Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kusaka
Masahiro Kusaka 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).
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Publication number: 20240118555Abstract: An optical computing device includes a light diffraction element group including light diffraction elements each having an optical computing function, and a light receiver that detects respective intensities of wavelength components contained in signal light outputted from the light diffraction element group. The light diffraction elements are disposed side by side on a light path of the signal light inputted into the light diffraction element group such that the signal light passes sequentially through the light diffraction elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Masahiro Kashiwagi
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Publication number: 20240118724Abstract: A light diffraction element includes a computing optical structure constituted by microcells, and a position adjustment optical structure outside the computing optical structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Masahiro Kashiwagi
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Patent number: 11956356Abstract: According to one embodiment, a key management device includes a storage and a server. The storage includes a first nonvolatile memory, and a first controller configured to encrypt, using a first media encryption key, data from a host, and store the encrypted data in the first nonvolatile memory. The server includes a second nonvolatile memory storing a first key, and a second controller configured to transmit the first key from the second nonvolatile memory to the storage without passing through the host. The first controller is configured to generate the first media encryption key using the first key.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kusaka, Kenichi Numata
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Publication number: 20240103207Abstract: An optical computing device includes: a light diffraction element group including light diffraction elements having an optical computing function, wherein the light diffraction element group passes light through the light diffraction elements in turn, the light passing through the light diffraction elements was either: reflected or scattered from a non-illuminant object located outside the optical computing device, or emitted from an illuminant object located outside the optical computing device, and neither the non-illuminant object nor the illuminant object is a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Masahiro Kashiwagi, Yuichiro Kunai
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Publication number: 20240100769Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stereolithographically fabricated object includes separately irradiating, with light, respective n regions R1 to Rn of a photo-curable resin, where n is an integer of not less than 2. An overlap area of the region Ri overlaps a part of the region Rj, where i is an integer that satisfies 1?i?n and j is an integer that satisfies 1?j?n and j?i. The photo-curable resin is cured in a part or an entirety of the overlap area by irradiating the region Ri with the light.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Masahiro Kashiwagi
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Publication number: 20240085600Abstract: A light diffraction element unit includes a base material including a light-transmissive and flexible layer member, a light diffraction structure including microcells and disposed on a portion of a main surface of the base material, and a holding part holding the base material and including a layer member or a plate member having an opening that penetrates through a pair of main surfaces of the layer member or the plate member. The holding part holds an annular portion of the base material such that the light diffraction structure is encompassed in the opening. The annular portion surrounds the portion of the main surface of the base material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Masahiro Kashiwagi
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Publication number: 20240078420Abstract: An optical computing device includes a light diffraction element group including light diffraction elements each having an optical computing function, and a light emitter that generates signal light inputted into the light diffraction element group and indicative of images formed by different optical systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Masahiro Kashiwagi
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Publication number: 20240075686Abstract: An optical fabrication device includes a light source that emits light and cures a photo-curable resin, a digital micromirror device that reflects the light and projects a predetermined pattern, a microlens array disposed downstream of the digital micromirror device and that transmits the light that has been reflected by the digital micromirror device, an objective disposed downstream of the microlens array and that causes the light that has been transmitted through the microlens array to form an image, a container that holds the photo-curable resin, a sample platform disposed inside the container, and a controller that controls the digital micromirror device and causes the light to form an image having the predetermined pattern at each of levels that are different in distance from a main face of the sample platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Masahiro Kashiwagi
