Patents by Inventor Masami Yamanaka
Masami Yamanaka 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: 10774514Abstract: A remote control device according to an embodiment includes an operation button, a generator, an electrical storage part, electronic paper, and a controller. The operation button is for remotely operating a wet-area device. The generator generates electrical power by utilizing energy when the operation button is pressed. The electrical storage part stores the electrical power generated by the generator; the electronic paper displays a setting state of the wet-area device. The controller controls a refresh and a display-switching of the electronic paper by utilizing the electrical power stored in the electrical storage part. The operation button is marked with information showing a function of the operation button. The controller performs the refresh in the case where the function is not realized when the operation button is pressed.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Masami Yamanaka, Masami Tsujita
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Patent number: 10697165Abstract: A remote control device according to an embodiment includes an operation button, a generator, an electrical storage part, electronic paper, and a controller. The operation button is for remotely operating a wet-area device. The generator generates electrical power by utilizing energy when the operation button is pressed. The electrical storage part stores the electrical power. The electronic paper displays a setting state of the wet-area device. The controller controls a refresh and a display-switching of the electronic paper by utilizing the electrical power stored in the electrical storage part. The controller starts the refresh in a first state by performing a first determination determining whether or not the electrical power stored in the electrical storage part is in the first state. The electrical power stored in the electrical storage part in the first state is larger than electrical power necessary to complete the refresh.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Masami Yamanaka, Masami Tsujita
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Patent number: 10662633Abstract: A remote control device according to an embodiment includes an operation button, a generator, an electrical storage part, electronic paper, and a controller. The operation button is for remotely operating a wet-area device. The generator generates electrical power by utilizing energy when the operation button is pressed. The electrical storage part stores the electrical power. The electronic paper displays a setting state of the wet-area device. The controller controls a display-switching of the electronic paper and a transmission of a signal to remotely operate the wet-area device. The operation button is for modifying the setting state. The controller performs the display-switching and the transmission of the signal by utilizing the electrical power stored in the electrical storage part. The controller performs the display-switching after the transmission of the signal when the operation button is pressed.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Masami Yamanaka, Masami Tsujita
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Publication number: 20190169828Abstract: A remote control device according to an embodiment includes an operation button, a generator, an electrical storage part, electronic paper, and a controller. The operation button is for remotely operating a wet-area device. The generator generates electrical power by utilizing energy when the operation button is pressed. The electrical storage part stores the electrical power generated by the generator; the electronic paper displays a setting state of the wet-area device. The controller controls a refresh and a display-switching of the electronic paper by utilizing the electrical power stored in the electrical storage part. The operation button is marked with information showing a function of the operation button. The controller performs the refresh in the case where the function is not realized when the operation button is pressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Masami Yamanaka, Masami Tsujita
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Publication number: 20190169827Abstract: A remote control device according to an embodiment includes an operation button, a generator, an electrical storage part, electronic paper, and a controller. The operation button is for remotely operating a wet-area device. The generator generates electrical power by utilizing energy when the operation button is pressed. The electrical storage part stores the electrical power. The electronic paper displays a setting state of the wet-area device. The controller controls a refresh and a display-switching of the electronic paper by utilizing the electrical power stored in the electrical storage part. The controller starts the refresh in a first state by performing a first determination determining whether or not the electrical power stored in the electrical storage part is in the first state. The electrical power stored in the electrical storage part in the first state is larger than electrical power necessary to complete the refresh.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Masami Yamanaka, Masami Tsujita
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Publication number: 20190169829Abstract: A remote control device according to an embodiment includes an operation button, a generator, an electrical storage part, electronic paper, and a controller. The operation button is for remotely operating a wet-area device. The generator generates electrical power by utilizing energy when the operation button is pressed. The electrical storage part stores the electrical power. The electronic paper displays a setting state of the wet-area device. The controller controls a display-switching of the electronic paper and a transmission of a signal to remotely operate the wet-area device. The operation button is for modifying the setting state. The controller performs the display-switching and the transmission of the signal by utilizing the electrical power stored in the electrical storage part. The controller performs the display-switching after the transmission of the signal when the operation button is pressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Masami Yamanaka, Masami Tsujita
