Patents by Inventor Masahiro Saito
Masahiro Saito 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: 20230305412Abstract: A toner includes toner matrix particles containing resin and wax; and an external additive, wherein an average number of voids per toner is 5 or more and 10 or less per toner with a void diameter ? (nm) of voids in the toner matrix particles being 500 ? ? ? 200, as measured based on cross-sectional observation by a scanning electron microscope (SEM).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, LtdInventors: Masahiro YUKIKAWA, Akio Takei, Akinori Saito, Hideto Suzuki
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Publication number: 20230298440Abstract: A claw gaming machine may comprise a cabinet, a claw assembly, prize objects, and a shooter unit. The machine may be configured to: determine an outcome of a claw game; allow an input device to control the claw assembly; end the claw game when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome; cause the claw assembly to move and release the picked-up object away from the shooter unit when the claw assembly does pick-up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome, cause the claw assembly to drop the picked-up object on the shooter unit when the claw assembly picks-up the object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome; and cause a winning game presentation display when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Takaki NARITA, Kenji ENOKIDO, Hiroki SAITO, Satoshi JOKO, Go MIYAMOTO, Akira SHIMIZU, Hiromu SAIGUSA, Jyunichi MURAKAMI, Satoshi NAKATA, Masahiro SUGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230294667Abstract: A turning behavior control device for a vehicle includes a yaw rate detector, a front wheel suspension, a rear wheel suspension, a brake device, a hydraulic pressure supplier, and a travel controller. The left and right front wheels of the vehicle are steered wheels and drive wheels. The travel controller includes a deviation value calculator configured to calculate a deviation between a standard yaw rate for determining a degree of understeer during turning of the vehicle and a yaw rate detected by the yaw rate detector, and a braking force controller configured to output, to the hydraulic pressure supplier, a first signal for applying braking forces to left and right front wheels in addition to a turning inner rear wheel when it is determined that the deviation calculated by the deviation value calculator exceeds a predetermined deviation reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Koji MATSUNO, Masahiro SAITO, Kojiro NAKAJIMA, Nozomi KOSAKA, Goichi KOBAYASHI, Yoshinori MAEDA
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Publication number: 20230292744Abstract: A flying pest exterminating composition containing 0.01% by mass or more and 3.0% by mass or less of a wing wetting agent having a surface tension at 25° C. of 27.0 mN/m or more and 50.0 mN/m or less as a 3 mmol/kg aqueous solution, the composition being used by being sprayed in the form of droplets having an average particle diameter of 20 ?m or more and 400 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Kazuma Saito, Masahiro SUZUKI, Kouhei TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20230245341Abstract: A positioning device includes an acquisition unit that acquires an environmental map of a target area being generated by using an image processing technique for estimating a three-dimensional shape of a target included in a two-dimensional image, and a plurality of captured images being used for generating the environmental map, an image retrieval unit that extracts, from a plurality of the captured images, a similar image having a feature vector similar to a feature vector determined based on a feature amount included in an input image, and an estimation unit that estimates a position and an attitude of an imaging device that has captured the input image by using a first feature point group of the input image and a third feature point group in the environmental map associated to a second feature point group of the similar image being matched with the first feature point group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Natsuki KAI, Takahiro SHIROSHIMA, Hideo SAITO, Masahiro YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230243780Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which the purity of a chemical liquid containing an organic solvent is more easily managed, a method of washing a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and a simpler method of measuring the cleanliness of a washing solution. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device has Step 1 of bringing an oscillator into contact with a chemical liquid containing an organic solvent as a main component to obtain the amount of change in the resonance frequency of the oscillator resulting from the contact with the chemical liquid, Step 2 of confirming whether or not the amount of change in the resonance frequency of the chemical liquid falls within a permissible range of the amount of change in the resonance frequency based on the preset purity of the chemical liquid, and Step 3 of using the chemical liquid confirmed in Step 2 in manufacturing a semiconductor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akihiko OHTSU, Yukihisa Kawada, Naotsugu Muro, Masahiro Yoshidome, Tetsuya Kamimura, Ryo Saito
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Publication number: 20230200642Abstract: A medical system according to an aspect example includes a data acquiring unit and a data processor. The data acquiring unit is configured to acquire from a patient two or more types of data among blood oxygen saturation data, auscultatory sound data, ocular image data, and ocular blood flow data. The data processor is configured to process the two or more types of data acquired by the data acquiring unit to detect a conditional change in a circulatory system associated with an infectious disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicants: RIKEN, Topcon CorporationInventors: Satoshi WADA, Masayuki MARUYAMA, Norihito SAITO, Kei TANEISHI, Yasufumi FUKUMA, Masahiro AKIBA, Gaku TAKEUCHI, Kana MINAMIDE
