Patents by Inventor Masahiro Shimada

Masahiro Shimada 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: 12147515
    Abstract: An authentication system SYS comprises: an imaging unit 12 capable of generating an iris image IMG_I by capturing an image of an iris of an target P; and a display unit 15 capable of displaying information related to authentication of the target using the iris image, wherein at least a part of the imaging unit is disposed in a space SP2 adjacent to a back surface 152 of the display unit, the back surface being located opposite a display surface 151 for displaying the information, and the imaging unit is oriented in a direction different from a direction in which the target is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Oomine, Daisuke Shimada, Daisuke Okamoto, Katsumi Kayama, Shuya Gonda
  • Publication number: 20240332577
    Abstract: Provided are a hydrogen boride-containing composition, a hydrogen generation system, and a fuel cell system that achieve further performance improvement of a hydrogen supply source with a hydrogen boride-containing sheet. The hydrogen boride-containing composition contains a hydrogen boride-containing sheet having a two-dimensional network consisting of (BH)n(n?4, where n is an integer) and an electron donor. At least a portion of the electron donor is supported on the hydrogen boride-containing sheet, electrons of the electron donor are supplied to the hydrogen boride-containing sheet by external stimulus, and hydrogen is generated from the hydrogen boride-containing sheet into which the electrons are injected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiro MIYAUCHI, Chika SHIMADA, Akira YAMAGUCHI, Takahiro KONDO, Hayato TSURUGI
  • Publication number: 20240324282
    Abstract: A display device includes, in a display area where an image is displayed, a plurality of pixels that emit light, the plurality of pixels including: a plurality of high-density pixels provided at a high density in the display area; and a plurality of low-density pixels provided at a lower density than the plurality of high-density pixels in the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: MASAHIRO INUZUKA, KOJI YAMABUCHI, TOHRU SONODA, Tsuyoshi INOUE, JUNYA SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240319640
    Abstract: A heating device includes a rotator having an internal space, a heater heating the rotator, lubricant applied to the rotator, a rotator support supporting the rotator, and a cover. The rotator support has a first opening communicating with the internal space of the rotator, penetrating through the rotator support, and extending in the longitudinal direction. The cover covers the first opening and has a face facing the first opening and a second opening communicating with the internal space of the rotator and an exterior of the cover. The cover maintains a temperature of the face of the cover at 40° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KABATA, Takayuki ANDOH, Masahiro SAMEI, Kota SHIODERA, Hiroshi YOSHINAGA, Tomoyuki NISHIKAWA, Yuusuke FURUICHI, Hiroyuki SHIMADA, Arinobu YOSHIURA
  • Publication number: 20240319641
    Abstract: A heating device includes a rotator, a heater, lubricant applied to the rotator, a rotator support, and a cover. The rotator has an internal space inside a loop of the rotator. The heater heats the rotator. The lubricant is applied to an inner circumferential surface of the rotator. The rotator support supports an end of the rotator in a longitudinal direction of the rotator and has an opening communicating with the internal space of the rotator and penetrating through the rotator support to extend in the longitudinal direction. The cover covers the opening of the rotator support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Takayuki Andoh, Masahiro Samei, Kota Shiodera, Toshiyuki Kabata, Hiroshi Yoshinaga, Tomoyuki Nishikawa, Yuusuke Furuichi, Hiroyuki Shimada, Arinobu Yoshiura
  • Publication number: 20240319642
    Abstract: A heating device includes a rotator, a heater, lubricant, a rotator support, and a cover. The rotator has an internal space inside a loop of the rotator. The rotator has an internal space inside a loop of the rotator. The heater heats the rotator. The lubricant is applied to an inner circumferential surface of the rotator. The rotator support supports an end of the rotator in a longitudinal direction of the rotator. The rotator support has a first opening communicating with the internal space of the rotator and penetrating through the rotator support to extend in the longitudinal direction. The cover covers the first opening and has a second opening communicating between the internal space of the rotator and an external space outside the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiro SAMEI, Takayuki ANDOH, Kota SHIODERA, Hiroshi YOSHINAGA, Toshiyuki KABATA, Tomoyuki NISHIKAWA, Yuusuke FURUICHI, Hiroyuki SHIMADA, Arinobu YOSHIURA
  • Publication number: 20240315080
