Patents by Inventor Masahiro Ozawa

Masahiro Ozawa 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: 9935358
    Abstract: An antenna of a communication terminal is disposed on a side on which a bottom surface of a reflective plate, which is included in a display, is present. When the reflective plate is irradiated by an LED light source, the antenna cannot be seen from the side on which a display screen of the display is disposed. Accordingly, an antenna coil of the antenna does not need transparent electrodes and can be made of various materials each having a high conductivity. Therefore, the antenna has high sensitivity, low manufacturing cost, and very efficiently performs near field communication with an external device located on the display screen side of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Kato, Masahiro Ozawa, Nobuhito Tsubaki
  • Patent number: 9921568
    Abstract: A trajectory measuring device that measures a moving trajectory of a moving target in a machine including three or more movable axes for the moving target, the trajectory measuring device including a trajectory calculating unit that calculates, for each plane having two movable axes among the movable axes as coordinate axes, the moving trajectory on the plane by using command conditions to the moving target including an inter-axis phase difference among the movable axes, command signals to the movable axes generated on the basis of the inter-axis phase difference, and feedback signals indicating positions of the movable axes at time when the movable axes are feedback-controlled such that the positions of the movable axes follow the command signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro Nagaoka, Tomoya Fujita, Masahiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9875069
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a selection section. When the information processing apparatus makes an image forming apparatus perform image formation on a presentation file including first information on a first output image and second information on a second target output image associated with the first output image based on the first information and the second information, the selection section selects a target output image on which the image formation is performed from among the second output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuren Ri, Toyoshige Nounishi, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Shunsuke Araki
  • Patent number: 9876275
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a casing including a metal casing portion and a feed coil. The metal casing portion includes a main surface, a side surface connected to the main surfaces, and a notch portion located in the side surface. The feed coil is disposed inside the casing to be coupled with the metal casing portion by a magnetic field, and includes a winding central portion forming a coil opening portion. The feed coil is disposed near the notch portion, with the coil opening portion directed to a region including the notch portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakano, Masahiro Ozawa, Nobuhito Tsubaki
  • Patent number: 9865924
    Abstract: An antenna device that includes a coil antenna with a coil conductor wound around a winding axis. The device further includes a planar conductor with a surface and an edge end portion, where the surface extends in the direction of the winding axis and the edge end portion is adjacent to a coil opening of the coil conductor. A booster antenna is also provided and includes a looped or spiral coil conductor and is coupled to the planar conductor and/or the coil antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teppei Miura, Jun Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kubo, Katsumi Taniguchi, Noboru Kato, Masahiro Ozawa, Satoshi Ishino
  • Publication number: 20170373396
    Abstract: A coil device has a plate-like element body having a main surface, a back surface, and an end surface, a helical coil provided in the element body and having a coil axis extending between the main surface and the back surface, and a connection terminal provided on the back surface or the end surface of the element body and connected to the helical coil. As for a conductor constituting the helical coil, a plurality of conductor portions extending along the main surface are comprised of a plurality of metal pins, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: NOBORU KATO, Masahiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9825365
    Abstract: An antenna device that includes a coil antenna with a coil conductor wound around a winding axis. The device further includes a planar conductor with a surface and an edge end portion, where the surface extends in the direction of the winding axis and the edge end portion is adjacent to a coil opening of the coil conductor. A booster antenna is also provided and includes a looped or spiral coil conductor and is coupled to the planar conductor and/or the coil antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teppei Miura, Jun Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kubo, Katsumi Taniguchi, Noboru Kato, Masahiro Ozawa, Satoshi Ishino
  • Patent number: 9805861
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a close-proximity communication coil, a power transmission coil, and a metal plate. The close-proximity communication coil is configured to be used in a close-proximity communication system. The power transmission coil is configured to be used in a contactless power transmission system. At least a portion of the metal plate is disposed between the close-proximity communication coil and the power transmission coil. The close-proximity communication coil and the power transmission coil are disposed in non-overlapping locations when viewed from a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a main surface of the metal plate. At least one of the close-proximity communication coil and the power transmission coil electromagnetically couples with the metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Kato, Masahiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9781832
    Abstract: A laminate body includes a plurality of dielectric sheets laminated together. A first ground conductor is provided in or on the laminate body. A second ground conductor is provided in or on the laminate body and located on a different layer from the first ground conductor. A signal line is provided between the ground conductors and with respect to a direction of lamination. A signal line is provided between the ground conductors and with respect to the direction of lamination and located closer to the second ground conductor than the signal line is, and the signal line has a portion extending along the signal line in a parallel-lines area when viewed from the direction of lamination. The first ground conductor has openings in the parallel-lines area, and the openings are arranged over the signal line when viewed from the direction of lamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Kato, Masahiro Ozawa, Satoshi Ishino, Jun Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9712155
    Abstract: A drive circuit for a power semiconductor element includes: a voltage-command generation unit that generates a voltage command VGEref, which is a charge command between the gate and emitter terminals of a power semiconductor element; and a subtracter that calculates a deviation voltage Verr between the voltage command VGEref and the voltage between the gate and emitter terminals. The drive circuit also includes: a gate current controller that is input with the deviation voltage Verr and calculates a gate-current command voltage VIGref for determining the gate current that is caused to flow to the gate terminal of the power semiconductor element; a gate-current command limiter that limits the gate-current command voltage VIGref; and a gate-current supply device that is input with an actual gate-current command voltage VIGout and that supplies a gate current to the gate terminal of the power semiconductor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitomo Hayashi, Masahiro Ozawa, Toshiki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170199510
