Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kimura

Masahiro Kimura 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: 20230298178
    Abstract: A medical image display system displays a medical image including: a first display area for displaying a processed image in which at least one annotation indicating a result of detection of at least one anatomical structure shown in a captured image of a subject is superimposed on the captured image; and a second display area for displaying at least one structure label for identifying the at least one anatomical structure. The medical image display system includes: a display that displays the medical image; and a controller that changes, in response to an input received for one of (i) the at least one annotation and (ii) the at least one structure label from a user, a display form of the other of (i) the at least one annotation and (ii) the at least one structure label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoharu NOTOSHI, Masahiro ISHII, Kenji KONDO, Hirohiko KIMURA, Toyohiko SAKAI, Masato TANAKA, Shinichi FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230288856
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a recording medium delivered along a predetermined delivery path and outputs the recording medium; a first hardware processor that judges whether or not the recording medium is an envelope; a second hardware processor that acquires a basis weight of the recording medium; a third hardware processor that determines control for when an image is formed on the recording medium on the basis of a judgment result from the first hardware processor and a basis weight acquired by the second hardware processor; and a fourth hardware processor that controls operation of the image former on the basis of a determination result from the third hardware processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: MASAHIRO NONOYAMA, MASAHIRO KAMIYA, KATSUHIDE SAKAI, JUNICHI MASUDA, TAKU KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230288873
    Abstract: Provided are a regulator capable of further improving time measurement accuracy as compared with the related art, and a movement and timepiece including the regulator. A regulator includes a regulator pin. The regulator pin includes a pair of regulator pin main bodies and a regulator pin base portion. The regulator pin base portion is formed integrally with the pair of regulator pin main bodies and is held by a regulator body. The regulator pin main bodies are disposed so as to sandwich an outer end portion of a hairspring and contain zirconia. In the regulator pin, by extrusion molding, an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface of the regulator pin are formed, and the regulator pin main body and the regulator pin base portion are integrally formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro NAKAJIMA, Reiji KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230270142
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an equol-containing fermented soybean hypocotyl material that is useful for foods, pharmaceutical preparations, cosmetic products, etc. The equol-containing fermented soybean hypocotyl material of the invention is obtained by fermenting soybean hypocotyls using at least one microorganism having an equol-producing ability by utilizing at least one daidzein compound selected from the group consisting of diadzein glycosides, daidzein, and dihydrodaidzein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KIMURA, Takeshi YAMAUCHI, Tomomi UENO, Toshimi SUZUKI, Kentaro TADANO, Ikutaro SATO, Shigeto UCHIYAMA, Masahiro OONO, Masatoshi MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20230207845
    Abstract: According to the present embodiment, the first fuel cell group is formed of a plurality of fuel cell stacks connected in series. The first power converter is capable of controlling a first power to be generated by the first fuel cell group according to a first output current. The second fuel cell group is formed of a plurality of fuel cell stacks connected in series, the fuel cell stacks corresponding respectively to the fuel cell stacks in the first fuel cell group. The second power converter is capable of controlling a second power to be generated by the second fuel cell group according to a second output current. Oxygen-containing gas is supplied through the first pipe to each of the fuel cell stacks in the first fuel cell group and each of the fuel cell stacks in the second fuel cell group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro OGAWA, Shunsuke KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230204475
    Abstract: A dilution gas mixing unit that is used in an exhaust gas analysis system that analyzes the mixed gas obtained by diluting an exhaust gas with the dilution gas, and mixes the dilution gas with the exhaust gas is provided with a dilution gas supply pipe that is connected to an exhaust gas introduction pipe into which the exhaust gas is introduced and supplies the dilution gas to the exhaust gas introduction pipe, a dilution gas sampling unit that is provided in the dilution gas supply pipe and collects the dilution gas, and a backflow prevention member that is provided closer to the exhaust gas introduction pipe than the dilution gas sampling unit in the dilution gas supply pipe and prevents the mixed gas from flowing backward through the dilution gas supply pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki YASUDA, Hiromitsu IZUMI, Takeshi KIMURA, Masahiro HIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11645796
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to control display on a user interface includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire recipe data regarding a processing condition of a substrate processing apparatus configured to process a substrate and layout data regarding a layout of a processed portion of the substrate processed by the substrate processing apparatus, and a display control unit configured to perform control to display, on the user interface, information regarding the layout data and information regarding the recipe data related to the layout data, the layout data and the recipe data being acquired by the acquisition unit, in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 11619268
