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).
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Patent number: 9801247Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Hayashi, Yoshifumi Suehiro, Kiyoshi Goto
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Patent number: 9777149Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: DIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Takeda, Hiroyuki Kagaya, Masanori Hayashi, Michiya Nakashima, Hidekazu Miyano
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Publication number: 20170150569Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Masanori HAYASHI, Yoshifumi SUEHIRO, Kiyoshi GOTO
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Publication number: 20170150568Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Masanori HAYASHI, Yoshifumi SUEHIRO, Kiyoshi GOTO
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Publication number: 20170113731Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota Imura, Masanori Hayashi, Tamaki Mikami
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Publication number: 20170019966Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Yoshifumi SUEHIRO, Masanori HAYASHI, Kiyoshi GOTO
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Patent number: 9548554Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Naoto Yoshikawa, Masanori Hayashi, Yasuyoshi Matsumoto, Yuki Goto, Mitsuhiro Tomita
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Publication number: 20160226174Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: Molex, LLCInventors: Naoto Yoshikawa, Masanori HAYASHI, Yasuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Yuki GOTO, Mitsuhiro TOMITA
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Patent number: 9300070Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Naoto Yoshikawa, Masanori Hayashi, Yasuyoshi Matsumoto, Yuki Goto, Mitsuhiro Tomita
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Publication number: 20160053110Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: DIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Takeda, Hiroyuki Kagaya, Masanori Hayashi, Michiya Nakashima, Hidekazu Miyano
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Patent number: 8981717Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Honda Motor Co., LtdInventors: Masanori Hayashi, Koichiro Takemasa, Taisuke Tsurutani
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Patent number: 8838318Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., LtdInventors: Daisei Segawa, Taisuke Tsurutani, Masanori Hayashi, Koichiro Takemasa
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Patent number: 8813377Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Kani, Masanori Hayashi
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Patent number: 8810287Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masanori Hayashi, Yoshiaki Honda, Kiyoshi Gotou
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Patent number: 8779837Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Gotou, Masanori Hayashi, Takashi Kishida, Kouji Yamato
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Patent number: 8740634Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Molex IncorporatedInventors: Ryo Uesaka, Masamitsu Takasaki, Masanori Hayashi, Yuji Naito, Mitsuhiro Tomita
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Patent number: 8668213Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki Takagi, Makoto Kihara, Masanori Hayashi, Noriaki Masuda
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Publication number: 20140045389Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: Molex IncorporatedInventors: Naoto YOSHIKAWA, Masanori HAYASHI, Yasuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Yuki GOTO, Mitsuhiro TOMITA
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Publication number: 20140046595Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daisei Segawa, Taisuke Tsurutani, Masanori Hayashi, Koichiro Takemasa
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Patent number: D729858Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoshi Imai, Kyosuke Yoshida, Masanori Hayashi