Patents by Inventor Masanori Hayashi

Masanori Hayashi 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: 9801247
    Abstract: A light-dimming device includes a switch including a switching device, a controller, and a power supply module. The power supply module includes a capacitor to be charged by a constant voltage circuit. The controller includes a driver circuit, a zero-cross detection circuit, a detecting circuit, and a control circuit, and receive electric power from the capacitor. The driver circuit drives the switching device in accordance with a PWM signal. The control circuit starts generation of a pulse, to be contained in the PWM signal, for turning on the switching device after the zero-cross detection circuit detects zero-cross and also a voltage across the capacitor is threshold or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Hayashi, Yoshifumi Suehiro, Kiyoshi Goto
  • Patent number: 9777149
    Abstract: A polyester resin composition according to the present invention includes a polyester polyol having a glycerol skeleton and a curing agent, wherein 5 percent by mass or more of glycerol residue of the polyester polyol is contained in the polyester resin composition. The resin composition can provide an adhesive exhibiting an excellent adhesive force. The adhesive has a gas barrier property or a water vapor barrier property and, therefore, a gas barrier or water vapor barrier film can be provided by using the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takeda, Hiroyuki Kagaya, Masanori Hayashi, Michiya Nakashima, Hidekazu Miyano
  • Publication number: 20170150569
    Abstract: A light-dimming device includes a switch including a switching device, a controller, and a power supply module. The power supply module includes a capacitor to be charged by a constant voltage circuit. The controller includes a driver circuit, a zero-cross detection circuit, a detecting circuit, and a control circuit, and receive electric power from the capacitor. The driver circuit drives the switching device in accordance with a PWM signal. The control circuit starts generation of a pulse, to be contained in the PWM signal, for turning on the switching device after the zero-cross detection circuit detects zero-cross and also a voltage across the capacitor is threshold or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori HAYASHI, Yoshifumi SUEHIRO, Kiyoshi GOTO
  • Publication number: 20170150568
    Abstract: Light-dimming device includes: first and second terminals; switch including switching device connected between terminals; adjuster for varying conduction angle of switch; controller for controlling switch and power supply module for supplying power to controller. Controller includes zero-cross detection circuit for detecting zero-cross of AC voltage, control circuit for generating PWM signal of on-duty ratio corresponding to conduction angle from adjuster, and driver circuit for turning device on and off by PWM signal. Controller allows device to conduct and then turn off within variable period of time, from start of half cycle of AC voltage, shorter than half cycle. Circuit starts generation of pulse in PWM signal when prescribed period of time, shorter than variable period of time, from zero-cross of voltage elapses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori HAYASHI, Yoshifumi SUEHIRO, Kiyoshi GOTO
  • Publication number: 20170113731
    Abstract: A vehicle structure includes a battery, a chamber that is arranged on an outer side in a vehicle width direction of the battery and provided on part of an exhaust pipe through which emission gas from a fuel cell system is emitted outside a vehicle, and a side frame that is arranged between the battery and the chamber in the vehicle width direction and extends in a fore-and-aft direction. A slider member inclined inward in the vehicle width direction toward a lower side of the vehicle is arranged between the chamber and the side frame. A lower end portion of the slider member is in a position lower than a position of a lower end portion of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Imura, Masanori Hayashi, Tamaki Mikami
  • Publication number: 20170019966
    Abstract: A determiner determines whether an illumination load is an LED illumination device or an incandescent lamp, based on a voltage of a rectifier within a time period from start of supply of the AC voltage to the rectifier to a time a predetermined time elapses. A control circuit controls a driver under a condition where values of a conduction angle of a switch corresponding to magnitudes of the first DC voltages except a maximum and a minimum thereof in a case where the determiner determines that the illumination load is the LED illumination device are smaller than values of the conduction angles of the switch of a case where the determiner determines that the illumination load is the incandescent lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshifumi SUEHIRO, Masanori HAYASHI, Kiyoshi GOTO
  • Patent number: 9548554
    Abstract: The connector for a card has a housing for accommodating a card provided with terminal members, and connecting terminals mounted in the housing and contacting the terminal members of the card. Here, at least one of the connecting terminals has a base portion provided along a rear edge of the housing, at least some of the base portion is embedded in a bottom wall portion of the housing, and a contact member forming a hoop along with the base portion. The contact member has a pair of spring portions connected to the base portion, a joining portion joining the pair of spring portions, and a contact portion connected to the leading end of the joining portion for contacting the terminal members of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Naoto Yoshikawa, Masanori Hayashi, Yasuyoshi Matsumoto, Yuki Goto, Mitsuhiro Tomita