    Abstract: A display device includes the following: a display region with a plurality of pixels provided in matrix; and a plurality of capacitors provided in a frame region located around the display region, and electrically floating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: TOHRU SONODA, JUNYA SHIMADA, MASAHIRO INUZUKA, Tsuyoshi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11961971
    Abstract: Provided is a production method for an all-solid-state battery having a solid electrolyte layer between a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer, the production method including: coating or impregnating the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer with a solid electrolyte solution in which a boron hydride compound serving as the solid electrolyte has been dissolved in a solvent; and removing the solvent from the coated or impregnated solid electrolyte solution and causing the solid electrolyte to precipitate on the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Genki Nogami, Masahiro Shimada, Tomohiro Ito, Aki Katori, Keita Noguchi, Naoto Yamashita, Takashi Mukai, Masahiro Yanagida
  • Publication number: 20240117234
    Abstract: A composition for an oil or gas well formation, containing a viscoelastic surfactant; and a modified nanomaterial and a producing method of the composition, and a forming method of the oil or gas well. The modified nanomaterial optionally contains a nanocellulose. The modified nanomaterial optionally has, on its surface, a sulfate group, a sulfite group, a carboxy group, an ethylene oxide chain, an amino group, an ester group, a silane group, a tertiary ammonium group or a mixture thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Rigoberto C. ADVINCULA, Kunitoshi MIMURA, Daisuke OHNO, Masahiro SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 11901837
    Abstract: A power control unit includes a power device, a heat dissipation member disposed to face the power device with an insulating resin member interposed therebetween, and a plurality of plate-shaped bus bars each of which has one end connected to the power device, in which a plurality of input bus bars connected to an input terminal of the power device are provided as the bus bar, and at least one of the plurality of input bus bars is erected so that a direction along a plate width is aligned with a direction along a normal line of a surface of the heat dissipation member facing the power device, and is disposed with respect to the heat dissipation member with the insulating resin member interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunari Kurokawa, Takuma Kato, Masahiro Shimada, Morifumi Shigemasa, Akihiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11769873
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for producing an ion conductor containing Li2B12H12 and LiBH4, which includes obtaining a mixture by mixing LiBH4 and B10H14 at a molar ratio LiBH4/B10H14 of from 2.1 to 4.3; and subjecting the mixture to a heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., TOHOKU TECHNO ARCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Genki Nogami, Masahiro Shimada, Naoki Toyama, Sangryun Kim, Shin-ichi Orimo
  • Patent number: 11489194
    Abstract: A method for producing an LGPS-type solid electrolyte can be provided, the method includes preparing a homogeneous solution by mixing and reacting Li2S and P2S5 in an organic solution such that the molar ratio of Li2S/P2S5 is 1.0-1.85; forming a precipitate by adding, to the homogeneous solution, at least one MS2 (M is selected from the group consisting of Ge, Si, and Sn) and Li2S and then mixing; obtaining a precursor by removing the organic solution from the precipitate; and obtaining the LGPS-type solid electrolyte by heating the precursor at 200-700° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Aki Katori, Tomohiro Ito, Masahiro Shimada, Kotaro Kawakami
  • Patent number: 11456685
    Abstract: The present motor control device includes an inverter, a converter, and a control device. The control device has a rotation speed calculation unit that calculates a rotation speed of a motor; an optimum voltage calculation unit that calculates an optimum input voltage; a minimum voltage calculation unit that calculates a minimum input voltage required to operate the motor at a motor operating point; and a target value setting unit that sets either one of the optimum input voltage and the minimum input voltage as a target input voltage. In a case in which the set target torque exceeds a predetermined value, the target value setting unit sets the minimum input voltage lower than the optimum input voltage as the target input voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Tokita, Kazunari Kurokawa, Masahiro Shimada, Yuta Nakamura, Takami Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11324147