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Publication number: 20220085997Abstract: According to one embodiment, a key management device includes a storage and a server. The storage includes a first nonvolatile memory, and a first controller configured to encrypt, using a first media encryption key, data from a host, and store the encrypted data in the first nonvolatile memory. The server includes a second nonvolatile memory storing a first key, and a second controller configured to transmit the first key from the second nonvolatile memory to the storage without passing through the host. The first controller is configured to generate the first media encryption key using the first key.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Masahiro KUSAKA, Kenichi NUMATA
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Patent number: 9358535Abstract: An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes first particles of oxygen storage material, second particles of one or more acidic oxides interposed between the first particles, and third particles of one or more precious metal elements interposed between the first particles, wherein a spectrum of a characteristic X-ray intensity for one of constituent elements of the acidic oxide(s) other than oxygen and a spectrum of a characteristic X-ray intensity for one of the precious metal element(s) that are obtained by performing a line analysis using energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry along a length of 500 nm have a correlation coefficient of 0.70 or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Matsueda, Akimasa Hirai, Kenichi Taki, Keiichi Narita, Asuka Hori, Masahiro Kusaka
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Patent number: 9295945Abstract: An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes first particles of oxygen storage material, second particles of one or more rare-earth elements other than cerium and/or compounds thereof interposed between the first particles, and third particles of one or more precious metal elements interposed between the first particles, wherein a spectrum of a characteristic X-ray intensity for one of the rare-earth element(s) and a spectrum of a characteristic X-ray intensity for one of the precious metal element(s) that are obtained by performing a line analysis using energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry along a length of 500 nm have a correlation coefficient of 0.68 or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Matsueda, Akimasa Hirai, Kenichi Taki, Keiichi Narita, Asuka Hori, Masahiro Kusaka
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Patent number: 8636615Abstract: A planetary gear train is provided with: a planetary gear; a planetary pin for supporting the planetary gear; a carrier for supporting the planetary pin; and a housing for accommodating at least a portion of the carrier, the planetary gear and the planetary pin. The planetary gear is rotatable with respect to the planetary pin by a bearing. An oiling flow path for supplying lubricant oil to the bearing is formed inside the carrier. The carrier receives the lubricant oil into the oiling flow path from an oiling member stationarily fixed to the housing. The inlet for receiving the lubricant oil into the oiling flow path of the carrier from the oiling member is positioned inside the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Co., Ltd, Ishibashi Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazutaka Suzuki, Kazufumi Takayanagi, Takafumi Yoshida, Tadasuke Nishioka, Toshiharu Goya, Motohisa Uesato, Masahiro Kusaka
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Patent number: 8569198Abstract: An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes first particles of oxygen storage material, second particles of one or more alkaline-earth metal elements and/or compounds thereof interposed between the first particles, and third particles of one or more precious metal elements interposed between the first particles. A spectrum of a first characteristic X-ray intensity for one of the one or more alkaline-earth metal elements and a spectrum of a second characteristic X-ray intensity for one of the one or more precious metal elements that are obtained by performing a line analysis using energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry along a length of 500 nm have a correlation coefficient ?(AE,PM) of 0.70 or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Cataler CorporationInventors: Sho Hoshino, Akimasa Hirai, Kenichi Taki, Keiichi Narita, Satoshi Matsueda, Asuka Hori, Masahiro Kusaka
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Publication number: 20120149557Abstract: An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes first particles of oxygen storage material, second particles of one or more alkaline-earth metal elements and/or compounds thereof interposed between the first particles, and third particles of one or more precious metal elements interposed between the first particles. A spectrum of a first characteristic X-ray intensity for one of the one or more alkaline-earth metal elements and a spectrum of a second characteristic X-ray intensity for one of the one or more precious metal elements that are obtained by performing a line analysis using energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry along a length of 500 nm have a correlation coefficient ?(AE,PM) of 0.70 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventors: Sho Hoshino, Akimasa Hirai, Kenichi Taki, Keiichi Narita, Satoshi Matsueda, Asuka Hori, Masahiro Kusaka
