Patents by Inventor Masahiro Yamashita

Masahiro Yamashita 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: 20240250326
    Abstract: A waste lithium-ion battery processing system is a system for processing a waste lithium-ion battery, the system performing roasting a waste lithium-ion battery whose cathode active material contains phosphorus to obtain a roasted product and immersing the roasted product in water to elute lithium from the roasted product into the water, thereby recovering the lithium from the waste lithium-ion battery. The system includes: mixing equipment that mixes a non-lithium alkali metal salt into the cathode active material contained in the waste lithium-ion battery; and a roaster that roasts, at a predetermined first temperature, a mixture that is obtained from mixing by the mixing equipment. The mixing equipment kneads the alkali metal salt into the cathode active material while grinding the alkali metal salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CHINA CONCH VENTURE HOLDINGS LIMITED, ANHUI CONCH KAWASAKI ENERGY CONSERVATION EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki OSAWA, Shoji TAKADA, Mariko YAMASHITA, Masaki TSUZAWA, Ryosuke NAGAI, Masahiro SUGATA, Fuminori ANDO, Daming LI, Fengwa ZHAO, Yang LI, Wenfang TANG, Mingjun SONG, Hongfeng YANG
  • Publication number: 20240233531
    Abstract: An information notification system displays a notification to a user of a vehicle on a display device. A first type notification is a notification of road traffic information on a road or traffic around the vehicle. A second type notification is a notification of information not belonging to the road traffic information or a notification that no road traffic information is available. The information notification system prohibits overlaying the first type notification and the second type notification when displayed on the display device. When the display device has only a single display area for displaying the notification, the information notification system selects and displays one of the first type notification and the second type notification in the single display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSH KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMASHITA, Takashi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12011998
    Abstract: A vehicle display device that includes: a display part having a front-side display part and a rear-side display part provided inside a vehicle cabin, each of the front-side display part and the rear-side display part having a display face; a detection part that detects an orientation and a posture of an occupant; and a control part that selects a display face in accordance with the orientation and the posture of the occupant detected by the detection part, raises the selected display face, and controls display by the display part such that information is displayed at the selected display face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Eisuke Ando, Misako Hayashima, Saki Kitoh, Masahiro Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20240135812
    Abstract: An information notification system displays a notification to a user of a vehicle on a display device. A first type notification is a notification of road traffic information on a road or traffic around the vehicle. A second type notification is a notification of information not belonging to the road traffic information or a notification that no road traffic information is available. The information notification system prohibits overlaying the first type notification and the second type notification when displayed on the display device. When the display device has only a single display area for displaying the notification, the information notification system selects and displays one of the first type notification and the second type notification in the single display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSH KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMASHITA, Takashi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11873462
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition with a resin (A) and a base oil (B), the resin (A) is in a range of 0.01 to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts of (A) and (B), the resin (A) satisfies the following requirements: (A-1) the resin (A) is a polymer including a constituent unit from 4-methyl-1-pentene in a range of 60 to 99 mol % and a constituent unit from an ?-olefin having 2 to 20 carbon atoms (excluding 4-methyl-1-pentene) in a range of 1 to 40 mol % (provided that 4-methyl-1-pentene and the ?-olefin is 100 mol %); (A-2) intrinsic viscosity [?] measured in decalin at 135° C. is in a range of 0.01 to 5.0 dl/g; (A-3) a melting point (Tm) is in a range of 110 to 150° C. as determined by DSC; and the base oil (B) has (B-1) kinematic viscosity at 100° C. is in a range of 1 to 50 mm2/s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Akio Hayakawa, Shuhei Yamamoto, Akihiro Udagawa, Masahiro Yamashita, Yusuke Saito
  • Patent number: 11842469
    Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to receive a photographing instruction, and an optical system configured to perform a first photographing method before reception of the photographing instruction, and a second photographing method after reception of the photographing instruction. The at least one processor further executes instructions to combine a plurality of first images at different in-focus positions captured by using the first photographing method with a plurality of second images at different in-focus positions captured by using the second photographing method. The optical system performs readout an image sensor, while keeping the drive of a focus lens, in the first photographing method, and stops the focus lens at different positions in the second photographing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Saori Hoda, Masanao Yokoyama, Masahiro Yamashita, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230375489
    Abstract: A gas sensor 1 according to the present invention includes: a gas sensor element 22; a box-like casing 3 having a wall portion 3B1 provided with a gas introduction port 3B2; a circuit board 4 having a mounting surface 4a on which the gas sensor element 22 is mounted, and disposed inside the casing 3 such that the mounting surface 4a is away from the wall portion 3B1 and the gas sensor element 22 overlaps with the gas introduction port 3B2; and an annular elastic seal body 5 formed on the mounting surface 4a so as to surround the gas sensor element 22, and disposed between the mounting surface 4a and the wall portion 3B1. The elastic seal body 5 is made of sulfur-free condensation silicone resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMASHITA, Shoji KITANOYA, Yusuke MATSUKURA
  • Patent number: 11820225
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes: a display part having a front-side display part, a rear-side display part and an upper-side display part provided inside a vehicle cabin, each of the front-side display part, the rear-side display part and the upper-side display part having a display face; a detection part that detects an orientation and a posture of an occupant; and a control part that selects a display face in accordance with the orientation and the posture of the occupant detected by the detection part, and controls display by the display part such that information is displayed at the selected display face. The display face of the upper-side display part is provided at a roof head lining inside the vehicle cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Eisuke Ando, Misako Hayashima, Saki Kitoh, Masahiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11765322
    Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system includes at least one camera, and a server that is communicably connected to a client terminal. The camera performs capturing a vehicle while switching a first capturing condition including an image parameter for capturing a number of the vehicle entering an angle of view of the camera and a second capturing condition including an image parameter for capturing an occupant's face of the vehicle, and transmits a first captured video under the first capturing condition and a second captured video under the second capturing condition to the server. The server arranges reproduction screens for the first captured video and the second captured video that are reproduceable in the client terminal and displays the reproduction screens on the client terminal based on the first captured video and the second captured video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimasa Funaki, Michinori Kishimoto, Hiroaki Jodan, Toshiyuki Sano, Masahiro Yamashita, Yuma Kobayashi, Yuji Arima, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11741833
    Abstract: When vehicle forward information includes information on a construction site road sign which indicates the limit speed at a construction site, a vehicle driving assist apparatus acquires the limit speed indicated on the construction site road sign as a construction site sign limit speed, based on the vehicle forward information and displays the acquired construction site sign limit speed on the displaying device. When acquiring the database limit speed while displaying the construction site sign limit speed on the displaying device, and a distance that an own vehicle has moved since acquiring the construction site sign speed limit currently displayed on the displaying device is shorter than a predetermined distance, the vehicle driving assist apparatus continues displaying the construction site sign limit speed on the displaying device without displaying the database limit speed acquired this time on the displaying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamashita, Yosuke Wada
  • Publication number: 20230191950
    Abstract: Included are: a case; a motor provided in the case and having a rotatable shaft; two blowers provided in the case and including impellers that are fixed to a shaft and are capable of being rotated by the motor, the impellers each having multiple blades disposed at predetermined intervals on a circumference of the corresponding impeller; an intake port provided in the case and configured to take air in between the two blowers; and discharge ports provided in the case to each correspond to a one of the two blowers, each configured to discharge the air taken into a corresponding blower through the intake port to the outside. In each of portions that accommodates corresponding one of the two blowers in the case, a side opposite to a side through which air is taken in is sealed off so as to prevent inflow of air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMASHITA, Kiyotaka OHTAHARA
  • Patent number: 11655118
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a storage state in which a reactive compound layer can be stably maintained in a polymer film having a reactive compound layer on the surface. The film roll is obtained by winding together: a first polymer film having a reactive compound layer on the surface, and a second polymer film having a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.1 ?m or more and a modulus of elasticity of 300 MPa or more and 10 GPa or less. The film bundle is obtained by laminating the first and second polymer films. Preferably, storing the film roll and the film bundle at a low temperature enables a thin layer of a reactive compound to be stably maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaya Tokuda, Masahiro Yamashita, Tetsuo Okuyama, Toshiyuki Tsuchiya, Naoki Watanabe, Shunsuke Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20230030093
    Abstract: When vehicle forward information includes information on a construction site road sign which indicates the limit speed at a construction site, a vehicle driving assist apparatus acquires the limit speed indicated on the construction site road sign as a construction site sign limit speed, based on the vehicle forward information and displays the acquired construction site sign limit speed on the displaying device. When acquiring the database limit speed while displaying the construction site sign limit speed on the displaying device, and a distance that an own vehicle has moved since acquiring the construction site sign speed limit currently displayed on the displaying device is shorter than a predetermined distance, the vehicle driving assist apparatus continues displaying the construction site sign limit speed on the displaying device without displaying the database limit speed acquired this time on the displaying device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMASHITA, Yosuke WADA
