Patents by Inventor Masaki Hirata
Masaki Hirata 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: 20240152013Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer, an interlayer insulating layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged above the interlayer insulating layer, a common electrode arranged between the pixel electrode and the interlayer insulating layer and also configured to function as a touch sensor electrode, a first dielectric layer arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode, a second dielectric layer arranged between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, a plurality of touch wiring lines arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode and formed of a third conductive film, and a plurality of pixel contact portions, in which each of the plurality of pixel contact portions includes a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, a connection electrode formed of the third conductive film and electrically connected to the drain electrode in a lower opening formed in the interlayer iType: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Yoshihito HARA, Tohru DAITOH, Hajime IMAI, Teruyuki UEDA, Masaki MAEDA, Tatsuya KAWASAKI, Yoshiharu HIRATA
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Publication number: 20240094078Abstract: The pressure sensor 10 comprises: a bottomed cylindrical sensor module 11 having inside a pressure receiving chamber C1 communicating with a flow path and including a diaphragm 11a in contact with the pressure receiving chamber; a pressure detecting element 12 for outputting a strain of the diaphragm 11a as a pressure; a base ring 14 fixed at an outer edge of an open-side end part 11c of the sensor module and disposed on an outer peripheral side of the sensor module 11; a hermetic member 13 fixed to the base ring 14 for forming a sealed vacuum chamber C2 opposite to the pressure receiving chamber C1 across the diaphragm 11a; a gasket 18 sandwiched between the base ring 14 and a body 5; and a pressing flange 19 for pressing the base ring 14 to the body 5 through the gasket 18.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED, NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi HIDAKA, Takatoshi NAKATANI, Kaoru HIRATA, Kouji NISHINO, Nobukazu IKEDA, Masaki FUKASAWA
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Patent number: 11927860Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer, an interlayer insulating layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged above the interlayer insulating layer, a common electrode arranged between the pixel electrode and the interlayer insulating layer and also configured to function as a touch sensor electrode, a first dielectric layer arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode, a second dielectric layer arranged between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, a plurality of touch wiring lines arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode and formed of a third conductive film, and a plurality of pixel contact portions, in which each of the plurality of pixel contact portions includes a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, a connection electrode formed of the third conductive film and electrically connected to the drain electrode in a lower opening formed in the interlayer iType: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihito Hara, Tohru Daitoh, Hajime Imai, Teruyuki Ueda, Masaki Maeda, Tatsuya Kawasaki, Yoshiharu Hirata
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Patent number: 11535311Abstract: A vehicle includes a rear lamp, a side surface, and a rear surface. The rear lamp is disposed on a rear end and an upper end of a lower side surface and a rear end and a side end of the vehicle, and includes a lamp body extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The side surface includes the lower side surface bulging toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the rear lamp at a front side of a height position overlapping with the rear lamp. The rear surface includes an extending surface extending toward the vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the lamp body in a top view of the vehicle from a lower portion of the lamp body. A side surface airflow is directed toward a vehicle-width-direction inner side through the extending surface and the generation of a large trailing vortex is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi Aburame, Shinji Miyamoto, Ichiro Sakai, Yohei Kusamoto, Masaki Hirata, Kosuke Hirayama
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Publication number: 20210086844Abstract: A vehicle includes a rear lamp, a side surface, and a rear surface. The rear lamp is disposed on a rear end and an upper end of a lower side surface and a rear end and a side end of the vehicle, and includes a lamp body extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The side surface includes the lower side surface bulging toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the rear lamp at a front side of a height position overlapping with the rear lamp. The rear surface includes an extending surface extending toward the vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the lamp body in a top view of the vehicle from a lower portion of the lamp body. A side surface airflow is directed toward a vehicle-width-direction inner side through the extending surface and the generation of a large trailing vortex is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi ABURAME, Shinji MIYAMOTO, Ichiro SAKAI, Yohei KUSAMOTO, Masaki HIRATA, Kosuke HIRAYAMA