    Abstract: A control parameter adjustment device includes a command-value generation unit that generates a position command; a servo control unit that calculates a drive command such that a response position of a driven object follows the position command; a correction model unit that generates a correction command for correcting a response error that is a difference between the position command and the response position by using a model expressed by two or more types of parameters; and a parameter search unit that corrects the model by using a combination of values of the parameters, by which the response error is minimized, among a plurality of combinations of values of the parameters. The control parameter adjustment device drives the driven object on the basis of the drive command and the correction command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya FUJITA, Kotaro NAGAOKA, Masahiro OZAWA
  • Patent number: 9699892
    Abstract: An electric element-embedded multilayer substrate, which is a multilayer substrate including an electric element embedded therein and a plurality of base material layers having flexibility, the electric element including a main surface and being embedded in the multilayer substrate to be sandwiched between the base material layers, and a slide member provided between the main surface of the electric element and the base material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Kato, Masahiro Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20170187132
    Abstract: A transmission line includes an insulator as a base member, a transmission conductor, and a ground layer. A connector is provided at a wiring substrate to fix the transmission line. The transmission line includes a signal columnar conductor having a solid columnar shape integrated with the transmission conductor, and ground columnar conductors having solid columnar shapes integrated with the ground layer. The connector has a through hole corresponding to the signal columnar conductor, and through holes corresponding to the ground columnar conductors. Conductive films are respectively provided on the inner peripheral surfaces of the through holes. The signal columnar conductor is inserted into the through hole, and the ground columnar conductors are respectively inserted into the through holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Noboru KATO, Masahiro OZAWA
  • Patent number: 9692128
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a first coil antenna and a second coil antenna. The first coil antenna includes a coil conductor having a rectangular or substantially rectangular spiral shape and located on a non-magnetic insulating base member. The second coil antenna includes two coil conductors located on a non-magnetic insulating base member. The two coil conductors are disposed and wound such that loops of a magnetic field that is generated by applying a current to the two coil conductors are perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a coil axis of the coil conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Kato, Teppei Miura, Masahiro Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20170169329
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server is included in a system which also includes a second server and a third server. The server also configured to specify, from a search range of the parameters, a first combination of first initial parameters and a second combination of second initial parameters, using a search method based on a uniform distribution, and to specify, from a search range of the parameters, a third combination of third parameters, based on the first and second learning results and using a search method based on a probability distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Kenichi Doniwa, Kosuke Haruki, Masahiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9647312
    Abstract: A transmission line includes an insulator as a base member, a transmission conductor, and a ground layer. A connector is provided at a wiring substrate to fix the transmission line. The transmission line includes a signal columnar conductor having a solid columnar shape integrated with the transmission conductor, and ground columnar conductors having solid columnar shapes integrated with the ground layer. The connector has a through hole corresponding to the signal columnar conductor, and through holes corresponding to the ground columnar conductors. Conductive films are respectively provided on the inner peripheral surfaces of the through holes. The signal columnar conductor is inserted into the through hole, and the ground columnar conductors are respectively inserted into the through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Kato, Masahiro Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20170125905
    Abstract: An antenna device that includes a coil antenna with a coil conductor wound around a winding axis. The device further includes a planar conductor with a surface and an edge end portion, where the surface extends in the direction of the winding axis and the edge end portion is adjacent to a coil opening of the coil conductor. A booster antenna is also provided and includes a looped or spiral coil conductor and is coupled to the planar conductor and/or the coil antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Teppei Miura, Jun Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kubo, Katsumi Taniguchi, Noboru Kato, Masahiro Ozawa, Satoshi Ishino
  • Patent number: 9639317
    Abstract: An image output apparatus includes an image output unit, a presumption unit, a comparison unit and an output control unit. The image output unit outputs, in a predetermined format, an image of a content of a document file. The presumption unit presumes a first region/language setting of a document file created environment where the document file is created. The comparison unit compares the first region/language setting with a second region/language setting of the image output apparatus. The output control unit makes the image output unit output the image of the content of the document file by using a region/language setting selected from the region/language settings, which are compared with each other by the comparison unit, on the basis of a result of the comparison by the comparison unit in accordance with a predetermined selection condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Aoyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Hiroshi Nogawa, Kunikazu Satou, Takahisa Matsunaga, Tetsuren Ri
  • Patent number: 9573418
    Abstract: A bearing device for a wheel has a hub wheel and a constant velocity universal joint with an outer joint member. Projecting portions extending in an axial direction are provided on one of an outer surface of a shaft section of the outer joint member and an inner surface of a hole portion of the hub wheel. The projecting portions are press-fitted into the other along the axial direction, and recessed portions are formed in the other through press-fitting of the projecting portions. Thus, a recess-projection fitting structure is formed, in which the projecting portions and the recessed portions are held in close contact with each other through an entire region of fitting contact regions therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Yuichi Asano, Masayuki Kuroda, Tohru Nakagawa, Kiyoshige Yamauchi, Mitsuru Umekida
  • Patent number: 9547625
    Abstract: An electronic document display apparatus includes a display unit and an analysis-and-setting unit including a determination unit and a first correction unit. The display unit displays an electronic document in display layout set by the analysis-and-setting unit. If the determination unit determines that an image related to a display-range text of a display range to be displayed by the display unit is not included in the display range, the first correction unit adds an image display region where the image is displayed to the display range so as to correct the display layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the display range. The analysis-and-setting unit changes a display state of the image displayed in the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuren Ri, Toyoshige Nounishi, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou