to 150 Pa·s; and a second agent comprising an organopolysiloxane having a branched structure and having a vinyl group at least at an end or in a side chain, and a polydimethylsiloxane having a hydrosilyl group at least at an end or in a side chain, a thermally conductive filler, and a silica powder, and having a viscosity at 25° C. at a shear rate of 10 s?1 of 20 to 150 Pa·s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Denka Company Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20240049756
    Abstract: The present invention provides an onion processed product which is less pungent and less bitter and has natural sweet flavor of onions and freshness, and a method for producing the same. The onion processed product disclosed in the present description has a pyruvic acid content of less than 3.8 ?mol/g and a hexanal content of 0.025 ppm (wt/wt) or more with respect to the amount of the onion processed product calculated in terms of raw onion as a raw material. The method for producing an onion processed product as disclosed in the present description comprises the steps of: cutting an onion; heating the cut onion at 50° C. or more so that the cooking value obtained by integrating a value for an onion product temperature (A) [° C.], which is calculated by 10{(A?40)/10}, with the time of heating [minute] is 900 or more and less than 10,000; and processing the heated onion to produce an onion processed product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: HOUSE FOODS GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Koshi Hanyuda, Masahiro Kato, Shingo Komada
  • Publication number: 20240052084
    Abstract: A hydrogenated product of a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) that contains a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and a polymer block (B) that contains a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound, which satisfies the following requirements: (1) The structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound of the polymer block (B) has a structural unit derived from butadiene and a structural unit derived from a second conjugated diene compound which is a conjugated diene compound except butadiene. (2) The glass transition temperature is ?57° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi SENDA, Masahiro KATO
  • Publication number: 20240053440
    Abstract: A self-position estimation device is mounted on a mobile body and acquires a predicted position of the mobile body. Additionally, the self-position estimation device calculates a difference value between a predicted position of an end point of a lane division line that is obtained based on information on the end point of the lane division line acquired from map information and a measured position of the end point of the lane division line measured in such a manner that a measurement unit mounted on the mobile body performs scanning with a light in a predetermined direction. The self-position estimation device estimates a self-position of the mobile body by correcting the predicted position with a value obtained by multiplying the difference value by a coefficient. Further, the self-position estimation device corrects the coefficient based on an interval of scanning positions of the measurement unit at a position where the end point of the lane division line is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiro KATO, Tomoaki IWAI, Kazufumi FUJIYA
  • Publication number: 20240041389
    Abstract: An intestinal activity regulation device includes a regulator that performs a regulation process of regulating intestinal activity of a target person based on the state of the intestinal activity detected by a detector that detects the state of the intestinal activity of the target person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Nozomi YAMADA, Sanae MIKI, Tomoya HIRANO, Takahiro HIRAYAMA, Masahiro KATO
  • Publication number: 20240046514
    Abstract: A controller 13 of an in-vehicle device 1 is configured to acquire a DR position XDR that is a first candidate position of a vehicle. Further, the controllers 13 is configured to acquire an NDT position XNDT that is a second candidate position of the vehicle, the NDT position XNDT being determined based on NDT scan matching that is a matching between point cloud data and voxel data VD that is map data, the point cloud data being outputted by a lidar 2 that is the external sensor provided in the vehicle. Furthermore, the controllers 13 is configured to calculate a reliability value NRV representing the reliability of the NDT scan matching. The controllers 13 is configured to determine the estimated own vehicle position X{circumflex over (?)} based on the DR position XDR, the NDT position XNDT, and the reliability value NRV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiro KATO, Masami SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240034862
    Abstract: A method for producing a chloroprene polymer composition containing a chloroprene polymer, the method including: a polymerization step of polymerizing a monomer containing chloroprene at a polymerization rate of 20% or more to obtain a polymer composition containing a chloroprene polymer; and a mixing step of mixing the polymer composition with a rosin containing at least one conjugate resin acid component selected from the group consisting of abietic acid, neoabietic acid, palustric acid, levopimaric acid, and salts thereof, in which a mixed amount of the rosin in the mixing step is more than 0 parts by mass and 23 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of solid content of the polymer composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro KATO, Misaki ITO, Yushi KUMAGAI, Yutaka SAITO
  • Patent number: 11878731