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Patent number: 7779669Abstract: A gas sensor diagnostic method includes the steps of counting the reversal number of times that a target air-fuel ratio for an air-fuel mixture to be supplied to an internal combustion engine reverses from a rich side to a lean side or from the lean side to the rich side through a specific air-fuel ratio defined as a boundary of the rich and lean sides; obtaining a detection signal of a gas sensor at constant time intervals during a diagnosis period between a timing when the count for the reversal number is started and a timing when the reversal number reaches a predetermined number; calculating a moderated signal by applying a moderation calculation using a predetermined moderation coefficient to the obtained detection signal; calculating a deviation between the obtained detection signal and the calculated moderated signal; and determining whether the gas sensor is in an abnormal state or not on the basis of the deviation.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignees: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Reina Fukagai, Norikazu Ieda, Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Inagaki, Masaki Hirata, Takahiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 7650131Abstract: A wireless receiver which is used for a digital signal transmission system to wirelessly transmit a digital signal by packetizing and modifying it, selectively sets the shortest arithmetical bit length satisfying a required communication quality when performs demodulation arithmetical processing to demodulate a digital signal to be packet-transmitted, inputs a demodulation arithmetical result by the arithmetical bit length to calculate an error vector magnitude value that is a measure indicating a difference between the arithmetical result and a known ideal result, predicts a bit error rate by using the EVM value as an evaluation criterion, selects an arithmetical bit length by which the bit error rate becomes optimum, and executes the demodulating arithmetical processing by the selected arithmetical bit length.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Semiconductor Technology Academic Research CenterInventors: Shingo Yoshizawa, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Masaki Hirata
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Patent number: 7636624Abstract: A gas sensor diagnostic method (or apparatus) is arranged to periodically obtain sensor output values of a gas sensor such as an oxygen sensor for an internal combustion engine, and to determine local extreme values from the sensor output values obtained during a period of interruption of fuel supply to the engine. Moreover, the local extreme values are compared with a first predetermined threshold level. When the number of the local extreme values reaches a predetermined first number, a diagnosis is performed to determine whether the gas sensor is in an improper condition or not, in accordance with results of the comparison of the local extreme values with the first threshold level.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignees: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Reina Fukagai, Norikazu Ieda, Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Inagaki, Masaki Hirata, Takahiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 7614392Abstract: A gas sensor diagnostic method includes: a fuel supply detecting step of detecting an interruption of a fuel supply to the internal combustion engine, and a restart of the fuel supply after the interruption of the fuel supply; a response time period accumulating step of determining a response time period by accumulating a first time period that the sensor output value reaches from a first threshold value to a second threshold value after the detection of the interruption of the fuel supply, and a second time period that the sensor output value reaches from a third threshold value to a fourth threshold value after the detection of the restart of the fuel supply after the interruption of the fuel supply; and an abnormal state diagnosing section of determining an abnormal state of the gas sensor when the response time period is greater than a predetermined time period.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignees: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Reina Fukagai, Norikazu Ieda, Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Inagaki, Kunihiko Takamatsu, Masaki Hirata, Takahiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 7596993Abstract: A gas sensor diagnostic method includes the steps of counting the reversal number of times that a target air-fuel ratio for an air-fuel mixture to be supplied to an internal combustion engine reverses from a rich side to a lean side or from the lean side to the rich side through a specific air-fuel ratio defined as a boundary of the rich and lean sides; obtaining a detection signal of gas sensor at constant time intervals during a diagnosis period between a timing when the count for the reversal number is started and a timing when the reversal number reaches a predetermined number; calculating a first moderated signal by applying a first moderation calculation to the detection signal, and a second moderated signal by applying a second moderation calculation to the detection signal; calculating a deviation between the first and second moderated signals; and determining whether the gas sensor is in the abnormal state on the basis of the deviation obtained during the diagnosis period.