Patents by Inventor Masaki Hirano
Masaki Hirano 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: 20240112570Abstract: A predictor 62 predicts a future of a prediction target in a traffic area. The predictor 62 includes a movement state information acquirer 620 configured to acquire movement state information, a surrounding state information acquirer 621 configured to acquire surrounding state information, a traffic environment information acquirer 622 configured to acquire traffic environment information, a driver state information acquirer 623 configured to acquire driver state information, a traffic scene specifier 624 configured to specify a traffic scene on the basis of the movement state information, the surrounding state information, and the traffic environment information, an action pattern selector 625 configured to select, as a predicted action pattern, at least one from among a plurality of predetermined action patterns on the basis of the traffic scene and the driver state information, and an action predictor 626 configured to predict future action on the basis of the predicted action pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Akihito KIMATA, Izumi KONDO, Tim PUPHAL, Naohiro SAKAMOTO, Masaki OKUMOTO, Ryohei HIRANO
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Publication number: 20240112582Abstract: A predictor 62 predicts a future of a prediction target in a monitoring area. The predictor 62 includes a movement state information acquirer 620 configured to acquire movement state information, a surrounding state information acquirer 621 configured to acquire surrounding state information regarding movement states of traffic participants around the prediction target, a confirmation state information acquirer 623 configured to acquire confirmation state information regarding a surrounding confirmation state of a driver of the prediction target, a moving speed predictor 624 configured to predict a future moving speed of the prediction target on a basis of the movement state information, the surrounding state information, and the confirmation state information, and a collision predictor 625 configured to predict whether or not a collision will occur in a future of the prediction target on the basis of the movement state information, the surrounding state information, and the future moving speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Akihito KIMATA, Tim PUPHAL, Ryohei HIRANO, Masaki OKUMOTO, Yuji TAKAGI
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Motion state monitoring system, training support system, motion state monitoring method, and program
Patent number: 11925458Abstract: A motion state monitoring system, a training support system, a motion state monitoring method, and a program capable of suitably managing measurement results according to an attaching direction of a sensor are provided. A motion state monitoring system according to the present disclosure monitors a motion state of a target part of a subject's body. The motion state monitoring system includes an acquisition unit, an attaching direction detection unit, and a control processing unit. The acquisition unit acquires sensing information of a sensor attached to the target part. The attaching direction detection unit detects an attaching direction of the sensor. The control processing unit outputs information related to the sensing information in association with the attaching direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Toru Miyagawa, Issei Nakashima, Keisuke Suga, Masayuki Imaida, Manabu Yamamoto, Yohei Otaka, Masaki Katoh, Asuka Hirano, Taiki Yoshida -
Patent number: 11926064Abstract: A remote control manipulator system includes: a manipulator being controlled by an operator remotely to handle an object; a stereoscopic display device that displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image so as to be stereoscopically viewed; a model image generator that generates a model image being an image of an integrated three-dimensional model viewed from a viewpoint designated by the operator, the integrated three-dimensional model being a three-dimensional model obtained by integrating the manipulator model and a surrounding environment model being generated by performing image processing on the right-eye image and the left-eye image and being a three-dimensional model of the object and a surrounding environment thereof; and a model image display device that displays the model image and is configured to be able to be viewed by the operator switching between the stereoscopic display device and the model image display device through moving the head of the operator.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Narasaki, Noboru Kawaguchi, Masaki Hirano, Muneharu Kuwata, Masashige Suwa, Toshiyuki Ando, Hitomi Ono, Akihiro Fujie, Yoshitaka Koda, Toru Sato
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Publication number: 20240042626Abstract: A robot hand includes a first finger, a third finger disposed to face the first finger, a second finger disposed side by side with the third finger, a first finger connection portion to which the first finger is connected rotatably, a second finger connection portion to which the second finger is connected rotatably and to which the third finger is connected rotatably, a hand base to which the first finger connection portion and the second finger connection portion are connected, and a finger moving portion that moves at least one of the first finger connection portion and the second finger connection portion with respect to the hand base such that a distance between the first finger and the third finger increases or decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Noboru KAWAGUCHI, Masaki HIRANO, Shota NARASAKI, Hayato HOSHINO, Shingo KIMURA
