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: 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
  • Patent number: 11813693
    Abstract: A friction stir welding tool member according to the present embodiment has a shoulder portion and a probe portion concentrically projecting from an upper surface of the shoulder portion. The shoulder portion includes a curved surface processed portion that is curved to have a curved shape on an outer peripheral edge of the shoulder portion. A space occupancy occupied by the two-dimensional space in which neither the shoulder portion nor the probe portion exists is in a range of 30% to 70%, the space occupancy being determined based on a projection drawing of a side surface region surrounded from a tip of the probe portion to the curved surface processed portion of the shoulder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Fujii, Yoshiaki Morisada, Kai Funaki, Masahiro Kato, Takayuki Fukasawa, Yutaka Abe
  • Publication number: 20230281284
    Abstract: A photographing apparatus includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a living body with beams of light having a plurality of wavelengths different from one another, a photographing unit configured to photograph the living body irradiated by the irradiation unit to generate image data of the living body, an image processing module configured to generate, based on the image data generated by the photographing unit, a plurality of pieces of wavelength separation image data, by separation into the plurality of wavelengths, and a control module configured to control, based on the image data and on the plurality of pieces of wavelength separation image data generated by the image processing module, irradiation light amounts of the beams of light having the plurality of wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUDA, Naoto MIURA, Akio NAGASAKA, Yo NONOMURA, Keiichiro NAKAZAKI, Masahiro KATO
  • Publication number: 20230272205
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin composition containing a modified hydrogenated product (A) of a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A-1) having a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and a polymer block (A-2) having a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound, and a polyolefin resin (B), wherein the modified hydrogenated product (A) has one or two or more functional groups selected from an alkoxysilyl group, a carboxy group, an amino group, a hydroxy group, an epoxy group, and a group derived from an acid anhydride, and the polymer block (A-2) has a vinyl bond amount of 50 to 99 mol %; and the resin composition further containing a polar resin (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro KATO, Yasushi SENDA, Ryo SATANI
  • Publication number: 20230272218
    Abstract: A two-agent curable heat conductive grease composition including a first agent and a second agent, wherein the first agent contains 100 parts by weight of a liquid resin (A-1), 140 parts by weight to 560 parts by weight of metal aluminum (B-1) having an average particle size of 15 to 100 ?m, one or more heat conductive fillers (C-1) selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, and boron nitride and having an average particle size within a range of 0.3 to 10 ?m, and a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst (D-1); the second agent contains 100 parts by weight of a liquid resin (A-2), 140 parts by weight to 560 parts by weight of metal aluminum (B-2) having an average particle size of 15 to 100 ?m, and one or more heat conductive fillers (C-2) selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, and boron nitride and having an average particle size within a range of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Denka Company Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro KATO
  • Patent number: 11673597
    Abstract: A switch device includes a switch body, which is arranged at the back side of a steering unit, and a lever unit, which is attached to the switch body to allow for switching by a pivotal operation about a first axis, which extends in the axial direction of a steering shaft. The lever unit includes a lever shaft, which extends in a direction intersecting the first axis of the pivotal operation, a lever head, which is arranged at the distal end of the lever shaft and has a larger dimension than the diameter of the lever shaft, and a push operation unit, which allows for switching by a push operation. The push operation unit is arranged so that the operation direction of the push operation is directed toward the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ishigure, Yuki Sato, Tadashi Usuya, Akio Nishiyama, Masahiro Kato, Takayuki Aoki, Shinji Matsubara, Toshihiko Kosugi, Ryusuke Ohta, Shinji Hara
  • Patent number: 11658602
    Abstract: A motor drive device of an embodiment includes a first drive circuit, a second drive circuit, a first detection circuit, a second detection circuit, a third detection circuit, a fourth detection circuit, and an output circuit. The first drive circuit drives a first phase of a motor. The second drive circuit drives a second phase of the motor. The first detection circuit detects a first anomaly of the first phase. The second detection circuit detects the first anomaly of the second phase. The third detection circuit detects a second anomaly of the first phase. The fourth detection circuit detects the second anomaly of the second phase. The output circuit outputs an occurred anomaly as a flag signal based on results of detection by the first to fourth detection circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Kato
  • Patent number: 11655362
    Abstract: A block copolymer or a hydrogenate thereof, containing a polymer block (A) and a polymer block (B), in which the polymer block (B) has a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound, the structural unit including one or more kinds of alicyclic skeletons (X) represented by a formula (X) in the main chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Senda, Masahiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20230150424