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2008Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignees: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., Suzuki Motor CorporationInventors: Reina Fukagai, Norikazu Ieda, Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Inagaki, Masaki Hirata, Takahiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20090084172Abstract: A gas sensor diagnostic method includes the steps of counting the reversal number of times that a target air-fuel ratio for an air-fuel mixture to be supplied to an internal combustion engine reverses from a rich side to a lean side or from the lean side to the rich side through a specific air-fuel ratio defined as a boundary of the rich and lean sides; obtaining a detection signal of gas sensor at constant time intervals during a diagnosis period between a timing when the count for the reversal number is started and a timing when the reversal number reaches a predetermined number; calculating a first moderated signal by applying a first moderation calculation to the detection signal, and a second moderated signal by applying a second moderation calculation to the detection signal; calculating a deviation between the first and second moderated signals; and determining whether the gas sensor is in the abnormal state on the basis of the deviation obtained during the diagnosis period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Reina Fukagai, Norikazu Ieda, Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Inagaki, Masaki Hirata, Takahiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080196702Abstract: A gas sensor diagnostic method includes: a fuel supply detecting step of detecting an interruption of a fuel supply to the internal combustion engine, and a restart of the fuel supply after the interruption of the fuel supply; a response time period accumulating step of determining a response time period by accumulating a first time period that the sensor output value reaches from a first threshold value to a second threshold value after the detection of the interruption of the fuel supply, and a second time period that the sensor output value reaches from a third threshold value to a fourth threshold value after the detection of the restart of the fuel supply after the interruption of the fuel supply; and an abnormal state diagnosing section of determining an abnormal state of the gas sensor when the response time period is greater than a predetermined time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicants: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD., SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Reina Fukagai, Norikazu Ieda, Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Inagaki, Kunihiko Takamatsu, Masaki Hirata, Takahiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080196490Abstract: A gas sensor diagnostic method includes the steps of counting the reversal number of times that a target air-fuel ratio for an air-fuel mixture to be supplied to an internal combustion engine reverses from a rich side to a lean side or from the lean side to the rich side through a specific air-fuel ratio defined as a boundary of the rich and lean sides; obtaining a detection signal of a gas sensor at constant time intervals during a diagnosis period between a timing when the count for the reversal number is started and a timing when the reversal number reaches a predetermined number; calculating a moderated signal by applying a moderation calculation using a predetermined moderation coefficient to the obtained detection signal; calculating a deviation between the obtained detection signal and the calculated moderated signal; and determining whether the gas sensor is in an abnormal state or not on the basis of the deviation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicants: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD., SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Reina Fukagai, Norikazu Ieda, Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Inagaki, Masaki Hirata, Takahiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080196489Abstract: A gas sensor diagnostic method (or apparatus) is arranged to periodically obtain sensor output values of a gas sensor such as an oxygen sensor for an internal combustion engine, and to determine local extreme values from the sensor output values obtained during a period of interruption of fuel supply to the engine. Moreover, the local extreme values are compared with a first predetermined threshold level. When the number of the local extreme values reaches a predetermined first number, a diagnosis is performed to determine whether the gas sensor is in an improper condition or not, in accordance with results of the comparison of the local extreme values with the first threshold level.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicants: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD., SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Reina Fukagai, Norikazu Ieda, Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Inagaki, Masaki Hirata, Takahiro Suzuki
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Patent number: D894443Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Tamami Sato, Masaki Hirata, Yasunori Kawano
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Patent number: D894444Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Tamami Sato, Masaki Hirata, Shinichi Harada
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Patent number: D911563Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Tamami Sato, Masaki Hirata
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Patent number: D958695Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yasutake Tsuchida, Ichiro Sakai, Masaki Hirata, Takafumi Shimada, Yasuyuki Murata
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Patent number: D993858Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Kousuke Takahashi, Ichiro Sakai, Masaki Hirata, Takafumi Shimada, Yasuyuki Murata
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Patent number: D1001032Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Yokoi, Masaki Hirata, Ryokei Ono, Kazuya Hamada