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Publication number: 20240033930Abstract: A remote control manipulator system includes: a manipulator being controlled by an operator remotely to handle an object; a stereoscopic display device that displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image so as to be stereoscopically viewed; a model image generator that generates a model image being an image of an integrated three-dimensional model viewed from a viewpoint designated by the operator, the integrated three-dimensional model being a three-dimensional model obtained by integrating the manipulator model and a surrounding environment model being generated by performing image processing on the right-eye image and the left-eye image and being a three-dimensional model of the object and a surrounding environment thereof; and a model image display device that displays the model image and is configured to be able to be viewed by the operator switching between the stereoscopic display device and the model image display device through moving the head of the operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shota NARASAKI, Noboru KAWAGUCHI, Masaki HIRANO, Muneharu KUWATA, Masashige SUWA, Toshiyuki ANDO, Hitomi ONO, Akihiro FUJIE, Yoshitaka KODA, Toru SATO
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Patent number: 11862918Abstract: The present invention provides an electric wire joining structure (80), an electric wire joining method, and a terminal (1), each of which allows a reduction in burden on an operator. The present invention includes: one or more electric wires (10); a terminal (1) including one or more insertion holes (7) for the respective one or more electric wires (10), the one or more electric wires (10) being inserted into the respective insertion holes (7); and a joining part (20) formed by thermal spraying, the joining part (20) joining the one or more electric wires (10) to the terminal (1) on a side on which the one or more electric wires (10) have passed through the respective one or more insertion holes (7).Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: TATSUTA ELECTRIC WIRE & CABLE CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaki Hirano
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Publication number: 20230295820Abstract: The anode-side separator of the present disclosure is an anode-side separator used in a water electrolyzer, and includes a metal substrate made of titanium or stainless steel, and a conductive oxide film containing indium-tin-oxide (ITO) provided on the surface of the metal substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Joji Yoshimura, Hiromochi Tanaka, Tomonari Kogure, Mizuki Sakamoto, Masaki Hirano
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Publication number: 20230246492Abstract: A compressor has: a motor that has a stator provided around an axis of a rotor; a rotating shaft that is fixed to the rotor; a bearing that supports the rotating shaft; an impeller that is connected to the rotating shaft and compresses fluid; and a casing that accommodates the motor. In this compressor, the stator has: a coil that encircles the axis of the rotor; and a stator core that has a magnetic pole facing, in a radial direction of the rotor, an outer circumferential surface of the rotor, via a gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Masaki HIRANO, Akio YAMAGIWA, Naohiro KIDO, Hiroshi HIBINO
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Publication number: 20230223799Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and stator. The stator includes a stator iron core having a substantially annular yoke, and a plurality of teeth extending from the yoke toward the rotor. Each tooth includes an extending portion with a winding wire wound in a concentrated manner to form a coil, and flange portions extending circumferentially from a tip end portion of the extending portion. The plurality of teeth include adjacent first second teeth with coils having identical phases, and adjacent third and fourth teeth with coils having different phases. A first magnetic resistance circumferentially from a tip end portion of the first flange portion to a center of the extending portion of the first tooth is higher than a second magnetic resistance circumferentially from a tip end portion of the second flange portion to a center of the extending portion of the third tooth.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Shunsuke SHIMIZU, Masaki HIRANO, Hiroshi HIBINO, Yoshitaka OKUYAMA
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Patent number: 11652220Abstract: The present embodiment is a fuel cell including a stacked body of single cells each of which includes a power generating unit and separators disposed on both surfaces of the power generating unit, in which the separators each include a metal base material, a carbon layer made of carbon and formed on a first surface of the metal base material on a power generating unit side, and a titanium nitride layer made of titanium nitride and formed on a second surface of the metal base material opposite to the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daichi Miyazaki, Masaki Hirano, Hitoshi Tanino, Tomonari Kogure
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Patent number: 11637294Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a fuel cell separator, capable of easily roughening the surface of a sheet-like metal substrate to become a fuel cell separator and thus reducing the contact resistance of the resulting fuel cell separator. Specifically, the method is a method for producing a fuel cell separator from a sheet-like metal substrate, including pulling the metal substrate at least in one direction to plastically deform the metal substrate, thereby increasing the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface of the metal substrate after being pulled compared to that before being pulled.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaki Hirano