    Abstract: This system for detecting the surrounding conditions of a moving body forcibly changes the state of at least one of a plurality of lighting devices (change from an unlit state to a lighting state or a blinking state, change in the emission color, or change in the luminance) installed inside the moving body, if an object to which attention must be paid during traveling of the moving body is detected in the surroundings of the moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventor: Masahiro KATO
  • Patent number: 11635304
    Abstract: A server device 200 is a map generation device which assigns, to voxel data in the map DB 20 which is divided into multiple voxels, a first weight value for each voxel, wherein the first weight value is associated with the presence of a stationary object and a moving object. Then, the server device 200 acquires upload information Iu which includes position information relating to a travelling route of a measurement vehicle during measurement of point cloud data needed for generation or update of the voxel data. Then, the server device 200 determines the first weight value for each voxel based on the travelling route of the measurement vehicle identified by the position information included in the upload information Iu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Kazuki Oyama
  • Publication number: 20230105255
    Abstract: The above measurement device acquires output data from a sensor unit for detecting surrounding feature, and extracts, from the output data, data corresponding to detection result in a predetermined range in a predetermined positional relation with an own position. The predetermined range is determined in accordance with accuracy of the own position. Then, the measurement device executes predetermined processing based on the extracted data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Kazufumi FUJIYA, Tomoaki IWAI, Masahiro KATO
  • Publication number: 20230092464
    Abstract: A switch module includes a lever switch to operate at least one electronic device mounted on a vehicle by an operation on an operation lever, and a case that is integrated with the lever switch installed thereto and is installed to a back side of a steering of the vehicle so as to integrally rotate with the steering. The case is box-shaped with a front surface portion open, and the lever switch is installed by sliding from the front surface portion toward a back surface portion into an installation opening that is formed on a side surface of the case and has a cut-out shape extending the front surface portion toward the back surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro KATO, Nobuyuki ISHIGURE, Yuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20230074449
    Abstract: A measurement device includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information of a measurement object stored in a storage unit, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire point group information of points indicating a surrounding feature acquired by an external sensor, and an output unit configured to output reliability of the positional information indicating a predetermined position of the measurement object existing in a predetermined range based on the point group information existing in the predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kazufumi FUJIYA, Tomoaki IWAI, Masahiro KATO
  • Publication number: 20230065457
    Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic elastomer composition and the like which can have improved vibration-damping properties while retaining properties inherent in a polyester-based thermoplastic elastomer. The thermoplastic elastomer composition contains a polyester-based thermoplastic elastomer (A) and a hydrogenated aromatic vinyl compound-based elastomer (B) having a glass transition temperature Tg of ?10 to 40° C., wherein the hydrogenated aromatic vinyl compound-based elastomer (B) is a hydrogenate of a block copolymer containing a polymer block (a) having a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and a polymer block (b) having a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound, and the ratio by mass of the polyester-based thermoplastic elastomer (A) to the hydrogenated aromatic vinyl compound-based elastomer (B), (A/B) is 99/1 to 1/99.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi SENDA, Masahiro KATO
  • Patent number: 11577643
    Abstract: This system for detecting the surrounding conditions of a moving body forcibly changes the state of at least one of a plurality of lighting devices (change from an unlit state to a lighting state or a blinking state, change in the emission color, or change in the luminance) installed inside the moving body, if an object to which attention must be paid during traveling of the moving body is detected in the surroundings of the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20230035116
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: flat tubes; a plate attached to the flat tubes; a medium tank configured to form a medium flow path by covering openings of flat tubes; and a reinforcing member to reinforce the openings. The reinforcing member includes a pair of leg portions and a connection portion that connects the leg portions. An insertion amount of the leg portions into the opening is larger than a sum of a gap between the connection portion and an inner surface and a length from the opening to a position corresponding to a brazed portion between the flat tube and the plate, or when a protruding portion protruding in a direction opposite an insertion direction is provided in the connection portion, larger than a sum of a gap between the protruding portion and the inner surface and a length from the opening to the position corresponding to the brazed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Takashi Kaneda, Fumihiro Kawashima