Patents by Inventor Masanari AN

Masanari AN 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).

  • Patent number: 11843101
    Abstract: Provided is a battery pack including: a first battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces face each other; a second battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces are face each other; and a case housing the first battery group and the second battery group, wherein the facing surfaces of the first battery group and the second battery group are directly or indirectly thermally connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Vehicle Energy Japan Inc.
    Inventors: Masanari Oda, Hirofumi Takahashi, Shigeki Makino, Wataru Sato, Hitoshi Nishimori
  • Patent number: 11827032
    Abstract: An image forming device including a deaerator that deaerates liquid, a supply tank for storing liquid, a spray device that sprays liquid, and a controller. The controller executes a control causing supply of deaerated liquid from the deaerator to the supply tank, and from the supply tank to the spray device, and spraying of liquid by the spray device to form an image, and while waiting for image forming or while the supply of liquid from the supply tank to the spray device is stopped, the controller executes a control causing at least some of the liquid stored in the supply tank to be supplied to the deaerator in a direction opposite the supply from the deaerator to the supply tank, and causing the deaerator to deaerate the liquid so supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masanari Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11816059
    Abstract: To enable preferable signal transmission between a plurality of daisy-chained devices at low cost. A transmission device generates a plurality of signals having different voltage levels and outputs the signals to a communication line at different timings. For example, the plurality of signals having different voltage levels is generated by a plurality of drivers or one driver. A receiving side can immediately determine whether or not it is information to be passed to the subsequent stage on the basis of only a difference in voltage level without logically analyzing contents of a signal, and cost of components such as a memory, verification cost, or the like are unnecessary so that the cost can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morita, Kazuaki Toba, Kazuo Yamamoto, Masanari Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230355967
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a power supply configured to apply an alternating current to a magnetic field generation apparatus; and a controller configured to control the alternating current applied by the power supply. The controller controls the power supply to apply the alternating current having a waveform pattern including a plurality of current waveforms having different frequency spectrums from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicants: Ricoh Company, Ltd., PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kazuhito KISHI, Masami Takai, Motokazu Hasegawa, Masataka Akaishi, Masanari Umemura, Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Taisuke Akimoto
  • Patent number: 11807836
    Abstract: Provided is a high-purity isopropyl alcohol in which the concentration of a C7-12 acetal compound is 100 ppb or less on a mass basis, the concentration of the acetal compound in an accelerated test involving heating for 4 hours at 80° C. in a nitrogen atmosphere is increased by a factor of 30 or less with respect to the value thereof prior to heating, and the concentration of the acetal compound is maintained at a value of 100 ppb or less on a mass basis. Also provided is a method for manufacturing said high-purity isopropyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Hosaka, Masanari Ishizuki
  • Patent number: 11804220
    Abstract: This voice processing device is provided with: an utterer's position detection unit which specifies, as position microphones of an utterer, microphones that receive a voice signal of WuW on the basis of the characteristics of each voice signal for a prescribed time, when the WuW voice is detected, the voice signal being held in a voice signal buffer unit; and a CTC unit (one example of a voice processing unit) which outputs a voice uttered by the utterer and suppress a voice uttered by an occupant, who is not the utterer, by using the voice signal for the prescribed time, which is held in the voice signal buffer unit, and information relating to the utterer's position microphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Tanaka, Tomofumi Yamanashi, Masanari Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20230344460
    Abstract: A high-frequency module is capable of two-uplink of a transmission signal in Band A and transmission of Band C, and includes a module substrate, a metal shield plate arranged on a principal surface, power amplifiers, a transmission filter of Band A, and a transmission filter of Band C. In a plan view, the metal shield plate is arranged between a first transmission component and a second transmission component. The first transmission component is one of the power amplifier, the transmission filter, a switch circuit, and a first inductor and a first capacitor arranged in a first transmission path, and the second transmission component is one of the power amplifier, the transmission filter, a switch circuit, and a second inductor and a second capacitor arranged in a second transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanari MIURA, Kiyoshi AIKAWA, Hiroyuki NAGAMORI, Takanori UEJIMA, Yuji TAKEMATSU, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Ryo WAKABAYASHI, Yoshihiro YOSHIMURA, Takashi HIROSE
  • Patent number: 11796626
