Patents by Inventor Masaki Hirose
Masaki Hirose 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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Patent number: 12248269Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a replaceable roller member, an applying unit that applies voltage to the roller member, a current detecting unit that detects a current flowing in the roller member to which the voltage is applied, and a controlling unit. The controlling unit calculates a value of a slope of a current-voltage characteristic of the roller member on the basis of a first current detected when a first voltage is applied to the roller member and a second current that is detected when a second voltage is applied, and determines whether or not the roller member has been replaced on the basis of an amount of change from a value of a first slope calculated at a first timing and a value of a second slope calculated at a second timing later than the first timing.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki Hirose, Masahide Hirai
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Publication number: 20250079447Abstract: A negative electrode active material including negative electrode active material particles, wherein the negative electrode active material particles contain silicon oxide particles coated with a carbon layer, at least a part of the silicon oxide particles contains at least one selected from the group consisting of Li2SiO3, Li4SiO4, and Li6Si2O7, and a part of at least an outermost layer of the negative electrode active material particles is coated with a layer of a plasticizer. This can provide: a negative electrode active material that can increase stability in slurry formation while achieving sufficient battery characteristics; and a negative electrode including such a negative electrode active material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTDInventors: Takakazu HIROSE, Kohta TAKAHASHI, Yusuke OSAWA, Shuhei KANESATO, Masaki MURAYAMA, Reiko SAKAI
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Patent number: 12241782Abstract: A transportation method for transporting an object including a plurality of Fabry-Perot interference filters, the transportation method including a first step of accommodating the object in an accommodating container, wherein the Fabry-Perot interference filter includes a substrate, a first mirror portion and a second mirror portion provided on the substrate to face each other via a gap and in which a distance from each other is variable, and in the first step, the object is accommodated and supported in the accommodating container in a state where the plurality of Fabry-Perot interference filters is two-dimensionally arranged.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Hiroki Oyama, Katsumi Shibayama, Takashi Kasahara, Masaki Hirose, Toshimitsu Kawai, Yumi Kuramoto
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Publication number: 20250052612Abstract: A light detection device of the present invention includes: a wiring board; a first support part disposed on a mounting surface of the wiring board; a Fabry-Perot interference filter having a first mirror part and a second mirror part between which a distance is variable and having an outer edge portion disposed in a first support region of the first support part; a light detector disposed on the mounting surface to face the first mirror part and the second mirror part on one side of the first support part; and a temperature detector disposed on the mounting surface, wherein the temperature detector is disposed on the mounting surface such that at least a part of the temperature detector overlaps a part of the Fabry-Perot interference filter when seen in a first direction perpendicular to the mounting surface and such that at least a part of the temperature detector overlaps a part of the first support part when seen in a second direction in which the first support part and the light detector are aligned withType: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Takashi Kasahara, Katsumi Shibayama, Kei Tabata, Masaki Hirose, Hiroki Oyama, Yumi Kuramoto
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Publication number: 20250042219Abstract: A work machine actuates a work implement with power from a battery device. The work machine includes a first region in which the battery device is disposed, a second region in which a battery thermal management system is disposed, and a vehicle body cover having a polyhedral shape and surrounding the first region and the second region. The battery thermal management system manages temperature of the battery device. In the vehicle body cover, an orientation of a surface in which a first air intake port arranged to guide air into the first region is formed, is different from an orientation of a surface in which a second exhaust port arranged to draw air out from the second region is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Yuki TAKASE, Ayumi OHKUMA, Yutaka TANAKA, Masaki DAIMON, Yuya HIROSE
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Patent number: 12169143Abstract: A light detection device of the present invention includes: a wiring board; a first support part disposed on a mounting surface of the wiring board; a Fabry-Perot interference filter having a first mirror part and a second mirror part between which a distance is variable and having an outer edge portion disposed in a first support region of the first support part; a light detector disposed on the mounting surface to face the first mirror part and the second mirror part on one side of the first support part; and a temperature detector disposed on the mounting surface, wherein the temperature detector is disposed on the mounting surface such that at least a part of the temperature detector overlaps a part of the Fabry-Perot interference filter when seen in a first direction perpendicular to the mounting surface and such that at least a part of the temperature detector overlaps a part of the first support part when seen in a second direction in which the first support part and the light detector are aligned withType: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Takashi Kasahara, Katsumi Shibayama, Kei Tabata, Masaki Hirose, Hiroki Oyama, Yumi Kuramoto
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Patent number: 12164241Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum and an exposure unit for exposing a surface of the photosensitive drum to form an image by a first exposure amount. In a rotational axis direction of a charging portion, a width of a transfer portion is shorter than that of a developing portion, a width of the transfer portion is shorter than that of the charging portion and an end portion of the surface includes a non-transfer area in contact with the charging portion and not in contact with the transfer portion. The voltage having the normal polarity is applied to the transfer portion when no recording material exists at the transfer portion, and the exposure unit exposes an area, including the non-transfer area of the surface that has passed through the transfer portion during application of the voltage, by a second exposure amount less than the first exposure amount.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki Hirose, Masatake Usui, Hiroki Eguchi