    Abstract: A manufacturing device manufactures a bearing unit including an inner ring member outwardly fitted onto an end portion of a shaft main body of an inner shaft on one side in an axial direction and fixed by a swaged portion extending from the end portion. The manufacturing device includes: a rotating mechanism including a rotor which holds the other side of the inner shaft in the axial direction from below and rotates the inner shaft about a center axis of the inner shaft while the center axis is aligned with an up-down direction, the rotor being mounted below a processing area of the bearing unit; and a swaging mechanism mounted above the processing area and including a punch which is brought into contact with the swaged portion to plastically deform the swaged portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Tanaka, Masato Nakagawa, Masato Fukui, Kei Sumimoto, Mitsumoto Inoguchi, Hiroyuki Shinoda, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230102505
    Abstract: A replacing and holding device includes an electrode tip puller including two stacked pick plates inserted between an end face of an electrode tip fitted into a shank fixed to a gun arm of a welding gun and an end face of a larger diameter portion of the shank, a guide rod that guides motions of the pick plates in a stacked direction thereof, a pick plate interspace increasing mechanism that increases a space between the pick plates according to positions of the pick plates along the guide rod, an electrode tip holder in one of the pick plates to hold the electrode tip pulled out from the shank, and an electrode tip contact portion in front of the shank in an insert direction of the shank, wherein the electrode tip comes into contact by a motion of the welding gun to insert the shank into the electrode tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Takehiro IZUMI, Yoshinori ANDO, Tsubasa MOCHIZUKI, Masahiro KIMURA, Masayuki FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 11592064
    Abstract: A manufacturing device manufactures a bearing unit including an inner ring member outwardly fitted onto an end portion of a shaft main body of an inner shaft on one side in an axial direction and fixed by a swaged portion extending from the end portion. The manufacturing device includes: a rotating mechanism including a rotor which holds the other side of the inner shaft in the axial direction from below and rotates the inner shaft about a center axis of the inner shaft while the center axis is aligned with an up-down direction, the rotor being mounted below a processing area of the bearing unit; and a swaging mechanism mounted above the processing area and including a punch which is brought into contact with the swaged portion to plastically deform the swaged portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Tanaka, Masato Nakagawa, Masato Fukui, Kei Sumimoto, Mitsumoto Inoguchi, Hiroyuki Shinoda, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 11595539
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first posture detection unit that detects a first posture that is a posture of the apparatus main body when not in use, a second posture detection unit that detects a second posture that is a posture of the apparatus main body when in use, and a posture change detection unit that detects a change in a posture of the apparatus main body. When the first posture detection unit detects a switchover of the apparatus main body to the first posture in a first power supply mode in which power is supplied to the first posture detection unit, the second posture detection unit, and the posture change detection unit, the first power supply mode transitions to the second power supply mode in which a controller supplies power to only the posture change detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Fukumasu, Tomoyuki Mokuo, Masahiro Kimura, Sota Ishibashi, Yasuki Nogami
  • Publication number: 20230011420
    Abstract: A cooling system for cooling a fuel cell on a vehicle includes a radiator, a branch portion connected to an outlet side of the radiator, a confluence portion connected to an inlet side of the radiator, a first passage and a second passage connected in parallel between the confluence portion and the branch portion, a fuel cell and a first pump provided in the first passage, a resistor and a second pump provided in the second passage, and a backflow preventer provided in the second passage. The first passage has no backflow preventer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Kentaro FUKUDA, Ryosuke YAMADA, Shunjiro KIKAWA, Hisashi HIGASHI, Hiroya KAWASAKI, Masahiro KIMURA, Ryuya TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220230918
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention is a method for producing a substrate having through-silicon vias, the method including a preparation step of preparing a silicon substrate provided with through-holes, in which the through-holes communicate with both principal surfaces; a copper sintered body formation step of forming a copper sintered body having a porous structure such that the copper sintered body fills at least the through-holes; a resin impregnation step of impregnating the copper sintered body with a curable resin composition; and a resin curing step of curing the curable resin composition impregnated into the copper sintered body to form an electric conductor that includes the copper sintered body having pores filled with a resin cured product, and providing through-silicon vias in the through-holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshinori EJIRI, Hideo NAKAKO, Yuki KAWANA, Motoki YONEKURA, Shinichirou SUKATA, Manabu ISHII, Masaru FUJITA, Michiko NATORI, Masahiro KIMURA, Ryo HONNA
  • Patent number: 11372036