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Publication number: 20230093928Abstract: Even in a case where a spray nozzle of a solid phase particle deposition device is in motion, flying solid phase particles are efficiently collected. An attachment (1) includes: an engagement part (2) to be engaged with a spray nozzle (130) of a cold spray device (1); and an opening part (3) connected to the engagement part (2) and having at least one opening (3a, 3b) to be connected to a collection section (20) that is configured to collect solid phase particles (30b) which are sprayed through the spray nozzle (130) onto a base material (170) and are not involved in formation of a film on the base material (170).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventor: Masaki HIRANO
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Publication number: 20230099818Abstract: Provided is a spray nozzle that makes it possible to reduce a difference in film thickness in a film. A spray nozzle (1) for use in a cold spray device (100) includes: a nozzle main body (15) that has a first path (20) through which a film material and a carrier gas pass; and a nozzle tip section (16) that is provided at a tip section of the nozzle main body (15) and has a second path (21) which communicates with the first path (20), the second path (21) being broadened at a position apart from a cross-sectional center (P) of the second path (21).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventor: Masaki HIRANO
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Publication number: 20220416594Abstract: A stator includes a stator core having a substantially cylindrical back yoke and a plurality of teeth extending radially inward from the back yoke. The stator core includes a plurality of stator core pieces each having one tooth and a yoke piece forming part of the back yoke. On an inside of the back yoke in a radial direction, adjacent ones of the stator core pieces directly contacting each other or indirectly contacting each other with a member, as an intervening part, interposed between the adjacent ones of the stator core pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Shoujirou NAKA, Masaki HIRANO
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Publication number: 20220294289Abstract: Techniques to reduce the d-axis inductance in a rotor are provided. According to one embodiment in the present disclosure, a rotor 20 includes permanent magnets 22 and 23 housed in magnet slots different from each other formed in an iron core 21, and arranged in series magnetically; and a flux barrier (cavity 24) provided to be close to an end in a direction orthogonal to a direction of a main magnetic flux, for each of the permanent magnets 22 and 23 arranged in series magnetically. Two instances of the flux barrier corresponding to the respective permanent magnets 22 and 23 arranged in series magnetically, communicate with each other. According to another embodiment in the present disclosure, a motor 1 includes the rotor 20 described above.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Yoshitaka OKUYAMA, Masaki HIRANO, Shoujirou NAKA, Shunsuke SHIMIZU, Yoshiki YASUDA, Akio YAMAGIWA
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Publication number: 20220109163Abstract: The present embodiment is a fuel cell including a stacked body of single cells each of which includes a power generating unit and separators disposed on both surfaces of the power generating unit, in which the separators each include a metal base material, a carbon layer made of carbon and formed on a first surface of the metal base material on a power generating unit side, and a titanium nitride layer made of titanium nitride and formed on a second surface of the metal base material opposite to the first surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daichi MIYAZAKI, Masaki HIRANO, Hitoshi TANINO, Tomonari KOGURE
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Patent number: 11060192Abstract: The present invention provides a metal-ceramic base material and the like which allow a ceramic base material and a desired metal material to be easily joined. A metal-ceramic base material (30) to be joined to a metal material (40), includes: a ceramic base material (20); and a metal film (25) provided on the ceramic base material (20), the metal film (25) being formed by thermal spray of a mixed powder material containing aluminum, alumina, and nickel, at least part of the nickel being exposed on a surface of the metal film (25).Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: TATSUTA ELECTRIC WIRE & CABLE CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaki Hirano
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Publication number: 20210203088Abstract: The present invention provides an electric wire joining structure (80), an electric wire joining method, and a terminal (1), each of which allows a reduction in burden on an operator. The present invention includes: one or more electric wires (10); a terminal (1) including one or more insertion holes (7) for the respective one or more electric wires (10), the one or more electric wires (10) being inserted into the respective insertion holes (7); and a joining part (20) formed by thermal spraying, the joining part (20) joining the one or more electric wires (10) to the terminal (1) on a side on which the one or more electric wires (10) have passed through the respective one or more insertion holes (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: TATSUTA ELECTRIC WIRE & CABLE CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaki HIRANO
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Patent number: D955343Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: TATSUTA ELECTRIC WIRE & CABLE CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaki Hirano