  • Publication number: 20160226174
    Abstract: The connector for a card has a housing for accommodating a card provided with terminal members, and connecting terminals mounted in the housing and contacting the terminal members of the card. Here, at least one of the connecting terminals has a base portion provided along a rear edge of the housing, at least some of the base portion is embedded in a bottom wall portion of the housing, and a contact member forming a hoop along with the base portion. The contact member has a pair of spring portions connected to the base portion, a joining portion joining the pair of spring portions, and a contact portion connected to the leading end of the joining portion for contacting the terminal members of the card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Naoto Yoshikawa, Masanori HAYASHI, Yasuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Yuki GOTO, Mitsuhiro TOMITA
  • Patent number: 9300070
    Abstract: The connector for a card has a housing for accommodating a card provided with terminal members, and connecting terminals mounted in the housing and contacting the terminal members of the card. Here, at least one of the connecting terminals has a base portion provided along a rear edge of the housing, at least some of the base portion is embedded in a bottom wall portion of the housing, and a contact member forming a hoop along with the base portion. The contact member has a pair of spring portions connected to the base portion, a joining portion joining the pair of spring portions, and a contact portion connected to the leading end of the joining portion for contacting the terminal members of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Naoto Yoshikawa, Masanori Hayashi, Yasuyoshi Matsumoto, Yuki Goto, Mitsuhiro Tomita
  • Publication number: 20160053110
    Abstract: A polyester resin composition according to the present invention includes a polyester polyol having a glycerol skeleton and a curing agent, wherein 5 percent by mass or more of glycerol residue of the polyester polyol is contained in the polyester resin composition. The resin composition can provide an adhesive exhibiting an excellent adhesive force. The adhesive has a gas barrier property or a water vapor barrier property and, therefore, a gas barrier or water vapor barrier film can be provided by using the adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takeda, Hiroyuki Kagaya, Masanori Hayashi, Michiya Nakashima, Hidekazu Miyano
  • Patent number: 8981717
    Abstract: The usage pattern of an electric vehicle including the amount of power consumption of a battery on each day of the week is extracted from usage histories of the vehicle in a predetermined period. When the vehicle goes home after one day's operation and is connected to a charging apparatus, a charge determination unit predicts a usage pattern of the vehicle on the next day and determines whether the vehicle can operate on the next day with the remaining amount of power of a battery in the vehicle. When it is determined that the charging of the battery is necessary, the battery is charged until it reaches the target remaining amount of power. The target remaining amount of power is determined on the basis of the amount of power consumption in the predicted usage pattern so that the full charge is prevented and the number of charges is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masanori Hayashi, Koichiro Takemasa, Taisuke Tsurutani
  • Patent number: 8838318
    Abstract: A route planning device plans plural routes from a current location to a destination, calculates an amount of electricity consumed by a motor during driving to the destination along each planned route in each of plural drive modes, calculates an amount of electricity consumed by electric equipment during driving to the destination along each planned route for each of plural operational settings of the electric equipment, calculates an estimated amount of charge remaining in a battery on arrival at the destination, calculates, for each of the planned routes, a total comfort level score for each of the drive modes and/or each of the operational settings of the electrical equipment, selects plural operation plans each formed from a combination of the route, drive mode, and operational setting on the basis of the calculated total comfort level score, and displays the selected operation plans on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Daisei Segawa, Taisuke Tsurutani, Masanori Hayashi, Koichiro Takemasa
  • Patent number: 8813377
    Abstract: A reciprocating cutting tool includes a motion converting mechanism configured to convert rotation of a rotary member into a reciprocating motion of a slider coupled to a rod capable of mounting a blade thereon. The reciprocating cutting tool further includes a slider support mechanism including a first support mechanism and a second support mechanism disposed at different positions along a reciprocating direction of the slider and each supporting the slider such that the slider can move in the reciprocating direction. The first support mechanism includes a first member and a second member disposed on opposite sides of the slider in a holding direction perpendicular to the reciprocating direction and each slidably contacting the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kani, Masanori Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8810287
