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).

  • 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: 20240140501
    Abstract: A brake disc includes an annular disc body and fins. The fins are radially disposed on a back surface of the disc body. At least one of the fins have a bolt hole at a central portion of the fin in a radial direction of the disc body. The disc body includes an inner circumferential portion. The inner circumferential portion is positioned inward from the bolt hole in the radial direction. The inner circumferential portion decreases in thickness as the inner circumferential portion extends inward in the radial direction. The fins each include a top surface and a convex portion. The convex portion protrudes inward from an imaginary plane in the radial direction. The imaginary plane passes an end portion of the top surface and an inner circumferential edge of the back surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi NOGAMI, Takanori KATO, Kenji TAMURA, Naruo MIYABE, Seiji KANAMORI, Yuzuka KITAZAWA, Masahiro KAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240131907
    Abstract: An opening-and-closing body driving device includes an extendable unit including a spindle, a nut, a rod, a bearing, and a guide tube; and a driving unit. The guide tube includes an insertion portion, and an inner tube configured to allow movement of the nut in the axial direction and restrict rotation of the nut. A surface of the bearing facing a direction opposite to an insertion direction, in which the insertion portion is inserted, is defined as a first reference surface, and a surface of the housing facing a direction opposite to the insertion direction is defined as a second reference surface. A distance from the first reference surface of the bearing to a distal end of the inner peripheral wall is longer than a distance from the second reference surface of the housing to a distal end of the outer peripheral wall in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKEZAKI, Takashi HATTORI, Masanobu NISHIMOTO, Junji YAMAGUCHI, Kimihide KATO
  • Patent number: 11960056
    Abstract: Provided is an optical lens formed by integrally molding a lens part that is an optically effective portion and has a light incidence/emission surface, and a lens edge part that is an optically ineffective portion and has a surface thereof except the light incidence/emission surface. The lens edge part includes a non-transparent region in part or all thereof, the lens part and the lens edge part include a thermoplastic resin, and the non-transparent region in the lens edge part contains a total of 0.1-5 mass % of one or more of a black dye and a black pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi Motegi, Kentaro Ishihara, Katsushi Nishimori, Shinya Ikeda, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Kensuke Oshima, Masahiro Kanda, Shoko Suzuki, Tatsunobu Ogata, Mitsutake Suematsu
  • Patent number: 11957135
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chocolate-like food product containing polyunsaturated-fatty-acid-containing oil and fat. An object of the present invention is to provide a chocolate-like food product with reduced flavor change that occurs with time. As a result of the finding that incorporation of amino acid into a chocolate-like food product containing polyunsaturated-fatty-acid-containing oil and fat significantly reduces the unpleasant odor that occurs with time, the present invention has been accomplished. The amino acid is preferably at least one amino acid selected from glycine, glutamic acid, alanine, proline, lysine, tryptophan, methionine, valine, serine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, arginine, threonine, cysteine, aspartic acid, glutamine, or asparagine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Fuji Oil Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Masaharu Kato, Miwako Morikawa, Masahiro Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20240113558
    Abstract: A power system supervisory control apparatus, a power system supervisory control system, and a power system supervisory control method for reducing social cost and improving resilience of a power system are provided. The power system supervisory control apparatus including multiple renewable energy power supplies includes: a system influence degree evaluation section that evaluates a system influence degree when a renewable energy fluctuation or an assumed fault has an influence on the power system by using, as computation conditions, system data for obtaining a state of the power system, renewable energy fluctuation data indicative of a fluctuation of a power generation output, and assumed fault data of an assumed fault in the power system, and calculates system influence degree evaluation result data; a computation condition selection index calculation section that calculates a selection index for the computation conditions; and a condition selection section that selects the computation conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Masahiro Watanabe, Takahisa Matsuzaki, Yohei Murakami
  • Patent number: 11939279
    Abstract: A compound represented by formula (1) provides a high performance organic electroluminescence device and a novel material for realizing such an organic electroluminescence device: wherein R1 to R6, a to f, L1 to L3, and Ar are as defined in the description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Kato, Taro Yamaki, Masahiro Kawamura, Hirokatsu Ito
  • Publication number: 20240077819
    Abstract: Provided is a heater including: a substrate that has electrical conductivity; a first insulation portion that is provided on a first surface of the substrate, has an insulation property; at least one heat generation body that is provided on the first insulation portion; a second insulation portion that is provided on a second surface of the substrate which is opposite to the first surface, has an insulation property; at least one detection unit that is provided on at least one of the first insulation portion and the second insulation portion; and a first wiring which is provided on at least one of the first insulation portion and the second insulation portion, and in which one end is electrically connected to one terminal of the detection unit and the other end is electrically connected to the substrate having the electrical conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Kousuke Ueno, Masahiko Tamai, Shinjiro Aono, Akio Tsubouchi, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Satoko Kato, Masahiro Doi, Makoto Sakai
  • 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: 11923152
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element that includes an anode body that has a porous structure, a dielectric layer disposed on a surface of the anode body, and a solid electrolyte layer that covers at least a part of the dielectric layer. The anode body contains a first group metal including at least one selected from the group consisting of tantalum, niobium, titanium, aluminum, and zirconium. The dielectric layer contains an oxide of the first group metal and a second group metal including at least one selected from the group consisting of iron, chromium, copper, silicon, molybdenum, sodium, and nickel. A ratio X of a total number of atoms of the second group metal to a total number of atoms of the first group metal in the dielectric layer is equal to or less than 100 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ueda, Kohei Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Kato, Takashi Umemoto
  • Patent number: 11923543
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode contains, as a negative electrode active material, graphite particles having a volume per mass, of pores having a diameter of 2 nm or less determined by the DFT method from nitrogen adsorption isotherm, of 0.3 mm3/g or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio Kato, Yoshinori Kida, Masahiro Shiraga
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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