  • Patent number: 11503681
    Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle includes a light emission units, a control device, and an operating unit to be operated when the vehicle is started. The control device increases an emission intensity of light emission units in a first period. The first period includes a second period including a plurality of time intervals. The control device changes the emission intensity of light emission units in each time interval of the second period so that two light emission units in at least one pair of light emission units adjacent to each other differ from each other in light emission parameters. The light emission parameters include at least two parameters out of a magnitude of changing amount in emission intensity in the time interval, a direction indicating whether the emission intensity is increasing or decreasing in the time interval, and the emission intensity at an end point of the time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamashita, Yoshiharu Okabe, Mitsuhisa Shida
  • Publication number: 20220275304
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition with a resin (A) and a base oil (B), the resin (A) is in a range of 0.01 to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts of (A) and (B), the resin (A) satisfies the following requirements: (A-1) the resin (A) is a polymer including a constituent unit from 4-methyl-1-pentene in a range of 60 to 99 mol % and a constituent unit from an ?-olefin having 2 to 20 carbon atoms (excluding 4-methyl-1-pentene) in a range of 1 to 40 mol % (provided that 4-methyl-1-pentene and the ?-olefin is 100 mol %); (A-2) intrinsic viscosity [?] measured in decalin at 135° C. is in a range of 0.01 to 5.0 dl/g; (A-3) a melting point (Tm) is in a range of 110 to 150° C. as determined by DSC; and the base oil (B) has (B-1) kinematic viscosity at 100° C. is in a range of 1 to 50 mm2/s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Akio HAYAKAWA, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Akihiro UDAGAWA, Masahiro YAMASHITA, Yusuke SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220242240
    Abstract: A vehicle display device that includes: a display part having a front-side display part and a rear-side display part provided inside a vehicle cabin, each of the front-side display part and the rear-side display part having a display face; a detection part that detects an orientation and a posture of an occupant; and a control part that selects a display face in accordance with the orientation and the posture of the occupant detected by the detection part, raises the selected display face, and controls display by the display part such that information is displayed at the selected display face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Eisuke Ando, Misako Hayashima, Saki Kitoh, Masahiro Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20220242241
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes: a display part having a front-side display part, a rear-side display part and an upper-side display part provided inside a vehicle cabin, each of the front-side display part, the rear-side display part and the upper-side display part having a display face; a detection part that detects an orientation and a posture of an occupant; and a control part that selects a display face in accordance with the orientation and the posture of the occupant detected by the detection part, and controls display by the display part such that information is displayed at the selected display face. The display face of the upper-side display part is provided at a roof head lining inside the vehicle cabin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Eisuke Ando, Misako Hayashima, Saki Kitoh, Masahiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11338678
    Abstract: A vehicle display device that includes: a display part having a plurality of display faces that display information and that are provided at at least one location among a front face, a rear face, an upper face or a side face inside a vehicle cabin; a detection part that detects an orientation and a posture of an occupant; and a control part that selects a display face in accordance with the orientation and the posture of the occupant detected by the detection part, and controls display by the display part such that information is displayed at the selected display face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Eisuke Ando, Misako Hayashima, Saki Kitoh, Masahiro Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20220143964
    Abstract: The present invention enables the achievement of a laminate of heat-resistant polymer films, which does not use a bonding material having inferior heat resistance. According to the present invention, a polyvalent amine compound serving as a reactive compound is applied to heat-resistant polymer films such as PET, PEN or PI films, and the resulting polymer films are superposed upon each other and subsequently subjected to a heat treatment under predetermined conditions, thereby obtaining a laminate of heat-resistant polymer films. Since the thus-obtained laminate does not use a bonding material, the heat resistance is not decreased and the film properties before lamination are not deteriorated. Since the process for obtaining this laminate has excellent productivity, this laminate is useful as a low-cost thick heat-resistant polymer film or sheet of high performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMASHITA, Kaya TOKUDA, Tetsuo OKUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11299170
    Abstract: There is provided a passenger support device including (i) an informing portion that sets behavior items to be performed by a passenger by a time a vehicle arrives at a destination and sets an order of performing the behavior items, the informing portion informing the passenger of the behavior items to be performed based on the order, (ii) an action recognition portion that recognizes an action of the passenger performing the behavior items, and (iii) an action support portion that supports the action of the passenger performing the behavior items, based on each of the behavior items and the action of the passenger recognized by the action recognition portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Eisuke Ando, Misako Hayashima, Saki Kitoh, Masahiro Yamashita