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a cooling structure capable of cooling down, by a coolant that flows through a first flow channel formed by a first wall portion and a second wall portion facing with each other, a first electronic component and a second electronic component mounted on an external surface of the first wall portion. The first wall portion is formed in a stepwise shape, and includes a first mount portion on which the first electronic component is mounted, a second mount portion which has a different height from the first mount portion, and on which the second electronic component is mounted, and a first connection portion that is extended between the first mount portion and the second mount portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Daiki Kudo, Masahiro Shimada, Kenichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220098369
    Abstract: Disclosed are a degradable resin composition including a cyanate ester (A) and a compound (B) having a hydroxyl group with a hydroxyl group equivalent of less than 240 g/eq., and a degradable cured product and a downhole tool for drilling using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro SHIMADA, Daisuke OHNO, Hiroto KUMAGAI
  • Patent number: 11276380
    Abstract: The hi-hat attachment includes an upper unit, a lower unit, and an operation lever. The lower unit includes a regulation unit that regulates the maximum fall position of the lower unit. The regulation unit is configured to adjust the maximum fall position of the lower unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: HOSHINO GAKKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Sato, Masahiro Shimada
  • Publication number: 20220077792
    Abstract: A power control unit includes a power device, a heat dissipation member disposed to face the power device with an insulating resin member interposed therebetween, and a plurality of plate-shaped bus bars each of which has one end connected to the power device, in which a plurality of input bus bars connected to an input terminal of the power device are provided as the bus bar, and at least one of the plurality of input bus bars is erected so that a direction along a plate width is aligned with a direction along a normal line of a surface of the heat dissipation member facing the power device, and is disposed with respect to the heat dissipation member with the insulating resin member interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Kazunari KUROKAWA, Takuma KATO, Masahiro SHIMADA, Morifumi SHIGEMASA, Akihiro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220006639
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing an information processing program executable by a computer to perform a process, the process comprising: executing an authenticity check of written document data in a case in which a request for an authenticity check of the written document data has been received from a requesting party; transmitting an inquiry result from the authenticity check to the requesting party; storing information regarding the requesting party and identification information for the written document data in association with each other in a first storage section, in response to either the authenticity check request from the requesting party or transmission of the authenticity check inquiry result to the requesting party; and notifying an issuing party of the written document data, as pre-stored in a second storage section, of information regarding the requesting party associated with the written document data identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichi Nagai, Masahiro Shimada
  • Patent number: 11121603
    Abstract: A circuit unit of a drive unit includes a plate-shaped heat sink that extends in a direction perpendicular to an axis of rotation of a motor, and a lower case arranged on a lower side of the heat sink. In the drive unit, a fastening member, which is formed on the lower case, is fastened to a housing, and a height of a fastening surface, which is located on an upper end of the fastening member, is positioned within a height range that spans from a lower surface to an upper surface of the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji Tomokage, Masahiro Shimada, Seiichi Goto, Naoki Honishi, Takashi Omura
  • Publication number: 20210281195
    Abstract: The present motor control device includes an inverter, a converter, and a control device. The control device has a rotation speed calculation unit that calculates a rotation speed of a motor; an optimum voltage calculation unit that calculates an optimum input voltage; a minimum voltage calculation unit that calculates a minimum input voltage required to operate the motor at a motor operating point; and a target value setting unit that sets either one of the optimum input voltage and the minimum input voltage as a target input voltage. In a case in which the set target torque exceeds a predetermined value, the target value setting unit sets the minimum input voltage lower than the optimum input voltage as the target input voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Shogo TOKITA, Kazunari KUROKAWA, Masahiro SHIMADA, Yuta NAKAMURA, Takami SUZUKI