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Patent number: 11684963Abstract: In a method for producing an outer panel having a character line, a punch includes a projecting portion for forming a bent surface of the character line at a punch top portion, and a punch shoulder R portion. A contact pressure applied to a blank by at least one of the projecting portion and the punch shoulder R portion is higher than a contact pressure applied to the blank by a remaining portion of the punch which excludes the projecting portion and the punch shoulder R portion. A static friction coefficient of a first portion of the punch which includes at least one of the projecting portion and the punch shoulder R portion with respect to the blank is larger than a static friction coefficient of a second portion of the punch which excludes the first portion with respect to the blank.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2017Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Sawa, Masahiro Saito, Shigeru Yonemura, Akira Egami, Kohki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230178305Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a second alloy portion including one metal element provided in a greatest amount among metal elements of an internal electrode layer, and one or more metal elements among a metal group including Sn, In, Ga, Zn, Bi, Pb, Cu, Ag, Pd, Pt, Ph, Ir, Ru, Os, Fe, V, and Y is provided between a second dielectric ceramic layer and a first internal electrode layer, and between a second dielectric ceramic layer and a second internal electrode layer, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Yuta KUROSU, Yuta SAITO, Masahiro WAKASHIMA, Daiki FUKUNAGA, Yu TSUTSUI
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Publication number: 20230165456Abstract: According to a medical system of an aspect example, an ophthalmic data acquiring unit includes at least one ophthalmic examination apparatus for acquiring ophthalmic data from a patient, and an internal medicine data acquiring unit includes at least one internal medicine examination apparatus for acquiring internal medicine data from the patient. An inference processor is configured to perform inference processing using a trained model constructed by machine learning using training data that includes ophthalmic data, internal medicine data, and diagnostic result data. The inference processor generates inferred diagnostic data by performing the inference processing based at least on the ophthalmic data of the patient acquired by the ophthalmic data acquiring unit and the internal medicine data of the patient acquired by the internal medicine data acquiring unit. An output unit outputs a result of the inference processing performed by the inference processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicants: RIKEN, Topcon CorporationInventors: Satoshi WADA, Masayuki MARUYAMA, Norihito SAITO, Kei TANEISHI, Yasufumi FUKUMA, Masahiro AKIBA, Gaku TAKEUCHI, Kana MINAMIDE
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Patent number: 11628511Abstract: Art for spot welding able to suppress penetration of hydrogen, one of the factors behind delayed fracture, at the time of spot welding, that is, a spot welding method in which at one or both of the surfaces of the steel sheets becoming the facing surfaces of the overlaid steel sheets, a location where the steel sheets contact each other to form a contact part at the time of initial squeezing of the spot welding is worked in advance to form a plurality of lines running through the contact part and connected to the outside of the contact part and the spot welding is performed at the location of the contact part and also a steel sheet in which the plurality of lines are formed in advance at the location becoming a contact part when steel sheets contact each other at the time of initial squeezing in the spot welding.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Matsui, Masahiro Saito, Seiji Furusako, Yasunobu Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20230104515Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing device receives a detection result of an intensity of a reflected wave detected by a detector including a detecting part that transmits an ultrasonic wave and receives the reflected wave, and a propagating part through which the ultrasonic wave and the reflected wave propagate, and performs a first determination of determining a state of the detecting part and a second determination of determining a state of the propagating part based on the detection result.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hiromasa Takahashi, Masahiro Saito, Yasunori Chiba
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Patent number: 11613260Abstract: A road surface determination apparatus includes an acceleration detector and a road surface determination unit. The acceleration detector is configured to detect an acceleration of a vehicle body or a vibration transmission member configured to transmit vibration from a tire to the vehicle body. The road surface determination unit is configured to determine a condition of a surface of a road, using a determination value obtained by extracting a component of a predetermined frequency band from the acceleration detected by the acceleration detector and integrating the component.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Goichi Kobayashi, Masahiro Saito
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Publication number: 20230030551Abstract: A manifold includes: a liquid chamber including an elastic damper, the liquid chamber configured to store a liquid; multiple head couplers on a lower end of the liquid chamber, the multiple head couplers configured to be respectively coupled to multiple liquid discharge heads and spaced apart in a longitudinal direction of the liquid chamber; and a tank coupler on an upper end of the liquid chamber, the tank coupler configured to be coupled to a tank configured to store liquid to be supplied to or discharged from the manifold, wherein a length of the liquid chamber increases from the tank coupler on the upper end toward the multiple head couplers on the lower end of the liquid chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventor: Masahiro SAITO