    Abstract: A driver includes a converter section 2 which includes a switching element Q1 and which is configured to output a desired DC voltage by switching the switching element Q1, a control section 1 configured to control the switching operation of the switching element Q1, capacitors C1A, C1B charged by the output of the converter section 2, turn-on circuits 31A, 31B configured to supply gates of a bidirectional switch element 4 using electric charges stored in the capacitors CIA, C1B with drive powers to turn-on the bidirectional switch element 4, and turn-off circuits 32A, 32B configured to discharge the capacitors CIA, C1B to turn-off the bidirectional switch element 4 in response to the halt of the switching operation of the switching element Q1 by the control section 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Hayashi, Yoshiaki Honda, Kiyoshi Gotou
  • Patent number: 8779837
    Abstract: A load control device includes a switching unit which is connected to a power source and a load in series and has a switch device having a transistor structure, a control unit configured to control start-up and stop of the load, and a gate driving unit, which is electrically insulated from the control unit and outputs a gate driving signal to the gate electrode of the switch device. The control unit controls the gate driving unit to supply a higher driving power to the gate electrode of the switch device for a predetermined period of time starting at the start-up of the load than that in a steady state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Gotou, Masanori Hayashi, Takashi Kishida, Kouji Yamato
  • Patent number: 8740634
    Abstract: A rear side connection terminal arranged along the back end edge of a housing is provided with a base part in which at least a portion is embedded in a bottom wall part of the housing, a contact arm part in a cantilever shape in which a tip end extends slanted upwards towards a front end of the housing, a contact part that is connected to a tip end of the contact arm part and that contacts with a terminal member of the card, and a contact arm support part that includes a curved part that projects rearward with a bottom side front end coupled to a back end of the base part and a top side front end coupled to a back end of the contact arm part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryo Uesaka, Masamitsu Takasaki, Masanori Hayashi, Yuji Naito, Mitsuhiro Tomita
  • Patent number: 8668213
    Abstract: A damper mounting structure is provided with a top buffer member and a bottom buffer member. The bottom buffer member has a protruding section that protrudes with an outer diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the bottom buffer member. The damper mounting structure mates with the protruding section and is anchored to a vehicle body panel, and is provided with a collar formed at substantially the same height as the height of the protruding section. The corner of an opening formed on the vehicle body panel, which comes into contact with the top buffer member, is chamfered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takagi, Makoto Kihara, Masanori Hayashi, Noriaki Masuda
  • Publication number: 20140045389
    Abstract: The connector for a card has a housing for accommodating a card provided with terminal members, and connecting terminals mounted in the housing and contacting the terminal members of the card. Here, at least one of the connecting terminals has a base portion provided along a rear edge of the housing, at least some of the base portion is embedded in a bottom wall portion of the housing, and a contact member forming a hoop along with the base portion. The contact member has a pair of spring portions connected to the base portion, a joining portion joining the pair of spring portions, and a contact portion connected to the leading end of the joining portion for contacting the terminal members of the card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Naoto YOSHIKAWA, Masanori HAYASHI, Yasuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Yuki GOTO, Mitsuhiro TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20140046595
    Abstract: A route planning device plans plural routes from a current location to a destination, calculates an amount of electricity consumed by a motor during driving to the destination along each planned route in each of plural drive modes, calculates an amount of electricity consumed by electric equipment during driving to the destination along each planned route for each of plural operational settings of the electric equipment, calculates an estimated amount of charge remaining in a battery on arrival at the destination, calculates, for each of the planned routes, a total comfort level score for each of the drive modes and/or each of the operational settings of the electrical equipment, selects plural operation plans each formed from a combination of the route, drive mode, and operational setting on the basis of the calculated total comfort level score, and displays the selected operation plans on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisei Segawa, Taisuke Tsurutani, Masanori Hayashi, Koichiro Takemasa
  • Patent number: D729858
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Imai, Kyosuke Yoshida, Masanori Hayashi