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Publication number: 20240377255Abstract: A light detection device includes a Fabry-Perot interference filter provided with a light transmitting region on a predetermined line, a light detector disposed on one side with respect to the Fabry-Perot interference filter on the line, a package having an opening positioned on the other side with respect to the Fabry-Perot interference filter on the line, a light transmitting member provided in the package such that the opening is blocked, and a temperature control element having an endothermic region thermally connected to the Fabry-Perot interference filter and the light detector. The endothermic region is positioned on one side with respect to the light detector on the line.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Masaki HIROSE, Katsumi SHIBAYAMA, Takashi KASAHARA, Toshimitsu KAWAI, Hiroki OYAMA
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Patent number: 12123799Abstract: An electrical inspection method includes: a step of preparing a wafer in which a plurality of Fabry-Perot interference filter portions is formed, each of the plurality of Fabry-Perot interference filter portions in which a distance between a first mirror portion and a second mirror portion facing each other varies by an electrostatic force; and a step of inspecting electrical characteristics of each of the plurality of Fabry-Perot interference filter portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Takashi Kasahara, Katsumi Shibayama, Masaki Hirose, Toshimitsu Kawai, Hiroki Oyama, Yumi Kuramoto
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Patent number: 12099313Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a charging member, an exposure unit, a developing member, and a transfer member. In a rotational axis direction of the charging member, a width of a transfer portion of the transfer member is shorter than that of a charging portion of the charging member, and an end of the surface of the photosensitive drum in the axis direction includes a non-transfer area in contact with the charging member and not in contact with the transfer member. The exposure unit exposes the non-transfer area during rotation of the photosensitive drum, and forms a surface potential on the surface downstream of an exposing portion and upstream of the transfer portion with respect to a rotational direction. A controller controls such that an absolute value of the surface potential of the non-transfer area is lower than that of the transfer outside paper passing area.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Eguchi, Masatake Usui, Masaki Hirose
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Patent number: 12003865Abstract: To enable HDR video signals of a plurality of signal interfaces to be satisfactorily handled. [Solution] A processing unit processes a linear high dynamic range video signal and obtains a high dynamic range video signal that has undergone a grayscale compression process. The processing unit is able to perform grayscale compression processes of a plurality of signal interfaces. For example, when a grayscale compression process of another signal interface other than a reference signal interface is performed, the processing unit further performs a process of adding characteristics of system gamma of the reference signal interface and a process of cancelling out characteristics of system gamma of the other signal interface.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Kamiya, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Jun Onuki, Tomoyuki Endo, Masaki Hirose
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Patent number: 11947140Abstract: A suction method is provided as a method of performing, by using a suction collet, suction of a Fabry-Perot interference filter including a substrate and a laminated structure that is provided on the substrate and that includes a main surface facing the side opposite to the substrate, the method including a first step of arranging the suction collet so as to face the main surface, a second step of bringing the suction collet into contact with the Fabry-Perot interference filter after the first step, and a third step of suctioning the Fabry-Perot interference filter by using the suction collet after the second step.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Masaki Hirose, Katsumi Shibayama, Takashi Kasahara, Toshimitsu Kawai, Hiroki Oyama, Yumi Kuramoto
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Publication number: 20240030366Abstract: The light detector includes: a substrate including at least one light receiving area and a light incident surface on which light is incident; and a meta-lens formed on the light incident surface of the substrate to focus the light incident on the light incident surface. When viewed from the thickness direction (Z-axis direction) of the substrate, the meta-lens is formed so as to overlap both an adjacent region adjacent to the light receiving area and a peripheral region that is continuous with the adjacent region and is a region inside the light receiving area along the outer edge of the light receiving area. When viewed from the Z-axis direction, a non-forming region in which the meta-lens is not formed is provided in a region overlapping a central region of the light receiving area in the light incident surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Hayato ISHIDA, Masaki HIROSE, Noburo HOSOKAWA, Soh UENOYAMA, Kazuyoshi HIROSE, Kazunori TANAKA
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Publication number: 20240019794Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a charging member, an exposure unit, a developing member, and a transfer member. In a rotational axis direction of the charging member, a width of a transfer portion of the transfer member is shorter than that of a charging portion of the charging member, and an end of the surface of the photosensitive drum in the axis direction includes a non-transfer area in contact with the charging member and in no contact with the transfer member. The exposure unit exposes the non-transfer area during rotation of the photosensitive drum, and forms a surface potential on the surface downstream of an exposing portion and upstream of the transfer portion in a rotational direction. A controller controls such that an absolute value of the surface potential of the non-transfer area is smaller than that of the transfer outside paper passing area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: HIROKI EGUCHI, MASATAKE USUI, MASAKI HIROSE