    Abstract: A positioning device operates in cooperation with a signal receiver for receiving a plurality of signal waves arriving from at least one synchronous transmission unit including a plurality of signal transmitters that operates in synchronization with each other. The positioning device includes: a time-of-arrival detecting unit for detecting time of arrival of each of the plurality of signal waves on the basis of a reception signal output from the signal receiver and a distance difference calculating unit for calculating a difference in distance from the plurality of signal transmitters to the signal receiver as a set of observation values on the basis of a difference in the time of arrival that has been detected; and a positioning arithmetic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanari Nakamura, Tetsutaro Yamada, Hiroshi Kameda
  • Publication number: 20230335149
    Abstract: A speech processing device includes a processor. The processor performs operations including: detecting a single-talk state based on a speech signal collected by each of microphones, the single-talk state in which any one of persons speaks; estimating a mixing rate indicating a ratio of a speech signal of the main speaking person to a speech signal of another person based on a sound pressure ratio of the speech signals collected by the microphones in the single-talk state of the main speaking person and a sound pressure ratio of the speech signals collected by the plurality of microphones in the single-talk state of the another person; and determining whether suppression of a crosstalk component due to speaking of the another person contained in the speech signal of the main speaking person is necessary based on an estimation result of the mixing rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanari MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230318573
    Abstract: A hybrid filter includes a module substrate having a major surface and a major surface that are opposite to each other, acoustic wave resonator elements disposed at the module substrate, inductors disposed at the module substrate, and a capacitor disposed at the module substrate. The pass band of the hybrid filter is wider than the resonance band width of the acoustic wave resonator elements. One of the acoustic wave resonator elements, the inductors, and the capacitor is a first circuit element, and the first circuit element is disposed at the major surface. Another of the acoustic wave resonator elements, the inductors, and the capacitor is a second circuit element, and the second circuit element is disposed at the major surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Syunsuke KIDO, Naru MORITO, Takanori UEJIMA, Masanari MIURA, Yukiya YAMAGUCHI, Takuma KUROYANAGI, Tomomi YASUDA, Masanori KATO, Yuuki FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20230318642
    Abstract: A radio frequency circuit includes a transmit filter for B66-Tx connected to a power amplifier, a transmit filter for B25-Tx connected to a power amplifier, a switch circuit having terminals, a switch circuit having a common terminal and terminals, and a switch circuit having a common terminal and terminals. The terminal is connected to the common terminal, the terminal is connected to the common terminal, the terminal is connected to the transmit filter, and the terminal is connected to the transmit filter. The switch circuit has a smaller stack number than the switch circuit, and the switch circuit has a smaller stack number than the switch circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori UEJIMA, Kiyoshi AIKAWA, Masanari MIURA, Hiroyuki NAGAMORI
  • Publication number: 20230315973
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor configured to: extract, among one or more pages forming each of plural digital documents which are obtained as results of conducting a search by using a specified search condition, a predetermined page which is preset for each of the plural digital documents; perform control to generate a first image representing a set of the extracted predetermined pages of the respective digital documents and to display the first image on a display; and perform control, in response to a first input operation performed on the first image by a user, to display a second image, which represents the extracted predetermined pages, in an enlarged size on the display so that a display size of the second image becomes larger than a display size of the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Masanari MOCHIZUKI
  • Patent number: 11774876
    Abstract: A seal member includes a seal surface that comes into contact with and slides with an end portion of an outer circumferential surface of a developing roller. The seal surface includes a first seal region configured of a plurality of first fiber bundles including a first fiber having a charge property that repels a developer, and a second seal region configured of a plurality of second fiber bundles including a second fiber having a charge property that attracts the developer, both extending in an inclined direction such that a portion thereof closer to an opening portion of a frame body of a developing unit is located further downstream in a rotating direction of the developing roller, and being alternately disposed in the rotating direction, and a proportion of a portion occupied by the second fiber bundles on the seal surface is at least 5% and not more than 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Fukasawa, Seiya Ishikawa, Masanari Morioka
  • Publication number: 20230305486
    Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprises a main assembly that includes moving force applying portion, a main assembly engaging portion having a driving shaft and a rotational force applying portion provided on the driving shaft, and an electrophotographic photosensitive drum. A cartridge is dismountable from the main assembly without dismounting the electrophotographic photosensitive drum from the main assembly. The cartridge includes a developing roller for developing a latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a rotatable member for transmitting a rotational force to the developing roller, and a coupling member including a rotational force receiving portion engageable with the rotational force applying portion to receive a rotational force from the main assembly engaging portion, and a rotational force transmitting portion for transmitting the rotational force to the rotatable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Masanari Morioka, Shigeo Miyabe, Takahito Ueno
  • Publication number: 20230303961
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to make it possible to provide a mechanism that applies an external stimulus and to measure structural and electromagnetic changes of a cell due to the external stimulus with high sensitivity by an NV center. There is provided an environment control mechanism configured to change a state of a sample by applying an external stimulus to the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd., National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology
    Inventors: Masanari KOGUCHI, Takeshi NAKAYAMA, Ryuji IGARASHI, Kiichi KAMINAGA, Satoshi TSUKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11769715
    Abstract: The semiconductor device of the present embodiment includes a lead frame having a projection portion, the projection portion having an upper face and a side face, a semiconductor chip provided above the projection portion, and a bonding material provided between the projection portion and the semiconductor chip, the bonding material being in contact with the upper face and the side face, the bonding material bonding the lead frame and the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Masanari Seki, Daisuke Koike, Masahiko Hori
  • Publication number: 20230297023
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis thereof and a drum flange provided at one end portion of the photosensitive drum. The cartridge also includes a coupling member operatively connected to the drum flange, with the coupling member being configured to transmit a driving force to the drum flange. The coupling member includes at least one projection for receiving the driving force, with the at least one projection being movable with the coupling member in the direction of the axis of the photosensitive drum. A spring is provided to urge the coupling member along the axis of the photosensitive drum. At least a part of the spring and at least a part of the coupling member are positioned within a hollow interior portion of the drum flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Takahito Ueno, Shigeo Miyabe, Masanari Morioka, Masato Hisano
  • Publication number: 20230294437
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording portion that performs recording by ejecting a liquid onto a medium; a liquid accommodation portion that accommodates the liquid to be ejected by the recording portion; and a housing that includes an accommodation portion exterior that accommodates the liquid accommodation portion, wherein the liquid accommodation portion includes a viewing region configured that the liquid accommodated is viewed, the accommodation portion exterior of the housing includes a viewing portion that faces the viewing region and is configured that the liquid is viewed, and a lighting portion that takes in light from outside the housing, and an optical path through which the light taken in passes is provided between the liquid accommodation portion and the accommodation portion exterior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKATA, Masanari TANAKA, Tatsuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20230297218
    Abstract: A terminal includes processors and memory storing one or more sets of instructions including instructions for: at initial activation of an application program after a user installs the application program on the terminal, in response to a predetermined input made by the user, causing a transition between introducing screens corresponding to functions of the application program, each introducing screen introducing a corresponding function; displaying an object on each of the introducing screens; and upon detection of that the user designates an object, displaying on a display first a function screen that enables the user to use a function corresponding to an introducing screen including the object designated by the user, from among function screens corresponding to the functions of the application program, each function screen enabling the user to use a corresponding function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Masanari KOSHINO, Kazunari YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230299764
    Abstract: There is provided a drive circuit of a switching element and an intelligent power module both capable of preventing deterioration of a switching loss of the switching element. A gate drive circuit includes a first current supply section which supplies a first current to a gate terminal provided in an IGBT when a gate voltage of the gate terminal is lower than a first voltage, a second current supply section which supplies a second current smaller than the first current to the gate terminal when the gate voltage of the gate terminal is higher than a second voltage which is the same as or higher than the first voltage, and a third current supply section which supplies a third current smaller than the first current and larger than the second current to the gate terminal when the gate voltage of the gate terminal is lower than a third voltage lower than the first voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanari FUJII