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Patent number: 9786451Abstract: According to one embodiment, a remote control device for a toilet device includes an operation button and a power generator. The operation button is capable of a push operation and is configured to operate an equipment in response to the push operation. The power generator is configured to generate a power by being pressed in response to the push operation. A direction of the pressing is parallel to a wall surface on which the remote control device is placed.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: TOTO, Ltd.Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Masami Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9411328Abstract: A remote control device includes operation buttons, detectors, a power generator, a controller, and an output unit. The operation buttons are movable between an ordinary position and a lowermost position and are configured to move from the ordinary position to the lowermost position in response to a push operation. The detectors are configured to detect the respective push operation of the operation buttons. The power generator is configured to generate a power in response to the push operation. The controller is driven by the power. The controller is configured to determine the pushed operation button based on a detection result of the detectors. The controller remotely controls a toilet device by transmitting a wireless signal toward the toilet device. The wireless signal corresponds to the determined operation button. The output unit is configured to produce an output when the power generator has generated the power.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: TOTO, Ltd.Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Masami Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9290921Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a remote control apparatus for a toilet seat apparatus which generates electric power by a user's pressing operation, the remote control apparatus being capable of balancing design quality and transmission accuracy of a signal at a high level. A remote control apparatus RC has a main button group MB, including a water spray button WB and a water stop button MB1, and a sub-button group SB, including a stronger button SB1, etc. Each button in the sub-button group SB has a circular shape with a diameter smaller than that of each button in the main button group MB from a front view. When a button in the main button group MB is pressed, mechanical energy is transferred to a power generation unit GU by a first slide member 10 and a second slide member 20.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Toshio Koguro, Masahiro Kuroishi, Masateru Miyazaki, Yuta Sakai, Masami Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9279241Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a remote control apparatus for a toilet seat apparatus which generates electric power by a user's pressing operation, the remote control apparatus being capable of balancing operability and the ability to reliably stop water spray at a high level. When a cleansing button MB2, being a button other than a stop button MB1, is pressed, a slide member 10 receives force F2? at a branch 13a. When the branch 13a slides in a direction indicated by an arrow A2, a main part 11 also slides in a direction indicated by an arrow A1. A power generation unit GU generates electric power using mechanical energy input by a pressing force of an output part 14 of the slide member 10. When the stop button MB1 is pressed, the slide member 10 receives force F2 at a stop input part 12 and slides in the direction indicated by an arrow A1.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Toshio Koguro, Masahiro Kuroishi, Masateru Miyazaki, Yuta Sakai, Masami Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20150364278Abstract: According to one embodiment, a remote control device for a toilet device includes an operation button and a power generator. The operation button is capable of a push operation and is configured to operate an equipment in response to the push operation. The power generator is configured to generate a power by being pressed in response to the push operation. A direction of the pressing is parallel to a wall surface on which the remote control device is placed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Masami Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20150234371Abstract: A remote control device includes operation buttons, detectors, a power generator, a controller, and an output unit. The operation buttons are movable between an ordinary position and a lowermost position and are configured to move from the ordinary position to the lowermost position in response to a push operation. The detectors are configured to detect the respective push operation of the operation buttons. The power generator is configured to generate a power in response to the push operation. The controller is driven by the power. The controller is configured to determine the pushed operation button based on a detection result of the detectors. The controller remotely controls a toilet device by transmitting a wireless signal toward the toilet device. The wireless signal corresponds to the determined operation button. The output unit is configured to produce an output when the power generator has generated the power.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: TOTO, Ltd.Inventors: Satoko Morioka, Masami Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9023234Abstract: An aqueous heat treatment liquid composition exhibiting a favorable rust resistance with a high cooling capability and a high uneven-cooling resistance is provided. The aqueous heat treatment liquid composition contains a hyperbranched polyglycerol. A mass average absolute molecular weight of the aqueous heat treatment liquid composition is preferably in a range of 5,000 to 500,000. When the aqueous heat treatment liquid composition is used for quenching of a metallic component, the aqueous heat treatment liquid composition can exhibit a favorable rust resistance with a high cooling capability and a high uneven-cooling resistance.