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Publication number: 20240019304Abstract: A light detection device includes: a Fabry-Perot interference filter provided with a light transmission region; a light detector configured to detect light transmitted through the light transmission region; a package having an opening and accommodating the Fabry-Perot interference filter and the light detector; and a light transmitting unit arranged on an inner surface of the package so as to close an opening, the light transmitting unit including a band pass filter configured to transmit light incident on the light transmission region. When viewed from a direction parallel to the line, an outer edge of the Fabry-Perot interference filter is positioned outside an outer edge of the opening, and an outer edge of the light transmitting unit is positioned outside the outer edge of the Fabry-Perot interference filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Masaki HIROSE, Katsumi SHIBAYAMA, Takashi KASAHARA, Toshimitsu KAWAI, Hiroki OYAMA, Yumi TERAMACHI
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Publication number: 20240019795Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum and an exposure unit for exposing a surface of the photosensitive drum to form an image by a first exposure amount. In a rotational axis direction of a charging portion, a width of a transfer portion is shorter than that of a developing portion, a width of the transfer portion is shorter than that of the charging portion and an end portion of the surface includes a non-transfer area in contact with the charging portion and in no contact with the transfer portion. The voltage having the normal polarity is applied to the transfer portion when no recording material exists at the transfer portion, and the exposure unit exposes an area, including the non-transfer area of the surface passed through the transfer portion during application of the voltage, by a second exposure amount smaller than the first exposure amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: MASAKI HIROSE, MASATAKE USUI, HIROKI EGUCHI
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Patent number: 11865701Abstract: A suction method is provided as a method of performing, by using a suction collet, suction of a Fabry-Perot interference filter including: a substrate; a laminated structure that is provided on the substrate and that includes a main surface facing a side opposite to the substrate; and a thinned portion that is located outside the laminated structure when viewed in a direction intersecting the main surface and that is recessed to a side of the substrate with respect to the main surface, the method including: a first step of arranging the suction collet so as to face the main surface; a second step of bringing the suction collet into contact with the Fabry-Perot interference filter after the first step; and a third step of suctioning the Fabry-Perot interference filter by using the suction collet after the second step.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Masaki Hirose, Katsumi Shibayama, Takashi Kasahara, Toshimitsu Kawai, Hiroki Oyama, Yumi Kuramoto
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Patent number: 11852986Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging member, a charging power source, a developing member, a transfer member, a transfer power source, an acquiring portion, and a controller. The controller controls a charging voltage to be a first charging voltage when an electric resistance value of the transfer member is a first resistance value and to be a second charging voltage not less than the first charging voltage in absolute value when the electric resistance value is a second resistance value lower than the first resistance value, and so that a change amount of the charging voltage when the electric resistance value is changed from the second resistance value to a third resistance value lower than the second resistance value is greater than a change amount of the charging voltage when the electric resistance value is changed from the first resistance value to the second resistance value.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki Hirose, Taisuke Minagawa, Yusaku Iwasawa
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Patent number: 11835388Abstract: A light detection device includes: a Fabry-Perot interference filter provided with a light transmission region; a light detector configured to detect light transmitted through the light transmission region; a package having an opening and accommodating the Fabry-Perot interference filter and the light detector; and a light transmitting unit arranged on an inner surface of the package so as to close an opening, the light transmitting unit including a band pass filter configured to transmit light incident on the light transmission region. When viewed from a direction parallel to the line, an outer edge of the Fabry-Pert interference filter is positioned outside an outer edge of the opening, and an outer edge of the light transmitting unit is positioned outside the outer edge of the Fabry-Perot interference filter.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Masaki Hirose, Katsumi Shibayama, Takashi Kasahara, Toshimitsu Kawai, Hiroki Oyama, Yumi Teramachi
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Publication number: 20230358610Abstract: A light detection device of the present invention includes: a wiring board; a first support part disposed on a mounting surface of the wiring board; a Fabry-Perot interference filter having a first mirror part and a second mirror part between which a distance is variable and having an outer edge portion disposed in a first support region of the first support part; a light detector disposed on the mounting surface to face the first mirror part and the second mirror part on one side of the first support part; and a temperature detector disposed on the mounting surface, wherein the temperature detector is disposed on the mounting surface such that at least a part of the temperature detector overlaps a part of the Fabry-Perot interference filter when seen in a first direction perpendicular to the mounting surface and such that at least a part of the temperature detector overlaps a part of the first support part when seen in a second direction in which the first support part and the light detector are aligned withType: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Takashi KASAHARA, Katsumi SHIBAYAMA, Kei TABATA, Masaki HIROSE, Hiroki OYAMA, Yumi KURAMOTO