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a sensor unit that generates a detection signal having the same detection frequency as an entered sinusoidal analog signal and matching a physical quantity to be detected; a reference signal generating unit that generates a reference signal having the detection frequency, according to the entered analog signal; converting units that convert the detection signal and reference signal to digital signals in synchronization with a clock signal; a demodulating unit that multiplies the digital detection signal by each of two sinusoidal synchronization signals having the detection frequency, the phases of the two synchronization signals being shifted from each other by one-fourth of a cycle, and generates two demodulated signals free from a harmonic component; and a correcting unit that corrects the demodulated signals according to the digital reference signal so as to suppress variations, in the demodulated signals, caused by variations in the clock signal phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Sasai, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220189089
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to control display on a user interface includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire recipe data regarding a processing condition of a substrate processing apparatus configured to process a substrate and layout data regarding a layout of a processed portion of the substrate processed by the substrate processing apparatus, and a display control unit configured to perform control to display, on the user interface, information regarding the layout data and information regarding the recipe data related to the layout data, the layout data and the recipe data being acquired by the acquisition unit, in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220152720
    Abstract: A welding control device configured to control a position control object which includes at least one of a welding wire used to weld a welding object or an electrode for melting the welding wire includes a first decision unit for deciding an actual position of the position control object based on a welding feature amount detected from an image which is shot to include at least the position control object, a second decision unit for deciding a target position which is a target of the actual position according to an input condition based on the input condition which includes at least one of attitude information of the electrode when the welding object is welded or shape information of the welding object, and a control unit for performing position control of the position control object so that the actual position becomes the target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke HAZUI, Koki TATEISHI, Naoki SUDA, Kazuhiko KAMO, Masahiro KIMURA, Yusuke SANO, Yasushi NISHIJIMA
  • Patent number: 11290275
    Abstract: An authentication apparatus of embodiments has a counter circuit and a pseudo-pass generating circuit. The counter circuit counts the number of times an inputted cryptographic key and a cryptographic key set in advance consecutively do not match. The pseudo-pass generating circuit outputs a pseudo-pass response when the number of times the keys consecutively do not match, which is counted by the counter circuit, exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kimura, Yoshinari Ojima
  • Patent number: 11235989
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite porous hollow-fiber membrane including a first layer and a second layer which each include a fluororesin-based polymer, in which at least a part of molecular chains of the fluororesin-based polymer is oriented in a longitudinal direction of the composite porous hollow-fiber membrane, the molecular chains of the fluororesin-based polymer have a degree of orientation it in the longitudinal direction of the composite porous hollow-fiber membrane of 0.4 or higher but less than 1.0, the degree of orientation it being calculated with the specific formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shun Shimura, Masayuki Hanakawa, Kenta Iwai, Tamotsu Kitade, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220029185
    Abstract: A power generation system, includes: a fuel cell that includes a negative electrode and a positive electrode and is configured to generate electric power by chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen; a separator that includes a hydrogen-permselective separation membrane and is configured to obtain permeated gas and non-permeated gas from mixed gas; and a negative electrode gas supply passage configured to supply the mixed gas containing hydrogen to the separator and supply the permeated gas obtained by the separator to the negative electrode. The separation membrane includes a porous support layer and a separation functional layer provided on the porous support layer. The separation functional layer contains at least one kind of chemical compound selected from the group consisting of polyamide, graphene, MOF (Metal Organic Framework), and COF (Covalent Organic Framework).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro TOKUYAMA, Rina IIZUKA, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Masahiro KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220029177
    Abstract: A power generation system, includes: a fuel cell that includes a negative electrode and a positive electrode and is configured to generate electric power by chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen; a separator that includes an oxygen-permselective separation membrane and is configured to obtain permeated gas and non-permeated gas from mixed gas; and a positive electrode gas supply passage through which the mixed gas is supplied to the separator and the obtained permeated gas is supplied to the positive electrode. The separation membrane includes a porous support layer and a separation functional layer provided on the porous support layer. The separation functional layer contains at least one kind of chemical compound selected from the group consisting of polyamide, graphene, MOF (Metal Organic Framework), and COF (Covalent Organic Framework).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro TOKUYAMA, Rina IIZUKA, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Masahiro KIMURA