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Ichitani, Fumiaki Takagi, Masami Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20140289951Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a remote control apparatus for a toilet seat apparatus which generates electric power by a user's pressing operation, the remote control apparatus being capable of balancing design quality and transmission accuracy of a signal at a high level. A remote control apparatus RC has a main button group MB, including a water spray button WB and a water stop button MB1, and a sub-button group SB, including a stronger button SB1, etc. Each button in the sub-button group SB has a circular shape with a diameter smaller than that of each button in the main button group MB from a front view. When a button in the main button group MB is pressed, mechanical energy is transferred to a power generation unit GU by a first slide member 10 and a second slide member 20.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Satoko MORIOKA, Toshio KOGURO, Masahiro KUROISHI, Masateru MIYAZAKI, Yuta SAKAI, Masami YAMANAKA
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Publication number: 20140289952Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a remote control apparatus for a toilet seat apparatus which generates electric power by a user's pressing operation, the remote control apparatus being capable of balancing operability and the ability to reliably stop water spray at a high level. When a cleansing button MB2, being a button other than a stop button MB1, is pressed, a slide member 10 receives force F2? at a branch 13a. When the branch 13a slides in a direction indicated by an arrow A2, a main part 11 also slides in a direction indicated by an arrow A1. A power generation unit GU generates electric power using mechanical energy input by a pressing force of an output part 14 of the slide member 10. When the stop button MB1 is pressed, the slide member 10 receives force F2 at a stop input part 12 and slides in the direction indicated by an arrow A1.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Satoko MORIOKA, Toshio KOGURO, Masahiro KUROISHI, Masateru MIYAZAKI, Yuta SAKAI, Masami YAMANAKA
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Patent number: 8703684Abstract: Provided is a water-based lubricant comprising a hyperbranch-type polyglycerol having an absolute molecular weight of from 5,000 to 500,000. The water-based lubricant has a small friction coefficient and is excellent in lubrication performance and defoamability, as compared with conventional water-based lubricants comprising an ethylene/propylene oxide copolymer, and is favorable, for example, for a water-based metal processing agent and a hydraulic pressure fluid.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyoji Kakuchi, Toshifumi Satoh, Ryosuke Sakai, Fumiaki Takagi, Masami Yamanaka
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Patent number: 8486874Abstract: To provide a water-soluble working fluid which less adversely affects the human body and the ecological system as compared with conventional water-soluble working fluids, which has high rotting resistance, and which provides excellent working performance. The water-soluble working fluid of the invention contains methyldicyclohexylamine.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumiaki Takagi, Masami Yamanaka, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Youichiro Jido, Takashi Urabe
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Publication number: 20130001461Abstract: An aqueous heat treatment liquid composition exhibiting a favorable rust resistance with a high cooling capability and a high uneven-cooling resistance is provided. The aqueous heat treatment liquid composition contains a hyperbranched polyglycerol. A mass average absolute molecular weight of the aqueous heat treatment liquid composition is preferably in a range of 5,000 to 500,000. When the aqueous heat treatment liquid composition is used for quenching of a metallic component, the aqueous heat treatment liquid composition can exhibit a favorable rust resistance with a high cooling capability and a high uneven-cooling resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsumi Ichitani, Fumiaki Takagi, Masami Yamanaka
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Patent number: 8208255Abstract: A remote control apparatus of the invention is a remote control apparatus for operating electronic hardware, including: a remote control main body; a cover covering a front surface of the remote control main body; and a plurality of switches provided on at least one of the remote control main body or the cover and switching by pressing force, the cover being openably attached to the remote control main body and covering the front surface of the remote control main body when closed and exposing the front surface when opened, one part of the cover being pressed to the remote control main body in the closed state of the cover and thereby being displaced to the remote control main body, and by the displacement, the cover or the remote control main body pressing any one of the plurality of switches, and another part of the cover being pressed to the remote control main body in the closed state of the cover and thereby being displaced to the remote control main body, and by the displacement, the cover or the remoteType: GrantFiled: April 11, 2007Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Toto LtdInventors: Michito Enomoto, Yoshiaki Mitsuno, Shingo Hashimoto, Takayuki Matsuo, Masami Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20120058925Abstract: To provide a water-soluble working fluid which less adversely affects the human body and the ecological system as compared with conventional water-soluble working fluids, which has high rotting resistance, and which provides excellent working performance. The water-soluble working fluid of the invention contains methyldicyclohexylamine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2010Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumiaki Takagi, Masami Yamanaka, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Youichiro Jido, Takashi Urabe