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Patent number: 11567338Abstract: This camera actuator comprises: an optical path bending member; a lens unit disposed at a subsequent stage of the optical path bending member; a first actuator that is disposed near the optical path bending member and displaces the optical path bending member; and a second actuator and a third actuator that are disposed near the lens unit so as to be apart from each other in a first direction, and that respectively displace the lens unit in a second direction and a third direction that are orthogonal to the first direction and orthogonal to each other. As a result, the present invention provides a camera actuator capable of improving the degree of freedom of design around the optical path bending member.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yohei Enta, Masahiro Saito, Kazutaka Goami, Hiroshi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20230024687Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data processing device receives welding device data from a welding device. The welding device makes a joined body by joining a plurality of parts. The welding device data includes a welding device ID for identifying the welding device. The data processing device receives inspection data. The inspection data includes position data and angle data. The position data is of a position of a weld portion of the joined body. The position data are calculated from a result of a probe of the joined body. The probe uses an ultrasonic wave. The angle data is of an angle of the weld portion. The data processing device associates the inspection data with the welding device data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro SAITO, Yasunori CHIBA, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11563875Abstract: A camera actuator comprises: a fixed-side member; a movable-side member disposed separated from the fixed-side member in a direction orthogonal to a light axis, the movable-side member holding a lens unit; a first lens drive actuator that displaces the movable-side member in at least a prescribed direction; an elastic support member that extends in the direction orthogonal to the light axis, and supports the movable-side member in relation to the fixed-side member so as to allow the displacement in at least the prescribed direction; and a gel-like first damping member provided to the elastic support member.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahiro Saito
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Patent number: 11561204Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display control system acquires a tilt of a detector with respect to a weld portion. The detector includes a plurality of detection elements arranged along a first arrangement direction and a second arrangement direction. The first arrangement direction and the second arrangement direction cross each other. The tilt is calculated based on a detection result of a reflected wave obtained by transmitting an ultrasonic wave from the plurality of detection elements. The system displays a user interface, displays a symbol and a tolerance range in a region included in the user interface, and updates the display of the symbol in the region according to the acquiring of the tilt. The region spreads two-dimensionally. The symbol indicates the tilt. The tolerance range is of a target value of the tilt.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masahiro Saito, Hiromasa Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230020518Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing system teaches an operation to a robot. The robot includes a detector including detection elements arranged along first and second directions, and a manipulator to which the detector is mounted. The processing system performs position teaching processing. The position teaching processing includes causing the detector to perform a probe of a weld portion of a joined body. The probe includes a transmission of an ultrasonic wave and a detection of a reflected wave. The position teaching processing includes calculating a center position of the weld portion in a first plane based on first intensity data of an intensity of the reflected wave, setting a teaching point of the robot based on a first position of the detector, and moving the detector along the first plane to a second position, and setting the teaching point based on the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori CHIBA, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI, Masahiro SAITO
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Publication number: 20230012625Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing system sets a detector to a prescribed position. The detector includes a plurality of detection elements arranged along a first direction and a second direction. The second direction crosses the first direction. The processing system causes the detector to perform a probe of a weld portion of a joined body. The probe includes a transmission of an ultrasonic wave and a detection of a reflected wave. The processing system calculates a center position of the weld portion in a first plane along the first and second directions based on intensity data. The intensity data is of an intensity of the reflected wave obtained by the probe. The processing system performs a position adjustment of moving the detector along the first plane to reduce a distance between the center position and a position of the detector in the first plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori CHIBA, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI, Masahiro SAITO