    Abstract: A switch device includes a switch body, which is attached to and rotated integrally with an irregularly-shaped steering unit, and a lever unit, which is held pivotally about a switch body. The lever unit includes a lever shaft including a base, which extends in a direction intersecting the steering shaft, and an arm, which is formed integrally with the base and extends in a direction that differs from the direction in which the base extends. The lever unit also includes a lever head at the distal end of the lever shaft, and the lever head extends from the lever shaft in the width direction, which intersects an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Nobuyuki Ishigure, Yuki Sato, Tadashi Usuya, Takayuki Aoki, Shinji Matsubara, Toshihiko Kosugi, Ryusuke Ohta, Shinji Hara
  • Publication number: 20230416509
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a chloroprene polymer composition, the method including: a polymerization step of polymerizing chloroprene in the presence of at least one rosin acid component selected from the group consisting of a rosin acid and a rosin acid salt to obtain a chloroprene polymer composition containing a chloroprene polymer, in which in the rosin acid component, a mass ratio B1/A1 of a total amount B1 of abietic acid, neoabietic acid, palustric acid, levopimaric acid, and salts thereof with respect to a total amount A1 of dehydroabietic acid, pimaric acid, isopimaric acid, dihydroabietic acid, and salts thereof is 0.10 to 3.00, and a toluene insoluble content of the chloroprene polymer is 50% by mass or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Misaki ITO, Masao ONOZUKA, Masahiro KATO
  • Publication number: 20230401671
    Abstract: The controller 13 of the in-vehicle device 1 acquires point cloud data outputted by a lidar 2. Then, the controller 13 generates processed point cloud data obtained by down-sampling the point cloud data. The controller 13 matches the processed point cloud data with voxel data VD which represents a position of an object with respect to each voxel that is a unit area and thereby associates a measurement point of the processed point cloud data with the each voxel. Then, the controller 13 changes the size of the subsequent down-sampling based on the associated measurement points number Nc which is the number of measurement points associated with the each voxel among the measurement points of the processed point cloud data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro KATO, Masami SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230401888
    Abstract: A contactless biometric authentication device including an insertion chamber with an opening in one side and a space into which an authenticator's finger is inserted; a shooting device positioned to capture the ventral side of the finger inserted into the insertion chamber; a first light source installed in the insertion chamber at a position on the far side of the shooting device and emits light toward the shooting device, the light being blocked by the inserted finger; a second light source provided at a position higher than a height at which the finger is inserted and emits light within a predetermined range including the shooting device when the light from the first light source is blocked by the finger, the light being absorbed by a blood vessel of the finger; and a reflection surface provided in the insertion chamber and receives and reflects the light from the second light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yo NONOMURA, Akio NAGASAKA, Naoto MIURA, Yusuke MATSUDA, Keiichiro NAKAZAKI, Masahiro KATO, Shinichi SAITO, Kyoichi TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11828603
    Abstract: A measurement device includes a processor coupled to a memory storing instructions. The processor is configured to acquire positional information of a measurement object stored in a storage unit, acquire point group information of points indicating a surrounding feature acquired by an external sensor, output reliability of the positional information of the measurement object indicating a center position of the measurement object existing in a predetermined range based on the point group information of points existing in the predetermined range, the predetermined range being determined based on a position of a movable body, and estimate a movable body position based on the positional information of the measurement object and the center position of the measurement object, wherein the processor determines the center position by calculating an average value of the point group information existing in the predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazufumi Fujiya, Tomoaki Iwai, Masahiro Kato
  • Patent number: 11822009
    Abstract: A self-position estimation device is mounted on a mobile body and acquires a predicted position of the mobile body. Additionally, the self-position estimation device calculates a difference value between a predicted position of an end point of a lane division line that is obtained based on information on the end point of the lane division line acquired from map information and a measured position of the end point of the lane division line measured in such a manner that a measurement unit mounted on the mobile body performs scanning with a light in a predetermined direction. The self-position estimation device estimates a self-position of the mobile body by correcting the predicted position with a value obtained by multiplying the difference value by a coefficient. Further, the self-position estimation device corrects the coefficient based on an interval of scanning positions of the measurement unit at a position where the end point of the lane division line is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Tomoaki Iwai, Kazufumi Fujiya