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Publication number: 20120122667Abstract: An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes first particles of oxygen storage material, second particles of one or more acidic oxides interposed between the first particles, and third particles of one or more precious metal elements interposed between the first particles, wherein a spectrum of a characteristic X-ray intensity for one of constituent elements of the acidic oxide(s) other than oxygen and a spectrum of a characteristic X-ray intensity for one of the precious metal element(s) that are obtained by performing a line analysis using energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry along a length of 500 nm have a correlation coefficient of 0.70 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventors: Satoshi Matsueda, Akimasa Hirai, Kenichi Taki, Keiichi Narita, Asuka Hori, Masahiro Kusaka
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Publication number: 20120122672Abstract: An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes first particles of oxygen storage material, second particles of one or more rare-earth elements other than cerium and/or compounds thereof interposed between the first particles, and third particles of one or more precious metal elements interposed between the first particles, wherein a spectrum of a characteristic X-ray intensity for one of the rare-earth element(s) and a spectrum of a characteristic X-ray intensity for one of the precious metal element(s) that are obtained by performing a line analysis using energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry along a length of 500 nm have a correlation coefficient of 0.68 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventors: Satoshi Matsueda, Akimasa Hirai, Kenichi Taki, Keiichi Narita, Asuka Hori, Masahiro Kusaka
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Publication number: 20120051915Abstract: A planetary gear train is provided with a planetary gear and a planetary pin inserted into the planetary gear. The planetary gear includes: a gear member having teeth on the outer face and a through hole; an intermediate housing inserted into the through hole and having an insert hole into which the planetary pin is inserted; and a plurality of sliding bearing members jointed onto the insert hole of the intermediate housing. The plurality of sliding bearing members form a sliding bearing which sustains the planetary pin and the planetary gear to be rotatable with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazutaka suzuki, Kazufumi TAKAYANAGI, Takafumi YOSHIDA, Hideaki NISHIDA, Motohisa UESATO, Masahiro KUSAKA
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Patent number: 7810326Abstract: Multiple embodiments of ferromagnetic shape memory alloy (FSMA) based torque actuators are described. These torque actuators include a magnetic trigger and an FSMA member, which when actuated by the magnetic trigger, produces a torque for rotating a member. Examples of magnetic triggers include hybrid magnetic triggers having at least one electromagnet and at least one permanent magnet. The FSMA member can be configured as a coil (or plate) spring and can be fabricated of a true FSMA alloy (i.e., an alloy that exhibits both ferromagnetic and shape memory properties) or of an FSMA composite that includes a ferromagnetic portion and an SMA portion. Several embodiments include a central orifice in which the FSMA member and an axial rod configured to rotate when actuated are disposed; the magnetic trigger system is disposed about the periphery of the orifice.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2005Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: University of Washington through its Center for CommercializationInventors: Minoru Taya, Taishi Wada, Hsiu-hung Chen, Masahiro Kusaka, Victor Cheng, Chiyuan Wang
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Publication number: 20070289301Abstract: Multiple embodiments of ferromagnetic shape memory alloy (FSMA) based torque actuators are described. These torque actuators include a magnetic trigger and an FSMA member, which when actuated by the magnetic trigger, produces a torque for rotating a member. Examples of magnetic triggers include hybrid magnetic triggers having at least one electromagnet and at least one permanent magnet. The FSMA member can be configured as a coil (or plate) spring and can be fabricated of a true FSMA alloy (i.e., an alloy that exhibits both ferromagnetic and shape memory properties) or of an FSMA composite that includes a ferromagnetic portion and an SMA portion. Several embodiments include a central orifice in which the FSMA member and an axial rod configured to rotate when actuated are disposed; the magnetic trigger system is disposed about the periphery of the orifice.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2005Publication date: December 20, 2007Applicant: University of WashingtonInventors: Minoru Taya, Taishi Wada, Hsiu-hung Chen, Masahiro Kusaka, Victor Cheng, Chiyuan Wang
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Patent number: 7104056Abstract: The present invention employs an optimized cross-sectional shape for a ferromagnetic shape memory alloy (FSMA) composite that is used in a spring-type actuator, an improved hybrid magnetic trigger for use in FSMA based actuators, an a FSMA composite based spring type actuator, an a FSMA based spring type actuator including a stack of triggering units and FSMA springs, a FSMA composite based torque actuator. The invention also includes a model that can be employed to evaluate different materials being considered as components a FSMA for a FSMA composite used in either a FSMA based torque actuator or a FSMA spring actuator.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: University of WashingtonInventors: Minoru Taya, Taishi Wada, Masahiro Kusaka, Hsiu-hung Chen